Power Point Presentations, MP3 Recordings, Video and Livestreaming
The University of Toronto weekly physics colloquia are available online. You can download the PowerPoint (or PDF) file and the MP3 recording to your computer. The talks are also livestreamed to the Youtube Channel.
| Date | Speaker / Institution | Host | Title / Topic | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2020 |
Anton Zilman
University of Toronto |
Sid Goyal | Simple physics of complex "biomachines": the curious case of the Nuclear Pore Complex | VIDEO |
| Mar 5, 2020 |
Alan Migdall
NOAA |
Aephraim Steinberg | Measurements: For all time, for all people (The dawning of a new age) | VIDEO |
| February 27, 2020 |
Stephen Montzka
NOAA |
Paul Kushner | The surprising case of CFC-11: Have we fallen off the path to ozone layer recovery? | Slides (pdf) Slides (pptx) |
| February 13, 2020 |
Kendrick Smith
Perimeter Institute |
Chris Thompson | CHIME: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| February 6, 2020 |
Cornelia Hoehr
TRIUMF |
Pekka Sinervo | How nuclear physics can treat cancer - radiotherapy at TRIUMF | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| January 30, 2020 |
Mark Zoback
Stanford University |
Qinya Liu/Giovanni Grasselli | Utilizing Physics-Based Models to Manage the Risk of Injection-Induced Seismicity Associated with Unconventional Oil and Gas Production | Slides (pdf) Slides (pptx) VIDEO |
| January 23, 2020 |
Rouven Essig
Stony Brook University |
David Curtin | Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: A New Frontier | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| January 16, 2020 |
Meigan Aronson
University of British Columbia |
Stephen Julian | Alternatives to Ordered Phases at Zero Temperature | Slides (pptx) |
| January 9, 2020 |
Melinda Webster
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Paul Kushner | Will snow help or hurt sea ice in a warming climate? | VIDEO |
| December 5, 2019 |
Stephanie Waterman
University of British Columbia |
Filling in the Map: Arctic Ocean mixing space-time geography & its impacts | VIDEO | |
| Nov 28, 2019 |
Jonathan Oppenheim
University College London |
John Sipe | A post-quantum theory of classical gravity? | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| Nov 21, 2019 |
Tulika Bose
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Pekka Sinervo | Searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider - with precision and innovation | VIDEO |
| Nov 14, 2019 |
Tracy Slatyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
David Curtin | Deciphering the Universe's Dark History | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| Nov 7, 2019 |
Terry Hwa
University of California, San Diego |
Sid Goyal | Bacterial growth laws and the origin of dimensional reduction | VIDEO |
| October 31, 2019 |
Nigel Smith
SNOLAB |
Pekka Sinervo | The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground | VIDEO |
| October 24, 2019 |
Ivan Schuller
University of California San Diego |
John Wei | Neuromorphic Computing | VIDEO |
| October 17, 2019 |
Andrea Cavalleri
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter |
Young-June Kim | Emergent Properties in Light Matter Hybrids | VIDEO |
| October 10, 2019 |
Sidhartha Goyal
University of Toronto |
Pekka Sinervo | Statistical mechanics of stem cells | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| October 3, 2019 |
Mishkatul Bhattacharya
Rochester Institute of Technology |
Daniel James | Flying lasers for sound | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| September 26, 2019 |
Thomas Scaffidi
University of Toronto |
John Sipe | Electron hydrodynamics | Slides (pdf) Slides (pptx) VIDEO |
| September 19, 2019 |
Cheng Chin
University of Chicago |
Joseph Thywissen | Bose fireworks | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| April 4, 2019 |
Carl Wieman
Stanford University |
Pekka Sinervo | Teaching Students to Think Like Physicists | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| March 28, 2019 |
Chen-Yu Liu
Indiana University |
Pekka Sinervo | The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle | VIDEO |
| March 21, 2019 |
Nancy Forde
Simon Fraser University |
Claudiu Gradinaru | Building tools and models to characterize biological mechanics at the nanoscale | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| March 14, 2019 |
Sam Vinko
UC Oxford University |
Robin Marjoribanks | One x-ray source to rule them all | VIDEO |
| March 7, 2019 |
Pascale Garaud
UC Santa Cruz |
Nicolas Grisouard | Layering instabilities in fluid dynamics | VIDEO |
| February 28, 2019 |
Martin Savage
University of Washington |
Michael Luke | Quantum Computing and Quantum Information for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems | VIDEO |
| February 14, 2019 |
Dmitri Chklovskii
Flatiron Institute Simons Foundation |
Sid Goyal | How the brain computes: A physicist's perspective | VIDEO |
| February 7, 2019 |
Amy Clement
University of Miami |
Nicolas Grisouard | The Causes of Atlantic Climate Variability | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| January 31, 2019 |
Joshua W. Shaevitz
Princeton University |
Sid Goyal | Self-driven phase transitions in living matter | VIDEO |
| January 24, 2019 |
Rama Ranganathan
University of Chicago |
Sid Goyal | Evolutionary “Design” of Proteins | VIDEO |
| January 17, 2019 |
Anton Burkov
University of Waterloo |
Arun Paramekanti | Topological Metals | VIDEO |
| January 10, 2019 |
Mary-Louise Timmermans
Yale University |
Nicolas Grisouard | A stockpile of heat deep in the Arctic interior | VIDEO |
| December 6, 2018 |
Emilia Morosan
Rice University |
John Wei | From "Iron man" to refrigerator magnets - Itinerant magnets without magnetic elements | |
| November 29, 2018 |
Ludwig Mathey
University of Hamburg |
Arun Paramekanti | Controlling many-body systems via periodic driving | VIDEO |
| November 22, 2018 |
Eric Hessels
York University |
Amar Vutha | Table-top precision measurements to test fundamental physics | |
| November 15, 2018 |
Mark van Raamsdonk
University of British Columbia |
AW Peet | Gravity and Entanglement | VIDEO |
| November 8, 2018 |
David Hogg
New York University |
Chris Thompson | The ESA Gaia Mission and dark matter in the Milky Way | VIDEO |
| November 1, 2018 |
Premala Chandra
Stony Brook University |
Arun Paramekanti | The Inner Universe of Quantum Materials | VIDEO |
| October 25, 2018 |
Neelima Sehgal
Stony Brook University |
David Curtin | Mapping Dark Matter on Large and Small Scales with the Cosmic Microwave Background | VIDEO |
| October 18, 2018 |
Achim Rosch
University of Cologne |
Arun Paramekanti | Whirls in magnets: from skyrmions to magnetic monopoles | VIDEO |
| October 11, 2018 |
David Curtin
University of Toronto |
Pekka Sinervo | Particle Physics at the Lifetime Frontier | VIDEO |
| October 4, 2018 |
Peter Wittek
University of Toronto |
Daniel James | An asymmetric relationship: Quantum computing and artificial intelligence | VIDEO |
| September 27, 2018 |
Martin Gruebele
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Claudiu Gradinaru | Imaging excited state dynamics with sub-nanometer resolution | VIDEO |
| September 20, 2018 |
Eric Cornell
JILA University of Colorado at Boulder |
Joseph Thywissen | No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition | |
| September 13, 2018 |
Scott Denning
Colorado State University |
Kimberly Strong | Planetary metabolism: Breathing of the Earth | VIDEO |
| April 5, 2018 |
John Cook
George Mason University |
Debra Wunch | Responding to fake news in the post-truth era | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| March 22, 2018 |
Antoine Venaille
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
Nicolas Grisouard | A surprising connection between exotic states of matter and a precursor of El Nino | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| March 15, 2018 |
Simon Scheuring
Weill Cornell Medicine |
Claudiu Gradinaru | High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: The Dawn of Dynamic Structural Biochemistry | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| March 8, 2018 |
Raman Sundrum
University of Maryland |
David Curtin | Fundamental Physics and the Fifth Dimension | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| March 1, 2018 |
Anna M. Michalak
Carnegie University |
Debra Wunch | Can you un-stir a creamy cup of coffee? Untangling atmospheric greenhouse gas signatures to reveal what controls emissions | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| February 15, 2018 |
Paul Corkum
University of Ottawa |
Joseph Thywissen | Probed quantum systems on the attosecond time scale | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| February 8, 2018 |
Natasha Grace Holmes
Cornell University |
Andrew Meyertholen | Rethinking Intro Physics Labs | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| February 1, 2018 |
Vidya Madhavan
University of Illinois |
John Y.T. Wei | Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| January 25, 2018 |
Tanya Zelevinksy
Columbia University |
Joseph Thywissen | Physics and chemistry with diatomic molecules near absolute zero | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| January 18, 2018 |
Asimina Arvanitaki
Perimeter Institute |
David Curtin | Particle Physics Beyond Colliders | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| January 11, 2018 |
Ehud Altman
Berkeley University |
Chaos, thermalization and the dynamics of quantum information: how quantum butterflies produce classical storms | Slides (pdf) VIDEO | |
| December 7, 2017 |
Rafael Fernandes
University of Minnesota |
Arun Paramekanti | A tale of two states: the complex relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in quantum materials | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| November 30, 2017 |
Hue Sun Chan
University of Toronto |
Claudiu Gradinaru | Physics of Protein Function and Evolution: From Sequence-Structure to Sequence-Ensemble Relationships | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| November 23, 2017 |
John Dutcher
University of Guelph |
Claudiu Gradinaru | Unlocking the potential of Nature's Dendrimer | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| November 16, 2017 |
Heather Lewandowski
University of Boulder Colorado |
Andrew Meyertholen | Engaging Students in Authentic Scientific Practises in Lab Courses | Slides (pdf) |
| November 9, 2017 |
Makoto Fujiwara
TRIUMF |
Pekka Sinervo | Casting light on Antimatter: fundamental physics with bottled antihydrogen | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| November 2, 2017 |
Mack Kira
University of Michigan |
John Sipe | Clustronics on quantum many-body architecture | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| October 26, 2017 |
Matthew Schwartz
Harvard University |
Michael Luke | Modern Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider | VIDEO |
| October 19, 2017 |
Saul Teukolsky
Cornell University |
Aaron Zimmerman | The coming revolution in computational astrophyics | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| October 12, 2017 |
Philip W Phillips
University of Illinois |
Arun Paramekanti | Do Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors harbor Extra Dimensions? | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| October 5, 2017 |
Duncan O'Dell
McMaster University |
Daniel James | The Abraham-Minkowski controversy: an ultracold atom perspective | Slides (pdf) VIDEO |
| September 28, 2017 |
Pauline Gagnon
CERN |
The role of Mileva Maric Einstein | Slides (pptx) VIDEO | |
| April 6, 2017 |
Stephon Alexander
Brown University |
Amanda Peet | The Jazz of Physics: The Link Between Music and The Structure of the Universe | (no media) |
| March 30, 2017 |
Jason Alicea
Caltech |
Arun Paramekanti | Majorana Materializes | audio (mp3) |
| March 23 2017 |
Cristina Marchetti
Syracuse University |
Anton Zilman | Active Matter: from colloids to living cells | audio (mp3) |
| March 16, 2017 |
Tiziana Vanorio
Stanford University |
Paul Young | Cementing Roman Concrete To a Caldera | audio (MP3) |
| March 9, 2017 |
John Bernard
National Research Council |
Amar Vutha | From Chains to Combs: The Measurement of Optical Frequencies | audio (MP3) |
| March 2, 2017 |
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute |
Arun Paramekanti | Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem | audio (MP3) |
| February 16, 2017 |
Bangalore Sathyaprakash
Cardiff University |
Harald Pfeiffer | Listening to black hole swan song: A new window for observational astronomy | audio (MP3) |
| February 9, 2017 |
Matthew Schwartz
Harvard University |
Michael Luke | The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider - This talk is CANCELLED | (no media) |
| February 2, 2017 |
Marcela Carena
Fermilab |
Pekka Sinervo | Higgs Portals to Dark Matter and Extra Dimensions | audio (MP3) |
| January 26, 2017 |
Philip Kim
Harvard University |
Young-June Kim | Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter’s Butterfly in Graphene | audio (MP3) |
| January 19, 2017 |
Robert Boyd
University of Ottawa |
John Sipe | Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World | audio (MP3) |
| Jan 12, 2017 |
Pierre-Tomas Brun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Stephen Morris/Mary Pugh | Building with fluids: from fluid flows to tangible structures | (no media) |
| January 5, 2017 |
Andrew Meyertholen
University of Toronto |
Jason Harlow | A Physics 256 Case Study: Incorporating research-based teaching techniques into an upper-level course | audio (MP3) |
| Dec 08, 2016 |
Massimo Vergassola
University of California, San Diego |
Anton Zilman | Navigating turbulent environments | audio (MP3) |
| Dec 01, 2016 |
David Lockner
U.S. Geological Survey |
Mario Tibbo/Paul Young | Earthquake Scaling from M-9 to M+9 (or what happens in the lab stays in the lab) | audio (MP3) |
| Nov 24, 2016 |
Colin Goldblatt
University of Victoria |
Nicolas Grisouard | Habitability and climate of (exo)planets | audio (MP3) |
| Nov 17, 2016 |
David Bailey
University of Toronto |
Pekka Sinervo | Everyone screws up sometimes – Uncertainty in the real world | audio (MP3) |
| Nov 10, 2016 |
David Crisp
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech |
Debra Wunch | Watching the Earth Breathe with the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) | audio (MP3) |
| Nov 03 2016 |
Steven Cundiff
University of Michigan |
John Sipe | Optical Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy | audio (MP3) |
| Oct 27 2016 |
Maria Spiropulu
California Institute of Technology |
Hiro Tanaka | The Higgs and beyond: connections and puzzles in particle physics | audio (MP3) |
| Oct 20, 2016 |
Kevin Trenberth
NCAR Boulder |
Nicolas Grisouard | Implications of Earth’s energy imbalance for climate | audio (MP3) |
| Oct 13, 2016 |
Mohit Randeria
Ohio State University |
Arun Paramekanti | Skyrmions: From high energy physics to condensed matter systems | audio (MP3) |
| Oct 06, 2016 |
Eugenia Etkina
Rutgers University |
Andrew Meyertholen | Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE): Making your students collaborative participants in the practice of physics | audio (MP3) |
| Sep 29, 2016 |
J. Michael Roney
University of Victoria |
Pekka Sinervo | Applying Quantum Entanglement to Search for New Physics at TeV Energies | audio (MP3) |
| Sep 22, 2016 |
Wolfgang Ketterle
MIT |
Joseph Thywissen | Ultracold atoms as quantum simulators for new materials -- optical lattices and synthetic magnetic fields | (no media) |
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