Talks and Presentations Slides of most talks since 2002 in reverse chronological order. No guarantees; always out of date; some results might be good and just not published yet, some might be wrong. Minimum copy-protection, but I do ask that you cite if you steal anything. Some talks are not posted yet because they include yet to be published results (spin and orbital quantum dot relaxation, valley qubit stuff, etc., coming very soon). View with abstracts Technical Talks General Audience Guest Lectures SILICON IN THE QUANTUM LIMIT:QUANTUM COMPUTING AND DECOHERENCE IN SILICON ARCHITECTURES audience/type/location: technical; Ph.D. Thesis Defense; Madison, WI speakers: Charles Tahan given: August 17 , 2005 length: 60 minutes PDF: soon Long-lived spin and valley states in lateral silicon quantum dots for quantum information processing audience/type/location: technical; contributed; APS March Meeting, Los Angelos, CA speakers: Charles Tahan given: March 22, 2005 length: 10 minutes PDF: soon Nanotechnology and Society audience: non-technical; contributed; APS March Meeting, Los Angelos, CA speakers: Charles Tahan given: March 23, 2005 length: 10 minutes PDF: cgtNanosocMarch2005.pdf The Ambassadors of Nano audience: non-technical; invited; Fall 2004 Delta Forum (University of Wisconsin-Madison) speakers: Charles Tahan given: December 16, 2004 length: 15 minutes PDF: cgtNanoSocDelta.pdf Nanotechnology, Medicine, & the Body audience: educational/non-technical; invited; Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison speakers: Charles Tahan, Ricky Leung given: December 2, 2004 length: 50 minutes PDF: cgtNanoMedIntro.pdf Nanotechnology, Society, & the Engineer audience: educational/non-technical; invited; Intro. to Engineering 160, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Eng. Dept.) speakers: Charles Tahan, Ricky Leung, Wendy Crone given: November 17 & 18, 2004 length: 80 minutes PDF: cgtIntroToEng.pdf Quantum dot quantum computers and other entanglement-based devices audience: technical/educational; invited; Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemistry Dept. speakers: Charles Tahan given: November 9, 2004 length: 50 minutes PDF: cgtChemistry2004.pdf Spintronics and spin-based quantum dot quantum computing audience: educational/technical; guest lecture; ECE746-Quantum Electronics (R. Blick), University of Wisconsin-Madison (ECE Dept.) speakers: Charles Tahan given: October 26, 2004 length: 80 minutes PDF: cgtBlickQDQC2004.pdf Spin-Based Quantum Dot Quantum Computing in Silicon audience: technical; invited; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK speakers: Charles Tahan given: October 12 , 2004 length: 50 minutes PDF: soon Spin and pseudo-spin states in silicon for QC: lifetimes audience: technical; contributed; APS March Meeting (Montreal, CAN) speakers: Charles Tahan given: March 28, 2004 length: 10 minutes PDF: cgtMarch2004.pdf Signatures of Silicon: Spin and Valley States audience: technical; contributed; Solid State Quantum Information Processing Conference (Amsterdam, NL) speakers: Charles Tahan given: December 15-18, 2003 length: poster PDF: AmsterdamPoster.pdf Spin-based quantum dot quantum computing: the ultimate in quantum electronics audience: educational/technical; guest lecture; ECE746-Quantum Electronics (R. Blick), University of Wisconsin-Madison (ECE Dept.) speakers: Charles Tahan given: October 9, 2003 length: 80 minutes PDF: cgtBlickQDQC2003.pdf Amazing feats with artificial atoms: single spin readout and fast initialization audience: technical; invited; Atomic Physics Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physics Dept. speakers: Charles Tahan given: September 9, 2003 length: 50 minutes PDF: cgtAtomic2003.pdf Spin Readout and Initialization in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot audience: technical; contributed; 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing and Classical Size Effects Circuits, Notre Dame, IN speakers: Charles Tahan given: August 9, 2003 length: 20 minutes PDF: cgtIWQDQC2003.pdf Spin-flip transitions in silicon quantum dots audience: technical; Doctoral Prelim Exam Talk; University of Wisconsin-Madison (Physics) speakers: Charles Tahan given: Spring, 2003 length: 50 minutes PDF: cgtPrelim2003.pdf Single Qubit Spin Readout and Initialization in a Quantum Dot Quantum Computer: Design and Simulation audience: technical; contributed; APS March Meeting (Austin, TX) speakers: Charles Tahan given: March 7, 2003 length: 10 minutes PDF: cgtMarch2003.pdf What's a Quantum Computer, Charlie? audience: general; Graduate Student Council, Wisconsin-Madison authors: Charles Tahan given: Fall 2002 length: 10-15 minutes PDF: charlieQC.pdf Growth Simulations of Single Crystal Perovskite Alloys audience: technical; Undergraduate Honors Thesis Defense; College of William and Mary, VA (Physics Dept.) speakers: Charles Tahan given: May 3, 2000 length: 50 minutes PDF: cgtHonors2000.pdf View with abstracts