Colloquia from 2005 - 2006
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for the Academic Year 2005-2006
(1 July 2005 - 30 June 2006) |
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| DATE/TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE / Host |
| 2006 | ||
| Wednesday June 14 3:00 p.m. Rm 137 P&A |
Dr. Jan Cami SETI Institute NASA Ames Research Center |
“Molecular Gas and Dust around Evolved Stars" Host: Peter Simpson |
| Monday June 5 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Uwe Langbein The University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, Germany and ... Michael Nitsche UWO and UAS, Wiesbaden |
at 1:30 p.m. “Activities in the field of optics and integrated optics of the Physics Department of the University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden” at 2:15 p.m. “Engineering Aspects of Evanescent Fluorescence Microscopy” Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Wednesday May 24 3:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Paula R.L. Heron University of Washington |
“Improving student learning in physics: The challenge of identifying effective instructional strategies” Host: Patrick Whippey |
| Monday May 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Marcin Sawicki Physics Department University of California at Santa Barbara |
“The long faint tail in galaxy evolution” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Tuesday May 2 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Els Peeters Research Scientist NASA Ames Research Center |
“Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as astrophysical probes” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday April 27 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Debashish Mukherji UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"A generalization of charge equilibration method to fluctuating charges" |
| Monday April 24 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Ed Thommes Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics University of Toronto |
“Planet formation, migration and survival” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday April 20 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Patrick Espy Senior Scientific Officer British Antarctic Survey |
“Exploring the dynamics and chemistry of the middle atmosphere using remote sensing” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Wednesday April 19 2:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Asad Rezaee UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Gold nanoparticle sensors in solution" |
| Thursday April 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Jian Liu UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"The search for ultra-thin high-k dielectric films used in CMOS technology" |
| Wednesday April 12 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Joseph Harrington Dept of Astronomy Cornell University |
“The Pioneering Direct Measurements of Extrasolar Planets” Host: John de Bruyn |
| CANCELLED Tuesday April 11 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Dallas Abbott Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University A presentation of the Planetary Science Program |
CANCELLED "Impact basins on the ocean floor" Hosts: Peter Brown (Physics & Astronomy Dept.) and Penny King (Earth Sciences Dept.) |
| Monday April 10 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Maxim Lyutikov Dept of Physics & Astronomy University of British Columbia |
“Eclipses and orbital modulation in the binary pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Friday April 7 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Harry Y. McSween Earth & Planetary Sciences Dept. University of Tennessee, Knoxville A presentation of the Planetary Science Program |
"Geologic Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Missions" Hosts: Peter Brown (Physics & Astronomy Dept.) and Penny King (Earth Sciences Dept.) |
| Thursday April 6 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Kari Dalnoki-Veress Physics & Astronomy Dept. Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research McMaster University |
“Polymer Crystallisation, Dynamics and Morphology at the Nanoscale” Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Tuesday April 4 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Trinh Nguyen UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Spin-transfer torque and dynamics in nanomagnets" |
| Thursday March 30 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Guillaume Gervais Department of Physics McGill University |
“Physics of Flatland and of the Nano-World Near T=0” |
| Wednesday March 29 2:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Razvan Nistor UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Path integral methods in atomistic simulations" |
| Monday March 27 2:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Eugene Wong Medical Biophysics Dept. University of Western Ontario |
“What’s the 'Phuss' in radiation cancer treatment optimization? The Physics, Physiology and Philosophies” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Friday March 24 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Leïla Haïder LNPC René Descartes University Paris 5, France |
“Rheology and Ultrasound Scattering From Reversible Fractal Red Cell Clusters in a Shear Flow” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday March 23 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Don Brownlee Department of Astronomy University of Washington |
“Stardust and Primitive Early Solar System Materials" Host: Peter Brown |
| Monday March 20 2:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Nikolai Piskunov Uppsala University Sweden |
“3D radiative transport through stellar atmospheres and the stellar environment” Host: David Gray |
| Monday March 20 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Robert Byer Applied Physics Department Stanford University |
“LIGO and LISA – The search for Gravitational Waves” Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Monday March 20 9:30 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Robert Byer Applied Physics Department Stanford University |
“Black Holes, Einstein, and Gravitational Waves LIGO, LISA and Lasers” (Undgergrad Talk) Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Thursday March 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Charles McKenzie Radiology Dept. of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard University |
“Quantification of Liver Fat Content with Magnetic Resonance Imaging” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Friday March 10 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Arkady Major Physics Department Institute for Optical Sciences University of Toronto |
“Ultrafast Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics: Lasers, Materials and Microscopy for Bio-Medical Applications” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday March 9 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Giles Novak Physics & Astronomy Dept. Northwestern University |
“Mapping Magnetic Fields in Star Forming Clouds” Host: Martin Houde |
| Wednesday March 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Trevor Ireland Earth Chemistry Research School of Earth Sciences The Australian National University, Canberra A presentation of the Planetary Science Program |
"The oxygen isotope composition of the Sun" Hosts: Peter Brown (Physics & Astronomy Dept.) and Penny King (Earth Sciences Dept.) |
| Tuesday February 28 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Roger Zemp Optical Imaging Laboratory Biomedical Engineering Dept Texas A&M University |
“Photoacoustic imaging for visualizing molecular biology in vivo” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday February 23 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Rose Thompson School of Math & Statistics University of Sydney |
“The ultrasonic field near to boundaries in biomedical tissue and phantoms” Host: Tamie Poepping |
| Tuesday February 21 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Eric Poisson Physics Dept. University of Guelph |
"Tidal heating of black holes" Host: Martin Houde |
| Thursday February 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659B Graduate Seminar Kyle Gilbert UWO Physics & Astronomy |
Superconducting Magnets for Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Friday February 10 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Mikko Karttunen Applied Math Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"Membranes here, there and everywhere — modeling biomembranes in different scales" Host: Martin Houde |
| Thursday February 9 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Mohammadrahim "Comron" Nouri UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Dipole-Exchange Spin Waves in Magnetic Nanowires" |
| Thursday February 2 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Igor Bello Surface Science Western University of Western Ontario |
“Synthesis and study of cubic boron nitride films” Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Thursday January 26 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Hervé Tabuteau Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"Motion of a sphere into a yield stress fluid" Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday January 19 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Martin Müser Applied Math Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"The Microscopic origin of friction between solids" Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Wednesday January 18 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Eric Meloche UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Spin-Wave Properties in Anisotropic Magnetic Materials" |
| Monday January 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova Physics & Astronomy Dept. Rutgers University, N.J. |
“Medium Energy Ion Scattering Study of Oxygen Transport and Reactions in High-κ Dielectrics on Si" Host: William Lennard |
| 2005 | ||
| Tuesday December 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture Eric Karhu UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Quantitative friction measurements with the atomic force microscope" |
| Monday December 12 1:30 p.m. Rm 137 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Alex Tetervak UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Growth Morphologies of Wax in the Presence of Kinetic Inhibitors" |
| Thursday December 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Silvia Mittler Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"Ultra Thin Film Analysis: Waveguide Mode Spectroscopy & Gold Nanoparticle Plasmonic Resonances" |
| Thursday December 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Donald Spector Hobart & William Smith Colleges, NY |
"The trouble with Waiting for Godot in Copenhagen" Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Thursday November 17 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Darren Dowell Jet Propulsion Laboratory CalTech |
“The far-infrared luminosities and temperatures of submillimeter galaxies” Host: Martin Houde |
| Thursday November 10 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Sergey Mashchenko McMaster University |
“Formation of small galaxies in the early universe” Host: Martin Houde |
| Friday November 4 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Philippe Coussot Head, LMSGC Institut Navier, France |
“Yielding and aging in soft-jammed systems” Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday October 20 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"The Meteroid Environment" |
| Monday October 17 7:00 p.m. Althouse College Auditorium |
CLIFFORD WILL LECTURE Dr. Clifford Will Professor of Physics Washington University, St. Louis |
"Was Einstein Right?" Presented by the University of Western Ontario, Canadian Assoc. of Physicists (CAP) and the Perimeter Institute |
| Thursday October 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Eduard Vorobyov Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"Episodic Accretion Bursts in the Early Stages of Star Formation" |
| Thursday October 6 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Chitra Rangan Department of Physics University of Windsor |
"Quantum computing with atoms" Host: Silvia Mittler |
| Thursday September 29 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Jeff Hutter Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
"Nano/bio-materials as seen by the Atomic Force Microscope" |
| Thursday September 22 6:00 p.m. South Valley Rm 40 |
ELIZABETH LAIRD LECTURE Dr. VIOLA VOGEL Department of Materials ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
"Biological Nanotricks: Shuttling and Switching at the Nanoscale" Presented by the University of Western Ontario |
| Thursday September 15 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. T.G. Phillips CalTech |
"Observations of Deuterated and Multiply Deuterated Molecules in the ISM" Host: Martin Houde |
| Thursday August 25 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659B Graduate Seminar Ruohong Li UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Magneto-optical and Magnetic Traps for Cold Atoms on Atom Chips " |
| Wednesday August 3 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
658 Graduate Seminar Comron Nouri UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Polaritons in Periodic and Quasi-periodic Superlattices " |
| Thursday June 30 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
658 Graduate Seminar Nimalan Swarnalingam UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Atmospheric circulations and polar mesopause dynamics" |
