Virtual Summer Colloquium Past Events 2020 / 8
27
Aug
2020
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
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
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
From Basic Science to Star Trek Surgery: Achieving the Fundamental (Single Cell) Limits to Minimally Invasive Surgery and Biodiagnostics