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| Events for day: Wednesday 16 November 2016 |
| 11:00 - 12:00 Quantum information biweekly journal club The power of a critical heat engine School NANO SCIENCES The power of a critical heat engine Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics has sparkled continuous interest and fundamental questions. According to the second law no heat engine can have an efficiency larger than Carnot efficiency. The latter can be achieved by the Carnot engine, which however ideally operates in infinite time, hence delivers null power. A currently open question is whether the Carnot's efficiency can be achieved at finite power. Most of the previous works addressed this question within the Onsager matrix formalism of linear response theory. Here we pursue a different route based on fini ... 14:00 - 15:00 Weekly Seminar Nonlinear optical devices as interfaces for long distance quantum communications School NANO SCIENCES Nonlinear optical devices as interfaces for long distance quantum communications Today, the primary methods of communication are based on binary switches using digital logic in classical semiconductor devices. Quantum information processing enables superpositions of the binary states to evolve at the same time which is not possible in classical systems. A quantum computer can solve certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers. Quantum network consists of a number of quantum nodes which interacts with each other over a quantum channel while separated by some distances. The need for interfaces between ... 15:30 - 16:30 Weekly Seminar Search for electroweak SUSY production in di-tau final states by using CMS data in LHC School PARTICLES AND ACCELERATORS Supersymmetry was primarily introduced as a solution for the hierarchy problem and the quadratic divergences. In this work we study supersymmetry using the data of CMS experiment at CERN. The analysis contains data sample of proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 8TeV, collected with CMS. The analysis is performed when a pair of Charginos decay into 2 tau leptons and 2 neutralinos. The stansverse mass (MT2) of two leptons is used as a search variable to distinguish between signal and background. No signi?cance excess has been seen with respect to the predictions of the standard model, therefore, we ?nd an upper limit on the ma ... 16:00 - 17:30 Crash Course Fundamentals of Mechanics of Materials Session Three School NANO SCIENCES Fundamentals of Mechanics of Materials Mechanics of materials (MOM), also called strength of materials, is a topic which deals with the behavior of solid objects subjected to stresses and strains. The study of strength of materials often refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members, such as beams, columns, and shafts. The methods employed to predict the response of a structure under loading and its susceptibility to various failure modes taking into account the properties of the materials such as their yield strength, ultimate strength, Young's modulus, and Poisson's ratio. < ... |