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 13, 2012 |
Xiao-Gang Wen Perimeter Institute |
Yong Baek Kim | Highly Entangled Quantum Matter |
PDF MP3 |
| September 20, 2012 |
Paul Lett NIST |
Aephraim Steinberg | Quantum Imaging: Spooky images at a distance, and what to do with them |
PDF MP3 |
| September 27, 2012 |
Sergio Peisajovich University of Toronto |
Anton Zilman | Mimicking the Evolution of Cellular Signaling Networks in the Lab |
PDF MP3 [partial] |
| October 4, 2012 |
Matthew Strassler Rutgers University |
Erich Poppitz | The Quest for the Higgs Boson |
PDF MP3 |
| October 11, 2012 |
Burkhard Militzer University of California, Berkeley |
Sabine Stanley | Helium Rain and Core Erosion in Giant Planets Predicted with Ab Initio Simulations |
PDF MP3 |
| October 18, 2012 |
Pierre Savard University of Toronto |
Erich Poppitz | The Discovery of a Higgs-like Boson |
PDF MP3 |
| October 25, 2012 |
Wallace Marshall UCSF |
Anton Zilman | How Cells Control Size |
PDF MP3 |
| November 1, 2012 |
Jainendra Jain Penn State University |
Arun Paramekanti | Exotic particles of fractional quantum Hall effect | N/A |
| November 8, 2012 |
Lily Childress Yale University |
Aephraim Steinberg | Quantum devices with diamond defects |
PDF MP3 |
| November 15, 2012 |
Mark Srednicki University of California, Santa Barbara |
Arun Paramekanti | Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics |
PDF MP3 |
| November 22, 2012 |
Dimitri Basov University of California San Diego |
Ken Burch | Many Body Effects in Graphene Revealed by Infrared Nano-Imaging | MP3 |
| November 29, 2012 |
Frederik Simons Princeton University |
Sabine Stanley | Making the most of GRACE: Studying melting icecaps and large earthquakes using satellite gravity |
PDF MP3 |
| January 10, 2013 |
Darrell Schlom Cornell University |
Ken Burch | Enhancing Oxide Properties- The Approach of the Modern Alchemist |
PDF MP3 |
| January 17, 2013 |
David Pantalony Canada Science and Technology Museum/University of Ottawa |
Stephen Morris | The other Koenig collections of historic acoustical instruments |
PDF |
| January 24, 2013 |
Markus Aspelmeyer Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Vienna (Austria) |
Aephraim Steinberg | Schrodinger's Mirrors: extending quantum experiments to massive mechanical objects | MP3 |
| January 31, 2013 |
Matthew Huber Purdue University |
Sabine Stanley | Earth is a Planet, Too! Paleoclimate is Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics You Can Do at Home |
PDF MP3 |
| February 7, 2013 |
Martin Zwierlein Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Arun Paramekanti | A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases |
PDF MP3 |
| February 14, 2013 |
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Ken Burch/Arun Paramekanti | The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene | MP3 |
| February 28, 2013 |
Nadya Mason University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Arun Paramekanti | Small Dots Make it Big: Studying Collective Phenomena in Arrays of Superconducting Islands |
PDF MP3 |
| March 7, 2013 |
Ed Hinds Centre for Cold Matter, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London |
Aephraim Steinberg | Is the electron round? |
PDF MP3 |
| March 14, 2013 |
Taekjip Ha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Anton Zilman | Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix | MP3 |
| March 21, 2013 |
Mathieu Dumberry University of Alberta |
Sabine Stanley | The interior structure and dynamics of Mercury: my own sober spin based on gravity and rotation observations |
PDF MP3 |
| March 28, 2013 |
Philippe Cluzel Harvard University |
Anton Zilman | Scaling laws and many-body physics to predict the behavior of multi-drug resistant microbes and cancer cells | N/A |
| April 4, 2013 |
Sarah Gille Centre for Cold Matter, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London |
Sabine Stanley | Warming in the Southern Ocean: Mechanisms and Implications |
PDF |
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