Physics Department
Texas A&M University

ATOMIC PHYSICS AND QUANTUM OPTICS SEMINARS   Spring 2004

 

TAMU SEAL

 

 

DATE

NAME

TITLE

HOST

Tuesday Feb. 3, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Wilhelm Becker, Max Born Institute, Berlin

Interference in intense-laser atom physics

Zubairy

Tuesday Feb. 3, ENPH 207, 5 PM

Joseph Giordmaine, Chemistry Department, Princeton University

The History and Reality of Phase Matching in Nonlinear Optics

Scully

Friday Feb 13, ENPH 501, 4 PM

Savely G Karshenboim, Mendeleev Institute for Metrology, St. Petersburg, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching

Laboratory Searches for the Variation of the Fundamental Constants

Schuessler

Tuesday Feb. 17, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Jaan Laane, Chemistry Department, Texas A&M University

Spectroscopic Determination of Potential Energy Functions and Molecular Structures

in Electronic Excited States

Scully

Tuesday Feb 24, ENPH 501, 12 PM

Zongxiong Ye, Drexel University, Philadelphia

Laser cooling in a Fabry-Perot cavity

Scully

Tuesday Feb 24, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Alexei Sokolov, Physics Department, Texas A&M University

Maximal coherence at work: sub-cycle optical pulse shaping by molecular modulation

 

Tuesday March 2, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Raymond Ooi, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, TAMU

Femtosecond CARS Spectroscopy via Transform Techniques

Scully

Tuesday March 9, ENPH 207, 4 PM

David Johnson, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

Micromaser Theory and Comparison with Experiment 

 

Tuesday, March 23, ENPH 207, 4 PM

V. A. Sautenkov, Department of Physics, Texas A&M University

Optically Induced Magneto-Chiral Anisotropy in Rubidium Vapor

 

Tuesday, March 30, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Warren S. Warren, Department of Chemistry
Princeton University

Femtosecond Laser Pulse Shaping and its Applications

Scully

Thursday, April 1, Zachry 342, 1 PM, Pizza and soda at 12:45 PM

Kevin Lehmann, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

Scully

Tuesday April 6, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Robert A. Pascal, Jr., Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

Molecular Ratchets, Screws, and Iron Maidens

 

Tuesday April 6, ENPH 207, 5 PM

Dmitri E. Nikonov, Intel Corporation

Overview of Spintronics and its Place in the Semiconductor Industry Roadmap

 

Wednesday April 7, ENPH 501, 10 AM

János A. Bergou, Hunter College of the City University of New York

Discrimination of quantum states: A quantum information paradigm

Zubairy

Wednesday April 7, ENPH 301, 1 PM; Pizza and soda served at 1 PM

Dmitri E. Nikonov, Intel Corporation

Is there life in the industry for physicists?

 

Tuesday April 13, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Achilles D. Speliotopoulos, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley

Measurements of Spacetime Curvature: Towards MIGO, the Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory

 

Tuesday, April 13, ENPH 207, 5 PM

Lothar Frommhold, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

Supramolecular Spectra

 

Tuesday, April 20, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Aleksander Rebane, Department of Physics, Montana State University

Femtosecond resonance enhanced CARS for background-free detection of organic molecules

 

Tuesday, April 27, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Shahriar S. Afshar, Harvard University

Violation of Bohr's principle of complementarity in an optical "which-way" experiment

 

Thursday, April 29, 11:30AM, Harrington 204, Special Reception at 11:00 AM

Robert F. Curl, Rice Quantum Institute, Depts. of Chemistry and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Trace Gas Monitoring Using Infrared Laser Spectroscopy

 

Tuesday, May 4, ENPH 207, 4 PM

Michael Shlesinger, Office of Naval Research

The History of Probability Theory: Pitfalls and Paradoxes

Scully

Tuesday, May 4, ENPH 207, 5 PM

Dana Anderson, Department of Physics University of Colorado at Boulder

Integrative atom optics