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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 15, 2011 |
Kenneth Burch University of Toronto |
Henry van Driel | Optics and Scotch Tape: New Discoveries Beyond Carbon |
PDF File MP3 Recording |
| September 22, 2011 |
Roya Zandi UC Riverside |
Anton Zilman | Physics of virus assembly |
Slides N/A. MP3 N/A. |
| September 29, 2011 |
Alexandre Blais Universite de Sherbrooke |
Aephraim Steinberg | Quantum Optics and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits |
PDF File MP3 Recording |
| October 6, 2011 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed Institute for Advanced Study |
Erich Poppitz | Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes |
Slides N/A. MP3 Recording |
| October 13, 2011 |
Tapio Schneider Caltech |
Ted Shepherd | Dynamics of Giant Planet Atmospheres |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| October 20, 2011 |
Scott Oser University of British Columbia |
John Martin | Long Baseline Neutrinos: As Far from a Tabletop Experiment as You Can Get |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| October 27, 2011 |
Yves Couder Universite Paris Diderot |
Stephen Morris | Wave-particle duality at the macroscopic scale |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| November 3, 2011 |
Joanna Haigh Imperial College |
Ted Shepherd | Solar Variability and Climate |
Slides N/A MP3 Recording |
| November 10, 2011 |
Eric Braaten Ohio State University |
Erich Poppitz | Effective Field Theory and Ultracold Atoms |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| November 17, 2011 |
Hari Manoharan Stanford University |
John Wei | Molecular Graphene |
Slides N/A. MP3 N/A. |
| November 24, 2011 |
Ido Golding Baylor College of Medicine |
Anton Zilman | A Quantitative Look at Gene Regulation |
Slides N/A. MP3 Recording |
| November 28, 2011 |
Frank Close Oxford University |
Michael Luke | The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider |
Slides N/A. MP3 Recording |
| December 1, 2011 |
Dam Thanh Son University of Washington |
Erich Poppitz | Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory |
PDF file MP3 Recording |
| January 12, 2012 |
Dennis Discher University of Pennsylvania |
Anton Zilman | How deeply cells feel |
Slides N/A. MP3 N/A. |
| January 26, 2012 |
Aephraim Steinberg University of Toronto |
Daniel James | Quantum Measurements in the Real World |
PDF file MP3 N/A. |
| Februry 02, 2012 |
Raffaele Ferrari MIT |
Mathew Wells | What Physics Triggers Ocean Phytoplankton Blooms? |
PDF file MP3 recording |
| Februry 09, 2012 |
David Tanner University of Florida |
Ken Burch | Diffractive optics: An old subject teaches us new tricks |
PDF file MP3 recording |
| March 01, 2012 |
Graham Feingold NOAA |
Ted G. Shepherd | On Rabbits, Foxes, Clouds, and Precipitation |
PDF file MP3 recording |
| March 08, 2012 |
Nergis Mavalvala MIT |
Harald Pfeiffer | Quantum Opportunities in Gravitational Wave Detection |
Slides N/A MP3 recording |
| March 15, 2012 |
Dmitri Kharzeev Stony Brook University and BNL |
Erich Poppitz | The mirror symmetry in super-dense matter and chiral hydrodynamics |
PDF file MP3 recording |
| March 22, 2012 |
Subir Sachdev Harvard University |
Yong Baek Kim | Quantum entanglement and the phases of matter |
PDF file MP3 recording |
| March 29, 2012 |
Shijie Zhong University of Colorado at Boulder |
Julian Lowman | Building a dynamic model of the Earth's mantle for the last 500 Million years |
PDF file MP3 recording |
| April 05, 2012 |
Philip Nelson University of Pennsylvania |
Anton Zilman | Inference in biological physics |
PDF file MP3 recording |
Talks from previous years: 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006