Colloquia

Talks are held in the Herbert Walther Lecture Hall at MPQ and can additionally be attended online. Currently face masks are not mandatory at MPQ. It is recommended, however, to wear a mask during the Colloquium talk. Audiences not affiliated with the MPQ are also welcome.

Details on how to participate online are distributed via the mailing lists [wiss-mpq] and [Mpq-colloquium-stream]. To receive this information, please register using the attached link.

Scientific organization of the talks: Dr. Stephan Dürr and Dr. Thomas Udem

(MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Andreas Wallraff)

Date: Jun 13, 2023
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Andreas Wallraff
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall

to be announced [more]

(Towards) quantum gases of ultracold polar molecules (Prof. Silke Ospelkaus)

Date: Jun 20, 2023
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Silke Ospelkaus
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall

In recent years, tremendous progress in the preparation and control of ultracold molecular gases in the quantum regime has been achieved and has opened exciting new research opportunities. Molecules rotate and oscillate and therefore offer many more quantum degrees of freedom than their atomic counterparts. Polar molecules interact via strong and long-range anisotropic interactions. [more]

Advanced mass spectrometry and high content tissue imaging for single cell cancer proteomics (Prof. Matthias Mann)

Date: Jun 27, 2023
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Matthias Mann
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried
Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall

to be announced [more]

Fracton Order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Xie Chen)

Date: Jul 4, 2023
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Xie Chen
California Institute of Technology, USA
Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall

to be announced [more]

Geometric Squeezing and Crystallization of Bosonic Quantum Hall States (Prof. Martin Zwierlein)

New Date for postponed Talk from 18.04.
Date: Jul 6, 2023
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Martin Zwierlein
MIT Department of Physics, USA
Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall

Rapidly rotating quantum gases realize the physics of charged particles in high magnetic fields. We developed a novel protocol, geometric squeezing, that enables to create Bose-Einstein condensates in a single Landau gauge wavefunction of the lowest Landau level. Based on the non-commutativity of guiding center X and Y coordinates, geometric squeezing in a saddle potential is a real space analogue to squeezing in phase space of a one-dimensional particle in an inverted harmonic oscillator potential. [more]