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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| Probing Planck-Scale Physics with Quantum Optics |
| Speaker: | Igor Pikovski (Uni Wien) |
| Abstract: | One of the main challenges in physics today is to merge quantum theory and the theory of general relativity into a unified framework. Various approaches towards developing such a theory of quantum gravity are pursued, but the lack of experimental evidence of quantum gravitational effects thus far is a major hindrance. Yet, the quantization of space-time itself can have experimental implications: the existence of a minimal length scale is widely expected to result in a modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation. Here we introduce a scheme that allows an experimental test of this conjecture by probing directly the canonical commutation relation of the center of mass mode of a massive mechanical oscillator with a mass close to the Planck mass. Our protocol utilizes quantum optical control and readout of the mechanical system to probe possible deviations from the quantum commutation |
| Date: | Tue, 17.01.2012 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Uni Wien ( Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor, Schrödinger HS / large seminar room ) |
| Contact: | Sabine Ertl |
| Precision Flavour Physics as a Probe Beyond the Standard Model |
| Speaker: | Thomas Mannel (Univ. Siegen) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Teilchenphysikseminars |
| Date: | Thu, 19.01.2012 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Fakultät für Physik, Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock, 1090 Wien |
| Contact: | A. Hoang, H. Neufeld |
| Wave Maps in 2+1 Dimensions - Towards hybrid methods for puncture evolution |
| Speaker: | Michael Pürrer (Univ. Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Literaturseminars |
| Date: | Thu, 19.01.2012 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Arbeitsgruppe: Gravitation, Währinger Strasse 17, Seminarraum A, 2. Stock |
| Contact: | R. Beig |
| Matrix models, branes and gravity |
| Speaker: | Harold Steinacker |
| Abstract: | An informal introduction to branes in Yang-Mills matrix model is given,
focusing on the IIB model. Aspects of the effective gauge theory, geometry and gravity on these branes are discussed, having in mind a brane-world scenario.
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| Date: | Thu, 19.01.2012 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | SEM 136 (Freihaus, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10), Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology |
| Contact: | Daniel Grumiller |
| Extensivity and Entropy: a Non-Extensive Spin-Model |
| Speaker: | Rudolf Hanel (Medizinische Univ.Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen der gemeinsam veranstalteten Seminare "Komplexe Stochastische
Systeme" (Univ.Wien) und "Analyse Komplexer Systeme (Medizinische Univ.
Wien) |
| Date: | Fri, 20.01.2012 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 90 min |
| Location: | Fakultät für Physik, Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock, 1090 Wien |
| Contact: | H. Hüffel, Stefan Thurner |
| Projection Operator Methods and Generalized Langevin Equations |
| Speaker: | Florentin Harbich (Univ.Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen der gemeinsam veranstalteten Seminare "Komplexe Stochastische
Systeme" (Univ.Wien) und "Analyse Komplexer Systeme"(Medizinische
Univ.Wien) |
| Date: | Fri, 20.01.2012 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Duration: | 90 min |
| Location: | Fakultät für Physik, Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock, 1090 Wien |
| Contact: | H. Hüffel, Stefan Thurner |
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