Theory Seminars 2007-08

Joost Slingerland (Dublin)
Fractional quantum Hall trial wave functions
Abstract

Hans Fogedby (Copenhagen) 
Aspects of Nonequilibrium: Growth and Pattern Formation
in the Kardar Parisi Zhang equation for a growing interface
Abstract

Mats Larsson (SU)
Astrobiology
Abstract

Davide Meloni (Roma III, Rom, Italien)
New physics with neutrino telescopes
Abstract

Dean Astumian (University of Maine)
Extended reciprocal relations for Brownian Molecular Machines far from
Equilibrium

Torsten Ekedahl (SU) 
Mirror symmetry - a mathematical point of view

CANCELED

March 19, 11:00
in FA31

Klas Markström (Umeå)
Quantum but no mechanics - an introduction to quantum probability theory
Abstract

Jani-Petri Martikainen (NORDITA)
Ultra-cold Fermi superfluids 
Abstract

March 5, 11:00
in FA31

Hans Hansson (SU)
Fractional statistics - what is believed, what is known, what is 
measured?
Abstract

Angel Uranga (Madrid) 
The Standard Model from string theory D-branes
Abstract

Thomas Thiemann (AEI Potsdam) 
Loop Quantum Gravity
Abstract

Feb.6, 11:00
in FA31

Stefan Theisen (AEI Potsdam)
Hologravity: Classical Gravity vs. Quantum Field Theory
Abstract

Jan. 23, 11:00
in FA31

Teresia Månsson (AEI Potsdam):
Is there a tower of charges to be discovered?
Abstract

Jan. 16, 11:00
in FA31

Siddharta Lal (ICTP Trieste):
Towards an understanding of transport through junctions in 
quantum-Hall systems
Abstract

Michal Malinský (University of Southampton, UK)
Quark and lepton masses and mixing in unified models of particle interactions
Abstract

Dec. 18, 11:00
in FA31
(OBS day!) 

Bo-Sture Skagerstam (Trondheim):
Photon Emission Processes Near Superconducting Bodies
Abstract

Dec. 13, 11:00
in FB54 
(Obs day and room)

Matti Manninen (Jyväskylä): 
Localization of particles and vortices in quantum dots and cold atom 
clouds

Dec. 5, 11:00
in FA31

Marcus Berg (SU): 
Introduction to orientifolds 
Abstract

Nov. 28, 11:00
in FA31

Sten Hellman (SU):
Discovering the expected with Atlas
Abstract

Nov. 21, 11:00
in FA31

David Gómez-Ullate (Madrid)
Chaos and multivaluedness: travelling on Riemann surfaces
Abstract

Nov. 14, 11:00
in FA31

Jon Magne Leinaas (Oslo): 
Geometry of separable and entangled quantum states
Abstract

Nov. 7, 11:00
in FA31

Ingemar Bengtsson (SU): 
Anti-de Sitter black holes (a controversy)
Abstract

Oct. 31, 11:00
in FA31

Alfonso Garcia-Parrado (Mai, Linköping): 
Causal structure: a new viewpoint
Abstract

Oct. 24, 11:00
in FA31

Maria Hermanns (SU): 
Quantum Hall wave functions on the torus

*Oct. 23, 10:15
in A4:1069 

Seminar in Mathematical Physics
Remi Leandre (Dijon)
Connes-Hida Calculus in the Index theory 
Abstract

Oct. 17, 11:00
in FA31

Lars Samuelsson (Nordita)
Dynamical modelling of Neutron stars.
Abstract

Oct. 3, 11:00
in FA31

Hans Ringström (Mathematics, KTH):
Future global non-linear stability of cosmological models 
with accelerated expansion

Sept. 26, 11:00
in FA31

Stephanie Reimann (Lund Univ.)
Vortices in quantum dots and Bose condensates
(to be confirmed)

*Sept. 25, 11:00
in FB41

Seminar in Theoretical Biophysics
Tobias Ambjornsson (Dept. Chemistry, MIT): 
Nanosensing using DNA constructs and tagged particles in 1D

Sept. 12, 11:00
in FA31

Z. Tesanovich (John Hopkins):
d-wave Duality, Gauge Theories and the
Physics of High Temperature Superconductors

Sept. 5, 11:00
in FA31

L. Balents (UCSB): 
Spinons, triplons, and ordering in quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets

Aug. 29, 11:00
in FA32

Das Sarma (Maryland): 
Computing with quantum knots: Nonabelian anyons 
and topological quantum computation

Aug. 22, 11:00 
in FA32

B. Svistunov (UMass Amherst): 
Supersolid State of Matter