Dvira Segal

Segal Group

Group meetings 2018

2018 Schedule:

Jan 05, Fri 3pm Roya TBD
Jan. 23 Tue 10am Anqi
Coherent quantum transport in disordered systems: I Coherent quantum transport in disordered systems: II
Jan 30, Tue 10am Roya seminar
Feb 02, Fri 3pm Peter Colberg Chemically powered motors
Feb 09, Fri 3pm Hava Quantum thermodynamics
Feb 20, Tue 10am Hava + Michael More quantum thermodynamics
Feb 27 Tue. Roya; quantum corrections in phononic conduction.
March 02 Fri. Michael: project
March 06 Tue. 10 am Michael: A single atom heat engine
March 13 Tue. 10 am Hava Verification of nonequilibrium work relations
April 13 Fri. 3 pm Dvira Three-way DNA junction DNA charge splitters
April 17 Tue. 11 pm Roya Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises
April 24 Tue. 11 pm Hava Directing the path of light-induced electron transfer at a molecular fork using vibrational excitation
April 26 Fri. 3 pm Anqi Electronic decoherence of two level systems in a Josephson Junction
May 07 Tue 11am Dvira (1) electronic quantum transport with Machine Learning (2) Machine learning in quantum dynamics
May 14 Mon 11am Na'im Michaelis-Menten equation and detailed balance in enzymatic networks.
May 17 Thur 11:30am Roman 1. Conductance suppression in siloxanes 2. Probing charge transport through peptide bonds 3. Quantum interference and linkers
May 22 Tue. 11:00am Michael Efficiency at maximum power of a laser quantum heat engine enhanced by noise-induced coherence
May 25 Fri. 3:00pm Michael, Reserach Presentation
June 01 Fri. 3:00pm Bijay, nonmarkovian 1 measures +
Review: Non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems
June 07 Thur 2pm Roman RPMD intro 1
June 11 Mon 1pm Bijay, nonmarkovian 2 Experimental emulation of quantum non-Markovian dynamics
June 12 Tue 1pm Junjie Liu: seminar on Quantum transport with the mixed quantum classical Liouville equation
June 20 Wed 11am Hava Quantum Thermal Machine as a Thermometer
June 22 Fri. 3pm Aidan Strathearn, University of St Andrews time-evolving matrix product operators
June 26 Tue 1pm Dvira TUR
June 27 Wed 11am Robert bimodal Jahn–Teller Hamiltonian
Fri July 06 Roman First Detected Arrival of a Quantum Walker
Tue July 10 11am Yimeng Neural Network Approach in X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Tue July 24 11am Roman
Tue July 27 3pm Naim
Fri Aug 3 3pm Dvira Comprehensive suppression of conductance
Tue Aug 7 11am Michael cooperative effects in heat engines
Fri. Aug 31 3pm Hava reaction coordinate mapping in quantum thermodynamics
Fri. Sep. 14 1pm Abhay Chapter 2
Mon. Sep. 17, 12noon Dvira 1. Noise in Graphene Tunnel Junctions 2. fluctuations in single-molecule junctions 3. noise in organic electronic devices
Mon. Sep. 24 11:45 noon Group lunch
Mon. Oct 01 11 am Na'im Energetic costs of cellular computation
Fri. Oct 05 1-2pm Prof. Jian Hua Jiang, Inelastic thermoelectricity: a new light on an old field ; Davenport Seminar Room
Mon. Oct 15 12 noon Phillip Katsberg Quantum NAND Tree with molecules
Mon. Oct 22 12 noon Abhay Thermodynamic Bound on Heat-to-Power Conversion
Mon. Oct 29 12 noon Dvira heat engine operating close to the thermodynamic efficiency limits
Experiments on the thermoelectric properties of quantum dots
Quantum Interference effects in the Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Junctions
Mon. Nov. 5 12 noon Michael Classical simulation of quantum-coherent thermal machines
Mon. Nov. 12 12 noon Hava Orbital Views of the Electron Transport in Molecular Devices
Mon. Nov. 19 12 noon Abhay Reversing the thermodynamic arrow of time using quantum correlations + summary
Mon. Nov. 26 12 noon ?!
Mon. Dec. 03 12 noon Jian Hua Jiang
Mon. Dec. 17 12 noon

Events:

Chemistry, Chem Colloq
Physics, Fields, MechE
Scinet
Int. year of Statistics lectures

APS IOP

Ongoing:

Research at UofT, Open Utoronto

Funding for students

Computing