Colloquia from 2004 - 2005
| DATE/TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE/Host |
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2005
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| Thursday May 5 1:00 p.m. Rm. 123 P&A |
Dr. Ludmila Kagan University of Western Ontario |
“New Discoveries with Artificial Aurora: where, what, how and why?” Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday April 28 1:00 p.m. Rm. 123 P&A |
Dr. Yuri Yampolsky Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine |
“Electromagnetic Effects at ULF, ELF, and HF as investigated in Antarctica at the Ukrainian Station "Akademik Vernadsky"” Host: Ludmila Kagan |
| Wednesday April 27 1:00 p.m. Rm. 123 P&A |
Dr. Andy Knights Engineering Physics Dept. McMaster University |
Siliconizing Photonics Host: Ian Mitchell |
| Thursday April 7 1:00 p.m. Rm. 123 P&A |
Dr. Roger Hildebrand University of Chicago |
Capturing Elusive Magnetic Fields Host: Martin Houde |
| Thursday March 31 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Don Moorcroft Physics & Astronomy Dept. The University of Western Ontario |
"Post-retirement Physics" Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Wednesday March 30 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Siu Au Lee Physics Dept. Colorado State University |
Measuring the Electromagnetically Induced Birefringence of the QED Vacuum Host: Steve Rehse |
| Thursday March 24 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. David Grinspoon Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Colorado |
New Frontiers in Astrobiology: The Search for Life Beyond Mars Host: Peter Brown |
| Thursday March 17 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CAP LECTURE Dr. Paul Corkum National Research Council |
"Attosecond Science" |
| Thursday March 17 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Yves-Alain Peter Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal |
From optical fiber switching to adaptive optics using Optical MEMS Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Thursday March 10 6:00 p.m. WSC 55 |
LAIRD LECTURE |
"Is Space Real?" |
| Thursday March 3 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Hao Peng UWO Dept. of Physics & Astronomy |
"Dual-modality scanners PET/CT and PET/MRI: opportunities and challenges" |
| Thursday February 24 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Songbo Xu UWO Dept. of Physics & Astronomy |
"Langmuir-Blodgett films (LB films)" |
| Thursday February 17 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. P.T. Jayachandran Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
Proton Aurora and Auroral Substorms Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday February 10 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Lalu Mansinha Earth Sciences Dept. University of Western Ontario |
Gravity Waves (Tsunami) and Gravity Waves (in the gravity field) From Large Earthquakes Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday February 3 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Phil Gregory Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of British Columbia |
A Bayesian Revolution in Spectral Analysis Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday Jan. 27 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Ray Jayawardhana University of Toronto |
Exploring Young Brown Dwarfs Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday Jan. 20 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. James Drummond Department of Physics University of Toronto |
>Measuring Atmospheric Pollution from Space Host: Paul Wiegert |
| Thursday Jan. 13 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Russell B. Thompson |
Soft Matter Self-Assembly in Nanotechnology Host: Mahi Singh |
| Thursday Jan. 6 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Jim Robinson Trojan Technologies |
Trojan Technologies Inc.—An Overview of a Local High Technology Company Host: Shantanu Basu |
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2004
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| Wednesday Dec. 8 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Simon Ruffell UWO Dept. of Physics & Astronomy PhD Candidate public lecture |
"Ultra-shallow phosporous ion-implants in silicon" |
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Thursday |
Dr. Paul Wiegert Department of Physics & Astronomy The University of Western Ontario |
"Visualizing Dynamics" |
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RE-SCHEDULED |
Dr. Pierre Bastien |
"The Circumstellar Environment of Young Stars from their Polarization" Host: Martin Houde |
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Thursday |
Marcos Algara-Siller UWO Engineering Dept. MSc Candidate public lecture |
Co-supervisor: Dr. R.J. Sica |
| Thursday Nov. 18 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Christine Wilson Physics & Astronomy Dept. McMaster University |
"Understanding the Earliest Phases of Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation" Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday Nov. 11 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Ranjith Divigalpitiya |
“Contact Resistance of Anisotropic Conductive Adhesives” Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday Nov. 4 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. G.A. McBean Professor and Chair in Policy Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction Depts of Geography and Political Science The University of Western Ontario |
"Climate Change - The Physics and Some Politics" Host: Bob Sica |
| Thursday Oct. 28 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Jon Bjorkman Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Toledo, Ohio |
"Circumstellar Disks: From Protostars to Protoplanets" Host: Carol Jones |
| Thursday Oct. 7 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Kevin Strawbridge Meteorological Service of Canada Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE) Egbert, Ontario |
"Airborne and Scanning Aerosol Lidar Measurements of a Complex Atmosphere" |
| Thursday Sept. 23 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Doug Revelle Physics & Astronomy Dept., U.W.O. and Los Alamos National Laboratory |
"Low-level Nocturnal Jet streams over the High Latitude Arctic Ocean: Comparisons between Theory and Measurements during the Arctic Ocean Expedition of 1996 (AOE-96)" |
| Tuesday Sept. 21 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Chi-Ming Tsang M.Sc. Public Lecture |
"Hopping Conduction on DNA Molecules" |
| Thursday Sept. 16 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Martin Houde |
>"Star formation and magnetic field studies from Hawaii" |
| Thursday Sept. 9 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Shantanu Basu Department of Physics & Astronomy The University of Western Ontario |
"Star Formation at Western: A Five Year Report" |
| Thursday Sept. 2 2:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Western Institute for Nanomaterials Science Professor Jim Williams Director, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering Australian National University, Canberra |
"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research at the Australian National University"> |
| Thursday Aug. 19 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Kenneth Kar-Ho Wong M.Sc. Public Lecture |
"Ion Beam Modification of the Physical and Chemical Properties of a Polymer Fiber Model System" |
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Tuesday |
Dr. Mark Gallagher Lakehead University Thurnder Bay, Ontario |
"Tailoring the Dimensionality of Nanostructures on Stepped Silicon" |
| Wednesday Aug. 18 1:00 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Kelly Shorlin |
"Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Clustering on Surfaces" |
| Thursday July 8 1:30 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown University of Calgary |
"A Numerical model of the ablation of faint meteors" |
| Tuesday July 6 1:30 p.m. Room 123 P&A |
Dr. Linda Nie McMaster University |
"The Study of a New X-Ray Fluorescence System for the In Vivo Bone lead Measurement" |
| Members of the Colloquium Committee for 2004 - 2005: | |
| S. Basu, Chair | basu@astro.uwo.ca |
| B.A. Chronik | bchronik@uwo.ca |
| S.P. Goldman | goldman@uwo.ca |
| M. Houde | houde@astro.uwo.ca |
| S. Mittler | smittler@uwo.ca |
| M. Singh | msingh@uwo.ca |
| A. Wehlau | afwehlau@astro.uwo.ca |
| P. Wiegert | pwiegert@uwo.ca |
