The Department of Physics and Astronomy

for the Academic Year 2011-2012 (May 2011 through July 2012)
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
Our Colloquia are presented (generally) on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in PAB Room 22 (Seminar Room on lower level of Physics & Astronomy Building).
Winter & Summer Terms 2012:
PREVIOUS Colloquia:
Winter term 2012:
FRIDAY June 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Gautier Mathys Joint ALMA Observatory & European Southern Observatory, Chile	"Rotation, Magnetism, Binarity, and Chemical Peculiarities in A-type Stars" Host: J. Landstreet
WEDNESDAY June 27 3:00 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Samaya Nissanke Astronomy Department California Institute of Technology	"Seeing and hearing the Violent Universe" Host: S. Basu
Thursday June 21 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Duncan Forgan Institute for Astronomy Royal Observatory, Edinburgh	"Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life” Host: S. Gallagher
WEDNESDAY June 20 2:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. B.G. Sidharth B. M. Birla Science Centre Director, International Institute for Applicable Mathematics & Information Sciences, Hyderabad, INDIA	"A model for the cosmological constant (dark energy)” Host: R. Valluri / S. Basu
Thursday May 31 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Jeffrey Hutter Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario	"Examining the role of crystallization inhibitors using atomic-force microscopy” Host: S. Basu
MONDAY May 28 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Mark Matney Lead, Space Debris Modeling NASA Johnson Space Center JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX)	"The Challenge of Orbital Debris” Hosts: P. Brown
Thursday May 24 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Martin Houde Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario	"Non-Zeeman Circular Polarization Measurements of Astronomical Molecular Lines” Host: S. Basu
MONDAY April 30 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Jean-Michel Desert Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Harvard University	"From statistics to individual characterization of exoplanets" Host: S. Basu
Thursday April 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Shelley Wright Dunlap Institute University of Toronto	"Studying Galaxies in the Early Universe with Innovative Astronomical Instrumentation” Host: S. Gallagher
MONDAY April 23 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Stanimir Metchev Department of Physics and Astronomy Stony Brook University of the State University of New York	"Exoplanetary Worlds: Atmospheres, Architectures, and Evolution" Host: S. Basu
Thursday April 19 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. John Berlinsky Academic Program Director Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	"Quantum Oscillations in High Temperature Superconductors” Host: M. Cottam / S. Basu
Thursday April 19 4:00 p.m. PAB Classroom 117	Dr. John Berlinsky Academic Program Director Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) Information Session Host: M. Cottam / S. Basu
MONDAY April 16 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Nicolas Cowan Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Northwestern University, Illinois	"Divining the Climate of a Pale Blue Dot" Host: S. Basu
Thursday April 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Nikku (Madhu) Madhusudhan Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Yale University JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX)	"Chemical Characterization of Exoplanetary Atmospheres” Host: P. Brown / S. Basu
Thursday March 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Erik Curiel Rotman Institute of Philosophy / Department of Philosophy University of Western Ontario	"Are Black Holes Hot or Cold?” Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday March 22 Time 3:30 BGS 0153	Dr. Jan Kycia Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Waterloo *CAP Lecture Tour*	"Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice” Hosts: R. Holt
Thursday March 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Viktor Staroverov Department of Chemistry University of Western Ontario	"Advances in Density-Functional Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations” Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday March 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Travis Barman Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, Arizona	"Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Young Giant Planets” Host: S. Gallagher
WEDNESDAY March 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Jennifer McNab Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston	"Developing Biomarkers of Neuroplasticity Using Diffusion MRI" Host: S. Basu
MONDAY March 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Ives Levesque Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University	"Quantitative mapping of brain tissue properties in vivo by magnetic resonance” Host: S. Basu
Thursday March 1 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario	"Ion beam analysis in modern materials science” Host: S. Basu
Thursday February 16 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Harald Pfeiffer Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) University of Toronto	"Blackholes, supercomputers and gravitational waves” Hosts: R. Valluri / S. Basu
Thursday February 9 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Cheng Guan Koay University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health Madison, Wisconsin	"Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: From optimal acquisition design to signal extraction” Host: S. Basu
TUESDAY February 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Todd Stevens Robarts Research Institute, Imaging Research Laboratories London, Ontario	"Accelerated high angular resolution diffusion imaging using compressed sensing: Crossing fiber data you can trust in a time you can afford” Host: S. Basu
Thursday February 2 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Andrea Soddu University of Liège Liège, Belgium	"Neuroimaging in patients with disorders of consciousness: listening to a shy brain when the heart is shouting” Host: S. Basu
Thursday January 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Blaine Chronik Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario	"Variable fields in MRI: progress, opportunities, and challenges” Host: L. Goncharova
Summer and Fall term 2011:
Thursday December 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Nazir Kherani Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto	"Photovoltaic-Photonic Crystal Interplay” Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday December 1 Time 3:30 UCC 290 (McKellar Room)	Dr. Leonard C. Feldman Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology and V-P, Physical Science and Engineering Partnerships Rutgers University *ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE*	"The Materials Revolution” Hosts: L. Goncharova / S. Basu
FRIDAY November 18 Time 2:30 PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Latham Boyle Cosmology & Gravitation Perimeter Institute *THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR*	"New windows on black holes and the very early universe” Host: S. Basu
Thursday November 17 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Sjoerd Roorda Physics Department Université de Montréal	"Megavolts and Nanometers: Materials Analysis and Modification with High Energy Ion Beams” Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday November 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Rupali Chandar Physics and Astronomy Department University of Toledo	"The life cycle of star clusters” Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday November 3 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Peter Mascher Department of Engineering Physics McMaster University	"Optical and X-ray spectroscopic investigations of light-emitting rare-earth-doped silicon nanostructures” Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday October 27 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Alfred Yu Medical Engineering Program EEE Department The University of Hong Kong	"Ultrasound: Expanding Role in Medicine and Biology” Host: T. Poepping
TUESDAY October 25 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Partha Mitra Mitra Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Depts of Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurological Sciences	"Mouse Brain Architecture Project” Hosts: S. Basu / M. Karttunen / M. Jog
Thursday October 13 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Willy Lennard Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario	"High Fluence Ion-Implanted ³²S Targets for Astrophysics Studies” Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday October 6 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Jillian Bellovary Astronomy Department University of Michigan	"The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations” Host: S. Gallagher
TUESDAY October 4 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Simon Rogers Forchungszentrum Jülich Inst for Complex Systems (ICS-3), Germany	"An overview of oscillatory rheology: From linear theory to nonlinear experiment” Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday September 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Els Peeters Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario	"PAH emission features as astrophysical probes” Host: S. Basu
Thursday September 22 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Pranawa Deshmukh Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	"Which way will the photoelectrons go?” Host: S. Basu
TUESDAY September 20 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Robert Chen Toronto Western Research Inst (TWRI) Div. of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems - Neuroscience JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Depts of Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurological Sciences	"Role of the basal ganglia in voluntary movements and mechanisms of deep brain stimulation” Hosts: S. Basu / M. Karttunen / M. Jog
MONDAY September 19 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Dolf Landheer Surfaces and Interfaces National Research Council Canada	"Micron and Submicron Scale Biosensors: Modelling and Strategies for Implementation in Printable Electronics” Hosts: S. Basu / H-Y Nie
Thursday September 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. David Crandles Department of Physics Brock University	"Infrared Optical Spectroscopy and Phase Transitions” Host: L. Goncharova
WEDNESDAY September 14 2:00 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Simone Balocco Computer Vision Center Universitat de Barcelona	"Towards the Intelligent Catheter: Ongoing research in Intravascular Ultrasound” Host: T. Poepping
WEDNESDAY August 17 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Anand Yethiraj Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography Memorial University	"Cluster phases in colloids and proteins” Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday June 30 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Ravi P. Singh Sr. Regional Director Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi, INDIA	"International collaboration opportunities in Indian universities” Host: M. Singh
TUESDAY June 21 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22	Dr. Frances Skinner Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering University of Toronto JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Depts of Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurological Sciences	"Modelling brain networks - Do details matter?” Hosts: S. Basu / M. Karttunen / M. Jog

CAP Lecture Tour

ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE

THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

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