Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Martin Howard (Imperial) "Fluctuations in reaction-diffusion systems: modelling morphogen gradients inside single cells" Theoretical Particle Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Stephen Huber (University of Sussex) "Models of electroweak baryogenesis" WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY 2007 Theoretical Physics: The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA THURSDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Barak Bringoltz (Oxford) "SU(N) gauge theories with large-N in 2+1 dimensions: a perspective from the lattice" FRIDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2007 Theoretical Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof C Sachrajda (Southampton) "Exploring the limits of the standard model with lattice QCD" WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2007 Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Iain Johnson "Walking on an energy landscape: Positive design in self-assembly" THURSDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2007 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr L Perfetti (Freie Universitat Berlin) "Time resolved photoemission on Mott insulators and high temperature" Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Robert Thorne (University College, London) "Parton Distributions, QCD and Electroweak Physics at the LHC" FRIDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2007 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Boris Zarozhny (ICTP, Trieste) "Giant fluctuations of the Coulomb drag" Theoretical Particle Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Angel Uranga (CERN and IFT Madrid) "TBA" WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2007 Theoretical Physics: The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2007 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Prof P Holdsworth (Ecole Superieure de Lyon) "Magnetic properties of La2CuO4. The dilution problem and on the U-t-t't'' Hubbard model" Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Helvio Vairinhos (Oxford) "Symmetry Breaking In Twisted Eguchi-Kawai Models" FRIDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2007 Theoretical Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof Carole Jordan (Oxford) "Investigating inhomogeneities within the chromospheres of cool giant stars" WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2007 Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Mario Serna (Oxford) "The Standard Model through Grand Unified Theories" THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2007 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Prof L Eaves (University of Nottingham) "High magnetic field studies of ferromagnetic and negative effective mass semiconductor diodes" Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr. David Seery (Queen Mary, University of London) "What can we learn from non-gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background?" FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2007 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Andy Schofield (Birmingham) TBA Theoretical Particle Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Andreas Vogt (University of Liverpool) "Third-order results in QCD and their applications in theory and phenomenology" WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2007 Theoretical Physics: The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Philippe Lecheminant (University de Cergy-Pontoise) "Pairing of Cooper pairs in one-dimensional degenerate fermionic cold atoms" THURSDAY 1 MARCH 2007 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory TBA Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor John Campbell (Glasgow) "Higgs boson production in association with two hard jets" FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2007 Theoretical Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof D Rand (University of Warwick) "Mapping global sensitivity of cellular network dynamics" WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2007 Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Adam Gamsa TBA THURSDAY 8 MARCH 2007 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr F Bert, LPS (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay) "Frustrated magnetism in the new kagome ZnCu3(OH)6 Cl2" Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Mario Serna and Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (Oxford) "Part I: GUT-scale Yukawa patterns and SUSY Thresholds" "Part II: Fermion masses and mixings from D(27)" "(or: Yukawa patterns from a discrete family symmetry)" FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2007 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA Theoretical Particle Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA THURSDAY 15 MARCH 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Valentin Khoze (Durham) "Supersymmetry Breaking in a Meta-stable Vacuum: Applications to Model Building" WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 2007 Theoretical Informal Seminar 11.30 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Yacine Ikhlef (Universite Paris-Sud) "The antiferromagnetic Potts model on the square lattice" THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2007 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Bill Spence (Queen Mary, Univ of London) "Goodbye Feynman diagrams: a new approach to perturbative quantum field theory" FRIDAY 27 APRIL 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor John Cardy (University of Oxford) "Time evolution of correlations following a quantum quench" WEDNESDAY 2 MAY 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Hans Fogedby (Aarhus University) "Growth and pattern formation in the Kardar Parisi Zhang equation" Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Tim Saunders "The third type of magnetic order: spin glasses" THURSDAY 3 MAY 2007 Condensed Matter Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr M Goerbig (CNRS and Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay) "Electron correlations in relativistic Landau levels: from novel ferromagnets to SU(4) fractional quantum hall effects" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA FRIDAY 4 MAY 2007 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Matthew Turner (University of Warwick) "Molecular motors" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Cesar Gomez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) "Pomerons and black holes" WEDNESDAY 9 MAY 2007 Theoretical Informal Seminar 11.30 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Gareth Alexander (University of Oxford) "Electric field induced blue phases of liquid crystals THURSDAY 10 MAY 2007 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Gianluca Calcagni (Sussex) "Progress in string field theory" FRIDAY 11 MAY 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Benoit Doucot (University of Paris 6 and 7) "Physical implementation of protected qubits" WEDNESDAY 16 MAY 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Rachel Koncewicz "TBA" THURSDAY 17TH MAY 2007 Condensed Matter Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Professor R Mackinnon (Rockefeller University, New York) "TBA" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Thomas Mohaupt (Liverpool) "TBA" FRIDAY 18 MAY 2007 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Ulrich Schollwock (University of Aachen) "Disentangling strongly correlated quantum systems" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Andreas Ringwald (DESY, Hamburg) "Searching for new physics at the sub-eV scale" WEDNESDAY 23 MAY 2007 Theoretical Informal Seminar 11.30 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Thomas Pickles (University of Oxford) "Novel Phase Transitions in Highly-Constrained Systems" THURSDAY 24 MAY 2007 Condensed Matter Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr A Goodwin (Department of Earth Sciences and Trinity College, Cambridge) "TBA" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA FRIDAY 25 MAY 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Ben Moore (University of Zurich) "Dark matter in the galaxy" WEDNESDAY 30 MAY 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Babiker Hassanain "TBA" THURSDAY 31 MAY 2007 Condensed Matter Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr A Dyson (Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University) "Photo-mixer design for portable THz systems" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Jeff Forshaw (Manchester) "Central exclusive production of new physics at the LHC" FRIDAY 1 JUNE Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Paul Fendley (University of Virginia) "Strongly correlated fermions as frustrated magnets" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Peter Weisz (Max Planck Institut fur Physik, Munchen) "Triviality and the $\varphi^{4}_{4}$ model" WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2007 Theoretical Informal Seminar 11.30 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Allon Klein (University of Cambridge) "The non-equilibrium physics of skin: clones, drugs and long-range order" THURSDAY 7 JUNE 2007 Condensed Matter Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Professor J T Chalker (Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford) "Spin freezing in geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Constantinos Pallis (Manchester) "TBA" FRIDAY 8 JUNE 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse University) "Soft active matter: from complex fluids to living cells" WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Bernd Rosenow (Harvard University) "Theory of interference effects in quantum hall systems with multiple filling fractions" Student Seminar 4 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion room Andreas Athenodorou "TBA" THURSDAY 14 JUNE 2007 Condensed Matter Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr H Aubin (Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, ESPCI, Paris) "TBA" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Jenni Smillie (Cambridge) "TBA" FRIDAY 15 JUNE Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Alan Bray (University of Manchester) "Exact results in two-dimensional coarsening" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College London) "Non-Gaussian perturbations from non-equilibrium quantum fields" THURSDAY 21 JUNE 2007 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Martin Schvellinger (Oxford) "TBA" FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2007 Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 11:30 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Ingo Peschel (Free University, Berlin) "Density-matrix spectra and entanglement entropies" WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2007 Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 11:30 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building R Shankar (Yale) "Dots for Dummies" THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER 2007 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Adam Brown (Columbia University) "Thermal derivation of the Coleman-De Luccia tunnelling prescription" WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Informal Seminar 10.00 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Halim Kusumaatmaja (University of Oxford) "Wetting on rough surfaces" THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dimitri I Kazakov (Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna & ITEP Moscow) "Renormalizable 1/N expansion for field theories in extra dimensions" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Dimitri Kazakov (Dubna, JINR & Moscow, ITEP) "Renormalizable 1/N expansion for field theories in extra dimensions" FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Philip Candelas (University of Oxford) "A des res in the landscape" TUESDAY 16th OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Graduate Student Seminar Series 4:00 pm, Theoretical Physics discussion room Gareth Alexander (Oxford) Swimmers and such: motility at low Reynolds number WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Anders Karlhede (Stockholm University) "TBA" THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Introduction of staff and postdocs FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2007 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building "Introduction to the CMT group" This is an opportunity for each member of the group to speak brifely about his/her own work Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford) "Next-to-leading order calculations for the LHC" WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Informal Seminar 10.00 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Jacob Simmons (University of Oxford) "Some odds and ends in the BCFT of critical percolation" THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Jay Wacker (SLAC) "TBA" FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Ian Percival FRS (Queen Mary, University of London) "Bell's Theorem, experiment and the locality of physical laws" TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Student Seminar 4.00 pm, Theoretical Physics Discussion Room Nicholas Harries (Theoretical Physics) "TBA" WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Kevin Beach (Wuerzburg University) "TBA" THURSDAY 1ST NOVEMBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Tilman Plehn (Edinburgh University) "TBA" FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2007 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1 pm, Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building *NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE* Alan Bray (Manchester) "Exact Results in Two-Dimensional Coarsening" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Steven Abel (University of Durham & IPPP Durham) "Recent progress in supersymmetry breaking" WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Informal Seminar 10.00 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Jimaan Sane (University of Cambridge) "Hydrodynamics and Brownian forces on colloids in confined flows" THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Babiker Hassanain (Oxford University) "TBA FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Charles Reichhardt (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "Colloids as a model system to explore complex matter" WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2007 The Forum 11.15 pm, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Chris Hooley (St. Andrews University) "TBA" THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Uli Haisch (University of Zurich) "TBA" FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2007 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Lyderic Bocquet (Lyon) "Making a splash with water repellency" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Georgi Dvali (CERN & New York University) "Black holes and large N species solution to the hierarchy problem" WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Informal Seminar 10.00 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Andrew James (University of Oxford) "Strong coupling theory of the XXZ chain" THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dean Horton (Oxford University) "TBA" FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2007 ** THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED (21.11.07)** Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut) "Conformal gravity challenges string theory" MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2007 Theoretical Physics Student Seminar 4pm, Theory Discussion room Joao Rosa "Branes" WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2007 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building "TBA" FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2007 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Mike Gunn (Birmingham) "Rotating molecules in optical lattices, alignment and monopole crystals" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Fernando Quevedo (University of Cambridge) "Cosmological and astrophysical implications of large volume string models" THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER 2007 Particles and Fields 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Francesco Nitti (Ecole Polytechnique) "TBA" THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER 2007 Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 11.30 pm, Audrey Woods Seminar Room, Clarendon Lab Pasquale Calabrese (Pisa) "Dynamical correlation functions of the one-dimensional Bose gas" THURSDAY 10 JANUARY 2008 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Pedro Castelo Ferreira (CENTRE, Lisbon) "Pseudo-photon theory and its implications" THURSDAY 17 JANUARY 2008 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Paul Saffin (University of Nottingham) "Resonant tunneling in the landscape" FRIDAY 18 JANUARY 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof James J Binney (University of Oxford) "New methods of galaxy modelling" THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr W Theis (Physics Department, University of Birmingham) "Quasicrystals: a novel viewpoint on fundamental concepts in solid state physics" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Charalampos Bogdanos (University of Ioannina) "Codimension-2 branes and the cosmological constant problem" FRIDAY 25 JANUARY 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Mauro Sbragaglia (Rome) "Wetting failure and contact line dynamics in a Couette flow" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Steven Abel (University of Durham and IPPP Durham) "Recent progress in supersymmetry breaking" THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2008 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Ben Allanach (DAMTP, Cambridge) "KISMET: LHC weather forecasts" FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof R Gregory (University of Durham) "Spinflation" TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Physics Student Seminar 4:00 pm, Discussion room Iain Jonston "Breeding cluster animals: Evolution and assembly on a 2D lattice" WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2008 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Gunnar Moeller (Cambridge University) "Rapidly rotating atmoic Fermi gases with balanced spin-populations: density waves, supersolidity and paired Hall states" THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Prof A Fisher (Physics Department, UCL) "Chasing down coherent magnetic excitations in solids: coherence and off-diagonal susceptibility in $LiHo_{x}Y_(1-x)F_{4}$" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Cristiano Germani (SISSA, Trieste & INFN, Trieste) "An alternative to inflation: the cosmological slingshot scenario" FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Edward McCann (Lancaster) "Chiral electrons in bilayer graphene" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Anne Green (University of Nottingham) "TBA" THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr G Van Der Laan (Diamond Light Source) "Huge anisotropic x-ray magnetic linear dichroism from transition metal oxides" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Markus Ahlers (University of Oxford) "TBA" FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof F Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "BCS meets QCD meets QQ" TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Physics Student Seminar 4:00 pm, Discussion room Christopher Thomas "Quarks, mesons and electroweak physics" WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2008 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Georgy Shlyapnikov (LPTMS, Universite' Paris-Sud) "Low-dimensional quantum gases in external potentials" THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr S Dhillon (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Superieure) "Non-linear optics and time-domain spectroscopy of teracherz quantum lasers" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof George Papadopoulos (Kings College, London) "TBA" FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Nic Shannon (Bristol) "Half-magnetization plateaux in Cr spinels" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut) "Conformal gravity challenges string theory" THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr S E Sebastian (University of Cambridge) "Fractalisation drives crystalline states in the frustrated spin system SrCu_{2}(BO_{3})_{2}" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Fabio Riccioni (Kings College, London) "TBA" FRIDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof M Cates (University of Edinburgh) "Statistical mechanics of run-and-tumble bacteria" TUESDAY 4 MARCH 2008 Theoretical Physics Student Seminar 4:00 pm, Discussion room Seung Joo Lee "TBA" WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH 2008 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Stephen Powell (University of Oxford) "Quantum-classical mappings for geometrically frustrated systems" THURSDAY 6 MARCH 2008 Condensed Matter Physics 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Dr D Lamb (LPS, LMU, Munich) "Fluorescent methodologies for exploration of the nano and ecullular worlds" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA FRIDAY 7 MARCH 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Yukio Saito (Keio University, Japan) "Chirality selection in nonequilibrium and nonlinear systems" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Francesco Hautmann (University of Oxford) "QCD at high energy" THURSDAY 24 APRIL 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Prof U Steiner (University of Cambridge) "Photovoltaic devices based on polymer self assembly" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Sylvia Pascoli (IPPP, Durham) "TBA" FRIDAY 25 APRIL 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof David Sherrington (University of Oxford) "Statistical physics of interacting agents in a market" WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL 2008 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor John Cardy (University of Oxford) "How to keep a quantum bit alive" THURSDAY 1 MAY 2008 Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Luigi Del Debbio (University of Edinburgh) "Lattice gauge theories beyond QCD; high representations" FRIDAY 2 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley) "Topological insulators in two and three dimensions" Theoretical Particle Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Heinrich Paes (Dortmund, Germany) "Probing physics beyond the standard model with neutrinos" THURSDAY 8 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory Prof Peter Grunberg (Institut fur Festkoperforschung (IFF)) "Interlayer exchange couling: new results and resolved questions" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Timothy Clifton (University of Oxford) "Properties of black hole radiation from tunnelling" FRIDAY 9 MAY 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof T J Hollowood (University of Swansea) "Does light travel faster than light in curved space?" MONDAY 12 MAY 2008 Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 11:30 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Vikram Tripathy, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai "Orienting nuclear spins in quantum wires with a voltage bias" WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 2008 The Forum 11.15 am. Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Nick d'Ambrumenil (Warwick University) TBA THURSDAY 15 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Dr C Reugg (Physics Department, UCL) "Elementary excitations in quantum critical antiferromagnets" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Jonathan Roberts (University of Warsaw) "Non-standard SUSY dark matter" FRIDAY 16 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Matthias Vojta (University of Cologne) "High-Tc superconductors: Fluctuating stripes and supersolids" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Adam Falkowski (CERN) "TBA" THURSDAY 22 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory TBA FRIDAY 23 MAY 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof Walter Hofstetter (University of Frankfurt) "Ultracold atoms in optical lattices: tunable quantum many-body systems" WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 2008 The Forum 11.15am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TBA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Dr E Blackburn (Physics Department, University of Birmingham) "The excitation spectrum of solid hcp 4-He" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Stanley Brodsky (SLAC) "Light-front holography and AdS/QCD" FRIDAY 30 MAY 2008 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Tannie Liverpool (University of Bristol) "Backtracking, fluctuations and error-correction in DNA transcription" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Tim Morris (University of Southampton) "TBA" THURSDAY 5 JUNE 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Prof B Harris (University of Pennsylvania) "TBA" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Asimina Arvanitaki (Stanford U, and SLAC) TBA FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Prof David Sherrington (University of Oxford) "Statistial physics of interacting agents in a market" WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2008 The Forum 11.15am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building Mikhail Kiselev (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theo.Phys.) "Exotic realizations of Kondo effect in nano-systems" THURSDAY 12 JUNE 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Prof J Schnack (University of Bielefeld) "Frustration-induced exotic properties of magnetic molecules and low-dimensional antiferromagnets" Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Professor Ian Moss (University of Newcastle) "The theory of two branes" FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2008 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Michael Lassig (University of Cologne) "The arrow of time in molecular biology" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Alejandro Daleo (ETH, Zurich) "TBA" THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Dr T D Anthopoulos (Imperial College, London) "High-mobility electron/hole transporting organic semiconductors for transistor and sensor applications" FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Andrew Steane (University of Oxford) "An introduction to quantum error correction" THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory TBA FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Introductory Group Meeting An opportunity for group members briefly to describe their research interests FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Simon Ross (Durham University) "Holography for non-relativistic CFTs" THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Dr T Guidi (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) "Spin excitations and quantum effects in molecular nanomagnets probed by neutron scattering" FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Boris Shapiro (Technion, Haifa) "Expansion of cold atomic gases in the presence of disorder" THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Dr V Nicolosi (Depaertment of Materials, Oxford) "Liquid phase dispersion of organic and inorganic 1-D nanostructures: towards efficient processing" FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 p, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Andrei Starinets (University of Oxford) "Gauge/string duality and transport in strongly coupled systems" THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory Dr C Stampfer (ETH, Zurich) "Graphene and carbon nanotubes: from NEMS to quantum dots" FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Erwin Frey (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich) "Dynamic Patterns in Evolutionary Systems" Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Gabriele Travaglini (Imperial College, London) "TBA" WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2008 Theoretical Physics Informal Seminar 10.00 am, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory TBA FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2008 Theoretical Physics Seminar 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Vladimir Falko (Lancaster University) "`Chiral' electrons in monolayer and bilayer graphene" WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 2008 The Forum 11.15 am, Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building TBA THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar 2.15pm, Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory TBA Particles and Fields Seminar 4.15 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Dr Luigi Pilo (University of L'Aquila and INFN) "TBA" FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER 2008 Theoretical Condensed Matter Seminar 1.00 pm, Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building Benjamin Simons (University of Cambridge) "Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues" Theoretical Particle Physics 2.15 pm, Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building Joe Conlon (Oxford) "The large volume scenario: towards realistic string vacua" ################################################################ ########## PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE ENTRIES FROM THIS LIST ######### ################################################################