Colloquia from 2001 - 2002
| DATE/TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE/Host |
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2002
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| Fri. Jan. 11 1:00pm Rm 123 |
JOINT PHYSICS
& ASTRONOMY DEPT. AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS Dr. A. Gopakumar, University of Guelph |
Gravitational
waves from inspiralling compact binaries:Probing effects of
eccentricity & spin. |
| Wed. Jan. 16 1:00 pm Rm 123 |
Dr. Penny King Earth Sciences, UWO |
Evolution of the Oceans on Mars |
| Tues. Jan 22, 2:00pm Rm 123 | JOINT PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
AND EARTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENTS Dr. Guy Consolmagno, SJ Vatican Observatory Research Group, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
Are Asteroids Fluffy? |
| Tues. Jan. 29 1:00pm Rm 123 |
NOTE DATE CHANGE Prof. Christos Haldoupis Department of Physics University of Crete, Greece |
Sporadic E Layers |
| NOTE DATE CHANGE Fri. Feb. 15 1:00pm Rm 123 |
Dr. Trond Trondsen Institute for Space Research University of Calgary |
"Optical observations of extremely dynamical small-scale auroral forms" |
| Wed. Feb.20 1:00 pm Rm 123 |
Dr. J.W. McConkey FRSC University of Windsor |
"Electrons, photons and atoms in collision - from Franck-Hertz to atom traps" |
| Wed. Feb 27 1:00 pm Rm 123 |
Dr. Blaine A. Chronik Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University |
"Development of Field-Cycled Magnetic Resonance Imaging" |
| Wed. Mar 6 1:00 pm Rm 123 |
Dr. Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario |
"A review of the kind of physics that leads to an extreme structuring of the earth's ionosphere" |
| Thurs. Mar. 14 3:00 pm Rm 137 | "Canadian Association
of Physicists Annual Lecture Dr. Alison Sills Department of Physics and Astronomy McMaster University |
"When Stars Collide" |
| April 3, 2002 1:00 pm Rm 123 |
Dr. Richard Holt Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario |
How do laser measurements of atoms on earth help astronomers understand the stars? |
| June 14, 2002 2:00 pm Rm 123 |
Prof. O.N. Srivastava Professor of Physics & Coordinator, Hydrogen Energy Centre Banaras Hindu University, INDIA |
TBA |
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2001
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| Tues. Aug. 28 1:00 pm |
Oleg Vassiliev Ph.D. Candidate |
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Non-Linear Low-Dimensional Magnetic and Electromagnetic Systems |
| Fri. Sept.14 1:00 pm |
Robin G. Kelly Ph.D. Candidate |
Optical CT and MR Imaging of Radiation Dose Distributions using the FBX Gel Dosimeter |
| Fri. Sept.14 2:00 pm |
Milton Pereira Ph.D. Candidate |
The Linear and Nonlinear Spectrum of Spin Waves in Magnetically Ordered Thin Films |
| Wed., Sept. 26 1:00 pm |
Dr. J. J. Kavelaars McMaster University |
Tracking the Formation of the Solar System |
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Wed. Oct. 3 |
Dr. Alejandro G. Marangoni |
The Influence of Microstructure
on the rheological |
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Wed., Oct. 10 |
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland, University of California |
Astrophysics faces the millenium |
| Wed. Oct. 10 7:30 pm WSC 55 |
THE ELIZABETH LAIRD LECTURE
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland, University of California |
Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe |
|
Thu. Oct 11 |
Dr. Virginia Trimble
University of Maryland, University of California |
Archaeoastronomy: Past, Present, and Future |
| Fri. Oct. 26 1 :00 pm |
Dr. James DiFrancesco University of California, Berkeley |
Revealing The Earliest Stages of Stellar Formation Through Millimeter Interferometry |
| Mon. Nov. 5 4:00 pm |
JOINT COLLOQUIUM WITH DEPT.
OF ENGLISH Dr. Dennis R. Danielson Professor of English University of British Columbia |
Copernicus and the Tale of the Pale Blue Dot |
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Wed. Nov. 14 |
Dr. John Dutcher Polymer Surface & Interface Group Department of Physics and Centre for Food & Soft Materials Science University of Guelph |
Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Thin Polymer Films |
| Members of the Colloquium Committee for 2001 - 2002: | |
| R. A. Holt (Chairman) | rholt@uwo.ca |
| S. Basu | basu@astro.uwo.ca |
| P. Brown | pbrown@uwo.ca |
| D. F. Gray | dfgray@uwo.ca |
| J. L. Hutter | jhutter@uwo.ca |
| J. Jones | jimeteor@uwo.ca |
| M. Zinke-Allmang | mzinke@uwo.ca |
