Previous Events
Previous seminars in 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Jan 3 | – | No seminar | Jan 10 | Christopher Foy (Englund group) | A CMOS-integrated quantum sensor based on nitrogen-vacancy centres | Jan 17 | Mohsen Zaeimbashi | Magnetic Stimulation and Recording of Brain Neural System | Jan 24 | Giovanni Scuri / Trond Anderson (Park-Lukin collaboration) | Electrically tunable valley dynamics in twisted WSe2/WSe2 bilayers | Jan 31 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Feb 7 | Matt Trusheim (Englund group) | Towards Distributed Quantum Sensing in a Solid-State Platform | Feb 14 | Leigh Martin (Lukin group) | Sensing and Simulation With High-Density NV Ensembles | Feb 21 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Feb 28 | Mikael Backlund | Proposal to probe soft condensed matter physics with NV centers | Mar 6 | – | no seminar, APS March Meeting |
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Previous seminars in 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Jan 4 | Mikael Backlund | New information frontiers in single-molecule biophysics | Jan 11 | Ravid Shaniv | Quantum-information methods for metrology with trapped ions | Jan 18 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Jan 25 | Raisa Trubko | Strain imaging with NV centers in diamond for dark matter detection | Feb 1 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Feb 8 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Feb 15 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Feb 21 | Johannes Cremer | Photoacoustic measurements of single aerosol droplets | Mar 1 | Michael O’Keefe | Hamiltonian Engineering with Constrained Optimization for Quantum Sensing and Control | Mar 8 | Joonhee Choi | Surpassing the interaction limit to quantum metrology with fault-tolerant Control | Mar 15 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Mar 22 | Dominik Bucher | Parting thoughts | Mar 29 | Linbo Shao | Surface Acoustics on Piezoelectric Materials: towards Phononic Quantum Interface and Network | Apr 4 | Edlyn Levine | Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Ionospheric Plasma | Apr 12 | Alexei Bylinskii | Molecular qubit control via NV centers: a path towards single-molecule MRI | Apr 19 | Emma Rosenfeld | Towards two spin-mechanical hybrid quantum systems | Apr 26 | Aakash Ravi | High-resolution spectroscopic studies to enable oxygen detection on exoplanets | May 3 | Jenny Schloss | Optimizing Nitrogen-Vacancy Diamond Magnetic Sensors and Imagers for Broadband Sensitivity | May 10 | – | no seminar | May 17 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | May 24 | Harry Zhou | Nanodiamond thermometers for developmental biology in C. elegans | May 31 | – | no seminar (DAMOP) | June 7 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | June 14 | Mark Ku | Imaging the viscous flow of a hydrodynamic electron fluid in graphene with nitrogen vacancy centers | June 21 | Eric Boyers | Floquet Engineering and Counterdiabatic Driving in a single NV Center | June 28 | Nick Langellier | Gaussian Processes and Neural Networks: Lessons Learned | July 5 | Swathi Hegde | Efficient coherent control of electron-nuclear spin systems via indirect control | July 12 | Rivka Bekenstein | Quantum metasurfaces with atom arrays | July 19 | – | no seminar | July 26 | Tao Wang | Ultrahigh Sensitivity Magnetometry and its Applications to Dark Matter Researches | Aug 2 | – | no group seminar | Aug 9 | Nir Bar-Gill | The NV platform – from fundamentals to applications | Aug 23 | Ahmed Omran | Many-body dynamics and entanglement in Rydberg atom arrays | Aug 30 | Avinash Kumar | Experiments with a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid ring | Sep 6 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Sep 13 | Laura Kreidberg | Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization, Present and Future | Sep 20 | Nabeel Aslam | Nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance with chemical structure resolution | Sep 27 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Oct 4 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Oct 11 | Alex Retzker | Quantum NMR spectroscopy in the strong back action limit | Oct 18 | Nick Langellier and Matthew Turner | QDMs for Integrated Circuits | Oct 23 | Yutaka Shikano | Real-time in-vivo thermometry on worms by nitrogen-vacancy center in nanodiamond | Oct 25 | Christian Nguyen | A nanophotonic quantum network node in diamond | Nov 1 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Nov 8 | – | TBD | Nov 15 | – | Cancelled | Nov 22 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Nov 29 | – | no seminar (holiday) | Dec 6 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Dec 13 | – | no seminar (Ron away) | Dec 20 | Yixiang Liu | High-fidelity Trotter formulas for digital quantum simulation | Dec 27 | – | no seminar (holiday) |
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Previous seminars in 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Jan 5 | Raisa Trubko | Tune-out wavelength measurement and gyroscope demonstration using a three nanograting atom interferometer |
| Jan 12 | – | no seminar |
| Jan 19 | James Battat | Readout technologies for directional dark matter detection |
| Jan 26 | David Phillips | Two-year plan for the Sun-as-star project |
| Feb 2 | Maddalena Delma Caiati | Neuromodulation and plasticity in developing cortical microcircuits |
| Feb 9 | Pauli Kehayias | Imaging microwave fields using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond |
| Feb 16 | Daniel Podolsky | Higgs mode and universal dynamics near quantum criticality |
| Feb 23 | Jenny Bergner (Oberg group) | Exploring new pathways to chemical complexity in star-forming regions |
| Mar 2 | Connor Hart | Harnessing Driven Spin Systems for Enhanced Metrology |
| Mar 9 | Vadim Vorobyov | Overview of the research with NV centers in diamond in Lebedev Physical Institute |
| Mar 16 | Aakash Ravi | Silicon nitride nonlinear photonics and possible future comb experiments |
| Mar 23 | Soonwon Choi | Quantum metrology based on discrete time-crystalline order |
| Mar 30 | Mark Ku | Imaging hydrodynamic electron flow in graphene with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond |
| April 6 | – | no seminar |
| April 13 | Kelvin Lee | Molecules and Space, Theory and Experiment |
| April 20 | Fei Wang | High-precision Hamiltonian learning and coherent control of multi-spin systm in diamond |
| April 27 | Mackenzie & Alex Mathis |
Using deep learning and optogentics to study motor adaptation in mice |
| May 4 | – | no seminar (CBS retreat) |
| May 11 | Chen Zhang | Manipulation and characterization of high density NV center ensembles: towards vector magnetometry and rotation measurement |
| May 18 | Nithya Arunkumar | Designer Spatial Control of Interactions in Ultracold Gases |
| May 25 | Mikael Backlund | Resolution and Gaussianity in NV-NMR |
| June 1 | – | no seminar (DAMOP) |
| June 8 | Mengjie Yu | Silicon-Chip-Based Nonlinear Photonics |
| June 15 | Zoe Todd (Sasselov group) | Cyanide on the Early Earth: Uses and Sources |
| June 22 | Tim Milbourne | The Effects of Magnetic Activity on Solar Radial Velocities Near Solar Minimum |
| June 29 | Mian Zhang and Christian Reimer | Lithium Niobate Frequency Combs |
| July 6 | Jenny Schloss | Optimizing NV ensemble magnetic field sensitivity: using all our tricks |
| July 13 | Lihuang Zhu | Optical influence on Magnetic resonance on SiP |
| July 20 | Diana Aude Craik | Using microwaves to study charge state in NV diamond |
| July 27 | – | no seminar |
| Aug 3 | Dominik Bucher | Ways to enhance concentration sensitivity of micronscale NV-NMR |
| Aug 9 | Mouzhe Xie | Progress and outcomes in NV magnetic microscopy |
| Aug 17 | Mason Marshall (Gabrielse group) | The Proton/Antiproton Magnetic Moment: Status and Prospects for a Sub-PPB Comparison |
| Aug 24 | David Glenn, Nick Langelier & Erik Bauch | Tech translation ideas |
| Aug 31 | Pauli Kehayias | Progress and outcomes in NV magnetic microscopy |
| Sep 7 | no seminar (Ron away) | |
| Sep 14 | no seminar (Ron away) | |
| Sep 21 | David Phillips | Wide-Spacing Astro-Combs for Improved Stellar Radial Velocities |
| Sep 28 | – | no seminar (Ron away) |
| Oct 5 | David Le Sage | 3D Imaging Using Photon Counting Laser Radar |
| Oct 12 | Kevin Olsson | Investigating Thermally Induced Spin Transport with Inelastic Light Scattering |
| Oct 19 | Anna Rosen | How Stellar Feedback Limits Accretion onto Massive Stars |
| Oct 26 | – | no seminar (Ron away) |
| Nov 2 | Shannon Harvey | Exploring Entanglement and Coherence in Singlet-Triplet Qubits |
| Nov 9 | – | no seminar (Ron away) |
| Nov 16 | Julian David Alvarado-Gomez | Stellar Magnetism and Space Weather in Exo-planetary Systems |
| Nov 23 | – | no seminar (Thanksgiving) |
| Nov 30 | Maya Miklos | Spectroscopic Extraction of Suppression of Convective Blueshift Near Solar Minimum |
| Dec 7 | Connor Hart | NV-Diamond Magnetometry in the NV-NV Interaction Limit |
| Dec 14 | – | no seminar (Ron away) |
| Dec 21 | – | no seminar, holiday season | Dec 28 | – | no seminar, holiday season |
Previous seminars in 2017
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Jan 6 | Elana Urbach | Towards measuring protein dynamics with NV centers |
| Jan 13 | – | no talk |
| Jan 20 | Matthew Turner | Local measurements of neuronal magnetic fields: NV diamond magnetometry |
| Jan 27 | Aakash Ravi | Modelling supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers |
| Feb 3 | David Phillips | Precise radial velocity searches with HARPS-N |
| Feb 10 | Emma Rosenfeld | A testbed for single molecule 2D NMR and coherent spin manipulation |
| Feb 17 | Soonwon Choi and Joonhee Choi (Lukin group) | Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system |
| Feb 24 | Ben Weiss (MIT) | The Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World |
| Mar 3 | Or Shemesh (Boyden group, MIT) | Two-photon holographic control of single neurons expressing somatic opsins |
| Mar 10 | David Glenn | Electromagnet Stabilization for NV-NMR Experiments |
| Mar 17 | Igor Pikovski (ITAMP) | General relativistic effects in quantum interference of photons |
| Mar 24 | David Mason (Yale) | Exceptional Points in an Optomechanical System |
| Mar 31 | Ewa Rey (Sydney University) | Hyperpolarized Spins in Diamond |
| Apr 7 | Jeffrey Abbott (Park Group) | CMOS-Nano-Bio Interface Array for Cardiac and Neuro Technology |
| Apr 14 | – | no talk |
| Apr 21 | Ranga Dias | Pressing the simplest element to exotic quantum states |
| Apr 28 | Alp Sipahigil (Lukin group) | Nanophotonic quantum networks with silicon-vacancy color centers in diamond |
| May 5 | – | no talk, CBS retreat |
| May 12 | Tim Milbourne | Towards improved radial-velocity exoplanet detection using solar telescope spectroscopy |
| May 19 | Eyal Karzbrun (Weizmann Institute of Science) | Biophysics on a chip: from DNA brushes to brain organoids |
| May 26 | Nick Langellier | Detection of a 1 m/s Injected Planet with Gaussian Processes |
| June 2 | – | no talk |
| June 9 | – | no talk, DAMOP |
| June 16 | Oren Ben-Dor (Hebrew University) | Molecular Chiral-based spintronics devices |
| June 23 | Megan Stanley (University of Cambridge) | Phase-tuned entangled state generation between two distant electron spins |
| June 30 | Harry McNamara (Cohen group) | Synthetic electrophysiology: optical methods for sculpting bioelectric dynamics |
| July 7 | – | no talk |
| July 14 | Connor Hart | P1DQ: Current Understanding and Future Work |
| July 19 | Georgia Mansell (ANU) | Squeezed light for current and future gravitational wave detectors |
| July 21 | – | no talk |
| July 28 | – | no talk |
| Aug 4th | Diana Prado Lopes Aude Craik (Univ. of Oxford) | High-fidelity manipulation of trapped-ion qubits using near-field microwaves |
| Aug 9th Lyman 425 |
Dorri Halbertal | Nanoscale thermal imaging of dissipation in quantum systems and in encapsulated graphene |
| Aug 11th Jeff 356 |
Markus Muller | Phenomena and patterns in driven fermion fluids |
| Aug 18th | Steve Ramirez (CBS) | Artificially activating positive and negative memories to modulate psychiatric disease-related states |
| Aug 25th | Pauli Kehayias | Ongoing and Upcoming Paths for NV Magnetic Microscopy |
| Sep 1st | Francesco Casola | When intelligence in physics is artificial |
| Sep 8th | Junghyun (Paul) Lee | Update on the NV-NV project |
| Sep 15th | Erik Bauch | Solid-state spin ensembles for ultra-high sensitivity DC magnetometry |
| Sep 22nd | Bo Zhu (Matt Rosen group) | Image reconstruction by domain transform manifold learning |
| Sep 29th | Dima Farfurnik | Pursuing many-body dynamics in medium-density spin ensembles in diamond |
| Oct 6th | Friedemann Reinhard (TUM, Munich) | Quantum Sensing of Weak Rabio-Frequency Signals by Pulsed Mollow Absorption Spectroscopy |
| Oct 13th | Mikael Backlund | Quantum limits for classical optical 3D localization microscopy |
| Oct 20th | Smi Farhi (Cohen group) | Ultra-Widefield All-Optical Neurophysiology in Tissue |
| Oct 27th | Corinna Kufner | UV-Induced Repair and Damage Reactions of DNA in the Prebiotic Context |
| Nov 3rd | Sam Fayer (Gabrielse group) | Electron magnetic moment measurement as a precise test of the standard model |
| Nov 10th | Dominik Bucher | Schemes for nuclear spin hyperpolarization for pL NMR |
| Nov 17th | Noah Rubin | Metasurface polarization optics |
| Nov 24th | – | no talk |
| Dec 1st | Mathieu Munsch (University of Basel/Qnami ) | Qnami Quantum sensing: is now time to tunnel to market |
| Dec 8th | Daniel Berger | Analyzing mouse and human cortex in 3D with large-scale serial section electron microcopy |
| Dec 15th | Matthew Turner | Progress towards magnetic field imaging from cardiac tissue |
| Dec 22th | Chitro Chakraborty (skype talk) | Quantum dots in an electrically tunable van-der Waals heterostructure |
| Dec 29th | Peter Maurer | Quantum sensing in a new single-molecular regime |
Previous seminars in 2016
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Jan 1 | – | New Year’s Day |
| Jan 8 | Jenny Schloss | Plan for Sensitivity Enhancement and Imaging in Neuron Experiment |
| Jan 15 | Emma Rosenfeld | Nano-NMR experiments |
| Jan 22 | Junghyun(Paul) Lee | Towards NV-NV coupling experiments |
| Jan 29 | Matthew Turner | Next steps for neuron magnetic imaging |
| Feb 5 | Alex Cooper (MIT) | Coherent control of electron spins in diamond |
| Feb 12 | Dominik Bucher | Subhertz resolution in picoliter NMR |
| Feb 19 | Tim Milbourne | First results from NV-diamond pressure sensing |
| Feb 26 | Yuliya Dovzhenko (Yacoby group) | Studying skyrmion physics with NV magnetic imaging |
| March 4 | Connor Hart | Dependence of NV-Ensemble T2* on Applied Magnetic Field |
| March 11 | John Barry | Sensitivity Improvement Methods for Ensemble NV Magnetometry |
| March 18 | Erik Bauch | The Spin bath as a resource: Ideas and initial Measurements towards NV-P1-NV Coupling |
| March 25 | Trevor Rhone | Magnetic sensing of solid-state systems with magnetic order using diamond |
| April 1 | Huiliang Zhang | Uinsg NV centers to probe magnetization dynamics in normal metal/magnetic insulator hybrid system at the nanoscale |
| April 8 | Alexei Trifonov | Prebiotic chemistry meets optics – femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy |
| April 15 | – | no talk |
| April 22 | Elana Urbach (Lukin group) | Nanoscale NQR and NMR with NV Centers |
| April 29 | David Phillips | The Solar Telescope and Observing the Transit of Mercury |
| May 6 | Pauli Kehayias | NV correlation spectroscopy with nanofabricated diamond |
| May 13 | Sam Bayliss, Cambridge Univ. (UK) | Spin-dependent processes in organic semiconductors |
| May 20 | – | no talk, CBS retreat |
| May 27 | – | no talk, DAMOP |
| June 3 | Mikael Backlund | Optical approaches for low-field vector magnetometry |
| June 10 | David Glenn | New papers, old (and new) data – Rock magnetometry and nanodiamond cathodoluminescence |
| June 17 | Igor Pikovski (ITAMP) | Gravitational wave detection with optical lattice atomice clocks |
| June 24 | Linh Pham | Quantum sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond at Lincoln Laboratory |
| Jul 1 | Ashok Ajoy | Sensitive T2 limited DC Magnetometry with NV centers in diamond |
| Jul 8 | Mark Ku | Probing electronic transport in graphene with NV noise spectroscopy |
| Jul 15 | Junghyun(Paul) Lee & John Barry | Reviews of two recent papers of interest |
| Jul 22 | Jenny Schloss | Simultaneous vector magnetometry |
| Jul 29 | Francesco Casola | Solving spin structures with magnetometry measurements |
| Aug 5 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Updates on MIT projects |
| Aug 12 | Nick Langellier & Quentin Neroes | Detecting Earth-like exoplanets using the radial velocity method & Using combs and demos to learn about the stars |
| Aug 19 | Emma Rosenfeld | Update on the NV-dark spin polarization transfer experiments |
| Aug 26 | Junghyun(Paul) Lee | Update on NV-NV project |
| Sep 2 | Alex Sushkov(BU) | What would you do with a 3-ton diamond? Search for dark matter! |
| Sep 9 | Connor Hart | Results of P1 driving experiment |
| Sep 16 | Matthew Turner | Optically probing emitters within high-refractive index media |
| Sep 23 | Dominik Bucher | First results of the high resolution NV diamond NMR experiment |
| Sep 30 | Huiliang Zhang | Using NV centers to probe spin torque oscillation phenomena |
| Oct 7 | Keigo Arai | Assessment of applications of Fourier magnetic imaging |
| Oct 14 | Pauli Kehayias | Plan for next-gen Quantum Diamond Microscope |
| Oct 21 | Nick Langellier | Progress on Finding Venus with the Solar Telescope and Gaussian Processes |
| Oct 28 | Toneo van der Sar (Yacoby group) | Exploring condensed matter physics using NV magnetometry |
| Nov 4 | Trevor Rhone | Probing Ferromagnetic 2D Atomic Crystals |
| Nov 11 | Tim Milbourne | Searching for solar spectral correlates for magnetic activity |
| Nov 18 | Chunhui Du (Yacoby group) | Control and Local Measurement of the Spin Chemical Potential in a Magnetic Insulator |
| Nov 25 | – | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 2 | David Waddington (Univ. of Sydney) | Imaging Nanodiamonds with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization |
| Dec 9 | Erik Bauch | Final results from spin bath spectral decomposition project |
| Dec 16 | Mikael Backlund | Recent progress in optical decomposition of ensemble NV ODMR; proposal for intracellular single magnetic particle tracking |
| Dec 23 | Deblina Sarkar (MIT) | Neurotechnology meets Nanoelectronics |
| Dec 30 | – | No group seminar |
Previous seminars in 2015
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Jan 02 | Pauli Kehayias | Exploring Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers from an AMO Physics Perspective |
| Jan 09 | Roger Fu | Exploring the early solar system with paleomagnetism |
| Jan 16 | Courtney Dressing | The Frequency of Potentially Habitable Planets Orbiting Small Stars and the Characterization of Planets Orbiting Bright Kepler Targets |
| Jan 23 | Ran Fischer | Towards diamond-assisted MRI: Room-temperature nuclear polarization enhancement in bulk diamond |
| Jan 30 | Toeno van der Sar | Exploring magnetism in the condensed matter |
| Feb 06 | Alex Glenday | Progress on the Solar Telescope |
| Feb 13 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | High-sensitivity single NV magnetometry by spin-to-charge state mapping |
| Feb 20 | David Glenn | Magnetic Imaging of Early Earth Rocks |
| Feb 27 | David Le Sage | Parting Thoughts |
| Mar 06 | Nick Langellier | Atomic Clocks as Gravitational Wave Detectorss |
| Mar 13 | Matt Rosen | Low-Cost, High-Performance Millitesla MRI |
| Mar 20 | You Zhou | Electronic Phase Control in Electrolyte-Gated Transistors |
| Mar 27 | Huiliang Zhang | Proposed new experiments on magnetic materials |
| Apr 03 | John Barry & Matthew Turner | Neuron Magnetic Imaging with NV-Diamond |
| Apr 10 | Linh Pham | NV diamond: Past, present & future |
| Apr 17 | Erik Bauch | Noise Spectroscopy and Coherent Dynamics in a Nuclear and Electronic Spin Bath |
| Apr 24 | Keigo Arai | New ideas of geometric phase experiments using NV centers in diamond |
| May 01 | Francesco Casola | Magnetic Imaging of Topological Spin Patterns |
| May 08 | Mark Ku (MIT) | Probing the strongly interacting fermionic superfluid with quantum gas experiments |
| May 15 | – | no talk, CBS retreat |
| May 22 | Emma Rosenfeld | NV Physics: A Qualitative Picture of its Wave Functions |
| May 29 | Cora Dvorkin | Traces of Cosmic Neutrinos in the CMB and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe |
| Jun 05 | – | DAMOP practice talks |
| Jun 12 | – | no talk, DAMOP |
| Jun 19 | Alexei Trifonov | Origins of Life Initiative: UV Lab status update |
| Jun 26 | Tim Milbourne | Pressure Imaging with NV-Diamond |
| Jul 03 | Matthew Turner | Magnetic Imaging of Action Potential from Single Neurons: The Biology/Neuroscience |
| Jul 10 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Spin readout via spin-to-charge state conversion with NV ensemble & nNV gyroscope |
| Jul 17 | Igor Lovchinsky | Quantum Logic-based Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Single Protein Sensitivity |
| Jul 24 | Alex Glenday | Testing of the Automated Solar Telescope |
| Jul 31 | Chih-Hao Li | Astro-Comb Automation |
| Aug 7 | Nick Langellier | Atomic Clocks as Gravitational Wave Detectors |
| Aug 14 | Junghyun(Paul) Lee | Updates on geometric phase projects and plan for applications |
| Aug 21 | Huiliang Zhang | Progress on materials science studies using NV-diamond |
| Aug 28 | Alex Sushkov | Magnetic Resonance with Single Nuclear-Spin Sensitivity |
| Sep 4 | Dominik Bucher | Sub-cellular MRI |
| Sep 11 | David Glenn | Magnetic imaging of meteorites and early-Earth rocks |
| Sep 18 | John Barry | Progress on single neuron magnetic imaging |
| Sep 25 | Ashok Ajoy | High resolution spin sensing with NV centers in diamond |
| Oct 2 | Erik Bauch | Suppression of Decoherence by Disorder in mixed Spin Ensembles |
| Oct 9 | Keigo Arai | Optical lattice clocks for deterministic earthquake prediction |
| Oct 16 | Francesco Casola | Measuring magnetic charges of a skyrmion lattice using NV center-based scanning magnetometry |
| Oct 23 | David Phillips | Update on the Search for Venus |
| Oct 30 | Mike Goldman | Phonon-induced coupling and intersystem crossing in nitrogen-vacancy centers |
| Nov 6 | Pauli Kehayias | Paleomagnetism with NV magnetic microscopy |
| Nov 13 | Raphaelle Haywood (Charbonneau group) | Breaking the stellar activity barrier in the quest for other Earths |
| Nov 20 | Mark Ku | Ideas towards detecting nuclear spins in solid state systems with NVs |
| Nov 27 | – | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 4 | Jeffrey Schwartz (UCLA) | What’s on The Outside Counts Too: Surface-Dipole Modulated Assembly |
| Dec 11 | Igor Pikovski | Fundamental physics and cosmology using quantum techniques |
| Dec 18 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Updates on MIT projects |
| Dec 25 | – | Christmas |
Previous seminars in 2014
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 03 | No talk | |
| Jan 10 | David Glenn & David Le Sage | Plan for diamond magnetic imager studies of meteorite samples |
| Jan 17 | Maddy Corbett | NVs and neurobiology: challenges & feasibility |
| Jan 24 | David Phillips, Nabila Tanjeem & Nick Langellier |
Plans for the Astro-comb at HARPS-N for Winter/Spring 2014, Results and Discussion of Recent Nanowire Growth on PCF |
| Jan 31 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Updates on the latest mag-STED results |
| Feb 07 | Keigo Arai | Nanoscale Fourier magnetic imaging using NV centers in diamond |
| Feb 14 | Ashok Ajoy | Efficient nuclear spin polarization and sensing with NV centers in diamond |
| Feb 21 | Alexei Trifonov | Charge-state-dependent NV spin measurements and STED imaging |
| Feb 28 | Stephen DeVience | Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Liquid Samples via Spin Injection |
| Mar 07 | John Barry & Keigo Arai | Pressure sensing with magnetostrictive coatings on NV-diamond |
| Mar 14 | David Glenn | Plan for DNA-PAINT STED imaging |
| Mar 21 | Francesco Casola | Results from NV FMR experiments |
| Mar 28 | Jan Gieseler | Dynamics of Levitated Nanoparticles in High Vacuum |
| Apr 04 | David Le Sage & Junghyun(Paul) Lee | Toward Improved NV-Diamond Magnetometry by Controlling the Electronic Spin Bath |
| Apr 11 | Nick Langellier | Precision Measurements of Stellar Line Profiles |
| Apr 18 | Linh Pham | Shallow NV centers: Investigations of depth and spin properties |
| Apr 25 | Jo Cuppens | Scanning SQUID-on-tip: a novel tool for the study of nanomagnetic phenomena |
| May 02 | Mason Klein | Cold circuits in the Drosophila larva |
| May 09 | Alyssa Wilson | Understanding Synaptic Rearrangement in the Developing Cerebellum Using Serial Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| May 16 | – | no talk, CBS Retreat |
| May 23 | Keigo Arai & Chinmay Belthangady | Proposal of geometric quantum computing and quantum sensing using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond |
| May 30 | Dominik Bucher | Investigation of DNA-photophysics with fs-IR-spectroscopy: From single bases to natural DNA |
| Jun 06 | – | no talk, DAMOP |
| Jun 13 | Swati Singh | Levy flights in laser cooling of nuclear spins in diamond |
| Jun 20 | Mathieu Sarracanie | Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 6.5 mT – 2014 Update |
| Jun 27 | – | no talk, Ron away |
| Jul 04 | – | no talk, holiday |
| Jul 11 | David Le Sage | Plans for Upcoming Magnetotactic Bacteria Experiments |
| Jul 18 | Huiliang Zhang | Nanoscale resolution selective control and imaging of NV centers in diamond with magnetic field gradient |
| Jul 25 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Selective spin measurement with superresolution and implementation of a charge state readout with NVs in bulk diamond |
| Aug 01 | Alex Glenday | Solar measurements with Astro-comb calibration |
| Aug 08 | – | no talk, ICAP conference |
| Aug 15 | Tim Eichhorn | Dynamic Nuclear Polarization with Paramagnetic Centers Created by Photo-Excitation |
| Aug 22 | Pradeep Ramesh | Biological imaging and control of cellular function using genetically encoded magnetic reporters |
| Aug 29 | Erik Bauch & Junghyun(Paul) Lee | Plans for Spectral Decomposition Experiments |
| Sep 05 | Tout Wang | Small Diatomic Alkali Molecules at Ultracold Temperatures |
| Sep 12 | – | no talk, QuASAR review meeting |
| Sep 19 | Joonhee Choi & Georg Kucsko | Recent advances in probing temperature dependent early stage cell development in Caenorhabditis elegans as well as investigating the quantum dynamics of a strongly interacting spin ensemble |
| Sep 26 | John Barry & Matthew Turner | Towards detection of neuron firing events with NV diamond |
| Oct 3 | David Glenn | Update on Nanoscale Imaging Experiments |
| Oct 10 | Alexei Trifonov | Towards single -shot spin readout: NV magnetometry via ionization |
| Oct 17 | Chih-Hao Li | Progress in green astro-comb automation |
| Oct 24 | Francesco Casola | Progress in NV probing of magnetic materials |
| Oct 31 | Igor Lovchinsky & Alex Sushkov | Nuclear magnetic resonance using NV centers in diamond |
| Nov 07 | Tim Milbourne & Linh Pham | Plan for demonstrating cellular mri with NV centers in diamond |
| Nov 14 | – | no talk |
| Nov 21 | Keigo Arai & Junghyun(Paul) Lee | Progress on geometric phase experiments using NV centers in diamond |
| Nov 28 | – | no talk, Thanksgiving |
| Dec 05 | David Le Sage | Update on the precision diamond magnetometer project using side collection |
| Dec 12 | David Phillips | Applications of the Solar Telescope and Astro-comb to Exoplanets and Fundamental Physics |
| Dec 19 | Yuliya Dovzhenko, Mehmet Cengiz Onbasli, & Huiliang Zhang | Using Nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond to probe novel physical phenomena in condensed matter systems |
| Dec 26 | – | no talk, Christmas |
Previous seminars in 2013
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 04 | Nir Bar-Gill | Quantum spin simulators with NV centers in diamond |
| Jan 11 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Report from Hell Lab |
| Jan 18 | Nathalie de Leon | Quantum networks with diamond nanophotonics |
| Jan 25 | Alexei Trifonov | Progress in spin-GSD development |
| Feb 01 | Linh Pham Keigo Arai |
Progress on studying 13C-enriched diamond samples Phase encoding technique for super-resolution NV magnetometry |
| Feb 08 | Nir Bar-Gill | Plan for nano-MRI with NV centers in diamond |
| Feb 15 | Matthew Sarracanie | Performing MRI at 6.5 mT |
| Feb 22 | Meredith Frey | Citius, Altius, Fortius – The Quest for Faster Imaging, Higher Resolution, and Stronger Signal in MRI of Solids |
| Mar 01 | Shanying Cui | Study of diamond surface chemistry and its effects on near-surface NVs |
| Mar 08 | Chih-Hao Li | Results from astro-comb at TNG/HARPS-N |
| Mar 15 | Roger Fu | The magnetism of meteorites as a window onto solar system formation |
| Mar 22 | Alexei Trifonov, Anat Benado, David Glenn | Axon pulse sensing using NV-diamond magnetometry: Planning the experiment |
| Mar 29 | Jason Dittmann | The Second Oldest Problem in the Second Oldest Profession : Trigonometric Parallaxes from the MEarth Survey |
| Apr 05 | Nir Bar-Gill & David Glenn | Report from Ulm (Fedor Jelezko’s group) |
| Apr 12 | Chinmay Belthangady | Compressive Sensing for Phase Encoding |
| Apr 19 | No talk | |
| Apr 26 | Colin Connolly | Magnetic nanoparticle labels for detection of biological targets |
| May 03 | Keigo Arai | Phase encoding technique for super-resolution NV magnetometry |
| May 10 | Alex Glenday | Data Analysis of the Astro-Comb on HARPS-N |
| May 17 | No talk, CBS Retreat | |
| May 24 | Maddy Corbett & David Glenn | Plan for neuron magnetic imaging |
| May 31 | practice DAMOP talks | |
| Jun 07 | No talk, DAMOP | |
| Jun 14 | Erik Bauch | Super-resolution optical imaging and magnetometry using NV centers in diamond |
| Jun 21 | Kasturi Saha | Nonlinear Optics in Nanophotonic structures |
| Jun 28 | Nick Langellier | Application of HARPS-N to astro-seismology |
| Jul 05 | No talk | |
| Jul 12 | Stephen DeVience | Nanoscale MRI with NV-diamond |
| Jul 19 | David Le Sage | Progress on the 2nd generation side-collection NV magnetometer |
| Jul 26 | Nir Bar-Gill | Some thoughts and ideas on possible NV experiments |
| Aug 02 | No talk | |
| Aug 08 | John Barry | Prospective post-doc talk |
| Aug 16 | Chih-Hao Li | Report from July astro-comb trip to TNG/HARPS-N |
| Aug 23 | Linh Pham | Update on nuclear spin sensing using single NV centers |
| Aug 30 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Mag-STED results and singlet state repumping |
| Sep 06 | Ashok Ajoy | High resolution Hartmann-Hahn sensing |
| Sep 13 | David Phillips | Application of Laser Frequency Combs and Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Magnetometers to Searches for New Physics |
| Sep 20 | Francesco Casola | Plan for imaging patterns of quantum magnetic fields in advanced materials |
| Sep 27 | Alexei Trifonov | Analysis of schemes for NV-based super-resolution imaging and magnetometry |
| Oct 04 | Maddy Corbett | Nuclear Spin Sensing: An Overview |
| Oct 11 | Keigo Arai | Nanoscale Fourier magnetic imaging by phase encoding technique |
| Oct 18 | Alex Glenday | Latest Data Analysis from Astro-Comb Calibration of HARPS-N |
| Oct 25 | Colin Connolly & David Glenn | Magnetic detection of rare cells with NV diamond magnetic imager |
| Nov 01 | Dimitar Sasselov | Prebiotic Photochemistry: Astrophysical UV Sources and Lab “Analogs” |
| Nov 08 | Chinmay Belthangady & Huiliang Zhang | Magnetometry below the optical diffraction limit via phase encoding |
| Nov 15 | Erik Bauch | Latest results on Super-resolution optical imaging and magnetometry using NV centers in diamond |
| Nov 22 | David Rousso | Spatial organization of a novel retinal cell type on a 2-dimensional hexagonal lattice |
| Nov 29 | No talk | |
| Dec 06 | Linh Pham, Francesco Casola, Stephen DeVience, Eric Bersin | Determination of NV depth from proton spin measurements |
| Dec 13 | Stephen DeVience | Comparison of Methods for Nuclear Spin Detection with NVs |
| Dec 20 | Chih-Hao Li, Alex Glenday |
Plan for developing a turn-key green astro-comb, Recent Astro-Comb Data Analysis: PSF Application to Th:Ar and CCD Mask Errors |
| Dec 27 | No talk |
Previous seminars in 2012
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 06 | David Le Sage | Prospects for electric field imaging using NV centers |
| Jan 13 | Colm Ryan | Coherence and Control in NV Centres |
| Jan 20 | Paola Cappellaro | Updates from the Quantum Engineering Group |
| Jan 27 | Nir Bar-Gill & David Le Sage | Highlights from the 2012 MMI-Harvard Diamond Photonics Conference |
| Feb 03 | Alex Glenday | First Measurements of an Astro-Comb with an FTS |
| Feb 10 | Jason Stockman | New Strategies for Accelerated Spatial Encoding with Quadratic Fields in Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Feb 17 | Anat Bar-Gill | Prospects of magnetic sensing of oxidative burst in Neutrophils |
| Feb 24 | Linh Pham | Preferential orientation of NV centers in diamond |
| Mar 02 | APS March Meeting — no talk | |
| Mar 09 | Chinmay Belthangady | Coherent control of nitrogen defects in diamond |
| Mar 16 | Stephen DeVience | The SUCCESS and SLIC Singlet-State NMR Experiments |
| Mar 23 | Keiji Nishida | Bio-magnetism, biogenic nanoparticles and synthetic signaling pathway |
| Mar 30 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Progress on STED techniques and perspectives of bio-application |
| Apr 06 | Huiliang Zhang | Cathodoluminescence of Color Centers in Nanodiamond |
| Apr 13 | David Glenn | Progress Towards Nanodiamond Tissue Staining and Prospects for Bio-Magnetometry |
| Apr 20 | Chih-Hao Li | Green astro-comb for HARPS-N (progress report) |
| Apr 27 | Nir Bar-Gill | Magnetic measurements of graphene |
| May 04 | Mikey Shulman | Entanglement of Singlet Triplet Qubits Using the Exchange Interaction |
| May 11 | No talk | |
| May 18 | David Le Sage | Progress toward biomagnetism measurements using a NV wide-field imager |
| May 25 | Aleem Siddiqui | Cavity-Enhanced Optical ParametricChirp Pulse Amplification: Toward Octave Spanning Gain with Perfect Conversion |
| Jun 01 | DAMOP Practice Talks | |
| Jun 08 | No talk, attending DAMOP | |
| Jun 15 | Alexei Trifonov & Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Progress on STED and Dark State Measurements (?) |
| Jun 22 | Nick Langellier | Nanowire Growth on Photonic Crystal Fiber by Pulsed Femtosecond Laser Deposition |
| Jun 29 | Shimon Kolkowitz | Coherent sensing of a mechanical resonator and remote nuclear spins using a single spin qubit in diamond. |
| Jul 06 | No talk | |
| Jul 13 | No talk | |
| Jul 20 | Shu-Wei Huang | High-energy sub-cycle optical waveform synthesizer |
| Jul 27 | Jinkang Lim | Large mode spacing Yb doped fiber laser comb for next generation astro-comb |
| Aug 3 | Alyssa Wilson | Immunolabeling: Some Theory Relevant to EM/LM Tissue Prep |
| Aug 10 | Duo Li | Optical Frequency Comb Based Ultra-Low Phase-Noise Microwave Oscillator |
| Aug 17 | David Phillips | Demonstration Measurements with the Astro-comb at HARPS-N |
| Aug 24 | David Glenn | Lessons from Woods Hole summer school |
| Aug 31 | Devid Le Sage | Optical magnetic imaging of bacteria under ambient conditions |
| Sep 07 | Mary Chessey | Optimizing Cathodoluminescence Detection |
| Sep 14 | Alex Glenday | Plan for DARPA Pulse program |
| Sep 21 | Alex Sushkov | Nanoscale magnetic field sensing with NV-centers in diamond |
| Sep 28 | Anat Bar-Gill & Jean-Christophe Jaskula | STED imaging of neuromuscular junction |
| Oct 05 | Keigo Arai | Phase encoding in NV electron spins |
| Oct 12 | Chinmay Belthangady | Dressed-State Polarization Transfer between Bright and Dark spins in Diamond |
| Oct 19 | Huiliang Zhang | Silicon Vacancy defect in diamond |
| Oct 26 | Stephen DeVience | SLIC Spectroscopy in the Low Field Imager |
| Nov 02 | Linh Pham | Extending NV spin coherence via dynamical decoupling at low temperature |
| Nov 09 | Stephen DeVience | Discussion of “Robust absolute magnetometry with organic thin-film devices” |
| Nov 16 | Ronnie Kosloff | Quantum Absorption Refrigerators and the III-Law of Thermodynamics |
| Nov 23 | No talk, Thanksgiving | |
| Nov 30 | David Glenn | Toward magnetometry measurements of living MTB |
| Dec 04 | Amir Capua | Direct observation of the coherent light-matter interaction in room-temperature semiconductors |
| Dec 07 | Georg Kucsko | Temperature sensing with nanodiamonds |
| Dec 14 | Michael Grinolds | Scanning magnetometry and magnetic resonance imaging with single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond |
| Dec 17 | Francesco Casola | Aspects of quantum magnetism in quasi one-dimensional materials |
| Dec 21 | David Phillips | Astro-comb plans and prospects |
| Dec 28 | No talk |
Previous seminars in 2011
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 07 | David Le Sage | Substitutional Nitrogen Electron Spin Polarization in Diamond for Enhanced Magnetometry (part II) |
| Jan 14 | Nir and Chinmay | Dynamical Decoupling and Spectral Decomposition Studies in NV Centers |
| Jan 21 | Keigo Arai | Plan for +/- NV magnetometry studies |
| Jan 28 | Boerge Hemmerling | Towards Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy with Trapped Ions |
| Feb 04 | Stephen DeVience | Relaxation of the Long-Lived Singlet State |
| Feb 11 | Alyssa Wilson | Neuronal current imaging with low-field MRI |
| Feb 18 | David Glenn | Nanodiamond cathodoluminescence and expected magnetic field signals from neurons |
| Feb 25 | David Phillips | Plan for HARPS-N |
| Mar 04 | Alexei Trifonov | STED system and plan for bio experiments |
| Mar 11 | John Hopfield | Broadcast of talk on neuroscience by John Hopfield |
| Mar 18 | Linh Pham | Dynamic decoupling of NV ensembles |
| Mar 25 | Stephen DeVience | Plans for Singlet Experiments |
| Apr 01 | Peter Maurer | Progress on experiments with NV spins |
| Apr 01 | Mike Grinolds | Quantum control of proximal spins using nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging |
| Apr 08 | Matt Rosen | New Methods of Low-Field MRI for Application to TBI |
| Apr 15 | Huiliang Zhang | SEM and TEM studies of nanodiamonds |
| Apr 22 | Chih-Hao Li & Alex Glenday | Progress on green astro-comb & FTS development |
| Apr 29 | Yiqiao Tang | Enhanced enantioselectivity in excitation of chiral molecules by superchiral light |
| May 06 | Peggy Lo | Surface functionalization of NV diamond |
| May 13 | Ron Walsworth | Talk by Ron Walsworth at the CBS retreat |
| May 20 | Nir Bar-Gill | Spectral decomposition of a solid-state spin environment through quantum control of a spin impurity |
| May 27 | David LeSage | NV Ensemble Magnetometry with High Fluorescence Detection Efficiency Using the "Side Collection" Technique |
| Jun 03 | Peter Maurer | Long-lived solid-state room-temperature quantum memory |
| Jun 10 | DAMOP practice talks | |
| Jun 17 | No talk, attending DAMOP | |
| Jun 24 | Jacob Bean | exoplanet science with G-CLEF |
| Jul 01 | David Phillips | Plan for HARPS-N |
| Jul 08 | Noah Chang | update from Kaertner lab |
| Jul 15 | Keigo Arai | studies of NV absorption |
| Jul 22 | Silvija Gradecak | Research Overview |
| Jul 29 | Alyssa Wilson | Modeling of neuronal current imaging |
| Aug 05 | Stephen DeVience | Prospects for nuclear singlet states in NV diamond |
| Aug 12 | David Glenn | Multi-color super-resolution imaging with nanoparticle cathodoluminescence |
| Aug 19 | Chih-Hao Li | Progress on visible wavelength astro-combs |
| Aug 26 | Mason Klein | Update from Samuel lab |
| Sep 02 | Maja Cassidy | Update on DNP and nanoparticle MRI experiments |
| Sep 09 | Alexei Trifonov & Bobby Kasthuri | STED system and plan for bio experiments |
| Sep 16 | Huiliang Zhang | Controlling surface properties and other color centers in diamond |
| Sep 23 | Alex Glenday | Astro-comb characterization with FTS |
| Sep 30 | Jean-Christophe Jaskula | Atom optics experiments at Institut d’Optique |
| Oct 07 | Chinmay Belthangady | Environment-assisted NV magnetometry |
| Oct 14 | Chris Farrar | NMR investigations at Martinos |
| Oct 21 | Birgit Hausmann | Update on diamond research in Loncar Lab |
| Oct 28 | No talk, Ron in Chile | |
| Nov 04 | Chih-Hao Li & Nick Langellier | Discovery and the solution of the mystery of the PCF filament |
| Nov 11 | David Le Sage | A method for super-resolution microscopy with nanodiamonds |
| Nov 18 | James McIver | Photon helicity dependent currents in a topological insulator |
| Nov 25 | No talk, Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 02 | Yiwen Chu | Update on cryogenic NV experiments |
| Dec 09 | Matthew Webber | Characterization of the stability of astrophysical calibration systems through FTS Data Analysis |
| Dec 16 | Igor Aharonovich | Fabrication of thin diamond membranes for quantum information processing |
| Dec 23 | No talk | |
| Dec 30 | No talk |
2010
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 01 | No talk | |
| Jan 08 | Nir Bar-Gill | TBA |
| Jan 15 | Thomas Babinec | A Diamond Nanowire Single Photon Antenna |
| Jan 22 | Josh Winn (MIT) | Exoplanet thoughts |
| Jan 29 | No talk | |
| Feb 05 | Mason Klein | TBA |
| Feb 12 | Linh Pham | NV physics and oral exam practice |
| Feb 19 | Chan Gyu Joo | Dynamic nuclear polarization at high magnetic field |
| Feb 26 | Stephen DeVience | Overview of DNP Methods |
| Mar 05 | David Glenn | Physics of ion optodes |
| Mar 12 | No talk | |
| Mar 19 | SHomeek | TBA |
| Mar 26 | Chih-Hao Li | Development of visible wavelength astro-combs |
| Apr 02 | Dan Rugar | Special seminar at Physics Dept., 10 am (arranged by Yacoby group) |
| Apr 09 | Matt Rosen | Tour of new Martinos lab for low-field MRI |
| Apr 16 | Rita Kalra | Antihydrogen experiment |
| Apr 23 | David Glenn | Physics of ion optodes |
| Apr 30 | Nan Yang | Manipulating quantum coherence in room temperature liquids to image through scattering media |
| May 07 | Graciana Puentes | Distributed entangled photonic states and applications |
| May 14 | Ron Walsworth | Talk at CBS retreat |
| May 21 | Stephen DeVience followed by DAMOP practice talks and poster review after lunch | |
| May 28 | DAMOP | |
| Jun 04 | David Le Sage & Linh Pham | NVB imager results |
| Jun 11 | Sam Patz | Xe lung imaging |
| Jun 18 | Xiaolong Hu | TBA |
| Jun 25 | No talk | |
| Jul 02 | No talk | |
| Jul 09 | No talk | |
| Jul 16 | No talk | |
| Jul 23 | Peter Maurer | NV Quantum Information Experiments in the Lukin Lab |
| Jul 30 | Jacob Bean | Infrared Exoplanet Work at CRIRES |
| Aug 06 | Jamu Alford | Delta-enhanced relaxation in MR: field-cycled MRI for molecular imaging applications |
| Aug 13 | Bobby Kasthuri & Hirohide Iwasaki | Connectome project in Lichtman Lab |
| Aug 20 | Chih-Hao Li | Journal Club, "Coherent Perfect Absorber" |
| Aug 27 | Stephen DeVience | Progress on creation of novel NMR states in biomolecules |
| Sep 03 | Shimon Kolkowitz | TBA |
| Sep 10 | Ye Zhao & David Le Sage | NV side collection & absorption measurements |
| Sep 17 | David Phillips | Astro-comb calibration of TRES |
| Sep 24 | Justin Brown (Romalis group, Princeton) | Lorentz symmetry test using K-3He co-magnetometer |
| Oct 01 | Chih-Hao Li | TBA |
| Oct 08 | Alex Glenday | Practice thesis defense talk |
| Oct 15 | David Glenn | Diamond nanoparticles for bioimaging |
| Oct 22 | Victor Acosta | TBA |
| Oct 29 | Nir Bar-Gill | New ideas for cooling a diamond tip with NVs |
| Nov 05 | Chih-Hao Li | TBA |
| Nov 12 | No talk | |
| Nov 19 | Alex Glenday | Practice thesis defense talk |
| Nov 26 | No talk | |
| Dec 03 | Thomas Witzel | The SIRS method for NMR measurement of neuronal currents |
| Dec 10 | Huiliang Zhang | Physics of cathodoluminescence in diamond |
| Dec 17 | David Le Sage | Improved NV magnetometry using side-collection |
| Dec 24 | No talk | |
| Dec 31 | No talk |
2009
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Heather Clark (Draper Labs) | tba |
| Jan 23 | Chih-Hao Li | Job practice talk |
| Jan 30 | Maja Cassidy (Marcus Group) | Update on Si MRI project |
| Feb 06 | Linh Pham | NV diamond physics for AMO types |
| Feb 13 | Claire Cramer | Tunable laser calibration of Hectochelle |
| Feb 20 | Jacob Robinson (Harvard Chem) | Nanodevices for measuring and manipulating neural networks |
| Feb 27 | Hadar Steinberg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) | Electrical transport through colloidal nano-particles |
| Mar 06 | Seb Drave & Cullen Blake (CfA) | M-dwarf planet studies using astro-comb |
| Mar 13 | Dirk Englund (???) | Quantum and Classical Information Processing in Photonic Crystals |
| Mar 20 | Linh Pham & Daniyar Nurgaliev | Modeling magnetic fields generated by neurons and detection using NV diamond magnetometry |
| Mar 27 | Jero Maze & Peter Maurer (Harvard Physics) | Towards optical magnetometry with sub-wavelength spatial resolution using individual spins in diamond |
| Apr 03 | Chih-Hao Li | Progress report on the phase error measurement of the astro-comb on Mt. Hopkins |
| Apr 10 | Dan Chonde | Johnson noise in resistive coils and the implication for inductive NMR detection |
| Apr 17 | Sofia Magkiriadou (Doyle Group) | EIT experiments with buffer gas cooled atoms & molecules |
| Apr 24 | Tsun Kwan Yeung & David Le Sage | Test of NVB imager using coil array |
| May 01 | Mike Hohensee | Testing Fundamental Lorentz Symmetries of Light, and Other Stuff |
| May 08 | Zachary Dutton | QSense: remote sensing with quantum states |
| May 15 | DAMOP practice talks | |
| May 29 | Sofia Magkiriadou (Doyle Group) | Towards quantum and non-linear optics with buffer-gas cooled atoms and molecules |
| Jun 05 | Ross Mair | Roll Your Own Scanner II: Novel Systems for Lung Imaging with Hyperpolarized Noble Gases |
| Jun 12 | Rachel Scheidegger | Studying obesity and asthma with new imaging techniques |
| Jun 19 | Paul Stanwix | NV magnetometry via optical absorption |
| Jun 26 | David Phillips | Astro-comb Prospects |
| Jul 10 | Tsun Kwan Yeung | Micron-sized Wire Array Fabrication and It’s Application for NVB Imager |
| Jul 24 | Linh Pham and David Le Sage | NVBI results |
| Jul 31 | Ryan McGorty (Manoharan group) | Using Holographic Microscopy to Study Colloids: Liquid Interfaces and Phase Transitions |
| Aug 07 | Patrick Maletinsky (Yacoby group) | Scanning diamond nanotip magnetometer |
| Aug 14 | David Phillips | Results from recent astro-comb measurements |
| Aug 21 | Chih-Hao Li | Moving towards 1 cm/s accuracy on the radial velocity measurement: Progress report on the phase error measurement of the astro-comb on Mt. Hopkins |
| Aug 28 | David Glenn (???) | Towards laser cooling of molecules from a buffer-gas beam source |
| Sep 04 | Rita Kalra | Beam profiles and EIT |
| Sep 11 | Maja Cassidy | Update on Si MRI project |
| Sep 18 | Paul Hamilton (DeMille group) | tba |
| Sep 25 | Alexey Gorshkov | Quantum Zeno effect and its application to NV-based quantum computing |
| Oct 02 | David Le Sage | All about confocal microscopy |
| Oct 09 | My Linh Pham | Discussion of a recent paper about NV diamonds |
| Oct 16 | Noah Chang and Andrew Benedick (Kaertner group) | Blue astro-comb |
| Oct 23 | Paul Stanwix | Discussion of a recent paper about NV diamonds |
| Oct 30 | Matt Rosen & Stephen DeVience | Relocation and rebuild of LFI at Martinos |
| Nov 06 | Tsun Kwan Yeung | Practice oral exam |
| Nov 13 | Stephen DeVience | Ortho- and Para-Hydrogen |
| Nov 20 | Jero Maze and Peter Maurer | Applications of mag-STED to quantum information |
| Nov 27 | No talk | |
| Dec 04 | Wei Min (Xie group) | Stimulated emission microscopy |
| Dec 11 | David Phillips | Astro-comb opportunities |
| Dec 18 | Heather Knutson | Exoplanet Studies |
| Dec 22 | Andreas Velten | TBA |
| Dec 25 | No talk |
2008
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 04 | Mike Hohensee & Mason Klein | This talk is NOT titled ‘The ABC’s of EIT’ |
| Jan 11 | Matt Rosen & David Phillips | Siemens reloaded: novel magnetometry for MRI |
| Jan 18 | Heather Knutson (CfA) | Portraits of Distant Worlds: Characterizing the Properties of Extrasolar Planets |
| Jan 25 | David Phillips & Chih-Hao Li | Astro-comb Q&A |
| Feb 01 | Rita Kalra | Effect of Beam Shape on Zeeman EIT |
| Feb 08 | Rachel Scheidegger & Dan Chonde | From Phil to Martinos: future directions for lung imaging studies |
| Feb 15 | Jero Maze (Lukin group) | Implementing Nitrogen-Vacancy defects as Magnetometers (First Principle) |
| Feb 22 | Claire Cramer | Prospects for a Sandage-Loeb Test |
| Feb 29 | Alison Hill & Linh Pham (Marcus group) | Si nanoparticle MRI update |
| Mar 07 | Alex Johnson (Harvard Physics) | Low Temperature Micro-scale Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
| Mar 21 | Mason Klein | Slow-light-from-EIT and stored light efficiency developments |
| Mar 28 | Wilson Barros | Plans for upgrading low-field imager and using it for lung imaging |
| Apr 04 | Yulia Gurevich (Gabrielse group) | Polar molecule EDM experiment |
| Apr 18 | Rita Kalra | storing squeezed states |
| Apr 25 | Darrick Chang | Nanoscale quantum optics |
| May 02 | Jim Phillips (CfA) | A Sounding Rocket Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle |
| May 09 | Paul Stanwix | B-field Imaging using NV diamond magnetometry: The NVB Imager |
| May 16 | Matt Rosen & David Phillips | Siemens: Resolutions |
| May 23 | DAMOP practice talk session | |
| Jun 06 | Aaron Grant (Beth Israel) | new concepts from basic physics applied to biomedical MRI |
| Jun 13 | Claire Cramer | New ideas for astro-comb applications |
| Jun 20 | Markus Greiner (Harvard Physics) | Quantum simulations with ultracold atoms |
| Jul 25 | Matt Rosen | 3He hyperpolarization and storage instrumentation |
| Aug 15 | Mike Hohensee | Constraining Isotropic Shifts in the Speed of Light |
| Aug 22 | Maja Cassidy (Marcus group) | Update on Si MRI project |
| Aug 29 | Mackie Van Camp | Results from g(2)/radiation-trapping experiment |
| Sep 05 | Cullen Blake (CfA) | M-dwarf planet searches using astro-comb |
| Sep 12 | Chih-Hao Li and Noah Chang | Next steps in astro-comb development |
| Sep 19 | Yanhong Xiao | Faraday effect in novel materials |
| Sep 26 | Alexey Gorshkov (Lukin group) | Suppression of Inelastic Collisions B/w Polar Molecules With a Repulsive Shield and Alkaline-Earth Atoms as Few-Qubit Quantum Registers |
| Oct 03 | Sungkun Hong (Yacoby group) | Update on nano-tip NV magnetometer |
| Oct 17 | Aravinthan Samuel (Harvard Physics) | Bioimaging |
| Oct 24 | Guillermo Torres (CfA) | Fundamental Properties of Stars, and Introduction to Eclipsing Binaries |
| Oct 31 | Paul Stanwix & Linh Pham | NVB imager update |
| Nov 07 | David Le Sage (Gabrielse group) | First Production of Antihydrogen within a Combined Penning-Ioffe Trap |
| Nov 14 | Dan Chonde | Progress Towards A Combined PET/MRI System |
| Nov 21 | Prashant Jain (Cohen group) | Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Magneto-Optics (SuPREMO) |
| Dec 05 | Kevin Covey (CfA) | M dwarfs |
| Dec 12 | Wilson Barros | New data on Xe NMR in granular media |
| Dec 19 | Jero Maze (Lukin group) | NV magnetometry and N@C60 |
2007
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 05 | Jeronimo Maze (Lukin group) | Angular dependence of spin coherenceeffects in nitrogen-vacancy diamond |
| Jan 12 | Jacob Aptekar | Brute Force Hyperpolarization in Silicon Nanoparticles |
| Jan 19 | Tun Wang (UConn) | Anomalous intensity correlation and anticorrelation in |
| Jan 26 | Anatoly Dementyev (MIT) | Low temperature DNP in 29Si |
| Feb 02 | Alex Glenday | First few months data from Lorentz symmetry tests with the dual noble gas maser |
| Feb 09 | Cindy Hancox | Update on small-cell N-resonance studies |
| Feb 16 | Mike Hohensee | First results from vapor cell studies to enable an Ives-Stilwell test |
| Feb 23 | David Phillips | Thoughts and plans for stored light experiments |
| Mar 02 | Naomi Ginsburg (Hau group) | "The medium is the message": Manipulating optical information with coherent atomic wavefunctions |
| Mar 09 | Jake Taylor (MIT) | Possible limits to NV center-based magnetometry |
| Mar 16 | Franz Kaertner (MIT) | Octave Spanning Lasers, Frequency Combs and Optical Clocks |
| Mar 23 | Jacob Aptekar | Overhauser-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (oMRI) |
| Mar 30 | Leo Tsai | Update of LFI development and near-term 3He human lung studies |
| Apr 06 | Yanhong Xiao & Mason Klein | Using atoms to split light in a coated cell |
| Apr 13 | Chi-Hao Li | 3He polarizer hardware advances |
| Apr 20 | Padraig Cantillon-Murphy (MIT) | RF-modulation of the complex susceptibility of magnetic nanoparticles |
| Apr 27 | Alex Glenday | Resonant Circuit Stability in the Dual Noble Gas Maser |
| May. 04 | Richard Hickman (AMP/HEA) | The POEM Capacitance Gauges |
| May. 18 | Ana Batrachenko & Rachel Scheidegger | Recent lung imaging experiments in the open-access imager |
| May. 25 | Pablo Londero (Prentiss group) | Nonlinear Optics in 2D+1 Pencil-Shaped MOTs |
| Jun 01 | Julien Le Gouet (Observatoire de Paris) | Cold atom absolute gravimeter |
| Jun 15 | Wilson Barros (Vanderbilt U) | Enhancement in Low-Field MRI |
| Jun 22 | Susie Huang (HST) | Avalanching Amplification of Sensitivity and Contrast by Feedback-Enhanced NMR and MRI |
| Jul 13 | Jon Marmurek & Rob Barton | Si nanoparticle characterization/functionalization |
| Jul 20 | Paul Stanwix | Test of Lorentz invariance in electrodynamics using rotating cryogenic sapphire microwave oscillators |
| Jul 27 | Ross Mair | Back to … 2003: NMR studies of Xenon gas diffusion and flow in porous media |
| Aug 03 | Alex Glenday | Progress Towards an Anomalous Neutron Spin-Spin Coupling Measurement |
| Aug 17 | Yanhong Xiao | Coherence in EIT noise spectroscopy |
| Aug 24 | Masha Baryakhtar | EIT basics |
| Aug 24 | Cleo Leung | Other basics |
| Aug 31 | Tun Wang (UConn) | Diffusion induced decoherence of stored optical vortices and the effects of diffusion on stored images |
| Sep 07 | Michael Hohensee | Quantum Properties of Coated Cell Beamsplitters |
| Sep 14 | Rachel Scheidegger & Paola Cappellaro | Inhomogeneous field correction in MRI |
| Sep 19 | Dan Chonde | NMR/MRI with hyperpolarized species |
| Sep 19 | Mark Browning | Maser basics |
| Sep 28 | Yanhong Xiao | Subwavelength "optical resonance imaging" (ORI) |
| Oct 05 | Saijun Wu | Talbot-Lau interferometry with magnetically guided atoms |
| Oct 12 | Alex Glenday | Setting a Limit on Anomalous Spin-Spin Coupling with the Dual Noble Gas Maser |
| Oct 19 | Tao Hong (???) | Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Buffer Gas Cooled Rb Vapor |
| Oct 26 | David Phillips & Matt Rosen | Novel magnetometry for MRI: Work for Siemens, AG |
| Nov 02 | Yanhong Xiao | Subwavelength "optical resonance imaging" (ORI) |
| Nov 09 | Claire Cramer | The Other Telescope Calibration Effort |
| Nov 30 | Jean Livet (Center for Brain Sciences) | "Brainbows" |
| Dec 07 | Chih-Hao Li | Plan for astro-comb construction |
| Dec 21 | James Battat (Stubbs group) | tba |
2006
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 06 | Mason Klein and Mike Hohensee | results from coated cell studies |
| Jan 13 | Ross Mair | NMR experiment planning |
| Jan 20 | Alex Glenday | plan for Lorentz symmetry test in 2006/7 |
| Jan 27 | Ryan McGorty | Fluidized bed experiments: current status |
| Feb 03 | Cindy Hancox | results from small-cell N-resonance studies |
| Feb 10 | Yanhong Xiao | results from noise studies |
| Feb 17 | Yanhong Xiao | Noise studies in EIT and its relevance to CPT clocks andcontinuous variable entanglement |
| Feb 24 | Alex Johnson | Hyperpolarized particles |
| Mar 03 | Alex Glenday | DNGM Update |
| Mar 10 | Irina Novikova | Results from Stored Light Optimization |
| Mar 17 | Elizabeth Goldschmidt & Yulia Gurevich | H maser progress and effect of freq. counters on stability measurements |
| Apr 07 | Michael Hohensee | Detecting Lorentz Symmetry Violations using EIT |
| Apr 14 | James Babb (SAO) | Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Pressure Broadened Alkali-Metal Atom Resonance Lines |
| Apr 21 | Jeronimo Maze | A few photon measurements summary |
| Apr 28 | Mason Klein | Final results from coated cell EIT studies |
| May 05 | Irina Novikova | More on slow light in a medium with self-rotation |
| May 12 | DAMOP practice talks | |
| May 26 | Leo Tsai | Status of the Low-Field MRI System and Current Results |
| Jun 02 | Janice Hudgings (Mt. Holyoke) | The Inside Scoop on Vertical-CavitySurface-Emitting Lasers |
| Jun 09 | Alex Glenday | Update on noble gas maser Lorentz symmetry tests |
| Jun 16 | Alex Johnson & Matt Rosen | Hyperpolarized Si-29 nanoparticles |
| Jun 23 | Cindy Hancox | Conclusion from small-cell N-resonance studies |
| Jun 26 | Irina Novikova | Stored light optimization |
| Jul 14 | Yanhong Xiao | Laser Phase noise to intensity noise conversion in EIT |
| Jul 21 | Leo Tsai | Development of a Low-Field 3He MRI System to Study Posture-Dependence of Pulmonary Function |
| Aug 04 | Yulia Gurevich | Intro to hydrogen masers and their applications |
| Aug 11 | Cleo Leung | N-resonance clock using high-temperature thin cells |
| Aug 18 | Saee Paliwal | Fiber modulator characterization and investigation of field imbalance in CPT |
| Aug 25 | Leo Tsai | Initial Human Images from the Low-Field 3He MRI System |
| Sep 01 | Cleo Leung | Extended DAVLL locking scheme and high temperature N-resonance studies |
| Sep 08 | David Phillips | New tests of time and orientation varying fundamental constants |
| Sep 15 | Yu-Ju Lin | Ultracold Atoms Magnetically Trapped inside a Resonator on aMicrofabricated Chip |
| Sep 22 | Saee Paliwal | tba |
| Sep 29 | Jacob Aptekar | Pulse Sequence Design and Implementation for MRI in Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields |
| Oct 06 | Michael Hohensee | Testing Lorentz Symmetries of Light |
| Oct 13 | Rob Barton | Silicon nanoparticles as molecular imaging agents for MRI |
| Oct 20 | Matthew Eisaman | Progress towards a quantum repeater using atomic ensemlbes |
| Oct 26 | Seth Lloyd (MIT) | Quantum limits to the measurement of space and time |
| Nov 03 | Lily Childress (Harvard) | Coherent dynamics of coupled electron and nuclear spin qubits in diamond |
| Nov 10 | Matt Rosen | Review of new results from Pines group and Boyd Goodson |
| Nov 17 | Mason Klein & Yanhong Xiao | Plan for slow & stored light optimization studies I |
| Nov 20 | Mason Klein & Yanhong Xiao | Plan for slow & stored light optimization studies I: continued |
| Dec 01 | Susanne Yelin | Absorption-free negative refraction using quantum coherence |
| Dec 08 | Chih-Hao Li | Plan for new hyperpolarization systems |
| Dec 15 | Paola Cappellaro (ITAMP) | Quantum Information Transport in Nuclear Spin Chains |
| Dec 22 | Robert Lutwak (Symmetricom) | Realizing the Chip-Scale Atomic Clock |
2005
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 07 | Ruopeng Wang | initial data on fluidized bed with vertical bore NMR instrument |
| Jan 14 | Mason Klein | update on stored light studies |
| Jan 21 | Alex Glenday | noble gas maser update |
| Jan 28 | Chris Smallwood | update on N/CPT clocks experiment |
| Feb 04 | Micah Ledbetter (Princeton) | EDM measurements in liquid laser-polarized xenon |
| Feb 11 | Naomi Ginsberg (Harvard) | Observation of Hybrid Soliton Vortex-Ring Structures in Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| Feb 18 | Yanhong Xiao | Calculations of atomic coherence diffusion in CPT experiments |
| Feb 25 | Andreas Mershin (MIT) | Peptide-assisted nano bio devices |
| Mar 04 | Alex Glenday | Potential Axion Search using the DNGM |
| Mar 11 | Mason Klein | Discussion of recent slow light papers |
| Mar 18 | Matt Rosen | Meeting at Millenium; ideas for 3He imaging |
| Mar 25 | Jesse Thaler (Harvard) | Universal Dynamics of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation |
| Apr 01 | Mason Klein | Update and plans on stored light experiments in coated cells |
| Apr 06 | Thomas Meersmann (Colorado SU) | Novel Contrast in MR Imaging through Hyperpolarized Krypton-83 |
| Apr 15 | Yanhong Xiao | Atomic motion induced Ramsey-type spectral narrowing |
| Apr 22 | Michael Barlow (Nottingham U) | Open discussion on narrowed-line laser technology |
| Apr 29 | Cindy Hancox (Harvard) | Magnetic trapping of rare-earths atoms |
| May 06 | Michael Fleischhauer (TU Kaiserslautern) | Quantum electrodynamics of atoms in media with negative refraction |
| May 13 | DAMOP practice talks | |
| Jun 03 | Caspar van der Wal (U Groningen) | tba |
| Jun 10 | Mukund Vengalattore (Harvard) | Nonlinear Optics in anisotropic ultracold media |
| Jun 17 | Chris Sotak (Worcester PI) | The Relationship Between Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) Changes of Tissue Water and Cell Volume Changes During Acute Neurological Disorders |
| Jun 24 | Andreea Boca (Caltech) | Measurements in cavity QED with trapped atoms |
| Jul 22 | Mason Klein | pre-oral exam talk |
| Jul 29 | Leo Tsai | Thesis committee presentation |
| Aug 08 | Ryan McGorty | 129Xe NMR: Fluidized Bed Experiments Update |
| Aug 12 | Alex Glenday | pre-oral exam talk |
| Aug 18 | Ryan McGorty | my undergraduate research |
| Aug 22 | Alexei Taichenachev and Valery Yudin (Novosibirsk State University) | Pure superposition states of atoms generated by a bichromatic elliptically polarized field |
| Sep 02 | Mason Klein | Pre-oral exam talk |
| Sep 09 | Yanhong Xiao | Proposed studies of PM-AM conversion in atomic vapor |
| Sep 16 | Elizabeth Goldschmidt | Report on summer work: DAVLL, magnetic field fluctuations |
| Sep 23 | Leo Tsai | Status of low-field imager and proposed use for studying lung physiology |
| Sep 29 | S. Zibrov/I. Novikova | Light shift measurement for lin-par-lin CPT configuration |
| Sep 30 | Ludovic de Rochefort (U2R2M, Paris) | Visualization of flow dynamics within the airways with hyperpolarized 3He MRI |
| Oct 07 | Michael Hohensee | Role of light polarization in stored light |
| Oct 14 | Federico Cane | Modeling of DNGM behavior and comparison with measurements |
| Oct 28 | Irina Novikova | Light Pulse Delay and Storage in Rb Vapor Cells |
| Nov 04 | Michael Crescimanno (Youngstown State University) | A theory of N+CPT resonance |
| Nov 11 | Sam Patz (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) | Imaging LP 129Xe exchange in lungs |
| Dec 02 | Andrey Matsko (JPL) | Experiments with an opto-electrical oscillator using VCSEL lasers |
| Dec 09 | Philip Walther (Harvard) | From Entangled Photons to Quantum Computation |
| Dec 16 | Mason Klein and Mike Hohensee | Plans for coated cell static EIT paper |
2004
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 09 | Michal Bajcsy (Lukin group) | Stationary Pulses of Light in an Atomic Medium |
| Jan 16 | Leo Tsai | Asthma research and potential for LP noble gas MRI |
| Jan 23 | David Phillips | Plans for Quantum Optics experiments |
| Jan 30 | Federico Cane | New oven design |
| Feb 13 | Christine Wang | Basics of CPT |
| Feb 20 | Suzanne Rousseau | Lorentz symmetry tests |
| Feb 27 | Ross Mair | LP Noble Gas MRI Grand Plan for 2004 |
| Mar 12 | Tina Pavlin | New generation of the segregation experiments |
| Mar 19 | Mason Klein/Leo Tsai | Overview of the completed segregation experiments |
| Mar 26 | John Ng | Atherosclerosis studies |
| Apr 02 | Michael Hohensee (Lukin group) | Generation of entangled atoms in Raman media |
| Apr 09 | David Phillips | Observation of the negative Doppler shift: dream vs. reality |
| Apr 16 | Nicolas Boulant (Cory-group, MIT) | Teleportation: Science Fiction or Reality? |
| Apr 23 | Matt Eisaman, (Lukin group) | Recent progress in quantum memory experiments |
| Apr 30 | Michael Crescimanno | Updates in understanding of CPT clock shifts |
| May 07 | Ruopeng Wang | New generation of fluidized bed experiments |
| May 14 | Leo Tsai | Rehearsal of ISMRM conference talk on low-field imager design (10 min) |
| Jun 04 | Leo Tsai and Mason Klein | Updates on Segregation Experiments |
| Jun 18 | Ross Mair and Leo Tsai | Highlights from ENC and ISMRM |
| Jul 02 | Leo Tsai | Plan for "final" segregation experiments |
| Jul 09 | Irina Novikova | Push-pull optical pumping and applications to our experiments |
| Jul 16 | Alex Glenday | Is the Doyle cold buffer gas scheme viable for Rb stored light? |
| Jul 23 | Christine Wang | Atomic diffusion and CPT resonances |
| Jul 30 | Mason Klein | Optimizing stored light |
| Aug 06 | Jeff Surette | H maser P24 performance |
| Aug 13 | Tina Pavlin | Plan for human physiology studies using high-field MRI |
| Aug 20 | Chris Smallwood | Studies of new Raman and CPT clocks |
| Aug 27 | Jakob Taylor (Lukin group) | Quantum Dots |
| Sep 03 | Suzanne Rousseau | The physics of Lorentz and CPT violation |
| Sep 10 | Suzanne Rousseau | The physics of Lorentz and CPT violation: MORE! |
| Sep 24 | Gregg Jaeger (Boston U.) | Quantum entanglement, symmetry and optical quantum memory |
| Oct 01 | John Ng | MS Lesion studies by Gadolinium-enhanced MRI |
| Oct 08 | Irina Novikova | Optimization of the classical light storage |
| Oct 15 | Dan Farkas (Gabrielse group) | Optical comb/iodine clock comparison with H maser |
| Oct 22 | Alexei Trifonov (MagiQ) | Recent progress in quantum cryptography |
| Oct 29 | Anatoly Dementyev (Yale Univ.) | To be announced |
| Nov 05 | Matt Eisaman (Lukin group) | Update on the quantum repeater experiment |
| Nov 12 | Eric Silver (CfA) | Microcalorimeters Are No Longer a Laboratory Curiosity! |
| Nov 19 | Natasha Lisitza (Princeton Univ.) | NMR Measurements of Diffusion in the Internal Fields |
| Nov 23 | Donald Candela (UMass) | Granular media studies with NMR |
| Dec 10 | Michal Bajcsy (Lukin group) | EIT Based Waveguides and Stationary Light Pulses |
| Dec 20 | Leo Tsai & Tina Pavlin | Plan for lung imaging at high fields |