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The University of Toronto weekly physics colloquia will now be available online. You can download the PDF file only (if available), or view the voice-synchronized version of the talk. Just click on the PowerPoint file for the talk, and click open at the prompt. If you have difficulty opening the file in your browser, you can download both the PowerPoint file and the MP3 recording to your computer under the same directory.

Colloquium List 2005-2006

Date Speaker / Institution Host Title / Topic Download
September 15th, 2005 Mikhail Stephanov
University of Illinois at Chicago
Poppitz
The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
September 22nd, 2005 Carl Haber
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Trischuk
Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Physics to Restore Early Sound Recordings
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
September 29th, 2005 Michael Nieto
LANL
Daniel James
The Pioneer Anomaly: The Data, Its Meaning, and a Future Test
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
October 6th, 2005 Arun Paramekanti
University of Toronto
Kee
Supersolid Matter, or How Do Bosons Resolve Their Frustration?
PDF file
PowerPoint file
CQMoct6.mp3
October 13th, 2005 Prof. Erich Mueller
Cornell University
Griffin
Recent progress in ultracold atoms
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
October 20th, 2005 John Harte
Berkeley
Kushner
Predicting Climate Change on a Green Planet: The Daunting Challenge
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
October 27th, 2005 Richard Packard
University of California, Berkeley
Wei
Superfluid Weak Links: Physics and Applications
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
November 3rd, 2005
Regis Pomes
Hospital for Sick Kids, U of T Biochemistry Department
Miller
Theoretical Studies of Biological Proton Transport
PDF file
PowerPoint file

November 10th, 2005

Leo Kadanoff
University of Chicago
Poppitz
Computer Simulation and Prediction - The Good the Bad and the Awful
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
November 17th, 2005 Drs. Paul Lett and Peter Milonni
NIST - Gaithersburg and Los Alamos National Laboratory
Steinberg
How Does The Photon Get Its Momentum?
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
November 24th, 2005
David Dunlop
University of Toronto
Stanley
Magnetism of the Earth, Moon and Mars
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
December 1st, 2005
Geoff Vallis
Princeton University
Paul Kushner
Role Of Turbulence In The General Circulation Of The Ocean And Atmosphere.
PDF file
MP3 Recording
December 8th, 2005
David DeMille
Yale University
Thywissen
Fundamental Physics With Diatomic Molecules: From CP-Violation to Quantum Computation
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
January 12th, 2006 Paul Goldbart
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paramekanti
Vulcanized matter: its statistics, its physics, and its statistical physics
MP3 Recording
January 19th, 2006
Ramamurti Shankar
Yale
Poppitz
Dots for Dummies
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
January 26th, 2006
Laura Baudis
University of Florida
Poppitz
Searches for Cold Relics of the Early Universe
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
February 2nd, 2006
Sajeev John
University of Toronto
Poppitz
Photonic Band Gap Materials: Engineering the Fundamental Properties of Light
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
February 9th, 2006
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Berkeley
Wei
Multifunctional Complex Oxide Heterostructures
MP3 Recording
February 16th, 2006
Dung-Hai Lee
Berkeley
Kee
Is Symmetry Breaking a Necessity in a Mott Insulator?
 
March 2nd, 2006
Benjamin Weiss
MIT
Stanley
Records of Martian Paleotemperatures and Paleofields in Meteorites
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
March 9th, 2006
Matthew Fisher
KITP Santa Barbara
Paramekanti
Quantum Choreography
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
March 23rd, 2006
Sean Carroll
University of Chicago
Poppitz
Dark Energy, or Worse?
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
March 30th, 2006
David Campbell
Boston University
Nigel Edwards and John Wei
From Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) to Intrinsic Localized Modes (ILMs)
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
April 6th, 2006
Jonathan Arnou
UCLA
Stanley
Modeling Deep Convective Zonal Flows on the Giant Planets
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
April 20th, 2006
Syukuro Manabe
Princeton
Peltier
The Projected Change in Water Availability Due to Global Warming
PDF file
PowerPoint file
MP3 Recording
         

 

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