Colloquia and Seminars 2015-16

PAST COLLOQUIA

Wednesday, March 30
Dr. Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
"Spinors, Strings and Superconductors: Challenges of new era in Condensed Matter Physics"

Wednesday, March 23
Dr. Gregory Mendell, LIGO Hanford Observatory
"Black Holes: GW150914 and the First Advanced LIGO Observations"

Wednesday, March 16
Prof. Alice Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles
"The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: A Detailed Census of the Physics of Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe"

Wednesday, March 9
Dr. Michelle Wang, Cornell University
"Single Molecule Mechanics - Towards High Throughput"

Thursday, March 3
3:40 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 167
Dr. Adam Muzzin, Kavli Institute, University of Cambridge
"How to Build a Big Galaxy"

Wednesday, March 2
Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Simon Fraser University
"The International Race For A Quantum Computer"

Monday, February 29
3:40 p.m. / Clearihue Building, Room A203
Dr. Gail Zasowski, Johns Hopkins University
"Galactic Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data"

Wednesday, February 24
Dr. Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, University of Montreal
"Black Holes: Sculptors of Galaxies and Clusters"

Monday, February 22
3:40 p.m. / Clearihue Building, Room A203
Dr. Sarah Ballard, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT
"Exoplanets: Under a Microscope, and Through a Wide-field Lens"

Thursday, February 18
3:40 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 167
Dr. Branimir Sesar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
"The Mysterious Ophiuchus Stellar Stream"

Wednesday, February 17
Dr. Claudio Kopper, University of Alberta
"Chasing Neutrinos in Antarctica"

Wednesday, February 03
Dr. Edward Graves, Stanford University
"Effects of Radiation on Tumor Cell Migration"

Wednesday, January 27
Dr. Stephen Kent, Fermilab
"A Case Study in Public Data Release: Flight Path of Malaysia Airlines MH370"

Wednesday, January 20
Dr. Karin Oberg, Harvard University
"The Chemistry of Planet Formation"

Wednesday, January 13
Dr. Gary Hinshaw, The University of British Columbia
"Taking the Measure of the Universe using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations"

Wednesday, January 6
Dr. Don Vandenberg, The University of Victoria
"The Oldest Stars"

Wednesday, December 2
Dr. Rene Ong, University of California, Los Angeles
"Very High Energy Astrophysics and the Cherenkov Telescope Array"

Wednesday, November 25
Dr. Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington
"Searching For Dark-Matter Axions"

Wednesday, November 18
Dr. Deborah Jin, The National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Ultracold Polar Molecules"

Wednesday, November 4
Dr. John Kormendy, University of Texas at Austin
"Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies"

Wednesday, October 28
Dr. Trevor Landing, D-Wave Systems Inc.
"Overview of Quantum Annealing Processors"

Wednesday, Octover 21
Dr. David Gerdes, University of Michigan
"The Coolest Place in the Solar System: Opportunistic Science with the Dark Energy Survey"

Wednesday, October 14
Dr. Roberto Abraham, University of Toronto
"First Results from Dragonfly"

Wednesday, October 7
Dr. Oussama Moutanabbir, Ecole Politechnique de Montreal
"3-D Atom-By-Atom Dissection of Materials"

Wednesday, September 30
Dr. Vinothan N. Manoharan, Harvard University
"The Physics of Virus Self-Assembly"

Wednesday, September 23
Dr. Darrell Schlom, Cornell University
"Thin-Film Alchemy: Using Strain and Dimensionality to Unleash the Hidden Properties of Oxides"

Wednesday, September 16
Dr. Sarah Demers, Yale University
"High Energy, High Hopes: Run 2 at ATLAS"

PAST SEMINARS

Wednesday, May 20, 2015
2:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 162
Dr. Vardha Bennert, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Department of Physics
"Towards an Understanding of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations"

Wednesday, June 24, 2015
1:30 p.m. / Engineering/Computer Science Building, Room 108
Dr. Manuela Venturi, University of Victoria (based at CERN, Geneva)
"Measurement of the Higgs-Boson Properties with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC"

Wednesday, July 22, 2015
1:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 167
Dr. Pauline Barmby, Western University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
"All M31, All the Time"

Friday, July 24, 2015
2:00 p.m. / David Strong Building, Room C128
Dr. Johan Knapen, IAC, Spain
"On Interactions, Star Formation, and the Outskirts of Galaxies"

Monday, April 4
11:30 a.m. / Clearihue Building, Room A308
Dr. Harald Pfeiffer, CITA, University of Toronto
"Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger"

Friday, April 1
3:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 062
Dr. Aksel Hallin, Professor and Canada Research Chair for Astroparticle Physics, University of Alberta
"The DEAP 3600 Detector: Looking for WIMP Dark Matter with Liquid Argon"

Friday, March 18
1:30 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 062
Dr. Gabor Kunstatter, University of Winnipeg
"Black Hole Information Loss: Is there light at the end of the tunnel"

Tuesday, March 15
2:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 060
Professor Alice Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles
"Direct Measurement of the Escape of Ionizing Radiation from Galaxies at High Redshift: So Hard, yet so Important"

Monday, March 14
1:00 p.m. / Clearihue Building, Room C108
Dr. Francesc Ferrer, Washington University
"Managing astrophysical uncertainties in dark matter detection"

Friday, March 11
10:30 a.m. / Elliott Building, Room 061
Dr. Laura Sales, University of California, Riverside
"Dwarf galaxies and their satellites as extreme probes of LCDM"

Thursday, March 4
3:15 p.m. / Engineering Computer Science Building, Room 104
Dr. Adam Muzzin, Kavli Institute, University of Cambridge
"Understanding the Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution up to z ~ 1.5"

Tuesday, March 1
3:15 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 162
Dr. Gail Zasowski, John Hopkins University
"New Tools for Galactic Archaeology from the Milky Way"

Tuesday, February 23
3:15 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 060
Dr. Sarah Ballard, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT
"Choose Your Own Adventure: Orbital Dynamics and Atmospheres of M dwarf Planets"

Friday, February 19
2:30 p.m. / Engineering Computer Science Building, Room 104
Dr. Branimir Sesar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
"Surveying the Galaxy with RR Lyrae Stars"

Friday, February 12
1:30 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. Abi Soffer, Tel Aviv University
"Long-lived Particles and their Search at Colliders"

Thursday, January 28
2:30 p.m. / Elliott Room 167
Prof. Ian Short, Saint Mary's University & Institute for Computational Astrophysics
"The GrayStar Project: Moving computational stellar astrophysics into the Web browser"

Tuesday, January 26
1:00 p.m. / Engineering Computer Science Building, Room 130
Dr. Richard Hill, TRIUMF
"Effective Theories, Dark Matter and Neutrinos"

Thursday, December 10
11:00 a.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. Kristan Jensen, Stony Brook University
"Dissipative hydrodynamics from effective (and topological) field theory"

Wednesday, December 9
3:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. Gordan Krnjaic, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
"Discovering Inelastic Thermal-Relic Dark Matter at Colliders"

Wednesday, December 2
11:00 a.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. Chris Hayward, California Institute of Technology
"Submilimeter Galaxies in the ALMA Era"

Thursday, November 26
2:30 p.m. / Clearihue Building, Room A212
Dr. Robert Brandenberger, McGill University, Department of Physics
"Searching for Cosmic Strings in New Observational Windows"

Friday, November 20
10:30 a.m. / Engineering Computer Science Building, Room 130
Prof. Shantanu Basu, University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics & Astronomy
"The Migrating Embryo Model of Protostellar Disk Evolution"

Tuesday, November 3
3:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. John Kormendy, University of Texas at Austin
"Structure and Formation of S0 and Spheroidal Galaxies"

Tuesday, October 27
1:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 161
Dr. Hooman Davoudiasl, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Inflatable Dark Matter"

Tuesday, October 20
11:30 a.m. / Maclaurin Building, Room D103
Dr. Robert Andrassy, University of Victoria; CITA National Fellow
"Convective Overshooting in Stellar Interiors"

Tuesday, October 20
1:00 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 161
Mr. John Fuini, University of Washington
"Far-From-Equilibrium Dynamics of a Strongly Coupled Non-Abelian Plasma with Non-Zero Charge Density or External Magnetic Field"

Friday, September 18
10:30 a.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. Melissa Graham, University of California Berkeley
"Constraints on the Progenitors of Type la Supernovae from Observations at Late Times"

Tuesday, September 15
1:30 p.m. / Elliott Building, Room 160
Dr. Frank Berghaus, CERN Fellow (Information Technology Department)
"Data Preservation in High Energy Physics"

PAST SPECIAL TALKS

Alan Astbury Public Lecture
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
7:30 p.m Bob Wright Centre, Room B105
Prof. Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS, Imperial College London
"The long road to the Higgs boson and beyond"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Natia Frank, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria
"A New Spin on Solar Cells: Can we operate close to the theoretical limit?"

Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
7:30 p.m Bob Wright Centre, Room A104
Professor Alice Shapley, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
"Decoding the Content of Distant Galaxies"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Roberta Hamme, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
"Carbon in the Oceans"

CAP Lecture
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
3:00 p.m. / Bob Wright Centre, Room A104
Dr. Claudio Kopper, Department of Physics, University of Alberta
"Chasing Neutrinos in Antarctica"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Christian Marois, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, NRC Herzberg
"The Quest for a Habitable Exoplanet"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Tom Reimchen, Department of Biology, University of Victoria
"A Global Super-Predator"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Christoph Borchers, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria
"Mass Spectrometric Protein Quantitation in Clinical Samples: From biomarker validation to clinical assays and companion diagnostics"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Christian Marois, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, NRC Herzberg
"ExtraSolar Planets"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:00 p.m. AND 8:00 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Roberto Abraham, Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto
"The Five Questions Astronomers Get Asked Most Often in Bars"

Café Scientifique
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
6:30 p.m. / Hermann's Jazz Club @ 753 View Street
Dr. Dean Karlen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria
"Neutrinos: the Ghost Particles"