Dear QSIT members The next QSIT Lunch Seminar will take place on Thursday Oct 6. at 12:00 noon in the room HPF G6, ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich. There will be two talks of 30 minutes duration jointly presented by two collaborators from different research groups. At 13:00 pm free pizza is offered to the participants. Ultrafast all-optical switching by single photons in quantum dot cavity QED Andreas Reinhard, Quantum Photonics Group, IQE, ETH Zurich and Nonlinear Optomechanics in the single-photon regime Andreas Nunnenkamp, Condensed Matter Theory Group, University of Basel Abstracts: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/lunchseminar/october2011 Please register for your free pizza at the following link by Tuesday October 4, 12:00 noon: http://www.doodle.com/hfiwskdexsbiiyzq If you have suggestions on topics or speakers, or would like to present recent results of your research, please send your information to Andreas Wallraff or Ilona Blatter. With best regards, Andreas Wallraff Ilona Blatter Professor for Solid State Physics QSIT Coordinator QSIT Seminar QSIT Seminar qsit-seminar@phys.ethz.ch ETH Zurich Sandra Künzel NCCR QSIT (Finances) HPF E 17 8093 Zurich www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch