Colloquia from 2010 - 2011
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for the Academic Year |
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| Date/Time | Speaker | Title/Host |
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2nd term Colloquia are presented on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in Chemistry Room 9 (some exceptions). |
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| 2nd term - January through April 2011: | ||
| 1st Term - September through December 2010: | ||
| PREVIOUS Colloquia: | ||
| Tuesday May 31 11:30 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Federico Rosei INRS-EMT Université du Québec |
"What type of energy for the future of humanity?”
Host: G. Fanchini |
| Thursday May 12 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Sigrid Close Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stanford University |
"Hypervelocity electromagnetic signatures from meteoroid impacts on spacecraft”
Host: P. Brown |
| Thursday April 14 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Jaymie Matthews Physics & Astronomy Dept University of British Columbia |
"Rewriting the textbooks: Stellar seismology and exoplanetary science with the MOST space telescope”
Host: A. Wehlau |
| Thursday April 7 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Mark Peacock Physics & Astronomy Dept Michigan State University |
"The M31 globular cluster system and its X-ray binaries”
Host: P. Barmby |
| Thursday March 31 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
CAP Lecture Dr. Adrian Lupascu Dept of Physics & Astronomy & Inst for Quantum Computing University of Waterloo |
"Quantum Electrical Circuits”
Host: E. Wong |
| Thursday March 17 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Patricia Lindsay Radiation Oncology Dept University of Toronto |
"Development of an Image-Guided Small Animal Irradiation Platform”
Host: E. Wong |
| Friday March 11 3:30 p.m. UCC 290 (McKellar Room) |
Theoretical Physics Distinguished Speaker Series Dr. Anthony Leggett Physics Dept University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics?”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday March 10 9:00 a.m. UCC 315 (Council Chambers) |
Dr. Anthony Leggett Physics Dept University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Cuprate superconductivity without a 'model'”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday March 3 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Murugappan Muthukumar Polymer Science & Engineering Dept University of Massachusetts |
"Packaging biological macromolecules and delivery”
Host: M. Singh |
| Thursday February 17 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Fereidoon S. Razavi Physics Department Brock University |
"Superconducting and electronic properties of metal intercalated graphite at ambient and high pressures”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday February 10 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Ed Churchwell Department of Astronomy University of Wisconsin |
"The Infrared Galaxy: What have we learned?”
Host: E. Peeters |
| Thursday January 27 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Mike Fich Physics & Astronomy Department University of Waterloo |
"Intermediate mass stars provide clues to the star formation process?”
Host: E. Peeters |
| Thursday January 20 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Carol Jones Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"Unravelling the secrets of hot disks”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday January 13 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Jamie Forrest Physics & Astronomy Department University of Waterloo |
"Enhanced surface mobility in glassy materials”
Host: M. Singh |
| Thursday January 6 1:30 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Manda INRS-EMT, Université de Québec and visiting instructor - Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"Novel synthesis and studies on structural, thermophysical properties of various Nano materials and their application- prospective”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday December 16 1:00 p.m. PAB 233 |
Special Departmental Seminar Dr. John de Bruyn Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"Physics 2110 - Oscillations and Waves: How it worked the first time through, and how it will affect our other courses”
Hosts: J. Hutter / M. Zinke-Allmang |
| Thursday December 9 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Kalai Saravanamuttu Chemistry Department McMaster University |
"Nonlinear light propagation in photopolymers: from self-trapped beams to 3-D optical lattices”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday December 2 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Russell Thompson Physics & Astronomy Department University of Waterloo |
"What can field theory tell us about polymers at surfaces?”
Host: M. Singh |
| Thursday November 25 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Eduard Vorobyov Research Institute of Physics Southern Federal University, Russia |
"Embedded protostellar disks around (sub-)solar stars: The Dark Ages of disk evolution and the planet formation perspective”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday November 18 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. David F. Gray Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"The Legacy and Physics of Asymmetries in Stellar Spectral Lines”
Host: E. Peeters |
| Thursday November 11 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. François Lagugné-Labarthet Chemistry Departmenta University of Western Ontario |
"Raman Imaging and the Use of Meso- and Nanostructured Metallic Platforms”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday November 4 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Sajeev John Physics Department University of Toronto |
"Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Control at Will”
Host: M. Singh |
| Thursday October 28 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Wesley C. Fraser Geological and Planetary Sciences California Inst of Technology |
"Relics of planet formation: Understanding the history of the Kuiper Belt”
Host: P. Wiegert |
| Thursday October 21 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. David Lockwood NRC Institute for Microstructural Sciences, Ottawa |
"Optical Properties of Ge Dots Self-Assembled on SiO2 and TiO2 Films”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday October 14 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Doug McNeil Department of Earth Sciences University of Hong Kong |
"Migration, obliquity, and the fall of reach: What planetary tilts can tell us”
Host: P. Wiegert |
| Thursday October 7 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Sacha Hony Service d'Astrophysique CEA Saclay, France |
"Heritage - A Herschel survey of the Magellanic clouds”
Host: E. Peeters |
| Thursday September 30 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Tamie Poepping Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"Hemodynamics modeling and measurements”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday September 23 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Jayant Narlikar Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Pune, India |
"A Search for Very Old Stars”
Host: S. Basu |
| Wednesday September 22 5:00 p.m. Conron Hall UC 224 |
Elizabeth Laird Memorial Lecture
Dr. Jayant Narlikar Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Pune, India |
"Searches for Micro-organisms in the Earth's Atmosphere”
Host: S. Basu |
| Wednesday September 22 10:00 a.m. MSA 3204 |
(Special Astronomy Seminar)
Dr. Elizabeth Griffin NRC Herzberg Inst of Astrophysics Victoria BC |
"Composite-spectrum binary stars: Feeding or choking stellar-evolution theory?”
Host: J. Landstreet |
| Thursday September 16 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Jan Cami Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"The detection of C60 and C70 in space"
Host: E. Peeters |
| Thursday September 9 1:15 p.m. ChB 9 |
Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown Physics & Astronomy Department University of Western Ontario |
"The sporadic meteoroid complex”
Host: S. Basu |
| Friday July 16 2:30 p.m. PAB Rm 36 |
Dr. Mu-Ping Nieh Canadian Neutron Beam Centre NRC Canada a JOINT PRESENTATION of the Depts of Physics & Astronomy and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering |
"Small angle neutron scattering - Its application on soft material research and recent development at CNBC”
Hosts: J. de Bruyn / W. Wan |
