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 |
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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. |