Colloquia from 2015 - 2016

Summary of colloquia presentations for the academic year
for the Academic Year 2015-2016 (August 2015 through July 2016)
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
You can find all the Physics & Astronomy Events on Western's Events Calendar by clicking here. Our Colloquia will be 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:
Summer Term 2016:
TUESDAY June 21 10:30 a.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jason Nordhaus School of Mathematical Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology	Binary interactions on the post-main sequence Host: S. Gallagher
Winter Term 2016:
Thursday May 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Paul Bazylewski Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Band Engineering of Graphene using Metal Mediated Oxidation Host: G. Fanchini
FRIDAY May 20 12:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ann Hornschemeier NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland ASTRONOMY Seminar	All the X-ray binaries in the Universe: X-ray Emission from Normal and Starburst Galaxies Near and Far Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday May 19 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Chat Hull Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics National Radio Astronomy Observatory	Multi-scale observations of dust polarization in star-forming clouds, cores, envelopes, and disks Host: S. Basu
Thursday May 12 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Zoran Miskovic Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo	Interaction of Graphene with Charged Particles Host: M. Singh
MONDAY May 2 1:15 p.m. PAB Room 106	Dr. Karen Leighly Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Oklahoma Great Lakes Quasar Symposium Keynote Talk	Using Photoionization to Understand Outflows in AGN and Quasars Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday April 28 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Daniel J. Scheeres Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research The University of Colorado Boulder	The Strength of Rubble Piles: Evidence and Implications Host: P. Brown
Thursday April 21 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Bruce Macintosh Department of Physics Stanford University	Direct imaging of extrasolar planets and the Gemini Planet Imager Host: S. Metchev
FRIDAY April 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Michael Eracleous Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics Penn State University	Using the broad emission lines of quasars to study the dynamics of gas in the accretion flow Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday April 14 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Gregg Wade Department of Physics Royal Military College of Canada	Stellar magnetic fields and stellar evolution Host: J. Landstreet
Thursday April 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Michal Simon Department of Physics & Astronomy Stony Brook University	Masses and Ages of Young Stars Host: S. Metchev
Thursday March 31 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Brian Jackson Department of Physics Boise State University	On the edge: Exoplanets with orbital periods shorter than a Peter Jackson movie Host: P. Brown
Thursday March 24 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo Department of Physics Université de Montréal	Black Holes: Sculptors of Galaxies and Clusters Host: S. Gallagher
Thursday March 24 3:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Stephanie Simmons Department of Physics Simon Fraser University Annual CAP Lecture	The International Race for a Quantum Computer Hosts: R.J. Sica / T. Poepping
Thursday March 17 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Arun Ramchandran Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry University of Toronto	Macrotransport processes in the pressure-driven flow of a concentrated, non-colloidal suspension Host: J. de Bruyn
WEDNESDAY March 16 7:00 p.m. Paul Davenport Theatre Talbot College, Western	Dr. Ada E. Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009) Department of Structural Biology and Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Our Apologies: The Annual ELIZABETH LAIRD Memorial Lecture is	The Origin of Life Host: R.J. Sica / M. Singh
Thursday March 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Melanie Campbell Department of Physics and Astronomy and School of Optometry and Vision Science University of Waterloo	Through the Optics of the Eye to a Window on the Brain Hosts: W. Hocking / T. Poepping
Thursday March 3 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. John Katsaras Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee - Knoxville	Evidence for Nanoscopic Lipid Domains in Model Membranes and a Bacterium Hosts: P. Wiegert
Thursday February 18 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. John Sipe Department of Physics University of Toronto	The Nonlinear Optics of Graphene: Welcome to the Wild West! Host: M. Singh
Thursday February 11 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Silvia Mittler Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Evanescent fields: Their sources and applications Host: W. Hocking
Thursday February 4 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Joanne O'Meara Department of Physics University of Guelph	The evolution of the undergraduate physics curriculum at the University of Guelph Host: W. Hocking / T. Poepping
Thursday January 28 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ganapathy Baskaran Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Chennai, India)	Molecular solids under high pressure: New prospects for room temperature superconductivity Hosts: S. Valluri
Thursday January 21 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Mattia Galiazzo Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Close encounter and impacts with Terrestrial planets: Dynamical studies and observations Host: P. Wiegert
Thursday January 14 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Andrew Pon Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Observations of Turbulence Dissipating in Giant Molecular Clouds Host: M. Houde
Thursday January 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Patrick Hall Department of Physics & Astronomy York University	Quasar Outflows: The Fast and the Furious Host: S. Gallagher
Fall Term 2015:
Thursday December 3 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Niels Oppermann Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) University of Toronto	Cosmic magnetism revealed through Faraday rotation Host: M. Houde
Thursday November 26 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Michael Noseworthy Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University	Towards a Better and Faster Understanding of in vivo Metabolism Using NMR Host: B. Chronik
FRIDAY November 20 12:30 p.m. ROBARTS, Fisher Conference Rm	Dr. Alfred Yu Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Waterloo JOINT Colloquium with Western's Biomedical Imaging Research Centre (BIRC)	Ultrasound imaging innovations for live monitoring of complex flow dynamics Host: T. Poepping
Thursday November 12 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Stella Melo Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section Environment Canada	Using observations in a science framework to advance the quality of meteorological information in Canada Host: W. Hocking
Thursday November 5 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Robert J. Sica Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Optimal Estimation Methods for Active Remote Sensing Host: W. Hocking
Thursday October 29 1:00 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Robert Scott Laboratoire de Physique des Océans Université Bretagne Occidentale France	Time dilation in the curved space-time of general relativity Host: S. Valluri
Thursday October 22 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. A.G.G.M. (Xander) Tielens Leiden Observatory Universiteit Leiden The Netherlands	Astrochemistry: Putting the astro in astrobiology Host: E. Peeters
Thursday October 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Timothy Scholl Robarts Imaging and Department of Medical Biophysics Western University	Magnetic Resonance Imaging of In Vivo Metabolism Host: B. Chronik
Thursday October 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Faisal Boudala Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section Environment Canada	Overview of 4Wing Cold Lake Research Project (4WCLRP) Host: W. Hocking
Thursday October 1 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Bryan Gaensler Director, Dunlap Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Toronto	Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism Host: S. Basu
FRIDAY September 25 12:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Bill Harris Department of Physics and Astronomy McMaster University JOINT presentation with the P&A ASTRONOMY Seminar	Globular Cluster Systems, Galaxy Halos, and Dark Matter Host: S. Gallagher
FRIDAY September 18 12:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Rob Weryk Institute for Astronomy University of Hawaii ASTRONOMY SEMINAR	Near Earth Object Detection with Pan-STARRS Host: P. Brown
Thursday September 17 2:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Wayne Hocking Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Unusual modes of diffusion in the Earth's upper atmosphere Host: None
FRIDAY September 11 12:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Lauren Hetherington Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Toronto ASTRONOMY SEMINAR	Extending the Observed Length of the Orphan Star Stream Host: S. Metchev
Thursday September 10 2:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Stanimir Metchev Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	From Exoplanets to Comets: Pursuing Old and New Initiatives at Western Host: M. Houde
Summer Term 2015:
TUESDAY August 11 2:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Robi Banerjee Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory University of Hamburg ASTRONOMY SEMINAR	Star formation out of the Magnetised Interstellar Medium Host: S. Basu

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Members of the Colloquium Committee for 2015 - 2016 and contact info:

Blaine Chronik bchronik*
Sarah Gallagher sgalla4*
Wayne Hocking (Chair) whocking*
Mahi Singh msingh*

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