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March-April 2010, Aula seminari
Wilhelm Zwerger (Technische Univ. Muenchen)
Series of lectures on
Many-body theories with applications to ultracold gases
Tue/Wed 16/17 March, 9:30-11:30
Tue/Wed 23/24 March, 9:30-11:30
Tue/Wed 30/31 March, 9:30-11:30
Tue/Wed 13/14 April, 9:30-11:30


Monday, March 29th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Wilhelm Zwerger
FFLO phases in 1D Fermi gases


Monday, March 15th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Bruno Galvan
Generalization of the Born rule


Friday, March 12th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Wilhelm Zwerger (Technische Univ. Muenchen)
The search for a perfect fluid: is string theory relevant for ultracold atoms?


Friday, March 5th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Corinna Kollath (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
Strongly correlated ultracold gases in optical lattices


Thursday, March 4th 2010, at 16:00, Aula n.20
Michael Koehl (Cambridge, UK)
A trapped single ion inside a Bose-Einstein condensate


Tuesday, February 16th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Carlos Lobo (Cambridge, UK)
BCS pairing with unequal masses


Tuesday, February 16th 2010, at 10:30, Aula seminari
Journal Club
Davide Sarchi: "Chiral tunnelling and the Klein paradox in graphene", by M. I. Katsnelson, K. S. Novoselov and A. K. Geim, Nat. Phys. 2, 620 (2006).


Tuesday, February 9th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Julian Grond (Graz)
Optimal control of squeezing and many-body effects when splitting a BEC


Monday, February 8th 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Carlo Nicola Colacino (Univ. Pisa & INFN)
Stochastic gravitational background and fundamental noises in interferometric detectors of gravitational waves


Tuesday, February 2nd 2010, at 10:30, Aula Matematica
Journal Club
Philipp Hyllus "Photon-number superselection rule and the entangled coherent state representation", by B.C. Sanders, et al., PRA 68, 042329 (2003) and "Dialogue concerning two views on quantum coherence: factist and fictionist" by S.D. Bartlett, et al., arXiv:quant-ph/0507214.


Monday, February 1st 2010, at 16:00, Aula seminari
Daniele Faccio (Univ. Insubria, Como)
Direct observation of analogue Hawking radiation?


Tuesday, January 26th 2010, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club
Francesco Bariani:"Quantum radiation from superluminal refractive index perturbations", by F. Belgiorno, et al., arXiv:0910.3508v2 (2010).


Monday, Jan 25, 2010, at 16.00, Aula seminari
Nicolas Pavloff (LPTMS Orsay)
Density correlations as probes of Hawking radiation in BECs


Tuesday, January 19th 2010, at 10:30, Aula Matematica
Journal Club
Paolo Bettotti: "Complete optical isolation created by indirect interband photonic transitions", by Z. Yu and S. Fan, Nat. Phot., 3, 91 (2009).


Monday, Jan 11, 2010, at 16.00, Aula seminari
Philipp Treutlein (LMU Munich)
Atom chip based generation of entanglement for quantum metrology


Tuesday, January 12th 2010, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club
Francesco Piazza: "Directed Transport of Atoms in a Hamiltonian Quantum Ratchet", by T. Salger et al., Science 326, 1241 (2009).


18-19 December, 2009, Aula Seminari
Trento-Trieste Informal meeting
Friday: talks by Menotti, Carrasquilla, Recati, Becca, Giorgini, and round table.
Saturday: talks by Smerzi, Trombettoni, and round table.


Friday, 4th of December, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Edward Taylor, The Ohio State University
Viscosity spectral functions and sum rules in dilute Fermi gases


Tuesday, 1st of December, at 10:30, Aula di Matematica
Journal Club
Iacopo Carusotto: "Observation of unidirectional backscattering-immune topological electromagnetic states", by Z. Wang et al., Nature 461, 772 (2009).


Monday, 30th of November, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Jonathan Edge, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Collective modes as a probe of the nature of imbalanced Fermi gases


Tuesday, 24th of November, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club
Gianluca Bertaina: "Itinerant Ferromagnetism in a Fermi Gas of Ultracold Atoms", by Gyu-Boong Jo et al., Science, 325, 1521 (2009).


Friday, 20th of November, at 16.00, Aula seminari
Frédéric Chevy, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Thermodynamics of the unitary Fermi gas


Thursday, 19th of November, at 16.00, Aula 20
Michael Fleischhauer, University of Kaiserslautern
Single and many-body physics with stationary-light polaritons


Tuesday, 17th of November, at 10:30, Aula Matematica
Journal Club
Alessandro Pitanti: "Purcell-Factor-Enhanced Scattering from Si Nanocrystals in an Optical Microcavity", by T. J. Kippenberg et al., PRL 103, 027406 (2009).


Monday, 16th of November, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Michael Klawunn, University of Hannover
Ultracold Dipolar Gases in Deep Optical Lattices


Tuesday, 10th of November, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Giuseppe Carleo, SISSA - Trieste
Novel Bose-Einstein condensation in quantum glasses


Tuesday, 10th of November, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club
Marco Larcher: "Observation of a Localization Transition in Quasiperiodic Photonic Lattices", by Y. Lahini et al., PRL 103, 013901 (2009).
Monday 2nd of November, at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Gunes Soyler, ICTP - Trieste
Novel Superfluid States in Bosonic Systems
Tuesday, 3rd of November, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club
Davide Sarchi: "Cavity quantum optomechanics of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice: Normal-mode splitting", by A. B. Bhattacherjee, PRA 80, 043607 (2009).
Friday 23rd of October, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Gianluigi Catelani, Yale University
Soft modes, domain walls, and coreless vorticity in three-component fermionic superfluids
Tuesday 20th October, at 11.00, Aula Seminari
Manuele Landini, (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Towards the realization of a new optical double well trapping potential for matter wave interferometry
Monday 19th October, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Crispin Gardiner, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Bragg scattering from a Bose-Einstein condensate close to a Feshbach resonance
Tuesday 13th October, at 14.30, Aula Seminari
Andrea Bertoldi, Institut d'Optique - Palaiseau (France)
Cold atoms, quantum-non demolition measurements, and squeezing in a high finesse optical cavity
Monday, 12th of October at 14:30, Aula Seminari
Informal Group Meeting
Monday, 5th of October at 15:00, Aula Seminari
Jan Chwedenczuk (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Rabi Interferometry and Sensitive Measurement of the Casimir-Polder Force with Ultra-Cold Gases
Thursday September 3, at 10:30 Aula Seminari
Simon Pigeon (Laboratoire Materiaux et Phenomenes Quantique, Paris)
Superfluidity of Polaritons and beyond
Friday 17th of July at 15:00 Aula Seminari
Eugene Demler (Harvard University)
Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems of ultracold atoms
Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Iacopo Carusotto: "Photon lasing in GaAs microcavity: Similarities with a polariton condensate" by D. Bajoni et al., Phys. Rev. B 76, 201305 (2007).
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at 15, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Francesco Bariani: "Photonic spectrum of bichromatic optical lattices", by Stefan Rist, Patrizia Vignolo, and Giovanna Morigi, Phys. Rev. A 79, 053822 (2009).
Thursday July 2, at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Arianna Montorsi (Politecnico di Torino)
Hubbard models with particle assisted tunneling rates and ultracold fermionic atoms on optical lattices
Monday, June 29, 2009, at 11:00, Aula Seminari
Antonio Polosa (INFN Roma and Univ. La Sapienza)
The new hadron spectroscopy
Thursday, June 25, 2009, at 15:00, Aula Seminari
Robin Scott (University of Nottingham)
Simulating Bose-Einstein Condensates
Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Jan Chwedenczuk: "Stochastic optimization of a cold atom experiment using a genetic algorithm", by W. Rohringer et al., APL 93, 264101 (2008).
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at 15, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Zeno Gaburro: "Emission of Coherent THz Radiation from Superconductors", by L. Ozyuzer et al., Science 318, 1291 (2007).
Tuesday May 22, 2009, at 14:30, Aula Seminari
Otfried Guehne (IQOQI, Innsbruck)
Spin squeezing and entanglement
Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Davide Sarchi: "Even-Order Aberration Cancellation in Quantum Interferometry" by C. Bonato et al., PRL 101, 233603 (2009).
Friday, May 22, 2009, at 14:30, Aula Seminari
Jan Chwedenczuk (CNR-INFM CRS BEC Trento)
Rabi interferometer and measurement of Casimir-Polder force
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Davide Sarchi: "Bright Cavity Polariton Solitons", by O. A. Egorov et al., PRL 102, 153904 (2009).
Monday, May 18, 2009, at 14:30, Sala Conferenze FBK
Joint Colloquium
Prof. Dr. Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik)
Quantum computers and communication systems
Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 15:00, Aula 20
Gentaro Watanabe (Theoretical Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Riken Japan)
Properties of superfluid unitary Fermi gases in a 1D optical lattice
Monday, May 11, 2009, at 14:30, Aula Seminari
Martin Zwierlein (MIT)
Fermi polarons in ultracold atoms
Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Philipp Hyllus: "Experimental Observation of Four-Photon Entangled Dicke State with High Fidelity", by N. Kiesel et al., PRL 98, 063604 (2007).
Tuesday, May 05, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Francesco Bariani: "Cavity Optomechanics with a Bose-Einstein Condensate", by F. Brennecke et al., Science 322, 235 (2008).
Monday, May 04, 2009, at 15:00, Aula Seminari
Michiel Wouters (EPFL - Lausanne)
Classical field model for polariton condensates: coherence and superfluidity
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 2:30pm, Aula 20
Franck Laloe (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, Paris)
Classical phases and quantum angles in the interference between BE condensates
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Iacopo Carusotto: "Sub-cycle switch-on of ultrastrong light-matter interaction" by G. Gunter et al., Nature 458, 178 (2009).
Monday, April 27, 2009, at 10:30, Aula 20
Allan Griffin (University of Toronto)
Elementary excitations and collective modes in superfluids: from Landau in 1941 to the BCS-BEC crossover
Friday, April 24, 2009, at 2:30pm, Aula 20
Edward Taylor (CNR-INFM, University of Trento)
Critical Behaviour in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Alessandro Pitanti: "Controlling photonic structures with optical forces" by G.S. Wiederhecker et al., arXiv:0904.0794v1.
Monday, April 20, 2009, at 3:00pm, Aula seminari
Michele Correggi (CIRM, Università degli Studi di Trento)
Mathematical Models for Bose-Einstein Condensates
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at 14:00, Aula 20
Joint Colloquium
Achim Richter (ECT*)
Playing Billiards with Microwaves: Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at 10:30, Aula Matematica
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Davide Sarchi: "Optical circuits based on polariton neurons in semiconductor MC" by T. Liew et al., PRL 101, 016402 (2008).
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 10:30, Aula seminari
Journal Club - Optical Physics
Francesco Bariani: "Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Light Storage in an Atomic Mott Insulator" by U. Schnorrberger et al., ArXiv:0903.0135v1.
Monday, March 30, 2009, at 3:00pm, Aula seminari
Giacomo Roati (Lens, Firenze CNR-INFM)
An ideal Bose-Einstein condensate: from precision measurements to Anderson localization
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, at 3:00pm, Aula seminari
Markus Baden (IQE-ETH, Zurich)
Holographic Traps For Ultracold Atoms
Monday, March 23, 2009, at 2:30pm, Aula seminari
Mauro Antezza (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris)
Atom-Light Elementary Excitations in a Periodic Ensemble of Ultracold Atoms
Thursday, March 12, 2009, at 9:30am, Aula seminari
Smerzi Augusto (CNR-INFM)
First PhD lecture on "Quantum Interferometry"
Monday, March 9th, 2009, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Boris Svistunov (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Supersolidity of Helium-4
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Gentaro Watanabe (CNR-INFM, CRS BEC)
Efficient scheme for breeding beautiful Schroedinger cat in a double-well potential
Monday, February 23rd, 2009, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Sunethra Ramanan (Centre for High Energy Physics, India)
Signatures of the superfluid to Mott insulator transition in cold bosonic atoms in 1D optical lattice
Monday, February 16th, 2009, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Gianluca Bertaina (CNR-INFM, BEC Trento)
Density profiles of polarized Fermi gases confined in harmonic traps
Monday, February 9th, 2009, at 15.00, Aula seminari
Giulia Ferrini (Université Joseph Fourier)
Dynamics in mesoscopic Bose-Josephson junctions
Friday, February 6th, 2009, at 14:00, Aula 20
Joint BEC-LUXOR meeting
Quantum Brainstorming
14:10-14:30 Paolo Villoresi (CNR-INFM LUXOR Padova), Quantum Communication in Space
14:30-14:50 Augusto Smerzi (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento), Quantum Interferometry in Trento
14:50-15:10 Cristian Bonato (CNR-INFM LUXOR Padova), Quantum Interferometry
15:30-15:50 Stefano Vitale (University of Trento), Space and the spacecraft as a precision laboratory
15:50-16:10 Fabrizio Tamburini (University of Padova), Quantum Astronomy
16:10-16:30 Tommaso Calarco (University of Ulm), Current challenges in Quantum Information
16:30-16:50 Francesco Ticozzi (University of Padova), Quantum Control
16:50 Open discussion
Monday, January 12nd, 2009, at 15:00, Aula Seminari
Hanns-Christoph Naegerl (University of Innsbruck)
Observation of a super-Tonks-Girardeau gas for ultracold atoms with tunable interactions in an optical lattice
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008, at 11:00, Aula Seminari
Federico Becca (CNR-INFM Democritos, SISSA - Trieste)
Variational wave functions for Mott insulators
Monday, December 15th 2008 at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Andrea Trombettoni (SISSA - Trieste)
Bose Gases on Disordered Lattices
Tuesday, December 9th 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Augusto Smerzi (BEC, Trento)
Squeezing and Entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Monday, December 1st 2008 at 11.30, Aula seminari
Christoph Kohstall (Univ. Innsbruck)
Interference of two molecular BECs
Elmar Haller (Univ. Innsbruck)
Experiments with 1D condensates
Friday, November 28th 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Markus Holzmann (LPTMC, Paris)
Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Trapped Bose Gas
Monday, November 17th 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Ingrid Bausmerth (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Chandrasekhar-Clogston limit in Fermi mixtures with unequal masses at Unitarity
Monday, November 10th 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Francesco Piazza (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Phase slips and Current-Phase relation in BEC Josephson junctions
Monday, November 3rd 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Jan Chwedenczuk (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Simulation of a single event of a collision of two BEC's
Thursday, October 2nd 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Michele Modugno (LENS & Univ. Firenze)
Anderson localization of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 10.30, Aula seminari
Oriol Bohigas (LPTMS, Université Paris Sud, Orsay)
Quantum Chaos: From the Compound Nucleus to the Riemann zeta Function
Monday, September 22nd 2008 at 15.00, Aula seminari
Informal meeting with Sandro Stringari
Density and spin response in a polarized Fermi gas at unitarity
Friday, July 18th 2008 at 11.00, Aula seminari
Informal meeting with Ed Taylor
Spin-polarized Fermi superfluids as Bose-Fermi mixtures
Thursday, July 17th 2008 at 11.00, Aula seminari
Christian Schunck (MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms)
Resonant spin-changing collisions in spinor Fermi gases
Friday, June 6th 2008 at 11.00, Aula seminari
Philipp Hyllus (University of Hannover)
Resonant spin-changing collisions in spinor Fermi gases
Tuesday, June 3rd 2008 at 16.00, Aula seminari
David Clement (LENS, Florence)
Localization phenomena in disordered media : recent experiments with gaseous matter-waves
Monday, May 26th 2008 at 16.00, Aula seminari
Sebastiano Anderloni (Universita' di Trieste)
Quantum measuring processes for trapped ultracold gases
Friday, May 16th 2008 at 11.00, Aula seminari
Informal meeting with Georg Bruun and Ed Taylor
Recent work on superfluid dipolar Fermi gases
Tuesday, May 6th 2008 at 16.00, Aula seminari
Michiel Wouters (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Mean field theory for exciton-polariton condensates
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Grigory E. Astrakharchik (Universitat Politenica de Catalunya)
Quasi-condensation of pairs of attractive Fermions in one-dimensional geometry
Thursday, April 17th 2008 at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Francesco Bariani (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento),
Tung-Lam Dao (Polytechnique, Paris),
Dario Gerace (ETHZ and Univ. PV)
Brave young opticians: new developments in optics at BEC
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 15:30, Aula seminari
Francesco Piazza (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Phase Cat States with Bose-Einstein Condensates
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 14:30, Aula 21, Joint Colloquium
William D. Phillips (NIST)
Spinning atoms with light: a new twist on coherent de Broglie-wave optics
Monday, March 31st at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Informal discussion with Ed Taylor
News from the APS meeting
Monday, March 17th at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Informal discussion with Georg Bruun
Collisional properties of a Fermi gas in the extreme imbalanced limit
Friday, March 7th at 11.00, Aula Seminari
Informal discussion with Iacopo Carusotto
Hawking radiation from acoustic black holes
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 16:00, Aula Seminari
Thierry Giamarchi (DPMC-MaNEP, University of Geneva)
Quasi-one dimensional physics in cold atomic gases
Thursday, February 28th at 16:30, Aula 21
Sebastiano Pilati (CNR BEC-INFM)
Studies of ultracold gases using quantum Monte Carlo Techniques
Tuesday, February 26th at 15.00, Aula n. 20
Kumar Das (University of Calcutta)
Research at the Department of Physics of the University of Calcutta
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 09:30, Aula Seminari
Christophe Salomon (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS)
Informal discussions
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 11:15, Aula Seminari
Tapan Kumar Das (University of Calcutta)
Hyperspherical many-body approach for Bose-Einstein condensation
Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 16:00, Aula Seminari
Edward Taylor (BEC CNR-INFM)
Josephson's other relation: an exact identity for the superfluid density in the BCS-BEC crossover
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 16:00, Aula Seminari
Sebastiano Pilati (BEC CNR-INFM)
Phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas at zero temperature
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 17:00, Aula Seminari
Nicolas Pavloff (LPTMS, Orsay, France)
Superfluidity versus Anderson localization in a dilute Bose gas
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 16:00, Aula Seminari
Paul Eastham (Imperial College London)
Beyond Bose Condensation of Polaritons: Non-Equilibrium Quantum Condensation without Relaxation in a Semiconductor Microcavity
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 16:00, Aula Seminari
Georg M. Bruun (BEC CNR-INFM & Niels Bohr Institute)
Magnetic and superfluid phases of confined fermions in two-dimensional optical lattices
Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula Seminari
Ed Taylor (BEC CNR-INFM)
Two-fluid hydrodynamic modes in trapped Fermi superfluids at unitarity
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 14:30, Aula 21
Alain Aspect (LCFIO and Univ. Paris-Sud)
From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new quantum age?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 17:00, Aula seminari
Georg M. Bruun (Niels Bohr Institute)
Problems in Cold Fermi Gases
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Michal Kolar (Palacky University)
Orbital angular momentum single photon interferometry with which-path detection
Wednsday, October 17th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Anna Posazhennikova (Karlsruhe University)
"Shuttle" for cold atoms: atomic quantum dot inside Bose Josephson junction
Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Boris A. Malomed (Tel Aviv University)
Localized states in a superfluid fermion gas in optical lattices
Thursday, September 25th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Petra Scudo (SISSA)
Entanglement in the quantum Ising model
Thursday, September 11th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo (JQI, University of Maryland/NIST)
Mixtures of Ultra-cold Fermions with Unequal Masses
Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 15:00, Aula seminari
Nir Barnea (The Hebrew University - Jerusalem)
The Fermi Gas in Dynamic Mean Field Approximation
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 at 11:00 a.m., Aula seminari
Jean-Noel Fuchs (LPS, University Paris Sud, France)
Introduction to Graphene
Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Shyamal Biswas (Department of Theoretical Physics, Jadavpur, India)
Temperature Dependence of Critical Number of Particles for Attracting Atomic Bose Gas
Thursday, May 31th, 2007 at 16:00, Aula seminari
Francesco Piazza (INFM-CNR BEC)
On the Importance to be Odd
Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Francesco Buonsante (Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino)
Ground-State Fidelity and Bipartite Entanglement in the Bose-Hubbard Model
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Giuliano Benenti (Universita' dell' Insubria, Como)
Quantum ratchets for periodically kicked cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates
Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Sergio Gaudio (Univerista' la Sapienza, Roma)
Fermi liquid behavior in two component Fermi systems close to a diverging scattering length
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Gabriele De Chiara (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Optimal control of single atom motion in optical lattices
Monday, May 7th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Gentaro Watanabe (CNR-INFM BEC, Trento)
Vortices and Vortex Lattices in Trapped Cold Bose Gases
Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Francesco Nesi (Institut for Theoretical Physics, Regensburg)
Spin-boson dynamics: A unified approach from weak to strong coupling
Friday, April 13th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Francesco Bariani (BEC CNR-INFM Trento)
Radiation-matter interaction in Mott insulator phase: a fully quantum approach
Wednesday, March 28th at 15:00, Aula seminari
Informal meeting with Piero Pieri
Monday, March 26th at 14:30, Aula seminari
Informal meeting with Chris Pethick
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 15:00, Aula 21, Joint Colloquium
Randy Hulet (Rice University)
Fermion Pairing with Ultracold Atoms
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Ippei Danshita (NIST, Gaithersburg, USA)
Superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition of ultracold bosons in double-well optical lattices
Monday, March 5th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Davide Sarchi (EPFL, Lausanne)
Bose-Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons
Monday, February 19th, 2007 at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Olivier Morsch (University of Pisa)
Resonantly enhanced tunneling in optical lattices
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007, at 14.30, Aula Seminari
Informal Meeting with Markus Oberthaler
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007, at 10.30, Aula 21
Luca Pezze' (PhD defense)
Quantum Interferometry
Friday, February 9th, 2007, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Guido Pupillo (University of Innsbruck)
2D Self-Assembled Crystals with Polar Molecules: Shaping the Interaction Potentials
Monday, January 22th, 2007, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Maria Luisa Chiofalo (SNS, Pisa)
Evidence of Luttinger liquid behavior in one-dimensional dipolar quantum gases
Monday, January 12th, 2007, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Simone Montangero (SNS, Pisa)
Entanglement Entropy dynamics in Heisenberg chains
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006, at 16.00, Aula Seminari
Andrea Trombettoni (SISSA, Trieste)
Inhomogeneous Networks of Bosonic and Superconducting Josephson Junctions
Monday, December 18th, 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari
Roberto Onofrio (Dartmouth College, NH, and University of Padova)
Ultracold Fermi-Bose mixtures in light-assisted magnetic traps
Monday, December 4th, 2006, at 15.45, Aula Seminari
Massimo Boninsegni (University of Alberta)
Superfluidity and Quantum Melting of para-Hydrogen clusters
Monday, November 27th, 2006, at 15.45, Aula Seminari
Sebastiano Pilati
Path-integral Monte-Carlo study of an interacting Bose gas
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006, at 15:00, Aula 21
Eric Cornell (JILA-NIST Boulder, Colorado)
Colloquium: Progress towards an improved limit on the electron electric dipole moment using trapped molecules
Scientific programme for Eric Cornell's visit
Monday, November 13th, 2006, at 15:00, Aula 20
Mauro Antezza (CNR-INFM-BEC, Universita' di Trento)
PhD Defense: Thermal dependence of the Casimir-Polder-Lifshitz force and its effect on ultracold gases
Monday 6th November, 2006, at 15:45, Aula Seminari
Ryan Kalas (Washington State University)
Dilute Bose and Fermi gases with large generalized scattering lengths
Monday 30th October, 2006, at 17:00, Aula Seminari
Vittorio Giovannetti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Quantum limits in parameter estimation
Monday 23th October, 2006, at 15.45, Aula Seminari
Doerte Blume (Washington State University)
Two- and three-dimensional bosonic clusters near threshold
Monday 16th October, 2006, at 15.45, Aula Seminari
Massimo Boninsegni (University of Alberta, Canada)
Phases of Hard Core Bosons in Optical Lattices
Monday 16th October, 2006, at 11.00, Aula Seminari
Francesco Bariani
Struttura delle bande fotoniche in un sistema di atomi freddi intrappolati in un reticolo ottico
Monday 9th October, 2006, at 15.45, Aula Seminari
Sergey V. Iordanski (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moskow)
On the relaxation of order parameter in BCS model
Thursday 5th October, 2006, Aula Seminari
Sebastiano Pilati, PhD seminar
Weakly Interacting Bose Gas: PIMC and Worm Algorithm Studies
Monday 2nd October, 2006, at 15.45, Aula Seminari
Grigori Astrakharchik (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Quantum phase transition in a 2D system of dipoles
Monday 25th September, 2006, at 16.30, Aula Seminari
Doerte Blume (Washington State University)
Two- and many-body physics of interacting dipoles
Monday 11th September, 2006, at 17.00, Aula Seminari
First group meeting after summer break:
Alessio Recati talks about some recent results obtained for "polarized" ultra-cold Fermi gases unitarity.
Monday 3rd July, 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Dr. René Stock
(Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary)
How to Sort out the Pseudopotential Mess - Generalizing Pseudopotentials Beyond s-wave Interactions

Tuesday 6th June, 2006, at 15.00
ITC-Irst, Main Conference Hall
Talk by Prof. Shunri Oda
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Nano-Silicon for Novel Quantum Dot Based Electronic and Photonic Devices

Monday 8th May, 2006, at 11.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof. Christophe Salomon
(Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, ENS, Paris)
Experiments in the BEC-BCS Crossover with Lithium Atoms

Friday 5th May, 2006, at 11.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Dr. Raffaella Burioni
(University of Parma)
Quantum Particles on Inhomogeneous Networks

Thursday 4th May, 2006, at 11.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof. Gershon Kurizki
(Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Can we protect Quantum Information from Decoherence?

Tuesday 2nd & Wednesday 3rd May, 2006, Aula Seminari di Matematica (first floor)
BEC Internal Meeting
talks:
Franco Dalfovo, Excitations in Condensates (2.27 Mb)
Tommaso Calarco, Quantum Information
Lev P. Pitaevskii, Superfluidity in One Dimension
Augusto Smerzi (on-line from Los Alamos), Interferometry and Sensors
Iacopo Carusotto, Quantum Optics and Applications to Solid State (1.62 Mb)
Sandro Stringari, Ultracold Fermions (2.23 Mb)
Michele Modugno, Cold bosons Optical Lattices (2.56 Mb)
Giuliano Orso, Cold fermions in Optical Lattices (1.35 Mb)
Stefano Giorgini, Quantum Monte Carlo Methods (3.39 Mb)

Friday 28th April, 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Vukics Andras
(Institut fuer Teoretische Physik)
Cooling and Trapping of Atoms in Optical Resonators

Thursday 20th April, 2006, at 11.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Ingrid Bausmerth
(University of Karlsruhe)
Atomic Quantum Dot Coupled to Trapped Bose Einstein Condensates

Monday 10th April, 2006, at 10.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Raul Santachiara
(LPT Strasbourg)
Increasing of Entanglement Entropy from Pure to Random Quantum Critical Chains

Friday 7th April, 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari Matematici
Group meeting: Chiara Menotti talks about her recent activities in Barcelona
Wednesday 5th April, 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Francesco Riboli
(University of Trento)
Optical Modes Induced Force between Coupled Waveguides

Monday 3rd April, 2006, at 10.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Dr. Giacomo Roati
(LENS, University of Florence)
Measurement of the Thermal Casimir-Polder Force with Degenerate Bosons

Monday 6th March, 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Joaquin E. Drut
(University of Washington) on
Spin 1/2 Fermions in the Unitary Regime at Finite Temperature

Monday 27th Feb., 2006, at 15.00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof. Nikolai Prokof'ev
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) on
Worm Algorithm for Path-Integral Monte Carlo and new results for the supersolid He-4

Tuesday, 21st Feb., 2006, at 15.00 (Room 21),
Joint Colloquium
Talk by Prof. Lev P. Pitaevsky on
Surface-atom Casimir force out of thermal equilibrium

Monday, 20th Feb., 2006, at 15:00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof. Nikolai Prokof'ev
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) on
Worm Algorithms for classical and quantum models

Friday 17th Feb., 2006, at 10.00 (Room 21), Talk by Prof. Nathan L. Harshman
(American University Washington, DC, USA) on
Dynamical Entanglement in Particle Systems

Tuesday 14th Feb., 2006, at 17.00, Aula Seminari,
Michiel Wouters presents some concepts of the theory of pattern formation
Monday, 13th Feb., 2006, at 15:00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof. Nikolai Prokof'ev
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) on
Diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo: from polarons to fermions with contact interactions

Thursday 9th Feb., 2006, at 15:00, ECT* Seminar (Villa Tambosi), Talk by Prof. Sebastian Diehl
(Nuclear University of Heidelberg) on
Universality in the BCS - BEC: Crossover in Cold Fermion Gases

Monday, 6th Feb., 2006, at 15:00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof. Nikolai Prokof'ev
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) on
Quasicondensate mean-field for the weakly interacting Bose gas

Tuesday, 31st Jan., 2006, at 15:00, Room 21
Joint Colloquium
Talk by William A. Eaton
(Laboratory of Chemical Physics NIDDK National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland)
Ultrafast Protein Folding

Monday 30th January, 2006, at 15:00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Prof.Nikolai Prokof'ev
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) on
Weak first-order superfluid-solid quantum transitions: is deconfined criticality a self-consistent theory?

Monday 23rd January, 2006, at 15:00, Aula Seminari, Talk by Dr. Gabriele De Chiara on
Density Matrix Renormalization Group: introduction and two applications in condensed matter physics

Tuesday 20 - Wednesday 21 December 2005
NEST-BEC meeting at ECT*
Participants: Gandolfi, Montangero, Nobile, Operetto, Zuccato, Binosi, Calarco, Fazio, Jones, Cecchini, Pupillo, Giovannetti, Recati, Tozzo, Cozzini, Idziaszek, Negretti, Cirone, Minardi, and others.
Topics: Meeting for the SuperComputer "Ben" at ECT*, Meeting for ERA-pilot QIST, Surface-acoustic-waves nanodevices for quantum information processing, Extended fermionization, Information Transfer in Quantum Chains, Casimir forces between defects in one-dimensional quantum liquids, Dynamics of Entanglement in the Heisenberg Model, Qubit-preserving ion-assisted cooling of atoms in lattices, Interfaces between solid state devices and optical-atomic systems for quantum information purposes, Optimal control for quantum information purposes, NEST-BEC project for quantum information.
Friday 16 December, 2005, at 14:00, Aula 2 PhD defense Antonio Negretti

Thursday 15 December 2005, at 15:00, Aula 14b
Talk by C. Ciuti (Lab. P.Aigrain ENS, Paris): Quantum vacuum properties of microcavities in the ultra-strong light-matter coupling regime
Monday, 12 December 2005, AULA 7, PhD defences:
at 14:30 Marco Cozzini: Rotating Bose-Einstein condensates: vortices and collective modes
at 16:00 Cesare Tozzo: Exciting and probing Bogoliubov quasiparticles in trapped BEC

Monday 5 December 2005, at 15:00, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by M. Wouters: Coherence length of one-dimensional optical parametric oscillators
Wednesday 23 November 2005, at 17:30, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by F. Intravia (Lab. Kastler-Brossel, ENS, Paris): Casimir effect and Interaction between Surface Plasmons
Thursday 17 November 2005, at 15:30, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by V. B. Svetovoy (MESA and Research Institute, University of Twente, The Nederlands): The problem with the temperature dependence of the Casimir force between metals
Monday 14 November 2005, at 15:00, Aula 7
Talk by S. B. Kumar on Parity non-conservation in Singly Ionized Barium
Tuesday 25 October 2005, ECT*
Theory Day Meeting
Thursday 6 October 2005, at 15.00, Theory Seminar Room,
Talk by Shunji Tsuchiya on the Bogoliubov excitations in optical lattices
Tuesday 4 October 2005, at 15.00, Theory Seminar Room,
Talk by Monique Combescot (Jussieu, Paris) on the Shiva diagrams for composite boson many body effects
Monday 3 October 2005, at 17.00, Theory Seminar Room,
Talk by Roland Combescot (ENS Paris) on the Collective mode and structure factor in the BEC-BCS crossover from BCS model
Wednesday 21 September 2005, at 14.30, Aula 7,
Talk by Mauro Antezza on the Surface-atom force out of thermal equilibrium
Wednesday 14 September 2005, at 14:00, Theo. Sem. Room,
Informal discussion with Chris Pethick (Nordita, Copenhagen)
Tuesday 30 August 2005, at 11:00, Theo. Sem. Room,
Luca Pezzè talks about Phase Sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Thursday 28 July 2005, at 15.30, Theo. Sem. Room,
Jörg Schmiedmayer (Univ. Heidelberg) talks about Ultra cold atoms in 1d Traps on Atom Chips: Coherent splitting of an Atom Cloud
Tuesday 26 July 2005, at 15.00, Theo. Sem. Room,
Dimitri Gangardt (Univ. Paris-Sud) talks about Exact evolution of a Harmonically Confined Tonks-Girardeau Gas
Tuesday 19 July 2005, at 15.00, Theo. Sem. Room,
Grigori Astrakharchik talks about Local density approximation for a perturbative equation of state
Thursdau 7 July 2005, at 15.00, Theo. Sem. Room,
Adilet Imambekov (Harvard, USA) talks about Exactly solvable case of a one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixture
Friday 1 July 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Filippo Caruso (Catania) talks about Storing Quantum Information via Atomic Dark Resonances
Thursday 30 June 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Grigori Astrakhartchik talks about Momentum distribution and condensate fraction of a Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover
Monday 27 June 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Fabio Anselmi (Hertfordshire Univ.) talks about Complementarity between extractable mechanical work, accessible entanglement, and ability to act as a reference frame, under arbitrary superselection rules.
Friday 24 June 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Joe Carlos (Los Alamos) talks about Dilute Atomic Fermi Gases near the Unitary Limit; Fully Paired plus (small) polarizations.
Friday 17 June 2005, at 15:30, Theo. Sem. Room
Cesare Tozzo talks about Equilibrium properties of homogeneous vortex lattices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates.
Thursday 16 June 2005, at 17:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Sylvain Schwartz (Orsay) talks about Towards an active atom gyroscope.
Monday 13 June 2005, at 15:00, Aula 1
Gabriele De Chiara (SNS Pisa) talks about Quantum Information in Spin Networks.
Thursday 9 June 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Philipp Treutlein (MPI and LMU, Munich) talks about Towards a collisional phase gate on an atom chip.
Tueday 7 June 2005, at 15:30, Theo. Sem. Room
Luca Salasnich (INFM Milano) talks about Quantum Phases of an attractive BEC in a toroidal trap.
Friday 27 May 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Meret Krämer presents some ideas about the Analogue of pn-junctions with ultracold bosons in a lattice.


Friday 20 May 2005, at 11.30, Theo. Sem. Room
Sorin Paraoanu (Jyvsäkylä) talks about A view from the other side of the road to quantum computing: superconducting qubits.
Thursday 19 May 2005, at 15.00, Theo. Sem. Room
Päivi Törmä (Jyvsäkylä) talks about Spectroscopy and finite size effects in superfluid atomic Fermi gases.
Tuesday 17 May 2005, at 16.00, Theo. Sem. Room
Iacopo Carusotto talks about Many-body physics of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities: a quantum fluid of light.
Friday 6 May 2005, at 16.30, Theo. Sem. Room
Mauro Antezza talks about New asymptotic behaviour of the surface-atom force out of thermal equilibrium.
Friday, 29 April 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Paolo Zanardi (ISI Torino) talks about Entanglement and Quantum Phase Transition in Low Dimensional Spin Systems.
Tuesday, 28 April 2005, at 17:00, Aula 21
Colloquium di Facoltà
Sandro Stringari: Verso lo zero assoluto.
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Pietro Faccioli talks about Collective phenomena and topological fluctuations in the QCD vacuum.
Monday, 7 March 2005, at 15:45, Theo. Sem. Room
Jordi Mur Petit (Univ. Barcelona) talks about Ultracold multi-component gases.
Friday, 18 Feb 2005, at 15:00, Theo. Sem. Room
Christian Trefzger talks about Quantum gates with fermions in static potentials.
Thursday, 10 Feb 2005, CollÚge de France, Paris.
Stringari's inaugural lecture of his course on Bose Einstein Condensation and superfluidity,
as Titulaire de la Chaire européenne 2004-2005.
Tuesday, 1 Feb 2005, Theo. Sem. Room at 15:00.
Dimitri Gangardt (Orsay) talks about Exact density matrix of trapped Tonks gas.
Monday, 31 Gen 2005, Theo. Sem. Room at 17:30.
Rosario Fazio (SNS Pisa) talks about Solid state quantum information.
Friday, 14 Gen 2005, Aula seminari, first floor, at 15:45
Alessio Recati talks On the BCS-BEC crossover in 1D trapped cold gases
Monday, 20 december 2004
  • Guido Pupillo (NIST, Gaithersburg): The Mott state in optical lattices: adiabatic realization, finite temperature effects and applications (Aula seminari teorici, second floor, at 10:30)
  • René Stock (Albuquerque): Quantum logic in optical lattices via trap induced shape resonances in controlled atomic collisions (Aula seminari teorici, second floor, at 15:45)


Friday, 17 December 2004
  • Maciej Lewenstein (Hannover): Atomic ultracold gases in trimerized Kagome lattice: from quantum spin liquid to quantum antiferromagnetic gel (Aula seminari, first floor, at 10:45)
  • Paolo Pedri: PhD defence (Aula 20, at 15:30)
  • Wolfgang Ertmer (Hannover): Atomic quantum sensors, a versatile tool for experiments in fundamental physics (Aula seminari, first floor, at 17:30)


Wednesday, 15 December 2004
  • Saverio Moroni (Roma): Computational spectroscopy of doped He clusters (Aula seminari, first floor, at 10:00)
  • Gora Shlyapnikov (Orsay): Two-dimensional Bose gas under extreme rotation (Aula seminari, first floor, at 10.45)
  • Grigori Astrakharchik, PhD defence (Aula 3, at 14:30)

Friday, 26 Nov. 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Zbigniew Idziaszek talks about Two ultracold atoms in an anisotropic harmonic trap
Friday, 19 Nov. 2004, from 14.00 to 17.00:
ECT*-BEC meeting at Villa Tambosi.
Talk by Pitaevskii about Coherence and superfluidity of BEC in optical lattices, followed by short talks (20 min) by Menotti, Jackson and Antezza.
Thursday, 4 Nov. 2004, at 10.30, Aula Sem. Matematica
Riccardo Sturani (Univ. Geneva) talks about Matter-wave interferometers as gravitational wave detectors
Friday, 22 Oct. 2004, and Monday, 25 Oct., at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Uffe Poulsen talks about Entanglement in ground state condensates and quantum gates
Tuesday, 19 Oct. 2004, at 15.00, Aula 14A.
Leonardo Fallani (LENS) talks about BEC in random potentials: first experimental observations
Friday, 15 Oct. 2004, at 11.00, Theo. Sem. Room
2nd year PhD Seminars by Cesare Tozzo (Parametric excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice) and Marco Cozzini (Vortex lattice in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates).
Monday, 11 Oct. 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Iacopo Carusotto talks about Interference of Fermi gases and atom-interferometrical detection of the superfluid order parameter in an ultracold Fermi gas
Monday, 27 Sept. 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Lev Pitaevskii talks about his recent work on Solitons.
Tuesday, 28 Sept. 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Henrik Smith (Oersted Lab, Univ. Copenhagen) talks about Viscous relaxation and collective oscillations in a trapped Fermi gas near the unitarity limit
Monday, 6 Sept. 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Sara Ianeselli talks about Beyond the Landau Criterion for Superfluidity
Thursday, 26 Aug. 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Laura Faoro (I.S.I. Torino) Towards geometric and topological computation with network of Josephson junctions
Friday, 2 July 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
S. Yukalov (Dubna) talks about Nonground-State Bose-Einstein Condensates of Trapped Atoms
Friday, 25 June 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Meret Krämer talks about Velocity of sound in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of an optical lattice and transverse confinement
Friday, 18 June 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Gianmaria Falco talks about Atomic Fermi Gases at Feshbach Resonance
Monday, 14 June 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Iacopo Carusotto talks about Physics of a degenerate Bose gas of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity
Monday, 26 Apr 2004, at 17.00, Theory Seminar Room
Giuliano Orso talks about BCS critical temperature in dilute Fermi gases in optical lattices
Friday, 16 Apr 2004, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Rafael Guardiola (Valencia) gives a talk on Magic numbers in the production of helium drop.
Monday, 5 April 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Informal talk by Paolo Pedri on Mott-insulator phase of coupled 1D atomic gases in 2D optical lattices
Monday, 22 March 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Brian Jackson talks about Expansion and entropy production of a zero temperature Fermi gas
Monday, 15 March 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Franco Dalfovo talks about Adiabatic and non-adiabatic phonon evaporation in expanding BEC
Monday, 8 March 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Nandini Trivedi (TIFR - Mumbay) talks about Superfluidity/ Superconductivity in strongly interacting systems: Some lessons from High Tc Superconductors
Friday, 27 Feb 2004, at 15, Sem. Room 1
Meret Kraemer presents her PhD Thesis on BEC in rotating traps and optical lattices
Tuesday, 24 Feb 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Andrea Perali (Univ. Camerino) talks about BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold Fermi gases
Tuesday, 17 Feb 2004, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Talk by A. Fetter (Univ. Stanford) on Annular Structures in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Zbigniew Idziaszek on Microcanonical fluctuations of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Monday, 2 February 2004, at 15.00, Theory seminar room
Informal discussion with Mario Rasetti (Politecnico Torino)
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
G. Morigi (Univ. Ulm) talks about Eigenmodes spectrum of a Coulomb chain in a harmonic potential
Friday, 23 January 2004, at 15.45, Aula Seminar Matematica
Trento-Tübingen meeting
Monday, 20 January 2004, at 11.00, Theory Seminar Room
Informal talk by C. Salomon (ENS Paris) on Recent results on cold Fermi gases at ENS
Friday, 16 January 2004, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
John D. Reppy (Cornell University) gives a talk on High Resolution Heat Capacity Measurements and Hyperuniversality
Tuesday, 13 January 2004, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Lev Pitaevskii talks about Kinetic energy of a Bose condensate
Tuesday, 16 December 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Josh Milstein (JILA, Boulder) talks about The Nature of Superfluidity in Ultracold Fermi Gases Near Feshbach Resonances
Monday, 15 December 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Marco Cozzini talks about Tkachenko modes and sum rules.
Saturday, 13 December 2003, at 12.00, Kamauz
Group lunch
Friday, 12 December 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Simon Gardiner (JILA-Boulder and Oxford) on Quantum Accelerator Modes in Atom Optics: Epsilon Classics and Semiclassics
Thursday, 4 Dec. 2003, at 10.00, Aula Sem. Matematica
talk by Cheng Chin (Innsbruck) on Formation of BEC of ultracold molecules, and informal discussions with Grimm's group.
Monday, 1 Dec. 2003, at 15.45, Theo. Sem. Room
Talk by Patrick Navez (Bruxelles) on Collisionless dynamics of the condensate predicted in the random phase approximation
Monday, 24 November 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Luca Pezzè on Ideal Fermi gas in a harmonic plus period potential
November-December 2003, Theory Seminar Room
Lectures by Murray Holland on Resonance superfluidity
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by L.Viverit on Efficient and robust initialization of a fermionic atom qubit register
Monday, 17 November 2003, at 16.00, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by M. Khöl (ETH-Zurigo) on Low-dimensional Bose gases in optical lattices
Friday, 15 Novembre 2003, at 15.00, Aula Seminari, 1st floor
Alessio Recati presents his PhD thesis on Some aspects of cold atoms in reduced dimensionality: quantum computation and models of solid state physics.
Monday, 10 November 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Uffe Poulsen on Entanglement and spin chains
Wednesday, 5 November 2003, at 16.00, Theory Seminar Room
Informal discussion about Interferometry at the Heisenberg limit
Monday, 3 November 2003, at 15.45, Aula Seminari 1 (1st floor)
Talk by Marilù Chiofalo on Resonant-tunnelling dynamics of ultracold atoms
Monday, 27 October 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Lev Pitaevskii on 1D superfluidity.
Friday, 24 October 2003, at 15.45, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Mattia Jona-Lasinio (Pisa) on Tunneling Landau-Zener asimmetrico nei condensati Bose- Einstein in un potenziale periodico.
TEN YEARS OF ECT* : ACHIEVEMENT AND VISION
Organized by ECT*, Villa Tambosi, 10-11 October 2003
Talks by: Weise, Mottelson, Richter, Hillebrandt, Di Giacomo, Haxton, Blaizot, Thomas, Pethick, Stringari, Leonardi, Henning.
Monday, 6 October 2003 at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Michele Modugno presents his last results on BEC in optical lattices.
Monday, 29 September 2003, at 16.30, Theory Seminar Room
Giorgini talks about Cold gases in 1D.
Monday, September 22th, at 16.00, Theory Seminar Room
Informal group meeting
Dalfovo makes a summary of the S.Feliu conference.
Thursday, September 11th at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
talk by I.G. Kaplan (UNAM, Mexico) on Pauli exclusion principle, fractional statistics and permutation symmetry of many-particle wave functions.
Monday, September 8th, at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Informal group meeting
Thurday, September 4th, at ECT*
Workshop on "Critical Stability", BEC session at 4 p.m. with talks by:
Adhikari, Dalibard, Sorensen, Rost, Blume.
Wednesday, July 23th
Group dinner at Rifugio Madonnina (see these pictures).


Monday, July 21th, at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Informal group meeting
Friday, July 18th, Theory Seminar Room
Aurel Bulgac (Seattle) talks about Dilute atomic gases with a large positive scattering length
Wednesday, July 9th, at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room,
Oriol Bohigas (LPTMS-Orsay) talks about Chaotic dynamics and quantum systems
Monday, June 9th, at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Pitaevskii talks about Superfluidity in 1D systems
Friday, June 6th at 11 a.m., Theory Seminar Room
Marckus Oberthaler (Konstanz) talks about Dispersion management for atomic matter waves
Friday, May 30th at 14.30, Theory Seminar Room
Informal group meeting on BEC in optical lattices
Monday, May 19th at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Hui Hu (Trieste) gives a talk on Finite temperature excitations of a trapped Bose-Fermi mixture
Friday, May 16th at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
E. Nikitin (Haifa) gives a talk on High-precision molecular wave-packet interferometry with HgAr dimers
Friday, May 9th at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
D. Guery-Odelin (ENS) gives a talk on Magnetic guided beam: a first step towards a continuous atom laser
May 5-6, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria
Meeting on Cold Gases
Monday, April 28th at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
G. Blatter (Zurich) gives a talk on Commensurate- incommensurate transition of cold atoms in an optical lattice
Monday, April 14th, at 3.30pm, Theory Seminar Room
Informal talk by Dalfovo on Linear and nonlinear response of a condensate to a Bragg pulse
Friday, April 11th, at 3.30pm, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Georg Bruun (NORDITA-Copenhagen) on Many-body properties of Fermi gases with resonant interactions
Monday 7 April at 3.30 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Yuri Kagan (Moskow) on The nonlinear damping of Bose-Einstein condensate oscillations at ultra-low temperatures
Monday 31 March at 3.30 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Yuri Kagan (Moscow) on Anomalous tunneling of phonon excitations in BEC
Saturday 22 March at 5 p.m., BEC session at Fai2003,
talks by Smerzi, Viverit, Kraemer, and G. Modugno.
Tuesday 18 March 2003, 17.00, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Iacopo Carusotto (ENS-Paris) on Stochastic reformulation of the N body problem
Monday 17 March 2003, 17.00, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Nicolas Pavloff (Orsay) on the Flow of an atom laser past an obstacle
Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March:
Inauguration meeting !!
Friday, 7 March 2003, 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Luigi Accardi (Univ. Roma2) about Outline of the stochastic limit of quantum theory
Monday, 3 March 2003, 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Michele Modugno talks about Theory and experiments in Florence
Monday, 17 Febr 2003, 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Dörte Blume (Washington Univ.) on the Formation of atomic tritium condensates and clusters.
Friday, 14 Febr 2003, 11.00, Theory Seminar Room
Informal meeting on Fermions
Monday, 10 February 2003, at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Eric Braaten (Ohio State University) on Efimov Physics in Alkali Atoms
Monday, 3 February 2003, at 15.30, Theory seminar room
Talk by Brian Jackson on Collective modes of condensates at finite temperature
Friday, 31 January 2003, at 15.30 Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Augusto Smerzi on Discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation for condensates in optical lattices
Monday, 27 January 2003, at 15.30 Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Luciano Viverit on BCS superfluidity in trapped fermions and Bose-Fermi mixtures
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 15.30, Aula 21
Talk by Franco Bassani (SNS-Pisa) on Trasparenza elettromagnetica indotta in gas atomici densi e nei solidi
(Colloquium - Physics Department)
Friday, 17 January 2003, at 15.30 Theory Seminar Room
Talk by Alessio Recati on Quasi 2D superfluids and creation of vortex pairs
Tuesday, 7 January 2003
Joint meeting LENS & BEC-INFM at Florence
Friday 6 December at 15.30, Theory Seminar Room.
Informal group meeting: Giorgini talks about his visit in Firenze.
Monday 2 December at 18:00, Theory Seminar Room.
Informal group meeting: Cozzini talks about his visit in Boulder
Friday 29 November at 15:30, Theory Seminar Room.
Informal group meeting: Sandro talks about his visit in Paris
Friday 15 November at 15:00, Theory Seminar Room.
Seminar by Miguel Angel Cazalilla (ICTP - Trieste) on the Effective harmonic-fluid approach to 1D interacting bosons in a box
Friday 8 November at 15:00, Theory Seminar Room.
Informal group meeting: Cozzini talks about Rotating vortex arrays
Wednesday 30 October at 16:00, Theory Seminar Room,
Bruno Laburthe (NIST) gives a talk on BEC loaded into 1D, 2D, and 3D optical lattices
Monday 28 October at 15:00, Theory Seminar Room,
Chris Pethick (NORDITA) gives a talk on Some novel features of quantum Bose gases
Friday 25 October at 15:00, Theory Seminar Room.
Informal group meeting: Giorgini tells about Superfluidity in Bose-Hubbard model
Thurday, October 24th, Aula Seminari 1, PhD seminars:
  • 11.00 A.Bertoldi: Ultra-cold atoms confined in a ring magnetic trap
  • 15.30 M. Kraemer: Bose-Einsten condensates in optical lattices
  • 16.00 A. Recati: Holonomic quantum computation with neutral atoms and Luttinger liquid approach to ultra-cold quantum gases


Wednesday, October 23rd, at 15.00, Theory Seminar Room,
PhD seminar by Grigori Astrakharchik on Atomic Scattering in a quasi one-dimensional system
Wednesday, October 23rd, at 17:30, Theory Seminar Room,
Oliver Morsch from Pisa gives a talk on: Dynamics and phase evolution of BEC in optical lattices
Monday, October 7th, 2002, at 3.30 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Informal group meeting: Stringari tells about the recent BEC conference in Lunteren.
Friday, October 4th, 2002, at 3 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Seminar: Andrea Trombettoni (Perugia) talks about BEC in optical lattices
Friday, September 27th, 2002, at 3 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Group meeting: Li Weidong talks about Coherent properties of Bose Josephson Junction
Wednesday, September 25th, 2002, at 3 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Seminar by C.J. Umrigar (Cornell) on Large Natural orbital functional theory
(seminario di dipartimento, org. Francesco Pederiva)
Wednesday, September 18th, 2002, at 5 p.m., Theory Seminar Room
Sara Ianeselli informally present her thesis on the Josephson effect in BEC
Friday, September 13th, 2002, at 11.30 a.m., Theory Seminar Room.
Group meeting. Short presentation of current research activities (Part II: Astrakharchic, Smerzi)
Wednesday, September 11th, 2002, at 5 p.m. Theory Seminar Room
Group meeting. Short presentation of current research activities (Part I: Pedri, Cozzini, Kraemer)
Friday, September 6th, 2002, at 3 p.m., Theory Seminar Room.
Group meeting: plans for next activities, management and organization.
Monday, September 2nd, 2002, at 3 p.m., Theory Seminar Room.
First meeting after Summer.
Antonio Negretti presents his Laurea thesis work on Quantum Computation.

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