Physics seminars 2012
| November 22, 2012 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar: 'Protein Dynamics by Neutron Scattering' Antonio Benedetto, School of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia & Physics Department, University of Messina, Italy UCD School of Physics Room 128 @ 2:00 pm. All welcome. |
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| October 18, 2012 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar: 'Electrokinetics of salt-free concentrated suspensions including ion size effects' Rafael Roa, Department of Applied Physics, university of Malaga, Spain UCD School of Physics room 128 @ 2:00 pm. All welcome. |
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| April 5, 2012 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Is the Concordance Model the only Game in Town ' Prof. P. K. S. Dunsby, Centre for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Cape Town, RSA
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| March 22, 2012 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Novel statistical techniques in gamma-ray astrophysics' Prof. Savvas M. Koushiappas, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA The gamma-ray sky contains a wealth or information about known astrophysical sources, such as active galaxies, pulsars, supernova remnants, etc., as well as more exotic sources such as dark matter annihilation. In the case of extremely faint signals, the interpretation of data requires sophisticated theoretical modeling as well as new analysis and statistical techniques. I will discuss recent work on novel statistical methods that can be used to test the hypothesis of extremely faint signals such as pulsars, solar system bodies, as well as more exotic signals such as annihilating dark matter. |
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| March 14, 2012 | |
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ACAM TCSE, CASL and School of Physics Seminar: 'Nonlinear response of permanent dipoles in a uniaxial potential to alternating fields' Prof. William Coffey, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin It is shown how the existing theory of the dynamic Kerr effect and nonlinear dielectric relaxation based on the noninertial Brownian rotation of noninteracting rigid dipolar particles may be generalized to take into account interparticle interactions using the Maier-Saupe mean field potential. The results available in simple closed form suggest that the frequency dependent nonlinear response provides a method of measuring the Kramers escape rate or in the analogous problems of magnetic relaxation of fine single domain ferromagnetic particles and nematic liquid crystals, the superparamagnetic relaxation time and the retardation factor.UCD CASL Seminar Room @ 2:00 pm. All welcome. |
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| February 14, 2012 | |
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School of Physics Distinguished Lecture Series'Inside the Wavelength Seeing Really Small Objects with Light' Prof. Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London Light, though our eyes, gives us the most direct means of observing the world. Using a microscope we can see many objects invisible to the naked eye, but even the microscope has its limitations: it is impossible with a conventional microscope to resolve anything smaller than the wavelength of light. Typically this sets a resolution limit of about 0.5 microns. To do better than this and to get inside the wavelength scientists have been seeking a deeper understanding of light and its component electric and magnetic fields. We can now give a theoretical prescription for the perfect lens that has no limits to resolution. I shall report on recent progress and describe some experiments that bring light to an intense focus very much smaller than the free space wavelength.
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| October 20, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Characteristics of magnetars and possible origins of persistent non-thermal X-ray emission' Prof. Wim Hermsen, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
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| September 29, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'The VERITAS Transient Detector: A microsecond-time resolution optical photometer' Sean Griffin (McGill University, Canada)
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| August 9, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar: 'Challenges in molecular medicine: A perspective from computational physics' Prof. Paolo Carloni (German Research School for Simulation Science) |
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| July 21, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Long-range spin correlations in a perturbed Kitaev model on honeycomb lattice' Prof. Mikhail Feigelman (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Chernogolovka, Russia)
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| July 19, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar: 'Sea sponges and nanoparticles' Prof. Cleri Fabrizio (Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Lille I, France) |
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| June 20, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Damage Evolution in Biosystems Mediated by Transient Negative Ions: A Quantum Dynamical picture at the molecular level' Prof. Franco Gianturco (Department of Chemistry, The University of Rome "La Sapienza") |
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| May 16, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Modelling chemistry with the Amsterdam Density Functional Program' Dr. Matt Kundrat ( Scientific Computing & Modelling NV, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands) |
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| May 11, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Wigner function approach to the quantum Brownian motion of a particle in a potential'Prof. William Coffey (Trinity College Dublin) |
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| May 9, 2011 | |
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Nanotechnology Seminar 'Separation of Biomolecules by Optically Directed Transport' Prof. Thomas Thundat (University of Alberta, Canada) |
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| May 9, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'The dynamics of rare events: from blue moon to boxed dynamics' Dr. Emanuele Paci (University of Leeds, UK) |
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| April 28, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE, CASL, and School of Physics Seminar 'Conformational Transitions of Nucleic Acids under External Forces: Examples and a Stochastic Path Integral Theory for their Kinetics' Prof. Ioan Andricioaei (School of Physical Sciences, University of California Irvine) |
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| April 14, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE, CASL, and School of Physics Seminar 'Multi-physics simulations using a hierarchical interchangeable software interface' Prof. Simon Portegies-Zwart (Sterrewacht Leiden, The Netherlands) |
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| April 8, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts at high energies by the Fermi Large Area Telescope' Dr. Véronique Pelassa (Université Montpellier, France / National Space Science and Technology Centre, AL, USA)
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| April 7, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Gamma-ray Bursts: Jets and Polarisation' Dr. Shiho Kobayashi (University of Liverpool, UK)
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| March 14, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Under Pressure: Quasi-High Pressure Effects in Nano-Pores' Prof. Keith Gubbins (North Carolina State University) |
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| March 9, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Nanoscale Waveguide Arrays with Optical, Solar and Sensing Utility' Michael J. Naughton (Chairman and Ferris Endowed Professor of Physics Dept. of Physics, Boston College, USA)
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| February 23, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Swift observations of the black hole X-ray binary, XTE J1752-223' Dr. Peter Curran (Service d'Astrophysique, CEA-Saclay, France)
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| February 22, 2011 | |
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IOP Ireland and School of Physics Seminar 'Information processing in quantum-mechanical systems' Prof. Artur Ekert (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
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| January 31, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Isotropic-nematic phase transitions in liquid-crystalline materials: The impact of substrate anchoring' Prof. Martin Schön (Technische Universität Berlin & North Carolina State University) |
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| January 21, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Transport coefficients: a path to explore convex (colloidal and polyelectrolyte solutions) and concave (clays, porous media) ionic systems' Prof. Pierre Turq (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
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| January 20, 2011 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Emergent magnetic monopoles and Dirac strings in kagome spin-ice' Dr. Remo Hügli (UCD School of Physics) |
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| January 11, 2011 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Memory and Transient Forces in Soft Matter' Prof. Wim Briels (University of Twente, The Netherlands) |
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Physics seminars 2010
| September 29 and October 1, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Milestoning: Formulation and numerical Examples' Prof. Ron Elber (University of Texas at Austin, USA) |
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| September 27, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Internal dynamics of proteins in amorphous low-water trehalose matrices and co-rebinding in MBCO after flash photolysis' Prof. Lorenzo Cordone (University of Palermo, Italy) |
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| September 22, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Some topics in the physics of phase ordering' Prof. Marco Zanetti (University of Salerno, Italy) |
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| September 16, 2010 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Gas-phase spectroscopy of biomolecular ions at an electrostatic ion storage ring' Dr Jean Wyer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark |
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| September 7, 2010 | |
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School of Physics Seminar 'Dynamic response of a mesoscopic capacitor in the presence of strong electron interactions' Prof. Thierry Martin, Centre de Physique Theorique/Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France |
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| July 23, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE Seminar 'Spin Glass numerical simulations: mean field behavior of short range' Prof. Pierluigi Contucci, Università di Bologna, Italy |
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| July 22, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE Seminar 'The Equilibrium Polymerisation of Sulphur' Prof. Pietro Ballone, Queens University, Belfast, Ulster |
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| July 20, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE Seminar 'Electronic Excitations and Optical Absorption in Homologous Classes of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons' Prof. Giancarlo Cappellini, Cagliari University, Italy |
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| May 18, 2010 | |
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ACAM Public Lectures 'Micro and Nanorobots' Prof. Bradley Nelson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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| May 12, 2010 | |
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ACAM Public Lectures 'Compostable solar cells and sprouting quantum computers' Prof. Gregory D. Scholes, University of Toronto, Canada |
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| May 6, 2010 | |
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ACAM Public Lecture 'Burning ice - the good, the bad, and the ugly' Prof. John Tse, Canada Research Chair in Materials Science, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan. |
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| April 23, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Hydrogen Bonding Properties of Amorphous low-Water protein-Saccharide Matrices and Bioprotection' Prof. Lorenzo Cordone, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo, Italy. |
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| March 25, 2010 | |
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ACAM TCSE and School of Physics Seminar 'Flying Colloidal carpets' Dr. Erika Eiser, Department of Physics, Cambridge University, UK. |
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| February 23, 2010 | |
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IOP Ireland and School of Physics Seminar 'Quantum Information Theory' Prof Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford, UK. |
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