COURSES

Theory of Superconductivity (Kyl-0.104)

Post-graduate lecture course, lecturer: Nikolai B. Kopnin

Topics:


Dissipation in quantum mechanics (Kyl-0.106)

Post-graduate seminar course, lecturers: Jukka Pekola and Tero Heikkilä

Seminars:


Research seminars on low temperature physics

Organized by Vladimir Eltsov

Jaakko Koivuniemi The present status of the COMPASS experiment at CERN (5.1.)
Edouard Sonin Rotation-induced 3D vorticity in superfluid films on porous substrates (5.3.)
Makoto Tsubota Dynamics of quantized vortices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates (16.3.)
Shakil Awan Quantum metrology at NPL (23.3.)
Vladimir Lebedev Classical turbulence: what we know and what do we want to know? (19.4.)
Marc Rabaud On wind wave formation in a Hele-Shaw cell (20.4.)
Vladimir Lebedev What we know about the passive scalar problem? (22.4.)
Ladislav Skrbek Flow phase diagram for helium superfluids (26.4.)
Alak Majumdar Resistivity minima in bulk disordered alloys (24.5.)
Leif Roschier Carbon nanotube single-electron devices at audio and radio frequencies (1.6.)
James Sauls Andreev's "Daemon'' - Phase-sensitive control of heat through Josephson junctions (2.6.)
Martin Wybourne Thermal and mechanical properties of mesoscopic structures (2.6.)
Janne Viljas Josephson effects and textural dynamics in superfluid helium three (4.6.)
Aveek Bid Study of 1/f noise in metallic nanowires (10.6.)
Ramesh Mani Zero-resistance states induced by electromagnetic wave excitation in GaAs/AlGaAs devices (18.6.)
Christoph Strunk The magnetoresistance of multiwall carbon nanotubes - Probing the electron structure (23.6.)
Jim Eisenstein Bose condensation of excitons in the quantum Hall regime (28.6.)
S. Ramakrishnan Unusual ground states in certain rare earth transition metal intermetallics (14.7.)
Sungkit Yip Spinor bosons in optical lattice (2.8.)
Edouard Sonin Search for Tkachenko waves: helium, pulsars, and Bose--Einstein condensate (24.8.)
Isaac. M. Khalatnikov The great Russian physicist Gamov (26.8.)
Yuriy Bunkov Search for dark matter with superfluid 3He (27.8.)
Michael Steiner Research goals and research opportunities at Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin (7.9.)
Alexander. F. Andreev Electron pairs for HTSC (10.9.)
Juha Muhonen
Antti Paila
Tomi Ruokola
Matti Manninen
Juho Simpura
Jussi Leinonen
Juha Voutilainen
Summer student seminar (13.9.)
Sumio Iijima Carbon nanotubes for nanotechnology (22.10.)
John Clarke SQUIDs: From cosmology to magnetic resonance imaging in microtesla fields (8.11.)
Zdenek Janu Low field SN transition in La (hint to understand high-temperature superconductivity?) (12.11.)


Research seminars on nano physics

Organized by Jukka Pekola

Schedule for the first half of 2004 was:

Nikolai Kopnin

Re-entrant localization of single particle transport in disordered Andreev wires (13.1.)

Mika Sillanpää
Alexander Savin

The inductive single-electron transistor (L-SET)
Cold electron transistor (20.1.)

Leena Uusipaikka

Metrological requirements for a low-temperature thermometer (27.1.)

Matias Aunola

Josephson junction devices and Mathieu's functions - how are they connected? (3.2.)

Leo Stodolsky

Adiabatic quantum logic with squids (11.2.)

Jukka Pekola

Influence of noise on a Josephson junction threshold detector (17.2.)

Rene Lindell

The effect of shot noise on the Coulomb blockade of a Josephson junction (24.2.)

Tero Heikkilä

Cyclostationary measurement of low-frequency odd moments of current fluctuations (2.3.)

Pauli Virtanen

Calculating fluctuations of current in mesoscopic junctions (9.3.)

Pertti Hakonen

Novel quantum amplifiers based on mesoscopic, superconducting Josephson junction (16.3.)

Shakil Awan

Quantum metrology at NPL (23.3.)

Andrey Timofeev

Design aspects of superconducting tetrahedral quantum bits (30.3.)

Michael Feigelman

Coulomb blockade of proximity effect at large conductance (6.4.)

Anne Anthore

Depairing in mesoscopic superconductors (13.4.)

Antti Lassila

Traceable dimensional measurements on nanometer range (20.4.)

Teemu Ojanen

On open quantum systems and measurements (27.4.)

Jani Kivioja

Escape measurements on DC-SQUIDs with small junctions (4.5.)

Juha Hassel

Josephson arrays in electrical metrology (11.5.)

Jukka Pekola

Nonequilibrium heating of superconductors (18.5.)

Nikolai Kopnin

Loss of Andreev backscattering in superconducting quantum point contacts (25.5.)

Antti Manninen

AC voltage standard based on Josephson effect (8.6.)

Juha Vartiainen

On optimal quantum gate decompositions (15.6.)

Michio Watanabe

Fabrication and measurement of small-capacitance Nb Josephson junctions (22.6.)

Vasili Semenov

Sub-kelvin SFQ (single flux quantum) circuits (6.7.)

Fall 2004 Schedule:

Teemu Ojanen

Quantum measurement using a harmonic oscillator (11.8.)

Frank Hekking

Thermal fluctuations in an underdamped Josephson tunnel junction (17.8.)

Fan Wu

Shot noise measurements in multiwalled carbon nanotubes (24.8.)

Matthias Meschke

Observation of non-Gaussian noise by a Josephson junction threshold detector? (1.9.)

Teijo Lehtinen

Performance of the new high-frequency SQUID amplifier (7.9.)

Pauli Virtanen

Measuring non-Gaussian fluctuations through incoherent Cooper pair tunneling (14.9.)

Alexander Savin

RSFQubit - description of the project (28.9.)

Edouard Sonin

Coulomb blockaded tunnel junction as a noise probe (5.10.)

Mikko Paalanen

Superconductor-Insulator transition (19.10.)

Antti Niskanen

Report on highlights at the Applied Superconductivity conference ASC 2004 (26.10.)

Jani Kivioja

Observation of transition from escape dynamics to underdamped phase diffusion in a Josephson junction (7.12.)

Research seminars of the BRU

Organized by Martin Schürmann and Hanna Renvall

Veikko Jousmäki BRU/LTL: Meeting report - SfN Symposium "Multisensory Integration" 2003 (12.1.)
Jan Kujala BRU/LTL: Meeting report - Society for Neuroscience 2003 (12.1.)
Elia Formisano University of Maastricht, Netherlands: Tonotopy in auditory cortex: 7T fMRI in humans (19.1.)
Lauri Parkkonen BRU/LTL: BRU literature review (26.1.)
Topi Tanskanen BRU/LTL: Meeting report - Society for Neuroscience 2003 (2.2.)
Mia Liljeström BRU/LTL: Correlating psychophysics and BOLD data (summary of seminar talk in HUT S-114.740 2003) (2.2.)
Martin Schürmann BRU/LTL: BRU literature review (16.2.)
Marieke Longcamp BRU/LTL: Motor-perceptual interactions in the visual perception of graphic stimuli (23.2.)
Jan Kujala BRU/LTL: Intersubject averaging methods [in fMRI studies] (summary of seminar talk in HUT S-114.740  2003) (23.2.)
Yevhen Hlushchuk BRU/LTL: Travel report "Brain Voyager course 2004 Maastricht" (8.3.)
Gina Caetano BRU/LTL: Event-related functional MRI (summary of seminar talk in HUT S-114.740   2003) (22.3.)
Tuukka Raij BRU/LTL: Meeting report - Society for Neuroscience 2003 (22.3.)
Marjatta Pohja BRU/LTL: Work in progress: Reproducibility of corticomuscular coherence, BRU journal club (29.3.)
Yevhen Hlushchuk BRU/LTL: Software demonstration - advanced features of Brain Voyager QX, BRU journal club (29.3.)
Gina Caetano BRU/LTL: Work in progress: Evidence of vibrotactile input to human auditory cortex, BRU journal club  (5.4.)
Martin Schürmann BRU/LTL: BRU literature review, BRU journal club  (19.4.)
Simo Vanni BRU/LTL: Rehabilitation of the blind visual field in homonymous hemianopia, BRU journal club  (26.4.)
Erika Kirveskari BRU/LTL: Work in progress: Development of a language lateralization test in MEG, BRU journal club  (26.4.)
Jaana Hiltunen BRU/LTL and FIOH: BRU literature review, BRU journal club  (3.5.)
Tuukka Raij BRU/LTL: Suggestion,  hypnosis, and psychogenic pain, BRU journal club (10.5.)
Antti Puurula BRU/LTL: Late neuromagnetic sources in a perception in noise paradigm: speech is special?, BRU journal club  (17.5.)
Fredrik Ullen Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden: Neural control of rhythmic sequences, BRU journal club  (24.5.)
Milene Bonte University of Maastricht/NL and BRU/LTL: Syllable processing in the auditory cortex: the influence of acoustic cues and sentence context, BRU journal club  (31.5.)
Riitta Hari BRU/LTL: "Basics and applications of MEG" (4.6.)
PhD students' reports
in long session
(7.6.)
Juha Järveläinen BRU/LTL: Reactivity of human primary motor cortex during action observation (summary of PhD work so far) (7.6.)
Yevhen Hlushchuk BRU/LTL: Guidelines for MEG helium transfer (7.6.)
Tiina Parviainen BRU/LTL: Perception of auditory and visual linguistic units related to normal and abnormal languge development (summary of PhD work so far) (7.6.)
HBM/FENS/
Biomag2004 reports
(6.9.)
Iiro Jääskeläinen LCE/HUT: Short-term plasticity in the auditory system 20.9.2004 (13.9.)
Summer students’
reports
(13.9.)
Tuukka Raij Brain correlates of subjective reality of physiologically and psychologically induced pain (27.9.)
Timo Saarinen Rolandic 20-Hz modulation during speech and non-speech mouth movements (6.10.)
Aapo Nummenmaa LCE/HUT:  Bayesian aspects of the MEG inverse problem (11.10.)
Yevhen Hlushchuk SI and SII cortices:  Cytoarchitectonics revealed with MEG & fMRI  (18.10.)
Riitta Hari Discussion on the book by Daniel M. Wegner:  The Illusion of Conscious Will (25.10.)
Seppo Mattila LTL:  Astronomical and medical imaging (1.11.)
Mikko Sams LCE/HUT: Neurocognition of audiovisual speech perception: unisensory,   multisensory, motor, mirror (8.11.)
Takeshi Morita Abnormal loudness change and N100m (15.11.)
Marieke Longcamp Motor perceptual interactions: theoretical framework (22.11.)
Gina Caetano and Hannu Laaksonen MEG analysis methods (29.11.)
Marja-Liisa Halko HU: Neuroeconomics - where do we stand? (13.12.)