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REMINDER: QSIT Colloquium: Pascale Senellart, Thursday May 31, 2012
by QSIT Seminar 31 May '12

31 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about the following QSIT Colloquium. With best regards, Sandra Künzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thursday May 31, 2012 Time: 16:45 Coffee and tea at 16:15 Place: ETH Science City, HPV G 5 Host: Atac Imamoglu Cavity quantum electrodynamics with semiconductor quantum dots Pascale Senellart CNRS Marcoussis, France Abstract: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/talks/ColloquiumSenellart QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

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QSIT Seminar + Colloquium: Friday June 1, 2012 - Baptiste Allard + Leonardo DiCarlo
by QSIT Seminar 30 May '12

30 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about a QSIT Seminar in Zurich and a QSIT Colloquium in Basel. With best regards, Sandra Künzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday June 1, 2012 Place: ETH Science City HPF G 6 Time: 13:30 Host: Tilman Esslinger / Jean-Philippe Brantut Effect of disorder on the coherence properties of 2D Bose gases Baptiste Allard Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France Abstract: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/talks/abstractAllard --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Friday June 1, 2012 Place: Uni Basel St. Johanns-Ring 25 Lecture Hall 1 Time: 15:15 Host: Christian Schönenberger Superconducting circuits for quantum information technology Leonardo Di Carlo Delft University of Technology http://physik.unibas.ch/dept/pages/de/events/colloquium.htm QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

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Re: quantum bbq
by Lidia del Rio 30 May '12

30 May '12

Barbecue on the 9th of June: here is the doodle for salads/desserts/veggies and saying if you're coming: http://www.doodle.com/kzt9k7mwevche6id On 29/05/2012 20:46, Matthias Christandl wrote: > Dear quantum people, friends and families, > > the quantum bbq on the 9th of June is approaching very fast! > > We meet at the bus stop "Langensteinenstrasse" near Irchel at 2:30pm and walk together to "Waldhüsli" where there will be food and drinks (volunteers for salad or cake please contact Lidia). The walk takes about 30-45 min (uphill!). If you can't come to the walk, just meet us later at Waldhüsli. > > Here are the precise coordinates: > Bus stop "Langensteinenstrasse" (bus 39), the meeting point for the walk: > http://maps.google.de/maps?q=Z%C3%BCrich,+Langensteinenstrasse+%4047.392492… > > "Waldhüsli", the location of the bbq: > http://maps.google.de/maps?q=waldh%C3%BCsli+z%C3%BCrich+Oberstrass,+8057+Z%… > > Please drop me a quick line by Monday, 4th of June, so that I know with how many people you will come. > > It would be great to see you, best wishes, Matthias. > > ps - stay tuned in case of heavy rain > pps - for those of you who don't have it, my mobile number is 0767578626. > > Matthias Christandl > Institute for Theoretical Physics > ETH Zurich > http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/people/christandl/index >

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Adrian Kent on Many Worlds
by Matthias Christandl 29 May '12

29 May '12

Dear all, please see below for the announcement of a video lecture by Adrian Kent. Unfortunately, the room is rather small, I hope though that we will be able to squeeze enough chairs in... Best wishes, Matthias. Time & Date: Thursday, 31st of May, 15:15 Location: HG D22 (ETH Main building) Speaker: Adrian Kent (University of Cambridge) Title: Many Worlds Quantum Theory and Problems of Probability Abstract: The idea that purely unitary quantum theory has a natural and direct realist interpretation in terms of multiple branching worlds was first proposed by Everett in 1957. Although many theoretical physicists now believe the essential idea is the right way to understand quantum theory, there has never been any consensus on what, exactly, this entails or how, exactly, it can be supported by experimental evidence. In this talk I will first review some of the motivations for taking many-worlds quantum theory seriously and some of the idea's generally agreed implications. I will then review some problems with the idea, focussing in particular on the difficulty in either making sense of, or side-stepping, the concept of probability in many-worlds theories. Matthias Christandl Institute for Theoretical Physics ETH Zurich http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/people/christandl/index

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QSIT Colloquium: Pascale Senellart, Thursday May 31, 2012
by QSIT Seminar 29 May '12

29 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about the following QSIT Colloquium. With best regards, Sandra Künzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thursday May 31, 2012 Time: 16:45 Coffee and tea at 16:15 Place: ETH Science City, HPV G 5 Host: Atac Imamoglu Cavity quantum electrodynamics with semiconductor quantum dots Pascale Senellart CNRS Marcoussis, France Abstract: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/talks/ColloquiumSenellart QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

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QSIT/QC2 Colloquium by Jakob Reichel, May 25, 2012, in Basel
by QSIT Seminar 23 May '12

23 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about the following QC2/QSIT Colloquium. With best regards, Sandra Künzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday May 25, 2012 Place: University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 25, Lecture Hall 1 Time: 15:15 Host: Philipp Treutlein Atomic and solid-state cavity QED with fiber Fabry-Perot cavities Jakob Reichel ENS Paris, France More information at: http://www.physik.unibas.ch/dept/pages/de/events/colloquium.htm QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

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!! Today QSIT Seminar: Roland Winkler
by QSIT Seminar 21 May '12

21 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about today's QSIT Seminar. With best regards, Ilona Blatter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Monday May 21, 2012 Place: ETH Science City, HPF E 6 Time: 13:00 Host: Klaus Ensslin Emergent Electromagnetism in Bilayer Graphene Roland Winkler Northern Illinois University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter NCCR QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 17 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch Phone: +41 44 633 36 06

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QSIT Seminar: Tue May 22, 2012 - Adrian Bachtold
by QSIT Seminar 19 May '12

19 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about the following QSIT Seminar. With best regards, Ilona Blatter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tuesday May 22, 2012 Place: ETH Science City HPF E 6 Time: 14:00 Host: Klaus Ensslin Mechanical resonators based on nanotubes and graphene Adrian Bachtold CIN2 Barcelona, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter NCCR QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 17 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch Phone: +41 44 633 36 06

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QSIT/QC2 Seminar by Stefan Ludwig, May 21, 2012, in Basel
by QSIT Seminar 16 May '12

16 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about the following joint QC2/QSIT Seminar. With best regards, Sandra Künzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Monday May 21, 2012 Place: Uni Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, Lecture Hall 1 Time: 16:15 Host: Christian Schönenberger Quantum interference and phonon-mediated back-action in nanoscale devices Stefan Ludwig LMU München, Germany Details at: http://www.physik.unibas.ch/dept/pages/de/events/cms.htm QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

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QSIT/QC2 Seminar by Thomas Ihn, May 14, 2012, in Basel
by QSIT Seminar 11 May '12

11 May '12

Dear all Please be informed about the following joint QC2/QSIT Seminar. With best regards, Sandra Künzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Monday May 14, 2012 Place: Uni Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, Lecture Hall 1 Time: 16:15 Host: Christian Schönenberger Recent results on counting individual electrons Thomas Ihn ETH Zurich, Switzerland Details at: http://www.physik.unibas.ch/dept/pages/de/events/cms.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

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