Colloquia from 2007 - 2008
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for the Academic Year
2007-2008 (1 July 2007 - 30 June 2008) |
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Talks are listed in DESCENDING date order. 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 2008: | ||
| Thursday June 12 1:30 p.m. Rm 215 P&A |
Dr. Sunil P.B. Kumar
Physics Department Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India Presented Jointly with the APPLIED MATHEMATICS DEPT. |
"Strain hardening, avalanches and strain softening in dense cross-linked actin networks”
Hosts: S. Basu / M. Kartunnen |
| Thursday May 15 11:00 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CRC Candidate Dr. Jiming Bao Engineering & Applied Physics Harvard University |
Research Proposal Talk:
"Novel Materials and nanostructures for energy, electronic and photonic applications" Hosts: J. de Bruyn / K. Baines |
| Wednesday May 14 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CRC Candidate Dr. Jiming Bao Engineering & Applied Physics Harvard University |
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| Tuesday May 6 11:00 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CRC Candidate Dr. Aaron Slepkov Applied & Engineering Physics Cornell University |
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| Monday May 5 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CRC Candidate Dr. Aaron Slepkov Applied & Engineering Physics Cornell University |
"Ultralow power nonlinear optics with atoms in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibre"
Hosts: J. de Bruyn / K. Baines |
| Wednesday April 30 11:00 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CRC Candidate Dr. Giovanni Fanchini Materials Science & Engineering Rutgers University |
Research Proposal Talk:
"Large area graphene and carbon nanotube thin films as platforms for nano-electrophysiological devices and 'nano-solar cells'” Hosts: J. de Bruyn / K. Baines |
| Tuesday April 29 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
CRC Candidate Dr. Giovanni Fanchini Materials Science & Engineering Rutgers University |
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| Thursday April 17 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Ruohong Li Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Oscillator Strength Measurements in Sm II, Nd II and Pr II”
Supervisors: R. Holt / D. Rosner |
| MONDAY April 15 1:30 p.m. Rm 52 B&G |
Dr. Gopalan Srinivasan University of Toronto A Joint PLANETARY SCIENCE presentation of the Depts. of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES |
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| FRIDAY April 11 1:30 p.m. Rm 52 B&G |
Dr. Irene Antonenko University of Toronto A Joint PLANETARY SCIENCE presentation of the Depts. of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES |
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| MONDAY April 7 4:30 p.m. Rm 215 P&A |
Astronomy Seminar Dr. Huirong Yan Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) University of Toronto |
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| Thursday April 3 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Paul D. Spudis Staff Scientist Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston, TX A Joint PLANETARY SCIENCE presentation of the Depts. of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES |
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| TUESDAY April 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Simon Ruffell Electronic Materials Engineering Australian National University |
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| Thursday March 27 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Randy Kissack Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
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| MONDAY March 24 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. S. Peter Worden
(Brig. Gen., USAF, ret.) Director, NASA Ames Research Center Moffat Field, CA A Joint PLANETARY SCIENCE presentation of the Depts. of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES |
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| Thursday March 20 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. J. W. (Bill) McConkey Physics Dept University of Windsor |
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| MONDAY March 17 4:30 p.m. Rm 215 P&A |
Astronomy Seminar Dr. Jonathan Braithwaite Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) University of Toronto |
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| FRIDAY March 14 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar Nan Yang Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Microrheology of F-actin Networks ”
Supervisors: J. de Bruyn / J. Hutter |
| Thursday March 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Maria Kilfoil Physics & Astronomy Dept McGill University |
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| WEDNESDAY March 12 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Suzanne Giorgio
ESIL, Université de la Méditerranée Marseille, France Presented Jointly with the Western Institute for Nanomaterials Science (WINS) |
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| FRIDAY March 7 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar Tushar Das Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Spin-hall effect”
Supervisor: M. Cottam |
| Thursday March 6 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. John Whitehead
SHARCNET & Centre for Chemical Physics (CCP) Visiting Fellow from the Dept of Physics & Physical Oceanography at Memorial University of Newfoundland Presented Jointly with the APPLIED MATHEMATICS DEPT. |
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| WEDNESDAY February 27 3:30-4:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Astronomy Seminar STAR FORMATION JAMBOREE 4 short talks by: - Michael Attard - Wolfgang Dapp - Talayeh Hezareh - Dr. Carolyn McCoey Western Physics & Astronomy |
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| Thursday February 21 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar Tomas Trebicky Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Charge transport models for organic field-effect transistors”
Supervisor: L. Lau |
| Thursday February 21 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Kimberly Hill St. Anthony Falls Laboratory University of Minnesota |
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| Thursday February 14 3:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar Maher Ahmed Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Fundamentals, Properties, Fabrication, and Applications”
Supervisor: S. Mittler |
| Thursday February 14 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Bjarni Tryggvason Astronaut & Visiting Professor Canadian Space Agency/ Mechanical/Materials Engineering Dept @ Western |
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| MONDAY February 11 4:30 p.m. Rm 215 P&A |
Astronomy Seminar Peter Jedicke Past-Pres. RASC/Professor @ Fanshawe College |
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| Thursday February 7 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Mahi Singh Physics & Astronomy Dept University of Western Ontario |
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| WEDNESDAY February 6 3:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar Parisa Hudson Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Magnetic resonance spectroscopy: A method to quantify metabolic levels in human brains”
Supervisor: B. Chronik |
| TUESDAY February 5 3:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Condensed Matter Seminar Dr. Tsuyoshi Mizuguchi Department of Mathematical Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan |
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| FRIDAY February 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Astronomy Seminar Dr. James Di Francesco NRC - Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics |
Host: M. Houde |
| Thursday January 31 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. An-Chang Shi Dept. of Physics & Astronomy McMaster University Presented Jointly with the APPLIED MATHEMATICS Dept. |
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| WEDNESDAY January 30 12:30 -2:00 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Graduate Students'
SEMINAR and MEETING Dr. James Di Francesco Dr. David Loop Dr. Luc Simard The National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Pizza will be served |
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| TUESDAY January 29 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar Stephen Hudson Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Diffusion and Electrophoresis in Hydrogels”
Supervisor: J. Hutter |
| Thursday January 24 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Stephen Morris Physics Department University of Toronto |
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| MONDAY January 21 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Kyle Gilbert Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Development of a field-cycled magnetic resonance imaging scanner”
Supervisor: B. Chronik |
| FRIDAY January 18 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Ralf Gellert Department of Physics University of Guelph Presented Jointly with the EARTH SCIENCES Dept. |
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| Thursday January 17 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Peter Kruse Brockhouse Inst of Materials Research & Chemistry Dept McMaster University |
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| July through December 2007: | ||
| Thursday December 20 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Albert Russell Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Numerical simulations of composition changes in the high latitude thermosphere during disturbed conditions”
Supervisors: B. Sica / J-P St-Maurice |
| Thursday December 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Peter Gural Advanced Research Division Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Virginia, USA |
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| Thursday December 6 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Georges Michaud Physics Department University of Montreal |
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| Thursday November 29 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Michael Balogh Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Waterloo |
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| WEDNESDAY November 28 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Alain Berinstain
Director of Space Astronomy and Planetary Exploration, Canadian Space Agency Presented Jointly with the Dept. of EARTH SCIENCES |
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| TUESDAY November 27 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Martin Bureau Functional Polymer Systems National Research Council - Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) Boucherville, QC |
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| Thursday November 22 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Matthew Ford Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Dept. University of Toronto |
"Validation and application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to cerebral aneurysms”
Host: L. Goncharova / T. Poepping |
| TUESDAY November 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Michael J. Bennett Medical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, UK School of Clinical Sciences & Community Health |
"Medical ultrasound—can the natural world teach us any new tricks?”
Host: L. Goncharova / T. Poepping |
| Thursday November 8 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Nick Provatas Materials Science & Engineering McMaster University |
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| Thursday November 1 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. John Dutcher Department of Physics, University of Guelph Advanced Foods and Materials Network (NCE) |
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| WEDNESDAY October 31 2:30 p.m. Visual Arts Rm 100 |
Dr. Glenn Martyna
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, New York Presented Jointly with the APPLIED MATHEMATICS DEPT. |
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| Thursday October 25 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Harvey Richer Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of British Columbia |
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| Thursday October 18 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Profs. J. Hutter, A. Sigut & M. Zinke-Allmang Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Western Ontario |
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| Thursday October 11 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Melanie Campbell Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Waterloo |
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| TUESDAY October 2 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar
Iftekhar-ul Haque Western Physics & Astronomy - CANCELLED - |
"Spectral properties of synthetic opal photonic crystals”
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| Thursday September 20 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Jack Baggaley Physics & Astronomy Dept. University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand |
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| Thursday September 13 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Norm Murray Director, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) Toronto |
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| Thursday September 6 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Douglas O. ReVelle Atmospheric, Climate and Environmental Dynamics Group Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| Thursday August 30 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
Dr. Ray Morris Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate Program, Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Environment and Water Resources, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia |
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| TUESDAY August 28 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Nimalan Swarnalingam Western Physics & Astronomy |
“Studies of polar mesosphere summer echoes at multiple sites using calibrated radars”
Supervisor: W. Hocking |
| MONDAY August 27 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture James Odegaard Western Physics & Astronomy |
“Design and performance evaluation of a pinhole-SPECT array insert for a field cycled MRI”
Supervisor: B. Chronik |
| WEDNESDAY August 22 9:30 a.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture Jing Zou Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Study of the microscopic structure of polymer-clay mixtures under shear using light scattering”
Supervisor: J. de Bruyn |
| Thursday August 16 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
MSc Public Lecture Josh de Bever Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Design of multiple-imaging-region gradient coil for parallel mouse MRI”
Supervisor: B. Chronik |
| WEDNESDAY August 15 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Songbo Xu Western Physics & Astronomy |
“Immobilized ferrocenium in tetraurea calix[4]arenes heterodimers: self-assembly on gold, electrochemical responses, and detection of the redox states by a tip - towards molecular information storage”
Supervisors: S. Mittler / M. Zinke-Allmang |
| FRIDAY August 10 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
659Y Graduate Seminar
Iftekhar-ul Haque Western Physics & Astronomy - CANCELLED - |
"Spectral properties of synthetic opal photonic crystals”
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| Thursday August 9 1:30 p.m. Rm 123 P&A |
PhD Public Lecture Debashish Mukherji Western Physics & Astronomy |
"Molecular dynamics studies of the diffusion of adsorbed and confined polymer films”
Supervisor: M. Müser |
