McGill Physics: Physical Society Colloquia

Past Physical Society Colloquia

Recordings of past colloquia can be found here

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Friday, November 22nd, 2024, 15:30: Track me if you can: imaging the diffusion of single proteins in live cells; Claudiu Gradinaru; Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga; Abstract
Friday, November 15th, 2024, 15:30: Is Machine Learning Physics?; Paul François; Département de biochimie et médecine moléculaire, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, November 8th, 2024, 15:30: 2024/25 R.E. Bell Lecture; The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter; Pablo Jarillo-Herrero; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Abstract
Friday, November 1st, 2024, 15:30: New Views of Cool Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry from JWST; Jonathan Fortney; Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz; Abstract
Friday, October 25th, 2024, 15:30: The life and death of turbulence; Nigel Goldenfeld; Department of Physics, University of California San Diego; Abstract
Monday, October 21st, 2024, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105 / Online): Special Physical Society Colloquium; How to get published in Nature; May Chiao; Senior Consulting Editor of Nature Reviews Physics; Abstract
Friday, October 11th, 2024, 15:30: The Leighton Chajnantor Telescope; Sunil Golwala; Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech; Abstract
Friday, October 4th 2024, 15:30: Ten Foundational Ideas of Theoretical Physics; Anthony Zee; Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara; Abstract
Friday, September 27th 2024, 15:30: The Fate of Entanglement; William Witczak-Krempa; Département de physique, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, September 20th 2024, 15:30: Sharper Images Through Quantum Imaging; Robert W. Boyd; Department of Physics, University of Ottawa & Institute of Optics, University of Rochester; Abstract
Friday, September 13th 2024, 15:30: Learning to See the Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters; Hy Trac; Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University; Abstract
Friday, September 6th 2024, 15:30: nEXO’s quest to unravel the nature of the neutrino; Thomas Brunner; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, August 30th 2024, 15:30: Beyond the first law: Peculiarly quantum conservation in thermodynamics; Nicole Yunger Halpern; National Institute of Standards and Technology & Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, April 5th 2024, 15:30: How to make photons feel magnetic fields, and implications thereof; Mikael Rechstman; Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University; Abstract
Friday, March 22nd 2024, 15:30: 2023/24 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; IceCube: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy; Francis Halzen; Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center & Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Abstract
Thursday, March 21st 2024, 19:30 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2023/24 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; IceCube: Opening a Neutrino Window on the Universe from the South Pole; Francis Halzen; Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center & Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Abstract
Friday, March 15th 2024, 15:30: The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment; Matthias Danninger; Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University; Abstract
Friday, March 1st 2024, 15:30: Looking for cracks in the cosmological model; Jo Dunkley; Department of Physics and Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, February 23rd 2024, 15:30: Designing for Social Justice in Science Teaching and Learning: Working towards Rightful Presence; Angela Calabrese Barton; Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, February 16th 2024, 15:30: Hy Trac; Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, February 9th 2024, 15:30: Galaxies Shaped by Massive Black Holes; Brian McNamara; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo; Abstract
Friday, February 2nd 2024, 15:30: The Nuclear Threat: What it is, why you should care, and what you can do about it; Raymond Jeanloz; Earth & Planeraty Science, UC Berkeley & Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction; Abstract
Friday, January 26th 2024, 15:30: Opening the neural network black box; Brice Ménard; Department of Physics and Astronomy, John Hopkins University; Abstract
Friday, January 19th 2024, 15:30: Astrophysics and Cosmology with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s Black Holes; Maya Fishbach; CITA, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, January 12th 2024, 15:30: The R3AI project: IVADO's plan for a robust, reasoning and responsible AI and its deployment; Luc Vinet; Département de physique, Université de Montréal
Friday, January 5th 2024, 15:30: Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter; Yoni Kahn; Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, December 1st 2023, 15:30: The NANOGrav Experiment: current results and future directions; Chiara Mingarelli; Department of Physics, Yale University; Abstract
Friday, November 24th 2023, 15:30: Quantum kittens, cats, combs and compasses: superposing coherent states for sensing, communication, computing and pleasure; Barry Sanders; Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University or Calgary; Abstract
Friday, November 17 2023, 15:30: Building Connections: Science Outreach in the McGill Department of Physics and Trottier Space Institute; Outreach Committee; Department of Physics & Trottier Space Institute, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 10th 2023, 15:30: The atomic nucleus as a window to new physics; Jason D. Holt; TRIUMF; Abstract
Friday, November 3rd 2023, 15:30: Tying knots with energy bands: Non-Hermitian topological photonics in synthetic dimensions; Kai Wang; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 27th 2023, 15:30: Cooking, Fishing and Jogging through Phase Space: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Understanding New Materials; Paul Canfield; Division of Material Science and Engineering, Ames Laboratory & Departement of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University; Abstract
Friday, October 20th 2023, 15:30: Searching for dark matter and dark energy with mechanical sensors; Swati Singh; Electrical and Computer Engineering & Material Science and Engineering, University of Delaware; Abstract
Friday, October 13th 2023, 15:30: 2023/24 R.E. Bell Lecture; Electron Ion Collider (EIC) — the next QCD frontier: Study of the glue that binds us all; Abhay Deshpande; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University; Abstract
Friday, October 6th 2023, 15:30: How Black Holes Shine; Bart Ripperda; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, September 22nd 2023, 15:30: Observational Planet Formation; Ruobing Dong; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria; Abstract
Friday, September 15th 2023, 15:30: “What is Life?” Can we Measure it?; R. J. Dwayne Miller; Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, September 8th 2023, 15:30: Discovering the Origin of Matter with LEGEND; Julieta Gruszko; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Abstract
Friday, March 31st 2023, 15:30: A Synoptic View of Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME; Kiyoshi Masui; Physics Department, MIT; Abstract
Friday, March 24th 2023, 15:30: 2022/23 R.E. Bell Lecture; On the Prevalence of Ocean Worlds, Their Suitability for Biology, And a Speculation Regarding the Fermi Paradox; Alan Stern; Southwest Research Institute; Abstract
Friday, March 17th 2023, 15:30: From noisy qubits to qubit sensors: Highlights in quantum noise spectroscopy; Lorenza Viola; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College; Abstract
Friday, March 10th 2023, 15:30: The Search for Dark Matter: from theory to experiment and back again; Tien-Tien Yu; Department of Physics, University of Oregon; Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2023, 15:30: Nonlinear Photonics in III-V Semiconductors; Ksenia Dolgaleva; School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa; Abstract
Wednesday, February 22nd 2023, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Direct Detection of Dark Matter using Quantum Sensors and Techniques; Karthik Ramanathan; The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech; Abstract
Tuesday, February 21st 2023, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Forging a model-independent path to the dark sector using rare-isotope-doped superconductors; Kyle Leach; Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines; Abstract
Monday, February 20th 2023, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Exploring massive mysteries with the Top Quark; Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 17th 2023, 15:30: Solar energy conversion through the lens of coherent multidimensional spectroscopy; Jennifer Ogilvie; Department of Physics, University of Michigan; Abstract
Tuesday, February 14th 2023, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Capturing dark matter with underground cameras; Danielle Norcini; Kavli Institute, University of Chicago; Abstract
Monday, February 13th 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; New physics that resonates: Searches & electronics at the ATLAS Experiment; Jeff Dandoy; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, February 10th 2023, 15:30: MGAPS Colloquium; Dark Matter, First Light; Katie Mack; Perimeter Institute; Abstract
Friday, February 10th 2023, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; nEXO and the future of neutrinoless double beta decay; Brian Lenardo; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, February 3rd 2023, 15:30: A classical adversarial view on (photonic) quantum computational advantage; Nicolas Quesada; Département de génie physique, Polytechnique Montréal; Abstract
Friday, January 27th 2023, 15:30: Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement; Vincent Larivière; École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, January 20th 2023, 15:30: Measuring Gravity by Dropping Atoms; Xuejian Wu; Department of Physics, Rutgers University; Abstract
Friday, January 13th 2023, 15:30: The search for axion dark matter; Benjamin Safdi; Physics Department, UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, January 6th 2023, 15:30: Wet, Wiggly, Weird, and Wonderful – New Discoveries in Nanofluidics; Derek Stein; Physics Department, Brown University; Abstract
Friday, December 2nd 2022, 15:30: Measuring Neutrino Masses: Then and Now; Joe Formaggio; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Friday, November 25th 2022, 15:30: Entanglement: How quantum entanglement spooked the Nobel prize in 2022; Michael Hilke; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 18th 2022, 15:30: The first results of the James Webb Space Telescope; René Doyon; Département de physique, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, November 11th 2022, 15:30: Creating a Culture of Change to Retain and Advance Students Underrepresented in Physics; Mia Ong; TERC; Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2022, 15:30: Quarks, neutrinos, and new physics searches; Michael Wagman; Theory Division, Fermilab; Abstract
Friday, October 28th 2022, 15:30: The Birth and Growth of Young Planets; Zhaohuan Zhu; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Abstract
Friday, October 21st 2022, 15:30: Mechanical sensors for dark matter; David Moore; Department of Physics, Yale University; Abstract
Friday, October 7th 2022, 15:30: Probing Quantum Field Theory at Strong Coupling; Emily Nardoni; Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo; Abstract
Friday, September 30th 2022, 15:30: The International Race For A Quantum Computer; Stephanie Simmons; Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University; Abstract
Friday, September 23rd 2022, 15:30: Cosmic Dawn: The next frontier in cosmology; Julian Muñoz; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Abstract
Friday, September 16th 2022, 15:30: 2022/23 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; On the Philosophy and Sociology of Physical Science; James Peebles; Nobel Laureate; Department of Physics, Princeton University; Abstract / Poster
Thursday, September 15th 2022, 19:30 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2022/23 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Our Expanding Universe; James Peebles; Nobel Laureate; Department of Physics, Princeton University; Abstract / Poster
Friday, September 9th 2022, 15:30: Inexactly Poseable Problems in Statistical Mechanics; Greg van Anders; Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen's University; Abstract
Friday, September 2nd 2022, 15:30: Materials informatics: the 4th paradigm; Hong Guo; Centre for the Physics of Materials & Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Tuesday, August 2nd 2022, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity; Ning Bao; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, July 1st 2022, 14:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Astrophysics Colloquium; Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of Sagittarius A*; Geoffrey Bower; Event Horizon Telescope; Abstract
Friday, July 1st 2022, 10:00 (Tele-colloquium): Special Astrophysics Colloquium; Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time; Jason Hessels; University of Amsterdam; Abstract
Thursday, June 30th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Astrophysics Colloquium; Relativistic transients in the era of multi-messenger astronomy; Alessandra Corsi; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University; Abstract
Wednesday, June 29th 2022, 13:00 (Tele-colloquium): Special Astrophysics Colloquium; Observing neutron stars with gravitational-wave astronomy; Jocelyn Read; Cal State Fullerton; Abstract
Friday, April 8th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Bringing electrostatics to light: Electrometry probes a new dimension at the molecular scale; Madhavi Krishnan; Department of Chemistry, Oxford University; Abstract
Friday, April 1st 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): R.E. Bell Lecture; Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix; Taekjip Ha; Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University; Abstract
Friday, March 25th 2022, 15:30: Asset Management and Circularity at McGill; Stéphanie H. Leclerc; Procurement Services, McGill University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, March 25th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquim): MGAPS Colloquium; Building a Quantum Computer; John Martinis; Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara; Abstract
Friday, March 18th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquim): Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Colloquium; Physics identity as a tool to build equity in physics; Angela Johnson; Educational Studies Department, St. Mary's College of Maryland; Abstract
POSTPONED:Friday, March 11th 2022, 15:30: Postponed to September 2022; 2021/22 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; James Peebles; Nobel Laureate; Department of Physics, Princeton University
POSTPONED:Thursday, March 10th 2022, 18:30: Postponed to September 2022; 2021/22 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; James Peebles; Nobel Laureate; Department of Physics, Princeton University
Tuesday, March 1st 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Precision measurements aiding the search for dark matter and gravitational waves; Nancy Aggarwal; Northwestern University; Abstract
Friday, February 25th 2022, 15:30: Unexpected lessons from neural networks built with symmetry; Tess Smidt; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Abstract
Thursday, February 24th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Quantum science with photons and atoms; Nathan Schine; JILA, University of Colorado; Abstract
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022, 13:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; New paradigms of photonic state manipulation on synthetic platforms; Kai Wang; Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, February 18th 2022, 15:30: Superconducting Quantum Sensors and Rare Isotope Decay: Model-Independence in our Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model; Kyle Leach; Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines; Abstract
Thursday, February 17th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Ultrafast quantum photonics: from communication to sensing; Frédéric Bouchard; National Research Council of Canada; Abstract
Wednesday, February 16th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Adventures of a clockmaker: Keeping time, testing relativity, and engineering atom-light interactions; Christian Sanner; JILA, University of Colorado; Abstract
Friday, February 11th 2022, 15:30: Topological physics in dynamical quantum systems: applications at the light-matter interface; Gil Refael; Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech; Abstract
Wednesday, February 9th 2022, 13:00 (Tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Emerging Optics from Structured Nanomaterials; Danqing Wang; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, January 28th 2022, 15:30: Mechanical magnification of single-molecule motion: leveraging DNA nanotechnology to visible lengths; Deborah Fygenson; Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara; Abstract
Friday, January 21st 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy; Juna Kollmeier; CITA; Abstract
Friday, January 14th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Taking a scientific approach to physics education; Carl Wieman; Nobel Laureate; Physics and Education, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, December 3rd 2021, 15:30: MGAPS Colloquium; Competencies & PhD Careers in the Sciences; Rebecca Maymon; Faculty of Science, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 26th 2021, 15:30: MSPS Colloquium; The 2021 Physics Nobel: “Complex systems”: The climate, with a geocomplexity update; Shaun Lovejoy; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 19th 2021, 15:30: Notes on the History of the McGill Physics Department; Jean Barrette; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 12th 2021, 15:30: Topological physics with light and matter: new horizons; Philippe St-Jean; Département de physique, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, November 5th 2021, 15:30: Enabling new probes of the cosmos with novel technology; Matt Dobbs; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 29th 2021, 15:30: Explorations in Deep Learning for Astrophysics; Siamak Ravanbakhsh; School of Computer Science, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 22nd 2021, 15:30: Mining the molecular noise: fluorescence fluctuation image analysis reveals protein interactions and transport in living cells; Paul Wiseman; Departments of Physics and Chemistry, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 8th 2021, 15:30: Experimental relativistic zero-knowledge proofs; Claude Crépeau; School of Computer Science, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 1st 2021, 15:30: Modelling 2D Amorphous Materials: The Curious Case of Monolayer Amorphous Carbon; Lena Simine; Department of Chemistry, McGill University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, September 24th 2021, 15:30: Magnetars — the Gifts that Keep on Giving or Why You Should Attend Colloquia Outside Your Comfort Zone; Victoria Kaspi; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 17th 2021, 15:30: Learning from Life: Understanding and Design of Complex Biophysical Systems through Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning; Ré Mansbach; Department of Physics, Concordia University; Abstract
Friday, September 10th 2021, 15:30: Do we understand the evolution of the very early universe?; Robert Brandenberger; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, April 9th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Binary neutron stars: Einstein's richest laboratory; Luciano Rezzolla; Goethe University; Abstract
Friday, March 26th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics; Michael Manfra; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University / Microsoft Quantum Purdue; Abstract
Friday, March 19th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Black Hole Physics at the Horizon Scale; Feryal Özel; Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona; Abstract
Friday, March 12th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): (Co-presented with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)); The Jazz of Physics: Music and the Structure of the Universe; Stephon Alexander; Department of Physics, Brown University; Abstract
Friday, February 26th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Special Event; Presentation of the Department Climate Survey Results; Climate Survey Task Force; Department of Physics, McGill University
Friday, February 19th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Biological tissues as mechanical metamaterials; Lisa Manning; Department of Physics, Syracuse University; Abstract
Friday, February 12th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Dynamical Landscape and Multistability of the Earth's Climate; Valerio Lucarini; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading; Abstract
Friday, February 5th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): The life and death of the free neutron; Nadia Fomin; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Tennessee; Abstract
Friday, January 29th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Making quantum states of light with moving mirrors; Cindy Regal; JILA/UC Boulder; Abstract
Friday, January 22nd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Multi-line intensity mapping with TIME and SPHEREx; Tzu-Ching Chang; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech; Abstract
Friday, January 15th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): New direction in high energy neutrino physics: IceCube and the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment; Elisa Resconi; TU Munich; Abstract
Friday, January 8th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Separating wheat from chaff: photometric classification in the age of LSST; Renée Hlozek; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, December 4th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Special Colloquium; Black holes: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics; Robert Brandenberger & Daryl Haggard; Department of Physics & McGill Space Institute, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 27th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): R.E. Bell Lecture; Gravity and Quantum Mechanics Seen Through a Holographic Lens; Leonard Susskind; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics; Abstract
Friday, November 20th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): EDI Colloquium; EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) beyond policy; Tanja Tajmel; Centre for Engineering in Society, Concordia University; Abstract
Friday, November 13th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): MGAPS Colloquium; From Quantum Mechanics to Spacetime; Sean Carroll; Caltech Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy; Abstract
Friday, November 6th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Welcome to the Milky Way! Gaia, the Galaxy and Galactic Dynamics; Kathryn V. Johnston; Department of Astronomy, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, October 30th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Generation I planets; Yanqin Wu; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, October 23rd 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): MSPS Colloquium; New Views of the Magnetized Sky; Bryan Gaensler; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, October 16th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Digital Herd Immunity; Shivaji Sondhi; Department of Physics, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, October 9th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Visualizing the inner life of cells with super-resolution microscopy; Melike Lakadamyali; Department of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, October 2nd 2020, 15:30 (Tele-lecture): 2020/21 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Listening for gravitational waves above the quantum din; Nergis Mavalvala; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Thursday, October 1st 2020, 18:30 (Tele-lecture): 2020/21 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Gravitational waves: a new window to the Universe; Nergis Mavalvala; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Friday, September 25th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Beyond BCS Theory: Exact Results for Superconductivity and Mottness; Philip Phillips; Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, September 18th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Building Google's Quantum Computer; Marissa Giustina; Google Research; Abstract
Friday, September 11th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry at Infinity; Nima Arkani-Hamed; Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Friday, September 4th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium): Sorting needles in a haystack and cooling a ‘sandwich’: data analysis and detector development with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider; Claire David; Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, April 17th 2020, 15:30: Special Colloquium; Nima Arkani-Hamed; Institute for Advanced Study
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 14th 2020, 11:00 (tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Neutrinos - Harbingers of New Physics; Julian Heeck; UC Irvine; Abstract
Wednesday, April 8th 2020, 11:00 (tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Revealing hidden particles and forces with gravitational clues; Katelin Schutz; MIT; Abstract
Tuesday, April 7th 2020, 13:00 (tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos; Jia Liu; UC Berkeley; Abstract
Monday, April 6th 2020, 11:00 (tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; The Kerr Photon Ring; Alex Lupsasca; Harvard University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, April 3rd 2020, 15:30: Kathryn Johnston; Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
Thursday, April 2nd 2020, 11:00 (tele-seminar): Special Physics Seminar; Fun(damental) Physics in the Sky: The Cosmological Collider, Gravitational Waves, and All That; Zhong-Zhi Xianyu; Harvard University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, March 27th 2020, 15:30: WiP Colloquium; Tanja Tajmel; Centre for Engineering in Society
Concordia University
CANCELLED: Friday, March 20th 2020, 15:30: Cooking, Fishing and Jogging through Phase Space: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Understanding New Materials; Paul Canfield; Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, March 13th 2020, 15:30: Black Hole Physics with the Event Horizon Telescope; Feryal Özel; Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona; Abstract
Friday, February 28th 2020, 15:30: Symmetry protected Luttinger liquids on the surface of Quantum Hall Nematics; Kartiek Agarwal; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, February 21st 2020, 15:30: Gravity and Entanglement; Mark van Raamsdonk; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, February 14th 2020, 15:30: 2019/2020 Bell Lecture; Grand Challenges in Materials Research for a Sustainable Energy Future; Cherry Murray; Department of Physics, University of Arizona; Abstract
Friday, February 7th 2020, 15:30: Quantum information processing with spins; Bill Coish; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 31st 2020, 15:30: Hidden Worlds: Low Energy Rare Event Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model; Danielle Speller; Department of Physics, Yale University; Abstract
Friday, January 24th 2020, 15:30: Birth of a New Paradigm: Quantum Spin Liquids and Quantum Entanglement; Nandini Trivedi; Department of Physics, Ohio State University; Abstract
Friday, January 17th 2020, 15:30: Slow slip events along plate boundary fault; Yajing Liu; Earth and Planetary Science, McGill University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, January 10th 2020, 15:30: Quantum information processing with spins; Bill Coish; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 29th 2019, 15:30: Single nanoparticle analytics: from viruses via exosomes to drug carriers; Fredrik Höök; Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology; Abstract
Friday, November 22nd 2019, 15:30: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity and Holography; Alejandra Castro; Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, November 15th 2019, 15:30: Prineha Narang; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Friday, November 8th 2019, 15:30 (McIntyre Medical Building, room 522): 2019/20 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics; Donna Strickland; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo; Abstract
Thursday, November 7th 2019, 18:30 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2019/20 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses; Donna Strickland; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo; Abstract
Friday, November 1st 2019, 15:30: Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe; Katelin Schutz; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Friday, October 25th 2019, 15:30: Forces and mechanosensing in immune cells; Arpita Upadhyaya; Department of Physics, University of Maryland; Abstract
Thursday, October 24th 2019, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Colloquium; Nobel Physics 2019 - what is it about?; Robert Brandenberger & Andrew Cumming; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Tuesday, October 22nd 2019, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Colloquium; The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground; Nigel Smith; Director of SNOLAB; Abstract
Friday, October 18th 2019, 15:30: Biophysics of decision-making and machine learning; Paul François; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, October 18th 2019, 15:30: Anthony Zee; Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Friday, October 11th 2019, 15:30: Mapping the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo with Gaia; Mariangela Lisanti; Department of Physics, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, October 4th 2019, 15:30: Illuminating the Dark Universe with Radio Observations; Cynthia Chiang; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 27th 2019, 15:30: Composite fermions and their fermi surfaces; Ravin Bhatt; Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Friday, September 20th 2019, 15:30: Planets Big and Small; Eve Lee; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 13th 2019, 15:30: Quantum Faraday et al.; Guillaume Gervais; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Tuesday, May 28th 2019, 14:00: Special Physical Society Colloquium; Topological Defects and Phase Transitions; J Michael Kosterlitz; Department of Physics, Brown University; Abstract
Friday, April 5th 2019, 15:30: From String Theory to Quantum Dot Experiments; Ian Affleck; Department of Physical & Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, March 29th 2019, 15:30: Stereotyping, Implicit Bias, and the Experiences of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Fields; Denise Sekaquaptewa; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan; Abstract
Friday, March 22nd 2019, 15:30: 2-dimensional phase separation in cell membranes: How yeast harness physics to organize proteins and lipids; Sarah L. Keller; Department of Chemistry, University of Washington; Abstract
Wednesday, March 20th 2019, 16:00: CAP Lecture; The best extrasolar planets; Stan Metchev; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario; Abstract
Friday, March 15th 2019, 15:30: Probing the Radio-transient Universe with CHIME; Emmanuel Fonseca & Seth Siegel; MSI, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, February 22nd 2019, 15:30: 2019 Bell Lecture; Strange metals and black holes; Subir Sachdev; Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 15th 2019, 15:30: 2018 Bell Lecture; The XENON project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection; Elena Aprile; Department of Physics, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, February 8th 2019, 15:30: Spatially modulated superconductivity in microstructures; Katja Nowack; Department of Physics, Cornell University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, February 1st 2019, 15:30: Einstein Gravity: a random walk; Anthony Zee; Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Abstract
Friday, February 1st 2019, 15:30: Is there a multiverse?; Jim Cline; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 25th 2019, 15:30: 2018/19 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Tension in the Hubble Constant; Wendy Freedman; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago; Abstract
Thursday, January 24th 2019, 18:30 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2018/19 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; New Windows on the Cosmos; Wendy Freedman; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago; Abstract
Friday, January 18th 2019, 15:30: Ultralow-noise optomechanical sensors and mechanical motion defined by light; Jack Sankey (Childress); Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 11th 2019, 15:30: Quantum Information Theory, Black Holes, and Space-time; Alex Maloney; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 30th 2018, 15:30: Tuning by Pruning: Exploiting Disorder to Design Biologically-Inspired Function; Andrea Liu; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, November 23rd 2018, 15:30: Massive black hole binaries in the cosmos; Marta Volonteri; Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris; Abstract
Friday, November 16th 2018, 15:30: Fantastic dark matter and where to find it; JiJi Fan; Department of Physics, Brown University; Abstract
Friday, November 9th 2018, 15:30: Dynamic Heterogeneity in Single Polymer Relaxation and TALE Protein Dynamics on DNA; Charles Schroeder; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, November 2nd 2018, 15:30: Cosmology from Gigapixel Maps of the CMB; Suzanne Staggs; Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, October 26th 2018, 15:30: Exploring Materials Universes; Suchitra Sebastian; Department of Physics, University of Cambridge; Abstract
Friday, October 19th 2018, 15:30: Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lensing; Sherry Suyu; Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics; Abstract
Friday, October 12th 2018, 15:30: Schrödinger's cell: Sources and consequences of noise in gene expression dynamics; Nicolas Buchler; College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University; Abstract
Friday, October 5th 2018, 15:30: Nanopore DNA Sequencing: Erwin Schrödinger knew how to do it 100 years ago before he played with his famous “cat”; Xinsheng Sean Ling; Department of Physics, Brown University; Abstract
Friday, September 28th 2018, 15:30: Organelles without borders: How liquid droplets organize the cell; Stephanie Weber; Department of Biology, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 21st 2018, 15:30: Stellar Rejuvenation in Galactic Center and AGNs: Analog of Planet Formation in Gravitational Wave Sources; D.N.C. Lin; Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Abstract
Friday, September 14th 2018, 15:30: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of GW170817; Daryl Haggard; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 7th 2018, 15:30: Deep Reinforcement Learning: From Basics to Applications; Joelle Pineau; School of Computer Science, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, April 13th 2018, 15:30: CAP Lecture; Quantum Innovation (QuIN) Laboratory; Na Young Kim; Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, March 23rd 2018, 15:30: Schrödinger's cell: Sources and consequences of noise in gene expression dynamics; Nicolas Buchler; Biological Sciences, Duke University; Abstract
Friday, March 16th 2018, 15:30: Medical Physics: from physics to personalized radiation medicine; Jan Seuntjens; Medical Physics Unit, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, March 2nd 2018, 15:30: Beyond Representation: Data to Improve the Situation of Women and Minorities in Physics and Astronomy; Rachel Ivie; Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics; Abstract
Friday, February 23rd 2018, 15:30: The Cosmic Microwave Background and Neutrinos; Lyman Page; Department of Physics, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, February 16th 2018, 15:30: String Duality and Mathematics; Mina Aganagic; UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, February 9th 2018, 15:30: Heat, Wind, and Fire: Extreme climate events in a historical context; Valerie Trouet; Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona; Abstract
Friday, February 9th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): Special Physics Seminar; Superfluid Spin Transport in Quantum Materials; Se Kwon Kim; UCLA; Abstract
Thursday, February 8th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; New perspectives in the dynamics of quantum systems; Kartiek Agarwal; Princeton University; Abstract
Tuesday, February 6th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Cavity quantum electrodynamics with quantum transport; Mircea Trif; Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University; Abstract
Monday, February 5th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Topological Quantum Chemistry; Jennifer Cano; Princeton Center for Theoretical Science; Abstract
Friday, February 2nd 2018, 15:30: Hidden Momentum; David Griffiths; Reed College; Abstract
Friday, February 2nd 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Correlated dissipation: inhibiting atomic decay via cooperative dynamics; Ana Asenjo Garcia; California Institute of Technology; Abstract
Thursday, February 1st 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Using solid-state transport to reveal universal properties of quantum matter; Thomas Scaffidi; UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, January 26th 2018, 15:30: Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science; Mikhail Lukin; Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, January 26th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Unleashing the full potential of direct imaging of exoplanetary systems; Elodie Choquet; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Abstract
Thursday, January 25th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Planets Close-in and Far-out; Eve Lee; California Institute of Technology; Abstract
Monday, January 22nd 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Making the Most of Exoplanet Searches; Benjamin Montet; University of Chicago; Abstract
Friday, January 19th 2018, 15:30: 2017/18 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Infinite Phase Space and the Two-Headed Arrow of Time; Alan Guth; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Thursday, January 18th 2018, 18:30 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2017/18 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?; Alan Guth; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Wednesday, January 17th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Probing Space and Time in Exoplanet Atmospheres; Nikole Lewis; Space Telescope Science Institute; Abstract
Tuesday, January 16th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Directly Imaging Exoplanetary Systems: What have we learned and where are we going?; Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Abstract
Monday January 15th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Atmosphere-Mantle feedbacks: importance of mantle oxidation state; Laura Schaefer; Arizona State University; Abstract
Friday, January 12th 2018, 15:30: First Results from CUORE: Majorana Neutrinos and the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay; Lindley Winslow; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Tuesday, December 19th 2017, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Quantum information and quantum gravity; Ning Bao; UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, December 1st 2017, 15:30: The chiral magnetic effect: from particles and nuclei to quantum materials; Dmitri Kharzeev; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University; Abstract
Friday, November 24th 2017, 15:30: Teaching Quantitative Critical Thinking in a First Year Laboratory; Douglas Bonn; Physics and Astronomy Department, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, November 17th 2017, 15:30: Molecules in Laser Fields: From Wavepacket Dynamics to Attosecond Physics; Albert Stolow; Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa; Abstract
Friday, November 10th 2017, 15:30: Protecting Quantum Information; Kenneth Brown; Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology; Abstract
Friday, November 3rd 2017, 15:30: Tracking the nanoscale dynamics of ultrafast electronic energy flow and non-equilibrium phase transitions in energy materials; Naomi Ginsberg; Physics Department, UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, October 27th 2017, 15:30: How biomolecules behave in a squeeze; Sabrina Leslie; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 20th 2017, 15:30: NICER Pulsars - Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station; Zaven Arzoumanian; Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA; Abstract
Friday, October 13th 2017, 15:30: The glue that binds us all: imaging matter below the Fermi scale with an Electron-Ion Collider; Raju Venugopalan; Nuclear Theory Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, September 29th 2017, 15:30: Ultrafast THz Light-Matter Interactions; David Cooke; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 22nd 2017, 15:30: The Bootstrap; Leonardo Rastelli; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University; Abstract
Thursday, June 8th 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Illuminating the Dark Universe with Radio Observations; H. Cynthia Chiang; University of KwaZulu-Natal; Abstract
Friday, April 28th 2017, 15:30: Understanding the universe; one rare isotope at a time; Jens Dilling; TRIUMF; Abstract
Friday, April 7th 2017, 15:30: Attosecond Ionization Dynamics and Time Delays; Ursula Keller; Physics Department, ETH Zürich; Abstract
Friday, March 31st 2017, 15:30: From physics to mass market; Helge Seetzen; TandemLaunch; Abstract
Monday, March 27th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Elastic instabilities in soft solids: Fingers, Beads, Sulci and Brains; John Biggins; Cambridge University; Abstract
Friday, March 24th 2017, 15:30: CAP Lecture; Soft Matter: Where Physics Meets Chemistry and Biology; An-Chang Shi; Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University; Abstract
Friday, March 17th 2017, 15:30: What Stubs and Sparkles In Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars; Kate Scholberg; Department of Physics, Duke University; Abstract
Friday, March 10th 2017, 15:30: 2016/17 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Observation of the merger of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy; Rainer Weiss; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Thursday, March 9th 2017, 18:30 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2016/17 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Exploring the universe with gravitational waves; Rainer Weiss; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Wednesday, March 8th 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Protoplanetary Disks and Planet Formation: A Microphysical Perspective; Xuening Bai; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Abstract
Tuesday, March 7th 2017, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; A data-driven approach to 21cm cosmology; Adrian Liu; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Monday, March 6th 2017, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Integrated View of Cosmology: Do the Pieces Fit Together?; Adam Amara; ETH Zurich; Abstract
Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Cracking Cosmic Dawn; Anastasia Fialkov; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2017, 15:30: Problematizing the “there's no problem” discourse about gender in physics learning; Allison Gonsalves; Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; A new paradigm for transiting exoplanets; Timothy Morton; Princeton University; Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; From Protoplanetary Disks to Planetary Systems Through the Astrochemical Lens; L. Ilsedore Cleeves; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Astrophysical Neutrinos from the Lowest to the Highest Energies; Nathan Whitehorn; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Wednesday, February 22nd 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible; Blake Sherwin; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, February 17th 2017, 15:30: Nuclear Astrophysics with Radioactive Beams; Hendrik Schatz; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University; Abstract
Friday, February 10th 2017, 15:30: Neutrinos: from zeros to heroes?; Roxanne Guenette; Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 10th 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Revealing the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Super-Earths; Eliza Kempton; Grinnell College; Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Characterizing Exoplanets: Atmospheric Physics and Future Missions; Tyler Robinson; University of California, Santa Cruz; Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2017, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; New Information in Ancient Photons: Novel Approaches to CMB Secondary Anisotropies; Colin Hill; Department of Astronomy, Columbia University; Abstract
Wednesday, February 8th 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Revealing the Formation and Atmospheres of Exoplanets with Direct Imaging; Brendan Bowler; University of Texas at Austin; Abstract
Friday, February 3rd 2017, 15:30: Fast Radio Bursts; Victoria Kaspi & Shriharsh Tendulkar; Department of Physics & MSI, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 27th 2017, 15:30: The Phases and dephases of cellular architecture; Stephen Michnick; Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, January 20th 2017, 15:30: Bell Lecture; Currents and Phases in Quantum Rings; Kathryn Moler; Department of Physics, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, January 13th 2017, 15:30: Using single-molecule biophysics to understand the physical basis of multicellularity; Alex Dunn; Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, January 6th 2017, 15:30: Gravity and Entanglement; Mark van Raamsdonk; Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC; Abstract
Friday, December 2nd 2016, 15:30: Physically Intelligent Robotics; David Meger; School of Computer Science, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 25th 2016, 15:30: The Biggest Blowhards: Windy Supermassive Black Holes; Sarah Gallagher; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario; Abstract
Friday, November 18th 2016, 15:30: Next Generation Photovoltaics; Karin Hinzer; School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa; Abstract
Friday, November 11th 2016, 15:30: Superconducting quantum circuits; Alexandre Blais; Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke; Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2016, 15:30: Nobel prize topology; Tami Pereg-Barnea; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 28th 2016, 15:30: Dark Matter and First Galaxies Light Up; Maruša Bradač; Department of Physics, UC Davis; Abstract
Friday, October 21st 2016, 15:30: What have we learned from the LHC?; Brigitte Vachon; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 14th 2016, 15:30: New Approaches to Dark Matter; Justin Khoury; Department of Physics & Astronmy, University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, October 7th 2016, 15:30: Geometric Phase Effects on electronic Properties; Qian Niu; Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; Abstract
Friday, September 30th 2016, 15:30: The Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics; Vicky Kalogera; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University; Abstract
Friday, September 23rd 2016, 15:30: Ice Sheet - Sea Level - Solid Earth Interactions in Antarctica; Natalya Gomez; Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 16th 2016, 15:30: Physics of cellular decision; Paul François; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 9th 2016, 15:30: The Search for Axions; Pierre Sikivie; University of Florida; Abstract
Friday, April 15th 2016, 15:30: Quantum effects (and topological effects) in the motion of a millimeter-scale object; Jack Harris; Department of Physics, Yale University; Abstract
Friday, April 8th 2016, 15:30: Bell Lecture; The physics of life: How much can we calculate?; William Bialek; Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, April 1st 2016, 15:30: Implementing cat-codes in superconducting quantum circuits; Michel Devoret; Department of Applied Physics, Yale University; Abstract
Friday, March 18th 2016, 15:30: CAP Lecture; Are We Alone? The Search for Extrasolar Planets and Extraterrestrial Life; Stanley Greenspoon; Capilano University (retired); Abstract
Thursday, March 17th 2016, 14:30 (Burnside Hall, 920): Special Math/Physics Seminar; Fivebranes and 4-manifolds; Abhijit Gadde; Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Monday, March 14th 2016, 15:00 (Burnside Hall, 306): Special Math/Physics Seminar; Random matrices, geometry and physics; Gaetan Borot; MPIM - Bonn; Abstract
Friday, March 11th 2016, 15:30: Probing the Hubble Sequence through Numerical Simulations; Paul Torrey; MIT; Abstract
Thursday March 10th 2016, 14:30 (Burnside Hall, 920): Special Math/Physics Seminar; Gauge Theories: Quivers, Dessins and Calabi-Yau; Yang-Hui He; City University, London; Abstract
Wednesday March 9th 2016, 16:00 (Burnside Hall, room 708): Special Math/Physics Seminar; K3 surfaces, moonshine, and string theory; Sarah Harrison; Harvard University; Abstract
Monday, March 7th 2016, 15:00 (Burnside Hall, room 306): Special Math/Physics Seminar; Vertex Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theories; Christoph Keller; ETH, Zurich; Abstract
Friday, February 26th 2016, 15:30: Hydrodynamic hunters; Steve Pressé; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, February 25th 2016, 14:30 (Burnside Hall, room 920): Special Math/Physics Seminar; K3 surfaces, moonshine, and string theory; Sarah Harrison; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday February 18th 2016, 14:30 (Burnside Hall, room 920): Special Math/Physics Seminar; Elliptic Fibrations in String Theory, flop transitions, and Hyperplane Arrangements; Mboyo Esole; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 12th 2016, 15:30: Beyond the Standard Cosmological Model; Bhuvnesh Jain; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, February 5th 2016, 15:30: Under-representation of Women in the McGill Physics Department; Peter Grütter, Rachel Zellars, Susan Gaskin and Régine Debrosse; McGill University; Abstract
Monday, February 1st 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; String Theory and the Weak Gravity Conjecture; Ben Heidenreich; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, January 29th 2016, 15:30: Designing Superconductivity: Manipulating Interactions in Arrays of Superconducting Islands; Nadya Mason; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, January 29th 2016, 14:00 (R.E Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; How big are the smallest drops of quark-gluon plasma?; Paul Chesler; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, January 28th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; The Particle Physics of Cosmic Relics and the Search for Dark Matter; Tongyan Lin; University of Berkeley & LBNL; Abstract
Wednesday, January 27th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; The quest for precision in particle physics; Simon Caron Huot; Niels Bohr International Academy; Abstract
Tuesday, January 26th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Toward Holography in a de Sitter Universe; Dionysios Anninos; Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Monday, January 25th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Quantum Entanglement, the Architecture of Space-time and Tensor Networks; Bartlomiej Czech; Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, January 22nd 2016, 15:30: Tropical cyclones and climate change; Timothy Merlis; Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & McGill Space Institute, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 15th 2016, 15:30: Attosecond imaging with x-rays; Peter Abbamonte; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, December 4th 2015, 15:30: Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise; Aashish Clerk; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 27th 2015, 15:30: Pulsar Tests of General Relativity; Ingrid Stairs; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, November 20th 2015, 15:30: 2015/16 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Anderson localization of ultra-cold atoms: a quantum simulator; Alain Aspect; Institut d'Optique; Abstract
Thursday, November 19th 2015, 19:00 (FDA, Adams Auditorium): 2015/16 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; From Einstein to Wheeler: Wave Particle Duality for a Single Photon; Alain Aspect; Institut d'Optique; Abstract
Friday, November 13th 2015, 15:30: Resolution of the black hole information paradox; Samir Mathur; Department of Physics, Ohio State University; Abstract
Friday, November 6th 2015, 15:30: Graphene Photonics and Plasmonics; Phaedon Avouris; T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM; Abstract
Friday, October 30th 2015, 15:30: The surprisingly strong strong interaction; Brian Cole; Department of Physics, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, October 23rd 2015, 15:30: Quantum critical metals and their instabilities; Shamit Kachru; Department of Physics, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, October 16th 2015, 15:30: Primordial non-Gaussianity in the CMB and Large-Scale Structure; Kendrick Smith; Perimeter Institute; Abstract
Friday, October 9th 2015, 15:30: Searching and characterizing nearby habitable worlds; René Doyon; Departement de Physique, Univeristé de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, October 2nd 2015, 15:30: Highly enriched ²⁸Si - a ‘semiconductor vacuum’; Michael Thewalt; Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University; Abstract
Friday, September 25th 2015, 15:30: Novel Statistical Physics Approaches to Understanding Economic Fluctuations; Eugene Stanley; Department of Physics, Boston University; Abstract
Friday, September 18 2015, 15:30: Nonlinear optical nano-photovoltaics; Jean-Michel Nunzi; Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University; Abstract
Friday, September 11th 2015, 15:30: Holography, Black Holes and Quantum Gravity; Alex Maloney; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Monday, May 4th 2015, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Sgr A* and the G2 Object: Intensive X-ray and Radio Monitoring; Daryl Haggard; Amherst College; Abstract
Friday, April 10th 2015, 15:30: Planck's view of the origin of cosmic structure; Hiranya Peiris; University College London; Abstract
Monday, March 30th 2015, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Dark forces at the GeV scale; Bertrand Echenard; California Institute of Technology; Abstract
Friday, March 27th 2015, 15:30: Architecture, mechanics and remodelling of biomolecular scaffolds; Nancy Forde; Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University; Abstract
Friday, March 20th 2015, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Fishing in a sea of Xe - Searching for double-beta decay with nEXO; Thomas Brunner; Stanford University; Abstract
Thursday, March 19th 2015, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; First Measurement of Electroweak Vector Boson Scattering and Potential for New Physics Discovery at ATLAS; Jessica Metcalfe; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Abstract
Tuesday, March 17th 2015, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Fundamental symmetries of nuclear physics and the standard model: An experimental perspective; Christopher O'Shaughnessy; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Abstract
Monday, March 16th 2015, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Fundamental Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry; Kam Arnold; University of California, San Diego; Abstract
Friday, March 13th 2015, 15:30: Bell Lecture; The Search For 100 Earths; Debra Fischer; Department of Astronomy, Yale University; Abstract
Friday, February 27th 2015, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Building Big and Thinking Fast: New Prospects for Neutrino Physics with Cherenkov and Scintillating Detectors; Matthew Wetstein; Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago; Abstract
Thursday, February 26th 2015, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physis Seminar; Measuring Neutrino Oscillations with the T2K Experiment; Alex Himmel; Duke University; Abstract
Friday, February 20th 2015, 15:30: Materials in 2-dimension and beyond: 10 years after graphene; Philip Kim; Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Monday, February 16th 2015, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; From Exoplanets To Exoworlds; Kevin Stevenson; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago; Abstract
Friday, February 13th 2015, 15:30: Mapping Atomic Motions with Ultrabright Electrons: The Chemists' Gedanken Experiment Enters the Lab Frame; Dwayne Miller; University of Toronto / Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter; Abstract
Friday, February 13th 2015, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Planetary Science From the Top Down: the Exoplanet Opportunity; Nicolas Cowan; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Amherst College; Abstract
Thursday, February 12th 2015, 10:00 (FDA, room 232): Special Physics Seminar; Frontiers in Exoplanetary Science; David Kipping; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Abstract
Wednesday, February 11th 2015, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Choose Your Own Adventure: Planets among the Smallest Stars; Sarah Ballard; University of Washington; Abstract
Monday, February 9th 2015, 10:30 (FDA, room 232): Special Physics Seminar; Exploring the Diversity and Formation of Super-Earth Exoplanets; Bjorn Benneke; California Institute of Technology; Abstract
Friday, February 6th 2015, 15:30: Dark Matter Detection Results, LUX, LZ and the State of the Field; Richard Gaitskell; Brown University; Abstract
Thursday, February 5th 2015, 11:00 (FDA, room 232): Special Physics Seminar; Origins and Demographics of Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Sized Planets; Leslie Rogers; California Institute of Technology; Abstract
Friday, January 30th 2015, 15:30: Numerical Investigations of Black Hole Physics; Frans Pretorius; Department of Physics, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, January 23rd 2015, 15:30: Neutrinos... Going International; Nigel Lockyer; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, January 16th 2015, 15:30: Reproducibility Crisis in the Life Sciences; Robert Nadon; Department of Human Genetics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 9th 2015, 15:30: New horizons in quantum gravity: holography and black hole physics; Alejandra Castro; Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam; Abstract
Friday, December 5th 2014, 15:30: Single fiber endoscopy; Caroline Boudoux; Département de génie physique, Polytechnique Montréal; Abstract
Friday, November 28th 2014, 15:30: Laser-assisted surface engineering; Anne Kietzig; Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 21st 2014, 15:30: Quantum information in space and time; Patrick Hayden; Department of Physics, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, November 14th 2014, 15:30: Active fluctuation-driven random transport in cells; Alen Ehrlicher; Department of Bioengineering, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 7th 2014, 15:30: 2014/15 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Single-atom optical clocks; David Wineland; Nobel Laureate; NIST & University of Colorado, Boulder; Abstract
Thursday, November 6th 2014, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2014/15 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Quantum computers and Schrödinger's cat; David Wineland; Nobel Laureate; NIST & University of Colorado, Boulder; Abstract
Friday, October 31st 2014, 15:30: Modulated Interface Lithography (MIL): The Nanoworld Beyond Bénard Instability; Sandra Troian; Caltech; Abstract
Friday, October 24th 2014, 15:30: Validation of quantum devices; Matthias Troyer; ETH Zurich; Abstract
Friday, October 10th 2014, 15:30: Finance through the eyes of a physicist; Georgios Choudalakis; Tradeworx Inc.; Abstract
Friday, October 3rd 2014, 15:30: Democratizing Nanopore-based Single-Molecule Research; Vincent Tabard-Cossa; Department of Physics, University of Ottawa; Abstract
Friday, September 26th 2014, 15:30: Ettore Majorana and his strange particles; Marcel Franz; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, September 19th 2014, 15:30: Observable Signatures of Merging Compact Binaries; Brian Metzger; Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Columbia University; Abstract
Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; Phase Transitions in Early Life: Clues from the Genetic Code; Nigel Goldenfeld; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, September 5th 2014, 15:30: Rise of the Titans: The Biggest Black Holes in the Universe; Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo; Département de Physique, Université de Montréal; Abstract
Thursday, August 21st 2014, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; The Mystery of Peking Man; Harry C.S. Lam; Department of Physics, McGill / Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC; Abstract
Friday, April 11th 2014, 15:30: How the physics of clouds affects Snowball Earth and the runaway greenhouse; Dorian Abbot; Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago; Abstract
Friday, April 4th 2014, 15:30: Three-Dimensional DNA Nanostructures: Loading and Selective Release of Cargo for Biological and Materials Applications; Hanadi Sleiman; Department of Chemistry, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, March 28th 2014, 15:30: Silicon Photonics: The Optical Spice Rack; Michal Lipson; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University; Abstract
Friday, March 21st 2014, 15:30: Spotting Majorana Fermions amidst Hofstadter butterflies and disordered landscapes; Smitha Vishveshwara; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, March 14th 2014, 15:30: Turbulent nuclear burning and the exotic formation of heavy elements in stars; Falk Herwig; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, February 28th 2014, 15:30: Three-Dimensional DNA Nanostructures: Loading and Selective Release of Cargo for Biological and Materials Applications; Hanadi Sleiman; Department of Chemistry, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, February 21st 2014, 15:30: The Physics of Thermal Detection: Applications in Forensics; Kent Irwin; Stanford University & SLAC; Abstract
Friday, February 14th 2014, 15:30: Spatio-temporal pattern formation in embryos: How diffusion can help create order; Cécile Fradin; Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University; Abstract
Friday, February 7th 2014, 15:30: Challenging three basic assumptions about learning physics; Nathaniel Lasry; John Abbott College; Abstract
Friday, January 31st 2014, 15:30: Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Observations; Robert Brandenberger; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, January 31st 2014, 15:30: Nearly Perfect Fluidity: From cold atoms to hot quarks and gluons; Thomas Schaefer; Department of Physics, North Carolina State University; Abstract
Tuesday, January 21st 2014, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 105): CAP Lecture; Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction; Jeff Lundeen; Department of Physics, University of Ottawa; Abstract
Friday, January 17th 2014, 15:30: AIMS for Africa and the “Next Einstein Initiative”; Neil Turok; Perimeter Institute
Friday, January 10th 2014, 15:30: Particle Accelerators across Science and Society; Lia Merminga; TRIUMF; Abstract
Friday, December 6th 2013, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103): Note special venue; Can statistical mechanics explain a human disease?; Gary Brouhard; Department of Biology, McGill Univeristy; Abstract
Friday, November 29th 2013, 15:30: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) - a new tool to probe the dark energy driven expansion history of the universe from z=1-3; Matt Dobbs; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, November 22nd 2013, 15:30: 2013/14 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of the Galaxy; Andrea Ghez; Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA; Abstract
Thursday, November 21st 2013, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2013/14 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; The Monster at the Heart of the Milky Way; Andrea Ghez; Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA; Abstract
Friday, November 15th 2013, 15:30: Visualizing protein-DNA interactions at the single-molecule level with DNA curtains; Eric Greene; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, November 8th 2013, 15:30: Harnessing the Dynamics of Neural Networks; Larry Abbott; Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, October 25th 2013, 15:30: Bell Lecture; You Can't See Them, But They're EVERYWHERE!; Janet Conrad; Physics Department, MIT; Abstract
Friday, October 18th 2013, 15:30: Holography, Cosmology and Quantum Quench; Sumit Das; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky; Abstract
Friday, October 11th 2013, 15:30: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals; Paul Steinhardt; Physics Department, Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, October 4th 2013, 15:30: The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells; Eli Yablonovitch; Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, September 27th 2013, 15:30: Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids; Amir Yacoby; Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, September 20th 2013, 15:30: The debut of exoplanet imaging; David Lafrenière; Université de Montréal; Abstract
Friday, September 13th 2013, 15:30: Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy; Steve Cundiff; JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder; Abstract
Friday, September 6th 2013, 15:30: Statistical Genetics and Dynamics of Natural Selection; Boris Shraiman; KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara; Abstract
Friday, April 12th 2013, 15:30: Individual Molecules Investigated by Scanning Probe Microscopy with Atomically Functionalized Tips; Leo Gross; IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, April 5th 2013, 15:30: Precision Standard-Model Measurements with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC; Manuella Vincter; Department of Physics, Carleton University; Abstract
Friday, March 22nd 2013, 15:30: Terahertz Dynamics and Control in Complex Materials; Richard Averitt; Department of Physics, Boston University; Abstract
Friday, March 15th 2013, 15:30: Manipulating the protein energy landscape; Susan Marqusee; Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, March 1st 2013, 15:30: Micro-electromechanics: A new quantum technology; Konrad Lehnert; JILA; Abstract
Friday, February 22nd 2013, 15:30: Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background; Joanna Dunkley; Department of Physics, University of Oxford; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, February 15th 2013, 15:30: Jongyoon Han; MIT
Friday, February 8th 2013, 15:30: Magnetism in quantum gases; Dan Stamper-Kurn; Department of Physics, UC Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, February 1st 2013, 15:30: 2012/13 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Type 1a Supernovae, The Accelerating Cosmos and Dark Energy; Brian Schmidt; Nobel Laureate; The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University; Abstract
Thursday, January 31st 2013, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2012/13 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; The Accelerating Universe; Brian Schmidt; Nobel Laureate; The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University; Abstract
Friday, January 25th 2013, 15:30: Inference in biological physics; Philip Nelson; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, January 18th 2013, 15:30: Soft x-ray scanning x-ray microscopy: current capabilities and future trends; Adam Hitchcock; Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research & Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, McMaster University; Abstract
Friday, January 11th 2013, 15:30: Topological States in Graphene-Based Two-Dimensional Electron Systems; Allan H. MacDonald; Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; Abstract
Friday, December 7th 2012, 15:30: Measuring how the Universe began: current status of the cosmic microwave background; Mark Halpern; Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC; Abstract
Friday, November 30th 2012, 15:30: New topological quantum states in condensed matter physics; William Halperin; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University; Abstract
Friday, November 23rd 2012, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; Exploring the energy frontier with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider; Michel Lefebvre; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria; Abstract
Friday, November 16th 2012, 15:30: Quantum opportunities in gravitational wave detectors; Nergis Mavalvala; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Thursday, November 15th 2012, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; Understanding the Universe using rare isotopes; Reiner Krücken; UBC & TRIUMF; Abstract
Friday, November 2nd 2012, 15:30: The mechanisms of muscle myosin motors working in ordered filaments, sarcomeres and cells; Dilson Rassier; Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 26th 2012, 15:30: Using coherent x-rays to study disordered materials; Mark Sutton; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 19th 2012, 15:30: Can we make better musical instruments?; Gary Scavone; Schulich School of Music, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 5th 2012, 15:30: Neutrino Mixing and the Daya Bay Experiment; Lisa Whitehead; Department of Physics, University of Houston; Abstract
Friday, September 28th 2012, 15:30: The University of Texas ‘Maya-Muon’ Project: an Application of the Tools and Methods of High Energy Physics to Archeology; Roy Schwitters; Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; Abstract
Friday, September 21st 2012, 15:30: Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Design principles for lasers, optical switches, and LEDs; Patanjali Kambhampati; Department of Chemistry, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 14th 2012, 15:30: Energy for the 21st Century World Economy: Problems and Opportunities; Wolfgang Bauer; Michigan State University; Abstract
Friday, September 7th 2012, 15:30: Order through Disorder: Entropy Driven Self-Assembly; Zvonimir Dogic; Department of Physics, Brandeis University; Abstract
Tuesday, June 19th 2012, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Babies or no babies, an intimate story between mathematical modeling and the physiology of GnRH neurons; Anmar Khadra; Department of Physiology, McGill University; Abstract
Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Quantum devices with atom-like defects in diamond; Lily Childress; Yale University; Abstract
Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Research on Transfer and Implications for Learning and Problem Solving; N. Sanjay Rebello; Department of Physics, Kansas State University; Poster
CANCELLED: Friday, April 13th 2012, 15:30: Lene Vestergaard Hau; Harvard University
Wednesday, April 4th 2012, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): CAP Lecture; Efficiency in the Cell: How Cells Make Proteins Rapidly While Working to a Budget; Paul Higgs; McMaster University; Abstract
Friday, March 30th 2012, 15:30: Hot QCD Matter: Liquid, Strong and Stringy?; Barbara Jacak; SUNY, Stony Brook; Abstract
CANCELLED:Friday, March 30th 2012, 15:30: Roy Schwitters; University of Texas at Austin
Friday, March 23rd 2012, 15:30: Insights into overstretching DNA and unfolding membrane proteins using precision force spectroscopy; Tom Perkins; JILA, NIST & CU-Boulder; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, March 16th 2012, 15:30: Neil Turok; Perimeter Institute
Friday, March 9th 2012, 15:30: A Statistical Model Of Black-Hole Growth And Star Formation in Galaxies; George Helou; Caltech; Abstract
Friday, March 2nd 2012, 15:30: 2011/12 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; What can we do with laser frequency combs?; Theodor Hänsch; Nobel Laureate; Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität; Abstract
Thursday, March 1st 2012, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2011/12 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Passion for Precision; Theodor Hänsch; Nobel Laureate; Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität; Abstract
Friday, February 17th 2012, 15:30: Particle Astrophysics at 100: A Century of Adventures and Discovery; Stéphane Coutu; Pennsylvania State University; Abstract
Monday, February 13th 2012, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Baby galaxies in the early universe; Sadegh Khochfar; Max Planck Institute; Abstract
Friday, February 10th 2012, 15:30: Examining the Interior Structure of Transiting Planets: From Exo-Jupiters to Kepler's Super-Earths; Jonathan Fortney; University of California Santa Cruz; Abstract
Friday, February 3rd 2012, 15:30: An Execution Model for Exascale Computing; Thomas Sterling; Indiana University, Bloomington; Abstract
Friday, January 27th 2012, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; Wiring the brain: the molecules and mechanisms of neuronal guidance; Marc Tessier-Lavigne; Rockefeller University; Abstract
Friday, January 20th 2012, 15:30: Quantum Measurement in the Real World; Aephraim Steinberg; Department of Physics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, January 13th 2012, 15:30: LOFAR: Astronomy at the Extreme Low End of the Electromagnetic Spectrum; Jason W. T. Hessels; ASTRON; Abstract
Friday, December 2nd 2011, 15:30: An International Pulsar Timing Array for Gravitational Wave Detection; Maura McLaughlin; West Virginia University; Abstract
Tuesday, November 22nd 2011, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Exploration de la “Table de Mendeleïev” des atomes artificiels supraconducteurs; Michel Devoret; Yale University & Collège de France; Abstract
Friday, November 18th 2011, 15:30: Searching for Answers at The Large Hadron Collider; Matt Strassler; Rutgers University; Abstract
Friday, November 11th 2011, 15:30: Molecular Graphene; Hari Manoharan; Department of Physics, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2011, 15:30: The origin of heavy elements: Supernovae and the neutrino-p-Process; Carla Fröhlich; North Carolina State University; Abstract
Friday, October 28th 2011, 15:30: CRM Aisenstadt Lecture; Battling decoherence: the fault-tolerant quantum computer; John Preskill; Caltech; Abstract
Friday, October 7th 2011, 15:30: Quantum Phase Transitions in Ultracold Atoms and Condensed Matter Physics; Nandini Trivedi; Ohio State University; Abstract
Friday, September 30th 2011, 15:30: Superconductivity versus the Quantum Hall Effect; Jim Eisenstein; Caltech; Abstract
Friday, September 23rd 2011, 15:30: Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion; Maikel Rheinstädter; McMaster University; Abstract
Friday, September 16th 2011, 15:30: Cracking the Giant's Causeway, or how to solve a 300 year old geology problem using kitchen materials; Stephen Morris; University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, September 9th 2011, 15:30: 2-D Non-linear Electrophoresis: Applications to DNA purification and sequence enrichment; Andre Marziali; Boreal Genomics Inc & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, September 2nd 2011, 15:30: The Competitive Landscape of High-Tc Superconductivity; Jennifer E. Hoffman; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, June 17th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Supersolidity in helium and in cold atoms; Massimo Boninsegni; University of Alberta; Abstract
Monday, June 13th 2011, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Modeling Non-Equilibrium Microstructure Formation in Materials From Continuum to Atomic Scales; Nikolas Provatas; McMaster University; Abstract
Friday, May 20th 2011, 15:30: Bouncing droplets (and the Nature of Reality); John Bush; MIT; Abstract
Friday, April 29th 2011, 15:30: Exploring the quantum nature of light in a cavity; Serge Haroche; École Normale Supérieure & Collège de France; Abstract
Friday, April 15th 2011, 15:30: Black Holes: the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century; Andrew Strominger; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, April 1st 2011, 15:30: Quantum optics and nanophotonics with diamond nitrogen vacancy centers; Paul Barclay; Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary; Abstract
Friday, March 25th 2011, 15:30: The High Time Resolution Universe survey for Pulsars and Radio Transients; Matthew Bailes; Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing; Abstract
Friday, March 18th 2011, 15:30: Building robust quantum computers — software approach; David Poulin; Université de Sherbrooke; Abstract
Wednesday, March 16th 2011, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Single-Cell Biophysical Study on Nucleosome-Depleted Region and Gene Regulation; Lu Bai; Rockefeller University; Abstract
Tuesday, March 15th 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Biophysics of intrinsically unfolded proteins; Loren Hough; Rockefeller University; Abstract
Monday, March 14th 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Special Physics Seminar; Electron Spin Qubits in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots; Mark A. Eriksson; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Abstract
Friday, March 11th 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Revealing The Static And Dynamic Electronic Structure In Advanced Materials - Examples From Graphene And Manganites; Shuyun Zhou; Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, March 4th 2011, 15:30: Designing and Performing with Digital Musical Instruments; Marcelo Wanderley; Schulich School of Music, McGill University; Abstract
Thursday, February 17th 2011, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Convex Lens-Induced Confinement: Enabling New Biophysical Measurements Under Previously Inaccessible Conditions; Sabrina Leslie; Harvard University; Abstract
Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Shear thickening in concentrated suspensions and a general stress equation for particulate fluids; Eric Brown; University of Chicago; Abstract
Friday, February 11th 2011, 15:30: Detecting extra dimensions with gravitational waves; Ruth Gregory; Durham university; Abstract
Friday, February 11th 2011, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Optomechanics Approaching the Quantum Regime: Exploiting the Mechanical Properties of Light; Jack Sankey; Yale University; Abstract
Monday, February 7th 2011, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; High-Speed Manipulation of Single Electronic and Nuclear Spins in Diamond; G. D. Fuchs; Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California Santa Barbara; Abstract
Thursday, February 3rd 2011, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; 3D topological insulators and the quest for surface states; Nicholas P. Butch; Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, Department of Physics, University of Maryland; Abstract
Tuesday, February 1st 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Formation of a disordered solid from a loose granular pack; Mahesh Bandi; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, January 28th 2011, 15:30: The physics of sailing; John Kimball; University of Albany
Friday, January 28th 2011, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Magnetism of LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ Heterostructure Interface; Lu Li; MIT; Abstract
Friday, January 21st 2011, 15:30: Planck scale physics in the laboratory; Craig Hogan; Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics; Abstract
Friday, December 10th 2010, 15:30: Strings and Particle Phenomenology; Cumrun Vafa; Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, December 3rd 2010, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; Superfluidity, phase coherence and the new Bose-condensed alkali gases; Anthony Leggett; Nobel Laureate; Department of Physics, University of Illinois; Abstract
Friday, November 19th 2010, 15:30: Beyond the M-sigma relation: The role of black holes in galaxy evolution; Jenny Greene; Department of Astronomy, University of Texas; Abstract
Friday, November 12th 2010, 15:30: Topological Quantum Computation; Chetan Nayak; University of California, Santa Barbara and Microsoft Station-Q; Abstract
Friday, October 29th 2010, 15:30: Bacterial strategies of chemotaxis; Massimo Vergassola; Institut Pasteur; Abstract
Friday, October 15th 2010, 15:30: Femtosecond nanodiffraction using a hard X-ray laser; John Spence; Physics Department, Arizona State University & LBNL; Abstract
Wednesday, October 13th 2010, 18:00 (McIntyre Medical Building, Palmer Horward Theatre - room 522): 2010/11 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Role of Diverse Physical Phenomena during the Origin of Life; Jack Szostak; Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Center for Computational & Integrative Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Friday, October 8th 2010, 15:30: Graphene: How graphene netted this year's Nobel prize; Michael Hilke; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 24th 2010, 15:30: Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth; Kate Scholberg; Department of Physics, Duke University; Abstract
Friday, September 17th 2010, 15:30: Measurement of stimulated Hawking radiation in a fluid analog system; Bill Unruh; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, September 10th 2010, 15:30: Physics of Evo-Devo; Paul François; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, September 3rd 2010, 15:30: The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - A Unique Window on the Early Universe; Gary Hinshaw; Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA; Abstract
Tuesday, June 29th 2010, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; Graphene: Magic of Flat Carbon; Andre Geim; University of Manchester; Abstract
Monday, April 26th 2010, 14:30 (Stewart Biology Building, N2/2): Faculty of Science Special Seminar; Physics of evolution-development; Paul François; The Rockefeller University; Abstract
Tuesday, March 30th 2010, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): CAP Lecture; The Sound of Science; Ben Newling; University of New Brunswick; Abstract
Friday, March 26th 2010, 15:30: 2009/10 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics; David Gross; Nobel Laureate; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara; Abstract
Thursday, March 25th 2010, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132): 2009/10 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; The Future of Physics; David Gross; Nobel Laureate; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara; Abstract
Friday, March 19th 2010, 15:30: Biophysics of muscle contraction - from molecules to cells; Dilson Rassier; Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, March 12th 2010, 15:30: Climate Models and Climate Sensitivity; Paul Kushner; Department of Physics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Monday, March 8th 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Fundamental measurements using microfluidics: the rate of ice nucleation in supercooled water; Claudiu Stan; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, February 18th 2010, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Disorder as a window to the (Fermi) sea; Tami Pereg-Barnea; California Institute of Technology; Abstract
Tuesday, February 16th 2010, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Searching for “Free” Massless Dirac Fermions in Flatland; Caglar Girit; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, February 12th 2010, 15:30: Molecular Transistors; Mark A. Reed; Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering, Yale University; Abstract
Thursday, February 11th 2010, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Ultrafast physics in photosynthesis: Mapping sub-nanometer energy flow; Naomi Ginsberg; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Wednesday, February 10th 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Three dimensional and two dimensional topological insulators of tetradymite semiconductors Bi₂Te₃, Bi₂Se₃, and Sb₂Te₃; Chao-Xing Liu; Physikalisches Institut (EP3) & Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Wurzburg; Abstract
Tuesday, February 9th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Spin decoherence at high magnetic fields; Susumu Takahashi; University of California, Santa Barbara; Abstract
Monday, February 8th 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Learning about dynamics of condensed matter systems from ultra-cold atoms; David Pekker; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, February 4th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy and photonics; David Cooke; DTU Fotonik; Abstract
Wednesday, February 3rd 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Opening the quantum tool box: from artificial atoms to photonic quantum phase transitions; Jens Koch; Yale University; Abstract
Tuesday, February 2nd 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Imaging coherent electron transport in graphene; Jesse Berezovsky; School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University; Abstract
Monday, February 1st 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Topological Insulators and Fractionalization; Michael Levin; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, January 28th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Spin manipulation in atomically engineered nanostructures; Alexander Otte; NIST; Abstract
Wednesday, January 20th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Quantum dynamics and nanoscale nuclear magnetism; William Coish; University of Waterloo; Abstract
Thursday, November 26th 2009, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; New Topologically Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter; Joel E. Moore; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Wednesday, November 25th 2009, 15:30: Note special day; The Top Top Ten List; Michael E. Peskin; Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, November 20th 2009, 15:30: Fundamental Physics with Ultracold Neutrons: A New Approach to a Challenging Problem; Albert Young; Department of Physics, North Carolina State University; Abstract
Friday, November 13th 2009, 15:30: Particle Accelerators: Mega-Science for the Ultra-Small; William Trischuk; University of Toronto & IPP; Abstract
Thursday, November 12th 2009, 18:45 (Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium: Special Physics Seminar; Black Holes Sing; Janna Levin; Barnard College, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, November 6th 2009, 15:30: Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science; Mikhail Lukin; Physics Department, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, October 30th 2009, 15:30: Trapping and coherent control of molecules in liquids at room temperature; Adam Cohen; Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Department of Physics, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, October 23rd 2009, 15:30: Illuminating Dark Matter; Neil Weiner; Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University; Abstract
Monday, October 19th 2009, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, room 132): Special Physics Seminar; The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time; Sean Carroll; Caltech; Abstract
Monday, September 28th 2009, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; Space, time, matter: 90 years after; Gabriele Veneziano; College de France; Abstract
Monday, September 21st 2009, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, room 132): Special Physics Seminar; Origins and Aliens: The Search for Other Earths; Sara Seager; MIT; Abstract
Friday, September 18th 2009, 15:30: Stable, Accelerating Universes without Dark Energy; Dimitrios Psaltis; University of Arizona; Abstract
Monday, September 14th 2009, 15:30: Special Physics Seminar; Feynman's Broader Impact; Doug Osheroff; Nobel Laureate; Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, September 11th 2009, 16:30 (Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building, room M1): Note special time and venue; Understanding the Columbia Accident; Doug Osheroff; Nobel Laureate; Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, April 3rd 2009, 15:30: Boiling, freezing, and other things we thought we understood...; Daan Frenkel; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Abstract
Friday, March 27th 2009, 15:30: Holographic Descriptions of Quantum Liquids; John McGreevy; MIT; Abstract
Monday, March 23rd 2009, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Berry phase: The missing ingredient in the electron theory of materials; Di Xiao; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, March 20th 2009, 15:30: Chirped-pulse interferometry: “quantum” interference with classical light; Kevin Resch; University of Waterloo; Abstract
Friday, March 13th 2009, 15:30: The baryonic mass-to-light ratio in elliptical galaxies measured from the static gravitational micro-lensing of multiply imaged quasars; Paul Schechter; MIT; Abstract
Thursday, March 12th 2009, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Vibrational dynamics and heat conduction in amorphous solids; Vincenzo Vitelli; University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Monday, March 9th 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; High resolution measurements of clathrin coats on the plasma membrane: What does it take to go live?; Saveez Saffarian; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, March 5th 2009, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; Locating sources of gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts; Sterl Phinney; Caltech; Abstract
Thursday, March 5th 2009, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Conformational Sculpting of DNA: Nanofluidics for Single Molecule DNA Analysis and Manipulation; W. Reisner; Physics Department, Brown University/DTU Nanotech - Dept. of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark/Department of Physics, Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University; Abstract
Monday, March 2nd 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Universal Theory of Nonlinear Luttinger Liquids; Adilet Imambekov; Yale University; Abstract
Monday, March 2nd 2009, 13:30: CAP Lecture; Neurophysics: Unraveling Your Brain's Dynamics; André Longtin; Center for Neural Dynamics, University of Ottawa; Abstract
Wednesday, February 18th 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Patterns and transitions in lipid membranes; Vernita Gordon; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Monday, February 16th 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; How the packaging of DNA influences gene expression; Harold D. Kim; Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 13th 2009, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Single-molecule biophysics in nanofluidic devices; Serge Lemay; Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology; Abstract
Wednesday, February 11th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; The superfluid-insulator quantum phase transition; Roman Lutchyn; Joint Quantum Institute and CMTC, University of Maryland; Abstract
Thursday, February 5th 2009, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Lipid rafts reach a critical point; Sarah Veatch; Cornell University; Abstract
Monday, February 2nd 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Spins in semiconductors: Qubits or new bits?; William Coish; University of Waterloo; Abstract
Friday, January 30th 2009, 15:30: Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Imaging - The Quest for a Molecular Structure Microscope; Dan Rugar; Center for Probing the Nanoscale; Abstract
Thursday, January 29th 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Cytochrome c Oxidase: The biological fuel cell; Youngchan Kim; Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Abstract
Friday, November 28th 2008, 15:30: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: The First 3 Months; Peter Michelson; Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, November 21st 2008, 15:30: Neutrino and Astro-Physics Measurements with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory; Art McDonald; Queen's University; Abstract
Friday, November 14th 2008, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; Fundamental Physics, Cosmology and the Large Hadron Collider; Nima Arkani-Hamed; Institute for Advanced Study
Friday, November 7th 2008, 15:30: Exploring physics at the energy frontier using the ATLAS experiment; Brigitte Vachon; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, October 24th 2008, 15:30: A Rutherford Celebration event; 2008/09 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; What may we expect from the LHC?; John Ellis; CERN; Abstract
Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 18:00 (Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, Room M1): A Rutherford Celebration event; 2008/09 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; The LHC: the world's most powerful microscope and telescope; John Ellis; CERN; Abstract
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 17:30 (Arts Building, Moyse Hall): A Rutherford Celebration event; Rutherford: Canada's First Nobel Laureate; John Campbell; University of Canterbury; Abstract
Friday, October 10th 2008, 15:30: Inside Neutron Stars: Theoretical Speculations & Observational Constraints; Sanjay Reddy; T-16 Nuclear Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, October 3rd 2008, 15:30: What is a laser, and do we really understand them after forty-five years of trying?; Douglas Stone; Yale University; Abstract
Thursday, September 25th 2008, 15:30 (Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building, room M-1): Note special day and venue; McGill Speaker Series; Attitudes about physics and how they impact and are impacted by instruction; Carl Wieman; Nobel Laureate; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Friday, September 19th 2008, 15:30: Inflation, String Theory, and Signatures in the CMB; Eva Silverstein; Stanford University & SLAC; Abstract
Wednesday, September 10th 2008, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; Place Your Bets, or: The last chance to be wrong about what might be discovered at the LHC; Cliff Burgess; McMaster University/Perimeter Institute; Abstract
Friday, April 11th 2008, 15:30: The Birth of Neutrino Astronomy, and its newest telescope, Antares; Larry Sulak; Department of Physics, Boston University; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, April 4th 2008, 15:30: Toward $1k Human Genome Sequencing Technology using Nanopores and Oligos; Xinsheng Sean Ling; Department of Physics, Brown University; Abstract
Wednesday, April 2nd 2008, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and venue; How string theory resolves the black hole information paradox; Samir Mathur; Department of Physics, Ohio State University; Abstract
Friday, March 28th 2008, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; QCD, strings and black holes: A duality between gravity and field theory; Juan Maldacena; Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Monday, March 10th 2008, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Molecular Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein; Arne Gennerich; University of California, San Francisco; Abstract
Thursday, March 6th 2008, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Protein organization and dynamics in model membranes and cells; Suliana Manley; Cell Biology & Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Health; Abstract
Tuesday, March 4th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): CAP Lecture; Quantum Computing, Cryptography and Teleportation; Daniel James; University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, February 29th 2008, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; A random walk through the mechanical properties of living cells; Guillaume Lenormand; Harvard School of Public Health; Abstract
Friday, February 22nd 2008, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Dynamic Strength of Lipid Membranes Exposed to Antimicrobial Peptides; Benjamin A. Smith; Departments of Physics and Pathology, University of British Columbia; Abstract
Wednesday, February 20th 2008, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Single-molecule studies of the microtubule depolymerase MCAK and the microtubule polymerase XMAP215; Gary Brouhard; Max Planck Institute; Abstract
Monday, February 18th 2008, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Understanding a small neural circuit (piece by piece); David Biron; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, February 15th 2008, 15:00 (Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, room M1): 2007/2008 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Cosmology Today; George Smoot; University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Abstract
Thursday, February 14th 2008, 18:30 (Frank Dawson Adams Building, Auditorium): 2007/2008 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Relics of the Big Bang; George Smoot; University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Abstract
Tuesday, February 12th 2008, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Low-field NMR in reduced geometries, with applications to biomedicine and chemistry; Louis Bouchard; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Friday, February 8th 2008, 15:30: Ultra-high-energy Cosmic-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics with the Pierre Auger Observatory; Vasiliki Pavlidou; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago; Abstract
Friday, January 25th 2008, 15:30: Diversity in Young Neutron Stars: The High-Magnetic-Field Puzzle; Victoria Kaspi; Department of Physics, McGill University; Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2008, 16:00: Note special date and time; Wrapping light around a hair; Eric Mazur; Harvard University; Abstract
Wednesday, January 16th 2008, 16:00 (Redpath Museum, Auditorium): Public Lecture; Confessions of a converted lecturer; Eric Mazur; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, January 11th 2008, 15:30: Physics at the edge - soft matter and its interfaces; Steve Granick; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, November 16th 2007, 15:30: Theories of the Explosive Death of Massive Stars; Adam Burrows; University of Arizona; Abstract
Friday, November 9th 2007, 15:30: The Long-Term Rotational Stability of Terrestrial Planets; Jerry Mitrovica; Department of Physics, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, November 2nd 2007, 15:30: Computing with Quantum Knots: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation; Sankar Das Sarma; Department of Physics, University of Maryland; Abstract
Friday, October 26th 2007, 15:30: Inflation and the String Theory Landscape; Alan Guth; Department of Physics, MIT; Abstract
Friday, October 19th 2007, 15:00 (MacDonald-Harrington Building - Room G-10): Note special time and venue; Our Miserable Future; Lawrence M. Krauss; Case Western Reserve University; Abstract
Friday, October 5th 2007, 15:30: Reinventing the Sacred: Science, Faith and Complexity; Stuart Kauffman; University of Calgary; Abstract
Friday, September 28th 2007, 15:30: Unravelling the accelerating universe; Rachel Bean; Department of Astronomy, Cornell University; Abstract
Friday, September 21st 2007, 15:30: Bringing Hearing to the Deaf. Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account; Ian Shipsey; Purdue University; Abstract
Friday, September 14th 2007, 15:30: You can never be too thin or too rich: Recent experiments on Graphene; Horst Stormer; Nobel Laureate; Columbia University & Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent; Abstract
Friday, April 27th 2007, 15:30: The Origin of the Big Bang: the status of inflation after WMAP; V. Mukhanov; University of Munich; Abstract
Friday, April 13th 2007, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Cosmology and the Shape of Large-Scale Structure; Neta Bahcall; Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, March 30th 2007, 15:30: Going to the ends of the Earth to study the Evolving Universe; William Holzapfel; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Thursday, March 29th 2007, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103): CAP Lecture; Quantum Computation - or How To Take Advantage of Quantum Strangeness; Alexandre Blais; Université de Sherbrooke; Abstract
Friday, March 23rd 2007, 15:30: Single Molecule Measurements of Motor Proteins, In vitro and In vivo; Paul Selvin; Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, March 16th 2007, 15:30: Is the Universe held together by cosmic string?; Mark Hindmarsh; University of Sussex; Abstract
Friday, March 16th 2007, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; Physical constraints and limits to precision in early embryonic development; Thomas Gregor; Princeton University; Abstract
Monday, March 12th 2007, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; Optical tracking of molecular processes at high resolution with a novel traveling wave technique; Irene Dujovne; Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology; Abstract
Friday, March 2nd 2007, 15:00 (Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Bldg., room M1): 2006/2007 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; New forms of quantum matter near absolute zero temperature; Wolfgang Ketterle; MIT; Abstract
Thursday, March 1st 2007, 18:00 (Stephen Leacock Building, room 132): 2006/2007 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Bose-Einstein condensates - the coldest matter in the universe; Wolfgang Ketterle; MIT; Abstract
Thursday, March 1st 2007, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; Laser Tweezers in Nanowire Manipulation and Nanopore Based Spectroscopy; Aleksandra Radenovic; University of California, Berkeley; Abstract
Monday, February 26th 2007, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; Causal Entropy as a Measure of Temporal Relationships and Direction of Information Transfer in Neural Systems; Rhonda Dzakpasu; Department of Physics, University of Michigan; Abstract
Friday, February 16th 2007, 15:30: Star Formation Near and Far; Jonathan Tan; Department of Astronomy, University of Florida; Abstract
Friday, February 9th 2007, 15:30: Attosecond Science; Paul Corkum; NRC, Ottawa; Abstract
Thursday, February 8th 2007, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; Solid-state nanopores as single molecule sensors; Diego Krapf; Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology; Abstract
Monday, February 5th 2007, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; Nanomechanics in Biology - From Single molecule experiments to multiple nano-mechanical biosensors; Martin Hegner; Instiute of Physics, University of Basel; Abstract
Friday, February 2nd 2007, 15:30: Making sense of Cell Mechanics; John Crocker; University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, January 26th 2007, 15:00 (Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Bldg., room M1): Special Physical Society Colloquium; Quantum mechanics and the equivalence principle; Paul Davies; Beyond: Institute for Fundamental Concepts in Physics, Arizona State University; Abstract
Friday, January 26th 2007, 11:00 (Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Bldg., room M1): Special Physical Society Colloquium; Anthropic constraints on inflation; Leonard Susskind; Stanford University; Abstract
Thursday, January 25th 2007, 10:30 (Board Room - room 105): Coffee and Conversation with David Gross; Nobel Laureate; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
Wednesday, January 24th 2007, 11:00 (Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Bldg., room M1): Special Physical Society Colloquium; The Scientific Case of the Planck Mission; George Efstathiou; Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University; Abstract
Friday, January 19th 2007, 15:30: Precision tests of General Relativity; Michael Kramer; University of Manchester/Jodrell Bank Observatory; Abstract
Friday, January 12th 2007, 15:30: Circuit QED: Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing on a Superconducting Chip; Robert Schoelkopf; Yale University; Abstract
Friday, January 5th 2007, 15:30: R.E. Bell Lecture; The highest energy cosmic rays: some past history and recent observations; James Cronin; University of Chicago; Abstract
Thursday, December 14th 2006, 15:00: Note special day and time; Quantum Interference Control of Charge and Spin in Semiconductors; Henry van Driel; Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, December 1st 2006, 15:30: Rare Isotopes in Cosmic Explosions and Accelerators on Earth; Hendrik Schatz; MSU/NSCL; Abstract
Friday, November 17th 2006, 15:30: How Advances in Science Are Made; Doug Osheroff; Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, November 10th 2006, 15:30: Powder diffraction in high magnetic fields: from a new tool to novel physics; Vitalij Pecharksy; Iowa State University; Abstract
Friday, November 3rd 2006, 15:30: Simulation of Binary Black Hole Mergers; Frans Pretorius; University of Alberta; Abstract
Friday, October 27th 2006, 15:30: Physics at RHIC; Joe Kapusta; School of Physics & Astromy, University of Minnesota; Abstract
Friday, October 20th 2006, 15:30: Do Matter-Antimatter Asymmetries Matter?; Aaron Roodman; SLAC/Stanford University; Abstract
Friday, October 13th 2006, 15:30: Entanglement, dynamical bifurcations and quantum phase transitions; Gerard Milburn; University of Queensland; Abstract
Friday, September 29th 2006, 15:30: How to learn a generative model of images; Geoffrey Hinton; CIAR Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception Program, University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, September 15th 2006, 15:30: The power of forgetting; Patrick Hayden; McGill University; Abstract
Friday, April 28th 2006, 15:30: The Sky in the Hard X-Rays; Rashid Sunyaev; Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik; Abstract
Friday, April 7th 2006, 15:30: Jamming; Andrea Liu; University of Pennsylvania; Abstract
Friday, March 31st 2006, 15:30: Mini-Beatty Lectures 2005/2006 - Scientific Lecture; Foundations of Supernova Cosmology; Robert Kirshner; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, March 30th 2006, 19:00 (Leacock Auditorium): Mini-Beatty Lectures 2005/2006 - Public Lecture; A Blunder Undone: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Cosmos; Robert Kirshner; Harvard University
Thursday, March 30th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): CAP Lecture; Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Two Great Conundrums of Our Age; Kayll Lake; Queen's University; Abstract
Wednesday, March 29th 2006, 14:30: Note special time and day; Bring On the Spin!; Don Eigler; IBM Almaden Research Center; Abstract
Friday, March 24th 2006, 15:30: Microfabrication and x-ray scattering: new tools for studying RNA folding; Lois Pollack; Cornell University; Abstract
Friday, March 17th 2006, 15:30: ν_e or not ν_e? Upcoming Results from MiniBooNE; Bonnie Fleming; Yale University; Abstract
Friday, March 10th 2006, 15:30: Superfluidity in solid helium and solid hydrogen; Moses H.W. Chan; Penn State University; Abstract
Friday, March 3rd 2006, 15:30: Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Noise and Beyond; Mark A. Ratner; Chemistry Dept. and Center for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University; Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note change of venue; Fluctuations, information and survival: some lessons from bacteria; Stanislas Leibler; Rockefeller University
Friday, February 10th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Not Anything Goes: Low-Energy Constraints from High-Energy Physics; Allan Adams; Harvard University; Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2006, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Holography and Cosmology; Alexander Maloney; SLAC; Abstract
Monday, February 6th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; The Amazing Matrix in String Theory; Mark Van Raamsdonk; UBC; Abstract
Friday, February 3rd 2006, 15:30: Liquid Optics; Ermano Borra; Université Laval; Abstract
Friday, January 27th 2006, 15:30: The Mystery of Black Hole Entropy; Werner Israel; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria; Abstract
Thursday, January 26th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; New physics Phenomenology at the LHC; David Rainwater; University of Rochester; Abstract
Wednesday, January 25th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; What Has String Theory Taught Us About The Quantum Structure of Space-Time?; M. Sheikh-Jabbari; Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics; Abstract
Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories; Amihay Hanany; MIT; Abstract
Tuesday, January 17th 2006, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103: Interview for Faculty Position; String/gauge-theory duality and ferromagnetic spin chains; Martin Kruczenski; Princeton University; Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2006, 16:00: Note special day and time; The Science and Technology of the US National Missile Defense System; Theodore Postol; MIT; Abstract
Friday, January 6th 2006, 15:30: Mini-Beatty Lectures 2005/2006; Electromagnetic Explosions; Roger Blandford; Stanford University; Abstract
Thursday, January 5th 2006, 19:00 (Moyse Hall, Arts Building): Mini-Beatty Lectures 2005/2006; Black Holes: The End of Time or a New Beginning?; Roger Blandford; Stanford University
Friday, December 2nd 2005, 15:30: Thoughts on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation; Rocky Kolb; Fermilab & University of Chicago; Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, November 25th 2005, 15:30: Liquid Optics; Ermanno Borra; Université Laval; Abstract
Monday, November 21st 2005, 19:00 (Leacock Auditorium): 2005/2006 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Einstein's Dream: An Elegant Universe; Brian Greene; Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, Columbia University; Abstract
Monday, November 21st 2005, 15:00 (Room M1, Strathcona Hall): 2005/2006 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; The State of String Theory; Brian Greene; Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, Columbia University; Abstract
Friday, Friday, November 18th 2005, 15:30: What is Nanobiology?; Robert Austin; Princeton University; Abstract
Friday, November 11th 2005, 15:30: Even More from the Cosmic Microwave Background: Its Polarization and Finest Features; Suzanne Staggs; Princeton University; Abstract
Thursday, November 10th 2005, 18:00 (Redpath Museum Auditorium): CAP World Year of Physics Lecture; Note special day and time; Was Einstein Right?; Clifford Will; Washington University in St. Louis; Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2005, 15:30: Penetrating Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in Nuclear Collisions at RHIC and the LHC; Brian Cole; Columbia University; Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special day and room; Patterns, universality and computational algorithms; Nigel Goldenfeld; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abstract
Friday, October 14th 2005, 15:30: NMR and quantum information processing; Raymond Laflamme; University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; Abstract
Friday, October 7th 2005, 15:30: Towards a solid state quantum information processor: manipulation and control of the quantum state of an electrical circuit; Michel Devoret; Yale University; Abstract
Friday, September 30th 2005, 16:00 (Redpath Hall): R.E. Bell Lecture; How to Win the Nobel Prize; Leon Lederman; How to Win the Nobel Prize; Abstract
Friday, September 23rd 2005, 15:30: Controlling and manipulating quantum information: some experiments with photons and atoms; Aephraim Steinberg; University of Toronto; Abstract
Friday, September 16th 2005, 15:30: Adventures in atomic aggregation; Kevin Robbie; Queen's University; Abstract
POSTPONED Monday, August 15th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103): To be confirmed, time subject to change; Report on the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory: A Detector 30 Times the Size of Paris; Jim Cronin; University of Chicago; Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 28th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Adventures in String Theory: From Black Holes to QCD; Marcus Spradlin; UCSB; Abstract
Friday, April 15th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Signatures of Dark Energy; Justin Khoury; MIT; Abstract
Thursday, April 14th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Flux compactifications and its application to cosmology; Keshav Dasgupta; UIUC; Abstract
Wednesday, April 13th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Seeking the Standard Model in String Theory: Intersecting Brane Worlds and Nonperturbative Transitions; Raul Rabadan; Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Wednesday, April 13th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Seeking the Standard Model in String Theory: Intersecting Brane Worlds and Nonperturbative Transitions; Raul Rabadan; Institute for Advanced Study; Abstract
Monday, April 11th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Moduli stabilization and inflation in flux compactifications; Olivier DeWolfe; Princeton; Abstract
Friday, April 8th 2005, 15:30: Experiments with Nanoelectromechanics at the Quantum Limit; Keith Schwab; University of Maryland; Abstract
Tuesday, April 5th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Time Dependent String Theory and Matrix Models; Joanna Karczmarek; Harvard University; Abstract
Friday, April 1st 2005, 15:30: A brief history of the McGill Physics Department, 1889-1939; Jean Barrette; Physics Department, McGill University; Abstract
Friday, March 11th 2005, 15:30: CAP Lecture; Brownian Motion: The Life Of Dancing Molecules; Gary W. Slater; University of Ottawa; Abstract
Wednesday, February 23rd 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Force generation due to fluctuations of media and boundaries; Ramin Golestanian; IASBS; Abstract
Monday, February 21st 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Theoretical Studies on Fluctuations in Single Molecule Spectra and Supercooled Liquids: Probing Dynamical Heterogeneities in Space and Time; YounJoon Jung; UC Berkeley; Abstract
Thursday, February 17th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Quantum mechanical methods for complex systems and their applications; GuanHua Chen; University of Hong Kong; Abstract
Tuesday, February 15th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Nanostructures for Single-Molecule Biophysics; Derek Stein; Kavli Institute, Delft University of Technology; Abstract
Monday, February 14th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; The Shrouded Universe: Uncovering the hidden phases of galaxy evolution; Tracy Webb; Leiden University; Abstract
Wednesday, February 9th 2005, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Making Movies of Molecules with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction; Bradley J. Siwick; FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam; Abstract
Monday, February 7th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Semiconductor nanocrystals: Fundamental optical properties and energy transfer phenomena; Marc Achermann; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Abstract
Thursday, February 3rd 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Transit Searches for Extrasolar Planets: Properties, Pitfalls, Payoffs, and Promises; B. Scott Gaudi; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Abstract
Wednesday, February 2nd 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Probing the reionization of the universe with quasars; Chris Willott; Herzberg Institute; Abstract
Tuesday, February 1st 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Quasars and Cosmology: A Quasologist's Perspective on the History of the Universe; Gordon T. Richards; Princeton University; Abstract
Monday, January 31st 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; QCD amplitudes and String Theory; Anastasia Volovich; Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara
Friday, January 28th 2005, 15:30: Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics; Dave Weitz; Harvard University; Abstract
Tuesday, January 25th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Star formation, gas and galaxy morphology; Andrew Hopkins; University of Pittsburgh; Abstract
Friday, January 21st 2005, 15:30: What Can We Learn About Neutrinos At SNOLAB?; Alain Bellerive; Carleton University; Abstract
Thursday, January 20th 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Interview for Faculty Position; Measuring Individual Carbon Nanotubes Using Raman Spectroscopy and Nano-Fabrication Techniques; Stephen B. Cronin; Harvard University
Tuesday, December 7th 2004, 15:30: Note unusual day; The ATLAS Project at the Large Hadron Collider: Exploring the High-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics; Peter Jenni; CERN; Abstract
Saturday, December 4th 2004, 16:20 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): 2004 R.E. Bell Lecture; Note unusual day, time and room; Density-functional theory and the nuclear binding problem; George Bertsch; University of Washington; Abstract
Friday, December 3rd 2004, 15:30: Classical fields, quantum anomalies, and relativistic heavy ions; Dmitri Kharzeev; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, November 26th 2004, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Note special time and room; Mass Metrology: its Pitfalls and the Redefinition of the Kilogram; George Chapman; Institute for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council; Abstract
Friday, November 19th 2004, 15:30: Atom Trap, Krypton-81 and Saharan Water; Z.T. Lu; Argonne National Laboratory; Abstract
Friday, November 12th 2004, 15:30: Bioinformatics approaches towards understanding gene expression and regulation; Michael Hallett; McGill University
Friday, November 5th 2004, 15:30: SiGe/Si Structures for Strained Si Transistors; Patricia M. Mooney; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Abstract
Friday, October 29th 2004, 15:30: Naturalness vs. the superstring landscape - or, why is the universe finely tuned?; Nima Arkani-Hamed; Harvard University
Friday, October 22nd 2004, 15:30: Searching for a Guaranteed Surprise: Systematic Analysis of Frontier Energy Collider Data; Bruce Knuteson; MIT; Abstract
Friday, October 15th 2004, 15:30 (Room M1, Strathcona Hall): 2004/2005 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture; Ultracold Bosonic and Fermionic Gases; Claude Cohen-Tannoudji; Collège de France & Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure; Abstract
Thursday, October 14th 2004, 20:00 (Moyse Hall, Arts Building): 2004/2005 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture; Manipulating Atoms with Light; Claude Cohen-Tannoudji; Collège de France & Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure; Abstract
Friday, October 8th 2004, 15:30: Guarding the Gate: Physics and the Law; Robert Park; University of Maryland; Abstract
Wednesday, September 29th 2004, 15:30: Note special day; Wanted Dead or Alive: Remnants of Superstring Inflation; Ira Wasserman; Cornell; Abstract
Friday, September 24th 2004, 15:30: Canadian Participation in a Large Optical Telescope; Raymond Carlberg; University of Toronto; Abstract
Wednesday, September 15th 2004, 15:30: Note special day; Rapid-Response Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts; Derek Fox; Caltech; Abstract
Friday, September 10th 2004, 15:30: Unveiling the Phases of Quark Matter; Rajagopal Krishna; MIT; Abstract