Seminars and Talks
This page lists seminars and talks relevant to this group.
Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars
Jean-Marie Stephan, Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon, CNRS
Inhomogeneous quantum quenches
Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building, North Campus
Des Johnston, Heriot-Watt University
Macroscopic Degeneracy and Scaling at a First Order Transition
Tuesday, 8 November 2016 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building, North Campus
Professor Sir Michael Berry, Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus), University of Bristol
Public Lecture: How quantum physics democratized music
Friday, 14 October 2016 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth John Hume Lecture Theatre 3, John Hume Building, North Campus
Curl Forces and beyond
Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Rye Hall Extension (RHE01), Rye Hall, North Campus
Prof. Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Institute of Physics Seminar - A Quantum Leap in Quantum Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building, North Campus
Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews, Scotland
A new type of non-Fermi-liquid near the ferromagnetic transition in a 2D metal
Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 13:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall A, Arts Block, North Campus
Gabriele De Chiara, Queen's University, Belfast
Quantum thermodynamics: Work fluctuations in cold atoms
Tuesday, 19 April 2016 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall A, Arts Block, North Campus
Zohar Ringel, University of Oxford
Can we generalize Landau levels to spins on a lattice?
Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 15:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall H, Arts Block, North Campus
Emil Bergholtz, Freie Universität Berlin
Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals (Slides)
Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 15:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall A, Arts Block, North Campus
Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, University of Leeds
Edge states of topological phases are monogamous and simple minded
Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building, North Campus
Prof. Tomas Brauner, University of Stavanger
Aspects of Galilei invariance in condensed matter physics
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth CB1, Callan Building, North Campus
Prof. Tommaso Calarco, Ulm University
Institute of Physics Seminar - Steering many-body quantum dynamics
Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building, North Campus
Prof. Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
Institute of Physics Seminar - Efficient descriptions of many-body quantum systems with tensor networks (Slides)
Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 16:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building, North Campus
Nina Berner, Trinity College Dublin
Chemistry on Surfaces - Interdisciplinary Adventures of a Physicist
Friday, November 22, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, Arts Block, North Campus
Hans Hansson, Nordita (Stockholm)
Effective Theories for Topological Superconductors
Friday, November 29, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, Arts Block, North Campus
Elliot Kapit, University of Oxford
T.B.A.
Friday, December 6, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, Arts Block, North Campus
Veselin Filev, DIAS
Holographic Magnetic Catalysis
Friday, October 18, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, Arts Block, North Campus
Axel Maas,Univeristy of Jena, Germany
G2 Guage Theories
Friday, October 11, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, Arts Block, North Campus
Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, F.U. Berlin
Current-induced forces in mesoscopic systems: a scattering matrix approach
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building
Maria Hermanns, University of Cologne, Germany
Topological entanglement entropy made classical
Friday, May 24, 2013 at 12:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science Building
Ville Lahtinen, University of Amsterdam
Condensate-induced transitions and critical spin chains
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, Arts Block
David Kribs (Guelph)
Spin squeezing and Schrodinger-cat-state generation in atomic samples
with Rydberg blockade
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Room 1.10, Maths Physics Dept., Science Building, NUIM
Thomas Opatrny (Palacky University , Czech Republic)
Spin squeezing and Schrodinger-cat-state generation in atomic samples
with Rydberg blockade
Friday, May 10 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, Arts Block
Jyrki Piilo (University of Turku, Finland)
Quantum decoherence and memory effects in open quantum systems
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIM
Julien Vidal (LPTMC Paris)
Topological phase transitions in the golden string-net
model.
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIM
Maria-Theresa Rieder (ZEDAT F.U. Berlin)
Reentrant topological phase transitions in a disordered spinless
superconducting wire.
Friday, April 19, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIM
Andreas Ruschhaupt (UCC)
Shortcuts to Adiabaticity and their Stability.
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIM
Niall Moran
Topological d-Wave Pairing Structures in Jain States.
Friday, February 15, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIM
Mauro Paternostro, Queen's University Belfast
Quantum Discord Bounds the Amount of Distributed Entanglement
Friday, December 7, 2012 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, NUIM
Meera Parish, University College London
Two-Dimensional Dipolar Fermi Gases
Friday, November 23, 2012 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, NUIM
Sebas Eliens (University of Amsterdam)
Observables and Topological Symmetry Breaking Phase Transitions.
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall D, NUIM
Brian Dolan (N.U.I. Maynooth)
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall D, NUIM
Stefano Sanvitos (Trinity College)
Quantitative Quantum Transport Theory Exploring Topological
Materials and Spin Excitations
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall D, NUIM
Eoin O. Colgain (Korean Institute for Advanced Study)
Fermionic T-duality
Friday, December 06, 2011 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth
Physics Hall, NUIM
Frank Pollmann (Max Plank Institute)
Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall D,
Arts Building, NUIM
Wojciech Celga (Wroclaw University)
Introductory Lecture On Quantum Logic
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall D,
Arts Building, NUIM
Layla Hormozi (Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland)
Quantum Hall Effect for Lattice Bosons
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Joe Fitzsimons (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore/U.C.D.)
Universal blind quantum computation
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Prof. Sander Bais (University of Amsterdam)
Extending the paradigm of symmetry breaking to topological oreders
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 11:00h
NUI Maynooth
Theatre 1,
Arts Building, NUIM
Niall Moran (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, ENS, Paris)
Supersymmetry on the Lattice
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Ciara Morgan (Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS, Singapore)
Quantum information, channels and capacity
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Germán Sierra (Instituto de Física
Teórica, UAM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Quantum Entanglement in Many Body Systems
Friday, December 10, 2010 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Germán Sierra (Instituto de Física
Teórica, UAM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
On the spectral interpretation of the Riemann zeros
Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 15:30h
DIAS,
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Nicolas Regnault (LPA-ENS, Paris)
Extracting excitations from a fractional quantum Hall groundstate
slides
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Tutorial room 7, John Hume building
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What constitutes a topological phase? A case study
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth
Hall A,
Arts Building, NUIM
Wojciech Cegla (Wroclaw)
An orthomodularity condition and Quantum Mechanics
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 15:00h
Hall A, Arts Building, NUIM
Fiona Burnell (Oxford)
The devil is in the dipoles: cold dipolar gases in 1-d optical
lattices
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 14:00h
Common room, Dept.
Mathematical Physics, NUI Maynooth
Eoin O'Colgain Korean Institute for Advanced Study
Schrödinger invariant solutions of M-theory (an attempt at non-relativistic AdS/CFT)
Slides
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 10:30h
Common room, Dept.
Mathematical Physics, NUI Maynooth
Mark Howard (UC Santa Barbara)
Tight Noise Thresholds for Quantum Computation with Perfect Stabilizer Operations
Friday, December 18, 2009
NUI Maynooth CS1, Callan Building, NUIM.
Steve Simon (Oxford
University and E.T.S. Walton Visiting Fellow at NUI Maynooth)
COLLOQUIUM: Topological
Phases of
Matter and Why You Should Be Interested
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 14:00h
Callan Hall
South Campus, NUI Maynooth
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Non-additivity
of quantum channel capacities
Monday, April 27, 2009 at 14:00h
Dias,
School of Theoretical Physics.
Niall Moran (NUI Maynooth)
DMRG: Microscope for Exotic Quantum Materials
Launch of National HPC Service and HPC Hub
Thursday, February 9, 2009 at 16:05h
Royal Irish Academy.
Jiannis Pachos (University of Leeds)
The drunken slalom
NUI Maynooth
Friday, November 28, 2008 at 15:15h
CS1, Callan Building.
Vladimir Malinovsky (MagiQ Technologies Inc.)
Chirped pulse
adiabatic control in quantum information and CARS microscopy
NUI Maynooth
Friday, November 7, 2008 at 15:15h
CS1, Callan Building.
Vladimir Malinovsky (MagiQ Technologies Inc.)
Collapse and revival
of entanglement of two interacting qubits
Dias,
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
School of Theoretical Physics.
Mathias Christandl (Lehrstuhl für
theoretische Festkörperphysik, Munich, Germany)
Post-Selection Technique for Permutation-Invariant Quantum Channels
Dias,
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 15:30h
School of Theoretical Physics.
Parsa Bonderson (Microsoft Station Q)
Measurement-Only topological Quantum Computation
(Abstract/Slides)
Dias, Thursday, July 21, 2008 at 15:30h
School of Theoretical Physics.
Paul Fendley (University of Virginia, Charlottesville / Oxford)
Topological Entanglement Entropy from the Holographic Partition Function
Dias, Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 14:00h
School of Theoretical Physics.
Paul Fendley (University of Virginia, Charlottesville / Oxford)
Topological Order from
Quantum Loops and Nets
NUI Maynooth, Friday, May 23, 2008 at 15:15h
PCT Theatre, Science Building.
Simon Trebst (Microsoft Research)
Collective states of interacting anyons: Things golden
Dias, Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 11:00h
School of Theoretical Physics.
Simon Trebst (Microsoft Research)
Quantum loop gases and topological order
NUI Maynooth, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 16:00h
PCT Theatre, Science Building.
Nicolas Regnault (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Multi-component fractional quantum Hall effect
DIAS, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 15:30h
Eddy Ardonne (NORDITA)
DIAS, February 28, 2008
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NUI Maynooth, February 29, 2008
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Graphene with geometrically induced vorticity
Jiannis Pachos (Leeds University)
DIAS, October 16, 2007
Quantum Hall Interferometry
Parsa Bonderson(Microsoft Research)
DIAS, September 20, 2007
Towards Microscopic Models with Topological Order
Kirill Shtengel (University of California)
NUI Maynooth, September 19, 2007
The Unexpected Physics of Modern Wireless Communication
Steve Simon (Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs)
DIAS, September 6, 2007
NUI Maynooth, September 7, 2007
Nanoscale magnetism
Hans-Benjamin Braun (University College Dublin)
NUI Maynooth, December 1, 2006
Simulating higher transcendental mathematical functions with quantum mechanics
Jason Twamley (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
NUI Maynooth, September 12, 2006
Entanglement, purity and energy of discrete and continuous variable quantum states
Derek McHugh (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)
NUI Maynooth, August 18, 2006
Quantum error correcting subsystems
David W. Kribs (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
NUI Maynooth, July 24, 2006
Efficient transmission of quantum information
Tony Dorlas (STP DIAS)
NUI Maynooth, February 10, 2006
Topological Quantum Computation
Jiri Vala (NUI Maynooth)
NUI Maynooth, December 2, 2005