Gerald V. Dunne: Recent Talks

• ``The Euler-Heisenberg Effective Action: History and Scientific Legacy'': Institute Colloquium, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, June 4, 2012.
• ``Quantum Control in the Schwinger Effect'', plenary talk, Nonlinear QED and PetaWatt Lasers, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, May 15, 2012
• ``Quantum Interference in the Schwinger Effect'', Technion Physics, April 29, 2012
• ``Search for the Schwinger Effect'', Baruch College, NYC, physics seminar, April 23, 2012
• ``Integrability at work: condensates in the Gross-Neveu phase diagram'', physics seminar, City College, NY December 16, 2011
• ``Quantum Interference in the Schwinger Effect'', plenary talk, IZEST, Paris; International Zeta- Exa-Watt Science and Technology project, Ecole Polytechnique,. November 28, 2011
• ``Search for the Schwinger Effect'', Rutgers Newark, Physics Colloquium, November 9, 2011
• ``Physics in Intense Fields'', UConn Physics Grad Student Seminar Series, October 21, 2011
• ``Euler-Heisenberg Effective Action: 75 Years Later'', QFEXT11 Conference, Benasque Center for Science, Spain September 19 - 24, 2011
• ``Integrability at work: condensates in the Gross-Neveu phase diagram'', What is Quantum Field Theory? Confernece, Benasque Center for Science, Spain, September 14 - 18, 2011
• ``Physical Applications of Complex Dimensions of Fractals'', American Math Society Conference, Cornell, September 10 - 14, 2011
• ``Physics of Fractals'', SIGMA seminar series, UConn Math, September 2, 2011
• ``Physical Applications of Complex Dimensions of Fractals'', Waves and Quantum Fields on Fractals, Technion June 25 - 30, 2011
• ``Thermodynamics of Gross-Neveu Models'', Continuous Advances in QCD 2012, CAQDC2012, Univ Minnesota, May 11 - 15, 2011
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Nuclear Physics Seminar, Iowa State University, April 13, 2011
• ``The world's Biggest Microscope: the LHC at CERN'', UConn Physics Club, April 7, 2011
• `` Gross-Neveu Gap Equations and Integrable Models'', Plenary lecture, Nonlinear Phenomena: A View from Mathematics and Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei , Jan 11, 2011
• ``Interference Effects in vacuum pair production'', invited talk, PQE (Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird) January 4, 2011
• ``Crystalline symmetries in the Gross-Neveu phase diagram'', Physics seminar, KEK [Japan], Nov 22, 2010
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Plenary Lecture, Physics in Intense Fields Conference, KEK [Japan], November 2010
• ``The Laser at 50'', Public Lecture: U3A, Adelaide [Australia], July 26, 2010
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Physics Colloquium, University of Adelaide, July 21, 2010
• ``The world's Biggest Microscope: the LHC at CERN'', Public Lecture: U3A, Adelaide [Australia], July 19, 2010
• ``Schwinger Pair Production in Time Dependent Laser Pulses'', Physics Colloquium, Univ. Jena, Institute for Theoretical Physics, June 2, 2010
• ``Heat Kernels on Fractals'', Kollegiatenseminar: Univ. Jena (Germany), June 1, 2010.
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Physics Colloquium, Technion [Israel]: May 13, 2010
• ``Chiral Magnetic Spiral'', Invited conference talk, Brookhaven workshop: C and CP odd effects in Heavy Ion collisions, April 2010
• ``Crystalline phases in the Gross-Neveu Phase Diagram'', plenary lecture, NPQFT10, Univ. Oklahoma, April 2010
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Physics Colloquium: Univ. Virginia: April 2010
• ``The quantum vacuum'', SigmaPiSigma seminar: Univ Virginia, April 2010
• ``Symmetries in the Gross-Neveu Phase Diagram'', Invited conference talk: Tony Thomas Fest, Adelaide University, Feb 2010.
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Invited conference talk: PQE (Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird), January 2010
• ``Crystalline symmetries in the Gross-Neveu phase diagram'', seminar, Brookhaven Nuclear theory seminar, Dec 2009.
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', PAC Colloquium: Univ. Wisconsin: Oct. 2009
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', plenary lecture, QFEXT09, Univ. Oklahoma, Sept. 2009
• ``Symmetries in the Gross-Neveu systems'', Kollegiatenseminar: Univ. Jena (Germany) , July 2009.
• ``The search for the Schwinger effect: nonperturbative vacuum pair production'', Institute colloquium: Univ. Jena (Germany), June 2009
• ``Gross-Neveu Phase Diagrams'', Quantum Seminar: Univ. Jena (Germany), June 2009
• ``Integrable hierarchies and the Gross-Neveu Model'', physics seminar, IFT, Sao Paulo, June 2009.
• ``Vacuum pair production, worldline instantons and Gutzwiller's trace formula'', seminar, Univ. Sao Paulo, June 2009
• ``Vacuum Polarization, Effective Actions and Inhomogeneous Gap Equations'', Graduate School Lecture Course Univ Paraiba (Brazil), June 2009.
• ``Symmetries in the Gross-Neveu Phase Diagram'', invited talk, Shifman Fest, Minneapolis, May 2009.
• ``Vacuum pair production, worldline instantons and Gutzwiller's trace formula'', invited talk, Benderfest, St. Louis, March 2009.
• ``Vacuum pair production, worldline instantons and Gutzwiller's trace formula'', physics seminar, UMass Amherst, December 2008.
• ``New Strong-Field Physics at ELI'', Plenary Lecture: Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Meeting, Chiemsee/Munich, October 2008
• Visiting Professor: Graduate School Lecture Course (9 hours) : ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', Saalburg Summer School, Thuringia, Germany, September 2008.
• ``The Physics of Divergence'', Physics Colloquium, UConn, 9/12/08
• ``Vacuum pair production'', Plenary Lecture: Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Meeting, ECT* Trento, June 2008
• ``Crystalline condensate in the Gross-Neveu Model'', physics seminar, Univ. Graz, June 2008.
• ``Crystalline condensate in the Gross-Neveu Model'', seminar, UConn Physics, February 2008.
• ``Worldline Instantons, Pair Production and Gutzwiller's Trace Formula'', seminar, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, January 2008.
• ``Inhomogeneous Gap Equations'', seminar at conference on Mathematical Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Postech, Korea, January 2008
• ``The Physics of Divergence'', physics colloquium, University of Oklahoma, January 2008.
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', seminar, University of Oklahoma, January 2008.
• ``Worldline Instantons, Pair Production and Gutzwiller's Trace Formula'', seminar, University of Florence, Italy, November 2007.
• ``Worldline Instantons, Pair Production and Gutzwiller's Trace Formula'', seminar, University of Rochester, October 2007.
• ``Worldline Instantons, Pair Production and Gutzwiller's Trace Formula'', Plenary Review Talk, QFEXT 2007, Leipzig, September 2007.
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', Plenary Review Talk at International Conference on Quantum Theory and Symmetries, Valladolid, Spain, July 2007.
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', Plenary talk at Field Theory and Gravity Workshop, Bogazici University, Istanbul, June 2007
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', plenary talk at Analytic and algebraic methods III, Doppler Institute, Prague, June 2007
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop effective actions'', seminar, University of Jena, June 2007
• Lecture course: ``Euler-Heisenberg Effective Actions'', presented at Mitteldeutsche Physik Combo, at at Universitat Jena, Universitat Leipzig, Universitat Halle, April, June and July, 2007
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', seminar, Univ Pisa, May 2007
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', Universitat Dortmund, May 2007
• ``Effective Actions in Radial Backgrounds'', Middle East Technical University, Ankara, May 2007
• ``Worldline Instantons and Pair Production'', Middle East Technical University, Ankara, May 2007
• ``The Physics of Divergence'', physics colloquium, Universitat Heidelberg, May 2007
• Lecture course: ``Effective Actions'', presented at Universitat Heidelberg and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ``Graduaten Tage'', April 2007
• ``Functional Determinants in Quantum Field Theory'', Teilchen Tee Colloquium, Universitat Heidelberg, April 2007
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD'', seminar, Universitat Erlangen-Nuremberg, February 2007
• ``Ginsparg-Wilson fermions and chiral symmetry on the lattice'', physics seminar, Univ. of Adelaide, January, 2007
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop effective actions'', seminar, University of Western Australia, Perth, November 2006
• ``The Physics of Divergence'', physics colloquium, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, November 2006
• ``Effective Actions in Quantum Field Theory'', physics seminar, University of Melbourne, November 2006
• ``Instanton Dominance on the world-line'', physics seminar, Univ. Of Adelaide, October 2006
• ``The Physics of Divergence'', physics colloquium, University of Adelaide, Australia, September 2006
• ``Mass dependence of fermion determinant'', physics seminar, Univ. of Adelaide, September, 2006
• ``The Physics of Divergence'', physics colloquium, Massey University, New Zealand, August 2006
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD and new results for Determinants'', QCD2006, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 12, 2006.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', seminar, Boston University Center for Mathematical Physics, November 15, 2005.
• "The Physics of Divergence", Physics Colloquium, University of Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico, November 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD'', physics seminar, University of Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico, November 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD'', UConn PAN seminar, October 31, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD'', plenary talk, QFEXT05, Barcelona, September, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD", physics seminar, Seoul National University, South Korea, May 27, 2005.
• ``The Puzzle of Calorons in the 3D Georgi-Glashow Model and Periodic Monopoles'', physics seminar, KIAS, Korea Institute for Advanced Studies, Seoul, May 26, 2005.
• "The Physics of Divergence", Physics Colloquium, University of Seoul, South Korea, May 24, 2005.
• "The Physics of Divergence", Physics Colloquium, Seoul National University, South Korea, May 20, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD', physics seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, April 21, 2005.
• "The Physics of Divergence", Physics Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, April 20, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD', physics seminar, Syracuse University, April 4, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD', physics seminar, RIKEN, Brookhaven National Lab, March 24, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD', physics seminar, Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stonybrook, March 23, 2005.
• ``Computing Determinants of Partial Differential Operators'', invited talk, Journal of Physics Scientific Board Meeting, London, March 3, 2005.
• "Asymptotic Freedom: the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics", UConn Math Club, February 2005
• "The Physics of Divergence", Physics Colloquium, Dartmouth College, Feb 24, 2005.
• ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant in QCD'', Workshop on Semiclassical Approximation and Vacuum Energy, Texas A+M, January 12-16, 2005.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', Miami 2004, Coral Gables, Celebrating 40 years of quarks, cosmology, CP-violation, December 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', physics seminar, University of Rochester, November 11, 2004.
• "Asymptotic Freedom: the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics", UConn Physics, October 2004
• ``Duality and self-duality in QES Systems'', invited talk, New Frontiers in Quantum Mechanics - PT symmetry, Exact WKB and Quasi-Exact Solvability; Shizuoka, Japan, July 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', physics seminar, University of Adelaide, July 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', physics seminar, University of Western Australia, July 28, 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', QCD2004, University of Minnesota, May 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', seminar, Yale University, April 15, 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', seminar, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Heidelberg, March 25, 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', seminar, Institute for Fundamental Theory, University of Florida, Feb 6, 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', seminar, Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London, January, 2004.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', seminar, Physics, UMass, Amherst, October, 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries (QTS3), Cincinnati, 10-14 Sep 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Effective Lagrangians'', plenary talk, QFEXT03, Norman, Oklahoma, 15-19 Sep 2003.
• ``Much Ado about Nothing : Probing the quantum vacuum'', colloquium at Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, July 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', Korean Institute of Advanced Studies, Seoul, May 15, 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, May 18, 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', DPF Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, February 7, 2003.
• ``Self-dual QED'', colloquium, University of Western Ontario, January 14, 2003.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', physics seminar, University of Toronto, January 13, 2003.
• ``Schwinger's Pair Production Formula and Beyond : A Review'', plenary review talk at TESLA Vacuum Pair Creation Collaboration Meeting, ECT* Trento, November 5, 2002.
• ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop QED'', Channel Meeting on Particle Physics, University of Plymouth, August, 2002.

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