June 19, 2020

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.

Nov. 27, 2019

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.

Sept. 25, 2019

Generation of Gaussian and non-Gaussian multimode entangled states of light for applications to Quantum Information Processing

March 29, 2019

Students' Attitudes towards Experimental Physics: Survey Results (PHY224H1F 2018)

Nov. 23, 2018

Electronic Papers and Online Grading

Physics Education Group meeting

Oct. 19, 2018

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).

Sept. 30, 2018

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.

Sept. 5, 2018

PhySU Ice Cream Sale

May 25, 2018

Applying backward design strategy to redesign physics undergraduate lab courses at Queen's

May 1, 2018

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?

Aug. 3, 2017

Chemistry in Action: Making Molecular Movies with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Aug. 17, 2017

How long does a particle take to tunnel?

June 22, 2017

The CRISPR-Cas System: A Window into the Microbial World

June 29, 2017

Making "Contact" with Ultracold Atom Experiments

June 8, 2017

Topology, Physics and Entanglement

June 15, 2017

Ignorance is strength: Quantum measurements in a non-local world

July 13, 2017

Science advocacy in Canada: What is the role of evidence and scientists in a democracy?

April 10, 2017

Steady stratified flow over ridges: the hydraulic regime

March 20, 2017

Bridging Scales in Weather and Climate Models with Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques

Feb. 16, 2017

Listening to black hole swan song: A new window for observational astronomy

Jan. 19, 2017

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.

Nov. 21, 2016

Dark Photon Searches in ATLAS

July 7, 2016

Quirky Quarks: A Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics

June 23, 2016

Everything you wanted to know about the polar vortex but were too afraid to ask

Aug. 18, 2016

Spin liquids: exotic quantum magnets

June 16, 2016

Ecological niche overlap and how it affects the coexistence of competing species

April 20, 2016

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

Feb. 1, 2016

Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for atmospheric research and operational use; a historical perspective

Jan. 15, 2016

NuPrism: A New Approach for Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Measurements

Jan. 29, 2015

First Results from Dragonfly

Nov. 25, 2014

Workshop on the physics of double perovskite materials

Nov. 14, 2014

HEATER Seminar and CINS Keynote Speech: Olivier Delaire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Phonon Scattering Mechanisms in Thermoelectrics

Nov. 20, 2014

Rosetta Hailstones

Nov. 4, 2014

Professional Development Workshop: Making Connections

Oct. 6, 2014

Professional Development Workshop: Establishing Your Career Identity

Oct. 8, 2014

Meeting the Global Energy Challenge: What Can we Learn From Nature?

Sept. 26, 2014

Rapid Climate Change during the Last Glacial Cycle

Sept. 26, 2014

A Transported Bromine Explosion Event in the Canadian High Arctic

Aug. 11, 2014

HEATER Seminar Series: Kefeng Cai, Tongji University

Research Progress in Polymer and Polymer Based Thermoelectric Materials

July 11, 2014

Thermoelectrics Summer School 2014

Thermoelectrics Summer School 2014 at the University of Toronto