Power Point Presentations and MP3 Recordings
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. 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.
Date | Speaker / Institution | Host | Title / Topic | Download |
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September 11, 2008 |
Zlatko Tesanovic John Hopkins University |
Stephen Julian | Superconductivity at the Dawn of the Iron Age | Unavailable |
September 18, 2008 |
Harold Y Hwang University of Tokyo |
John Wei | Atomic Engineering of Oxide Heterointerfaces | Unavailable |
September 25, 2008 |
David Keith University of Calgary |
Paul Kushner | Climate Engineering |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
October 2, 2008 |
Paul Scott Carney University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Daniel F. V. James | Computed imaging: how physics connects external measurements to internal structure |
PDF MP3 Recording |
October 9, 2008 |
Daniel Cox University of California Davis |
Kenneth Burch | Consider a spherical mad cow: a physicist looks at amyloid matter |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
October 23, 2008 |
Tim Palmer European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
Ted Shepherd | Climate Change and the Trillion-Dollar Millenium Mathematics Problem |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
October 30, 2008 |
Robert Orr University of Toronto |
Peter Krieger | Engines of Discovery |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
November 6, 2008 |
Karl Berggren MIT |
Joseph H. Thywissen | Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors | MP3 Recording |
November 13, 2008 |
Andrea Liu University of Pennsylvania |
Mary Pugh | Jamming |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
November 20, 2008 |
Peter Voorhees Northwestern University |
Rashmi Desai | The Topology and Morphology of Bicontinuous Interfaces |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
December 4, 2008 |
Ian Fisher Stanford University |
Kenneth Burch | Frustrated pairs: magnon BEC in geometrically frustrated spin dimer compounds |
PDF MP3 Recording |
January 15, 2009 |
Alan Guth Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Richard Bond | Inflation and the String Theory Landscape |
PDF MP3 Recording |
January 22, 2009 |
Michael Nielsen |
Daniel F. V. James | How networked tools are changing science |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
January 29, 2009 |
Molly Shoichet University of Toronto |
Daniel F. V. James | Tissue Engineering in the Nervous System | Coming Soon |
February 5, 2009 |
Greg Beobinger Stanford University |
Kenneth Burch | The Versatility of the World's Strongest Magnetic Fields for Physics, Chemistry and Biology |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
February 12, 2009 |
Toni Taylor Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Kenneth Burch | Tunable Terahertz Metamaterials |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
February 26, 2009 |
Lincoln Carr Colorado School of Mines |
John E. Sipe | Graduate Quantum Mechanics Reform |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
March 05, 2009 |
Ehud Meron Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Stephen Morris | Patterns of Green in the Desert Brown |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
March 12, 2009 |
Oscar Dubon U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Kenneth Burch | Engineering semiconductors using energetic beams |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
March 19, 2009 |
James Robert Brown University of Toronto |
Daniel F.V. James | Thought Experiments in Physics |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |
March 26, 2009 |
Nitin Samarth Penn State University |
Kenneth Burch | Spintronics without magnetism |
PDF File MP3 Recording |
April 2, 2009 |
L. Mahadevan Harvard University |
Stephen Morris | Folding, wrinkling and crumpling: from the atomic to the tectonic |
PDF File MP3 Recording |
April 9, 2009 |
Dan Falk |
Michael Luke | In Search of Time |
Power Point File MP3 Recording |