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Virtual Summer Colloquium

Summer 2020. Colloquium connection information, schedule, recordings

Welcome to Virtual Summer Colloquium 2020, a weekly series which will give the opportunity to doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members to present their research to the Department. The intent of the series is to present the wide variety of interesting research going on in the Department, particularly to the undergraduate students who are doing research projects with us. The colloquia consist of 30-minute talks, presented over Zoom, every Thursday at 4 PM. We hope that the level of the talks is aimed at undergraduate students, but with some technical details to satisfy the curiosity of graduate students, postdocs, and faculty as well. Some talks will also be available via recording which can be found on the respective event's subpage.

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We are seeking volunteers to present their research in future colloquia, up until the end of August. If you would like to volunteer to present your research, please send the Unofficial Chair of the Unofficial Colloquium Committee (Prof Miriam Diamond, mdiamond@physics.utoronto.ca) an abstract, as well as 2 potential dates for the presentation. We look forward to hearing about your work!

Past Events

27
Aug 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Mikhail Schee
Internal Waves in the Arctic Ocean
250 to 800 meters below the surface of the Arctic Ocean, there is a layer of water originating from the Atlantic which is warmer than the topmost layer in contact with the sea ice above. If the heat in the Atlantic layer were to rise to the surface, all Arctic sea ice would melt within five years. This talk will focus on one possible source for the energy required to mix this heat upwards: Internal waves generated by winds blowing across the ocean surface.
20
Aug 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom Webinar
Prof. Nikolina Ilic
The ATLAS Detector and Recent Physics Results
The talk introduces the Large Hadron Collider, and one of its two multi-purpose experiments, ATLAS. An explanation of how the ATLAS detector functions is presented. A few selected, recent physics results are also shown.
13
Aug 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom Webinar
Dr. Patrick E. Sheese
17 years of monitoring the atmosphere with the ACE-FTS satellite instrument
Launched in 2003 for a 2-year mission, the ACE-FTS (Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment – Fourier Transform Spectrometer) instrument on the Canadian SciSat satellite has been observing the Earth’s atmosphere for the past 17 years and is still going strong.
06
Aug 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom webinar
Prof. R. J. Dwayne Miller
From Basic Science to Star Trek Surgery: Achieving the Fundamental (Single Cell) Limits to Minimally Invasive Surgery and Biodiagnostics
23
Jul 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Josiah Sinclair
Measuring the time atoms spend in the excited state due to a photon they don't absorb
16
Jul 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Mohamed Shaaban
SuperBIT: A diffraction-limited to near-ultraviolet wide-field balloon-borne observatory
09
Jul 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Dr. Aharon Brodutch
Do qubits dream of entangled sheep?
02
Jul 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Sreekar Voleti
Multipolar Magnetism: A Detective Story
25
Jun 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Vincent MacKay
Development of CHORD: the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector
18
Jun 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Prof. Dwayne Miller
Mapping Atomic Motions with Ultrabright Electrons: Fundamental Space-Time Limits to Imaging Matter in Action
11
Jun 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Prof. Nikolina Ilic
The Dune Experiment: Physics Reach and Progress on Prototyping
04
Jun 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
TBA
Prof. Anton Zilman
Biophysics of COVID-19
28
May 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Zoom meeting
Enze Zhang
SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment
The SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment is designed to be a next generation dark matter direct detection experiment, following SuperCDMS Soudan.
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