Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy

March 2

Mikhail Slipchenko, Purdue University
Foray into high resolution label-free chemical imaging

March 9

Daniel Turner, MIT
Investigating exciton correlations in GaAs quantum wells using COLBERT spectroscopy

March 16

Andy Yun, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital
Brillouin light scattering: The last unopened box

March 23

Tom Gallagher, University of Virginia
Dipole-Dipole interactions of cold Rydberg atoms

March 30

David McCamant, University of Rochester
Two dimensional femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy: A new technique to probe vibrational anharmonicity

April 6

Warren Warren, Duke University
Breasts and brains: Similarities and differences using Optical Imaging

April 13

Stephen Doorn, Los Alamos Laboratories
Generation and application of high field THz pulses

April 20

Seungeun Oh, MIT
Dye-less imaging of electrical activity in living cells using membrane electromotility

April 27

19th Annual Richard C. Lord Lecture
Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
Quantum magnetism of ultracold atoms

May 4

Arthur Suits, Wayne State
Novel reaction mechanisms revealed by high-resolution ion imaging