Venue: Physics Lecture Room 2.15 (2nd Floor), Physics Building, (unless stated otherwise)

Time: 4:00 pm most Thursdays, (unless stated otherwise)

Information: For seminar information please contact (08) 6488 3477

Upcoming Seminars

3:30pm, Thursday 24 July 2008

VENUE:

Physics Lecture Room 2.15

TITLE:

Optical Continuous-Variable Cluster States

SPEAKER:

Nicolas Menicucci (Princeton University)

ABSTRACT:

Quantum computation is usually considered in the circuit model, where coherent operations must be performed on physical qubits. A cluster state is a highly entangled state of many qubits on which universal quantum computation can be performed using only local measurements plus classical feedforward of the outcomes. Continuous-variable cluster states are the analog of these states for optical modes, where quadrature-amplitude eigenstates play the role of the computational basis. I will give an introduction to this unorthodox model of quantum computing and discuss its optical implementation -- including a promising method with great potential for scalability, which uses just a single optical parametric oscillator (OPO).

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Tuesday 5 August (3:30-4:30pm) Professor Trevor Finlayson (Melbourne University)

Thursday 7 August (4-5pm) Professor Jaap Van den Berg (University of Salford)

Tuesday 19 August (3:30-4:30pm) A/Professor Karl James Jalkanen (Technical University of Denmark and Curtin University)

Tuesday 26 August (3:30-4:30pm) Ik Siong Heng (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 2 September (3:30-4:30pm) Hans Bachor (ANU)

Previous Seminars in 2008

3:30pm, Thursday 17 July 2008

VENUE:

Physics Lecture Room 2.15

TITLE:

Tests of Gravitation in Laboratory
- Experimental work aimed at testing new theories gravitation

SPEAKER:

Dr Clive Speake (Birmingham University)

ABSTRACT:

Dr Clive Speake will describe experimental work undertaken at University of Birmingham aimed at testing new theories gravitation. He has developed a Spherical Superconducting Torsion Balance to search for new forces coupling mass to intrinsic spin and to perform a preliminary test of the inverse square law of gravitation. Given time he will also describe other activities underway such as the development of a tilt sensitive interferometer and a precision measurement of the Casimir force.

SEMINARS HISTORY

11.00 AM, Monday 28th April 2008

VENUE:Physics Conference Room (4.56)

TITLE:Patterned Nanomagnetic Bits and Devices

SPEAKER:Dr. Bruce D. Terris
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
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Tuesday 25th March at 4.00 PM

TITLE:
I'd Like to See a Cosmos Sing in Perfect Harmony

SPEAKER:
Sylvester J. Gates Jr.
John S. Toll Professor & Director of Center for String & Particle Theory
University of Maryland

VENUE:
Ross Lecture Theatre

19th and 20th March 2:30pm

TITLE:
``AdS/CFT duality: progress towards solution of N=4 SYM theory''

SPEAKER:
Prof Arkady Tseytlin, Imperial College, London.

VENUE:
Physics Conference Room (4.56)

Thursday, 27 March 2008, 4:00 pm

TITLE:
Optical and subionospheric VLF observations of transmitter-induced precipitation of inner radiation belt electrons

SPEAKER:
Robert Marshall
Graduate Research Assistant
Very-Low-Frequency (VLF) Research Group in the Space,Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory (STARLab) in the E.E.
Department at Stanford

VENUE:
Room 2.15, Physics Building

4:00 PM Thursday 1st May, 2008

TITLE:
Some new advances in VLBI; polarisation of Methanol and astrometry of SiO masers.

SPEAKER:
Richard Dodson
Research Fellow, Radio Astronomy
University of Western Australia

VENUE:
Physics Lecture Room 2.15
Level 2, Physics Building