Seminar and Colloquium

• Seminar by Dr. Hui HU (Department of Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, USA) on "Development of Advanced Flow Diagnostic Techniques to Study Complex Thermofluid Phenomena", May 23, 2011 (Mon) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Wing-Ki LIU (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Canada) on "Intense Laser-atom/molecule Interactions", April 15, 2011 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Mojmir SOB (Department of Chemistry, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) on "The Application of Ab Initio Electronic Structure Calculations in Multiscale Modeling of Materials", April 14, 2011 (Thu) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Wenjie WAN (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA) on "Coherent Perfect Absorber: Anti-laser", March 8, 2011 (Tue) from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Rm 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Wenjie WAN (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA) on "Optical Hydrodynamics: From Soliton to Shock Wave", March 4, 2011 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Qi ZHOU (Joint Quantum Institute, Maryland, USA) on "Bosons in the Double-well Potential: from a Disordered Case to Novel Condensates in a Superlattice", March 1, 2011 (Tue) from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Rm 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Henry Tsz-King WONG (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) on "Detection of Dark Matter", February 28, 2011 (Mon) from 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. at Rm 311, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Qi ZHOU (Joint Quantum Institute, Maryland, USA) on "Recent Developments and Grand Challenges in Cold Atom Physics", February 25, 2011 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Paul ASHBY (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA) on "Toward Capturing Membrane Protein Dynamics with the Fiber Force Probe", February 24, 2011 (Thu) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at LT2, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Ge Mo Lin (南開大學陳省身數學研究所) on "Academician Lecture Series and Physics Department Colloquium", February 22, 2011 (Tue) from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yanwen WU (Department of Physics University of Cambridge, UK) on "Adiabatic Rapid Passage Using a Linearly Chirped Pulse in a Single Quantum Dot", February 21, 2011 (Mon) from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Rm 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yanwen WU (Department of Physics University of Cambridge, UK) on "Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Quantum Dot Systems", February 18, 2011 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Kin-Fung MAN (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, USA) on "Robotic Exploration of Space and Mars", February 17, 2011 (Thu) from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. at L5, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Cheng CEN (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA) on "On Demand Nanoscale Electronics, Photonics and Beyond—Future Research Plan", February 15, 2011 (Tue) from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Rm 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Cheng CEN (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA) on "Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand", February 11, 2011 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor See-Chen YING (Physics Department, Brown University, USA) on "Quantum Nature of Hydrogen Atoms Adsorbed on Metallic Surfaces", January 21, 2011 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Chen-Ning YANG (Nobel Laureate in Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) on "One Dimensional Fermions and Bosons", December 3, 2010 (Fri) from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at LT1 Lady Shaw Building, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Jia-yu TANG (Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan) on "Investigating Future Probes of Cosmic Acceleration", December 1, 2010 (Wed) from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. at L1, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Fu-Sin LING (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) on "N-body Simulations, Dark Disks and Implications for Direct and Indirect Detection", November 24, 2010 (Wed) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at Rm 311 Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Fu-Sin LING (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) on "The Flavor Puzzle: Why Neutrinos are Different?", November 23, 2010 (Tue) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Rm 311 Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Qing-Hai WANG (Department of Physics, National University of Singapore) on "PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics and Its Applications", November 19, 2010 (Fri) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at LG23 Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Xu-Ming ZHANG (Department of Applied Physics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) on "Photonic & Biophotonic MEMS Devices", November 12, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2 Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Peter LU (The Department of Physics Harvard University) on "Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction", November 5, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2 Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Kirill VOLOSHIN (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Russia) on "ALICE – The Search for Quark-gluon Plasma at LHC", November 4, 2010 (Thur) from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. at L3 Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Public Presentation by Dr. Ling Miao (Editor, Physical Review Letters) and Dr. Sarma Kancharla (Editor, Physical Review B) on "The Physical Review Journals and You: Grow Together and Move Physics Forward Together", October 25, 2010 (Mon) from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Rm 128, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Enrique HENESTROZA (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) on "Progress Towards Inertial Fusion Energy", October 25, 2010 (Mon) from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. at Rm 703, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK
  
  
• 慶祝激光面世50週年：激光物理公開講座 (Laser Physics Public Lecture)
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Wai Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago) on Particle Physics (May 17, 19, 24, 26, 2010)
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Jiangfeng Du (University of Science & Technology of China) on "量子計算概述", May 14, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Jiangfeng Du (University of Science & Technology of China) on "磁共振量子計算研究進展", May 13, 2010 (Thu) from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. at Room 311, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Tingyong Chen (The Johns Hopkins University) on "Ballistic Transport via Point Contacts", May 10, 2010 (Mon) from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at Room LG23, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Tingyong Chen (The Johns Hopkins University) on "Mind the Gap of Fe Superconductors", May 7, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L1, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. He-Peng Zhang (University of Texas) on "Resonant Generation of Oceanic Internal Gravity Waves", April 12, 2010 (Mon) from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at Room LG23, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. He-Peng Zhang (University of Texas) on "Collective Motion and Density Fluctuations in Bacterial Colonies", April 9, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Edmund Chang (Stony Brook University,) on "Storm Tracks in the Changing Climate", April 1, 2010 (Thu) from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at L1, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Yi-Ying WU (Ohio State University) on "Oxides, Graphene and their Composites for Li-ion Batteries and Dye-sensitized Solar Cells", March 19, 2010 (Wed) from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Room LG23, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Fabio Scardigli (National Taiwan University) on "Uncertainty Relation and Micro Black Holes in a Planck Scale Lattice Universe", March 10, 2010 (Wed) from 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. at L4, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Anonio Ruotolo (City University of Hong Kong) on "Spintronics: Radiofrequency Devices and their Applications", March 10, 2010 (Wed) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Ning Liu (Tyndall National Institute) on "Optical Characterization of Nano-devices and Challenges to Achieve Extreme Spatial and Temporal Resolution", March 8, 2010 (Mon) from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at Room LG23, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Ning Liu (Tyndall National Institute) on "Dynamics Study at Nanoscale: Surface Chirality Manipulation and Motion Control of Nanomechanical Resonators", March 5, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Joint Colloquium by Dr. Kin-Yiu Wong (University of Minnesota) on "Systematic Ab Initio QM/MM with Path-Integral Approach for RNA and Protein Simulations, and Spectroscopy Calculations", March 3, 2010 (Wed) from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Da-jun Wang (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado) on "Dipolar Collisions between Ultracold Polar Molecules", March 1, 2010 (Mon) from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at Room LG23, Science Centre North Block, CUHK
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Da-jun Wang (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado) on "Quest for Ultracold Polar Molecules", February 26, 2010 (Fri) from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at L2, Science Centre, CUHK
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. De-yu Lu (University of California) on "Characterizing Physical Properties of Nanomaterials: Insights from First-principles Theories", February 22, 2010
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. De-yu Lu (University of California) on "Efficient Evaluation of Dielectric Response Functions: Applications to Ground State and Excited State Problems", February 19, 2010
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof John Z. H. Zhang (East China Normal University) on "Accurate Computational Study for Protein Structure and Dynamics", January 8, 2010
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Aihua Xie (Oklahoma State University) on "From Proton Transfer to Protein Quake in Biological Signaling", December 14, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Pengcheng Dai (The University of Tennessee) on "Neutron Scattering Studies of Iron Arsenide Superconductors", December 10, 2009
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Qing-Hu Chen (Zhejiang Normal University) on "Quantum phase transitions in the Dicke model: Numerically exact study", September 17, 2009
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Kenneth Young (CUHK) on Neutrino Oscillations: An Introduction (August 19-28, 2009)
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Wang-Kong Tse (University of Texas) on "Interaction Effects in the Optical Properties of Bilayer Graphene", August 19, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Yung C. Lee (Nanjing University) on "Levitation and Suspension --Meissner Attraction and Dirty Superconductors", August 7, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Shi-ning Zhu (Nanjing University) on "The Study of Optical Superlattice for Nonlinear Photonics, Laser and Quantum Optics", July 31, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Wei-Min Zhang (National Cheng Kung University) on "Physics behind Quantum Information Processing", July 17, 2009
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Shina Tan (Yale University) on "Exact Relations for a Strongly Correlated Fermi Gas and a Novel Mathematical Method", July 15, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof John S. Tse (University of Saskatchewan) on "Working Under Pressure", July 6, 2009 [Presentation file]
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Wai-Ning Mei (University of Nebraska at Omaha) on "PVDF- Ferroelectric Polymers- Applications and Theoretical Studies", July 2, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Shirley Meng (University of Florida) on "Advanced Nanomaterials for Electric Energy Storage & Conversion", June 25, 2009 [Presentation file]
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Wenxian Zhang (Fudan University) on "Spin Mixing Dynamics in an Atomic spin-1 Bose condensate", May 8, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Hai-bin SU (Nanyang Technological University) on "Multi-Paradigm Simulations at the Nanoscale: Methodology and Applications to Functional Carbon Materials", April 3, 2009
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Xiao-Jia CHEN (Carnegie Institution of Washington) on "Enhancement of Superconductivity in Cuprate Homologous Series", February 23, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Xiao-Jia CHEN (Carnegie Institution of Washington) on "Superconductivity Under Pressure", February 20, 2009
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yun LIU (University of Maryland) on "Studying Physical Properties of Nano-scale Materials Using Neutron Scattering", February 16, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yun LIU (University of Maryland) on "Hydrogen Adsorption Properties in Metal-organic Frameworks", February 13, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Xu-Hui HUANG (Stanford University) on "Drying and Hydrophobic Collapse of Nanoscale Plates and Protein Complexes", February 6, 2009
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Xu-Hui HUANG (Stanford University) on "Computational Tools for Enhancing Conformational Sampling of Biological Macromolecules", February 5, 2009
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Jian-Guo HOU (President, University of Science and Technology of China, National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, USTC) on "Quantum Controlling at the Molecular Scale", February 3, 2009
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Mogens H. JENSEN (The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) on "Oscillation Patterns in Genetic Feed-Back Signalling", November 18, 2008/a>
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Yi-Long HAN (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) on "Melting and Geometrical Frustration in Colloidal Crystals", November 14, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Kenneth YOUNG (CUHK) on "Why Do We Exist? The Story of Three Mixed-up Generations & Half a Nobel Prize", November 21, 2008
  
  
• Joint Lectures by Prof. Lu-Jeu Sham (UCSD) on "Selected Topics in the Quantum Concepts Applied to Quantum Technology"
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Ludwig Faddeev (Shaw Laureates in 2008) on "History of Quantum Groups", September 11, 2008
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof King-Man Cheung (National Tsinghua University) and Prof. Ming-Chung Chu (CUHK) on "Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Fields"
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Biao Wu (Institute of Physics, CAS) on "Anomalous Monopole in an Interacting Boson System", June 5, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Wai-Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago) on "High Energy Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun", May 28, 2008
  
  
• Science Lecture by Prof Carl E. Wieman (Nobel Laureate in Physics 2001) on "Bose-Einstein Condensation: Quantum Weirdness at the Lowest Temperature in the Universe", May 22, 2008 (Thu)
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof Artem R. Oganov (ETH Zurich)
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yujie Wang (Argonne National Laboratory) on "Ultrafast Synchrotron X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Study of Fluids", April 25, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yujie Wang (Argonne National Laboratory) on "Ultrafast Phase-Contrast Imaging Study of Finite-time Singularities", April 23, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Keith Burnett (Univ. of Sheffield) on "Many-Body Physics in Optical Lattices", March 26, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. William D. Phillips (Nobel Laureate in Physics 1997) on "A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: Cold Atomic Gases as Solid State Systems", March 26, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Michael Loewenhaupt (TU Dresden) on "Magnetic Properties of R2PdSi3 Compounds Studied by Laboratory Methods and Neutron Scattering", March 19, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yanhong Xiao (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on "Quantum Coherence in Atomic Ensembles", March 18, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Zhen-Ya Li (Suzhou University) on "Optical Magneto-electric Effect and Broken Time-spatial Symmetry", March 18, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yanhong Xiao (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on "Coherent Control of Atom-light Interactions for Multidisciplinary Applications", March 17, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Carmel MCNAUGHT (CUHK)on "Using the Scholarship of Teaching to Build a Successful Academic Career", February 22, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Prof H. D. Ou-Yang (Lehigh University) on "Micromechanical Properties of Living Cells", February 21, 2008
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Xiangjun Xing (Syracuse University) on "Thermal Fluctuations and Rubber Elasticity", February 21, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Benjamin M. W. TSUI (The Johns Hopkins University) on "Research in Molecular Imaging Physics", February 01, 2008
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Detlef Lohse (University of Twente) on "Bubble Puzzles", January 28, 2008
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. King Man Cheung (National Tsing Hua University) on "Collider Phenomenology"
  
  
• Seminar by Prof. Xin-cheng XIE (Oklahoma State University and Chinese Academy of Sciences) on "Quantum Coherence Effects in Electronic Transport through Nanomagnets", December 18, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Shou-Cheng ZHANG (Stanford University) on "Quantum Spin Hall Effect", December 14, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof. Fa-shen LI (Lanzhou University) on "Mossbauer Spectroscopy and its Applications", December 7, 2007
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. James E. Gubernatis (Los Alamos National Laboratory) on "Monte Carlo Sampler"
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Yu-Liang Liu (Renmin University) on "Bosonization Method and Its Application in One-dimensional Electron Systems"
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Oscar GRIZZI (Centre Atomico Bariloche, Argentina) on "Studies of the Growth and Thermal Stability of Self-assembled Monolayers by Ion Scattering Spectroscopy", November 30, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Yeng-Long CHEN (Institute of Physics, Taiwan) on "Manipulating Macromolecules in Micro-confinement: Polymers in Microfluidic Flow", November 30, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr. Zi-jian ZHENG (University of Cambridge) on "Printing for Surface Patterning and Applications in Polymer Electronics", November 26, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof David Ho-kwang Mao (Carnegie Institution of Washington) on "A Glimpse of New Physical Science Through Diamond Windows", November 23, 2007
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Wendy Li-Wen Mao (Stanford University) on "Hydrogen Storage in Molecular Compounds", November 21, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Xiangdong JI (University of Maryland) on "Neutrinos and Us", November 19, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Shi-he YANG (HKUST) on "Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Metallofullerenes", November 16, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Dr B. Grant LOGAN (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) on "Heavy-ion-beam-driven Research in Warm Dense Matter, and Applications to Fusion", October 29, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Feng LIU (University of Utah) on "Strain Engineering for Self-assembly of Nanoarchitectures and Tuning of SiGe Band Structures", October 26, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Ji-Ping HUANG (Fudan University) on "Anisotropic Structure of Polydisperse Colloidal Ferrofluids", October 18, 2007
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Shenghao HAN (Shang Dong University), October 11, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Bing XU (HKUST) on "Synthesis and Applications of Biofunctional Nanoparticles", October 5, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Che-Ting Chan (HKUST) on "Soft Material Stabilized by Light", September 28, 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Prof Jimmy Chai-mei Yu (CUHK) on "Photocatalytic Nanomaterials", September 7, 2007
  
  
• [Revised] Seminar by Dr. Mei-Yee Chan (City University of Hong Kong) on "Approaches for Enhancing the Performance of Organic Optoelectronic Devices", August 28, 2007
  
  
• Seminar by Professor Michael N. Leuenberger (University of Central Florida) on "Berry-phase Oscillations of the Kondo Effect and Berry-phase Blockade in Single-Molecule Magnets", August 13, 2007
  
  
• Seminar by Prof Cheung King Man (National Tsing Hua University) on "Unparticle Physics", August 07, 2007
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Yuk-Tung LIU (University of Illinois) on "General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics and Its Applications to Astrophysics", July 19, 2007
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Lam Hui (Columbia Univ.) on "Modern Cosmology"
  Talk 1: "Dark Energy and the Homogeneous Universe", 5 July 2007
  Talk 2: "Dark Matter and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe", 11 July 2007
  Talk 3: "Inflation and the Early Universe", 18 July 2007
  
  
• Colloquium by Professor Clifford M. WILL (Washington University) on "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment", July 4, 2007
  
  
• Joint Lectures by Prof. Terrence Hwa (UC San Diego) on "Gene Regulation as an Information Processing System"
  
  
• [研討會] 金屬文物的腐蝕與保護 － 潘路先生（中國國家博物館 研究館員）, 2007年6月21日
  
  
• Seminar by Professor Xincheng Xie (Oklahoma State Univ. and Institute of Physics, CAS) on "The Heat Generation by an Electric Current in Nano-devices", June 20, 2007
  
  
• Lecture Series by Prof. Wai-Yee Keung (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) on "Collider Physics"