University of Toronto - Physics Colloquium
University of Toronto - Physics ColloquiumThe 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.
| Date | Speaker / Institution | Host | Title / Topic | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 14th, 2006 | Peter
Galison Harvard University |
Paul Kushner | The Assassin of Relativity |
MP3 Recording |
| September 28th, 2006 | Stephen Morris
University of Toronto |
Paul Kushner | Icicles, Washboard Road and Meandering Syrup |
Unavailable |
| October 5th, 2006 | Nandini Trivedi
Ohio State University |
Arun Paramekanti | New Phases and Quantum Phase Transitions |
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| October 13th, 2006 | Thomas Peter
ETH |
Michaela Hegglin | The High Supersaturation Puzzle |
PDF file
PowerPoint file* MP3 Recording |
| October 19th, 2006 | Jafar Arkani-Hamed
University of Toronto |
Sabine Stanley | Magnetic Field of Mars |
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| October 26th, 2006 | Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute |
Erich Poppitz | What have we really learned about quantum gravity? |
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| November 2nd, 2006 | John Dutcher
University of Guelph |
Rashmi Desai | Complex Flow of Nanoconfined Polymers |
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| November 9th, 2006 | Randall Kamien
University of Pennsylvania |
Erich Poppitz | What's Kelvin's Problem? |
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| November 16th, 2006 | J.C. Davis
Cornell University |
Arun Paramekanti | Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter |
MP3 recording |
| November 23th, 2006 | Kari Dalnoki-Veress
McMaster University |
Stephen Morris | Squashing Polymers into the Nanoscale |
Unavailable |
| November 30th, 2006 | Cary Forest
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Sabine Stanley | Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments |
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| December 7th, 2006 | Matthew Pritchard
Cornell University |
Sabine Stanley | Imaging sub-centimeter ground deformations from space
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| January 11th, 2007 | Michael Brenner
Harvard University |
Steven Morris | Thinking About Evolution
|
MP3 recording |
| January 18th, 2007 | Steven Girvin
Yale University |
Arun Paramekanti | Circuit QED: Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics with Superconducting Electrical Circuits
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| January 25th, 2007 | M. Cynthia Goh
University of Toronto |
Rashmi Desai | Biomolecular Interaction, Structure and Function - A Physical Chemist's View of Biology
|
Unavailable |
| February 1st, 2007 | Bernard Hallet
University of Washington |
Stephen Morris | Clean Patterns in Icy Dirt
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| February 8th, 2007 | Robert Thorne
Cornell University |
Michael Luke | “Why Should I Care?” Teaching Physics to Non-Believers
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| February 15th, 2007 | Mark Zoback
Stanford University |
Sabine Stanley | Testing Fundamental Theories of Earthquakes and Faulting: The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| March 1st, 2007 | Kevin Resch
University of Waterloo |
Aephraim Steinberg | Quantum Information in the Optics Laboratory and the “Real” World
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| March 8th, 2007 | Kerry Emanuel
MIT |
Paul Kushner | Hurricane Physics
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file* |
| March 15th, 2007 | Tom Mullin
University of Manchester |
Stephen Morris | The Enigma of the Transition to Turbulence in a Pipe
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| March 22th, 2007 | Philip Holmes
Princeton University |
Ted Shepherd | Thirty-Three Years of Nonlinear Dynamics: More is Different and Less is More
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| March 29th, 2007 | Alessandra Lanzara
University of California, Berkeley |
Arun Paramekanti | Dirac Particles in a Pencil Trace
|
Unavailable |
| April 05th, 2007 | Brad Marston
Brown University |
Arun Paramekanti | Actinides in Solution: Nuclear Waste, Strong Correlations, and Emergence
|
PDF file
PowerPoint file MP3 recording |
| * - without voice synchronization | ||||
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