Colloquia from 2008 - 2009

Summary of colloquia presentations for the academic year
for the Academic Year
2008-2009
(1 June 2008 - 31 May 2009)
DATE/TIME SPEAKER TITLE / Host

Talks are listed in DESCENDING date order.

Talks are held on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in PAB 123. Exceptions are noted in RED.
January through June 2009:
Friday
May 22
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A
Dr. Karen Daniels
Physics Department
North Carolina State University
"Force chains and state variables in granular materials”

Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday
May 21
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 PhD Public Lecture
Simon de Vet
University of Western Ontario
"The shape of impact craters
in granular media”

Supervisor: J. de Bruyn
Wednesday
May 20
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 PhD Public Lecture
Hoa Nguyen
University of Western Ontario
"Dipole-exchange spin waves in magnetic nanomaterials ”

Supervisor: M. Cottam
Tuesday
April 28
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A
Dr. Gordon Richards
Physics & Astronomy Dept
Drexel University
"Quasars and the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey”

Host: S. Gallagher
Wednesday
April 22
 1:00 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 MSc Public Lecture
David Braid
University of Western Ontario
"Fluxes of sporadic meteoroids
from optical measurements”

Supervisors: M. Campbell-Brown/P. Wiegert
Monday
April 20
2:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A
Dr. Narayanan Menon
Physics Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst

A Joint Presentation of the Depts of Physics & Astronomy and Applied Mathematics
"Wrinkling, folding and crumpling
of thin films”

Hosts: J. de Bruyn / C. Denniston
Monday
April 20
 9:30 a.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 PhD Public Lecture
Razvan Nistor
University of Western Ontario
"Simulation of charge transfer and orbital rehybridization in molecular and condensed matter systems”

Supervisor: M. Müser
Thursday
April 16
1:00 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A
Drs. J. de Bruyn, J. Hutter, T. Poepping and M. Zinke-Allmang
Physics & Astronomy Dept
University of Western Ontario
"Educational research and innovation in the Physics & Astronomy Department”

Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday
April 9
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Raimundo Costa Filho
Physics & Astronomy Dept
University of Western Ontario
"Impurities in Graphene Ribbons”

Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday
April 2
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 137 P&A
Drs. Peter Taylor
and Jim Whiteway
Earth & Space Science and Engineering Dept
York University
"The Phoenix Mission: Weather on Mars”

Host: W. Hocking
Wednesday
April 1
 2:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A
Graduate Seminar
Bushra Hussain
University of Western Ontario
"Nonlinear propogation in ultrasonic field with applications to Tissue Harmonic Imaging”

Supervisor: T. Poepping
Thursday
March 26
3:30 p.m.
Rm 137 P&A
CAP Lecture

Dr. James Taylor
 Physics & Astronomy Dept
University of Waterloo
"What is Dark Matter?
(and why should we care?)”

Host: A. Sigut
Thursday
March 19
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Andy Knights
Engineering Physics Dept
McMaster University
"Bottom-up and top-down in 2nd generation silicon photonics”

Host: P. Simpson
Friday
March 6
7:00 p.m.
Somerville House Rm 3345
6th Annual Planetary Science & Exploration Public Lecture
Dr. Seth Shostak
SETI Institute

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
@ Michael's Garden
"When will we Discover the Extraterrestrials?”

Hosts: P. Brown/G. Osinski
Friday
March 6
 1:30 p.m.
KB K203
Dr. Seth Shostak
SETI Institute

A Joint Planetary Science Presentation of the Depts of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES
"Efficiency in SETI”

Host: P. Brown
Thursday
March 5
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. David F. Gray
Physics & Astronomy Dept
University of Western Ontario
"The third signature of stellar granulation”

Host: A. Sigut
Wednesday
March 4
2:30 p.m.
Rm 215 P&A 		Graduate Seminar
Ali Hatef
University of Western Ontario
"Controlling the optical properties of photonic crystals doped with quantum dots”

Supervisor: M. Singh
Thursday
February 26
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Steven Rehse
Physics & Astronomy Dept
Wayne State University
"The BIOMAS Project: Bacteria identification by optical, molecular, and atomic spectroscopy”

Host: R. Holt
Wednesday
February 25
 4:30 p.m.
Conron Hall
UC 224
1st Annual Theoretical Physics Public Lecture

Dr. Neil Turok
Director, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Waterloo ON

RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW
"What Banged?”

Host: S. Basu
Wednesday
February 25
2:30 p.m.
Rm 215 P&A 		Graduate Seminar
Mohammed Osman
University of Western Ontario
"Satellite Ozone Measurements”

Supervisor: W. Hocking
Thursday
February 19
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Mamadou Diop
Lawson Health Research Institute, Imaging
"Non-invasive measurement of regional cerebral blood flow at the bedside using a spatially-resolved near-infrared technique”

Host: J. de Bruyn  
Thursday
February 12
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Bradley Warren
Physics & Astronomy Dept
McMaster University
"The high HI mass-to-light ratio dwarf galaxies and the JCMT nearby galaxies legacy survey”

Host: P. Barmby
Wednesday
February 11
2:30 p.m.
Rm 215 P&A 		Graduate Seminar
Armin Dehghan
University of Western Ontario
"In-situ turbulence measurements using high-resolution balloon techniques”

Supervisor: W. Hocking
Monday
February 2
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 MSc Public Lecture
Andrea Domokos
University of Western Ontario
"Estimating the degree of space weathering on Koronis family asteriods”

Supervisor: P. Wiegert
Wednesday
January 28
2:30 p.m.
Rm 215 P&A 		Graduate Seminar
Dustin Haw
University of Western Ontario
"Parallel Imaging in MRI”

Supervisor: B. Chronik
Thursday
January 22
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 PhD Public Lecture
Felix Oppong
University of Western Ontario
"Rheology, Microrheology and Structure of Soft Materials”

Supervisor: J. de Bruyn
Thursday
January 15
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Christoper Keep
English Department
University of Western Ontario
"The men of information: Data processing in the literature of Victorian Britain”

Host: R. Kissack
July through December 2008:
Monday
December 22
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 MSc Public Lecture
Blessing Iserhienrhien
University of Western Ontario
"The climatology of the stratospheric temperature using
Purple Crow Raman Lidar”

Supervisor: R. Sica
Wednesday
December 17
9:30 a.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 MSc Public Lecture
Iram Munawar
University of Western Ontario
"Potential use of single photon emission tomography ventilation scan for intensity modulated radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer”

Supervisor: E. Wong
Thursday
December 4
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 PhD Public Lecture
Abdollah Hassanzadeh Ghozlo
University of Western Ontario
"Waveguide evanescent field fluorescence microscopy and its application in cell biology”

Supervisor: S. Mittler
Thursday
November 27
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Sylvie Rangan
Physics & Astronomy Dept
Rutgers University
"Electronic energy level alignment in dye sensitized oxide surfaces”

Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday
November 20
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Robert Deegan
 Physics Department
University of Michigan
"Depositing, splashing, and ratcheting drops: surprising phenomena in free-surface flows”

Host: J. de Bruyn
Monday
November 17
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. John S. Tse
CRC - Theoretical Materials Science
Physics & Engineering Physics
University of Saskatchewan
"Superconductivity in high pressure solids”

Host: T. K. Sham
Thursday
November 13
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Walt Duley
Physics & Astronomy Dept
University of Waterloo
"Interstellar molecules in the laboratory?”

Host: E. Peeters
Thursday
November 6
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. William J. Turkel
History Department
University of Western Ontario
"Material Environment and Historical Consciousness”

Host: R. Kissack
Thursday
October 30
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Michael Way
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY
& Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA
"The prediction and detection of the expansion of the universe and the cosmic microwave background: A brief history”

Hosts: E. Peeters / J. Cami
Wednesday
October 29
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A 		Graduate Seminar
Iftekhar-Ul Haque
University of Western Ontario
"Spectral properties of synthetic opal photonic crystals”

Supervisor: M. Singh
Thursday
October 23
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. John Everett
Physics Department
The University of Wisconsin
"Standing on the Shoulders of Relativistic Particles: A Kiloparsec-Scale Wind in the Milky Way?”

Host: S. Gallagher
Monday
October 20
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Matthew Halsall
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
U.K.
"Micro photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy of nanoscale electronic materials”

Host: P. Simpson
Friday
October 17
 7:00 p.m.
Rm 137 P&A (reception to follow in PAB 123)
Dr. Robert Jedicke
University of Hawai'i
Institute for Astronomy

A Joint Presentation of the Space Society of London, Centre for Planetary & Space Exploration, and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (London chapter)
"Killer Asteroids ... and what we can do about them”

Hosts: P. Brown/G. Osinski
Thursday
October 16
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Robert Jedicke
Institute for Astronomy
Hawaii

A Joint Planetary Science Presentation of the Depts of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES
"The distribution of basaltic asteroids in the Main Belt”

Host: P. Brown
Thursday
October 9
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Jean-Pierre St-Maurice
CRC - Environmental Sciences
Institute for Space & Atmospheric Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
"Studying the Aurora Borealis in the 21st Century”

Host: M. Kagan
Friday
October 3
1:30 p.m.
Rm 343 Talbot College 		Dr. Bill Unruh
Physics and Astronomy Dept
University of British Columbia

A Joint Presentation of the Departments of PHILOSOPHY and PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
"Quantum Mechanics is not Nonlocal”

Hosts: W. Myrvold / J. de Bruyn
Thursday
October 2
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Evelyne Alecian
Department of Physics
Royal Military College of Canada
Kingston
"Magnetism and rotation in the young Herbig Ae/Be stars”

Host: J. Landstreet  
Thursday
September 25
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Wayne Hocking
Physics & Astronomy Dept
University of Western Ontario
"Polar Research and Global Warming”

Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday
September 18
1:00 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Peter Brown
CRC - Meteor Science
Planetary Science Prog. Director
Physics & Astronomy Dept.
University of Western Ontario

A Joint Planetary Science Presentation of the Depts of PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and EARTH SCIENCES
"The recent crater forming meteorite impact in Peru”

Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday
September 11
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Dr. Frank Roy
Electronics Hardware Engineer & Founding Director
Elektra Observatories
Ottawa
"The one metre initiative: A new premier telescope in Canada”

Host: P. Wiegert
Tuesday
August 19
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 MSc Public Lecture
Olga Lobacheva
University of British Columbia
"Optical properties of ZnO nanostructures and rare-earth phosphors”

Supervisor: T.K. Sham
Thursday
August 14
 1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Kyle Lawson
Physics Department
University of Western Ontario
"Why is Most of the Universe Invisible?”

Host: A Sigut
Thursday
August 14
9:00 a.m.
Rm 1002 DSB		 MSc Public Lecture
Patrick Granton
Western Physics & Astronomy
"Material interpretation of Micro-CT images using thresholds and multiple energy acquisition data”

Supervisor: D. Holdsworth
Wednesday
August 13
1:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A
MSc Public Lecture
Marc Normandin
Western Physics & Astronomy
"Pattern recognition of a gravitational wave pulsar signal”

Supervisor: R. Valluri
Thursday
June 26
3:30 p.m.
Rm 123 P&A		 Stéphanie Deboeuf
ENS-Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Paris, France
"Folding and crumpling of thin elastic sheets: Statistical analyses of geometrical and energetical properties”

Host: J. de Bruyn