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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Sep 12, 2013 |
Jim Sethna Cornell University |
Anton Zilman | Sloppy models, Differential geometry, and How Science Works |
PDF MP3 |
Sep 19, 2013 |
Mihaly Horanyi University of Colorado |
Sabine Stanley | The Lunar Surface: A Dusty Plasma Laboratory |
PDF MP3 |
Sep 26, 2013 |
Chandra Varma UC Riverside |
John Wei | Higgs Bosons in Condensed Matter Physics |
PDF MP3 |
Oct 3, 2013 |
Andy Mackenzie University of St. Andrews |
Stephen Julian | Complex oxides: a new playground for physics and technology |
PDF MP3 |
Oct 10, 2013 |
Chandralekha Singh University of Pittsburgh |
David Bailey | When Physical Intuition Fails |
PDF MP3 |
Oct 17, 2013 |
Sharon Glotzer University of Michigan |
Stephen Morris | Packing & Assembling Polyhedra | MP3 |
Oct 24, 2013 |
Peter Brown University of Western Ontario |
Stephen Morris | The Chelyabinsk Airburst and its Implications for the Impact Hazard at the Earth | |
Oct 31, 2013 |
Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin |
Erich Poppitz | Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector | MP3 |
Nov 7, 2013 |
Alan Madej National Research Council of Canada |
Joseph Thywissen | Moving Beyond the Current Limits of Time: Single Ion Optical Atomic Clocks and the Quest for the Ultimate Isolated Quantum System |
PDF MP3 |
Nov 14, 2013 |
Naomi Leonard National Research Council of Canada |
Anton Zilman | Towards Flawless Flocking: Models and Mechanisms from Animal Groups | MP3 |
Nov 21, 2013 |
Andreas Hemmerich Universitaet Hamburg |
Arun Paramekanti | When bosons condense in excited states |
PDF |
Nov 28, 2013 |
Ted Hsu Member of Parliament, Kingston and the Islands |
Stephen Julian | Let’s strengthen the voice of scientists in parliament! | MP3 |
Dec 5, 2013 |
Jens Dilling TRIUMF |
Pierre Savard | Understanding the universe, one rare isotope at a time | MP3 |
Jan 16, 2014 |
Jason Petta Princeton University |
Andrew Meyertholen | Spooky Action at a Distance: Generating Entanglement in Quantum Dot Circuits | MP3 |
Jan 23, 2014 |
Peter Olson Johns Hopkins University |
Sabine Stanley | The Geodynamo from a Whole-Earth perspective |
PDF MP3 |
Jan 30, 2014 |
Jan Kycia University of Waterloo |
John Wei | Studying Monopoles in Spin Ice at Ultra Low Temperatures | |
Feb 06, 2014 |
Stephen Morris University of Toronto |
Consider the Icicle |
PDF MP3 |
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Feb 13, 2014 |
Stefan Myrskog Morgan Solar Inc. |
Aephraim Steinberg | Concentrating the Sun: Concentrated Photovoltaics and design challenges at 1000 Suns | MP3 |
Feb 27, 2014 |
Norbert F. Scherer University of Chicago |
Anton Zilman | Insights into stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells, or A Bug's Life | MP3 |
Mar 6, 2014 |
Giorgio Gratta Stanford University |
Erich Poppitz | Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics | MP3 |
Mar 13, 2014 |
Ashvin Vishwanath University of California, Berkeley |
Arun Paramekanti | Quantum is Different: Topological Phenomena and Entanglement in Solids | MP3 |
Mar 20, 2014 |
Anthony J. Leggett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Arun Paramekanti | Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects | MP3 |
Mar 27, 2014 |
Scott Franklin Rochester Institute of Technology |
Stephen Morris | Tangled Granular Matter |
PDF MP3 |
Apr 3, 2014 |
Dan Falk |
Stephen Morris | The Science of Shakespeare | MP3 |
Talks from previous years:
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