Colloquia and Seminars 2023-24
Colloquia, seminar, and other talks from previous academic years are listed in our archive.Colloquia are held weekly on Wednesdays during the academic year (September through to April). They are geared at a general audience -- faculty, staff, students and interested members of the general public are welcome.
PAST COLLOQUIA
FALL 2023
Wednesday, September 13th
Dr. Anna Ordog, University of British Columbia
The Polarised Radio Sky at DRAO and the Quest to Understand the Magnetized Milky Way
Wednesday, September 20th
Dr. Jacob Simon, Iowa State University
Planetesimal Formation in Circumstellar Disks
Wednesday, September 27th
Dr. Sandro Tacchella, University of Cambridge
First Insights from JWST: Star Formation in Cosmic Dawn Galaxies
Wednesday, October 4th
Dr. Jonathan Simon, Stanford University
Building and Probing Quantum Fluids of Light
Wednesday, October 11th
Dr. Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado
Ergodicity Breaking in Quantum Dynamics
Wednesday, October 18th
Dr. Jess McIver, University of British Columbia
Revealing the Unseen Universe with Gravitational Waves
Wednesday, October 25th
Dr. Pascale Garaud, University of California Santa Cruz
Magnetized Fingering Convection in Stars
Wednesday, November 1st
Dr. Romeel Davé, University of Edinburgh
Some Surprising Results from the Simba Simulation
Wednesday, November 8th
Dr. Noako Kurahashi-Neilson, Drexel University
Neutrino Astronomy, From Dream to Reality
Wednesday, November 22nd
Dr. Nancy Ford, University of British Columbia
Micro-Computed Tomography in Oncological Models
Wednesday, November 29th
Dr. Yuri Levin, Columbia University
Resonant Friction on Discs in Galactic Nuclei
SPRING 2024
Wednesday January 17th
Dr. Michel Vetterli, Simon Fraser University - TRIUMF
How Our Brain Perceives The World and Why We Have To Be Careful Interpreting What We See
Wednesday January 24th
Dr. Ingrid Stairs, University of British Columbia
Evidence for Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves from Pulsar Timing
Wednesday January 31st
Dr. Tom Hartman, Cornell University
Black Holes and Quantum Information
Wednesday February 7th
Dr. Parminder Basran, Cornell University
The One Health Paradigm and Medical Physics
Wednesday February 14th
Dr. Christine Muschik, University of Waterloo
Using a Qudit Quantum Computer to Simulate Models from Particle Physics and Beyond
Wednesday February 28th
Dr. Jeffrey Fung, Clemson University
Dissecting the CI Tau System: Disk Eccentricity Excitation
Wednesday March 6th
Dr. Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook University
Building a Long-distance Quantum Repeater Network Using Atomic Quantum Interconnects
Wednesday March 13th
Dr. Jan Schuemann, Harvard Medical School
Proton FLASH Radiation Therapy at MGH
Wednesday March 20th
Dr. Emil Schueler, UT MD Anderson Cancer Centre
Exploring the Clinical Implementation of FLASH RT: Embracing Opportunities and Challenges
Wednesday April 3rd
Dr. Shabir Barzanjeh, University of Calgary
Exploring Nonlinearity in the Integrated Quantum Circuits
Seminars are specialized and geared for those in a particular field. Dates and times for these talks vary.
PAST SEMINARS
Monday, September 11th
Dr. Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA Spain
A New Look at the Molecular Dusty Torus of Active Galactic Nuclei
Tuesday, September 12th
Dr. Prajval Shastri, Raman Research Institute
Different Angles on Accreting Supermassive Black Holes
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PAST Café Scientifque TALKS