Power Point Presentations and MP3 Recordings
The University of Toronto weekly physics colloquia are available online. You can download the PowerPoint (or PDF) file and the MP3 recording to your computer. Just click on the PowerPoint file for the talk, and click open at the prompt. If you have difficulty opening the file in your browser, you can download both the PowerPoint file and the MP3 recording to your computer.
| Date | Speaker / Institution | Host | Title / Topic | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 15, 2011 |
Kenneth Burch University of Toronto |
Henry van Driel | Optics and Scotch Tape: New Discoveries Beyond Carbon |
PDF File MP3 Recording |
| September 22, 2011 |
Roya Zandi UC Riverside |
Anton Zilman | Physics of virus assembly |
Slides N/A. MP3 N/A. |
| September 29, 2011 |
Alexandre Blais Universite de Sherbrooke |
Aephraim Steinberg | Quantum Optics and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits |
PDF File MP3 Recording |
| October 6, 2011 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed Institute for Advanced Study |
Erich Poppitz | Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes |
Slides N/A. MP3 Recording |
| October 13, 2011 |
Tapio Schneider Caltech |
Ted Shepherd | Dynamics of Giant Planet Atmospheres |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| October 20, 2011 |
Scott Oser University of British Columbia |
John Martin | Long Baseline Neutrinos: As Far from a Tabletop Experiment as You Can Get |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| October 27, 2011 |
Yves Couder Universite Paris Diderot |
Stephen Morris | Wave-particle duality at the macroscopic scale |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| November 3, 2011 |
Joanna Haigh Imperial College |
Ted Shepherd | Solar Variability and Climate |
Slides N/A MP3 Recording |
| November 10, 2011 |
Eric Braaten Ohio State University |
Erich Poppitz | Effective Field Theory and Ultracold Atoms |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| November 17, 2011 |
Hari Manoharan Stanford University |
John Wei | Molecular Graphene |
Slides N/A. MP3 N/A. |
| November 24, 2011 |
Ido Golding Baylor College of Medicine |
Anton Zilman | A Quantitative Look at Gene Regulation |
Slides N/A. MP3 Recording |
| November 28, 2011 |
Frank Close Oxford University |
Michael Luke | The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider |
Slides N/A. MP3 Recording |
| December 1, 2011 |
Dam Thanh Son University of Washington |
Erich Poppitz | Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| January 12, 2012 |
Dennis Discher University of Pennsylvania |
Anton Zilman | How deeply cells feel |
Slides N/A. MP3 N/A. |
| January 26, 2012 |
Aephraim Steinberg University of Toronto |
Daniel James | Quantum Measurements in the Real World |
PDF file MP3 to be added. |
| Februry 02, 2012 |
Raffaele Ferrari MIT |
Mathew Wells | What Physics Triggers Ocean Phytoplankton Blooms? |
PDF file MP3 to be added. |
Talks from previous years: 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006