Colloquia

2025-2026 Academic Year

(September 2025 through April 2026)

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
12 March
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Nancy Forde
Professor
Department of Physics
Simon Fraser University

Mechanical insights into the instability of collagen proteins

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

Speaker: Dr. Suresh Sivanandam
Interim Director
Dunlop Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Toronto

Rebuilding Access to the Ultraviolet Universe with Small Space Observatories

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

Speaker: Dr. Michael Poon
PhD Candidate
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Toronto

Lean on Me: Towards the First Statistial Analysis of Exoplanet Obliquities

Previous Talks

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

Speaker: Dr. Ralph E. Pudritz
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University

Connecting planetary properties with their formation: a new paradigm emerges

Thursday
4 December
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Dries Van De Putte
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

Tracing the chemical evolution of interstellar dust with JWST observations of photodissociation regions

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

Speaker: Dr. Anna Ordog
Research Software Programmer/Analyst for CanDIAPL
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

Canadian Radio Telescopes Probing the Magnetized Milky Way

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

Speaker: Dr. Alex Krolewski
Postdoctoral Fellow
Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics
University of Waterloo

A New Lens on the Universe's Expansion and the Growth of Matter Perturbations

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

Speaker: Dr. Stan Metchev
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

The POET Space Mission: Science Adventures and Hard Lessons in Preparation for Canada’s Next Space Telescope

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

Speaker: Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe
Associate Professor
School of Physics & Astronomy
Rochester Institute of Technology

Pushing the Edge of the Cosmic Frontier with JWST

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

Speaker: Dr. Kazi Rajibul Islam
Associate Professor
Institute for Quantum Computing
University of Waterloo

Developing a Full-Stack Trapped Ion Quantum Computer

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

Speaker: Dr. Anna O'Grady
Postdoctoral Fellow
McWilliams Centre for Cosmology
Carnegie Melon University

Identifying Yellow Supergiant Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds