Everyone is welcome to our Physics colloquia, which take place on Wednesdays at 3:20pm in ABB-102. Refreshments are served
beforehand in ABB-273. Suggestions for speakers can be sent to the colloquium chair (Cecile Fradin:
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September 14, 2011 3:20 pm Competing Anisotropies in a 2D Ferromagnetic Phase Transition
Dr. David Venus - McMaster University
, McMaster University

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September 21, 2011 3:20 pm Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters
Dr. Chris Mihos - Case Western Reserve
, Department of Astronomy, CWRU

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September 28, 2011 3:30 pm Watching Every Atom Move: The Power of Computer Simulations of Biomolecules
Dr. Peter Tieleman - University of Calgary
, University of Calgary

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October 5, 2011 3:30 pm Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory
Dr. Christine Wilson, McMaster University
, McMaster University

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October 12, 2011 3:30 pm New Frontiers in Modeling Galaxy Formation
Dr. Oleg Gnedin - University of Michigan
, University of Michigan - Department of Astronomy

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October 19, 2011 3:30 pm PAH Emission Features as Astrophysical Probes
Dr. Els Peeters, University of Western ON
, University of Western Ontario
, Physics Department

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October 26, 2011 3:30 pm Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Line Reconnection
Dr. Walter Gekelman - UCLA
, Basic Plasma Science Facility - UCLA

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November 2, 2011 3:30 pm Astronomical Observations from Ancient Egypt
Dr. Sarah Symons, McMaster University
, McMaster University

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November 9, 2011 3:30 pm Cold Trapped Atoms: Why are they so hot?
Dr. Eugene Zaremba - Queen's University
, Queen's University, Physics Department

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November 16, 2011 3:30 pm Menagerie of Viruses: Diverse Chemical Sequences or Electrostatics?
Dr. Murugappan Muthukumar
, University of Massachusetts

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November 23, 2011 3:30 pm Heat Assisted Magnetisation Reversal (HAMR): Sustaining Moore’s Law for Magnetic Recording Media
Dr. John Whitehead - Memorial University
, Memorial University - Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography

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November 30, 2011 3:30 pm The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet
Dr. David Charbonneau - Harvard University
, Harvard University & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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December 7, 2011 3:30 pm Constraining Properties of Type I X-Ray Bursts through Nuclear Physics Experiments
Dr. Anuj Parikh - UPC Barcelona
, The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

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January 9, 2012 3:20 am To Be Arranged
Dr. W. Kinney
, University of Buffalo

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January 18, 2012 3:30 pm Topology in Condensed Matter
Dr. Tami Pereg-Barnea - McGill University
, McGill University - Physics Department

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January 25, 2012 3:30 pm Black holes, supercomputers and gravitational waves
Dr. Harold Pffeiffer - CITA
, University of Toronto - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

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February 1, 2012 3:30 pm New Cosmologies on the Horizon
Dr. Andrew Tolley - Case Western

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February 8, 2012 3:30 pm Quantum Measurements in the Real World
Dr. Aephraim Steinberg - Univ of Toronto

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February 15, 2012 3:30 pm What to Do About Lectures
Dr. Michael Reid - University of Toronto

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February 29, 2012 3:30 pm Efficiency in the Cell: How Cells Make Proteins Rapidly While Working to a Budget
Dr. Paul Higgs, McMaster University

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March 1, 2012 3:30 am CAP LECTURE - Up Close and Personal Radiation Treatments for Cancer
Dr. Rowan Thompson - Carleton University
, Carleton University

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March 7, 2012 3:30 pm Neutrinos - The X-files of Particle Physics
Dr. Kai Zuber - Dresden University

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March 14, 2012 3:30 pm The ALFALFA Census of Gas-Bearing Galaxies at z=0
Dr. Martha Haynes - Cornell University

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March 21, 2012 3:30 pm Low-Mass Galaxies at Cosmic High Noon
Dr. Marcin Sawicki - St. Mary's University

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March 28, 2012 3:30 pm Studying Stellar Explosive Nucleosynthesis with Ion Beams
Dr. Alan Chen - McMaster University

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