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

---------------------------------------------------- ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter NCCR QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 17 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich

ilona.blatter@phys.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

Phone: +41 44 633 36 06