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 CampusDes 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 CampusProfessor 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 CampusProf. 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 CampusChris 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 CampusGabriele 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 CampusZohar 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 CampusEmil 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 CampusKonstantinos 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 CampusProf. 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 CampusProf. 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 CampusProf. 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 CampusNina 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 CampusHans Hansson, Nordita (Stockholm)
Effective Theories for Topological Superconductors
Friday, November 29, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, Arts Block, North CampusElliot Kapit, University of Oxford
T.B.A.
Friday, December 6, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, Arts Block, North CampusVeselin Filev, DIAS
Holographic Magnetic Catalysis
Friday, October 18, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, Arts Block, North CampusAxel Maas,Univeristy of Jena, Germany
G2 Guage Theories
Friday, October 11, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, Arts Block, North CampusSilvia 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 BuildingMaria Hermanns, University of Cologne, Germany
Topological entanglement entropy made classical
Friday, May 24, 2013 at 12:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth PCT, Science BuildingVille 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 BlockDavid 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, NUIMThomas 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 BlockJyrki 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, NUIMJulien 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, NUIMMaria-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, NUIMAndreas Ruschhaupt (UCC)
Shortcuts to Adiabaticity and their Stability.
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIMNiall Moran
Topological d-Wave Pairing Structures in Jain States.
Friday, February 15, 2013 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall C, NUIMMauro 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, NUIMMeera Parish, University College London
Two-Dimensional Dipolar Fermi Gases
Friday, November 23, 2012 at 14:00h
N.U.I. Maynooth Hall D, NUIMSebas Eliens (University of Amsterdam)
Observables and Topological Symmetry Breaking Phase Transitions.
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth Hall D, NUIMBrian Dolan (N.U.I. Maynooth)
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth Hall D, NUIMStefano Sanvitos (Trinity College)
Quantitative Quantum Transport Theory Exploring Topological Materials and Spin Excitations
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth Hall D, NUIMEoin O. Colgain (Korean Institute for Advanced Study)
Fermionic T-duality
Friday, December 06, 2011 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth Physics Hall, NUIMFrank 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, NUIMWojciech Celga (Wroclaw University)
Introductory Lecture On Quantum Logic
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 14:00h
NUI Maynooth Hall D, Arts Building, NUIMLayla 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, NUIMJoe 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, NUIMProf. 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, NUIMNiall Moran (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, ENS, Paris)
Supersymmetry on the Lattice
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth Hall A, Arts Building, NUIMCiara 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, NUIMGermán 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, NUIMGermán 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, NUIMNicolas 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 buildingEddy Ardonne (NORDITA, Sweden)
What constitutes a topological phase? A case study
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 15:00h
NUI Maynooth Hall A, Arts Building, NUIMWojciech Cegla (Wroclaw)
An orthomodularity condition and Quantum Mechanics
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 15:00h
Hall A, Arts Building, NUIMFiona 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 MaynoothEoin 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 MaynoothMark 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 MaynoothAndreas Winter (Bristol University)
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 15:30hEddy Ardonne (NORDITA)
DIAS, February 28, 2008 http://www.stp.dias.ie/TPPG/seminars.shtml
NUI Maynooth, February 29, 2008 http://www.thphys.may.ie/Seminars.htmlGraphene 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
