Skip to McMaster Navigation
Skip to Site Navigation
Skip to main content
Popular Links
About McMaster
Home
News
Research & Innovation
Giving to McMaster
Working at McMaster
Study
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs
Continuing Education
Admission Requirements
Visit
Tours
Campus Maps
Campus Safety Services
Events
Connect
University Directories
Media Inquiries
Research Centres & Institutes
McMaster Global
Alumni
Search button
Keyword Search
Clear search
Search Current Website
Search McMaster
Student Support
Campus Safety Services
Equity & Inclusion Office
IT Support
Office of the Registrar
Ombuds Office
School of Graduate Studies
Student Wellness Centre
Student Affairs
Tools
Academic Calendars
Avenue to Learn
Campus Maps
Faculty and Staff Directory
Find an Expert
Microsoft Office 365
Mosaic
Safety App
Faculties
DeGroote School of Business
Engineering
Health Sciences
Humanities
Science
Social Sciences
On Campus
Athletics & Recreation
Campus Store
Housing & Conference Services
Hospitality Services
Libraries
Student Success Centre
McMaster logo
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Home
Undergraduate
Prospective Students
Toggle Dropdown
Why Physics at Mac?
Admission and Expectations
Succeed in Physics
Schedule a Tour
Current Students
Toggle Dropdown
McMaster Academic Planner
Course Outlines
Undergraduate Programs
Upper Year Research Projects
Physics Help
Undergraduate Employment
Student Societies
Get to Know Us
Graduate
Welcome
How to Apply
Graduate Ambassadors
Graduate Courses
One Year Coursework MSc Program
Graduate Handbook 2024-25
Student Societies
Recent Graduates
Message from the Chair
Research
Major Areas
Toggle Dropdown
Astrophysics
Elementary Particle Physics
Higgs Boson
Laser Physics, Quantum Optics & Ultracold Atoms
Quantum Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics
Medical Physics
Institutes & Centres
Bertram N. Brockhouse
EDI
News & Events
Latest News
Upcoming Colloquia
Past Colloquia
Newsletter
Fundraising
Outreach
Welcome
Elevate
School Outreach Workshops
People
Current Faculty
Adjunct & Associate Faculty
Professors Emeritus
Teaching Specialists
Administrative Staff
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Research Associates
Technicians
Graduate Students
Contact
Contact Us
Resources
Science
Home
News & Events
Past Colloquia
Past Colloquia
Search
Clear
Clear Search Fields
Events Listing
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Peisi Huang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln & Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Kristine Spekkens, Queen's University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Megan Bedell, Flatiron Institute - Centre for Computational Astrophysics
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Graeme Smith, University of Waterloo
CANCELLED P&A Colloquium - Dr. Edward Taylor, Toronto Metropolitan University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Matthew Scott, University of Waterloo
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ania Harlick, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Greg van Anders, Queen's University
P&A Colloquium - CANCELLED
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Biao Lian, Princeton University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Yoni Kahn, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Igor Boettcher, University of Alberta
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Valentin Crepel, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, University of Victoria
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Lisa Dang, University of Waterloo
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Marek Flaska, Pennsylvania State University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Divya Matta, Brock University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Patricia Oliver, Dalhousie University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Nita Sahai, The University of Akron - Ohio
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ryan Cloutier, McMaster University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Michael McNeil Forbes, Washington State University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Jan Seuntjens, University of Toronto & University Health Network
P&A Colloquium - No colloquium
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Seyda Ipek, Carleton University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ralf Klessen, University of Heidelberg
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Patricia Oliver, Dalhousie University
P&A Colloquium, Dr. Joseph Moran, University of Ottawa
P&A Colloquium -Dr. Ting Li, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Melina Avila, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Robert Mann, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Sergio de la Barrera, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Duncan O'Dell, McMaster University
P&A Colloquium – Dr. Kirk Atkinson, Ontario Tech University
P&A Colloquium – Dr. Tom Purdie, Toronto University
P&A Colloquium – Dr. Thanassis Psaltis, Duke University
P&A Colloquium – Dr. Mike Massa, University of Guelph
P&A Colloquium – Dr. Maya Fishbach, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Dusan Sarenac, University at Buffalo
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Jackie Chini, Ohio State University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Hilding Neilson, Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador
P&A Colloquium – Dr. Maria Jimenez-Donaire, Observatorio Astronómico Nacional - Madrid
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Eve Lee, McGill University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Luna Zagorac, Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Paul Higgs, McMaster University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. William East, Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Juan Mena-Parra, University of Toronto and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Xiang Li, University of Toronto
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Richard Teague, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Avery Broderick, Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Lisa Willis, University of Alberta
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ali Khan, University of Western Ontario
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Erik Sorensen, McMaster University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Shirin Enger, McGill University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, University of Toronto and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Jess McIver, University of British Columbia
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Sisi Zhou, Perimeter Institute
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Graeme Luke, McMaster University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Sarah Johnson, Simon Fraser University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Aaron Vincent, Queens University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Alan Jamison, Waterloo University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Atena Akbari, University of Western Ontario
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Miranda Kirby, Toronto Metropolitan University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Eugene Lim, King's College London
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Yayaati Chachan, McGill University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ben Keller, Memphis University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Danielle Tokarz, Saint Mary's University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ferah Munshi, George Mason University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Matthieu Labousse, University of Paris
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Jacob Ruff, Cornell University
P&A Colloquium - Dr. Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University
Indigenous Astronomy Workshop
Dr. Christopher Overstreet - Stanford University
Dr. David Lafreniere - Montreal University
Dr. Martin Williams - Guelph University
Dr. Chitra Rangan - Windsor University
Dr. Viraja Khatu - Western University
Dr. Zhao Pan - Waterloo University
Dr. Mark Dean - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Dr. Arman Sarfehnia - Sunnybrook Hospital
Dr. Eric Poisson - Guelph University
Dr. Aephraim Steinberg - Toronto University
Dr. Gennady Y. Chitov - Sherbrooke University
Dr. Anand Yethiraj - Memorial University
Dr. Sarah Rugheimer - York University
Dr. Dominic Else - Perimeter Institute
Dr. Gonca Erdemci Tandogan - Western University
Dr. Carla Fehr - Waterloo University
Dr. Murray Wilson - Memorial University
Dr. Daniel Sussman - Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Gwen Grinyer - Regina University
Dr. David Deamer - California University
Dr. Elisa Biondi - Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME)
Dr. James Wadsley - McMaster University
Dr. Eduardo Galiano-Riveros - McMaster University
Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg - Heidelberg University
Dr. Sebastian Himbert - McMaster University
Dr. Christine Wilson - McMaster University
Dr. Fiona McNeill - McMaster University
Dr. Fereshteh Rajabi - Waterloo University
Dr. Paul Higgs
Dr. Jiayi Sun - McMaster University
Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen - Washington University
Dr. Pat Clancy - McMaster University
Dr. Sung-Sik Lee - McMaster University
Dr. Duncan O'Dell - McMaster University
Dr. Marta Reina-Campos - McMaster University
Dr. An-Ching Shi - McMaster University
Dr. Ralph Pudritz – McMaster University
Dr. Valentin Demidov
Dr. Aiden Brown - Ryerson University
Dr. Ibrahim Chamseddine
Dr. Christopher Rowley - McGill University
Dr. Emily Petroff - McGill University
Dr. Nancy Ford
Dr. Aiden Brown - Ryerson University
Dr. Sasha Hinkley
Dr. Marta Bryan
Spring Break - No Colloquium
Dr. Annelies Mortier
Dr. Christian Ginski
Dr. Ryan Cloutier, Harvard University
Dr. Rodrigo Narro Perez - McMaster University
Dr. Björn Benneke - University of Montreal
Dr. Derek O'Flaherty - University of Guelph
Dr. Juna Kollmeier - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Dr. Caterina Ramogida - Simon Fraser University
Dr. Patrick Charbonneau - Duke University
Dr. Jennifer Cano - Stony Brook University
Dr. Alison Man - University of British Columbia
Dr. Louise Edwards - California Polytechnic State University
Dr. Christine Keating - Penn State
Dr. Greg Grason - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Anna Panchenko - Queens University
Dr. James Anglin - Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Reading Week - No Colloquium
Dr. Steven Simon - Oxford, CMT
Dr. Ninan Abraham -UBC
Dr. Stephen D. Wilson - University of California
Kate Brown - McMaster E&I Office
Jessica Werk - University of Washington
Vincent Henault-Brunet - Saint Mary's University
Chandralekha Singh - University of Pittsburgh
APS 2021 March Meeting
Dr. Beatrice Franke - TRIUMF
Dr. Eric Lauga - University of Cambridge
Dr. Robert Cockcroft - McMaster University
Reading Week - no colloquium
Dr. Ed Waller - UOIT
CANCELLED Dr. Annika Lennarz - TRIUMF CANCELLED
Dr. Michael Noseworthy - McMaster University
Dr. Aaron Zimmerman - University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Kathryn Johnston - Columbia University
Department Town Hall on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Dr. Allanah Hallas - UBC
Symposium Day - no colloquium
Symposium Day - no colloquium
Dr. Kartiek Agawal - McGill University
Dr. Shohini Ghose - Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Christine Wilson - McMaster University
Dr. Hanna Salman - University of Pittsburgh
CAP Lecture Dr. Christopher Bergevin - York University
Dr. Maria Drout - University of Toronto, Dunlap Inst.
Reading week - no colloquium
Dr. Markus Strobl - Paul Scherrer Institute
Dr. Rob Hayes - North Carolina State University
Dr. Liliana Caballero - University of Guelph
Dr. Nicholas MacDonald - MPIA Bonn
Dr. Ian Burgess - Validere
Physics Seminar - Dr. Barak Shoshany
Dr. Baraa Al-Khazraji - McMaster University
Dr. Kullervo Hynynen - University of Toronto
Dr. David Curtin - University of Toronto
Thomas Scaffidi - University of Toronto
Dr. Nick Cowan - McGill University
Dr. Jeremy Webb - University of Toronto
Dr. Rituparna Kanungo - St. Mary's University
Dr. Doug Bonn - University of British Columbia
Reading week - No Colloquium
Dr. Jane Wang - Cornell University
Dr. Andreas Hilfinger - University of Toronto
Dr. Yashar Hezaveh - Université de Montréal
Dr. Christian Mayer - UNIVERSITÄT DUISBURG-ESSEN
Dr. Soohyun Byun - McMaster University
Mac P&A Alumni Night
Dr. Tracy Webb - McGill University
Dr. Nienke van der Marel - NRC
Dr. Nancy Forde - Simon Fraser University
Debussy & Holst's The Planets
Dr. Eduardo Martin-Martinez - University of Waterloo
Dr. Joseph Bramante - Queen's University
Reading Week - no colloquium
Dr. Ruobing Dong, University of Victoria
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRAs) due
Dr. Jules Carbotte, McMaster University
Dr. Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Kristine Spekkens, Royal Military College of Canada/Queen's University
Dr. Aaron Slepkov, Trent University
'Secrets from Stellar Nurseries: The Early Lives of Star Clusters' by Dr. Alison Sills
Dr. Tom Quinn, University of Washington
Science on Tap
Dr. Swati Singh - Williams College/University of Delaware
Dr. Charles Mayo - University of Michigan
Dr. Sara Ellison - University of Victoria
Dr. Samir Mathur - Ohio State University
Dr. Tim Hsieh - Perimeter Institute
Dr. Sarah Rauscher - University of Toronto
Dr. Janos Juhasz - McMaster/Juravinski
Prof. Hikaru Kawamura - Osaka University
Dr. An-Chang Shi, McMaster University
Dr. Simon Portegies Zwart - Leiden University
Dr. Adam Leroy - Ohio State University
Dr. James Wadsley - McMaster University
Rust and Stardust (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Carl Sagan's Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
Space Explosions (Public Planetarium Show)
New Solar System Discoveries (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Solar System (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Solar System (Public Planetarium Show)
Death from the Skies! (Public Planetarium Show)
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
James Webb Space Telescope: Acrobat, Time Machine, Spying Glass (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Living in Space (Public Planetarium Show)
Stories of the Sky (Public Planetarium Show)
A Timeline of our Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
Serendipity (Public Planetarium Show)
Girls in Science Day
Carl Sagan's Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
Carl Sagan's Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Solomon Owerre - Perimeter Institute
Space Explosions (Public Planetarium Show)
Space Explosions (Public Planetarium Show)
Rust and Stardust (Public Planetarium Show)
Rust and Stardust (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Stories of the Sky (Public Planetarium Show)
Stories of the Sky (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Kyle Shen - Cornell University
Jhinhwan Lee - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Death from the Skies! (Public Planetarium Show)
Death from the Skies! (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Dmitri Basov - Columbia University
James Webb Space Telescope: Acrobat, Time Machine, Spying Glass (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Sima Setayeshgar - Indiana University
James Webb Space Telescope: Acrobat, Time Machine, Spying Glass (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. SPierre Gorel - SNOLAB
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Solar System (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Solar System (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Adam Muzzin - York University
Living in Space: A Beginner's Guide to Colonizing the Stars (Public Planetarium Show)
Living in Space: A Beginner's Guide to Colonizing the Stars (Public Planetarium Show)
Science on Tap Hamilton
Spring Break - no colloquium
A Timeline of our Universe: From the Big Bang to the Big Freeze (Public Planetarium Show)
A Timeline of our Universe: From the Big Bang to the Big Freeze (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Jason Rowe - Bishop's University
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Kazi Rajibul Islam - University of Waterloo
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
Introductory Astronomy for Kids - Galaxies (Public Planetarium Show)
New Solar System Discoveries (Public Planetarium Show)
New Solar System Discoveries (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Karen Daniells - North Carolina State University
Dr. Daryl Haggard - McGill University
Serendipity (Public Planetarium Show)
Serendipity (Public Planetarium Show)
Dr. Joseph Paulson - Syracuse University
Dr. Maikel Rheinstadter - McMaster University
Dr. Luyi Yang - University of Toronto
Dr. Arun Paramekanti - University of Toronto
Dr. Roger Melko - University of Waterloo
Dr. David Sivak - Simon Fraser University
Dr. Heather Knutson - California Institute of Technology
Dr. Rowan Thomsom - Carleton University
Dr. Duncan O'Dell
Dr. David Venus - McMaster University
Mid-term Resess, no colloquium
Dr. Joanne O'Meara - University of Guelph
Dr. Helmut Schober - Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble
Dr. Ed Lyman - University of Delaware
Dr. Nathan Leigh - American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Cecile Fradin
Neutron scattering study of the behavior of molecular hydrogen in porous confinement
Dr. David Chettle
Exoplanet Detectives: Seeking Clues to Explain the Diverse Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems
Prof. Cristina Marchetti
APS March Meeting - No colloquium
Dr. James Harden
Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner
Reading Week - No Colloquium
Professor Eun-Ah Kim Presentation
2D and 3D colloidal glass transitions: Does dimensionality really matter?
CAP Lecture - The Biggest Blowhards: Windy Supermassive Black Holes
Thick Gas Electron Multiplier: an Attractive Gaseous Radiation Detector for Imaging and Dosimetry
Prof. Doreen Wackeroth
Dr. Renee Hlozek
Chiral Superconductivity
Miracle of the spin 1/2: from high temperature superconductivity to spin liquid
Revolutions in Physics Education: Build a Better Student, Build a Better Teacher
Gravity and Entanglement
Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes
Charge and energy transport at the nanoscale: Lessons from elementary models
Experimental String Theory
Understanding the RNA World - How to get from Chemistry to Biology using some Physics
Building Synthetic Quantum Systems with Atoms and Photons â?? From Waveguide QED with Neutral Atoms to Many-Body Physics with Rydberg-Dressed Lattice Gases
Reading Week - No Colloquium
The Care and Feeding of Star Forming Regions
Designing Colloidal Structures in Liquid Crystals
Laboratory experiments to probe thermonuclear astrophysical explosions
MRI machines and Van Gogh, Teabags and IQs: My recent journey through physics in medicine and biology
Connecting the orbital and structural properties of exoplanets with their formation
Would a perfect Newton's Cradle ever stop?
Quantum critical phenomena and renormalization group flows
Black Holes: Sculptors of Galaxies and Clusters
Why Stars Matter for Galaxies
CAP Lecture - The Fire Within the Ear
Quantum Simulation with Spin-orbit Coupling in Ultracold Quantum Gases
Membranes: The lipid â??cross-talkâ?
2016 Whidden Lecture Series & Graduate Student Poster Session
Natureâ??s Ultimate Time Machine: Photographing the Infant Universe
Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism
The New Dimensions of Quantum Matter
Phases and fluctuations in biological membranes
Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs: Droplets Walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave
New eyes on the cold universe: The Atacama Large Millimeter Array
Seeing Dark Matter through a Gravitational Lens
Nonlinear optics...and the quest for pure single photons
Galaxy Evolution in the Group Environment
Probing the Universe with Pulsar VLBI Scintillometry
Anomalous Scaling in Critical Quantum Magnets
The Physical Biohack â?? Exploiting Physical Information to Control Cells and Tissues
Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations (or how is mass distributed around us?)
Shedding light on few-body quantum dynamics by studying atomic collisions
Coevolution (Or Not) Of Supermassive Black Holes And Host Galaxies
Can a condensate of dark matter give rise to dark energy ?
Measurement Induced Localization of an ultracold lattice gas
Searching for other Universes
Symposium Days 2015
Symposium Days 2015
Cyclotron motions in exotic semi-metals
Spins and Photons: Quantum Optics with Defect Centers in Diamond
Hitting the JACPOT: Probing Accretion Disk - Radio Jet Coupling of X-ray Binaries
Light Echoes from Luminous Transients - An Exploration of Asymmetries and Time Evolution
Inclusions in Soft Matter: Opportunities for Directed Assembly
Applying the Scientific Method to University Science Teaching Remarkable effort; Remarkable success
The Black Hole Information Loss Problem: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Black Holes and the Stability of our Vacuum
Observing Galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Two illustrations of the importance of diffusion in biological systems
Protein Long-Range Vibrational Modes
Symmetry protected Dirac Fermions in Topological Crystalline Insulators
Thermalization and Entanglement in Quantum Systems
Quantum Catastrophes
New Ideas for Dark Energy
The Origin and Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function
Quantum Criticality and Strong Correlations in Low-dimensional Metals
Photons. Phonons. Virions? An Intro to Virophysics
Fundamental Physics Beyond Colliding Particles
Collagen Fibrils and Plastic Damage
Transport in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Fifty Years of Spiral Density Wave Theory
From Renormalization Group to Emergent Gravity
Using NetLogo to Model Cancer Radiation Treatment
Star Clusters and High Mass X-ray Binaries: New Perspectives from Space Telescopes
Topological States in Condensed Matter Physics
Artificial Atoms Based on Superconductors: From Quantum Information to Measurements of Noise in Solid-State Mesoscopic Systems
Hagfish Slime Unraveled
Electron Dynamics in high Tc Cuprates; The power of x-rays
Schmidt's Conjecture and The Nature of Star Formation from Nearby Molecular Clouds to Distant Galaxies.
Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light
From Tradition to Enlightenment: The Evolution of Intro Physics at the University of Illinois
Surface Magnetic Fields as Windows to Stellar Internal Structure and Evolutionary History
Monte Carlo Field-Theoretic Simulations Applied to Block Copolymer Melts
The Rainbow and the Dripping Faucet: Optical Signals from Capillary Oscillations of Water Drops
Visualizing DNA using Tunable Nanoscale Confinement
Charge Density Wave Order in Cuprate Superconductors
A Pair Production Telescope for Medium-Energy Gamma-Ray Polarimetry
A Red Alga With no U1: A Simpler Model for RNA Splicing
How big is the Proton?
Plasma Protein Induced Clustering of Red Blood Cells in Microcapillaries
Can Bosons Condense in Excited States?
The Scientific Battle Field of Dynamic Spintronics
Birth of the Giants - Forming Massive Stars and Black Holes
DNA Mechanics, Genetic Switches and Gene Silencing
Tensor Networks for Quantum Many-body Systems
Dr. Itay Yavin
Stellar Mergers and Interactions: Yes, Virginia, Stars Do Collide.
The Fire Within the Ear
Insights from the kinematics of rotationally supported galaxies.
Exotic Probes and Extreme Conditions Reveal New States of Quantum Matter
Why bacteria run Linux while eukaryotes run Windows?
Adventures in the Ultracold World
Membrane Structure, Simulation and Scattering
Equation Of State Of A 'Unitary' Fermionic Gas Of Ultracold Atoms
Results from the Planck CMB Satellite
Molecular mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation and toxicity in relation to Alzheimerâ??s disease.
'Does the chemical bond exist?
An Example of a Quantum Anomaly in Physics of Cold Atomic Gases
Babylonian Astronomy: The Birth of Predictive Science
Tunable Topological States in Graphene and Other Dirac Materials
Is the Electron Round?
The Higgs Particleâ?¦and so what?
Studying Galaxies in the Early Universe with Innovative Astronomical Instrumentation
Why We Must Teach Using Student-Student Interaction.
The Life Cycle of Star Clusters
Diffusion of Transmembrane Proteins and Peptides Embedded in Lipid Bilayers
Quantum Optomechanics: A Mechanical Platform for Quantum Information and Quantum Foundations
Dust-obscured Activity in High Redshift Galaxies
Inflation, or What?
Proteins that Lead to Topological Transitions in Membranes
Biophysics of Lipid Bilayer and Protein Interaction Modulated by Curvature
Shedding infrared light on high-Tc superconductivity
Understanding the Universe using rare isotopes
How the Milky Ways ticks: comprehending complexity in the interstellar medium, from ethereal wisps to dense structures at the onset of star formation (part I!)
Quantum Signatures of Chaos
Multimodal Imaging/Spectroscopy Approaches for Studying Ceramide-induced Reorganization of Lipid Membranes
The Discovery of a Higgs-like Particle
A Survey of Molecular Gas in Luminous Sub-millimetre Galaxies
Topological order & long-range entanglements: A totally new kind of quantum materials and an unification of light and electrons
Imaging Supermassive Black holes on Horizon Scales
Quantum Control using Nano-Earthquakes
Connecting the Dots: Transition Pathways Between Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers
Studying Stellar Explosive Nucleosynthesis with Ion Beams
Low-Mass Galaxies at Cosmic High Noon
The ALFALFA Census of Gas-Bearing Galaxies at z=0
Neutrinos - The X-files of Particle Physics
CAP LECTURE - Up Close and Personal Radiation Treatments for Cancer
Efficiency in the Cell: How Cells Make Proteins Rapidly While Working to a Budget
What to Do About Lectures
Quantum Measurements in the Real World
New Cosmologies on the Horizon
Black holes, supercomputers and gravitational waves
Topology in Condensed Matter
Dr. W. Kinney
Constraining Properties of Type I X-Ray Bursts through Nuclear Physics Experiments
The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet
Heat Assisted Magnetisation Reversal (HAMR): Sustaining Mooreâ??s Law for Magnetic Recording Media
Menagerie of Viruses: Diverse Chemical Sequences or Electrostatics?
Cold Trapped Atoms: Why are they so hot?
Astronomical Observations from Ancient Egypt
Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Line Reconnection
PAH Emission Features as Astrophysical Probes
New Frontiers in Modeling Galaxy Formation
Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory
Watching Every Atom Move: The Power of Computer Simulations of Biomolecules
Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters
Competing Anisotropies in a 2D Ferromagnetic Phase Transition
Semiclassical Coupled Wave Theory for Optic Waves in Periodically Stratified Media
Solitons and Phase Domains During the Cooling of a One-Dimensional Ultra-Cold Gas
The Origins of Blue Stragglers in Star Clusters
The HERACLES and THINGS View of Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
The Physics of Frustration in Two Dimensions: The Quest for the Quantum Spin Liquid
Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Telescopes
SNO+
Galaxies with Gasoline: Recent progress in Galaxy Formation
Probing the Physical Properties of Individual Bacterial Cells: Physics Meets Biology
Fluctuations and Dynamic Arrest in Cells: The Glass Transition in Cells
Extreme Optical Physics: Light & Matter Interaction in the Relativistic Limit
Walking Beyond the Standard Model
Very Weak Interactions
Dark Matter at Colliders
Dynamics of Microstructural Transitions in Block Copolymer Melts
The Search for New GeV-scale Forces
Black Holes, Supercomputers and Gravitational Waves
Stellar Mergers in Low-mass Interacting Binary Stars
Light Induced Self Organisation of Molecular Materials
Nanofluidics for Single Molecule DNA Analysis and Manipulation
Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies: Revealing the Innermost Regions of Active Galaxies
The Origin of Carbon and Oxygen in the Universe - New Approaches to an Old Question
The History Behind McMasterâ??s Physics & Astronomy Department
Probing the Physics of the Fractional Vortex State in Novel Superconductors
Optical Conductivity of Graphene
Disorder, interactions, and zero-bias anomalies
Beyond Steady-State Protein Dynamics
What can we learn from theoretical modeling of polymers interacting with membranes?
FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF STAR CLUSTERS
How Glassy are Glassy Surfaces?
Molecules, cells, and behavior: Thermal information processing in E. coli and C. elegans
Modes of Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution in Compact Galaxy Groups
Coherent Control of Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
AMO Physics With Ultrafast Hard and Soft Xray
The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming
Dr. Michael Fall
How String Theory Explains the Origin of our Universe
Cholesterolâ??s Location In Bilayers May Be Determined By Lipid Composition
New Topologically Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter
Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits
Searching for stellar mass loss with the Spitzer Space Telescope
The Quest to take Images of Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars - The HR8799 Planetary System
Perfect Fluidity: From Quark-Gluon Plasmas to Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases
Undergraduate Laboratory Renaissance
Time-of-flight neutron scattering and 2D spin correlations in 3D crystals
Modeling Dynamical Processes and Interactions in Biological Systems
High-Energy Phenomena and Dark Matter Searches in Galaxy Clusters
Supermassive Black Holes: Workhorses of the Universe
Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows as New Probes
The role of magnetism in heavy Fermion superconductivity: The example of CeCoIn5
Exponentially Large Extra Dimensions from String Compactifications
Flexibility of short DNA
Evidence for the Collapse of Single-Band Hubbard Physics in Overdoped Cuprates from X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Dynamics of Protein Synthesis
In Search of Quantum Quivering: Quantum Electro-mechanics
Emergent quantum phases in novel frustrated spin 1/2 antiferromagnets
Following the Group of Seven Painters
Dr. Ralf Bundschuh
Optical Superoscillations
Drawing Conclusions from Graphene
Exoplanets: Interiors, Atmospheres, and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Molecular Clouds and the Large-Scale Regulation of Star Formation
Magnetic Monopoles, Gauge Fields and Spin Ice
Undergraduate laboratory in Biological Physics at Simon Fraser University
Probing forces in biological systems
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and the Nature of Reality
The Road to First Physics with ATLAS at the LHC
Star bombs in the lab: using nuclear physics to model stellar explosions
Out of Gas: the End of the Age of Oil
Stripes and cuprates
Inflation in String Theory
Icicles, Washboard Road and Meandering Syrup
Nuclear Transport - Physics at the Center of the Living Cell
Statistical Physics of Citations
The Physics of Cell Crawling and Listeria Motility
Designing Large Entangled States using Trapped Ion Arrays
Place Your Bets, or: The last chance to be wrong about what might be discovered at the LHC.
Dark Matter and Baryons in the Faintest Galaxies
Making Stars and Galaxies with Numerical Cosmological Hydrodynamics
Mapping the neutron star crust in low mass X-ray binaries
Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-ray Tour of Massive Star-forming Regions
Fractionalization of charge and statistics in weakly interacting systems
100 years of Liquid Helium: Celebrating Research by Canadians
Superconductivity at the Dawn of the Iron Age
Dr. David Goodstein
Dr. Michael Berry
Atomic Structure at the Nanoscale: A 21st Century Materials Challenge
Charting the Shape of Hilbert Space: A Bit of Quantum Foundations at PI
Improving hydrogen storage in metal-organic frameworks using exposed metal sites
Spin Resonance, Stripes, and Superconductivity in Two Dimensions
Quantum Criticality and Black Holes
Misfolded Proteins, Spherical Mad Cows and the Prion Phenomena
Crystal Growth, Neutron Scattering and Spin Correlations:
Multiplicity Among Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs
AGN Feedback in Clusters and Galaxies
HOW CELLS MEASURE SPACE AND TIME
The Large Hadron Collider: Reaching Back to the Big Bang
Coherence and Decoherence in Quantum Spin Systems
Nonequilibrium Quantum Criticality in an Open Itinerant Electron
Dr. Ralph Pudritz
Measuring the Universe: Micro-arcsecond Astrometry with the VLBA
Quantum Order by Disorder in Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets
The "Exploding" Field of Quantum Gases
Nearsightedness of Electronic Matter
How to Have Fun with Frustrated Ferromagnets
Supersolid Phase of Helium-four: A Theoretical Study
Atom Interferometry using Bose-Einstein Condensates
Protein folding as a system for biologically-inspired physics
Nonequilibrium dynamics in low-dimensional cold atom condensates
Cosmology from the Stratosphere
Experimental Cosmology
Spontaneous Broken Symmetry in Matter and Particle Physics
The Cosmological Formation of Wee Little Things
Physics Education
The Latest from MiniBooNE
Physics with Atomic Clocks: Beyond what time is it?
Imaging the Genesis of Cuprate Superconductivity in the Correlated States of the Hold-Doped CuO
2
Attosecond physics with neutrons and electrons: Compton scattering experiments
Supernovae and Dark Energy
The Path Towards Heavy Rydberg Systems: Large Molecules of Significant Interest
Orbital Ordering: An Introduction with Application to MNiO2 (M = Na,Li)
Proto-Brown Dwarf Disks as Products of Protostellar Disk Encounters
Dumb Holes
MAGNETIC FRUSTRATION: FROM SPIN-SOLIDS TO SPIN-LIQUIDS, GLASSES AND ICES
The Origin of Large Scale Magnetic Fields
A walk on the wild side: Physics at the energy frontier with the ATLAS experiment
The Wigner Distribution and Classical Chaos
CAP Lecture for Undergrads - QUANTUM COMPUTING, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND TELEPORTATION
Watching Biology with a Femtosecond Camera
Patterns in the Sand: The Physics of Granular Flow
The Allen Telescope Array: A Wide-angle, Panchromatic Radio Camera for SETI and Radio Astronomy
Electrostatic doping of new materials: challenges, opportunities and first accomplishments.
Relativistic Binary Pulsars
Spontaneous Axisymmetry Breaking of the External Magnetic Field at Saturn
The Inconstancy of Constants
Probing Non-Abelian Statistics in the Fractional
Pattern formation outside of thermodynamic equilibrium
"Why Should I Care?"- Teaching Physics to Non-Believers
Collisions! From Mass Extinctions to the Assassination of JFK
Preventing Star and Galaxy Formation
NEW PARADIGMS IN MAGNETIC RECORDING: UNDERSTANDING THROUGH MICROMAGNETIC MODELING
Drag in Yield-Stress Fluids
Nanostructured Surfaces - Surfaces of Nanostructures: Adventures in Not-Quite-Flat-Land
GALAXY FORMATION AT THE PEAK EPOCH OF GALAXY ASSEMBLY
A Square Lattice Becomes a High-Temperature Superconductor. What About a Triangular Lattice in a Battery Material?
The Fossil History of the Solar System: Links to Interstellar Chemistry
From turbulence to life: how stellar origins condition the appearance of planets and life
Large Molecules in Small Spaces
Diffractive optics: new tricks from an old subject
Probing the Extremes of Star Formation
Precision Cosmology and the Structure of Spiral Galaxies
Probing galaxies and their dark matter halos with gravitational lensing
Self-assembly of Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications
Confined Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers
Design and control of quantum states in two-dimensional quantum dots
Constrained orthogonal polynomials; coordinates, modes and maps for the density functional
Optics of superconductors out of equilibrium: Eavesdropping the two bands in MgB2
In-plane optical conductivity and pseudogaps in electron-doped cuprate superconductors
Topological Order, Spin Liquid, and Quantum Critical Point
Rings in Resonance: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond
Musical Physics
Control of Star Formation by Gravitational Instability and Supersonic Turbulence
Nanokelvin fermions in microscopic traps
A dual vortex lattice - from a phase fluctuating superconductor to a vibrating pair Wigner crystal
Incompressible Quantum Liquids And New Conservation Laws
Nonequilibrium Quantum Mechanics of Strongly Correlated Systems: General Results and Application to Molecular Devices
Fractionalization in a strongly correlated many-body system
Quasiparticles and Vortices in d-wave Superconductors
Living in dimension lower than meets the eye: Sliding phases in classical and quantum statistical mechanics
Superfluidity in solid helium and solid hydrogen
Neutrino Physics Beyond SNO
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale
Granular Materials
Two-electron spin states in a Random Nuclear Field
DNA-inspired physics: theory and biological relevance
Canada and Extremely Large Telescopes
A Possible Solution to the High Temperature Superconductivity Phenomena
Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dipole interactions: rotons and other instabilities
Testing Einstein's Universe
Proteins at Interfaces
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment: A Centenary Perspective
Cosmic Superstrings
Supersolid order from disorder, or how do bosons overcome their frustration?
The Role of Red Giant Stars in the Origin of the Elements
The Youngest Neutron Stars
Martian Analogue Sites in the Canadian High Arctic for Exobiology Investigations
Nanomagnetism
Frustrated Quantum Magnets: Surprises on the way to polarization
Why Stock Markets Crash
(e, 3e) Process as a Probe of Target e-e Correlations
The State of Radiation and Clouds in Global Climate Models: Improved Visability
Quantum-Limits in Mesoscopic Physics: From Quantum Noise to Qubits and Nanomechanics
String Theory: Quantum Mechanics and Gravity -- The Start of a Beautiful Relationship?
The Dark Matter Mystery in the Age of Precision Cosmology
FERROELECTRIC MAGNETS
The Nernst effect in high-temperature superconductors
Modelling Oscillations within Bacteria
Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Two-Dimensional Superfluids
Life, the Universe, and Nothing: The Future of Life in an Ever-Expanding Universe.
Zero resistance states from surface acoustic waves
Quiet quest for high-energy frontiers: exploring nature at short distances with low-energy precision measurements.
On fluctuation diamagnetism and pseudogap of high temperature superconductors
Vortex dynamics and fluctuations near the magnetic field tuned superconductor-insulator transition
Complex networks in astrophysical and geophysical systems
Superfluid-insulator transition in a moving system of interacting bosons
Non-Abelian Anyons, Topological Order and Quantum Computation
Gas and Ice in Protoplanetary Disks
Making Supergiant Galaxies: Recipes and Ingredients
Superconductivity and giant fluctuations in quantum critical metals
Revitalizing the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum
Excitons, multiexcitons, and spin states in colloidal quantum dots: Can electron spin flips be observed using linearly polarized light?
Exploring Young Brown Dwarfs
Polymer Crystallisation, Dynamics and Morphology at the Nanoscale
The Origin of Mass and the Top Quark
Solid SiC Particles from Supernova Interiors
Inelastic X-ray Scattering: A new probe of condensed matter
Highly correlated matter at the mesoscopic scale: From Kondo effect to Quantum criticality
Comparing classical and quantum complex systems
Hydrogen Bond Topology in Water Clusters and Ice
Models and Inferences for Genome Rearrangement
Imaging searches for jovian planets around white dwarfs
Physical Principals of Nucleic Acid folding & Hybridization & New Design Software
EXACT SOLUTION OF A LINEAR MOLECULAR MOTOR MODEL DRIVEN BY TWO-STEP
The Quenching of Galaxy Formation by Quasar Outflows
BREAKING ELECTRONS APART IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
Understanding Stellar Core Collapse from Detection of Supernova Neutrinos
A Molecular View of the Origin & Large-Scale Evolution of Life
THE STUDY OF DROPLETS, ONE BY ONE, USING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES
Evolution in Formation & Information in Evolution
EN ROUTE TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH AND OTHER INTERESTING SIDE TRIPS
Nature of Charge Carriers in Bad Metals
Friction Mechanisms at the Nanoscale
The Abnormal Normal State of the High-Tc Superconductors....
The Formation of Giant Planets
Prediction of Protein Structure and Function on a Genomic Scale
Mining for Metals in the Early Universe
Photochemistry in the Atmosphere of Titan: Formation of Titan Haze
Network Origins Lecture: From The Big Bang to the Origins of Life -
Velocity, Diffusion, & Interaction Mapping of Adhesion Proteins in Living Cells
Recent Developments In The Theory Of Spin Glasses
Understanding Genetic Regulatory Networks
Network Origins Lecture: Molecular Autonomous Agents
Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots
A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice:Cold Atomic Gases Meet Solid State Phys.
Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling & Trapping
Network Origins Lecture:Life in Our Universe & Others
Reflections on 50 Years in Low Temperature Physics
Magnetism on the Verge of Breakdown
The First Stars
Local Magnetic Properties of Geometrically Frustrated Magnets
SPINTRONICS: FROM QUANTUM COMPUTATION TO OPTOELECTRONICS
The Hidden Phases of Galaxy Formation
EXCHANGE-COUPLED FERROMAGNETIC/ANTIFERROMAGNETIC FILMS
Extreme Clusters in the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey
A Few Things About Strings