Colloquia from 2013 - 2014

for the Academic Year 2013-2014 (September 2013 through August 2014)
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
Our Colloquia are presented (unless otherwise noted) on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in PAB Seminar Room 100 (Main Floor (south side) of the Physics & Astronomy Building).
PREVIOUS Colloquia:
Winter Term 2014:
Thursday April 17 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jian Huang Department of Physics & Astronomy Wayne State University	Quantum Electron Solids in Zero Magnetic Field Host: M. Singh
Thursday April 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Niel Brandt Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics Penn State University	New probes of quasar winds: Multi-year variability, redshifted troughs, and hard X-ray spectroscopy of Broad Absorption Line quasars Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday March 27 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. David Wilner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Harvard Department of Astronomy	A New ‘Radio Era’ for the Study of Planet-Forming Disks Host: S. Metchev
Thursday March 20 3:30 p.m. PAB Room 106	Dr. Kimberley Hall Dept of Physics & Atmospheric Science Dalhousie University ANNUAL CAP LECTURE	Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light Host: S. Basu
Thursday March 20 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Kathryn Grandfield Dept of Materials Science & Engineering McMaster University	3D Electron Microscopy: Basics and Applications to Biointerfaces Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday March 13 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Bryan Delodder Director of Life Science Teledyne DALSA, Waterloo	How Healthy is your Innovation Funnel? Host: E. Wong
Thursday March 6 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Melvyn A. Goodale Director, Brain and Mind Institute Western University	Action without perception: What blindsight can tell us about the neural substrates of visuomotor control Host: B. Chronik
Thursday February 27 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Keivan Stassun Department of Physics and Astronomy Vanderbilt University	Star Formation, Solar Physics, and Stellar Astrophysics: A Data-Intensive Approach Host: S. Metchev
WEDNESDAY February 26 2:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Francois Schiettekatte Département de physique Université de Montréal SPECIAL SEMINAR	Measuring Heat at the Nanoscale Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday February 13 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Alioscia Hamma Distinguished Research Fellow Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	Equilibration and Thermalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems Host: M. Singh
Thursday February 6 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Marc Dignam Department of Physics Queen's University	An Excitonic Approach to the Terahertz Response of Semiconductor Nanostructures Host: M. Singh
Thursday January 30 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ken Ragan Department of Physics McGill University	Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics with VERITAS Host: M. Singh
Thursday January 23 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Andrea Soddu Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	A generalized Ising Model meeting the human brain Host: M. Singh
Thursday January 16 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Emmanuel Jacquet Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Toronto	The chondrule enigma Host: S. Metchev
Thursday January 9 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Rachel Friesen Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Toronto	Tracing the mass flow in clustered star forming regions Host: M. Houde
Fall Term 2013:
Thursday December 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Laura Chomiuk Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University	The E-Nova Project: A Multi-Wavelength Initiative to Probe the Ejecta and Environments of Novae Host: S. Metchev
Thursday November 28 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Alvira Macanovic CIMTEC Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization London, ON	Translating Research into Commercial Products Host: S. Basu
Thursday November 21 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	C-A-N-C-E-L-L-E-D Dr. Carlos Silva Département de physique Université de Montréal	Direct observation of ultrafast long-range charge separation at polymer:fullerene heterojunctions Host: M. Singh
Thursday November 14 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Peter Brown Department of Physics and Astronomy / CPSX Western University	The Chelyabinsk Airburst: Implications for the Impact Hazard at the Earth Host: S. Metchev
Thursday November 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Kumar Sharma Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Manitoba	Studying exotic nuclei with trapped ions Host: M. Singh
TUESDAY October 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Eric Donovan Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Calgary	Using the Aurora to Remote Sense Plasma Processes in Near-Earth Space Hosts: S. Basu / R.J. Sica
Thursday October 24 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Patrick Durrell Department of Physics and Astronomy Youngstown State University	Searching for Virgo’s Intracluster Globular Clusters Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday October 17 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Winnie Ye Department of Electrical Engineering Carleton University	Silicon photonics and its applications Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday October 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Stanimir Metchev Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Weather on Other Worlds Host: S. Basu
Thursday October 3 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Martin Houde Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Non-Zeeman Circular Polarization of Molecular Spectral Lines in the ISM Host: S. Basu
Thursday September 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Robin Garrod Center for Radiophysics and Space Research Cornell University	Scratching the surface: 3-D Monte Carlo simulations of interstellar ice structure and grain-surface chemistry Host: J. Cami
Thursday September 19 5:30 p.m. *(Doors open @ 5 p.m.)* Paul Davenport Theatre (Talbot College) FREE PARKING	Dr. Klaus von Klitzing Winner - 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE	The Quantum Hall Effect: Physics and Application Hosts: M. Singh / S. Basu
Thursday September 19 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Neil Turok Director, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Waterloo ON	Higgs Bang—a minimalist's cosmology Host: M. Singh
Thursday September 12 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Sarah Gallagher Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Winds, Winds, Every Where: Investigating Outlows from Accreting Supermassive Black Holes Host: S. Basu
TUESDAY September 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Julie Banfield CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Australia	The environmental impact on powerful radio galaxies Host: S. Basu

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Members of the Colloquium Committee for 2013 - 2014 and contact info:

Shantanu Basu - basu*
Stan Metchev - smetchev*
Mahi Singh - msingh*
Andrea Soddu - asoddu*

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