Colloquia

2024-2025 Academic Year

(September 2024 through April 2025)

You can find all the Physics & Astronomy Events on Western's Events Calendar by clicking here.

Unless otherwise noted, our Colloquia will be presented on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month at 1:30pm, in PAB Seminar Room 100 (Main Floor [south side] of the Physics & Astronomy Building).

Upcoming Talks

Thursday
3 April
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Jason Young
Visiting Field Memorial Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Williams College

Star Formation in the Diffuse Universe

Thursday
10 April
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Desmond Moser
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Assistant Dean, Decolonization, Faculty of Science
Western University

A Brief History of Fission on Earth

Thursday
24 April
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: TBA

TBA

Monday
19 May
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Alessio Zaccone
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Milan

TBA

Previous Talks

Thursday
27 March
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Frank N. von Hippel
Senior Research Physicist and Professor, Emeritus
Program on Science and Global Security
Princeton University

Reducing the Danger of Nuclear War - Physicists Can Help

Thursday
20 March
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Atsuo Okazaki
Research Fellow and Professor, Emeritus
Center for Development Policy Studies
Hokkai-Gakuen University

The Influence of Stellar Winds on Accretion Flows in High-Mass X-ray Binaries

Thursday
6 March
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Boy Lankhaar
Postdoc, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Space, Earth and Environment
Chalmers University of Technology

Measuring the magnetic fields of AGN and protoplanetary accretion d

Thursday
13 February
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Denis Vida
Adjunct Research Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

From Shooting Stars to Satellites and Contrails: Leveraging Meteor Cameras for Space Sustainability and Climate Action

Thursday
30 January
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Stukel
Research Scientist
SNOLAB

2025 CAP Lecture Tour

The search for dark matter with the coldest detectors in our universe

Thursday
16 January
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Martin Houde
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

Quantum entanglement, coherence and Dark Matter

Thursday
28 November
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Patchen Barss
Author
Robin Straus Agency, Inc.

Unexpected Simplicity in the Work of Roger Penrose

Thursday
10 October
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Kibret Mequanint
Professor
Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Western University

Biodegradable and conductive organic-inorganic biomaterials for bone regeneration

Thursday
26 September
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Opiyo Oloya
Associate Vice-President of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Western University

Making the Case for Transforming the Academy Toward Inclusive Excellence

Thursday
12 September
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Richard Haglund
Stevenson Professor of Physics
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Vanderbilt University

Photo-induced phase transition in a quantum material: The intriguing case of VO₂