Colloquia from 2006 - 2007
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for the Academic Year 2006-2007
(1 July 2006 - 30 June 2007) |
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| DATE/TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE / Host |
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Talks are listed in DESCENDING date order. Those that are greyed-out have already taken place. Physics and Astronomy talks are held on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in PAB 123. Exceptions are noted in RED. |
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| January to July 2007: | ||
| MONDAY May 7 1:30 p.m. Rm 115 ChB |
- CANCELLED -
Dr. Arkady Major Department of Physics University of Toronto |
“Ultrafast Optical Highway: Speeding Up Towards Advanced Biomedical Applications”
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| THURSDAY May 3 11:00 a.m. Rm 115 ChB |
Dr. Brian West Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University |
“ Next-Generation Photonic Devices - Non-Reciprocal and Plasmonic ”
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| WEDNESDAY May 2 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Brian West Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University |
“The Bragg reflection waveguide — Analytical properties and application to nonlinear frequency conversion”
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| TUESDAY May 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
- CANCELLED -
659 Graduate Seminar Iftekhar-ul Haque UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Spectral Properties of Synthetic Opal Photonic Crystals”
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| MONDAY April 30 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Peter Komorowski UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Equivalence - From Misadventure to General Relativity”
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| Thursday April 26 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
IDI Research Initiatives B. Chronik, S. Basu, P. Brown, S. Mittler UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Interdisciplinary Development Initiatives: The Physics & Astronomy Department's response”
Host: Martin Zinke-Allmang |
| WEDNESDAY April 18 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Trinh Nguyen Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Spin-wave excitations in ferromagnetic nanostructures”
Supervisor: M Cottam |
| MONDAY April 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture Armin Dehghan Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Turbulence Measurements by Wind Profiler Radar in Southwestern Ontario”
Supervisor: W Hocking |
| Thursday April 5 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. David Gray Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
“Cepheid variables, a new approach to measuring their radius changes”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| WEDNESDAY April 4 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Simon de Vet UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Friction and Thin Gravity Driven Granular Flows”
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| FRIDAY March 30 7:30 p.m. Rm 55 Western Science Centre |
4th Annual
Planetary Science Distinguished Public Lecture Dr. Jim Bell Astronomy Department Cornell University |
“The (Endless?)
Scientific Adventures of ... The Spirit and Opportunity Rovers” Host: Peter Brown Lecture: 7:30 p.m. in WSC 55 Public Reception: 8:30 in PAB 123 |
| FRIDAY March 30 6:30 p.m. Rm 55 Western Science Centre |
“OZONE: the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the Atmosphere”
Host: Wayne Hocking Lecture at 6:30 p.m. in WSC 55 Public Reception: 8:30 in PAB 123 |
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| FRIDAY March 30 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Jim Bell Astronomy Department Cornell University |
“Mars Exploration Rovers: Overview of Geologic, Geochemical, and Mineralogic Results”
Host: Peter Brown |
| Thursday March 29 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Jamal Sakhr Physics Dept Harvard University |
“The Wigner distribution: a statistical signature of chaos in 2D classical and quantum mechanics”
Host: Shantanu Basu |
| TUESDAY March 27 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Felix Oppong UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Interfacial rheology of structured fluids: Technique & applications”
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| FRIDAY March 23 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Giles Santyr Scientist, Imaging Research Laboratories Robarts Research Institute & Medical Biophysics Dept. University of Western Ontario |
“Hyperpolarized noble gas magnetic resonance imaging of lungs”
Host: Eugene Wong |
| TUESDAY March 20 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Hoa Nguyen UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Brillouin light scattering applied to vibrational and magnetic waves in nanostructures”
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| Thursday March 15 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Les Woods Emeritus Professor of Mathematics (Theory of Plasma) & Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford |
“Heating the Solar Corona by Plasma Loops”
Host: Shantanu Basu |
| TUESDAY March 13 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Chris Mokry UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Luminescent mechanisms of silicon nanocrystals”
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| FRIDAY March 9 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Hao Peng Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Investigation of new approaches to combined positron emission tomography and magetic resonance imaging systems”
Supervisors: P. Simpson/B. Chronik |
| Thursday March 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Brett Gladman Physics & Astronomy Dept University of British Columbia |
“Rogue planets in the outer Solar System”
Host: Peter Brown/Paul Wiegert |
| WEDNESDAY March 7 2:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Abdollah Hassanzadeh UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Variable-angle total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy”
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| TUESDAY March 6 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Shailesh Nene UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“The effect of antifreeze proteins and polymers to control the crystallization of gas hydrates and ice crystals”
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| MONDAY March 5 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Gordon Osinski Canadian Space Agency Space Sciences Division |
“Mars on Earth – Exploring other worlds begins by exploring our own”
A Joint Presentation of the Earth Sciences and Physics & Astronomy Depts. Host: Peter Brown |
| Thursday March 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Doug Johnstone National Research Council Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics |
“Understanding how star formation proceeds in the Perseus and Ophiuchus molecular clouds”
Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday February 22 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Michael Kolios CRC Tier II - Biomedical Applications of Ultrasound Department of Physics Ryerson University |
“High frequency ultrasound imaging and spectroscopy: Applications to cancer treatment monitoring”
Host: Eugene Wong |
| FRIDAY February 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Robert Weryk UWO Physics & Astronomy |
“Meteor spectra evidence for sodium free meteoroid populations”
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| Thursday February 15 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Doug Welch Physics & Astronomy Dept McMaster University |
“New science from ancient supernova light echoes”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| FRIDAY February 9 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Kaley Walker Department of Physics University of Toronto |
“Spectroscopy from orbit: Using remote sensing to study the Earth's atmosphere”
Host: Bob Sica |
| Thursday February 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Robert Batterman Department of Philosophy University of Western Ontario |
“Idealization and Modeling”
Host: Eugene Wong |
| FRIDAY February 2 10:30 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Sarah Gallagher UCLA Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics |
“Fast winds and warm dust: Mid-infrared views of quasar outflows”
Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday February 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. John Vaillancourt Physics Department California Institute of Technology |
“Dust polarization in the interstellar medium”
Host: Martin Houde |
| WEDNESDAY January 31 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659 Graduate Seminar Jamu Alford UWO Physics & Astronomy |
"Theory and practice of proton electron double resonance imaging”
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| MONDAY January 29 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Jan Cami Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
“Molecular gas and dust around evolved stars”
Host: John de Bruyn |
| Thursday January 25 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Phil McCausland Earth Sciences Dept University of Western Ontario |
“Mission to planet “meteorite:” Reconnaissance sampling of the Solar System without a spacecraft”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| WEDNESDAY January 24 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Eduard Vorobyov Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
“Dynamics of disks from protostellar to galactic scales”
Host: John de Bruyn |
| MONDAY January 22 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Brenda Matthews Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics National Research Council of Canada |
“Debris disks around low mass stars: Environments, planet formation and grain growth”
Host: John de Bruyn |
| FRIDAY January 19 10:30 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Vincent Fish National Radio Astronomy Observatory, New Mexico |
“Probing massive star forming regions with Masers”
Host: John deBruyn |
| Thursday January 18 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Alex Buchel Applied Mathematics Dept University of Western Ontario |
“Strongly coupled nuclear plasma and String Theory”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| Thursday January 11 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Alison Sills Physics & Astronomy Dept McMaster University |
“Secrets from the Stellar Nursery”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| WEDNESDAY January 10 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Evgenya Shkolnik University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute |
“Magnetized Exoplanets”
Host: John de Bruyn |
| July through December 2006: | ||
| Thursday December 14 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Doug ReVelle Atmospheric, Climate & Environmental Dynamics Group Los Alamos National Laboratory New Mexico |
“NEO Fireball diversity: Entry modeling and analysis techniques”
Host: Peter Brown |
| MONDAY December 11 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Kevin Brown Western Physics & Astronomy |
“Long term spectroscopic and precise radial velocity monitoring of Arcturus”
Supervisor: D. Gray |
| FRIDAY December 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Bernhard Menges
Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research - Mainz, Germany CANCELLED UWO CLOSED - SNOW DAY |
“Swelling behaviour of smart hydrogels: a QCM-D, evanescent ellipsometry and OWS/SPR study”
Host: Silvia Mittler |
| TUESDAY December 5 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture Adam Farag Western Physics & Astronomy |
“Search for seismically-ggenerated atmospheric infrasound waves at the hydroxyle-airglow using OH scanning radiometer” Supervisor: R. Lowe |
| FRIDAY December 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. J. J. Kavelaars National Research Council Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics |
“The structure of the outer solar system; constraining the early evolution of the giant planets”
Host: Peter Brown |
| Thursday November 30 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Keith St. Lawrence Lawson Imaging Scientist Lawson Health Research Institute |
“The development and application of non-invasive methods for studying brain hemodynamics and metabolism”
Host: Eugene Wong |
| FRIDAY November 24 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Alexander (Aleks) Scholz Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Toronto |
“The infancy of brown dwarfs: Accretion and dusty disks”
Host: Shantanu Basu |
| Thursday November 23 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Graydon Raymer Western Medical Biophysics Dept. and Lawson Health Research Institute (Imaging Div.) |
“Investigating human muscle metabolism during exercise with magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy”
Host: Bob Sica |
| TUESDAY November 21 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture Tushar Das Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Magnetostatic modes in nanometer-sized magnetic wires, anti-wires and rings"
Supervisor: M. Cottam |
| Thursday November 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Gregg Wade Associate Professor of Physics Royal Military College of Canada |
“Invisible fingers in the pudding: magnetic fields and stellar activity”
Host: John Landstreet |
| Thursday November 9 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Eduard Vorobyov Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
“The Boltzmann moment equation approach for the dynamics of collisionless systems”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| Thursday November 2 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Bill Baylis Physics Department University of Windsor |
“Classical Eigenspinors: An Approach to the Q/C Interface”
Host: Paul Wiegert |
| Thursday October 26 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Trevor Carey-Smith Air Quality Research Division Environment Canada |
“Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: Results from investigations using wind-profiling radars, balloon-borne in-situ measurements and a Lagrangian particle dispersion model”
Hosts: Bob Sica / Wayne Hocking |
| Thursday October 19 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Paul Wiegert Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
“PRIME: Canada's mission to Mars”
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| FRIDAY October 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 116 B&G |
Dr. Paul. F. Hoffman Sturgis Hooper Prof of Geology Harvard University |
“Geological Record of a Global Glaciation on the Great Otavi Carbonate Bank, Namibia”
A Joint Presentation of the Earth Sciences and Physics & Astronomy Depts. |
| MONDAY Sept 25 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova Physics & Astronomy Rutgers University |
"Ion Scattering Study of Oxygen Transport and Reactions in Electronic Materials" Host: John de Bruyn |
| FRIDAY September 22 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
ASTRONOMY GROUP "Meet 'n Greet"
Physics & Astronomy Department |
"... students, faculty, post-docs
- meet and chat, find out what interesting research is going on in our offices and labs " Host: Prof. Paul Wiegert |
| Thursday September 21 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Lucia Florescu NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology |
"Light propogation and generation in complex photonic systems"
Host: John de Bruyn |
| MONDAY September 18 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Connie Roth Chemical & Biological Engineering Northwestern University |
"Mobility of polymer molecules in confined geometries: Impact of free surface and substrate interactions on thin polymer films"
Host: John de Bruyn |
| FRIDAY September 15 9:00 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Scott Barrie Western Physics & Astronomy |
"The density matrix model in photonic bandgap materials and antiferromagnetic materials"
Supervisor: M. Singh |
| Thursday September 14 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. G.P. Srivastava Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics School of Physics University of Exeter in the U.K. |
“Nanowires and nanotubes: theoretical modeling of some properties”
Host: Mahi Singh |
| TUESDAY September 12 1:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Kelly Shorlin Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Thermodynamics and kinetics of clustering on surfaces"
Supervisor: M. Zinke-Allmang |
| MONDAY July 31 2:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Gerhard Brauer Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Semiconductor Materials Division Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (FZR), Dresden, Germany |
“Characterization of ZnO single crystals by positron annihilation”
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| Thursday July 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Axel Rosenhahn Heidelberg University, Germany http://www.pci.uni-heidelberg.de/apc/rosenhahn/ |
“Digital in-line holographic microscopy with lasers and synchrotron radiation”
Host: Silvia Mittler |
