CTCP Seminars (Massey University Auckland, Oteha Rohe, Gate 4)

Seminar organizer: Dr. Odile Smits
Scheduled seminars:
Wed, 20 Jan, 11.00am Ashton Bradley University of Otago Building 106	Stochastic Dynamics of Hot Bose-Einstein Condensates
Past seminars, 2020:
Thu, 18 Jun, 11.00am Sarthak Choudhury NZIAS, Massey University MS3.32	PhD Confirmation Report: Josephson Vortices In Bose-Einstein Condensates
Wed, 18 Mar, 11.00am Sergej Flach CTCP, NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand; Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Korea Building 106	The Wonderful World of Flat Band
Wed, 26 Feb, 10.30am Pascal Henkel Justus Liebig University Giessen Building 106	Influence of POuN4-u structural units on Li vacancies in LIPON - Defect formation energies, migration barriers and the influence of various XC-functionals on the outcoming values
Wed, 12 Feb, 2.00pm Susi Lehtola Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki Building 106	On the accurate calculation of repulsive interatomic potentials
Wed, 12 Feb, 11.00am Sandro Wimberger University of Parma 106.28	Quantum walk of a BEC in momentum space
Mon, 10 Feb, 11.00am Martin Kaupp TU Berlin Building 106	A quantum-chemical view on coordination chemistry: spectroscopy, catalysis, and bonding
Tue, 4 Feb, 11.00am Pavel Fadeev Department of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Building 106	Quantum spin and gravity
Thu, 30 Jan, 11.00am Steven van Ommen NZIAS Massey University Building 106	Quantum real-time evolution with the Lanczos algorithm
Tue, 21 Jan, 11.00am Leonid V. Skripnikov St. Petersburg State University Building 106	Study of heavy molecules electronic structure to extract fundamental properties of electron and nuclei
Mon, 20 Jan, 3.00pm Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales Building 106	Effects of violation of time reversal invariance in molecules and search for dark matter
Tue, 14 Jan, 11.00am James Avery University of Copenhagen Building 106	Folding Carbon: A Calculus for Molecular Origami
Past seminars, 2019:
Thu, 19 Dec, 11.00am Tom Reuvers NZIAS Massey University OR 4 \| Building 102	Quantum Relativistic Energy Calculations
Thu, 6 Jun, 11.00am Peter Schwerdtfeger NZIAS Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Quantum Confinement for Atoms and Molecules
Tue, 30 Apr, 3.00pm Bill Williams Biophysics and Soft Matter Group, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Investigating the Interactions of Colloidal Particles with Optical Tweezers
Tue, 2 Apr, 10.00am Ray Yang CTCP Massey University OR 9, Building 82	PhD Confirmation Report
Wed, 20 Mar, 11.00am Sarthak Choudhury CTCP Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Understanding soliton collisions in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Thu, 14 Mar, 11.00am Jook Walraven University of Amsterdam CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Ultrafast many-body interferometry of impurities coupled to a Fermi sea
Fri, 22 Feb, 11.00am Ramis Movassagh IBM Research/MIT CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Supercritical Entanglement: counter-examples to the area law for quantum matter
Wed, 13 Feb, 2.00pm Victor Flambaum UNSW CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Electron, photon and atom scattering, recombination and photoionization via dense spectrum of chaotic compound resonances
Tue, 5 Feb, 10.00am Andrzej P. Kadzielawa Jagiellonian University (Krakow)/Technicka univerzita Ostrava CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Metallicity and superconductivity of the hydrogen-rich compounds
Tue, 15 Jan, 11.00am Ernst-Walter Knapp Free University of Berlin CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Marriage of quantum chemistry and electrostaticsfor computing protonation and redox equilibria
Past seminars, 2018:
Wed, 19 Dec, 11.00am Ray Yang CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	From Molecule to Atom, from Fermion to Boson, from Chemistry to Physics
Wed, 5 Dec, 11.00am Edison Florez CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Melting in strong magnetic fields
Wed 12 Sep, 11.00am Jan Major CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Polaron dynamics in the presence of the disorder potential and an external force
Wed 5 Sep, 11.00am Jan-Michael Mewes CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Thermally-activated delayed fluorescence in organic molecules
Fri 31 Aug, 11.00am Ashton Bradley Otago University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Workshop: Stochastic differential equations and phase space methods
Thu 30 Aug, 11.00am Ashton Bradley Otago University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Towards two-dimensional quantum turbulence
Thu 10 May, 10.00am Antony Burrows CTCP, Massey University OR 4, Building 88	PhD confirmation report
Wen 9 May, 11.00am Morten Piibeleht CTCP, Massey University OR 5, Building 88	PhD confirmation report
Mon 7 May, 11.00am Edison Florez CTCP, Massey University OR 5, Building 88	PhD confirmation report
Wed 2 May, 11.00am Elke Pahl CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Molecules in strong magnetic fields
Wed 4 Apr, 11.00am Peter Jeszenszki CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Transcorrelated approach for ultracold Fermi gases
Wed 21 Mar, 11.00am Patrick Bowman CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Multiverses -- A Foray into the Philosophy of Physics
Wed 14 Mar, 11.00am Jeff Nagle Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Electronegativity and Polarizability: an Update
Wed 7 Mar, 14.00pm Dimitri Scherbashov CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Exploring energy landscapes of nanoalloys
Wed 28 Feb, 14.00pm Morten Piibeleht CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Some hopefully instructive words about Laplacians
Mon, 26 Feb, 14.00pm Dr. Aleksander Petrov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Theoretical study of heavy-atom molecules to search for physics beyond the Standard model
Wed, 21 Feb, 14.00pm Dr. Lars Goerigk School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The new GMTKN55 database: cleaning up the Density Functional Theory zoo
Mon, 19 Feb, 14.00pm Prof. Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Variation of the fundamental constants, violation of the fundamental symmetries and dark matter
Fri, 16 Feb, 12.00pm Prof. Leonid Glazman Department of Physics, Yale Univeristy, United States Room MS3.32, Main Campus	Topology of the Fermi surface wavefunctions and magnetic oscillations in metals
Wed, 14 Feb, 14.00pm Lukas Trombach CTCP, Massey University, New Zealand CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	From Stick-Hard-Sphere to Lennarsd-Jones-Type Clusters
Wed, 7 Feb 14.00pm Prof. Sergej Flach Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The Different Ways a Many Body System Can Turn Nonergodic
Wed, 31 Jan, 14.00pm Shih-Chuan National Changhua University of Education · Department of Physics, Taiwan CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling in bilayer Bose-Einstein condensates
Wed, 24 Jan, 14.00pm Prof. Joachim Brand CTCP, Massey University, New Zealand CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Topological superfluids, Majoranas, and solitons
2017
Tue, 12 Dec, 14.00pm Mark Dornbach Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Prediction of Molecular Properties using Open-Shell LMP2 Gradients
Tue, 11 Dec, 14.00pm Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger CTCP, Massey University, New Zealand CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The Standard Model and Beyond (I)
Wed 29 Nov, 14.00pm Prof. Sergej Flach Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Nonlinear Disordered Discrete Time Quantum Walks
Wed 22 Nov, 14.00pm Odile Smiths CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Melting simulations of the heavy noble gases using ab initio methods and Monte Carlo techniques.
Wed 8 Nov, 14.00pm Dr. Paul Jerabek CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Chasing Unicorns - Quantum Chemical Methods for Bonding Analysis
Wed 25 Oct, 14.00pm Edison Florez CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Towards Accurate Melting Simulations of Water
Thu 19 Oct, 14.00pm Dr. Jan Mewes CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	When molecules get excited
Wed 4 Oct, 14.00pm Antony Burrows CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Calculating Lattice Sums - Toward J/Mol Accuracy for the Cohesive Energy per Atom in the Solid Phase
Wed 13 Sep, 14.00pm Sophie Shamailov CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The complex oscillatory trajectory of an atomic Josephson vortex in a harmonic trap
Wed 30 Aug, 14.00pm Jayson Cosme CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Interaction blockade for bosons in an asymmetric double well
Wed 16 Aug, 14.00pm Dr. Patrick Bowman INMS, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Lattice QCD
Wed 2 Aug, 14.00pm Christian Baals Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Measuring finite-range phase coherence in an optical lattice using Talbot interferometry
Wed 19 Jul, 14.00pm Dr. Antonio Muñoz Mateo CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Ultracold gases, Bose-Einstein condensates, and solitons
Wed 19 Apr, 14.00pm Dr. Philip Brydon University of Otago CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The fourth superconducting gap
Fri 17 Mar, 12.00pm Dr. Antonio Muñoz Mateo CTCP, Massey University Albany Library, level 1, Room LIB1.22A	Josephson vortices in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Tue 7 Mar, 11.00am Lisa Vondung Philipps-University Marburg, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Why Iron is going to save the world or Insights into PBP pincer complexes and a bit of gold
Tue 7 Mar, 11.30am Julius Hornung Technical University of Munich, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Characterisation of Heteroleptic Ni(Al/GaCp)/(ZnR) Phosphine Complexes*
Mon 28 Feb, 11.00am Sophie Shamailov CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Derivation of the Bethe ansatz equations for the Lieb-Liniger & Yang-Gaudin models
Mon 27 Feb, 4.00pm Prof. Mahir S. Hussein University of São Paulo, Brazil CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Recent work on Quantum Turbulence, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Mesoscopic Systems
Fri 17 Feb, 12.00noon Prof. Sergej Flach Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea MS 3.32 Mathematical Sciences Building	Intermittent Many-Body Dynamics at Equilibrium
Thu 9 Feb, 11.00am Prof. Sergej Flach Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Designing and Perturbing Flat Bands
Fri 20 Jan, 11.00am Prof. Anatoly Titov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The use of molecules and solids to search for a "new physics": Theory and experiments
Thu 19 Jan, 11.00am Prof. Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Manifestations of Dark Matter, Variations of Fundamental Constants and Violation of the Fundamental Symmetries in Atomic and Astrophysical Phenomena: New effects of dark matter which are linear in the interaction strength
2016
Mon 12 Dec, 11.00am Prof. Peter Comba Heidelberg University, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Magnetism and spectroscopy of oligonuclear 3d-4f complexes. Theoretical models for the accurate description of the magnetic anisotropy
Mon 28 Nov, 2.00pm Prof. Notker Rösch Technical University of Munich, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Transition Metal Clusters - Bridging Molecules and Surfaces
Wed 16 Nov, 2.00pm Stefanie Mewes CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Exciton analysis in many-body wavefunctions: A fresh perspective on excited states exploiting the quasi-particle picture
Mon 17 Oct, 11.00am Dr. Jan Mewes CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Solvatochromism in a Nutshell
Mon 10 Oct, 11.00am Prof. Alexander Szameit Friedrich-Schiller Universitiy Jena, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Topological photonics 2
Thu 6 Oct, 3.00pm Prof. Alexander Szameit Friedrich-Schiller Universitiy Jena, Germany CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Topological photonics
Mon 19 Sep, 11.30am Prof. Mahir S. Hussein University of São Paulo, Brazil CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Chaotic nature of turbulent Bose-Einstein condensates
Fri 19 Aug, 11.00am Prof. Stacey Wetmore University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Computational Studies of Damaged DNA: From Chemical Structure to Cellular Processing
Tue 16 Aug, 11.00am Prof. Gian-Luca Oppo University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Introduction to Cavity solitons
Wed 15 Jun, 11.00am Morten Piibeleht Lund University, Sweden CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Mean field approach to attractive few-body Fermi gases
Mon 18 Apr, 11.00am Prof. Per Jönsson & Dr. Jörgen Ekman Group of Material Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Malmö, Sweden CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Atomic structure calculations with application to astrophysics and cancer therapy
Tue 5 Apr, 11.00am Dr. Thomas Engl CTCP, Massey University CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Interference effects in many-body dynamics beyond the mean field
Tue 8 Mar, 11.00am Dr. David Campbell Department of Physics, Boston University, MA, USA CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The Remarkable World of Ultra-cold Atoms
Mon 15 Feb, 11.00am Prof. Miroslav Urban Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	HF stability, symmetry breaking, confined systems and CCSD(T) calculations of anionic in crystal polarizabilities
Wed 27 Jan, 11.30am Dr. Murray Olson School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland CTCP Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Alice and Clare Keep their Relationship Secret from Bob
2015
Tue 17 Nov, 12.00pm Prof. Phil Bunker National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Symmetry and Spectroscopy
Tue 10 Nov, 12.00pm Dr. Lauri A. Toikka Massey University, Auckland Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Direct route to understanding topological matter
Thu, 7 May, 12.30pm Prof. Yun Liu Australian National University, Canberra, AU Seminar Room, E-centre Building	The determination of the atomic structure at different lengths scale to correlate structure and function of matters
Wed, 29 Apr, 12.00pm Prof. Kelling Donnald University of Richmond, VA, USA Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Electrostatics and Relativistic Effects - Chemical Bonding in Binary Metal Dihalides
Wed, 15 Apr, 11.30am Dr. Alex Ayet Ecole normale superieure, France Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Introduction to the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz
Thu, 19 Mar, 12.00pm Prof. Dage Sundholm University of Helsinki, Finland Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Computational Methods for Studies of Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Rings
Wed, 18 Mar, 12.30pm Prof. Dage Sundholm University of Helsinki, Finland Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Coupled-cluster studies of excited states in biomolecules
Tue, 24 Feb, 11.00am Dr. Andrew Hilliard Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Preparing cold atomic clouds with a well-defined number
Mon, 23 Feb, 3.00pm Prof. Beate Paulus Free University of Berlin, Germany Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Theoretical surface science: From method development to applications
Wed, 18 Feb, 12.30pm Prof. Martin Kaupp TU Berlin, Germany Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Computational NMR/EPR spectroscopies: from giant spin-orbit effects in NMR to the EPR of multinuclear metalloenzyme sites
Tue, 17 Feb, 15.00pm Dr. Elena Mena-Osteritz University of Ulm, Organic Chemistry Seminar Room, E-centre Building	2D and 3D-Structures of organic semiconductors
Tue, 17 Feb, 12.30pm Prof. Martin Kaupp TU Berlin, Germany Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Mixed-valence systems, a challenge for quantum chemical methods
Mon, 16 Feb, 15.00pm AProf. Kelling J. Donald University of Richmond Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Halogen Bonding in Inorganic Chemistry
Mon, 16 Feb, 12.30pm Prof. Martin Kaupp TU Berlin, Germany Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Local hybrids: a new class of DFT exchange-correlation functionals
Wed, 11 Feb, 12.30pm Dr. Miro Erkintalo Physics, The University of Auckland Lounge Area, E-centre Building	Harnessing fibre optics for the experimental study of nonlinear wave phenomena
Thu, 5 Feb, 12.30pm Dr. Andreas Hermann School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Ices and Hydrates under Pressure
Thu, 29 Jan, 12.00pm Prof. Dage Sundholm University of Helsinki, Finland Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Magnetically Induced Current Densities in Molecules
Tue, 27 Jan, 12.00pm Prof. Dage Sundholm University of Helsinki, Finland Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Numerical Methods in Quantum Chemistry
Wed, 21 Jan, 12.30pm Prof. Andrei Derevianko University of Nevada, Reno, USA Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Hunting for Dark Matter with GPS and Atomic Clocks
Tue, 20 Jan, 12.30pm Prof. Victor V. Flambaum Sydney, Australia Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Manifestations of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in Atomic and Astrophysical Phenomena
Mon, 19 Jan, 12.30pm Dr. Andreas Stegmüller Philipps University Marburg Seminar Room, E-centre Building	Growth Chemistry of GaP - Epitaxially Grown on Silicon
2014
Thu, 18 Dec, 9.30am Prof. Ali Alavi MPI for Solid-State Systems, Stuttgart and Cambridge University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the full configuration interaction
Thu, 18 Dec, 10.30am Prof. Matt Visscher Victoria University, Wellington CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Analogue spacetimes
Thu, 18 Dec, 12.00pm Prof. Boris Altshuler Columbia University, New York CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Between localization and ergodicity
Thu, 18 Dec, 2.00pm Prof. Nikos Lazarides University of Crete, Heraklion CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	SQUID Metamaterials
Thu, 18 Dec, 3.30pm Prof. Jeff Tallon Victoria University, Wellington CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Multiple coexisting and competing states - complexity in high-Tc superconductors
Wed, 17 Dec, 12.30pm Prof. Ali Alavi MPI for Solid-State Systems, Stuttgart and Cambridge University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo: an exact approach to simulate fermion systems on classical computers
Wed, 12 Nov, 12.30pm Prof. Joachim Brand NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	What can be learned about quantum gases from observing solitary wave dynamics?
Wed, 05 Nov, 12.30pm Jayson Cosme NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Thermalization in isolated double-well system: Quantum and Semiclassical
Wed, 01 Oct, 12.00pm Sophie Shamailov NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Extracting missing particle number from dispersions of "solitonic" excitations.
Wed, 24 Sep, 12.00pm Prof. Sergej Flach NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Perturbing Flat Bands
Wed, 17 Sep, 12.00pm Dr. Oleksandr Fialko NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Quantum decay of a relativistic scalar field from a false vacuum: Towards realization with ultracold atoms
Wed, 10 Sep, 12.00pm Dr. Xiaoquan Yu NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Enhancement of chaotic subdiffusion in disordered ladders with synthetic gauge fields
Wed, 3 Sep, 12.00pm Prof. S. Flach NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre Building	Ratchets and broken space-time symmetries
Thu, 14 Aug, 12.00pm Dr. A. M. Mateo NZIAS, Massey University CTCP lounge area (Ground floor), E-centre ter Building	Solitary waves in superfluids
Mon, 5 May, 15.00pm Dr. Shreyoshi Mondal CTCP, Massey University OR9	Real space structure of impurity screening cloud in the Resonant Level Model
Thu, 27 Mar, 11.00am Prof. John Harvey The University of Auckland, New Zealand OR15	Self Similar Pulse Propagation
Thu, 13 Mar, 16.00pm Dr. Julian Berengut University of New South Wales, Australia OR9	Astrophysical and laboratory searches for space-time variations of fundamental constants
Tue, 11 Mar, 14.00pm Prof. Johannes Richter Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Magdeburg, Germany OR15 (Building 119)	Strongly correlated system on frustrated lattices: The flat-band scenario and beyond
Tue, 4 Mar, 14.00pm Prof. Vladimir Kravtsov Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section, ICTP, Trieste, Italy OR15 (Building 119)	Statistics of anomalously localized states at the center of band E=0 in the one-dimensional Anderson localization model
2013
Fri, 20 Dec, 14.30pm Prof. Howard Carmichael University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand OR9	Dissipative Quantum Phase Transitions for Photons
Fri, 20 Dec, 13.30pm Prof. Michele Governale Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand OR9	Waiting Time Distributions for Transport Through a Normal-metal/Quantum-dot/Superconductor Hybrid Structure
Fri, 20 Dec, 11.00am Prof. Blair Blakie University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand OR9	Rotons in a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate
Fri, 20 Dec, 10.00am Prof. Boris Altshuler Columbia University, New York, USA OR9	Localization at the Edge of 2D Topological Insulator by Kondo Impurities with Random Anisotropies
Thu, 05 Dec, 13.00pm Prof. Pavlo Selyshchev University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa OR9	Self-Oscillations and Auto-Waves As Result of Self-Reinforcing Annealing of Radiation Defects
Mon, 25 Nov, 13.00pm Prof. Masahiro Ehara Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan OR4	Au and Au/Pd Nanocluster Catalysts
Mon, 18 Nov, 13.00pm Prof. Phil Bunker National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada OR6	The Spectrum, Structure, Dynamics and Symmetry of the Benzene Dimer
Mon, 04 Nov, 13.00pm Prof. H. Bernhard Schlegel Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA OR9	Exploring Potential Energy Surfaces for Chemical Reactions
Mon, 04 Nov, 13.00pm Prof. H. Bernhard Schlegel Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA OR9	Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics of Molecules in Strong Laser Fields
Tue, 06 Aug, 12.00pm Prof. Bernd Krauskopf The University of Auckland, New Zealand OR4	Global Manifolds in the Transition to Chaos in the Lorenz System
Tue, 30 July, 12.00pm Dr. Daniel Leykam The Australian National University, Australia OR4	When Flat Bands Meet Relativistic Waves
Fri, 05 July, 12.00pm Assoc. Prof. Roland Winkler Northern Illinois University, USA OR10	Emergent Electromagnetism in Bilayer Graphene
Wed, 03 July, 1.00pm Prof. Yehuda B. Band Ben-Gurion University, Israel OR9	Quantum Decoherence: A Stochastic Process Approach
Mon, 10 June, 12.00pm Prof. Charles Little Massey University, PN Sir NW Lecture Block, SNW100	Points and Lines - A Journey Through Graph Theory
Fri, 31 May, 12.00pm Dr. Nicola Gaston Victoria University, Wellington OR10	The Big, The Bad, and The Ugly: Melting Gallium Clusters with Density Functional Theory
Fri, 10 May, 12.00pm Prof. Igor Barashenkow University of Cape Town, South Africa OR10	PT-Symmetry Breaking in a Necklace of Coupled Optical Wave Guides
Fri, 26 April, 12.00pm Dr. Xiao-Quan Yu Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand OR10	Superfluidity and Localization in Bosonic Glasses
Fri, 19 April, 12.00pm Prof. Anton S. Desyatnikov The Australian National University, Australia OR10	Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Vortices
Tue, 9 April, 2.00pm Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Greece OR9	Statistical Mechanics of Chaotic Hamiltonian Systems
Wed, 3 April, 2.00pm Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Greece OR9	Local and Global Stability in Hamiltonian Dynamics
Wed, 27 March, 2.00pm Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Greece OR9	Fundamental Concepts of Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems
Tue, 26 March, 2.00pm Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Greece OR2	Synchronization and Wave Phenomena in Biological Models
Wed, 20 March, 2.00pm Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Greece OR9	Cluster Formation in Granular Dynamics and Traffic Flow
Tue, 19 March, 2.00pm Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Greece OR2	The Mathematics of Complexity: Chaos and Fractals
Mon, 11 March, 12.00pm Prof. Mark S. Gordon Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, U.S.A. TBA	Strategies for Accurate Calculations on Large Molecular Systems
Fri, 1 March, 12.00pm Dr. Sandro Wimberger University of Heidelberg, Germany OR10	Many-body Dynamics in Leaky Optical Lattices
Thu, 28 February, 12.00pm Prof. Thomas Gasenzer University of Heidelberg, Germany OR4	Universal dynamics far from equilibrium: topology, & turbulence in Bose gases
Wed, 27 February, 12.00pm Prof. Michael Fleischhauer University of Kaiserslautern, Germany OR4	Fractional Quantum Hall Effect with Rydberg Atoms and Polaritons
Fri, 15 February, 12.00pm AProf. Dario Poletti National University of Singapore, Singapore OR10	Emergence of complex correlations and dynamics in dissipative quantum many-body systems
Fri, 8 February, 12.00pm Prof. Shi-Chuan Gou National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan OR1	Quantum turbulence in a two-dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
Tue, 5 February, 12.00pm Dr. Ralf Tonner Marburg University, Germany OR8	Adsorption on semiconductor surfaces - dispersion-corrected DFT results
Mon, 4 February, 12.00pm Prof. Ronnie Kosloff Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel OR8	Quantum Refrigerators in the Quest of the Absolute Zero Temperature
Fri, 1 February, 12.00pm Prof. Mark Hoffmann University of Dakota, USA OR1	Advances in Accurate Computational Molecular Electronic Structure Theory
Thu, 31 January, 12.00pm Prof. Nobuhiko Sarukura Osaka University, Osaka, Japan OR8	Various approaches for developing vacuum ultraviolet lasers
Fri, 25 January, 12.00pm Prof. Nimrod Moiseyev Technion, Haifa, Israel OR1	Laser Field Observables that can hardly be explained by Hermitian Quantum Mechanics
Thu, 24 January, 12.00pm Dr. Simon Gardiner Durham University, UK OR1	Approaching the soliton limit in attractively interacting Bose-Einstein condensates
Mon, 21 January, 12.00pm Prof. Victor V. Flambaum Sydney, Australia OR8	Manifestation of T,P-Violating Electric Dipole and P-Violating Anapole Moments in Atoms and Molecules
Fri, 18 January, 12.00pm Prof. Richard Mawhorter Millikan Laboratory, USA OR1	Electrons Remain Stubbornly Spherical or, Measuring (almost) Nothing
Wed, 16 January, 11.00am Prof. Victor V. Flambaum Sydney, Australia OR8	Chaos, statistical theory of finite systems and enhancement of electron recombination
Mon, 14 January, 12.00pm Prof. Gary B. Schuster Georgia Institute of Technology, USA OR8	Oxidative Damage to DNA
2012
Fri, 15 June, 12.00pm Dr. Sascha Fialko NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand OR3	TBA
Fri, 25, May, 12.00pm Dr. Alberto Cetoli Massey University OR3	The Interaction of Gravitational Waves with Matter
Fri, 18 May, 12.00pm Dr. Florian Senn Massey University OR3	Calculations of molecules with open d- or f-shell using LF-DFT: Zero Field Splitting
Fri, 11 May, 12.00pm Dr. Jonas Wiebke NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand OR3	When the fat lady sings: Towards ab initio simulations of argon melting
Fri, 4 May, 1.00pm Prof. P. D. Drummond Swinburne University of Technology Bldg 117.1, Video Conferencing Room	Inter-strain correlation dynamics during within-host viral evolution
Fri, 16 March, 12.00pm Dr. Anastasia Borschevsky NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 104, OR1	Benchmark Calculations of Atomic Properties of the Superheavy Elements
Wed, 14 March, 10.00am Gabriele Jaritz NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 88, OR5	Stability of vortices and dark solitons in linearly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Mon, 27 February, 11.00am Prof. Heinz W. Gäggeler PSI, Bern University Bldg 88, OR6	Have we reached the end of the periodic table?
Fri, 17 February, 12.00pm Dr. Klaus Ziegler University of Augsburg, Germany Bldg 82, OR8	Spectral fragmentation and dynamical entanglement in small atomic systems
Fri, 10 February, 12.00pm Dr. Dmitri Scherbachov IRL, Wellington, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	Exploring finite-size effects in nanoscale materials through modelling and simulation
Wed, 8 February, 12.00pm Dr. Shi Wei Si National Changua University of Education, Taiwan Bldg 88, OR5	Topological defect formation in spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Fri, 3 February, 12.00pm Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	Of Spheres, Fullerenes and Hyperfullerenes
Wed, 25 January, 12.00pm Dr. Rhett Kempe University of Bayreuth, Germany Bldg 82, OR8	Some Progress in Metal-Metal Bonding
Fri, 20 January, 12.00pm Dr. Maxim Pospelov Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada Bldg 82, OR9	What is up with muons? Probing New Physics in the muon sector with intense muon beams
Fri, 13 January, 12.00pm Prof. Victor Flambaum NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR9	Higgs-induced bound states of heavy particles and bariogenesis
2011
Wed, 14 December, 12.00pm Prof. Piotr Piecuch Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA Bldg 82, OR9	Local Coupled-Cluster Methods for Chemical Reaction Pathways Involving Large Molecular Systems and their Multi-Level Generalizations
Wed, 7 December, 12.00pm Prof. Roy Johnston School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Bldg 82, OR9	Two metals can be better than one: computational studies of bimetallic nanoalloys
Tue, 6 December, 12.00pm Prof. Per Jensen FBC - Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Bergische Universität, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany Bldg 82, OR9	Torsional splittings and anomalous intensities in HSOH
Fri, 2 December, 12.00pm Dr. Robert Glaser Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Bldg 82, OR9	Illusions of Eymmetry: Achiral Pseudosymmetry Quantification in Asymmetric Environments of Kryptoacemate Molecular Crystals
Thu, 17 November, 12.00pm Dr. Phil. R. Bunker The Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada Bldg 82, OR9	Vibration-rotation-tunneling states of the benzene dimer: an ab initio study
Thu, 3 November, 12.00pm Dr. Murray Olsen Queensland University, Australia Bldg 82, OR8	Non-Gaussian continuous-variable entanglement and steering
Fri, 23 September, 12.00am Dr. Mustafa Hasanbulli CTCP, NZIAS, Massey University Auckland Bldg 102, OR4	A Study of Confined Hydrogen Atom with a New Confining Potential (part of 1st year confirmation as a PhD student)
Mon, 29 August, 10.00am Andrew Punnett CTCP, INS, Massey University Auckland Bldg 117	How Strange is the Pion? (part of 1st year confirmation as a PhD student)
Thu, 2 June, 12.00pm Dr. Gloria Moyano Instituto de Fisica and Instituto de Quimica, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia Bldg 104, OR1	Modelling alloying effects in doped atomic clusters
Fri, 27 May, 1.00pm Dr. Jacob Dunningham School of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Leeds, GB Bldg 104, OR1	Entanglement of a single particle
Mon, 23 May, 1.00pm Dr. Boniface Fokwa Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University Bldg 102, OR3	Rational Design of New Itinerant Magnets
Fri, 6 May, 1.00pm Dr. Jim Lee Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM) University of Auckland Bldg 104, OR1	Electrical Conduction Mechanism of ZnO Thin Films
Fri, 28 April, 12.00pm Dr. Murray Olsen Queensland University, Australia Bldg 102, OR3	Quantum dynamics of a four-well Bose-Hubbard model with two different tunneling rates
Fri, 25 March, 12.00pm Thomas Ernst NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 102, OR3	Full quantum dynamics of a scattered soliton
Fri, 4 March, 1.00pm Prof. Andreas Dreuw Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany Bldg 104, OR1	Development of quantum chemical methods for the investigation of excited states of large molecules
Fri, 25 February, 1.00pm Dr. Mikhail Kozlov NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	First evidence of the electron-to-proton mass ratio variation in our Galaxy
2010
Fri, 3 December, 12.00pm Dr. Alexander Cherny JINR Dubna, Russia tba	Drag Force and Hess-Fairbank Effect in the One-Dimensional Bose Gas
Fri, 26 November, 12.00pm Jake Gulliksen NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	Dynamics and Structure of Ultra-Cold Bosons in One-Dimensional Traps
Fri, 19 November, 12.00pm Dr. Simon Gardiner Atomic and Molecular Physics Group, Durham University, UK Bldg 82, OR8	Controlled Bright Matter-Wave Soliton Collisions
Fri, 12 November, 12.00pm Dr. Andreas Hauser NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	Jahn-Teller Effect and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Heavy Alkali Trimers
Fri, 5 November, 12.00pm Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger NZIAS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	Bound state quantum electrodynamics for the valence shell in heavy many-electron atoms
Thu, 21 October, 12.00pm Dr. Uli Zuelicke IFS, Massey University, New Zealand Bldg 82, OR8	Time reversal of a pseudo-spin: General properties and application to graphene
Fri, 15 October, 12.00pm Dr. Florent Calvo LASIM University of Lyon, France Bldg 82, OR8	On the spectroscopy, diffusion, and dissociation dynamics of gas-phase molecular systems: is vibrational delocalization really important?
Wed, 15 September, 1.00pm Dr. Mirian Tsulaia Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool Bldg 82, OR8	From particles to branes
Wed, 11 August, 12.00pm Dr. Andrew Daley Austria Acad. of Science, University of Innsbruck Bldg 82, OR8	Quantum Simulation with cold atoms in optical lattices
Wed, 9 August, 12.00pm Kim Schriefer Wolfram Reserch IIMS Lab 1	An introduction and overview of Mathematica for education and academic research
Fri, 23 July, 1.00pm Prof. Stephen Hashmi University of Heidelberg Bldg 82, OR8	Gold Catalysis: Mechanisms and Intermediates
Fri, 16 July, 1.00pm Prof. G. Radons Chemnitz university Bldg 27	Complex Hysteresis - The Memory of Magnets, Floods and Markets
Fri, 11 June, 1.00pm Dr. Michael Wormit NZIAS/CTCP Massey University Bldg 82, OR 8	The Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction Scheme Using Localized Orbitals
Fri, 4 June, 1.00pm Kyle Beloy NZIAS/CTCP Massey University Bldg 82, OR 8	Theory of the AC Stark effect on the atomic structure and applications to microwave atomic clocks
Fri, 28 May, 1.00pm Dr. James Avery Quantum Information Science Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen Bldg 82, OR 8	Combining linearly scaling DFT with the finite element method and application to nano-devices
Fri, 30 April, 1.00pm Jessica Cooper Quantum Information Science University of Leeds, UK Bldg 82, OR 8	Exploiting entanglement for precision measurements
Fri, 23 April, 1.00pm Dr. Deborah Crittenden Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Bldg 82, OR 8	Advances in quantum chemistry method development
Thu, 15 April, 1.00pm Cedric Simenel The Australian National University, Department of Nuclear Physics Bldg 82, OR 9	Quantum many-body dynamics of nuclei
Thu, 1 April, 1.00pm Prof. Prof. Hans-Beat Buergi Laboratory for Chemical and Mineralogical Crystallography, University of Berne Bldg 82, OR 9	Dynamics of molecules in crystals
Wed, 31 March, 4.00pm Dr. Doreen Mollenhauer Chemistry Department, Free University of Berlin Bldg 82, OR 9	Theoretical study of electronic effects in multivalent interactions
Wed, 17 March, 12.00pm Dr Ashton Bradley, University of Otago Bldg 27	Observation of vortex dipoles in an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate
Wed, 27 January, 5.30pm Prof. Helmut Schwarz, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bldg 82, OR8	Gas-Phase Catalysts by Atomic and Cluster Metal Ions: The Ultimate Single-Site Catalysts
2009
Wed, 18 December, 5pm Prof. Heinz W. Gäggeler, PSI, Bern University TBA	On the way to quantify human impact on climate: Pollution records and climatic information from alpine ice cores
Fri, 27 November, 1pm Prof. Phil Bunker, NZIAS Bldg 82, OR8	The Renner Effect in Triatomic Molecules
Fri, 6 November, 1pm Prof. Heinz W. Gäggeler, PSI, Bern University Bldg 82, OR8	From Mendeleev's principle to Einstein's relativity: News from the chemistry of superheavy elements
Fri, 11 September, 4pm Prof. Richard F. W. Bader, McMaster University Bldg 82, OR8	Nearsightedness as seen by a chemist and a physicist
Thu, 3 September, 4pm Prof. Richard F. W. Bader, McMaster University Bldg 82, OR9	From Dalton to Schrödinger to Atoms in Molecules
Thu, 16 July, 4pm Prof. Gernot Frenking, Marburg University Bldg 82, OR9	The Nature of the Chemical Bond: Old Question, New Answers
Wed, 15 July, 1pm Prof. Gernot Frenking, Marburg University Bldg 88, OR5	Molecules with unusual chemical bonding situations - A Challenge for Theory and Experiment
Fri, 29 May, 1pm Prof. Kirk Peterson, Washington State University Bldg 82, OR9	The development and use of correlation consistent basis sets. II. Extensions to explicitly correlated methods
Thu, 28 May, 1pm Prof. Marti Anderson, Massey University OR1	Turning environmental models around: biological data can be used to predict the physical health of ecosystems
Wed, 27 May, 2pm Prof. Peter D Drummond, Swinburne University of Technology Bldg 27	The quantum world of ultracold atoms
Fri, 22 May, 1pm Prof. Kirk Peterson, Washington State University Bldg 82, OR9	The development and use of correlation consistent basis sets. I. Fundamentals and application to accurate thermochemistry and potential energy surfaces
Fri, 15 May, 4pm Prof. Graham Wake, IIMS Massey University Bldg 82, OR8	Industrial Mathematics Initiatives
Fri, 13 Mar, 1pm Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson, University of Auckland Bldg 82, OR9	Benchmarking in Drug Discovery.
Mon, 23 Feb, 3pm Catarina Sahlberg, Jack Dodd Centre for Quantum Technology, University of Otago Bldg 84, OR7	Bragg Scattering from a BEC near Feshbach resonance.
Fri, 20 Feb, 1pm Prof. Rod Bartlett, University of Florida Bldg 82, OR9	NMR coupling constants: The role for predictive theory.
Thu, 19 Feb, 1pm Dr. Nicola Gaston, IRL Wellington Bldg 82, OR9	Superheating of gallium clusters: A molecular metal
Fri, 13 Feb, 1pm Prof. Rod Bartlett, University of Florida Bldg 82, OR9	Is bigger really better? Some coupled-cluster approaches for large molecules.
Thu, 5 Feb, 1pm Rod Bartlett, University of Florida Bldg 82, OR9	Coupled-cluster Theory: The Emergence of a New Paradigm in Quantum Chemistry
Wed, 4 Feb, 2pm Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State University Bldg 82, OR9	Science, Society and Sustainability
2008
Fri, 30 Jan, 2pm Qiang Gu, University of Science and Technology Beijing AL27.10	Spinor Bose Gas as a Ferromagnet
Wed, 28 Jan, 2pm Michael Kuchiev, University of New South Wales AL27.10	New phenomena in gauge theory, applications to Standard Model.
Fri, 26 Nov, 2pm Susan Biering, Massey University AL27.10	The unusual structure of mercury oxide: A first principles density functional study for the group 12 oxides
Fri, 21 Nov, 1pm Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger, Massey University AL 27.10	Bound state QED - From the Feynman-Schwinger to the Furry Picture.
Fri, 14 Nov, 1pm Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada AL 27.10	Molecular Spectroscopy and Symmetry - Lecture IV
Tue, 11 Nov, 2pm Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada OR9	Molecular Spectroscopy and Symmetry - Lecture III
Fri, 7 Nov, 1pm Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada AL 27.10	Molecular Spectroscopy and Symmetry - Lecture II
Tue, 4 Nov, 2pm Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada OR9	Molecular Spectroscopy and Symmetry - Lecture I
Fri, 31 Oct, 1pm Dr. Matthias Lein, Massey University AL 27.10	Recent work: Agostic Interactions, a new Motif in an Old Concept and Relativistic Effects in Gold (III) Catalysis, Addition of Water to Propyne.
Fri, 24 Oct, 1pm Andreas Hermann, Massey University AL 27.10	Ab initio simulations of Ice and Water
Fri, 17 Oct, 1pm Dr. Renyuan Liao, Massey University AL 27.10	Superfluidity in Ultracold Fermi Gases with Mismatched Fermi Surfaces
Fri, 26 Sep, 1pm Prof. Michael Dolg, Universität zu Köln AL 27.10	The incremental scheme - A local correlation method for molecules and solids
Tue, 26 Aug, 4pm Peter McLeish OR 8	The Hundred Year Hunt for Red Sprites
Fri, 15 Aug, 1pm AProf. Scott Parkins, Auckland University AL 27.10	Cavity QED: Quantum Control with Single Atoms and Single Photons
Fri, 8 Aug, 1pm Thomas Ernst, Massey University AL 27.10	Dynamics of solitons in quantum gases
Thu, 5 Jun, 1pm Dr. Mark Waterland, Massey University OR4, Bldg 102	Femtosecond dynamics in copper(I) metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) excited-states: Pre-organization in the coordination sphere
Fri, May 30 2008, 1pm Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger, Massey University OR4, Bldg 102	Kramers' restricted Coupled Cluster Theory for the determination of nuclear multipole moments
Fri, May 22 2008, 1pm Andreas Hamm, NIWA - National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand OR4, Bldg 102	Energyscape - An Approach to Integrated Energy Planning for New Zealand
Fri, May 16 2008, 1pm Dr. Beata Dabrowska-Wüster, Massey University AL 27.10, Bldg 27	Nonlinear localisation of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Fri, Apr 11 2008, 1pm Dr. Ralf Tonner, Massey University OR4, Bldg 102	Divalent carbon(0) chemistry of carbodiphosphoranes and analogues
Fri, Apr 4 2008, 3pm Brian Vest, Massey University OR9, Bldg 82	The Elusive Structure of CrCl2
Tue, Apr 1 2008, 2pm Prof. Ekkehardt Hahn, Universität Münster Boardroom, Bldg 106	Synthesis of cyclic polycarbene ligands and their metal complexes
Fri, Mar 14 2008, 4pm Prof. Jim Collman, Stanford University Study Centre Staff Lounge	Steady-state 4-electron reduction of oxygen by a synthetic analog of cytochrome c oxidase
Fri, Mar 7 2008, 1pm Dr. Detlev Figgen, Massey University OR3, Bldg 102	Adjustment and Application of Relativistic Pseudopotentials
Tue, Feb 26 2008, 3pm Prof. Robert Glaser, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev OR10, Bldg 82	Symmetry in NMR spectroscopy and the Use of M.C. Esher's periodic drawings as a heuristic device to explain magnetic eqjuivalence
Fri, Feb 22 2008, 1pm Robert Glaser, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev OR8, Bldg 82	Chiral Recognition via Helical Sense and Phase in a Crystalline Supramolecular Array of Intermeshed Triple-Helices
Fri, Feb 15 2008, 1pm Love Koci, Uppsala Universitet OR8, Bldg 82	Material properties using ab initio and classical methods
Fri, Feb 8 2008, 1pm Prof. Robert Glaser, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev OR8, Bldg 82	What Something Is Depends on Where it is: Desymmetrization of Five Convex Platonic Solid Molecules Due to Residence Within the Constraints of the Crystal Lattice
Tue, Jan 29 2008, 12pm Dr.. David Hallwood, University of Oxford Bldg 106, Boardroom	Macroscopic quantum superpositions in Bose-Einstein Condensates
2007
Thu, Dec 20 2007, 1pm Prof. Victor Flambaum, NZIAS Bldg 84, OR7	Parity and time reversal violation in molecules
Wed, Dec 19 2007, 1pm Prof. Victor Flambaum, NZIAS Bldg 84, OR7	Effects of variation of fundamental constants in molecules
Mon, Dec 17 2007, 12pm AProf. Ulrich Zülicke, Massey University Bldg 82, OR10	Spintronics with bubbles: Spin splitting and polarisation of quantum-confined holes
Fri, Nov 30 2007, 1pm Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada Bldg 82, OR9	Quasilinearity, the Renner Effect, and the spectrum of CH₂⁺
Tue, Nov 27 2007, Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada University of Auckland	Near Symmetry in the Universe: The origin of life and the preponderance of matter over antimatter
Fri, Nov 16 2007, 12pm Prof. Phil Bunker, National Research Council of Canada Bldg 82, OR9	The Definition of "Molecular Symmetry" and the Benzene Dimer
Fri, Nov 9 2007, 1pm Andrey R. Kolovsky, Kerinski Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Academy of Sciences and Siberian Federal University Bldg 82, OR8	Bloch dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensates: mean-field vs. microscopic descriptions
Fri, Sep 14 2007, 1pm David Hutchinson, University of Otago Bldg. 106, Boardroom	Laser Cooling
Fri, Sep 14 2007, 2.30pm Prof. Tanja van Mourik, University of St Andrews Bldg. 106, Boardroom	Accuracy in electronic structure calculations on biomolecules
Fri, Aug 17 2007, 3pm Alan Ó Cais, University of Adelaide Bldg. 82, OR10	Condor - How to build your own supercomputer
Fri, Aug 10 2007, 3pm Prof. Howard Carmichael, University of Auckland Bldg. 84, OR7	Quantum Stochastic Processes and the Heating of Harmonically Trapped Ion through Resonance Fluorescence
Fri, Aug 3 2007, 1.30pm AProf. David Krofcheck, University of Auckland Bldg. 106, Boardroom	Hot Nuclear Matter Probed by Heavy Ion Collisions using the CMS at CERN
Fri, Jun 22 2007, 11am Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger, Massey University Bldg. 82, OR8	Towards the Accurate Simulation of Mercury Clusters
Thu, May 17 2007, 2pm Prof. Geoff Jameson, Massey University Bldg. 88, OR5	The Australian Synchrotron - the brightest light in the Southern Hemisphere: The value of synchrotrons for the physical and biological science
Wed, May 16 2007 Debashis Gangopadhyay, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences Bldg. 88, OR5	Quantum Logic Gates with q-Deformed Oscillators
Fri, May 11 2007 Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger, Massey University Bldg. 88, OR5	The Quest for absolute Chirality
Fri, Apr 27 2007, 1.30pm Rudolf Kiefer, University of Auckland Bldg 84, OR6	Unsolved Phenomena of conducting polymers during charging and discharging process
Wed, Apr 4 2007 Prof. Victor Flambaum, University of New South Wales Bldg 84, OR7	Parity and time reversal violation in atoms and molecules and test of the Standard Model
Mon, Apr 2 2007 Prof. Victor Flambaum, University of New South Wales Bldg 84, OR7	Variation of fundamental constants in space and time
Fri, Mar 30 2007 Dr. Cather Simpson, University of Auckland Bldg. 88, OR5	Untangling Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics - Light, Hemes, and the First Several Picoseconds
Fri, Mar 23 2007 AProf. Al Nielson, Massey University Bldg. 88, OR5	Determination of Linear Agostic Interactions in Early Transition Metal Complexes
Thu, Mar 8 2007 Prof. Ian Hamilton, Wilfrid Laurier University Bldg 42, OR42.7	Classical kinetic energy, quantum fluctuations terms and kinetic-energy functionals
Fri, Mar 2 2007 AProf. Uli Zülicke, Massey University Bldg. 88, OR5	Nanospintronics meets relativistic quantum physics: Ubiquity of Zitterbewegung effects
Fri, Feb 23 2007 Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger, Massey University Bldg. 88, OR5	Relativistic Pseudopotentials

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