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19.03.2010
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Date : Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Radu Coldea, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Title : "Quantum phase transition in an Ising chain"
Contact Andrey Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Monday, March 29, 2010
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Krunoslav Prsa, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), ETH Zürich and EPFL
Title : "Neutron scattering investigations of weakly coupled and weakly connected antiferromagnets"
Contact Oksana Zaharko, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 46 33
Date : Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Fabian Essler, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Title : "Finite Temperature Dynamics of Gapped Quantum Spin Chains"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Chaitanya Mudivarthi, University of Maryland, USA and PSI
Title : "Deciphering the origin of magnetostriction in Fe-Ga alloys"
Contact M.Laver, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 54 20 mark.laver@psi.ch
Date : Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WBGB/020
Speaker : Dr.Stefan T.Ochsenbein, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA
Title : "Elementary excitations in antiferromagnetic molecular horseshoes"
Contact B.Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time : 13:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Colin Broholm Institute for Quantum Matter and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title : "Recent Results from MACS: A new high intensity multichannel spectrometer at the NIST Cold Source"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Time : 09:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WBGB/019
Speaker : Dr. Fanni Juranyi, Paul Scherrer Institut, PSI, Villigen
Title : "Dynamics of water confined in clays"
Contact B.Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Time : 13:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WBBA/008
Speaker : Dr.Jan Peter Embs, Physical Chemistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Title : "Neutron Scattering on Ionic Liquids"
Contact B.Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Tuesday, February 11, 2010
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001 Auditorium
Speaker : Dr.Andreas M.Stadler Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Title : "Water and Hemoglobin Dynamics Measured with Neutron Scattering"
Contact B.Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Time : 09:15
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001 Auditorium
Speaker : Jiri Kulda Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
Title : "Mapping elastic and inelastic diffuse scattering in single crystals"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Thursday, January 14, 2010
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Mark Lumsden, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title : "Inelastic neutron scattering study of the orbital order and spin fluctuations of the geometrically frustrated ferrimagnetic spinel MnV2O4"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : J.H.Chung Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Title : "Inelastic neutron scattering study of the orbital order and spin fluctuations of the geometrically frustrated ferrimagnetic spinel MnV2O4"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Nadir Aliouane, Institut for Engergitekknik Oslo, Norway
Title : "Magneto-electric TbMnO3: A neutron and X-ray scattering studies in zero and high magnetic field study"
Contact O.Zaharko, bldg. WHGA/242, Tel. 056-310 46 33
Date : Thursday, December 10, 2009
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Arsen Gukasov Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), France
Title : "Ising versus XY Anisotropy in Frustrated R2Ti207 Compounds as "Seen" by Polarized Neutrons"
Contact O.Zaharko, bldg. WHGA/242, Tel. 056-310 46 33
Date : Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WBGB/019
Speaker : Gene E. Ice 1.Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Behtel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, U.S.A.
Title : "At and Beyond the Limit of Neutron Focusing Optics"
Contact J.Stahn, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 25 18
Date : Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dan Hüvonen National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics Tallinn, Estonia
Title : "Terahertz Spectroscopy of Quantum Spin Systems"
Contact A. Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Thursday, November 26, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Artem Abakumov, University of Antwerp, EMAT Antwerpen, Belgium
Title : "Complex transition metal oxides modulated by periodic planar interfaces"
Contact D.Cheptikov, bldg. WHGA/133, Tel. 056-310 30 70
Date : Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Masashi Hase, National Instiute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
Title : "Neutron scattering studies of quantum spin systems: Neutron scattering measurements are powerful tools even for powder samples"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof.Anatoly M.Balagurov, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia
Title : "Advanced neutron diffraction at pulsed source: new idea, new technique, new science"
Contact V.Pomjakushin, bldg. WHGA/133, Tel. 056-310 20 94
Date : Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Jens Kreisel Laboratoire Materiaux et Genie Physique, CNRS & Grenoble Institute of Technology
Title : "The effect of high-pressure on ABO3 perovskite-type oxides"
Contact M.Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Friday, October 16, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Arumugam Sonachalam Centre for High Pressure Research, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
Title : "A simple multi-purpose uniaxial pressure device for electrical resistivity and ac-susceptibility measurements-Suitable for closed cycle refrigerator stystem"
Contact K.Conder, bldg. WLGA/U121, Tel. 056-310 24 35
Date : Friday, October 9, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Masayuki Hagiwara Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Title : "Exotic Phases in Quantum Spin Gapped and Geometrically Frustrated Spin Systems"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Prof. S.-W.Cheong, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Title : "Charge Dynamics in Multiferroic BiFeO3"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Thursday, September 10, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Jacob Ruff, McMaster University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Title : "Tb2Ti2O7"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : S.Muehlbauer, Technische University München, Germany
Title : "Vortices in Superconducting Niobium and Skyrmion Lattices in Chiral Magnets Investitated by Small Angle Neutron Scattering"
Contact A.Zheludev, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 36 92
Date : Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : R.Mukhopadhyay Solid State Physics Division, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Title : "Molecular Diffusion and Effect due to Confinement"
Contact Fanni Juranyi, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 31 76
Date : Monday, July, 13, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Christina Hoffmann, Single Crystal Diffraction Group, Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge USA
Title : "Update on the time-of-Flight Laue Single Crystal Neutron Diffractometer TOPAZ at the ORNL/SNS"
Contact Jürg Schefer, bldg. WHGA/244, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Friday, July, 10, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Luis Carlos Pardo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Title : "A procedure to quantify the short range order of disordered phases"
Contact M.Medarde, bldg. WHGA/242, Tel. 056-310 32 83
Date : Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Andrin Caviezel, ETH Zürich
Title : "High-pressure neutron diffraction study on the amorphization mechanism of ice Ih"
Contact JüThierry Strässle, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 32 46
Date : Friday, June, 26, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Martina Bestel FU Berlin Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University University Berlin
Title : "Compsitional zoning of garnet porphyroblasts from the polymetamorphic Wölz Complex, Eastern Alps"
Contact Fanni Juranyi, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 31 76 fanni.juranyi@psi.ch
Date : Monday, May, 25, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig, Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, University of Rostock, Germany
Title : "The importance of hydrogen bonding in ionic liquids"
Contact J. Embs, bldg. WHGA/112, Tel. 056-310 53 92
Date : Friday, May 15, 2009
Time : 10:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WBBA/008
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Mark Laver, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, United Kingdom
Title : "Small angle neutron studies of the flux line lattice in superconducting niobium"
Contact Ch.Niedermayer, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 20 86
Date : Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Time : 10:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Y. Bodenthin, Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen
Title : "Manipulating Magnetic Structure by Electric Fields in Multiferroic ErMn2O5 and CuO"
Contact C. Niedermayer, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 20 86
Date : Wednesday, April, 29, 2009
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Jonathan White, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Title : "Unconventional Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors"
Contact C. Niedermayer, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 20 86
Date : Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Marek Bartkowiak, Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Title : "The Good, in the Bad and the Ugly-capacitive thermometry and magnetic fields"
Contact B. Van den Brandt, bldg. WLGA/127, Tel. 056-310 40 27
Date : Friday, March 13, 2009
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Tong Zhou, Laboratoire CRISMAT/CNRS, Caen CEA, Grenoble
Title : "Effect of Na Distribution on the Properties in NaxCoO2"
Contact Kazik Conder, bldg. WLGA/U121, Tel. 056-310 24 35
Date : Thursday, March 12, 2009
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Guochu Deng, Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL Lausanne
Title : "High-property Ferroelectric Ceramics Synthesized by Hot-pressing Method"
Contact Kazik Conder, bldg. WLGA/U121, Tel. 056-310 24 35
Date : Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Andrey Shkabko, Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry, EMPA Dübendorf
Title : "Electroformation and resistance switching in Al/SrTiO3-xNy/Al"
Contact Kazik Conder, bldg. WLGA/U121, Tel. 056-310 24 35
Date : Friday, February 27, 2009
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Simon Gerber, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Title : Interplay of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Unconventional Superconductors"
Contact Simon Gerber, bldg. WLGA/143, Tel. 056-310 3685
Date : Friday, January 23, 2009
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Saligrama Vinishri, Institut Nanoscience et Cryogénie, CEA Grenoble, France
Title : Crystal growth and characterization of two leg spin ladder compounds: Sr14Cu24O41 and Sr2Ca12Cu24O41"
Contact Kazik Conder, bldg. WLGA/U121, Tel. 056-310 24 35
Date : Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Francesco Casola, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering ETH Zürich and PSI Villigen
Title : "One-dimensional physics of (C5H12N)2CuBr4"
Contact Beni Thielemann, bldg. WHGA/143, Tel. 056-310 36 98
Date : Monday, November 24, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Hogni Weihe, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
Title : "Inhomogeneities of Spin Hamiltonian Parameters in Molecular Clusters"
Contact Philip Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Thursday, November 6, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Kevin R. Kittilstved, Université de Genève
Title : "Study of the electronic structure of transition metal complexes with the neutron backscattering spectrometer, MARS"
Contact Philip Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Monday, September 22, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Cécile Garcia, CEMENS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Title : "TEM and WAXS complementary to analyze nanopowder"
Contact Jürg Schefer, bldg. WHGA/244, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Monday, September 8, 2008
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Denis Arcon Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Institute Jozef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljublijana
Title : "Antiferromagnetic phases in the vicinity of superconductivity in NdOFeAs and CH3NH2)K3C60- a magnetic resonance point of view"
Contact Oksana Zaharko, bldg. WHGA/242, Tel. 056-310 46 33
Date : Friday, August 15, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Shirish N. Chodankar Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Title : Structural Evolution in Different Phases of Protein Solution as Studied by Scattering Techniques"
Contact Joachim Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Monday, August 11, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Vivien Zapf, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexiko, USA
Title : Bose-Einstein condensation in an organic quantum magnet"
Contact Michel Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Friday, July 25, 2008
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dipl. Phys. Verena Städele, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Title : Investigation of Melting in a 2D Colloidal System by Light Scattering and Video Microscopy"
Contact Urs Gasser, bldg. WHGA/346, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Time : 14:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : W. Kleemann, Angewandte Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany
Title : "Ordered and disordered magnetoelectrics: Basics and applications"
Contact Severian Gvasaliya, bldg. WHGA/110, Tel. 056-310 30 94
Date : Friday, May 9, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Fatima Gonzalez, Laboratory for Waste Management, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen
Title : Linking the diffusion of water in compacted clays at two different time scales: tracer through-diffusion and quasielastic neutron scattering"
Contact Urs Gasser, bldg. WHGA/346, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Thursday, May 8, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Mihail Atanasov, Fachbereich Chemie der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg, Germany, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Title : Manifestation of Angular Strains (Jahn-Teller Effect) in the Magnetic Anisotropy in Mono-and Polinuclear Cyanide Based Single Molecular Magnets with 3d-Metals"
Contact Philip Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Dr. A. Harrison the Institut Laue-Langevin, F-38042 Grenoble, France
Title : Classical and non-classical behaviour in real kagome antiferromagnets
Contact Joel Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Friday, April 25, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Jan Petzelt, Institut of Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
Title : Soft-mode dynamics and central-mode phenomena in displacive perovskite ferroelectrics
Contact Bertrand Roessli, bldg. WHGA/121, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Daniel Ucko
Title : Physical Review Letters
Contact Michel Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Wedesday, April 2, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : PD Dr. Christof W. Schneider, Materials Group (ENE), Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI
Title : Highly Mobile Electron-Gases Formed at Interfaces in Oxide Heterostructures
Contact Christof Niedermayer, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 20 86
Date : Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WBBA/008
Speaker : Haissam Dernaika Martin-Luther Universitaet (Halle-Wittenberg), Germany
Title : Investigations on femtosecond laser induced structuring of metal nanoparticles in polymers
Contact Urs Gasser, bldg. WBBA/008, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Thursday, March 20, 2008
Time : 09:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Laszlo Almasy, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary
Title : Studies of binary aqueous mixtures by small angle scattering
Contact Urs Gasser, bldg. WHGA/345, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Wedesday, March 12, 2008
Time : 09:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Sandor Balog, Institut de Photonique et d'Electronique Quantique Êcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Title : Local tuning of the optical response of two-dimensional photonic crystals
Contact Urs Gasser, bldg. WBBA/008, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Barbara Kirchner, Wilhelm-Ostwald Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Leipzig
Title : Dynamics and intermolecular forces in ionic liquids from theoretical consideration
Contact Jan Peter Embs, bldg. WHGA/112, Tel. 056-310 53 92
Date : Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Stephan Rosenkranz Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Title : Competing incommensurate and ferromagnetic order in perovskite cobalite La1-xSrxCoO3
Contact Joel Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Friday, February 15, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Jorge Martinez Garcia, Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, University of Trento-Elettra Synchotron Laboratory, Italy
Title : The x-ray contrast factor of straight line dislocations: Beyond numerical results
Contact Jürg Schefer, bldg. WHGA/244, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Thursday, February 7, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Vadim Sikolenko, Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin, Germany
Title : Phase separation and Co spin state in cobaltites with perovskite-type structure
Contact Jürg Schefer, bldg. WHGA/244, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Thursday, January 31, 2008
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Taras Kolodiazhnyi, National Institute for Material Science, Japan
Title : Metal-insulator transition in SrTiO3-x and BaTiO3-x: Another evidence of universality of the Mott criterion
Contact Bertrand Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, School of Engeneering and Applied Science (Harvard University) and School of Physics (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Title : Drops and jets in co-flowing liquids
Contact Urs Gasser, bldg. WHGA/345, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Monday, November 19, 2007
Time : 15:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Paolo Santini, Physics Department, University of Parma
Title : Dynamics of magnetic molecules
Contact Michel Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Friday, November 16, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof.Nigel E.Hussey, University of Bristol
Title : Fermiology and the low-energy electronic ground state of high-temperature superconductor-a transport perspective
Contact Prof.Joël Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Tuesay, November 13, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Yong Nam Choi, HANARO Center, Korea Atomic Energy Research Center
Title : Neutron scattering by hydrogen molecules within TDF hydrates
Contact Thierry Strässle, bldg. WHGA/112, Tel. 056-310 32 46
Date : Monday, November 12, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Yusuf M.Seikh, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Title : Magnetism of Low Dimensional Spin Systems
Contact Lukas Keller, bldg. WHGA/135, Tel. 056-310 40 07
Date : Friday, November 9, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Olav Syljuasen, University of Oslo, Norway
Title : Excitations of a Spin Ladder in a Magnetic Field: Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations
Contact Beni Tielemann, bldg. WHGA/143, Tel. 056-310 36 98
Date : Wednesday, October 31,2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Heloisa N.Bordallo, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Title : Isotopic Effects in the smallest chiral amino acid
Contact Jan Peter Embs, bldg. WHGA/133, Tel. 056-310 53 92
Date : Thursday,October 11, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Roland Bircher, Bragg Institute, The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation PMB 1, Menai NSW, Australia
Title : Single-molecule magnets-a fascinating class of materials studied by inelastic neutron scattering
Contact Dr.Philip Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Thursday, October 4,2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Andrei Pimenov, University of Würzburg
Title : Terahertz Spectroskopy and Magnetoelectric Excitations in Rare-Earth Manganites
Contact Michel Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Thursday,September 27, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Artur Braun, Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, EMPA
Title : Investigations on solid oxide fuel cells using techniques at large scale facilities
Contact Dr.Jan Peter Embs, bldg. WHGA/121, Tel. 056-310 53 92
Date : Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Time : 10:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Stephen Best, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia
Title : Modelling biological hydrogen activation
Contact Philip Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Thursday,August 09, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Markos Skoulatos Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Title : Spin correlations in frustrated square lattices
Contact Thierry Strässle, bldg. WHGA/121, Tel. 056-310 32 46
Date : Monday,August 06, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Emanuele Arcangeletti, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Italy
Title : Pressure-induced insulator to metal transition in strongly correlated electron systems
Contact Thierry Strässle, bldg. WHGA/121, Tel. 056-310 32 46
Date : Thursday, August 02 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : B.Padmanabhan, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bagalore India
Title : Transport, magnetic, specific heat and EPR studies on single crystals Pr1-xPbxMnO3
Contact Thierry Strässle, bldg. WHGA/121, Tel. 056-310 32 46
Date : Thursday,July 5, 2007
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Urs Aeberhard, Condensed Matter Theory Group PSI Villigen
Title : Microscopic modelling of quantum well solar cells
Contact : J.Preu, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 3467
Date : Thursday,July 5, 2007
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Urs Aeberhard, Condensed Matter Theory Group PSI Villigen
Title : Microscopic modelling of quantum well solar cells
Contact : J.Preu, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 3467
Date : Thursday, June 28, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Title : Optical Micromanipulation takes Hold
Contact : T.Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/110, Tel. 056-310 5988
Date : Monday, June 11, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Tadashi Adachi, Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University Japan
Title : Ihnhomogenous superconductivity and stripe correlantions in La-214 high-Tc superconductors
Contact : J.Chang, bldg. WHGA/347, Tel. 056-310 32 73
Date : Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Regine Willumeit, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany
Title : Structural insights into the reaction of membrane active molecules
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Andrea Sacchetti, Institute of Solid State Physics, CH-8093 Zürich
Title : Optical properties of rare earth thri-tellurides
Contact : J. Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Thursday, May 3, 2007
Time : 11:15
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Colin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University and NIST, USA
Title : Frustrated Magnetism in 2D
Contact : N. Christensen, bldg. WHGA/106, Tel. 056-310 54 20
Date : Monday, April 4, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/U129
Speaker : Prof. Tabrisur Rahman Khan, ETH Zürich, Laboratory for Surface Science Technology, 8093 Zürich
Title : Nanoscale Dynamics of Self-Assembling Systems: Effect of Lipid-Surface Interactions on Lateral Organization of Lipids
Contact : U. Gasser, bldg. WHGA/345, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. John Katsaras, NRC-Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada K0J 1J0
Title : Recent Developments in Soft Materials from the Chalk River Group
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Friday, February 23, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. V. Tsurkan, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, 86159-Augsburg, Germany
Title : Ternary magnetic semiconductor chalgogenide spinels: recent development in crystal growth and physical study
Contact : N. Christensen, bldg. WHGA/106, Tel. 056-310 54 20
Date : Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Sophia Klokishner, Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, MD-2028 Chisinau, Moldova 4
Title : Magnetic relaxation in single molecule magnets with orbitally degenerate states. A model of single chain magnet behaviour of a 1D chain with spin canting
Contact : P. Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Andrei Palii, Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, MD-2028 Chisinau, Moldova 4
Title : Single Molecule Magnets with Orbitally Degenerate Ions
Contact : P. Tregenna, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Friday, January 26, 2007
Time : 09:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Antonio Moreira dos Santos, Physics Department, Campus Universitario de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Title : Structure-properties relationship: Magnetic and Optical Implications
Contact : M. Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Thursday, January 25, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Michael Mücksch, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Title : Neutron Scattering on Thiospinel Compounds - Interplay between Electronic and Lattice Degrees of Freedom
Contact : M. Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Monday, January 22, 2007
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Hirotoshi Terashita, IFF Scattering methods, Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany
Title : Magnetic and structural studies of manganese oxides La_(1-x)Ca_(x)MnO_(3)
Contact : M. Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Thursday, January 18, 2007
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Martin Boehm, Institut Laue Langevin, 6, rue Jules Horowitz, 38042 Grenoble, France
Title : ThALES - towards the next generation cold three-axis spectrometer at the ILL
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/244, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Monday, January 15, 2007
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Holger Stark, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
Title : Colloids in Non-Equilibrium and on Quasicrystalline Substrates
Contact : U. Gasser, bldg. WHGA/345, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/001
Speaker : Prof. Chandra Varma, Physics Department, Univeristy of California, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Title : Theory of the Phase diagram of the Cuprates
Contact : J. Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Monday, December 18, 2006
Time : 15:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Markus Bleuel, IPNS, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
Title : MISANS (Modulated Intensity Small Angle Neutron Scattering) Instrument on a Pulsed Neutron Source
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. S. Klotz, Physique des Milieux Denses, IMPMC, Universite P&M Curie, F-75015 Paris
Title : Amorphous Ice under Pressure: What neutrons can tell us about
Contact : T. Strässle, bldg. WHGA/112, Tel. 056-310 32 46
Date : Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Auditorium/001
Speaker : Prof. Dr. D. Khomskii, II Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany
Title : Multiferroics; different ways to combine magnetism with ferroelectricity
Contact : S. Gvasaliya, bldg. WHGA/110, Tel. 056-310 30 94
Date : Monday, December 4, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Lukas Palatinus, Laboratoire de Cristallographie, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Title : Structure solution from X-ray and neutron diffraction data by charge flipping
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/244, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Thursday, November 30, 2006
Time : 13:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Title : Defect structures in nematic liquid crystal shells
Contact : U. Gasser, bldg. WHGA/345, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Thursday, November 16, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Fabrizio Carbone, DPMC, University Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Title : The electronic structure of MnSi and its band magnetism
Contact : J. Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Bruno Dorner, Institut Laue Langevin, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex
Title : What Does One Measure in Inelastic Neutron Scattering? or Data Analysis and Integrated Intensities
Contact : P. Tregenna-Piggott, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 54 05
Date : Friday, October 27, 2006
Time : 13:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. SLS, WSLA/008
Speaker : Dr. Rainer Böckmann, Theoretical & Computational Membrane Biology, Center for Bioinformatics Saar, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
Title : Nanodynamics of Membranes & Membrane Proteins
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Anatoliy Senyshyn, Research reactor FRM II, TU München, D-85747 Garching
Title : Structure powder diffractometer SPODI as part of instrumentation at research reactor FRM II
Contact : D. Cheptiakov, bldg. WHGA/133, Tel. 056-310 30 70
Date : Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Ondrej Hudak, Institut of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, CS
Title : Phase transition from tetragonal to monoclinic phase, dielectric and mechanical response
Contact : J. Gavilano, bldg. WHGA/133, Tel. 056-310 54 73
Date : Monday, September 4, 2006
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Ishihara, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Title : Charge, spin and orbital structures and frustration in layered oxide RFe_(2)O_(4)
Contact : M. Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Time : 13:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Reinke, Universität Konstanz, D-78462 Konstanz
Title : Non-Central Forces in Crystals of Charged Colloids
Contact : U. Gasser, bldg. WHGA/106, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Thursday, July 20, 2006
Time : 09:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Azzedine Bendounan, Experimentelle Physik II, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg
Title : Influence of surface reconstruction on the Shockley state band
Contact : J. Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Jeremy Pencer, National Research Council Canada, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, Neutron Program for Materials Research, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Canada
Title : The Detection and Characterization of Membrane Domains by SANS
Contact : T.Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Friday, July 7, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Cristian D. Batista, Theoretical Division, T-11 B262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Title : Dimensional Reduction at a Quantum Critical Point
Contact : M. Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 43 53 81
Date : Friday, June 16, 2006
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Frank Gabel, Structural and Computational Biology, Sattler NMR Group, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, DE-69117 Heidelberg
Title : Solution structure of the nuclear export TAP-CTE complex determined by combining SAXS/SANS and NMR residual dipolar coupling
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Friday, June 2, 2006
Time : 09:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Mechthild Enderle, Institut Laue-Langevin, FR-38042 Grenoble Cedex
Title : Beyond 15 Tesla with neutron scattering
Contact : P. Allenspach, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 25 27
Date : Friday, May 19, 2006
Time : 10:15
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Camelia Borca, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Title : Neutron diffraction of ferroelectric polymer films: Evidence for a lattice-stiffening transition driven by electron-phonon coupling processes
Contact : P. Allenspach, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 25 27
Date : Thursday, May 18, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Marisa Medarde, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETH Zurich & PSI, CH-5232 Villigen PSI
Title : 2Ni3+ → Ni3+δ + Ni3-δ charge disproportionation in RNiO3 perovskites (R=rare earth): Implications for the stability of the magnetic structure
Contact : P. Allenspach, bldg. WHGA/144, Tel. 056-310 25 27
Date : Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. M. Wolff, Lehrstuhl für Festkörperphysik/Experimentalphysik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum
Title : Micelles at interfaces
Contact : J. Stahn, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 25 18
Date : Thursday, March 30, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Prof. Yoichi Ando, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Komae, Tokyo 201-8511, Japan
Title : Electron-Hole Excitations in a Colbaltate and a Cuprate
Contact : J. Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. N. Darowski, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, SF4 Struktur und Dynamik, DE-Berlin
Title : Structural and magnetic transitions in MnAs/GaAs epitaxial films and TbMnO_(3)
Contact : J. Stahn, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 25 18
Date : Friday, March 10, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. B. Nickel, Departement für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, De- München
Title : Soft matter at hard interfaces: Ordering phenomena in lipid membranes and organic thin films
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : PD Dr. Christine Wandrey, EPFL, Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine and Pharmacobiology, CH-1015 Lausanne
Title : Microspheres based on polyelectrolyte hydrogels - Formation, properties, and application
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Monday, February 13, 2006
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. J. Saroun, Nuclear Physics Institute, Rez, Czech Republic
Title : Monte Carlo simulation and optimisation of the Bragg and lobster-eye neutron optics with RESTRAX
Contact : U. Filges, bldg. WHGA/112, Tel. 056-310 46 06
Date : Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Kurt Ballmer-Hofer, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI
Title : How cells sense, interpret and transduce signals; a look at the structure and function of receptor tyrosine kinases (...how biologists learn new tricks from physicists
Contact : U. Gasser, bldg. WHGA/106, Tel. 056-310 32 29
Date : Friday, January 27, 2006
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area East, Bldg. OFLG/402
Speaker : Dr. Martin Klein, Universität Heidelberg
Title : The CASCADE 2D-200 Detector System - a High Rates Detector for Neutron Applications in Science and Research
Contact : K. Kirch, bldg. WLGA/119, Tel. 056-310 32 78
Date : Thuesday, December 20, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Igor Zaliznyak, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Title : Quasiparticle Breakdown in a Quantum Spin Liquid
Contact : Ch. Niedermayer, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 20 86
Date : Thuesday, December 20, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Justin Hoppler, University Bern and Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, PSI, CH-5232 Villigen PSI
Title : Depth-profile of the magnetic induction in high-Tc superconductor/ferromagnet multilayers
Contact : Ch. Niedermayer, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 20 86
Date : Friday, December 16, 2005
Time : 13:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Prof. S-H. Lee, University of Virginia
Title : Frustration and how to fight against it in magnetic spinels
Contact : M. Kenzelmann, bldg. WHGA/150, Tel. 056-310 53 81
Date : Thursday, November 17, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Anne-Chrystine Uldry, University of Zurich, Zurich / Switzerland
Title : The antiferromagnetic spin correlations in the cuprates from the NMR point of view
Contact : P. Haefliger, bldg. WHGA/131, Tel. 056-310 29 25
Date : Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. P. Boulet, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements, 76125 Karlsruhe, Germany
Title : Crystal chemistry of actinide compounds
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Time : 13:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Trevor Forsyth, PSB/Institut Laue Langevin/Keele University, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9
Title : X-rays, neutrons, and deuteration for the study of biological systems: facilities and results from the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) in Grenoble
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. G.C. Labat, University of Neuchâtel, Laboratory of Crystallography, Dpt. of Physical Chemistry II, CH-2007 Neuchâtel 7
Title : Solid State Coordination Chemistry: Syntheses, Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Some New Cu(II) Complexes of Terpy, Hbpca-OH and TPPZ
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Monday, November 7, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Götz Schuck, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich
Title : Structure/Properties Relationships in b-pyrochlore KOs_(2)O_(6)
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Friday, October 28, 2005
Time : 13:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Vasudeva Siruguri, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research Centre, Bhabha Atomic Centre Campus, Mumbai, India
Title : UT_(2)X_(2) compounds - Hybridization effects and magnetic properties
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr.S. Mitra, Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai India
Title : Quasielastic neutron scattering in India: A overview
Contact : F. Juranyi, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 31 76
Date : Friday, September 30, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Wim G. Bouwman, Dept. Radiation, Radionuclides & Reactors, Delft University of Technology, 2629 JB Delft, Netherlands
Title : Principles, technique and application of SESANS
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Friday, September 23, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. John Katsaras, National Research Council, Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, ON, K0J 1J0, Canada
Title : Morphologies and Physical Phenomena Exhibited by the Much-Studied "Bicellar" Lipid Mixtures
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Time : 15:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Christos Panagopolous, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Title : A quantum critical point revealed by glass order in the high temperature superconductors
Contact : H. Ronnow, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 46 68
Date : Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Andrey Tamonov, Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, 141980 Dubna, Russia
Title : FSD - it's high resolution Fourier Stress Diffractometer
Contact : U. Stuhr, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 45 13
Date : Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Christophe Bersier, University of Zurich
Title : Charge and spin density distributions around Zn impurities in cuprates
Contact : H. Ronnow, bldg. WHGA/148, Tel. 056-310 46 68
Date : Thursday, July 28, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Miguel A.G. Aranda, Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, Universidad de Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Title : Solid State Chemistry at University of Malaga: from SOFC electrolytes to Portland cements
Contact : D. Cheptiakov, bldg. WHGA/133, Tel. 056-310 30 70
Date : Monday, June 27, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Prof. Je-Geun Park, Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
Title : A question of spin and lattice coupling in hexagonal manganites
Contact : B. Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Friday, June 24, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Ashana Bajpai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Title : Synthesis of ultra pure CrO2 by a novel route and it's magnetic and transport properties
Contact : M. Gupta, bldg. WHGA/114, Tel. 056-310 59 91
Date : Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. E. Kentzinger, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Title : Depth-Resolved Investigations of Micro- and Nano-Structured Magnetic Multilayers by Scattering of Polarized Neutrons under Grazing Incidence
Contact : J. Stahn, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 25 18
Date : Monday, June 13, 2005
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Thomas Hellweg, Stranski-Laboratorium für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, TU Berlin, D-10623 Berlin
Title : Structuring and Dynamics in Block-Copolymer/Surfactant Mixtures
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Prof. Stephen Lee, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, GB
Title : Using Neutrons to map the local flux density distribution in magnetic recording media and other thin film nanomagnetic systems
Contact : J. Mesot, bldg. WHGA/149, Tel. 056-310 40 29
Date : Thursday, May 19, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area East, Bldg. OFLG/401 (Forschungslabor)
Speaker : Dr. Georg Pabst, Institute of Biophysics and X-ray Structure Research, A-8042 Graz
Title : Global X-ray Diffraction Data Analysis of Unilamellar, Oligolamellar and Multilamellar Lipid Vesicles
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WWLA/B1
Speaker : Sungil Park, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institut
Title : Geometrical Frustration in Ferrite Spinels and an Introtuction to HANARO
Contact : J.Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Monday, May 2, 2005
Time : 10:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Urs Gasser, Universität Konstanz, DE-Konstanz
Title : Nucleation, growth, and elastic properties of colloidal crystals
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Time : 15:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WSLA/008 (SLS)
Speaker : Timofey Kruglov, Interfaculty Reactor Institute, Delft, The Netherlands
Title : Spin-Echo SANS and its application to colloidal systems
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Friday, April 8, 2005
Time : 11:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Peter Holmqvist, Forschungszentrum Jülich, DE-Jülich
Title : Block Copolymer Dynamics: A Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Study
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Friday, April 8, 2005
Time : 10:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Hans Wyss, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Title : Nonergodic States of Colloids: Network Formation or Local Crowding?
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Thursday, April 7, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Valeria Lauter-Passiouk, TU München
Title : Tailoring nano-particle structures via self-assembling copolymer matrix
Contact : T. Gutberlet, bldg. WHGA/142, Tel. 056-310 43 74
Date : Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Time : 15:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WSLA/008 (SLS)
Speaker : Dr. Ronny Vavrin, Université de Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg
Title : Time Resolved Neutron and Light Scattering on Colloidal Gels
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Time : 10:45
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Thomas Gisler, University of Konstanz, DE-Konstanz
Title : Proteindynamik in hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Feldern
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Time : 10:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Anna Stradner, University of Fribourg, Perolles, CH-1700 Fribourg
Title : Proteins as model colloids
Contact : J. Kohlbrecher, bldg. WHGA/246, Tel. 056-310 31 65
Date : Friday, February 11, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Harald Schmidt, Clausthal University of Technology, DE-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Title : "Self-diffusion in Si_(3)N_(4) Films: the Use of Isotope Enriched Multilayers"
Contact : M. Gupta, bldg. WHGA/114, Tel. 056-310 59 91
Date : Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/001 (Auditorium)
Speaker : Dr. Sergey Maleyev, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Title : Cubic Magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Contact : B. Roessli, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 44 01
Date : Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Dominik Schaniel, UniversitŠt KšlnK
Title : Light-Induced Metastable States in Nitrosyl Compounds
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Monday, January 24, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Yuxing Wang, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève
Title : Specific-heat study of metal-borides
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Friday, January 21, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WSLA/008 (SLS)
Speaker : Dr. Oleksandr Prokhnenko, Institute of Physics, 162 53 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Title : Magnetic Structures and Magnetovolume Anomalies in R_(2)Fe_(17) intermetallic compounds (R=Y,Ce,Lu)
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Time : 14:00
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Monica Leonte, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements, D-76175 Karlsruhe
Title : Preparation and characterization of UH_(3) thin films
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47
Date : Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Time : 10:30
Place : Paul Scherrer Institut, Area West, Bldg. WHGA/121
Speaker : Dr. Antonio Cervellino, Istituto di Cristallografia (C.N.R.-I.C.), I-70125 Bari
Title : New methods and perspectives for nanoparticle powder neutron diffraction analysis
Contact : J. Schefer, bldg. WHGA/146, Tel. 056-310 43 47