Colloquia from 2014 - 2015

Summary of colloquia presentations for the academic year
for the Academic Year 2014-2015 (August 2014 through July 2015)
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
You can find all the Physics & Astronomy Events on Western's Events Calendar by clicking here. 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).
Winter Term 2015:
WEDNESDAY May 27 Time TBA PAB Room 100	Dr. Olga Popova Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres Russian Academy of Sciences ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE	The Chelyabinsk Meteoroid Entry and Airburst Damage Host: S. Basu / M. Campbell-Brown
PREVIOUS Colloquia:
TUESDAY May 19 11:00 a.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Thomas Maindl Department of Astrophysics University of Vienna	Simulating Impacts and Collisions with Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Host: P. Wiegert
Thursday April 9 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Yang Song Department of Chemistry Western University	Development and Characterization of Novel Materials under Extreme Conditions using Spectroscopy and Synchrotron Radiation Host: A. Soddu
Thursday April 2 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Tim Robishaw Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory National Research Council Canada	Measuring Magnetic Fields Near and Far via the Zeeman Effect Host: M. Houde
Thursday March 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Emily Rauscher Department of Astronomy University of Michigan	The Increasing Complexity of Exoplanet Atmospheres Host: S. Metchev
Thursday March 19 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Terry Peters Imaging Research Group Robarts Research Institute	Physics, Astronomy, Medical Imaging, and Surgery Host: A. Soddu
Thursday March 12 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Douglas Duncan Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences University of Colorado	Applying the Scientific Method to University Science Teaching: Remarkable effort, Remarkable success Host: M. Houde
Thursday March 5 3:30 p.m. PAB Room 106	CAP Lecture Dr. Gabor Kunstatter Department of Physics University of Winnipeg	The Black Hole Information Loss Problem: Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Host: S. Basu
Thursday February 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Michal P. Heller Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	String theory, thermalization and ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions Host: A. Buchel
Thursday February 12 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jesse Zhu Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Western University	Manipulating Particles for the Best Industrial Practice Host: S. Basu
Thursday February 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Dustin Lang McWilliams Center for Cosmology - Dept of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo	The Web is My Observatory: Enabling astronomy with heterogeneous images Host: P. Barmby
Thursday January 29 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Audrey Bouvier Department of Earth Sciences Western University	Meteorites: Time capsules of the origin of the Solar System and terrestrial planets Host: P. Brown
Thursday January 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Hilke Schlichting Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Planet Formation and the Solar System Host: S. Metchev
Thursday January 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Sarah Sadavoy Planet and Star Formation Department Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie Heidelberg, Germany	Core Formation Caught in the Act? Host: M. Houde
Fall Term 2014:
Thursday December 11 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. J. J. Kavelaars Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics National Research Council Canada	The Kuiper belt and planet formation: A post-Pluto encounter for the New Horizons spacecraft and disruptive change for planetesimal accretion Host: P. Brown
Thursday December 4 1:00 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Vivek Maheshwari Department of Chemistry University of Waterloo	Cell-graphene hybrids as materials for device application and nanoparticle chains as active electrochemical systems Host: G. Fanchini
TUESDAY December 2 12:30 p.m. Chemistry Bldg Rm 115	Dr. Naomi Matsuura Department of Medical Imaging University of Toronto	Designing useful contrast agents for medical imaging: Basic research challenges Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday November 27 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Alex Buchel Department of Applied Mathematics Western University	String Theory approach to non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly coupled systems Host: S. Basu
Thursday November 20 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Hilding Neilson Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Toronto	Mass Loss, binarity, and rotation: Testing the details of stellar astrophysics using classical Cepheids Host: A. Sigut
Thursday November 13 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Asif ud-Doula Department of Physics Penn State Worthington Scranton	Magnetospheres of Massive Stars Host: C. Jones
Thursday October 23 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Robert Camley Department of Physics University of Colorado, Colorado Springs	Secret Lives of Dead Physicists Host: M. Cottam
Thursday October 16 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ian D'Souza Missions Scientist COM DEV International Ltd., Cambridge ON	The QEYSSat Mission - Quantum Science and Quantum Commercialization Host: S. Basu
WEDNESDAY October 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	JOINT presentation with the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) Dr. Sara Seager Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	The Search for Earth 2.0 Host: P. Brown
Thursday October 2 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. George Eleftheriades Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto	Negative-Refraction, Super-Resolution Imaging and Invisibility with Metamaterials Host: S. Basu
Thursday September 18 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. J. L. (Iain) Campbell Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute University of Guelph	The Curiosity rover alpha particle x-ray spectrometer: mineralogy and geochemistry challenge physics Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday September 11 1:00 p.m. PAB First Floor Atrium	Graduate Student Reception	Host: S. Basu
Thursday September 4 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Giovanni Fanchini Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Interfacing organic and carbon-based nanomaterials towards their applications in sustainable energy Host: S. Basu
Thursday August 14 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Anahi Granada Department of Astronomy University of Geneva	Evolution of rotating B-Type Stellar populations Host: C.E. Jones / T.A.A. Sigut

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Members of the Colloquium Committee for 2014 - 2015 and contact info:

Andrea Soddu - asoddu* (Chair)
Shantanu Basu - basu*
Peter Brown - pbrown*
Giovanni Fanchini - gfanchin*
Gordon Osinski - gosinski*

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