Spring 2011 Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics Seminars @ Stony Brook

	Date: Monday, January 10 at 3:30 PM (note special time): Daniel Greif, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
	Title: “Condensed matter physics with ultracold fermions in optical lattices”
	Date: Monday, January 31: First day of classes of Spring semester.
	Date Monday, February 7: Open seminar date
	Date: Monday, February 14: Prof. Hui Cao, Yale University
	Title: “Complex Photonic Nanostructures and Phenomena”
	Date: Monday, February 21 at 4 PM: Prof. Tom Gallagher, University of Virginia
	Title: “Ionization and recombination in strong radiation fields”
	Date: Friday, February 25 at 1:30 PM in B-131 (joint seminar with Condensed-Mat): Prof. Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State
	Title: “Probing Quantum Phases of Matter in Optical Lattices”
	Date: Monday, Februuary 28: Open seminar date
	Date: Monday, March 7: Dr. Claire Allred, Columbia, University
	Title: “Development of a Krypton Atom Counting System to Measure Ultralow Kr85 Contamination in Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors”
	Date: Monday, March 14: Dr. Lidiya Mischchenko, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
	Title: ”Colloiodal Co-Assembly Route to Large-Area, High-Quality Photonic Crystals”
	Date: Monday, March 21: Open seminar date
	Date: Monday, March 28: Open seminar date
	Date: Monday, April 4: Open seminar date
	Date: Thursday, April 7: Prof. Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona:
	Title: "Cavity optomechanics — putting the mechanics back into quantum. "
	Date: Monday, April 11: Open seminar date
	Date: Thursday, April 14 at 4 PM: Hanns-Christoph Naegerl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	Title: "Molecools: Ultracold samples of ground-state molecules near quantum degeneracy"
	Date: Friday, April 15, 4:30 PM: Hanns-Christoph Naegerl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	Title: "Strongly correlated one-dimensional quantum systems"
	Date: April 18-24: Spring Recess
	Date: Monday, April 25: Open seminar date
	Date: Monday, May 2: Open seminar date
	Date: Thursday, May 5: Stefan Walter, Wurzburg University, Germany
	Title: "Momentum and Position Detection in Nanoelectromechanical Systems"
	Date: Monday, May 9: Prof. Erica Snow, State University of New York College at Fredonia:
	Title: Spectroscopy of High-Angular Momentum Rydberg States of H₂ to determine properties of H₂⁺
	Date: Monday, May 16: Final examinations begin
	Date: Monday, May 16: Drew Chieda (student of Prof. Ed Eyler), University of Connecticut: Title TBA; Time to be determined, depending on possible final exam conflicts.

	Date: Monday, May 23: Prof. Brian Stewart, Wesleyan University: TBA
	Title: “Three-Body Dynamics of Atom-Molecule Collisions”
	Date: Monday, June 6: Prof. Edward Shuman, Yale University
	Title: “Bichromatic Cooling of a diatomic molecule”