York University | Physics & Astronomy: Departmental Colloquia and Graduate Seminars

Departmental Colloquia and Graduate Seminars

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held Tuesdays at 2:30 pm in Room 317, Petrie Science and Engineering Building [location and access].

For further information, contact Cody Storry: codys@yorku.ca - (416) 736-2100 ext. 77756

Winter 2010

Date	Speaker	Title
January 12	Dr. Thad Harroun Brock University	Neutron Scattering for Biology
January 19	Dr. Michael Schulz Missouri University of Science and Technology	Kinematically Complete Experiments on Atomic Fragmentation Processes

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Title
September 15	Dr. Randy Lewis York University	Bottom Quarks Make Strange Particles
September 22	Dr. Peter Fierlinger Technische Universität München	The Search for Electric Dipole Moments
October 6	Dr. Chitra Rangan University of Windsor	Quantum Control of Rydberg Atoms with Picosecond Half-cycle Pulses
October 20	Dr. Fredrik Fatemi Naval Research Laboratory	Imaging Magnetometry and Raman Spectrography Using Atomic Velocity Selection
November 3	Dr. Georg von Hippel DESY Zeuthen	Heavy Quark Flavours on the Lattice
November 17	Dr. Lia Merminga TRIUMF	Accelerator Science and Technology in Canada
November 24	Dr. William van Wijngaarden York University	Fun with Ultracold Atoms
December 1	Dr. Michael Trott Perimeter Institute	Physics Opportunities in the Early LHC era

Winter 2009

Date	Speaker	Title
January 26 *Public Lecture will be held at 5:30pm in CB 115	Dr. Niel Brandt The Pennsylvania State University	Public Lecture - X-raying Active Galaxies: Exploring the Environments of Supermassive Black Holes
January 27	Dr. Niel Brandt The Pennsylvania State University	Recent Results from the Deepest X-ray Surveys: Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe
February 10	Dr. Roberto Abraham University of Toronto	A Plan for Finding First Light Before JWST
March 3	Dr. William Frisken York University	HEAVY HUNTING IN PARTICLE PHYSICS: Design and Construction of Calorimeters for the ZEUS electron-proton collider experiment
March 10	Dr. Chris Monroe University of Maryland	Quantum Networks of Atoms
March 17	Dr. Erich Poppitz University of Toronto	The Wonders of Supersymmetry: from Quantum Mechanics, Topology, and Noise, to (maybe) the LHC
March 24	Dr. Eric Hessels York University	Precision Measurements and the Fine-structure Constant
March 31	Dr. A. Kumarakrishnan York University	Light-Matter Interactions and Precision Measurements Using Laser-Cooled Atoms
May 27	Dr. Alexander Lvovsky University of Calgary	Constructing Light: Photon by Photon

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Title
September 16	Dr. Anupama Atre Fermilab	Search for Heavy Quarks Above the Top at Hadron Colliders
September 23	Dr. Steven Robertson McGill University	The Flavour of Things to Come: Prospects for the SuperB Project
October 14	Dr. Hugh Wilson York University	Perceptual Oscillations, Traveling Waves & Hysteresis in Vision
October 21	Dr. Duncan O'Dell McMaster University	Atomic Rainbow Caustics: The Application of Catastrophe Theory to Atom Optics
October 28	Dr. Jim Whiteway York University	A Laser View of the Atmosphere on Mars
November 18	Dr. Thomas Killian Rice University	Watching Ions Dance Near Absolute Zero
November 25	Dr. Ralph Shiell Trent University	Heavy Rydberg Systems: An Increased Understanding of Their Properties, Their Formation, and Their Control
December 9	Dr. Walter Oelert Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH	Introduction to the COSY Accelerator at Juelich/Germany and Examples of Typical Experiments

For previous years' information, the old site can still be accessed.

last modified:
January 22, 2010