Past Seminars

Spring 2020 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
28 January 2020
14:30
SCIE 103
Ozgur Burak Aslan
Terabix, CA
Tuning Excitons in 2D Materials for Physics and Optoelectronics
14 February 2020
FRIDAY
10:30
SCIE 103
Dieter Van den Bleeken
Bogazici University
Two uncharted corners of general relativity
17 February 2020
MONDAY
14:30
CASE B26
Asghar Asgari
University of Tabriz
The Improved Performance of Solar Cells by Random Dispersed Metal Nanoparticles
3 March 2020
14:30
SCIE 103
Barış Çakmak
Bahçeşehir University
Thermodynamics of controlling quantum systems: an application to quantum heat engines
10 March 2020
14:30
SCIE 103
Deniz Eroğlu
Kadir Has University
Effective Networks: Predicting Network Structure and Critical Transitions from Data
17 April 2020
FRIDAY
14:30
CASE 124
Cem Yüce
Eskisehir Technical University
TBA

Fall 2019 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
13 September 2019
14:30
SCIE 103
Hüseyin Çankaya
Universität Hamburg
Towards Table-Top Ultrafast X-Ray Sources Driven by High-Energy Laser Pulses
18 October 2019
FRIDAY
10:30
SCIE 103
Nur Mustafaoğlu
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Advanced diagnostic, therapeutic, and transport applications of antibodies
22 October 2019
14:30

SCI 103
Hasan Demirci
Koc University
Ambient-Temperature Serial Femtosecond X-ray Crystallographic Studies of Biomacromolecules
25 October 2019
FRIDAY
10:30
SCIE 103
Tekin Dereli & Fethi M. Ramazanoglu
Koc University
2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
5 November 2019
14:30

SCI 103
Ogan Ozsoy
University of Warsaw
Probing Early Universe on Small Scales
19 November 2019
16:00
CASE 216
Dipak Chowdhury
Corning, New York, USA
26 November 2019
14:30
SCI 103
Umut Bulus
Antenom Antenna Technologies
17 December 2019
14:30
SCI 103
Farokh Mivehvar
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck
14 January 2020
14:30
SCI 103
Steve Campbell
University College Dublin

Spring 2019 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
19 February 2019
14:30
ENG Z15
Emir Salih Mağden
Koç University
Ultra-Broadband Silicon Photonic Filtering
5 March 2019
14:30

SCI 103
Onur Umucalılar
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Observing fractional statistics in neutral quantum gases
19 March 2019
14:30

SCI 103
İlmar Gahramanov
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Integrable lattice spin models from supersymmetric field theories
16 April 2019
14:30

SCI 103
Abdullah Demir
UNAM
Semiconductor Lasers: Can we overcome the limitations using novel architectures?
18 April 2019
(Thursday)
14:30

ENG Z15
Seyed Akbar Jafari
Sharif University of Technology
19 April 2019
(Friday)
11:00

SCI 103
Lars G.M. Pettersson
Stockholm University
30 April 2019
14:30

ENG Z15
Seymur Jahangirov
UNAM
A Computational Odyssey: from Materials to Intelligence
10 May 2019
(Friday)
10:30

SCI 103
Ceren Burçak Dağ
University of Michigan
Information scrambling in Quantum Phases
14 May 2019
10:00

SOS B16
Gershon Kurizki
Weizmann Institute
Thermal baths as resources: more friends than foes
18 June 2019
14:30
ENG B16
Fırat Yılmaz
Fudan University
Spontaneous thermal Hall conductance in superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry
30 July 2019
10:00

SCI 103
Saeed Abedinpour
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)
Quasiparticle properties and competing orders in ultra-cold gases with long-range interactions
8 August 2019
15:30

SCI 129
Farhang Loran
Isfahan University of Technology
Quanta of Dark Energy

Fall 2018 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
18 September 2018
14:30

SCI 103
Joseph Özcan
İzmir Economy University
Applied Quantum Business Solutions
2 October 2018
14:30
SCI 103
Ali Mostafazadeh
Koç University
Geometric Extension of Quantum Mechanics
12 October 2018
10:00 (Friday) 

SCI 103
Alper Kiraz,
Alphan Sennaroğlu

Koç University
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
23 October 2018
14:30
SCI 103
Serkan Ateş
İYTE (IZTECH)
Optical Properties of Single Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
1 November 2018
14:30 (Thursday) 

ENGB29
Sohrab Rahvar
Sharif University of Technology
The Gravitational Grating
2 November 2018
10:30 (Friday) 

SCI 103
Iannis Kominis
University of Crete
Birds, leafs & eyes: the new synthesis of quantum biology
13 November 2018
14:30
SCI 103
Can Kozcaz
Boğaziçi University
Gauge/Liouville Triality for ABCDEFG
20 November 2018
14:30
SCI 103
Habib Rahbari
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Jamming an instance of critical phenomena in athermal non-equilbrium systems
27 November 2018
14:30
SCI 103
Mehmet Özkan
İTÜ
Exotic Massive 3D Gravity
7 December 2018
10:30 (Friday) 

SCI 103
Muhammad Rehan Chaudhery
Koç University
Meandering Photonic Integrated Structures
14 December 2018
10:30 (Friday) 

SCI 103
Hamed Ghaemi-Dizicheh
Koç University
Nonlinear spectral singularities and laser output intensity
18 December 2018
14:30
SCI 103
Burçin Ünlü
Boğaziçi University
Range Verification in Proton Therapy
21
December
2018
10:30 (Friday) 

SCI 129
Aydın Cem Keser
University of New South Wales
Analogue Stochastic Gravity in Strongly-Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates
11
January
2019
10:30 (Friday) 

SCI 103
Barış Özgüler
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Faster Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

Spring 2018 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
25 January 2018
(Thursday!)
10:30

SCI 103
Mauro Paternostro
Queen’s University Belfast
Revealing non-classicality of inaccessible objects
30 January 2018
15:00
SCI 103
Vlatko Vedral
University of Oxford
An entanglement-based test of quantum gravity
22 February 2018
(Thursday!)
14:00
Founders Hall
Kamil Uğurbil
University of Minnesota
SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
Harnessing Physics and Neuroscience towards meeting a Central Scientific Challenge in 21st Century – Understanding Human Brain Function
6 March
2018
14:30
SCI 103
Kaan Güven
Koç University
Designing Thermoplasmonic Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Theranostics
15 March
2018
(Thursday!)
14:30
SCI 103
İsmail Enes Uysal
Gelişim University
A surface Integral equation solver for plasmonic nanoparticles
3 April
2018
14:30
SCI 103
Adnan Kurt
Teknofil

Passion for Mind and Matter: An adventure with neurons, electrons and photons

24 April
2018
14:30
SCI 103
Tahsin Çağrı Şişman
Türk Hava Kurumu University
An Excursion in Modified Gravity Theories
15 May
2018
14:30
SCI 103
Mustafa Yorulmaz
ASELSAN
Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Nanoparticles and Applications in Diagnostics
29 May
2018
14:30
SCI 103
Hakan Türeci
Princeton University
Divergence-free Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Fall 2017 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
19 September 2017
14:30
SCI 103
Onur Keskin
Işık University
Adaptive optics and derotator development of the DAG 4m telescope at Center of Optomechatronics Research and Application (OPAM)
17 October 2017
14:30
SCI 103
Seçkin Kürkçüoğlu
METU
 Quantum Hall Effect on Odd-Dimensional Spheres
31 October 2017
14:30
SCI 103
CANCELLED
14 November 2017
14:30
SCI 103
Alpan Bek
METU
Nonlinear and Linear Optical Phenomena by Molecular-Plasmonic Hybrid Nanostructures
12 December 2017
14:30
SCI 103
Haji Ahmadov
National Institute of Metrology
Preliminary Planck constant measurements via UME oscillating – magnet Kibble balance
19 December 2017
14:30
SCI 103
Alkan Kabakçıoğlu
Koç University
DNA folding thermo/dynamics (a topology-induced Bose-Einstein condensate?)
26 December 2017
14:30
SCI 103
Aykutlu Dana
UNAM, Bilkent University
Nanophotonics for Mobile Chemical and Biological sensing
15 January 2018 (Monday!)
11:00
SCI 103
Serap Aksu
Bilkent University
On-chip Photonic High-throughput Quantitative Bioanalysis

Spring 2017 Seminars

Date / Time / Place Speaker Title
6 March 2017
16:00
SCI 103
Cihan Bayındır
Işık University
Nonlinear Rogue Waves: Dynamics and Early Warning Strategies
28 March 2017
16:00
SCI 103
Oğuz Gülseren
Bilkent University
My journey in the flatland
6 April 2017
16:00
SCI 103
Altuğ Şişman
İTÜ
Research Activities in ITU Energy Institute & Nano Energy Research Group
18 April 2017
16:00
SCI 103
B. Erdem Alaca
Koç University
Monolithic Silicon Nanowires in Thick SOI: Device Integration Aspects
27 April 2017
16:00
SCI 103
Ali Mostafazadeh
Koç University
Broadband perfect invisibility in two dimensions
9 May 2017
16:00
SCI 103
Menderes Işkın
Koç University
BCS theory of time-reversal-symmetric Hofstadter-Hubbard model
16 May 2017
16:00
SCI 103
Yiğit Uysallı
METU
Non contact atomic force microscope (NCAFM) operation in UHV using radiation pressure excitation of cantilever