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5 Feb |
D.P. DiVincenzo (IBM, Yorktown Heights) |
Quantum computation |
12 Feb |
J. Fröhlich (ETH, Zürich) |
Special features of condensed matter physics in one and two dimensions |
5 Mar |
J.C. Maan (Nijmegen) |
Composite fermions; a new way of looking at the "old" fractional quantum Hall effect |
2 Apr |
R.C. Richardson (Cornell) |
The remarkable properties of superfluid 3He |
16 Apr |
D. Bensimon (ENS, Paris) |
Manipulation and elastic properties of DNA |
23 Apr |
B.I. Halperin (Harvard/Leiden) |
The quantum Hall effects: quantized and unquantized |
7 May |
T.W.B. Kibble (Imperial College, London) |
Testing cosmological defect formation in the laboratory |
28 May |
C.M. Marcus (Stanford) |
Quantum chaos in quantum dots |
4 Jun |
B.L. Altshuler (Princeton) |
Spectroscopy of quantum dots: exact quantum states and Landau quasiparticles |
25 Jun |
R.A. Mathies (Berkeley) |
A coherent picture of visual photochemistry |
24 Sep |
L.R.M. Maas (NIOZ, Texel) |
Surprising behaviour of waves in stratified fluids |
8 Oct |
Ph. Grangier (Inst.d'Optique, Orsay) |
Quantum non-demolition measurement |
22 Oct |
Th. Giamarchi (Orsay) |
Bragg and moving glasses: a theory for disordered vortex lattices |
12 Nov |
E. Salje (Cambridge) |
Tweed and stripes - how solids relax |
26 Nov |
A. Goldbeter (ULB, Brussel) |
Theoretical study of oscillations and waves in intercellular communication |
10 Dec |
J.G. van Ingen Schenau (VU, Amsterdam) |
The physics of klapskating |