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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.

Colloquium List 2009-2010

Date Speaker / Institution Host Title / Topic Download
September 17, 2009 Piers Coleman
Rutgers University
Ken Burch Qu-transitions. Phase transitions in the quantum era PDF File
MP3 Recording
September 24, 2009 Hartmut Haffner
University of California Berkeley
Daniel F. V. James Quantum information with trapped ions: real thought experiments PDF File
MP3 Recording
October 1, 2009 Charles Kane
University of Pennsylvania
Yong Baek Kim Topological Insulators and Topological Band Theory Power Point File
MP3 Recording
October 8, 2009 Edward Sargent
University of Toronto
Ken Burch Colloidal quantum dot optoelectronic devices Power Point File
MP3 Recording
October 15, 2009 David Weiss
Pennsylvania State University
Aephraim Steinberg How does a quantum mechanical system thermalize? Unavailable
MP3 Recording
October 22, 2009 Ben Newling
University of New Brunswick
Daniel F. V. James Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Turbulent Flows PDF File
MP3 Recording
October 29, 2009 Samir Mathur
Ohio State University
Amanda Peet Resolving the black hole information paradox Unavailable
MP3 Recording
November 5, 2009 Brian Ingalls
University of Waterloo
Vatche Deyirmenjian Control Theoretic approaches to Systems Biology Power Point File
MP3 Recording
November 19, 2009 Lia Merminga
TRIUMF
Robert S. Orr Accelerator Science and Technology in Canada Unavailable
MP3 Recording
November 26, 2009 Paul Kushner
University of Toronto
Daniel F. V. James Climate Sensitivity and Climate Models PDF File
MP3 Recording
December 3, 2009 Carson Chow
National Institutes of Health
Mary Pugh The physics of obesity PDF File
MP3 Recording
January 7, 2010 Louisa Gilder
Author, The Age of Entanglement
David Harrison The Age of Entanglement MP3 Recording
January 14, 2010 Peter Grutter
McGill University
Ken Burch Poking tips at surfaces--optical properties of molecules, electronic properties of quantum dots and the formation of synapses Power Point File
MP3 Recording
January 21, 2010 Francis Nimmo
University of California Santa Cruz
Sabine Stanley What's going on at Enceladus? Power Point File
MP3 Recording
January 28, 2010 David Boerner
Natural Resources Canada
Sabine Stanley How Does Society Value Science? Power Point File
February 4, 2010 Neal Weiner
New York University
Erich Poppitz Illuminating Dark Matter Unavailable
February 11, 2010 Michael Prather
UC Irvine
Dylan Jones Chemical Modes and Feedbacks: What controls Atmospheric Composition? MP3 Recording
February 25, 2010 Charles Ahn
Yale University
John Wei The materials physics of complex oxides Unavailable
March 4, 2010 Yuhai Tu
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
William Ryu From molecules to behavior: E. coli's memory, computation and chemotaxis PDF File
MP3 Recording
March 11, 2010 Joseph H. Thywissen
University of Toronto
Daniel F. V. James Ultra-cold ferromagnetism PDF File
MP3 Recording
March 18, 2010 Paul Wiseman
McGill University
Dwayne Miller Mapping protein dynamics in living cells via fluorescence fluctuation and correlation analysis in space, time and reciprocal space PDF File
MP3 Recording
March 25, 2010 Jane Wang
Cornell University
Mary Pugh/Stephen Morris How Insects Fly and Turn Unavailable
April 1, 2010 Peter Krieger
University of Toronto
Robert Orr Initial Performance of the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider PDF File
MP3 Recording
2009 Department of Physics, University of Toronto