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September - February 2022/23 programme poster
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This seminar series is jointly organised by our Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral College Training Centre (QB-DTC) and the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab at UCLA.
Seminars will be held via Zoom every Thursday from 3pm - 4pm UK time (7am PST / 10am EST / 11am BRT / 4pm SAST, CEST / 11pm JST).
For further information contact: Dr Youngchan Kim, youngchan.kim@surrey.ac.uk.
Programme
| 2022 dates | Talks |
|---|---|
| 1 September | Theoretical X-ray spectroscopy for organic materials characterization Iulia Brumboiu (Nicolaus Copernicus Uni., Poland) |
| 8 September | The chiral nano particles and their complexes with proteins Nicholas Kotov (Uni. of Michigan, US) |
| 15 September | Searching for unity in the diversity of animal magnetoreception: From biology to quantum mechanics and back Can Xie (Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, China) |
| 22 September | Photosynthetic hydrogen production with cyanobacteria Kirstin Gutekunst (Uni. of Kassel, Germany) |
| 29 September | How size can help coherence: large scale simulations of biological complexes Giuseppe Luca Celardo (Uni. of Florence, Italy) |
| 6 October | Applications of diamond microscope for biological magnetic field imaging Kasturi Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) |
| 13 October | Exploring parallel patterns of quantum physics in cancer, regenerative medicine, and neuroscience Nirosha Murugan (Algoma Uni., Canada) |
| 20 October | Subshot noise limited Brillouin bio-imaging with quantum light Grish Agarwal (Texas A & M Uni., US) |
| 27 October | Quantum vision: Probing human vision with quantum optical tools Iannis Kominis (Uni. of Crete, Greece) |
| 3 November | Non-invasive sensing and coherent control of surface-supported spin systems Aparajita Singha (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany) |
| 10 November | Photoprotection mechanisms of photosynthetic light reactions Eva-Mari Aro (Uni. of Turku, Finland) |
| 17 November | Is there a connection between chiral induced spin selectivity and homochirality in biology David Waldeck (Uni. of Pittsburgh, US) |
| 1 December | Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, Li and quantum neuroscience Zoya Leonenko (Uni. of Waterloo, Canada) |
| 8 December | Terahertz circular dichroism spectroscopy and chiral phonons in biomaterials Wonjin Choi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) |
| 15 December | Quantum sensing in living cells Romana Schirhagl (Uni. of Groningen, Netherlands) |
| 2023 dates | Talks |
| 5 January | Town hall meeting |
| 12 January | Quantum standards: From the physical to the geopolitical, and NIST on a chip: Revolutionizing metrology through quantum standards Barbara Goldstein (National Institute of Standards and Technology, US) |
| 19 January | Towards a quantum biological mechanism underlying muscle stem cell regenerative potential Fabrisia Ambrosio (Harvard Uni., US) |
| 26 January | Towards quantum-enhanced nonlinear imaging Lucia Caspani (Uni. of Strathclyde, UK) |
| 2 February | Molecular mechanisms of photoprotection in plants Alizée Malnoë (Umea Uni., Sweden) |
| 9 February | How to use quantum resources to give artificial intelligence novel abilities Hartmut Neven (Google, US) |
| 16 February | Hosting chromophores: How antenna proteins promote light-harvesting Susannah Bourne-Worster (Uni. of Bristol, UK) |
| 23 February | Controlling strong vibrational coupling toward quantum bioengineering Keisuke Goda (Uni. of Tokyo, Japan) |