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17
May 2024
2 p.m.
Koffler Auditorium - KP 108
Alain Aspect
From Einstein and Bell to quantum technologies: quantum non-locality in action
Welsh Lectures 2024 Colloquium
17
May 2024
11 a.m.
Koffler Auditorium - KP 108
Steven Kivelson
New physics from strong electron-phonon coupling including deconfined phases and emergent “photons”
Welsh Lectures 2024 Colloquium
16
May 2024
3:30 p.m.
Earth Sciences Auditorium ES 1050
Steven Kivelson
Observation of fractions of an electron in fractional quantum Hall devices
Welsh Lectures 2024 Colloquium
16
May 2024
1:30 p.m.
Earth Sciences Auditorium ES 1050
Alain Aspect
From Einstein's insights to quantum technologies: two quantum revolutions
Welsh Lectures 2024 Colloquium
10
May 2024
1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Room MP103
Science Rendezvous* - Story of Water Symposium
05
Apr 2024
3 p.m.
MP606
Agrim Monga
PhySU Colloquium: Antimatter and the Baryon Asymmetry Problem
22
Mar 2024
5 p.m.
MP408
PhySU Colloquium: A Brief Introduction To Superconductivity
15
Mar 2024
5 p.m.
MP408
Aryan Prasad
PhySU Colloquium: Hyperfine Spectroscopy for Dummies
08
Mar 2024
5 p.m.
MP408
Nishaant Akash Jacobus
PhySU Colloquium: An Introduction to Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy
01
Mar 2024
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sebastian Paeckel
Reja Wilke
INFORMAL SEMINAR: Talk 1: Phonon state tomography as a tool to diagnose electron correlations in optically induced eletron-phonon dynamics and Talk 2: Fault-tolerant BEC-stabilized logical qubits
04
Nov 2023
8 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. West, Toronto
Patterns From Nature - a multimedia Physics and Jazz Event
Acclaimed composer/saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff merges physics, film and music in world premiere of the multimedia Patterns from Nature.
12
May 2023
2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
KOFFLER HOUSE Auditorium KP 108, 569 Spadina Cres.
Prof. Marcia J. Rieke
The Webb Telescope: Twenty Years in the Making but Worth the Wait
Welsh Lectures 2023 Colloquium
12
May 2023
11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
KOFFLER HOUSE Auditorium KP 108, 569 Spadina Cres.
Dr. Omar Hurricane
How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 was achieved in inertial fusion
Welsh Lectures 2023 Colloquium
11
May 2023
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
EARTH SCIENCES CENTRE Auditorium ES1050, 5 Bancroft Ave.
Dr. Omar Hurricane
The ignition venture and Gain
Welsh Lectures 2023 Public Talk
11
May 2023
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
EARTH SCIENCES CENTRE Auditorium ES1050, 5 Bancroft Ave.
Prof. Marcia J. Rieke
The Webb Telescope’s First Year: A Treasure Trove of Results
Welsh Lectures 2023 Public Talk
02
Mar 2023
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MP 110
PhysCAP Career Event
Aimed towards 2nd, 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students
12
May 2022
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
In person and Online
Prof. Nicole Yunger Halpern
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
29 - 24
Jun / Aug 2021
noon - 1 p.m.
Zoom
Life Post-Graduation for Physicists
A Series of Career Exploration Sessions for PhD Students
21 - 24
Jun 2021
Zoom link will be distributed by email
Prof. Kristie Boering
The Noble Lectures in Physics
The 2021 Noble Lectures will be given by Prof. Kristie Boering, from the University of California, Berkeley.
07
May 2021
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
online event
Subir Sachdev
Fermi surfaces large and small: how electrons avoid each other and conduct electricity
07
May 2021
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
online event
Juan Collar
Particle physics in the sub-keV regime
06
May 2021
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
online event
Subir Sachdev
A simple model of many-particle entanglement: how it describes black holes and superconductors
06
May 2021
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
online event
Juan Collar
Nuclear recoils: little things that go bump in the dark
16
Mar 2021
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom
Professor A.W. Peet
Physics Lecture Series
My journey as a theoretical physicist: black holes, quantum information, gender, and disability. Speaker: Professor A.W. Peet
24
Feb 2021
4:10 p.m. - 6 p.m.
online event
Ron Kwok
Arctic sea ice thickness: From submarine sonars to satellite photon-counting altimeters
Alongside the widely reported decline in Arctic ice extent, there have also been dramatic losses in sea ice thickness and volume.
08
Jan 2021
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom
Amar Vutha
Undergraduate research opportunities: yes, you can!
30
Nov 2020
4 p.m.
Zoom webinar (will be emailed to those registered)
Christopher Monroe
Quantum Computers – Spooky but Powerful (The Martin Lecture in Physics)
13
Oct 2020
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
online event
Information session on applying for physics graduate programs
19
Jun 2020
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
TBA
Robert Fajber
Understanding the Role of Latent Heating in the Heat and Mass Transport of the Global Atmospheric Circulation.
Departmental oral examinations are open to professorial staff only.
27
Nov 2019
8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Universityof Toronto, 7Hart House Circle, 2ndFloor
Various speakers
Symposium on High Efficiency Photovoltaics
Solar electricity is a compelling sourceof sustainable energy considering the immense harvestable solar resource in relation tothe currentglobal energy consumption rate.
25
Sep 2019
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, Room MP408
Claude Fabre
Generation of Gaussian and non-Gaussian multimode entangled states of light for applications to Quantum Information Processing
29
Mar 2019
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP110
Ruxandra Serbanescu
Students' Attitudes towards Experimental Physics: Survey Results (PHY224H1F 2018)
23
Nov 2018
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
MP 110
Natalia Krasnopolskaia and Brian Wilson
Electronic Papers and Online Grading
Physics Education Group meeting
19
Oct 2018
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
MP110
David Harrison
Personality types and student performance in an introductory physics course
For the past two years we have been collecting data on the personality type of students in our large introductory physics course for life science students (PHY131).
30
Sep 2018
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theatre **NEW LOCATION 93 Charles Street West Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 Canada
Janet Rossant, Mark Lautens, Robin Marjoribanks, Bryan Koivisto (moderator)
Back to the Future: Yesterday’s Research brings Tomorrow’s Innovations
From stem cell therapy to self-driving cars, all modern technology and medical therapies have their roots in research from the past.
05
Sep 2018
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
TBA
PhySU Ice Cream Sale
25
May 2018
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MP 110
Bei Cai
Applying backward design strategy to redesign physics undergraduate lab courses at Queen's
01
May 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP102
Dr. Essam Heggy
Exploring Volatiles on Planetary Surfaces Using Radar Observations
Water on Mars, on Jupiter Icy Moons, on Asteroids and perhaps even more water on more bodies of our solar system — Are water and life unique to Earth?
17
Aug 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Ramon Ramos
How long does a particle take to tunnel?
03
Aug 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Nelson Liu
Chemistry in Action: Making Molecular Movies with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
13
Jul 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Dan Weaver
Science advocacy in Canada: What is the role of evidence and scientists in a democracy?
29
Jun 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Christopher Luciuk
Making "Contact" with Ultracold Atom Experiments
22
Jun 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Madeleine Bonsma
The CRISPR-Cas System: A Window into the Microbial World
15
Jun 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Aharon Brodutch
Ignorance is strength: Quantum measurements in a non-local world
08
Jun 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 102
Ciarán Hickey
Topology, Physics and Entanglement
10
Apr 2017
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 606
Kraig Winters
Steady stratified flow over ridges: the hydraulic regime
20
Mar 2017
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 606
Christiane Jablonowski
Bridging Scales in Weather and Climate Models with Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques
16
Feb 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Bangalore Sathyaprakash
Listening to black hole swan song: A new window for observational astronomy
19
Jan 2017
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Road, SF1105
Michael Roukes
Nanotechnology for Massively-Parallel, Multi-Physical Interrogation of Brain Activity
Although our understanding of the properties of individual neurons and their role in brain computations has advanced significantly over the past several decades, we are still far from elucidating how complex assemblies of neurons – that is, brain circuits – interact to process information.
21
Nov 2016
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
MP 606
Miriam Diamond
Dark Photon Searches in ATLAS
18
Aug 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 134
Robert Schaffer
Spin liquids: exotic quantum magnets
07
Jul 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 134
Rina Piccolo
Quirky Quarks: A Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics
23
Jun 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 202
Oliver Watt-Meyer
Everything you wanted to know about the polar vortex but were too afraid to ask
16
Jun 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 202
Matthew Badali
Ecological niche overlap and how it affects the coexistence of competing species
20
Apr 2016
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
McMaster University, JHE A114/Live Stream
Dr. Terry Hendricks
Thermal Electric Generator Energy Harvesting Research at NASA-JPL – Where We Are Now & Where Can We Go
Webcast link: http://VidyoReplay.McMaster.ca/replay/webcastShow.html?key=lfAXYUx0vPS7TmH
01
Feb 2016
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP 606
Henry L. Buijs
Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for atmospheric research and operational use; a historical perspective
15
Jan 2016
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
MP 912
Mark Hartz
NuPrism: A New Approach for Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Measurements
29
Jan 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Roberto Abraham
First Results from Dragonfly
25
Nov 2014
1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
MP 110
Workshop on the physics of double perovskite materials
20
Nov 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Roland List
Rosetta Hailstones
14
Nov 2014
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BA 1220, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St
Olivier Delaire
HEATER Seminar and CINS Keynote Speech: Olivier Delaire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Phonon Scattering Mechanisms in Thermoelectrics
04
Nov 2014
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Career Centre Seminar Room, 214 College Street, Toronto
Professional Development Workshop: Making Connections
08
Oct 2014
8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Koerner Hall, the Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor Street West
Professor Sir Richard Friend
Meeting the Global Energy Challenge: What Can we Learn From Nature?
06
Oct 2014
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Career Centre Seminar Room, 214 College Street, Toronto
Professional Development Workshop: Establishing Your Career Identity
26
Sep 2014
12:35 p.m. - 1 p.m.
MP137
Guido Vettoretti
Rapid Climate Change during the Last Glacial Cycle
26
Sep 2014
12:10 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.
MP137
Xiaoyi Zhao
A Transported Bromine Explosion Event in the Canadian High Arctic
11
Aug 2014
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
MP 606
Kefeng Cai
HEATER Seminar Series: Kefeng Cai, Tongji University
Research Progress in Polymer and Polymer Based Thermoelectric Materials
11 - 12
Jul 2014
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
BA 1230, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St
Various Speakers
Thermoelectrics Summer School 2014
Thermoelectrics Summer School 2014 at the University of Toronto
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