Seminars

Listed below are upcoming seminars in the Department of Physics. If you like to view a different period, use the calendar on the right.

Alternatively you can view the seminars by category:

Problem Solving: Strategies, Solutions and Successes

Wednesday 7 October 2009

14:30 to 15:30
Tina Overton, University of Hull

The ability to solve unfamiliar and novel problems is an important graduate attribute. There has been much research that has explored the factors that affect student’s success as problem solvers. This lecture reviews the literature on problem solving with a focus on strategies that aid success. It will then present some recent investigations into the differences between algorithmic, conceptual and open-ended problems and how cognitive factors may influence success.

Sustainable Energy – the IMech UK Energy Plan for 2050

Tuesday 2 March 2010

13.00 to 14.00
Dr Alison Cooke, Cooke Associates, Cambridge

Supracolloidal Polymer Chemistry: From Colloidal Building Blocks to Suprastructures

Friday 29 October 2010

14:00 to 15:00
Prof Stefan Bon, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick

Entangled liquid crystal colloids: knots and links

Friday 12 November 2010

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Miha Ravnik, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Fundamental metrology in the future: measuring the single quantum

Thursday 25 November 2010

13:00
Professor John Gallop, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Instabilities and pattern formation in thin film mixtures: from structure to performance in organic photovoltaics

Friday 26 November 2010

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University

Temperature Dependence of Monolithically Integrated Ga(NAsP)/(BGa)P/Si QW Lasers

Monday 29 November 2010

16:00
Nadir Hossain, Surrey University

NMR Study of Cellulose Ionic Liquid Solutions

Friday 3 December 2010

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Mike Ries, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds

Antimonide and Dilute Nitride Nanostructures for Mid-infrared Light Sources

Monday 6 December 2010

16:00
Prof. Tony Krier, Lancaster University

Shape isomers and clusterization in atomic nuclei

Tuesday 7 December 2010

14:00
J. Cseh Institute of Nuclear Research, Deberecen, Hungary

Chemical Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials

Thursday 16 December 2010

13:00
Dr Peter Jarowski, Surrey University

Liquid Crystal Elastomer Particles with Optical Response Properties

Friday 17 December 2010

14:00 to 15:00
 Dr Verana Gortz, Department of Chemistry, University of York

Carbon nanotube based composite cathodes

Friday 14 January 2011

14:00 to 15:00
 Dr David Carey, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey

Gamma-ray Spectroscopy at TRIUMF-ISAC

Monday 17 January 2011

14:00
Adam Garnsworthy (TRIUMF)

Local probe investigation of spin transport and dynamics in organic semiconductors

Thursday 20 January 2011

Dr Alan Drew,Queen Mary University of London

The behaviour of low dimensional carbons at interfaces

Friday 21 January 2011

14:00 to 15:00
 Dr Ian Kinloch, School of Materials, University of Manchester

Neutron Shell Breaking in Neutron-Rich Neon Isotopes

Tuesday 25 January 2011

14:00
Dr Simon Brown, University of Surrey

The phase diagram of Disordered Block-Copolymers

Thursday 27 January 2011

14:00
Gabriele Migliorini, Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Reading

Architectures for ion quantum technology

Thursday 27 January 2011

Dr Winfried K. Hensinger, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex

Glass transitions in space and time

Friday 28 January 2011

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Rob Jack, Department of Physics, University of Bath

Interaction of the human body with high magnetic fields: Or why do I feel dizzy near the 7 Tesla magnet?

Friday 4 February 2011

14.00 to 15.00
Dr Paul Glover, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham

GaInNAs

Monday 7 February 2011

16:00
Judy Rorison, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Molecular rotors image intracellular viscosity

Monday 14 February 2011

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Marina Kuimova, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College

The PhaseChip : Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics

Monday 21 February 2011

14:30 to 15:30
Prof Seth Fraden, Department of Physics, Brandeis University

Oxides as Semiconductors

Monday 21 February 2011

16:00
C.F. McConville, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL UK

High-$K$ isomers as probes of octupole collectivity in heavy nuclei

Tuesday 22 February 2011

14:00
Nikolay Minkov, Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Photonic crystals: Slow light and Nanocavities

Thursday 24 February 2011

13:00
Professor Thomas Krauss, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews

Photonic Crystal Cavities and Slowlight Waveguides in Silicon

Monday 28 February 2011

16:00
William Whelan-Curtin, St. Andrews University

Ratio of angular distributions, a new tool to study halo nuclei

Tuesday 1 March 2011

14:00 to 15:00
Pierre Capel, Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Institut fur Kernphysik of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz

Results from the ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC

Tuesday 8 March 2011

14:00 to 15:00
David Evans, University of Birmingham

Nanoelectronics, Photonics, Cooltronics ... applications for epitaxial silicon/germanium

Thursday 10 March 2011

13:00
Prof. David Leadley, Department of Physics, University of Warwick

Physics of high-K isomers with Pfaffian

Monday 21 March 2011

11:00
Makito Oi, Senshu University, Tokyo

Introduction to the Thin Film Technology Research Group and Current Topics

Monday 28 March 2011

14:00
Prof Wilhelm Schabel, Thin Film Technology Research Group, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany

Phillipps-Marburg Seminars

Monday 28 March 2011

16:00
M Zimprich and S Liebich, Material Science Center and Department of Physics, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany

Perspectives for Ab-Initio Theory in Mid-Mass Isotopes

Tuesday 29 March 2011

14:00
Carlo Barbieri, University of Surrey

Micro-technologies with medical applications

Thursday 31 March 2011

13:00
Tony Corless, Laboratory and Business Development Manager, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey

Weak interaction studies with exotic nuclei

Thursday 12 May 2011

11:00
Bertram Blank, CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan

Microscopic cluster model-Applications in reactions of astrophysical interest and in light nucleus physics

Tuesday 24 May 2011

14:00
Marianne Dufour, IN2P3-CNRS/Universite de Strasbourg

Molecular simulation of materials for energy applications: how insight on the molecular level helps to create better materials

Thursday 2 June 2011

13:00
Dr Tina Duren, Institute of Material & Processes, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh

Charmonium physics

Wednesday 17 August 2011

14:00
Professor Qiang Zhao, Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

CNRP seminar being offered across SEPnet partners by Prof Jim Al- Khalili at Surrey via video-conference

Nuclear Astrophysics Underground

Tuesday 6 September 2011

14:00
Prof Michael Wiescher, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics & Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame

UAE's Nuclear Engineering Programme

Thursday 22 September 2011

14:00
Prof Phil Beeley, Program Chair, Nuclear Engineering, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Gravitational waves from neutron stars and the nuclear equation of state

Tuesday 18 October 2011

14:00
Ian Jones, University of Southampton

Responsive polymer-stabilised emulsion droplets and the 3D structuring of liquids

Friday 21 October 2011

14:00
Dr Jon Weaver, Imperial College

Applications of Relativistic Mean Field Theory- deformed RPA and nuclear structure

Tuesday 25 October 2011

14.00
Daniel Pena Arteada, SNRS, Orsay, France

Present status of RIBF-accelerator and experiments

Tuesday 1 November 2011

14:00
Hideyuki Sakai, RIKEN

Nuclear Incompressibility, the Asymmetry Term, and the MEM Effect

Monday 7 November 2011

14:00
Umesh Garg, University of Notre Dame/GSI Darmstadt

Driving stellar explosions creating chemical elements

Tuesday 8 November 2011

14:00
Christian Diget, University of York

CO2 Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Friday 11 November 2011

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Ozgur Yazaydin, University of Surrey

Using Bespoke Fluorescence Microscopy to Study the Soft Matter of Living Cells at the Single Molecule Level

Friday 25 November 2011

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Mark Leake, Department of Physics, Oxford University

Red Blood Cell Physical Properties in Health and Disease

Friday 9 December 2011

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Peter Petrov, University of Exeter

Sensitivity of the r-process to masses

Thursday 12 January 2012

12:00
Prof Ani Aprahamian, Nuclear Science Laboratory, University of Notre Dame

Suppression, persistence and reentrance of superfluidity in overflowing nuclear

Tuesday 14 February 2012

11.00
Jerome Margueron IPN CNRS, Orsay

Some Measurement of Radioactivity in the Environment: Direct Applications of Nuclear Spectroscopy

Tuesday 28 February 2012

14.00
Paddy Regan, University of Surrey

Few-body systems-from few nucleons to few atoms

Tuesday 6 March 2012

14.00
Alejandro Kievsky, INFN Pisa

Physical and Clinical Assessment of Recent Advances in Positron Emission Tomography

Thursday 8 March 2012

14.15
Bjoern Jakoby, University of Surrey

No-Core Shell Model with the Continuum

Tuesday 13 March 2012

14.00
Simone Baroni, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Modelling and simulation in circuit quantum electrodynamics from optical nonlinearities to high fidelity qubit state measurement

Thursday 22 March 2012

Dr Eran Ginossar, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey

High Field Magnetic White Dwarfs vs. phosphorus in silicon: spectroscopy of hydrogenic orbitals under extreme field conditions

Thursday 29 March 2012

13:00
Professor Ben Murdin, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey

On Board Cone Beam CT for Treatment Planning in Image Guided Radiotherapy

Wednesday 25 April 2012

14.00
Fouad Abolaban, PhD Student, University of Surrey

Exploiting Linear and Non linear Piezoelectricity in Novel Semiconductor Devices

Thursday 3 May 2012

13:00
Max Migliorato, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester

Carbon nanotubes based nanophotonic devices (from metamaterials to holograms)

Thursday 10 May 2012

13:00
Dr Haider Butt, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge

Modelling Nucleation in Flowing Polymer Melts

Friday 11 May 2012

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Richard Graham, University of Nottingham

3D electron microscopy of TiO2-based hybrid solar cells

Thursday 17 May 2012

13:00
Dr Caterina Ducati, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

Microcavity Polaritons: nonequilibrium quantum condensation in dissipative environment

Friday 25 May 2012

13:00
Dr Marzena Szymanska, Department of Physics, University of Warwick

Proton-induced quasifree scattering reactions studied in inverse kinematics with the LAND-R3B experiment at GSI/FAIR

Tuesday 12 June 2012

14:00
Dr Marielle Chartier, University of Liverpool, UK

High-Density Matter

Tuesday 2 October 2012

14:00
Jirina Stone, University of Tennessee/University of Oxford

Quantifying the 12C + 12C sub-Coulomb fusion with the time-dependent wave-packet method

Friday 19 October 2012

14:00
Alexis Diaz-Torres, ECT* Trento, Italy

Ice nucleation in the atmosphere

Friday 26 October 2012

14:00 to 15:00
Dr Ben Murray, University of Leeds

Some recent excursions with Skyrme forces

Tuesday 6 November 2012

14:00
Paul Stevenson, University of Surrey

Quantum Geometry: what the string saw

Tuesday 13 November 2012

14:00
Jock McOrist, Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey

Dosimetry in molecular radiotherapy: challenges and future directions

Tuesday 20 November 2012

14:00
Ana Denis-Bacelar, The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, London

Neutrino physics at the SNO+ experiment

Tuesday 27 November 2012

14:00
Simon Peeters, University of Sussex

SEPnet Radiation Detection Instrumentation (RDI) video seminars

Wednesday 9 January 2013

16:00 to 18:00
Dr Nicola Tartoni, Diamond Light Source and Dr Adrian Bevan, Queen Mary University of London