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Jan 11, 2022 at 1:00pm Online
Thesis Defense: Konstantin Lehmann. Estimating Deceiving Signatures and their Role in the Observation of the VBF Production Mode in the Higgs-Boson Decay into two W Bosons

Jan 14, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Dennis Salazar. Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem with Neutrino Oscillations

Jan 14, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Zhi Han. Extracting Quantum Entanglement from Continuous Variable Cluster States

Jan 14, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Colloquium: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton. Searching in (the) dark and new directions at the Large Hadron Collider

Jan 19, 2022 at 1PM Online
Thesis Defense: David Evans. Anisotropic Magnetic Properties and Anomalous Transport Properties of RCuAs2 Single Crystals (R = Y, La-Nd, Sm, Gd-Yb)

Jan 21, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Luis Ramirez. Bio-inspired material

Jan 21, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Dilraj Ghuman. Finding the Neutrino Mass with KATRIN

Jan 21, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Colloquium: Elham Kashefi. Verification of Quantum Computation

Jan 28, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Metea Marr. TBA

Jan 28, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Matthew Leighton. TBA

Jan 28, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Colloquium: Philip Stamp. Quantum gravity in the lab

Jan 31, 2022 at 2PM Online
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Matt Harrington. Biological fabrication of hierarchically structured soft matter

Feb 07, 2022 at 2PM Online
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Catherine Beauchemin. A primer in virophysics

Feb 4, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Mehdi Keshavarz. TBA

Feb 4, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Obinna Uzoh. TBA

Feb 4, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Colloquium: Andrew Pelling. Messy, Soft and Squishy: The Complex Biophysics and Mechanobiology of Living Cellular Systems

Feb 11, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Shirin Riahi. TBA

Feb 11, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Student Seminar: Mae Abedi. Geometrically frustrated magnetism

Feb 11, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Colloquium: Megan Valentine. Harnessing nature’s ingenuity to make tough and stimuli-responsive materials

Feb 15, 2022 at 6:00PM Online
Event: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Faculty of Science. 'Picture a Scientist' Discussion

Feb 18, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Mariah Goeks. Changing Hue with Force: Tuning the color transition of mechanophores

Feb 18, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Andre Marziali. The physics of race cars

Feb 28, 2022 at 2PM Online
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Caroline Colijn. Genomic Epidemiology in SARS-CoV-2: new tools and challenges

Mar 4, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Philip Jackle. Physics education research: do short, post-lecture multimedia summaries improve learning?

Mar 4, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Florian Baer. Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in the multi-component Bose-Hubbard model

Mar 4, 2022 at 2:30PM *C9000 & Online*
Colloquium: Nigel Smith. A window on TRIUMF

Mar 8, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.1 and online
Cosmology Seminar: Tanmay Vachaspati. Electroweak Monopoles, Magnetic Fields, and Topological Defect Formation

Mar 11, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Paras Pokharel. Quantum Computing with Defect

Mar 11, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Damian Sheppard. Slowly Rotating Black Holes in Einstein Quartic Gravity

Mar 11, 2022 at 2:30PM *C9000* and online
Colloquium: Tanmay Vachaspati. Is the Universe magnetized?

Mar 16, 2022 at 6PM Online
Special Event: Career Night 2022.

Mar 18, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Colloquium: Edo Kussell. Memory in Bacteria: From Single Cells to Ecologies

Mar 21, 2022 at 2:30PM P8445.1
Special Seminar: Gabriel J. Man. Fundamental studies of the electronic structure of lead halide perovskites using synchrotron-based resonant electron and X-ray spectroscopies

Mar 25, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Amin Safaseesirat. A pendulum model of collective behavior in neuronal systems

Mar 25, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Koushik Bar. Correlation of Cell Growth Dynamics Under Stress with Antibiotic Persistence

Mar 25, 2022 at 2:30PM *In-person in C9000*
Colloquium: Dept of Physics. Professors Answering Simple Questions

Mar 30, 2022 at 11:00 AM Online
Tripartite Quantum Computing Seminar: Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Quantum Algorithms for Near-Term Quantum Computers

Mar 30, 2022 at 2:00PM Online
Thesis Defense: Lindsay Babcock. Longitudinal Spin Diffusion of a Two-Domain Ultracold Non-Degenerate Bose Gas

Apr 1, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Hoda Taeb. Molecular dynamics simulations of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Apr 1, 2022 at 2:30PM *C9000* and Online
Colloquium: Douglas Scott. Physics Pranks and Astronomical Antics

Apr 04, 2022 at 2:30PM SSB7172
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Armita Nourmohammad. Evolutionary control of evolving populations: from molecular phenotypes to HIV therapy

Apr 8, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Sina Falakian. Inference of the DNA Replication Process in Human Genomes

Apr 8, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Adrian Yeung. Applying reinforcement learning in fusion power research

Apr 8, 2022 at 2:30PM TASC2 7000-level Atrium
Special Event: Dept of Physics. 2022 Physics Annual Poster Competition

Apr 11, 2022 at 2PM Online
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: F. Marty Ytreberg. Using molecular modeling to study protein structure, function, and evolution

Apr 14, 2022 at 2:00PM Online
Thesis Defense: Shayan Gheidi. Muon Spin Relaxation Studies of Cuprates in the Normal State

Apr 14, 2022 at 3PM P8445.1 and online
Cosmology Seminar: Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi. Dimensional deformation of sine-Gordon breathers into oscillons

Apr 21, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Special Seminar: Luise Poley. Silicon tracking detectors – connecting the dots

Apr 28, 2022 at 10:30AM P8445.2 and online
Special Seminar: Gopolang Mohlabeng. New Directions for Discovering Dark Matter Beyond the Weak Scale

Apr 29, 2022 at 10:30AM P8445.2 and online
Guest Lecture: Gopolang Mohlabeng. Special Relativity

May 19, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Special Event: Dr. Dominik Legut . Out of plane MAE by Tm doped novel 2D semiconductor Bi2−xTmxO2Se

May 20, 2022 at 10:30AM P8445.2
Special Seminar: Loren Kaake. Organic Electronic Materials: Mixed Ion-Electron Transport and Self-Assembly in Supercritical Fluids

May 25, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: John Bechhoefer. The colloidal nature of complex fluids enhances bacterial motility

May 31, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Eundeok Mun. Housekeeping, photo sessions and other business

June 2, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Special Seminar: Weibing Xing. Comprehensive Characterization of Multi-Phase Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile Cathodes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Jun 1, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Luis Ramirez-Ramirez. Nonlinear mechanics of human mitotic chromosomes.

Jun 3, 2022 at 2:30PM P8445.2
Special Seminar: Shawn Sederberg. An ultrafast journey through nanometres, attoseconds, and Teslas

Jun 7, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Daniel Higginbottom. Silicon spin-photon devices for quantum technologies

Jun 14, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Jens Lassen. TBA

Jun 15, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Hoda Taeb. Sequence-dependent surface condensation of a pioneer transcription factor on DNA

Jun 21, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Corina Andreoiu. Decay Spectroscopy Experiments with Radioactive Beams and Large Spectrometers at TRIUMF

Jun 22, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Alaa Al-Shaer. Dynamic arrest and aging of biomolecular condensates are modulated by low-complexity domains, RNA and biochemical activity

Jun 28, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Matthias Danninger. TBA

Jun 12, 2022 at 11AM P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Sujit Narayanan. Chiral Symmetry Breaking in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene

Jul 5, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Bernd Stelzer. Particle Physics, the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson

Jul 5, 2022 at 2PM P8445.2
Condensed Matter Seminar: Igor Boeettcher. Simulating hyperbolic matter on a circuit board

July 6, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Zak Frentz. Microbial population dynamics and evolutionary outcomes under extreme energy limitation

Jul 12, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Jeffrey McGuirk. Bose-Einstein condensates - The coldest stuff in the universe

Jul 13, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Jannik Ehrich. Nonlinear Phototaxis and Instabilities in Suspensions of Light-Seeking Algae

Jul 19, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Michel Vetterli. Detectors and accelerators

Jul 20, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Miranda Louwerse. Efficient Control and Spontaneous Transitions

Jul 26, 2022 at 12PM P8445.2
USRA Seminar: Karen Kavanagh. Electrically active semiconductor nanostructures

Jul 27, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Tushar Saha. Experimental study of information-powered engines

Aug 3, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Steven Blaber. TBA

Aug 4, 2022 at 1:00PM P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Mehdi Pourzand . DOMAIN WALL MOTION IN AN ULTRACOLD 87RB GAS

Aug 10, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Nancy Forde. A DNA origami rotary ratchet motor

Aug 15, 2022 at 10:00AM P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Mark Rempel. Modelling burnt bridge ratchets; optimizing their efficiency and motility

Aug 15, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Obinna Uzoh. The influence of crystal electric field on the physical properties of CeCd3X3 (X = P and As)

Aug 15, 2022 at 2:30PM SSB 7172
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Zhiyue Lu. Beyond non-equilibrium steady-state — information and energy extraction from time-varying environments.

Aug 16, 2021 at 1PM Physics Courtyard
Special Event: Physics Dept. USRA Poster Session

Aug 17, 2022 at 11:00AM Online
Thesis Defense: Vadim Smirnov. The quasinormal modes of non-rotating black holes and wormholes

Aug 17, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics Journal Club: Koushik Bar. Self-assembly of tessellated tissue sheets by expansion and collision

Aug 18, 2022 at 9:30AM Online, P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Tushar Saha. Information-powered engines

Aug 23, 2022 at 10:00AM Online, P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Ulas Ozdemir. Phenomenology of unconventional superconductors

Aug 24, 2022 at 12:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Chris Angtsmann. The position of the axon initial segment assembly site can be predicted from the shape of the neuron

Aug 30, 2022 at 10:00AM Online, P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Benjamin Jager. Precision Measurements of Higgs Boson Production in Decays to W Bosons using Machine Learning with the ATLAS Experiment

Aug 31, 2022 at 1:00PM P8445.1
Special Seminar: Dr. Etienne Dreyer . Disentangling particle jets using deep learning on graphs and hypergraphs

Sep 16, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 and online
Special Event: Dept of Physics. Physics Research Jamboree 2022

Sep 23, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Heinz Asch. Exploration of Charge Dependence in the Strong Nuclear Interaction

Sep 23, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Zhi Han. Topology in physics

Sept 23, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Ingrid Stairs. The Short-Timescale Universe According to CHIME

Oct 03, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Danielle Tokarz . Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Biomedical Applications

Oct 4, 2022 at 11:00 AM Online
Cosmology Seminar: Chad Briddon . Using SELCIE to investigate screened scalar field models sourced by complex systems

Oct 5, 2022 at 2:30 PM P8445.2 & Online
Cosmology Seminar: Chi-kwan Chan . Resolving the Galactic Center Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope

Oct 7, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Luis Ramírez-Ramírez. Improving the resolution of single-molecule tracking using Minimal Photon Fluxes (MINFLUX)

Oct 7, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Dilraj Ghuman. Finding the Moon from the Pacific

Oct 7, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Daniel Higginbottom. Silicon Colour Centre Quantum Technologies

Oct 11, 2022 at 3:30PM AQ3150 & Online
Special Seminar: Natasha Holmes. Equity and Inequalities in Lab Group Work

Oct 13, 2022 at 10:30 PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: David van Valen. Everything as Code

Oct 14, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Mariah Goeks. The Physics of Nerve Conduction

Oct 14, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Ruchir Tullu. ENTANGLEMENT-ASSISTED INTERFEROMETRIC TELESCOPE ARRAYS

Oct 14, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: David Reichman. Anomalous Low-Temperature Behavior of Glasses

Oct 17, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Weiran Sun . KINETIC EQUATIONS WITH INTERNAL STATES

Oct 21, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Philip Jackle. Development of a Negative Helium Ion Source with Non-Metallic Charge Exchange

Oct 21, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Jake Stewart. Cubing the Screen: Volumetric Voxel Displays

Oct 21, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Physics IDEA Team. Report from the Physics IDEA Committee

Oct 24, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Ailene MacPherson . Inferring Epidemiological Dynamics from Phylogenetic Trees

Oct 25, 2022 at 2:00 PM Online
Cosmology Seminar: Victor Pozsgay . Low-energy EFT causality bounds

Oct 28, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Hoda Taeb. Do aerosols play a key role in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2?

Oct 28, 2022 at 1:30 PM C9000
Student Seminar: Pak Tik Fong. Reaching the quantum limit of measurement: quantum SU(1,1) interferometry

Oct 28, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Ashutosh Kotwal. The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics

Oct 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM P8445.2
Special Event: Aurelie Spiesser. Recent Developments in Silicon Spintronics

Nov 04, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Adrian Yeung. A Computational Study of Polymer Membrane Fuel Cells

Nov 04, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Israel Lumumba. The challenges of ocean mapping, how much do we really know?

Nov 4, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Nicole Vassh. 65 years of nuclear astrophysics enters the multi-messenger era

Nov 07, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Zak Frentz . Can molecular heat pumps explain the intracellular temperature anomaly?

Nov 8, 2022 at 11:00 AM Online
Cosmology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Jiménez Aguilar. The dynamics of domain wall strings

Nov 14, 2022 at 1:30PM Online
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Matt Scott . Physiological characterization of adaptive evolutionary dynamics

Nov 17, 2022 at 4:30PM Online
Special Event: Nancy Forde. Free Information Session about Graduate Programs in Physics at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, at 4:30 pm on Thursday November 17th, 2022.

Nov 18, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Mohammad Mostaan. Quantum computers: a hardware overview.

Nov 18, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Dennis Salazar. PENeLOPE: Measuring a precise neutron lifetime with an ultracold neutron magneto-gravitational trap

Nov 18, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Joel Primack. Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planets with James Webb Space Telescope

Nov 21, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon. The dynamics of particles with ligand-receptor contacts

Nov 25, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Zachary Podrebersek. Magnetic Storage Devices, A Survey

Nov 25, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Mehdi Keshavarz. Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics: Computational Trick or Fundamental Necessity?

Nov 25, 2022 at 3:30PM P8445.2
Special Event: Dept of Physics. PHYSICS UNDERGRAD PIZZA PARTY

Nov 28, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: Oren Raz. Echo Chambers in the Ising Model

Dec 02, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Paras Pokharel. Searches for Long-Lived Particles in the ATLAS

Dec 02, 2022 at 1:30PM C9000
Student Seminar: Metea Marr . The physical mechanism of the auroras

Dec 2, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Colloquium: Reuven Gordon. Nanoaperture Tweezers: From Single Proteins to Single Quantum Emitters

Dec 5, 2022 at 1:30PM P8445.2
Biophysics and Soft Matter Seminar: J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin. First passage time and entropy of a 1D Brownian particle with stochastic resetting to random positions

Dec 9, 2022 at 1:00PM P8445.2
Thesis Defense: Leea Stott. Purcell enhancement of the silicon T centre