Past seminars 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic
16 December	Professor John Rodenburg Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield	“Transmission and reflection imaging without lenses”
18 November	Mathieu Kociak Laboratoire de Physique des Solides	“Mapping electron excitations in the near IR-UV range using sub-nm resolved STEM-EELS spectrum imaging”
17 November	Professor Harald Giessen 4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Germany	"Three-dimensional metallic metamaterials: from simple to complex – coupling matters!"
21 October	Ben Mills ORC	Pre Viva Talk: “Focussing and Diffraction using a High Harmonic Source”
10 September	Olivier J. F. Martin Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)	“Controlling light at the nanoscale with plasmonic nanostructures”
9 September	Nikitas Papasimakis ORC	Pre Viva Talk “Trapped-modes, Slow Light and Collective Resonances in Metamaterials”
2 September	Professor M. Segev Tecnion, Israel	“Anderson Localization of Light”
15 July	Prof. Alastair Lewis National Centre for Atmospheric Science	“The development of new technologies for environmental science.”
8 July	Professor John Love Department of Quantum Science, College of Physical Sciences, Australian National University	“Metal-clad optical fibres”
1 July	Professor Patrick Gill National Physical Laboratory	“Optical Atomic Clocks”
24 June	Assoc. Prof. Takunori Taira Advanced Laser Development, Institute for Molecular Science	“The promise of giant micro-photonics”
10 June	Prof Siddharth Ramachandran DTU-Fotonik; Danish Technical University	“Non-Zero-Order Light: Beams that can do what a Gaussian cannot”
27 May	Professor Richard Syms Imperial College	“Magneto-inductive waves applications of metamaterials in MRI systems”
13 May	Professor Ajoy Kar Herriot Watt University	"Ultafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy"
5 May	Prof. Simoni Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy	" Polymers and liquid crystals for photonics "
29 April	Dr Benn Thomsen UCL	"Physical layer technologies for future dynamic optical networks."
6 April	Andrey Denisyuk ORC	Pre Viva Talk: "Cathodoluminescence and phase-change functionality of metallic nanoparticles"
6 April	Fei He ORC	Pre Viva Talk: "The development of fibre chirped pulse amplification systems"
18 March	Prof. Volkmar Dierolf	"Optical spectroscopy for nanoscale characterization of photonic structures and devices"
4 March	Dr Otto L. Muskens School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton	"Control over light at the nanoscale: from nanoantennas to random lasers"
18 February	Dr. Elisabeth Soergel	"What can we learn about ferroelectric domains with scanning force microscopy?"
4 February	H. Gersen	"Time resolved motion of pulses in photonic crystal waveguides: a real space investigation"
23 January	Markus Walther and Andreas Bitzer Department of Molecular and Optical Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany	"Imaging the electromagnetic near-fields in terahertz metamaterials"