Date | Presenters and paper |
Sept 11 | Christine |
"Progressive field state collapse and quantum non-demolition photon counting", Nature, 448, 889 (also N&V) | |
Sept 18 | Regina Bendig (librarian) |
Library resources | |
Sept 25 | NO CLASS |
Oct 2 | Future prospects discussion |
- Come prepared to discuss in detail two post-graduation options. | |
- One should be in Ontario and one out of province or abroad. | |
- For example, someone interested in grad school would pick two different universities | |
- See email for non-grad school options | |
Oct 9 | Maxim and Sami |
"Alternating electric fields arrest cell proliferation in animal tumor models and human brain tumours", E. D. Kirson et al., 2007, PNAS, 104 (24), 10152-10157 | |
Oct 16 | The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics |
Read the information for the public and the scientific background and come prepared for a discussion! | |
Oct 23 | Emily and Billee |
"Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects." The Pierre Auger Collaboration, et al., Science 318, 938 (2007) | |
Oct 30 | Adam and Kim |
"An asymmetric distribution of positrons in the Galactic disk revealed by gamma-rays", G. Weidenspointer et al., 2008, Nature, 451, 159 | |
Nov 6 | Physics 4P6 progress report class with Dr. Sorensen |
Nov 13 | Sarah and Jordan |
"An updatable holographic three-dimensional display", S. Tay et al., Nature, 451, 694 (2008) (see also News & Views article) | |
Nov 20 | Graham |
Van Heuvelen. A, "Overview, Case Study Physics", Am. J. Phys., vol. 59, No. 10, October 1991 | |
Nov 20 #2 | Martin |
B. De Pontieu, et. al, "Chromospheric Alfvénic Waves Strong Enough to Power the Solar Wind" (7 December 2007) Science 318 (5856), 1574. | |
Nov 27 | David, Corey, and Melissa |
A. Ahuja et al., "Nanonails: A simple Geometrical Approach to Electrically Tunable Superlyophobic Surfaces", 2008, Langmuir, 24, 9 |