Physics Colloquium Past Events 2019 /
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            Dec
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Stephanie Waterman
        
                    
                
            
        
            Filling in the Map: Arctic Ocean mixing space-time geography & its impacts
        
    
    
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            Nov
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Jonathan Oppenheim
        
                    
                
            
        
            A post-quantum theory of classical gravity?
        
    
    
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            Nov
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Tulika Bose
        
                    
                
            
        
            Searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider - with precision and innovation
        
    
    
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            Nov
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Tracy Slatyer
        
                    
                
            
        
            Deciphering the Universe's Dark History
        
    
    
            07
            
        
        
            Nov
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Terry Hwa
        
                    
                
            
        
            Bacterial growth laws and the origin of dimensional reduction
        
    
    
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            Oct
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Nigel Smith
        
                    
                
            
        
            The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground
        
    
    
            24
            
        
        
            Oct
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Ivan Schuller
        
                    
                
            
        
            Neuromorphic Computing
        
    
    
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            Oct
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Andrea Cavalleri
        
                    
                
            
        
            Emergent Properties in Light Matter Hybrids
        
    
    
            10
            
        
        
            Oct
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Sidhartha Goyal
        
                    
                
            
        
            Statistical mechanics of stem cells
        
    
    
            03
            
        
        
            Oct
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Mishkatul Bhattacharya
        
                    
                
            
        
            Flying lasers for sound
        
    
    
            26
            
        
        
            Sep
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Thomas Scaffidi 
        
                    
                
            
        
            Electron hydrodynamics
        
    
    
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            Sep
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St. George Street, Room 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Cheng Chin
        
                    
                
            
        
            Bose fireworks
        
    
    
            04
            
        
        
            Apr
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Carl Wieman
        
                    
                
            
        
            Teaching Students to Think Like Physicists
        
    
    
            28
            
        
        
            Mar
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
             Chen-Yu Liu
        
                    
                
            
        
            The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle
        
    
    
            21
            
        
        
            Mar
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Nancy Forde
        
                    
                
            
        
            Building tools and models to characterize biological mechanics at the nanoscale
        
    
    
            14
            
        
        
            Mar
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Sam Vinko
        
                    
                
            
        
            One x-ray source to rule them all
        
    
    
            07
            
        
        
            Mar
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Pascale Garaud
        
                    
                
            
        
             Layering instabilities in fluid dynamics
        
    
    
            28
            
        
        
            Feb
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Martin Savage
        
                    
                
            
        
            Quantum Computing and Quantum Information for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
        
    
    
            14
            
        
        
            Feb
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Dmitri Chklovskii
        
                    
                
            
        
            How the brain computes: A physicist's perspective
        
    
    
            07
            
        
        
            Feb
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Amy Clement
        
                    
                
            
        
            The Causes of Atlantic Climate Variability
        
    
    
            31
            
        
        
            Jan
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Joshua W. Shaevitz 
        
                    
                
            
        
            Self-driven phase transitions in living matter
        
    
    
            24
            
        
        
            Jan
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Rama Ranganathan
        
                    
                
            
        
            Evolutionary “Design” of Proteins
        
    
    
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            Jan
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Anton Burkov
        
                    
                
            
        
            Topological Metals
        
    
    
            10
            
        
        
            Jan
            
            2019
        
    
                    
                    4:10 p.m. 
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            60 St.George Street MP 102
        
                    
                
            
        
                        
                        
            Mary-Louise Timmermans
        
                    
                
            
        
            A stockpile of heat deep in the Arctic interior