Past Colloquia
2018-19
Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Sep. 25
|
Rowan Thomson
Carlton University |
Advancing Cancer Radiation Therapy with Physics: Multiscale Modeling from Patient to Cells
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Oct. 9
|
Stephane Courteau
Queen’s University |
Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations
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Oct. 16
|
Benne Holwerda
University of Louisville |
A Search for High-Redshift Galaxies And An Accidental Galactic Survey of Dwarf Stars with Hubble
|
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
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Nov. 6
|
Brian Wilson
University of Toronto |
Nanobiophotonics for Cancer Applications:
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Nov. 13
|
Dr. Toby Brown
McMaster University |
The Life Cycle of Nearby Galaxies: internal and external processes regulating their gas content:
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Nov. 22 (THURSDAY!)
|
Randolf Pohl
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
Laser spectroscopy of hydrogen and muonic
atoms and the proton radius puzzle |
Nov. 27
|
Dr. Phiala Shanahan
MIT |
Nuclear Physics from the Standard Model
|
Dec. 4
|
Dean Lee
Michigan State University |
Nuclear Lattice Simulations
|
Jan. 8
|
Chris Stewart
York University |
Finding an Alternative Career in Physics
|
Jan. 15
|
Dr. Vladan Vuletic
MIT |
Manipulating atoms with light: laser
cooling to Bose-Einstein condensation |
Jan. 22
|
Qinyin Fang
McMaster University |
Time-resolved fluorescence
spectroscopy and imaging |
Jan. 29
|
David DeMille
Yale University |
A tabletop-scale probe for TeV-scale physics:
the electric dipole moment of the electron |
Feb. 5
|
Kevin Diamond
McMaster University |
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Feb. 12
|
David McKeen
TRIUMF |
TBD
|
Fall 2015
Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Sept 22 |
Dr. Colin Morningstar Carnegie Mellon University |
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Sept 29 |
Peter Mascher McMaster University |
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Oct 6 |
Stefania Gori Perimeter Institute & University of Cincinnati |
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Oct 20 |
Sun Kwok University of Hong Kong |
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Oct 27 |
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Nov 17 |
Craig Simmons University of Toronto |
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Nov 24 |
Sabine Stanley University of Toronto |
Winter 2015 *Exception held on Wednesday 3:00pm
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
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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
Winter 2014
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
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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
|
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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 |