All Seminars
Quantum Lunch Series
Thursday, June 7, 2007
T-Do Conference Room, TA-3-123-121
Contact: Diego A. R. Dalvit
Earthquakes, Landslides, Wildfires, and Floods - What do they have in common?
5/14/07, 3PM - 4PM
Donald L. Turcotte, LANL Host: David Roberts T-13
CNLS conference room
Director's Colloquium: Probing Hidden Magnetism and Quantum Criticality in Unconventional Superconductors
Speaker: Tuson Park, Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics (MPA-10)
and
Quantum Computation, Entanglement, and Metrology
Speaker: Rolando Somma, Applied Physics and Complex Systems (P-21/T-13)
5/09/2007, 1:10 PM
Physics Auditorium
TBA
A. Peter Young, University of California Santa Cruz
5/1/07, 1PM
CNLS Conference Room
Large-Scale Simulations of Ising Spin Glasses on bond-diluted Lattices
4/30/07, 11AM - 12PM
Stephen Boettcher, Emory University
CNLS conference room
Should physicists in finite dimensions care about computer science?
4/23/07, 3 PM
Speaker: Alan Middleton, University of Syracuse
CNLS conference room
Numeric verification of the kinetic equation in weak turbulence theory
4/19/07, 1PM
Alexander Korotkevich, LANL Host: Harvey Rose, T-13
CNLS conference room
Test of the Steady Fluctuation Relation for lagrangian power fluctuations in two dimensional turbulence
4/19/07, 2PM
Mahesh Bandi, LANL Host: Colm Connaughton
CNLS conference room
Some recent developments in the theory of open quantum systems
4/18/07, 11AM
Prof. Marco Merkli, Memorial University of Newfoundland
CNLS conference room
Tau functions, matrix integrals and random processes
4/10/07, 11AM
John Harnad, LANL Host: Razvan Teodorescu
CNLS conference room
Doi-Peliti methods for non-commuting observables
4/10/07, 1PM
Speaker: Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute
CNLS conference room
Optimal fluctuation approach to a directed polymer in a random medium
3/20/07, 1PM
Igor Kolokolov (Landau Institute, Moscow)
CNLS conference room
Effects of Diffusion on Large Scales in Passive Advection
3/6/07, 1:00PM
I. Kolokolov, Landau Institute, Moscow
CNLS Conference Room
Old Problems and New Results in Coding Theory
2/22/07, 3:45PM
Professor Alexander Vardy
Physics Auditorium
Algebraic List Decoding of q-ary Reed-Muller and Product Reed Solomon Codes
Nandakishore Santhi
2/15/07, 2:00PM - 3:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Reducing the Complexity of Graphical Models via Cycles
Thomas R. Halford
2/12/07, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Casimir Effect for Arbitrary Materials
Ana Maria Contreras Reyes
2/7/07, 2:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
How To Sum A Series, Part 2: How To Sum A Series When In Diverges
Carl Bender
2/1/07, 1:30PM
CNLS Conference Room
How to Sum a Series, Part 1: How To Sum A Series When In Converges
Carl Bender
1/30/07, 1:30PM
CNLS Conference Room
Randomness in Competitions
Eli Ben-Naim
1/26/07, 4:00PM
T-DO Conference Room
Shock waves and solitons in Calogero Model: emergence of hydrodynamics in
many body theory
Paul Wiegmann (University of Chicago)
12/13/2006, 10AM
New Elements for Modern Coding Theory: Van der Waals Curve and Maxwell
Construction
Cyril Measson (EPFL, Lausanne)
12/11/2006, 1PM-2PM
CNLS Conference Room
Graph-Cover Decoding: Connecting Iterative Decoding and Linear Programming
Decoding
Pascal Vontobel (HP-Labs, Palo Alto)
12/11/2006, 3PM-4PM
CNLS Conference Room
When Superfluids are a Drag
David Roberts, T-13
12/6/2006, 3:00PM - 5:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Nonlinear Integral-Equation Formulation of Orthogonal Polynomials
Eli Ben-Naim, T-13
12/5/2006, 11:00AM - 12:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Statistical Physics of Infrastructure Networks
Matthew Hastings, T-13
12/5/2006 5:30PM
Bradbury Science Museum Auditorium
Scalable and Reliable Senor Network Routing: Performance Study from Field
Deployment
Matthew Nassr, CCS-5
11/30/2006, 4:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Cold Atom Physics
Bogdan Damski, T-DO
11/29/06, 2:00PM
T-DO Conference Room
Quantum Imaging
11/16/06, 12:30PM
Peter W. Milonni
T-Division, LANL
Structural Inference of Hierarchies in Networks
11/14/06
Aaron Clauset
University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Insititute
Collective Excitations and Spin Squeezing in Simple Quantum Systems
11/9/06, 12:30PM
Paul Berman
University of Michigan
Belief Propagation for Graph Bisection
Allon Percus, CCS-3
11/2/06
The Multicriterion Shortest Path Problem
David Izraelevitz, D-6
10/31/06
Stable Fermion Bag Solitons in the Massive Gross-Neveu Model: Inverse
Scattering Analysis
Joshua Feinberg, Technion, Israel
10/24/06 11-12 p.m.
CNLS Conference Room
Non-Hermitian Random Matrix Theory: Summation of Planar
Diagrams, the \single-ring\ Theorem and the Disk-Annulus Phase Transition
Joshua Feinberg, University of Haifa/Technion
10/23/06, 11-12 p.m.
CNLS conference Room
Loop Calculus in Statistical Physics and Information Theory
Misha Chertkov
10/19/06 10 - 11a.m.
CNLS Conference Room
Complexity in a Petri Dish
Mahesh Bandi, T-CNLS
10/5/06
TSC Capability Workshop: Quantum Engineering for Threat Reduction
and Homeland Security
Gennady P. Berman
9/27/06, 08:00AM
MSL Auditorium, TA-3, Bldg 1698, Room A103
Quantum Engineering for Threat Reduction and Homeland Security
Gennady Berman T-13
Wednesday, September 27
The SK Spin Glass Revisted: New Novel Features and Issue/Questions
for Complexity Physics, Optimization and non-linear Science
David Sherrington Rudolf Peierls
9/19/06, 1:00 - 2:00PM
Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates
David Hall
September 14, 12:30PM
Amherst College
The Many Names and Uses of Stochastic Loewner Evolution (SLE)
Razvan Teodorescu
9/14/06, 3:00 - 4:00PM
CNLS/T-13
A Double Well Optical Lattice for Dynamically Manipulating Pairs of
Cold Atoms
Jennifer Strabley
September 7, 12:30PM
NIST
Experimental Study of direct and Inverse Cascade in Eletromagnetically Driven
2D Flows
S. Espa, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti e Strade, Universit'a a "La
Sapienza"
9/1/06, 10:00 - 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Vorticity production at No-slip Boundaries in 2D Confined Turbulence
Herman Clercx, Eindhoven
8/31/06, 2:00 - 3:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Long Term Memory and Clustering in Climate and Seismic Activity
Shlomo Havlin, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
8/31/06, 3:15PM
Physics Auditorium
Scaling in Trounaments
Federico Vazquez
8/31/06, 1:00PM
A Mini-Course on the Aharnov-Jnes Landau Algorithm for Approximating the
Jones Polynomial, Part 2 of 2
Haward Barnum, CCS-3, LANL
(Quantum Lunch Series)
8/31/06, 12:30 - 2:00PM
T-DO Conference Room
Two-Dimensional Tubulent Cascades of Enstrophy, Energy and Circulation
Greg Eyink, John Hopkins University
8/31/06, 10:00 - 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Thermal Convection in Strongly Strafified Two-dimensional-like
Fluid X.L. Wu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
8/30/06, 2:00 - 3:00OPM
CNLS Conference Room
Lagrangian Measurements and Coherent Structures in Driven Two-dimensional
Turbulence
Mike Rivera, LANL
8/30/06, 10:00 - 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Late-Time Attractors for Patterns of Vortices and Jet Streams in A Rotating,
Stratified Shear Flow, such as Jupiter's Atmosphere
Philip S. Marcus, University of California at Berkeley
8/29/06, 10:00 - 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Some Aspects of Geostrophic Turbulence
Balu Nadiga, LANL
8/29/06, 2:00 - 3:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
The Spectra and Vortices of Two-dimensional Turbulence
Colm Connaughton, LANL T-13
8/29/06, 3:00 - 4:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Potential Enstrophy Cascades in Rotating and Stratified Flows
Susan Kurein, LANL, T-7
8/28/06, 2:00- 3:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Inverse Cascades and Conformally Invariant Curves
Antonio Celani, CNRS, Nice
8/28/06, 10:00 - 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
A Mini-Course on the Aharonov-Jones-Landau Algorithm for Approximating the
Jones Polynomial
Howard Barnum
August 24th, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
Experimental Studies of Mixing in Nonperiodic Flow
Mike Twardos
8/24/06, 2:00 - 3:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Origin, Spread, Virulence and Genetics of the 1889 and 1918 Pandemics: Relevance
to the Avian Influenza H5N1 Threat
John Oxford, Queen Mary College, London
8/24/06, 3:00PM
Geostrophic Turbulence - Energy and Enstrophy Cascades in the Atmosphere
Michael Clark, University College, Dublin
8/17/06, 1:00 - 1:30PM
CNLS Conference Room
Factorization
and Physical Representations
Michael Revzen
Thursday, August 17, 12:30PM
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
Adiabaticity
in open quantum systems: theory and applications to adiabatic quantum computation
and geometric phases
Daniel Lidar
Thursday July 27, 12:30 PM
T-DO Conference Room
Quantum
Gravity from Quantum Computation: Applications
Seth Lloyd
July 20, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
The Structure of Competitive Societies
Federico Vazquez
Thursday July 20, 3:00PM
CNLS Conference room
Whither
Quantum Computing
Daniel James
July 19, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
From
Optimal State Estimation to Efficient Quantum Algorithms
Dr. Andrew Childs
July 13, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
Quantum
Networking with Atoms and Photons
Alex Kuzmich
July 11, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
Quantum Gravity from Quantum Computation:
Applications
Seth Lloyd
Thursday July 6, 2006, 12:30PM
From an Ox Cart to a Covered Wagon: Efforts Toward Controlling
More Trapped-ion Quantum Bits
Dr. Signe Seidelin
Thursday, June 29, 2006, 12:30PM
TDO Conference Room
Rising Flame Bubbles and Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Flames in the Boussinesq
Limit
Natalia Vladimirova
Monday, June 26, 2006 10:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Universal Behavior of Optimal Paths in Weighted Networks with General Disorder
Eduardo Lopez
Thursday, June 8, 11:00AM
T13
Probabilistic Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Physics
with Ultracold Atoms
Luming Duan
Thursday, June 1, 12:30 PM
T-DO Conference Room
The Scholarly network and the Scholarly Communication Process
Marko Rodriguez
Thursday, June 1, 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Strong Coupling Cavty QED and Sperconducting Qubits
Steven Girvin,Yale University
Thursday May 25, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
Quantum Image Compression
George Chapline
Wednesday, May 24, 2:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Computational Complexity of Spin Hamiltonian Problems
Sergey Bravyi, IBM Watson Research Center
Tuesday May 23, 2006, 12:30PM
T-DO Conference Room
Optimizing a Randic Index for Graphs with Fixed Degree Sequence
Zoltan Toroczkai (T-CNLS)
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Condensed Matter Physics Models for Molecular and Nuclear Physics
Charles Rechhardt
Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 10:30AM
T-DO Conference Room
Cavity QED with Atom Chips and Micro-Resonators
Benjamin Lev (JILA)
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 12:30pm
T-DO Conference Room
Exploring the Metabolic Network for Improved Functionality
Natali Gulbahce (T-7)
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 2:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Routing and Communication Building Blocks for Multi-hop
Murat Yuksel (RPI)
Thursday, May 04, 2006, 3:00PM
CNLS Conference Room
Chip-Scale Automic Magnetometers
Peter Schwindt (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 2:00PM
T-11 Conference Room
New Viewpoint On Ballistic Deposition: Statistics of Random Heaps
Sergei Nechaev (LPTMS, Orsay)
Monday, May 1, 2006, 3PM
CNLS Conference Room
Optimizing a Randic Index for Graphs with Fixed Degree Sequence
Zoltan Toroczkai (T-CNLS)
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 11:00AM
CNLS Conference Room
Optimizing A Randic Index For Graphs With Fixed Degree Sequence
Peter L. Erdos (A. Renyi Inst. Hungary), Laszlo Szekely (USC), Zoltan Toroczkai
(LANL)
Thursday, 27 Apr 2006
Experiments with a "Particle in a Box": Bose-Einstein Condensates
and Maxwell's Demon
Quantum Lunch Series
Mark Raizen, The University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, April 27, 2006, 12:30PM - 2:00PM -- T-DO Conference Room
Contact: Diego Dalvit
Thermodynamics at the Microscale
P/T Colloquim
Christopher Jarzynski (T-13)
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 3:45 PM -- Physics Auditorium
Refreshments at 3:30 PM
Synthetic Analogues of Biological Voltage-Gated Channels. Fabrication
of Ion-Current Rectifiers and Protein Sensors
Zuzanna Siwy (Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California, Irvine)
Wedesday, April 19, 2006,
2:00-3:00PM
Passive scalar statistics in peripheral regions
Whiteboard Seminar
Vladimir Lebedev (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 1:30-3:00PM -- CNLS conference room
Advanced Signal Detection For Magnetic Read Channel
CNLS Colloquim
Oleg Zaboronski -- CNLS Conference Room
Monday, April 17, 2006, 3:00 4:00 PM
