Colloquia from 2011 - 2012
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for the Academic Year |
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| Date/Time | Speaker | Title/Host |
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Our Colloquia are presented (generally) on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in PAB Room 22 (Seminar Room on lower level of Physics & Astronomy Building). |
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| Winter & Summer Terms 2012: | ||
| PREVIOUS Colloquia: | ||
| Winter term 2012: | ||
| FRIDAY June 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Gautier Mathys |
"Rotation, Magnetism, Binarity, and Chemical Peculiarities in A-type Stars"
Host: J. Landstreet |
| WEDNESDAY June 27 3:00 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Samaya Nissanke |
"Seeing and hearing the Violent Universe"
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday June 21 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Duncan Forgan |
"Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life”
Host: S. Gallagher |
| WEDNESDAY June 20 2:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. B.G. Sidharth |
"A model for the cosmological constant (dark energy)”
Host: R. Valluri / S. Basu |
| Thursday May 31 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Jeffrey Hutter |
"Examining the role of crystallization inhibitors using atomic-force microscopy”
Host: S. Basu |
| MONDAY May 28 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Mark Matney |
"The Challenge of Orbital Debris”
Hosts: P. Brown |
| Thursday May 24 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Martin Houde |
"Non-Zeeman Circular Polarization Measurements of Astronomical Molecular Lines”
Host: S. Basu |
| MONDAY April 30 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Jean-Michel Desert Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Harvard University |
"From statistics to individual characterization of exoplanets"
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday April 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Shelley Wright Dunlap Institute University of Toronto |
"Studying Galaxies in the Early Universe with Innovative Astronomical Instrumentation”
Host: S. Gallagher |
| MONDAY April 23 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Stanimir Metchev Department of Physics and Astronomy Stony Brook University of the State University of New York |
"Exoplanetary Worlds: Atmospheres, Architectures, and Evolution"
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday April 19 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. John Berlinsky Academic Program Director Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
"Quantum Oscillations in High Temperature Superconductors”
Host: M. Cottam / S. Basu |
| Thursday April 19 4:00 p.m. PAB Classroom 117 |
Dr. John Berlinsky Academic Program Director Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) Information Session
Host: M. Cottam / S. Basu |
| MONDAY April 16 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Nicolas Cowan Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Northwestern University, Illinois |
"Divining the Climate of a Pale Blue Dot"
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday April 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Nikku (Madhu) Madhusudhan Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Yale University JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) |
"Chemical Characterization of Exoplanetary Atmospheres”
Host: P. Brown / S. Basu |
| Thursday March 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Erik Curiel Rotman Institute of Philosophy / Department of Philosophy University of Western Ontario |
"Are Black Holes Hot or Cold?”
Host: S. Gallagher |
| Thursday March 22 Time 3:30 BGS 0153 |
Dr. Jan Kycia CAP Lecture Tour |
"Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice”
Hosts: R. Holt |
| Thursday March 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Viktor Staroverov Department of Chemistry University of Western Ontario |
"Advances in Density-Functional Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday March 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Travis Barman Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, Arizona |
"Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Young Giant Planets”
Host: S. Gallagher |
| WEDNESDAY March 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Jennifer McNab Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
"Developing Biomarkers of Neuroplasticity Using Diffusion MRI"
Host: S. Basu |
| MONDAY March 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Ives Levesque Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University |
"Quantitative mapping of brain tissue properties in vivo by magnetic resonance”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday March 1 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova |
"Ion beam analysis in modern materials science”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday February 16 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Harald Pfeiffer Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) University of Toronto |
"Blackholes, supercomputers and gravitational waves”
Hosts: R. Valluri / S. Basu |
| Thursday February 9 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Cheng Guan Koay |
"Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: From optimal acquisition design to signal extraction”
Host: S. Basu |
| TUESDAY February 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Todd Stevens |
"Accelerated high angular resolution diffusion imaging using compressed sensing: Crossing fiber data you can trust in a time you can afford”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday February 2 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Andrea Soddu |
"Neuroimaging in patients with disorders of consciousness: listening to a shy brain when the heart is shouting”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday January 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Blaine Chronik |
"Variable fields in MRI: progress, opportunities, and challenges”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Summer and Fall term 2011: | ||
| Thursday December 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Nazir Kherani |
"Photovoltaic-Photonic Crystal Interplay”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday December 1 Time 3:30 UCC 290 (McKellar Room) |
Dr. Leonard C. Feldman ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE |
"The Materials Revolution”
Hosts: L. Goncharova / S. Basu |
| FRIDAY November 18 Time 2:30 PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Latham Boyle THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR |
"New windows on black holes and the very early universe”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday November 17 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Sjoerd Roorda |
"Megavolts and Nanometers: Materials Analysis and Modification with High Energy Ion Beams”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday November 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Rupali Chandar |
"The life cycle of star clusters”
Host: S. Gallagher |
| Thursday November 3 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Peter Mascher Department of Engineering Physics McMaster University |
"Optical and X-ray spectroscopic investigations of light-emitting rare-earth-doped silicon nanostructures”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday October 27 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Alfred Yu Medical Engineering Program EEE Department The University of Hong Kong |
"Ultrasound: Expanding Role in Medicine and Biology”
Host: T. Poepping |
| TUESDAY October 25 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Partha Mitra Mitra Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Depts of Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurological Sciences |
"Mouse Brain Architecture Project”
Hosts: S. Basu / M. Karttunen / M. Jog |
| Thursday October 13 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Willy Lennard |
"High Fluence Ion-Implanted 32S Targets for Astrophysics Studies”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| Thursday October 6 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Jillian Bellovary Astronomy Department University of Michigan |
"The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations”
Host: S. Gallagher |
| TUESDAY October 4 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Simon Rogers |
"An overview of oscillatory rheology: From linear theory to nonlinear experiment”
Host: J. de Bruyn |
| Thursday September 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Els Peeters Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario |
"PAH emission features as astrophysical probes”
Host: S. Basu |
| Thursday September 22 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Pranawa Deshmukh Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |
"Which way will the photoelectrons go?”
Host: S. Basu |
| TUESDAY September 20 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Robert Chen Toronto Western Research Inst (TWRI) Div. of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems - Neuroscience JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Depts of Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurological Sciences |
"Role of the basal ganglia in voluntary movements and mechanisms of deep brain stimulation”
Hosts: S. Basu / M. Karttunen / M. Jog |
| MONDAY September 19 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Dolf Landheer Surfaces and Interfaces National Research Council Canada |
"Micron and Submicron Scale Biosensors: Modelling and Strategies for Implementation in Printable Electronics”
Hosts: S. Basu / H-Y Nie |
| Thursday September 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. David Crandles Department of Physics Brock University |
"Infrared Optical Spectroscopy and Phase Transitions”
Host: L. Goncharova |
| WEDNESDAY September 14 2:00 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Simone Balocco Computer Vision Center Universitat de Barcelona |
"Towards the Intelligent Catheter: Ongoing research in Intravascular Ultrasound”
Host: T. Poepping |
| WEDNESDAY August 17 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Anand Yethiraj Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography Memorial University |
"Cluster phases in colloids and proteins”
Host: J. de Bruyn |
| Thursday June 30 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Ravi P. Singh |
"International collaboration opportunities in Indian universities”
Host: M. Singh |
| TUESDAY June 21 11:00 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 22 |
Dr. Frances Skinner Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering University of Toronto JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Depts of Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurological Sciences |
"Modelling brain networks - Do details matter?”
Hosts: S. Basu / M. Karttunen / M. Jog |
