The Department of Physics and Astronomy

for the Academic Year 2012-2013 (July 2012 through June 2013)
Date/Time	Speaker	Title/Host
Our Colloquia are presented (unless otherwise noted) on THURSDAYS at 1:30 p.m. in PAB Room 100 (NEW Seminar Room on the Main Floor (south side) of the Physics & Astronomy Building).
Winter Term 2013:
Thursday September 19 3:30 p.m. McKellar Room UCC (tentative)	Dr. Klaus von Klitzing Winner - 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE	Physics and Application of Quantum Hall Effect Host: S. Basu / M. Singh
PREVIOUS Colloquia:
Thursday April 25 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Avery Broderick Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute	Imaging Supermassive Black holes on Horizon Scales Host: M. Houde
Thursday April 18 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Gap Soo Chang Department of Physics & Engineering Physics University of Saskatchewan	"Carbon-based electronics: Achievements and Challenges" Host: G. Fanchini
Thursday April 11 10:30 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Oleg Rubel Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute (TBRRI) & Physics Department, Lakehead University	"First-principle simulations advance characterization and development of novel optoelectronic materials" Host: G. Fanchini
* TUESDAY * April 9 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Robert Boyd Institute for Quantum Photonics University of Ottawa	Fifty great years: the development of the field of nonlinear optics Host: M. Singh
* TUESDAY * April 9 10:30 a.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Adrian Owen Canada Excellence Research Chair The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University Undergrad Conference - INVITED TALK	The Search for Consciousness: What has Neuroimaging Told Us? Host: M. Singh
Thursday April 4 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Juan Peralta Department of Physics and Science of Advanced Materials Central Michigan University	A Black-box Approach for the Calculation of Magnetic Exchange Couplings Parameters Host: L. Goncharova
* MONDAY * March 25 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Adam Burgasser Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences University of California, San Diego	The New Cool: The Discovery of Y Dwarfs and their implication for Galactic Star Formation Host: S. Basu
Thursday March 21 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Sally Oey Department of Astronomy University of Michigan	Massive Stars in the Field: Do They Form There? Host: P. Barmby
Thursday March 14 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Chitra Rangan Department of Physics University of Windsor	Hybrid Optoplasmonic Devices: Modelling and the Promise of Sensing Applications Host: M. Singh
Thursday March 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Stefi Baum Director of the Center for Imaging Science Rochester Institute of Technology	Imaging Science: Where Astronomy, Biomedical Imaging, Remote Sensing, Optics, Human Vision, and Computer Vision Meet Host: P. Barmby
Thursday February 28 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Ann Hornschemeier NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland	X-ray emission from galaxies across cosmic time Host: P. Barmby / S. Gallagher
Thursday February 14 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Xiao-Gang Wen Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Waterloo ON	Highly entangled quantum matter: A second quantum revolution Host: M. Singh
Thursday February 7 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. John de Bruyn Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Restricted diffusion in soft materials and elsewhere Host: M. Singh
Thursday January 31 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Natasha Lepore Radiology Department, Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles	The brain anatomy of prematurity—methods and applications Host: A. Soddu / S. Basu
Thursday January 24 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Styliani (Stella) Constas Department of Chemistry Western University	Ejection mechanisms of charged macromolecules from liquid droplets Host: S. Basu
Thursday January 17 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Volodya Miranskyy Department of Applied Mathematics Western University	Quantum hall effect in monolayer and bilayer graphene: Theory and experiment Host: S. Basu
Thursday January 10 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Andrea Soddu Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Letting the brain rest Host: S. Basu
Thursday December 6 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Jay Strader Department of Physics & Astronomy Michigan State University	Black Holes in Globular Clusters Host: P. Barmby
Thursday November 22 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Natalia Toro Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Waterloo ON	On the hunt for new fundamental forces Host: M. Singh
Thursday November 15 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Douglas Scott Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia	The Standard Cosmological Model Host: M. Houde
Thursday November 8 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Ratna Naik Department of Physics Wayne State University	Raman Spectroscopy for Biomedical Diagnostics: Cancer detection in pediatric tumors and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Host: M. Singh
Thursday November 1 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Sajeev John Department of Physics University of Toronto	Light Trapping and Solar Energy Harvesting in Thin Film Photonic Crystals Host: M. Singh
Thursday October 25 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	- CANCELLED - Dr. Carlos Silva Department of Physics Université de Montréal	The dependence of charge recombination dynamics on the solid-state microstructure in neat, semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors Host: M. Singh
Thursday October 18 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Howard Lee Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Georgia	Defining chaos the physics way Host: R. Valluri / S. Basu
Thursday October 11 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Fred Adams Department of Physics University of Michigan	Constraints on the Birth Environment of the Solar System Host: S. Basu
TUESDAY October 9 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	JOINT SEMINAR with collaboration from the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) Dr. Jay Melosh Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University	Tiny Worlds of Ice and Grit: Results from NASA’s Most Recent Comet Missions Host: P. Brown
Thursday October 4 5:00 p.m. Conron Hall (UC 224)	ELIZABETH LAIRD MEMORIAL LECTURE Dr. Rocky Kolb Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago	Mysteries of the Dark Universe Host: S. Basu
Thursday September 27 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Jerry Battista Chair, Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University Director, Physics Research & Education, London Regional Cancer Program	Translational Research in Medical Physics: 1895 plus 100 years Host: M. Singh
Thursday September 20 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. John Bush Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Quantum behavior at a macroscopic scale: Droplets walking on the impossible pilot wave Host: J. de Bruyn
Thursday September 13 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Michael Cushing Ritter Astrophysical Research Center University of Toledo	The discovery of Y Dwarfs with WISE Host: S. Basu
Thursday September 6 1:30 p.m. PAB Seminar Room 100	Dr. Pauline Barmby Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University	Andromeda's coat of many colours Host: S. Basu

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