Colloquia from 2018 - 2019

Summary of colloquia presentations for the academic year
for the Academic Year 2018-2019 (September 2018 through May 2019)
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) with the EXCEPTION of the 1st Thursday of each month when there will be NO colloquium.
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
FALL Term 2019:	*Details to come*
PREVIOUS talks:
WINTER Term 2019:
Thursday 9 May 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Stephen Kane Department of Earth Sciences University of California - Riverside	Venus as a Laboratory for Exoplanetary Science Host: P. Wiegert
Thursday 2 May 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. UnCheol Lee Center for Consciousness Science Department of Anesthesiology University of Michigan	Network mechanism of the loss and recovery of consciousness under a large brain perturbation Host: A. Soddu
Thursday 18 April 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Habib Benali Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Concordia University	Combining neuroimaging and mathematical modeling of the kinetics and spreading of Tau aggregates in the brain in Alzheimer disease Host: A. Soddu
Thursday 11 April 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Richard D'Souza Department of Astronomy University of Michigan	Unravelling the Andromeda Galaxy’s most important merger Host: P. Barmby
Thursday 28 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Evgenya L. Shkolnik Department of Astrophysics Arizona State University	Blast from the past: The evolution of ultraviolet emission and flaring from low-mass stars and implications for habitable zone planets Host: S. Metchev
Thursday 21 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Brian McNamara Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Waterloo	Molecular clouds and the origins of feedback in galaxies Host: M. Houde
TUESDAY 19 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Nikodem Poplawski Department of Mathematics & Physics University of New Haven, CT	Big bounce and inflation from spin and torsion Host: R. Valluri
Thursday 14 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Joseph Bramante Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy Queen's University Physics Undergraduate Conference (PhUnC) Keynote Talk	New searches for dark matter with neutron stars, exploding white dwarfs, and multiscatter events at underground experiments Host: Physics & Astronomy Student Association (PASA)
Thursday 14 February 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Girma T. Bitsuamlak Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Western University	Climate resilient and sustainable architectural engineering Host: P. Barmby
Thursday 31 January 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Eric Johlin Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering Western University	Algorithmic design of 3D nanophotonic components Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday 24 January 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jonathan Bradley Department of Engineering Physics McMaster University	New Light Emitting Materials for Silicon Nanophotonics Host: L. Goncharova
FALL Term 2018:
Thursday 13 December 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Styliani (Stella) Constas Department of Chemistry Western University	Rayleigh limit of charged droplets: An old theory revisited. What Lord Rayleigh did not predict? Host: L. Goncharova
MONDAY 3 December 2:00 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ian Coulthard Beamline Development Scientist, Canadian Light Source Inc. Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Western University	Advanced x-ray spectroscopy at the Canadian Light Source and beyond Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday 29 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ali Khan Departments of Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging / Robarts Research Institute Western University	Computational neuroanatomy with magnetic resonance imaging Host: A. Soddu
Thursday 22 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Aaron Price Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering Western University	4D Printing and the Future of Additive Manufacturing Host: T. Poepping
Thursday 15 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Stéphane Courteau Department Physics, Engineering and Astronomy Queen's University	Puzzles in galaxy scaling relations Host: S. Metchev
Thursday 8 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Catherine Neish Department of Earth Sciences Western University	Titan: Ingredients for Life Host: P. G. Brown
Thursday 25 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Martin Houde Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Dicke’s superradiance and Fast Radio Bursts Host: R. J. Sica
TUESDAY 23 October 5:00 p.m. AHB 1R40	Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS Department of Physics University of Oxford The Annual ELIZABETH LAIRD Memorial Lecture	Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night: Transient astronomy Hosts: L. Goncharova / R. Cockcroft
Thursday 18 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Benne Holwerda Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Louisville	A search for high-redshift galaxies and an accidental galactic survey of dwarf stars with Hubble Host: P. Barmby
Thursday 11 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Auriane Egal Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Meteor shower predictions: Future Draconid Outbursts Host: P. G. Brown
Thursday 27 September 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jean-Pierre St-Maurice Department of Physics & Astronomy, Western University and Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan	The Aurora Borealis: More than meets the eyes! Host: R. J. Sica
Thursday 20 September 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Gunter Stober Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics Rostock University	Meteor observations from ground based sensors: What can we learn about the Earth’s atmosphere and the meteors? Host: P. G. Brown
Thursday 13 September 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Alycia Weinberger Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington	Circumstellar Disk Diversity and Clues to Planet Formation Host: S. Metchev
FRIDAY 3 August 11:00 a.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jayan Thomas Department of Materials Science & Engineering University of Central Florida	Fibers and ribbons for powering wearable devices Host: M. Singh
Thursday 26 July 11:00 a.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Shahram Abbassi Department of Physics Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran	On the vertical structure of hot accretion flows around Black Holes Host: S. Basu

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