Departmental Colloquia and Graduate Seminars

Other Events:

Special Astroparticle/HEP seminar - Sept 8
Special Astroparticle/HEP seminar - Oct 6
High Energy Physics Seminar - Oct 13

Also check the following links:

Astronomy Journal Club

Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held Tuesdays at 2:30-3:30pm in room 317, Petrie Science and Engineering Building [location and access].

For further information, contact Adam Muzzin

Winter 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
January 16	Laura Parker McMaster University	Galaxy Evolution in the Group Environment
January 23	Brian Nieman Sick Kids Hospital	MRI in the Mouse to Assess Brain Development After Cancer Treatment
January 26	Jillian Scudder Oberlin College	The hunt for cosmic monsters: understanding galaxies in the confused FIR sky
February 06	David Curtin University of Toronto	Flashes of Hidden Worlds at Colliders
February 13	William van Wijngaarten York University	Radiation Transport in the Earth’s Atmosphere
March 13	Kate Scholberg Duke University	Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino
March 20	CAP Lecture: Silvia Scorza SnoLab	Whispers in the Dark
March 27	Aaron Vincent Queen’s Univeristy	Dark Matter and the Sun
April 3	Shohini Ghose Wilfrid Laurier University	Quantum chaos and quantum information
April 10	Eric Hessels York University	An extremely precise measurement of the electric dipole moment of the electron using BaF molecules embedded in solid argon.

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
September 12	Mark Chen Queen's University	Renovating a Neutrino Detector 2 km Underground
September 16	Olga Zakhozhay Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine	The Observational Signatures of Planet Formation
September 19	Sidhartha Goyal University of Toronto	Statistical Mechanics of Stem Cells
September 26	Jill Tarter SETI Institute	Finding Life in the Universe
September 28	Sarah Sadavoy Harvard University	New Evidence That Stars Form as Wide Binary Pairs
October 17	Greg Huber UC Santa Barbara	Terasaki Ramps: A Glimpse into the Geometrial Architecture of the Cell
October 24	Danilo Marchesini Tufts University	The Growth of Today's Most Massive Galaxies over the last 12.8 Gyr of Cosmic History
October 31	Sangeeta Murugkar Carlton University	Biophotonics: Applications in Cancer Research
November 7	Sachin Vaidya Penn State University	Robotics, Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Low Energy QCD: A Surprising Common Intersection
November 14	Christina Smith York University	Magnificent Mars and Prickly Pluto
November 21	Carsten Ullrich University of Missouri	Time-dependent density-functional approaches for excitons
November 28	John Percy University of Toronto	A Half-Century of Astronomy Education and Outreach: Stories, Reflections, and Lessons Learned

Summer 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
May 30	Colm Whelan Old Dominion University	Coincidence studies of electron and positron impact ionization

Winter 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
January 17	Remco van der Burg CEA Saclay	The distribution of stellar mass in galaxy clusters over cosmic time
January 24	Catherine Beauchemin Ryerson University	Photons. Phonons. Virions? An Intro to Virophysics
February 14	Harald Pfeiffer CITA and University of Toronto	CAP lecture: Colliding black holes and gravitational waves: Studying the universe through fantastic messengers
February 21	C. Jess Riedel Perimeter Institute	Branching of the Wavefunction of the Universe during Inflation
February 28	Sandrine Codis-Decara CITA	How the cosmic web affects galaxy evolution
March 7	Henk Hoekstra Leiden	Weak Lensing as an Accurate Probe of Cosmology and Much More!
March 21	Melanie Campbell University of Waterloo	Diagnostic Imaging in the Eye and through the Eye, the Brain
March 28	Richard Hill Perimeter Institute	The proton radius puzzle

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
September 20	Arturo Fiorentini York University	T2K: latest neutrino oscillation results and future prospects
October 18	Neelima Sehgal Stony Brook University	Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the CMB to Probe Neutrino Properties, Dark Energy, and Primordial Gravitational Waves
October 20	Craig Rodger University of Otago	Particle Precipitation into the Polar Atmosphere
October 25	Ijaz Rauf York University	Nanoscience: Its Development & Applications in Energy & Bio-Diagnostic Sectors, Challenges and Opportunities
November 1	Anton Zilman University of Toronto	Transport by the Nuclear Pore Complex: simple physics of a complex Approaching Cancer from the End - Modelling Telomere Dynamics
November 15	Daniel Stolarski Carleton University	The Nature of the Higgs Boson
November 22	Robert Gooding Queen's University	Approaching Cancer from the End - Modelling Telomere Dynamics
November 29	Renée Hložek University of Toronto	Constraining Non-Standard Cosmologies With the Ground-Based Microwave Experiments
December 6	Mairi Sakellariadou King's College London	Unweaving the fabric of the Universe

For previous colloquia, click here.

Winter 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
January 26	Brian Nord Fermilab	Early results from the Dark Energy Survey
February 16	Bryan Gaensler University of Toronto	Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism
March 1	Jennifer Thomas University College London	Neutrino Oscillations at Work
March 8	Thad Harroun Brock University	Vitamin E at the Intersection of Health and Neutron Science
March 15	Asimina Arvinitaki Perimeter Institute	The highs and lows of the QCD axion
March 22	Joanne O’Meara University of Guelph	The evolution of the undergraduate physics curriculum at the University of Guelph
March 29	Shantanu Basu University of Western Ontario	The Migrating Embryo Model of Protostellar Disk Evolution
April 5	Cecile Fradin McMaster University	On The Importance of Diffusion in Biological Systems

Date	Speaker	Title
January 26	Brian Nord Fermilab	Early results from the Dark Energy Survey
February 16	Bryan Gaensler University of Toronto	Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism
March 1	Jennifer Thomas University College London	Neutrino Oscillations at Work
March 8	Thad Harroun Brock University	Vitamin E at the Intersection of Health and Neutron Science
March 15	Asimina Arvinitaki Perimeter Institute	The highs and lows of the QCD axion
March 22	Joanne O’Meara University of Guelph	The evolution of the undergraduate physics curriculum at the University of Guelph
March 29	Shantanu Basu University of Western Ontario	The Migrating Embryo Model of Protostellar Disk Evolution
April 5	Cecile Fradin McMaster University	On The Importance of Diffusion in Biological Systems

Fall 2015 *Exception held on Thursday 3:00pm

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 22	Colin Morningstar Carnegie Mellon University	Excited Hadron Resonances and Scattering Phase Shifts in Lattice QCD
Sept 29	Peter Mascher McMaster University	Visible Light Emission from Silicon-based Thin Film Nanostructures
Oct 6	Stefania Gori Perimeter Institute & University of Cincinnati	The Higgs as a Portal to New Physics
Oct 20	Sun Kwok University of Hong Kong	Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
Oct 27	Jo Bovy University of Toronto	What Drives the Evolution of the Milky Way’s Disk?
Nov 3	Marko Horbatsch York University	Determination of the Proton Charge Radius From Electron-Proton Scattering Data
Nov 17	Craig Simmons University of Toronto	Biophysical insights into the mechanisms of heart valve disease
Nov 24	Sabine Stanley University of Toronto	Planetary Dynamos: The Curious Case of Saturn
December 10	Lisa Randall* Harvard University	Double Disk Dark Matter

Winter 2015 *Exception held on Wednesday 3:00pm

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

Fall 2014

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

Winter 2014

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

Fall 2013

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

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