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Past Events

10
Jul 2014
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St. George St. MP 606
Ken O'Hara
Observing, Understanding, then Eliminating Cold Collision Frequency Shifts in Fermi-Based Atomic Clocks
30
Apr 2014
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, BA1220
Prof. Zhi-Xun Shen
Novel Materials Properties at Atomically Thin Limit
Technical Seminar
30
Apr 2014
11 a.m. - noon
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, BA1220
Dr. Rolf Heuer
CERN - Update and Perspectives
Technical Seminar
08
Apr 2014
2:10 p.m. - 3 p.m.
BA B024, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St
Xianfan Xu
HEATER Seminar Series: Xianfan Xu, Purdue University
Thermoelectrics for Automobile Waste Heat Recovery
20
Mar 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Anthony J. Leggett
Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects
14
Mar 2014
10:10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
BA B024, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St
Ali Shakouri
HEATER Seminar Series: Ali Shakouri, Purdue University
Nanoscale thermal transport and thermoelectric energy conversion
13
Mar 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ashvin Vishwanath
Quantum is Different: Topological Phenomena and Entanglement in Solids
05
Dec 2013
noon - 1 p.m.
Earth Sciences Seminar 2093
Dr.Michael King
Shale Gas
11
Nov 2013
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Earth Science Centre, 2093
Adam Baig
(Micro) Seismic Characterization of Hydraulic Fracturing
17
Oct 2013
4:10 p.m. - 10:05 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Sharon Glotzer
Packing & Assembling Polyhedra
10
Oct 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Chandralekha Singh
When Physical Intuition Fails
04 - 05
Oct 2013
10:15 a.m. - 5 p.m.
various, see link to event
Various speakers
HEATER School in Thermoelectrics Training and Research
Over two interactive days, the School will delve into this year's topic, How To Make An Efficient Thermoelectric – Latest Developments in Fabrication and Growth.
17
Sep 2013
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Earth Science Seminar Room
Qi Zhao
Numerical Studies of Frictional Sliding Behaviour using FEM/DEM
04
Jun 2013
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Student Lounge, Room MP 110, Department of Physics, 60 St. George Street.
Department of Physics End of Year Event
02
May 2013
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 137
Robert Austin - 2013 Welsh Lecturer
On the Evolutionary Origins of Drug Resistance
24
Apr 2013
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Bahen Centre for Information Technology BA1130
Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
Perspectives on Thermoelectric Materials
Distinguished Visiting Scientist lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
23
Apr 2013
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Bahen Centre for Information Technology BA1130
Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
Nanoscale Phenomena
Distinguished Visiting Scientist lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
22
Apr 2013
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Earth Sciences Centre Room ES1050, 33 Willcocks Street
Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
Why are People Interested in Materials Physics?
This is a public lecture sponsored by the Institute for Optical Sciences at the University of Toronto. For more information please call 416-978-1457.
26
Mar 2013
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theatre
Prof.Dr. Peter.M. Herzig
Mining the Oceans- Risks and Opportunities
14
Feb 2013
11 a.m. - noon
Lash Miller Chemistry Building, Room LM162, 80 St. George Street, Toronto
Prof. Thomas Schmidt
Single-Molecule Imaging – from detection to super-resolution imaging
With the development of photoswitchable labels in combination with single-molecule imaging it recently became possible to perform optical microscopy on the 10 nm scale, far below the classical diffraction limit.
12
Feb 2013
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Sidney Smith Hall, Room SS1087, 100 St. George Street, Toronto
Prof. Thomas Schmidt
Single-Molecule Imaging – application to the biology of chemoreception
The interaction of G-protein-coupled receptors with G proteins is a key event in transmembrane signal transduction that leads to vital decision-making by the cell.
11
Feb 2013
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Claude Bissell building, Room BL205, 140 St. George Street, Toronto
Prof. Thomas Schmidt
Single-Molecule Imaging – basics, prospects and limitations
The utilization of single-molecule techniques has become widespread in biophysics labs. In this introductory lecture we will review the physical basis of the methodology and learn about the various applications in the biosciences, as well as it’s limitations given by the optical and photophysical constraints in fluorescence imaging. Further, we will discuss in which way such imaging data yield information about clustering and molecular motility and how one can extract those.
28
Nov 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 134
Dr. Ping Tong
Seisimic Tomography of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and 2011 Iwaki Earthquake Area & FK-SEM Hybrid Method
30
May 2012
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Room MP110
Department of Physics End of Year Event
03
May 2012
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP 134
Roger Billham
Geological and Archaeological insights concerning Kashmir's Medieval Earthquake, Landslide, Flood, Economic Collapse and subsequent wars: Geodetic insights into a future earthquake-driven diaster sequence
02
May 2012
1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Medical Sciences Auditorium
Prof. Kerry Emanuel and Prof. Roger Bilham
Welsh Lectures 2012
30
Apr 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Bill Simpson
TBA
30
Apr 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Bill Simpson
TBA
04
Apr 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
TBA
Hejun Zhu
Structure of the European Upper Mantle Revealed by Adjoint Tomography
16
Mar 2012
11 a.m. - noon
Medical Science Building Room 3135
Prof. E. Fred Schubert
The Seed of a Revolution in Lighting: Light-Emitting Diodes
This is a public lecture sponsored by the Institute for Optical Sciences at the University of Toronto. For more information please call 416-978-1457.
15
Mar 2012
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
BA1180
Prof. E. Fred. Schubert
Promises and challenges in light-emitting diodes for lighting applications
Lecture organized by the IOS, the SSLNet and the IEEE Electron Devices Society
29
Feb 2012
2:10 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP 912
Saverio D'Auria
Operations of the Atlas Semi-Conductor tracker and related physics results
16
Jan 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Lin Zhang
Understanding the sources of background ozone over North America: Intercontinental transport and natural variability
TBA
16
Jan 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Lin Zhang
Understanding the sources of background ozone over North America: Intercontinental transport and natural variability
TBA
02
Dec 2011
11:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
TBA
Imaging the Earth
04
Nov 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
KP108
Prof. Xiang Zhang
Scaling-down the Photonics Beyond Diffraction Limit: Nano-scale Laser, Waveguide and Cavities
Distinguished Visiting Scientist lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
03
Nov 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
BA1190
Prof. Xiang Zhang
Superlens, Invisibility Cloak and Transformation Optics
Distinguished Visiting Scientist lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
02
Nov 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
KP108
Prof. Xiang Zhang
Metamaterials and Optical Negative Refraction
Distinguished Visiting Scientist lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
31
Oct 2011
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Sukyoung Lee
Attributes and a theory of the recent polar warming: enhancement in tropical convective heating and poleward propagating Rossby waves
31
Oct 2011
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Sukyoung Lee
Attributes and a theory of the recent polar warming: enhancement in tropical convective heating and poleward propagating Rossby waves
17
Oct 2011
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
David Plummer
Recovering ozone in a time of climate change
17
Oct 2011
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
David Plummer
Recovering ozone in a time of climate change
29
Sep 2011
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
MP606
Gudrun Magnusdottir
East Pacific ITCZ variability in three decades of satellite data
22
Sep 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP202
Prof. Paul G. Kwiat
Hyperentanglement: When One Degree of Freedom isn’t Enough
Distinguished Visiting Scientists program of the Institute for Optical Sciences
21
Sep 2011
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BA1190
Prof. Paul G. Kwiat
Entanglement: Critical Resource of the Quantum Information Age
Distinguished Visiting Scientists lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
19
Sep 2011
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BA1190
Prof. Paul G. Kwiat
101 Uses for a Single Photon
Distinguished Visiting Scientists lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
27
May 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP102
Prof. Graham Fleming
Plants Aren’t Green Solar Cells: The Regulation of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting
Distinguished Visiting Scientists lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
26
May 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP102
Prof. Graham Fleming
Quantum Mechanics for Plants
Distinguished Visiting Scientists lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
25
May 2011
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Room MP110
Department of Physics End of Year Event
25
May 2011
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP102
Prof. Graham Fleming
Grand Challenges in Energy: Supply, Demand and Consequences
Distinguished Visiting Scientists lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
13 - 14
May 2011
9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Massey College, 4 Devonshire Place
Various Speakers
Griffin Fest
28
Mar 2011
8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria College
Professor Nigel Edwards
J.Tuzo Wilson Lecture - The Assessment of offshore gas hydrate: Clean fuel for the 21st Century?
18
Feb 2011
11 a.m. - noon
MS3153
Prof. Lorne Whitehead
Colour quality – Controversy concerning human factors and lighting efficiency
Distinguished Visiting Scientists Lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
15
Feb 2011
4 p.m. - 4 p.m.
MP103
Prof. Lorne Whitehead
From cat’s eyes to your eyes: The evolution of optical microstructures and the ongoing quest for true electronic paper
Distinguished Visiting Scientists Lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
14
Feb 2011
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
BA1160
Prof. Lorne Whitehead
Core sunlighting: Using modern materials to improve interior lighting while saving electrical energy
2011 Boris P. Stoicheff Lecture and Distinguished Visiting Scientists Lecture of the Institute for Optical Sciences
17
Sep 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
TBA
Cristen Adams
Fieldwork with two spectrometers, a sun-tracker, and muskox.
17
Sep 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
TBA
Cristen Adams
Fieldwork with two spectrometers, a sun-tracker, and muskox.
10
Mar 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Fields Institute Library
Michael Schulz
String Junctions, Abelian Fibrations and Flux/Geometry Duality
10
Mar 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Fields Institute Library
Michael Schulz
String Junctions, Abelian Fibrations and Flux/Geometry Duality
10
Mar 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Fields Institute Library
Michael Schulz
String Junctions, Abelian Fibrations and Flux/Geometry Duality
05
Mar 2008
1:54 p.m. - 1:54 p.m.
test
test
22
Nov 2006
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Christine Davies
Lattice QCD meets experiment
22
Nov 2006
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Christine Davies
Lattice QCD meets experiment
27
Oct 2006
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP606
Dr. Robert Nyman
A Fermionic Atom Interferometer for Microgravity
26
Oct 2006
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Linda Carpenter
R parity violation and light Higgs scenarios
26
Oct 2006
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Linda Carpenter
R parity violation and light Higgs scenarios
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