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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.

Colloquium List 2010-2011

Date Speaker / Institution Host Title / Topic Download
September 16, 2010 James Graham
University of Toronto
Sabine Stanley Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging PDF File
MP3 Recording
September 23, 2010 Suckjoon Jun
Harvard University
William Ryu Chromosome, Cell Cycle, and Entropy Slides N/A
MP3 Recording
September 30, 2010 Randolf Pohl
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Joseph Thywissen The size of the proton PDF File
MP3 Recording (partial)
October 7, 2010 Alexander Kusenko
UCLA
Erich Poppitz Charged messages from the world's most powerful PDF File
MP3 Recording
October 14, 2010 Haw Yang
Princeton University
Claudiu Gradinaru Protein Large-Amplitude Conformational Transitions: Dynamics, Mechanics, and Functional Roles Slides N/A
MP3 Recording
October 21, 2010 Stephen Julian
University of Toronto
Hae-Young Kee New Quantum States of Matter PDF File
MP3 Recording
October 28, 2010 Martine De Maziere
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Kaley Walker The ozone saga PDF File
MP3 Recording
November 4, 2010 Nigel Smith
SNOLab
Peter Krieger Deep underground physics: facility and experiment developments at SNOLAB PDF File
MP3 Recording
November 11, 2010 Arthur Ramirez
University of California Santa Cruz
John Wei Geometrical Frustration in Solids PDF File
MP3 Recording
November 18, 2010 Chris Westbrook
CNRS, Institut d'Optique
Joseph Thywissen The Hanbury Brown Twiss effect: from stars to cold atoms PDF File
MP3 Recording
November 25, 2010 Eitan Grinspun
Columbia University
Stephen Morris From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences PDF File
MP3 Recording
December 2, 2010 Keith Dienes
University of Arizona
Erich Poppitz Probing the String Landscape:Implications, Applications, and Altercations PDF File
MP3 Recording
January 13, 2011 Anne Douglass
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Kim Strong Satellite Observations and Chemistry Climate Models - A Meandering Path Towards Better Predictions PDF File
MP3 Recording
January 20, 2011 Robert Cava
Princeton University
Yong Baek Kim Stoichiometry, Structure, Bonding, and the Electronic Properties of Fe and Co Pnictides PDF File
MP3 Recording
January 27, 2011 Siegfried Glenzer
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Robin Marjoribanks Mega-joule experiments on the National Ignition Facility - on the road to produce a microscopic star in the laboratory Slides N/A.
MP3 Recording
February 3, 2011 Wesley Wong
Harvard University
William Ryu New approaches in force spectroscopy: from enzyme kinetics to single-molecule centrifugation Slides N/A.
MP3 Recording
February 10, 2011 Paul J. Tackley
ETHZ
Julian Lowman Modelling the interior dynamics and evolution of Earth, Venus, Mars and super-Earths PDF File
MP3 Recording
February 17, 2011 Konrad Lehnert
University of Colorado
Joseph Thywissen Can acoustics be quantum? MP3 Recording
PDF File
March 3, 2011 Gabriel Kotliar
Rutgers University
Ken Burch Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Concepts and Applications MP3 Recording
Slides N/A.
March 10, 2011 Andy Ruina
Cornell University
Mary Pugh
Stephen Morris
Rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of the falling cat phenomenon go sour MP3 Recording
Slides N/A.
March 17, 2011 Adam Showman
University of Arizona
Julian Lowman Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters PDF File
MP3 Recording
March 24, 2011 Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
Sabine Stanley Astrophysics from the Stratosphere PDF File
MP3 Recording
March 31, 2011 Ned Wingreen
Princeton University
William Ryu Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't? PDF File
MP3 Recording
April 7, 2011 Tom LeCompte
Argonne National Lab
William Trischuk The LHC's First Year: New Results from the ATLAS Experiment -or- Life at the Zeptoscale PDF File
MP3 Recording
April 14, 2011 Deborah Jin
JILA
Daniel James Ultracold Polar Molecules Slides and MP3 N/A.
2010 Department of Physics, University of Toronto