Colloquia and Seminars 2011-12

September 14
Dr. Dean Karlen, University of Victoria and TRIUMF
Neutrino Oscillations and T2K

September 21
Dr. Francis Everitt, Stanford University
Frame Dragging, Cryogenics, and Space, the Gravity Probe B Experiment
(more details here)

September 28
Dr. Michael Thewalt, Simon Fraser University
Highly Enriched 28Si: From a New Kilogram to Quantum Computing

October 5
Dr. Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago
Beyond Wrinkling: Stress Relaxation in Lung Surfactant Monolayers and Other Thin Films

October 12
Dr. Kenneth Burch, University of Toronto
Optics and Scotch Tape: New Discoveries Beyond Carbon
(more details here)

October 19
Dr. Tom Quinn, University of Washington
Forming Spiral Galaxies in a Cold, Dark Matter Universe

October 26
Dr. George Saliba, Columbia University
At the Intersection of Physics and Classical Cosmology: Copernicus and Galileo Legacy

November 2
Dr. Patricia Burchat, Stanford University
Identifying the Nature of Dark Matter: What Does it Take?

November 16
Dr. Mohammed Amin, D-Wave Systems Inc.
Robustness of Adiabatic Quantum Computation Against Decoherence

November 23
Dr. Stefan Reinsberg, University of British Columbia
MRI of Tissue Function and Tumour Microenvironment

November 30
Dr. Nadya Mason, University of Illinois, Urbana
Using Graphene to Study Superconductivity (New Tricks for an Old Dog)

Fall 2011 Seminars

Wednesday, September 14
11:00 AM in Ell 060
Dr. Sarah Loebman, University of Washington
Reconsidering the Milky Way's Thick Disk: What We Can Learn From Obsevations and Simulations

Friday, September 16
2:30 PM in Ell 061
Dr. Hugo Martel, Université Laval
Chemical Signature of Gas-Rich Disc - Disc Mergers at High Redshift

Thursday, October 24
3:30 PM in Ell 162
Dr. Matthew Jones, Purdue University
Quarkonium Production and Polarization at Hadron Colliders

Tuesday, October 25
3:00 PM in Ell 160
Dr. Josef Pradler, Perimeter Institute
Signals in Direct Dark Matter Experiments - I Think You've Got Sunstroke

Thursday, October 27
3:00 PM in Ell 161
Dr. Greg Sivakoff, University of Alberta
Oddball Black Holes?

Monday, November 7
11:00 AM in Cle C108
Dr. Elena D-Onghia, Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and University of Wisconsin
Dynamics of Sprial Structure in Disk Galaxies

Monday, November 14
2:00 PM in HSD 250
Dr. Andrew Zayakin, INFN Perugia
Exact Results for String Spectrum in AdS4 x CP3 versus the All-loop Bethe Ansatz

Thursday, November 17
2:00 PM in MAC D101
Dr. Archisman Ghosh, University of Kentucky
The Fluid Gravity Correspondence and Dumb Holes

Thursday, November 17
3:00 PM in Ell 160
Dr. Vincenzo Antonucchio-Delogu, INAF/National Institute for for Astrophysics and Cantania Astrophysical Observatory, Italy
How Hot is a Relativistic Jet?

Thursday, November 24
2:30 PM in Ell 160
Dr. Henk Hoekstra, Leiden Observatory and University of Victoria
Cosmology and More with Euclid

Monday, November 28
11:30 AM in Ell 062
Dr. Daniel Thomas, Imperial College, London, UK
Making Gravity Count: Cluster Numbers and Other Cosmological Observables in Model Independent Modified Gravity

Thursday, December 1
11:30 in Ell 062
Dr. Renbin Yan, New York University
The Puzzle of LINERS and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-Type Galaxies

Tuesday, December 6
1:30 PM in Ell 160
Dr. Charles Lopez San Juan, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
The Minor Merger History of the Most Massive Galaxies Since z=1

Tuesday, December 6
3:00 PM in Ell 162
Dr. Peter Koroteev, University of Minnesota
On 2d/4d Correspondence

Spring 2012 Colloquia Series

January 11
Dr. Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria
Challenging the Limits of Diffraction

January 18
Dr. Alexandre Blais, Université de Sherbrooke
Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

January 25
Dr. Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto
Transport Dynamics of Ultracold Atoms in a Double-Well Potential
(more details here)

February 1
Dr. Tommaso Treu, University of California
Dark Matter and Black Holes across Cosmic Time

February 8
Dr. David Hertzog, University of Washington
Precision Muon Physics: Capturing a Moment in a Lifetime

February 22
Dr. Crystal Martin, University of California
The Adventures of Cosmic Baryons

February 29
Dr. Paul Wiggins, University of Washington
The Dynamics of E. Coli Ultra-Structure

March 7
Dr. Rainer Blatt, Innsbruck University
The Quantum Way of Doing Computations

March 14
Dr. Scott Oser, University of British Columbia
Blind Analysis, or The Answer's Not in the Back of the Book!

March 21
Dr. Martin Bureau, Oxford University
Observing Galaxies in 3D

March 28
Dr. Hugo Martel, Université Laval
The Origin of Chemical Elements in the Universe

April 4
Dr. John Cassidy, Geological Survey of Canada
Applications of Physics to Earthquake Hazard Studies

Spring 2012 Seminars

Friday, February 17
9:30 a.m. in ELL 503
Dr. Wolfgang Kerzendorf, University of Toronto
Type Ia Supernovae: Explosions and progenitors

Tuesday, February 21
11:00 a.m. in ELL 060
Dr. Jonathan Thornburg, Indiana University
Modelling Extreme Mass Ratio Binary Black Hole Inspirals

Friday, March 09
11:00 a.m. in HSD A264
Dr. Viktor Zacek,  Université de Montréal
Search for Dark Matter with PICASSO

Monday, April 02
14:00 p.m. in CLE D125
Dr. Mark Hartz, York University and University of Toronto
Searching for Oscillating Neutrinos at T2K: Results and Prospects

Friday, April 13
14:00 p.m. in ECS 130
Dr. Alexander Wright, Princeton University
Shedding Light on the Dark Universe

Friday, June 08
11:00 a.m. in ECS 130
Dr. Giuseppina Battaglia, European Southern Observatory
Wide-Field Views of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies

Thursday, June 14
13:30 p.m. in ELL 161
Dr. Ian Nugent, Humboldt Fellow/ RWTH Aachen
Tau Physics at CMS

Special talks 2011-12

Lansdowne Lecture
Tuesday, November 1
Dr. Pat Burchat, Stanford University
A 21st Century View of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Café Scientifique Lecuture Series
This is a monthly public discussion series sponsored by the UVic Faculty of Science and the Department of Physics & Astronomy.