Colloquia

A list of past and upcoming talks in the department

2023-2024 Academic Year

(September 2023 through April 2024)

You can find all the Physics & Astronomy Events on Western's Events Calendar by clicking here.

Unless otherwise noted, our Colloquia will be presented on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month at 1:30pm, in PAB Seminar Room 100 (Main Floor [south side] of the Physics & Astronomy Building).
Date/Time Speaker Title

Upcoming Talks
WINTER Term 2024
Thursday
9 May
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Mark Gorski
Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
Northwestern University

 TBA

Previous Talks
WINTER Term 2024
Thursday
11 April
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Garnett Bryant
Group Leader, Atomic-Scale Device Group
Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute
National Institute of Standards and Technology

 Atom-based Si quantum solid-state devices: Building Feynman's room at the bottom one atom at a time
Thursday
4 April
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. John Landstreet
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

 Magnetic white dwarfs
Thursday
14 March
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Ryan Cloutier
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University

 Unlocking the Secrets of TOI-1266: An Unconventional Multi-Planet System and its Implications for Sub-Neptune Formation Models
Thursday
7 March
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Megan Tannock
Developer
Cosmographic Software LLC

 Building a Climate Model for SpaceEngine: the Universe Simulator
Thursday
22 February
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Anibal Medina Mardones
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Western University

 New tools in applied topology for signal processing and data analysis
Thursday
15 February
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Lilia Anguelova
Professor
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

 The Dark Side of the Universe and a Dawn of New Physics
Thursday
8 February
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Hyunseop Choi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Départment de physique
Université de Montréal

 Unveiling the Physics of Black Hole Winds with Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Thursday
25 January
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Shantanu Basu
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

 Outflows from Young Stellar Objects: A 40 year mystery
FALL Term 2023
Thursday
7 December
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Els Peeters
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Western University

 JWST's view of the Orion Bar
Thursday
23 November
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Smeenk
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Western University

 Closing the Loop in Early Universe Cosmology?
Thursday
9 November
1:30 p.m.
PAB 100

Speaker: Dr. Jayshri Sabarinathan
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Western University

 Photonic crystal based opto-mechanical sensors and devices for photonic integrated circuits

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