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Past Colloquia

2018-19

Date	Speaker	Title
Sep. 25	Rowan Thomson Carlton University	Advancing Cancer Radiation Therapy with Physics: Multiscale Modeling from Patient to Cells
Oct. 9	Stephane Courteau Queen’s University	Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations View Poster
Oct. 16	Benne Holwerda University of Louisville	A Search for High-Redshift Galaxies And An Accidental Galactic Survey of Dwarf Stars with Hubble View Poster
Oct. 19 (FRIDAY!)	William Cairncross JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder	Searching for the Origins of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with Molecular Ions View Poster
Oct. 23	Kim Venn University of Victoria	Metal-Poor Stars and the Pristine Survey View Poster
Nov. 6	Brian Wilson University of Toronto	Nanobiophotonics for Cancer Applications: View Poster
Nov. 13	Dr. Toby Brown McMaster University	The Life Cycle of Nearby Galaxies: internal and external processes regulating their gas content: View Poster
Nov. 22 (THURSDAY!)	Randolf Pohl Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics	Laser spectroscopy of hydrogen and muonic atoms and the proton radius puzzle View Poster
Nov. 27	Dr. Phiala Shanahan MIT	Nuclear Physics from the Standard Model View Poster
Dec. 4	Dean Lee Michigan State University	Nuclear Lattice Simulations View Poster
Jan. 8	Chris Stewart York University	Finding an Alternative Career in Physics View Poster
Jan. 15	Dr. Vladan Vuletic MIT	Manipulating atoms with light: laser cooling to Bose-Einstein condensation View Poster
Jan. 22	Qinyin Fang McMaster University	Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging View Poster
Jan. 29	David DeMille Yale University	A tabletop-scale probe for TeV-scale physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron View Poster
Feb. 5	Kevin Diamond McMaster University	Deformable tissue-mimicking materials for biomedical optics View Poster
Feb. 12	David McKeen TRIUMF	TBD

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 22	Dr. Colin Morningstar Carnegie Mellon University	Excited Hadron Resonances and Scattering Phase Shifts in Lattice QCD
Sept 29	Peter Mascher McMaster University	Visible Light Emission from Silicon-based Thin Film Nanostructures
Oct 6	Stefania Gori Perimeter Institute & University of Cincinnati	The Higgs as a Portal to New Physics
Oct 20	Sun Kwok University of Hong Kong	Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
Oct 27	Jo Bovy University of Toronto	What Drives the Evolution of the Milky Way’s Disk?
Nov 17	Craig Simmons University of Toronto	Biophysical insights into the mechanisms of heart valve disease
Nov 24	Sabine Stanley University of Toronto	TBA

Winter 2015 **Exception held on Wednesday 3:00pm*

Date	Speaker	Title
Feb 17	David Morrissey TRIUMF	Matter over Antimatter and the Higgs Boson
March 3	Daniel Green Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics	Uncovering the Nature of Inflation
March 17	Marshall McCall York University	Structure in the Near Universe and its Relevance to Your Life
March 24	Dr. Amar Vutha York University	The Proton Radius Puzzle, and What We Are Doing About It
March 31	Pierre Savard University of Toronto	The Higgs Boson 3 Years after the Discovery
April 15	Giller Gerbier* Queen's University	Sharpening Tools for Direct Detection of Low Mass WIMPs at SNOLAB

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
September 9	Dr. Jeff Wagg SKA Telescope Square Kilometre Array	The Square Kilometre Array
September 23	Dr. Marko Horbatsch York University	High harmonic generation and multi-photon ionization of atomic hydrogen in intense laser fields: a computational perspective
October 7	Dr. David Patterson Harvard University	Detection of chiral molecules via phase-sensitive microwave spectroscopy
October 14	Dr. Scott Menary York University	Would an Anti-apple Fall Up? Tests of the Gravitational Interaction between Matter and Antimatter
October 28	Dr. Tom Kirchner York University	A theoretical analysis of recent ion-lithium collision experiments: single-active-electron, independent-electron and, perhaps, correlated dynamics
November 4	Dr. Stephen Godfrey Carleton University	Exotic Hadrons: What's New in Old Spectroscopy?
November 11	Dr. Kristine Spekkens Royal Military College of Canada	Cold Dark Matter and the Interstellar Medium of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
November 17*	Dr. Maxim Pospelov University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	The Universe as a passive detector
November 25	Dr. Shohini Ghose Wilfred Laurier University	Quantum Signatures of Chaos
December 2	Dr. Slavek Rucinski University of Toronto	BRITE: BRIte Target Explorer

Winter 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
February 28	Dr. Sera Cremonini Cambridge University and Texas A & M University	Applied String Theory
March 3	Dr. Sean Tulin University of Michigan	Searching for Dark Matter, from Colliders to the Cosmos
March 6	Dr. Yue Zhang California Institute of Technology	Impacts of a CP Violating Higgs: from Laboratories to Cosmos
March 10	Dr. Piyush Kumar Yale University	Unraveling the many mysteries of Mass-Energy
March 13	Dr. Brian Batell University of Chicago	The Standard Model vs. New Physics
March 31	Mr. Jeremy Sakstein University of Cambridge and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	Astrophysical Tests of Gravity

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	Title
September 9	Dr. Hirohisa Tanaka University of British Columbia	The Era of Three Generations: Possible hints from neutrinos in elucidating the matter/antimatter asymmetry of the Universe
September 16	Dr. Joel Primack University of California, Santa Cruz	Supercomputing the Universe
September 23	Dr. Arun Paramekanti University of Toronto	Using ultracold atoms to explore condensed matter high energy physics
September 30	Dr. Laura Parker McMaster University	Mapping Dark Matter with Weak Lensing
October 21	Dr. Richard Hill University of Chicago	Standard Model Anatomy of Dark Matter Detection
October 28	Dr. Kurt Hinterbichler Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	Massive gravitons, the cosmological constant and new directions in gravity
November 4	Dr. Luis Lehner University of Guelph and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	Gravitational and (possible) electromagnetic signals from compact binaries
November 11	Dr. Arthur McDonald Queen's University	Neutrino and Dark Matter Measurements at SNOLAB
November 18	Dr. Patrick Hayden Stanford University	Where and When Can a Qubit Be?
November 25	Undergraduate Students York University	Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) Presentations
December 2	Dr. Jens Dilling TRIUMF	Understanding the universe, one rare isotope at a time