Colloquia from 2019 - 2020

Summary of colloquia presentations for the academic year
for the Academic Year 2019-2020 (September 2019 through May 2020)
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 one noted exception each month when there will be NO colloquium.
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
WINTER Term 2020:
Thursday 19 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Katie Mack Department of Physics North Carolina State University -- CANCELLED --	Dark Matter: A cosmological perspective Hosts: S. Basu/F. Vidotto
Thursday 26 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Tyler Hayes Quantitative Strategies and Risk Premia CPP Investments -- CANCELLED --	Quant 101: A scientist's view from the inside Host: S. Basu
Thursday 9 April 1:30 p.m.	(Faculty Mtg)
Thursday 9 April 3:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Monika Moscibrodzka Department of Astrophysics Radboud University -- CANCELLED --	TBA Hosts: S. Basu/F. Vidotto
Thursday 16 April 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Chris DeGroot Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering Western University -- CANCELLED --	TBA Host: O. Trichtchenko
Thursday 23 April 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Abigail Stevens Department of Astronomy Michigan State University/University of Michigan -- CANCELLED --	Mapping matter in strong gravity: Spectral-timing of black holes and neutron stars Host: P. Barmby
Thursday 30 April 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Jens Dilling Physical Sciences Division TRIUMF Presented JOINTLY with the Department of Chemistry -- CANCELLED --	TBA Hosts: G. Fanchini / J. Blacquiere
PREVIOUS talks:
Thursday 12 March 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Michael C. Kolios Department of Physics Ryerson University Physics Undergraduate Conference (PhUnC) Keynote Talk	A modern ceraunoscope: Probing different biological length scales using photoacoustic imaging Hosts: Physics & Astronomy Student Association (PASA)
Thursday 5 March 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
Thursday 27 February 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Fereshteh Rajabi Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) University of Waterloo	Engineering 2D lattices from 1D spin chains Host: M. Houde
Thursday 20 February 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Reading Week)
Thursday 13 February 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ben Lansdell Department of Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania	The neuronal credit assignment problem as causal inference Host: O. Trichtchenko
Thursday 6 February 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
Thursday 30 January 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Nabil Bassim Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy McMaster University	Non-conventional 2-D materials synthesized in non-conventional ways: Growth and characterization Host: L. Goncharova
Thursday 23 January 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Prof. Krishna Singh Department of Medical Biophysics Western University	Role of DNA Damage & Repair in Cardiovascular Pathobiology Host: S. Basu
Thursday 16 January 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Mustafa Yavuz Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering University of Waterloo	Manufacturing, functionalization and packaging Nano and Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (NMEMS) Sensors for “Fit and Forget” type self-powered autonomous systems Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday 9 January 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
FALL Term 2019:
Thursday 5 December 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
Thursday 28 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Hamsa Padmanabhan Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) University of Toronto	Deciphering the baryonic universe: From Cosmic Dawn till today Host: S. Basu
Thursday 21 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Deepa Singh Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	Polymer memories: Devices and mechanism Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday 14 November 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
WEDNESDAY 13 November 6:00 p.m. Conron Hall - University College Rm 3110 Reception to follow	Dr. Melanie Campbell Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Waterloo The Annual ELIZABETH LAIRD Memorial Lecture	The Eye as a Window on the Brain Host: P. Barmby / R. Cockcroft
WEDNESDAY 6 November 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Milica Radisic Toronto General Research Institute University of Toronto Presented JOINTLY with the Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials Research (CAMBR)	Biowire models of healthy and diseased myocardium Hosts: T. Poepping / E. Gillies
Thursday 31 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Francesca Vidotto Departments of Applied Mathematics and Philosophy Western University	White holes: The bright side of black holes Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday 24 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Rowan Thomson Department of Physics Carleton University	Advancing cancer radiation therapy with physics: Multi-scale modeling from patient to cells Host: E. Wong
Thursday 17 October 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
WEDNESDAY 16 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Cameron Hopkins Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology	Elastic flow instabilities in microfluidics Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday 10 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Katelyn Allers Department of Physics & Astronomy Bucknell University	Exometeorology: Determining the atmospheric conditions on alien worlds Host: S. Metchev
Thursday 3 October 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Wendy Taylor Department of Physics & Astronomy York University	The Mysterious Magnetic Monopole Host: P. Barmby
Thursday 26 September 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Ranjith Divigalpitiya Senior Specialist / Physicist 3M Canada Company	Two-Dimensional Materials @ 3M: A retrospective of an industrial physicist Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday 19 September 1:30 p.m.	NO Colloquium (Faculty Mtg scheduled)
Thursday 12 September 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Althea Moorhead NASA Meteoroid Environment Office Marshall Space Flight Center	Modeling the meteoroid environment as seen by spacecraft Host: P. Brown
Thursday 5 September 1:30 p.m. PAB Room 100	Dr. Peter G. Brown Department of Physics & Astronomy Western University	The airburst hazard from small asteroid impacts: What we have learned from Chelyabinsk Host: R. J. Sica

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