Past Colloquia
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Jul 10, 2024 at 11:30AM Big Data Hub (ASB 10900)
William Bialek, Princeton University. Physics of Life -
Apr 05, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Matthias Danninger, SFU Physics. The secret lives of Long-Lived Particles at the Large Hadron Collider -
Mar 22, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Zev Bryant, Stanford University. Making and measuring macromolecular machines -
Mar 15, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Tim Tait, University of California, Irvine. Casting a Wide Net for Dark Matter -
Mar 08, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Seyda Ipek, Carleton University. New Physics for Baryogenesis and Where to Find It -
Mar 01, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Fei Zhou, UBC. Many-body Conformal Dynamics and Emergent Conformal Dynamics -
Feb 16, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Thomas Baker, University of Victoria. Solving quantum mechanics to make qubits for a quantum computer…and then using it for quantum mechanics -
Feb 09, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Frank Marsiglio, University of Alberta. Superconductivity: from Mercury to the Hydrides -
Feb 02, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Peter Smith, Fraser International College. Creating new avenues for teaching and learning within the studio physics model: An overview of the Fraser International College physics experience -
Jan 26, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
Olivia di Matteo, UBC. Quantum computing and quantum software for physics applications -
Jan 19, 2024 at 2:30PM AQ 3149
David Sivak, SFU Physics. Energy and information flows in biomolecular machines -
Nov 24, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Niayesh Afshordi, University of Waterloo. Quantum Spacetime and the Cosmic Endgame -
Nov 17, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Nancy Forde, SFU Physics. Single-molecule mechanical studies of unstable protein building blocks -
Nov 10, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Sarah Rauscher, University of Toronto. MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS -
Nov 03, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers Physics. Chirality and Kinetomagnetism -
Oct 27, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Carl Wieman, Stanford University. Teaching students to think like physicists -
[Postponed] Oct 20, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Peter Smith, Fraser International College. Creating new avenues for teaching and learning within the studio physics model:: An overview of the Fraser International College physics experience -
Sep 29, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Suckjoon Jun, UC San Diego. Growth, size, and precision control -
Sep 22, 2023 at 2:30PM AQ 3153
Luise Poley, SFU Physics . Reading burned ancient scrolls under an X-ray beam -
Apr 03, 2023 at 3:30PM SSB 7172
Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University. Hunting for quantum butterflies -
Mar 24, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Danny Caballero, Michigan State University. Supporting the integration of computing in physics education -
Mar 17, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Professor Paul Francois, Faculté de Médecine, Département de Biochimie et de Médecine Moléculaire Universite de Montreal. Biophysics in latent space -
Mar 03, 2023 at *1:30PM* C9000
Mike Vetterli, SFU/TRIUMF. How does our brain perceive the world and why we have to be careful in interpreting what we see? -
Feb 17, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Jessie Christiansen, Caltech. Towards an Exoplanets Demographics Ladder -
Feb 10, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Randy Hulet, Rice University. Quantum Simulation with Ultra-Cold Atoms: Spin-Charge Separation -
Feb 3, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Eric Jones , SFU Physics. How do organisms acquire their gut microbiomes? -
Jan 27, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Igor Boettcher, University of Alberta. Simulating hyperbolic space on a circuit board -
Jan 20, 2023 at 2:30PM C9000
Kate Pachal, TRIUMF. The DarkLight experiment and the hunt for a new boson -
Jan 13, 2023 at *2PM* *Online*
Leo van Hemmen, Technical University Munich. Tsunamis: Origin, Dynamical Evolution, Outcomes, and Interpretation -
Dec 2, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria. Nanoaperture Tweezers: From Single Proteins to Single Quantum Emitters -
Nov 18, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Joel Primack, UC Santa Cruz. Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planets with James Webb Space Telescope -
Nov 4, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Nicole Vassh, TRIUMF. 65 years of nuclear astrophysics enters the multi-messenger era -
Oct 28, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University. The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics -
Oct 21, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Physics IDEA Team, SFU. Report from the Physics IDEA Committee -
Oct 14, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
David Reichman, Columbia University. Anomalous Low-Temperature Behavior of Glasses -
Oct 7, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Daniel Higginbottom, SFU Physics. Silicon Colour Centre Quantum Technologies -
Sept 23, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Ingrid Stairs, UBC. The Short-Timescale Universe According to CHIME -
Apr 1, 2022 at 2:30PM *C9000* and Online
Douglas Scott, UBC. Physics Pranks and Astronomical Antics -
Mar 25, 2022 at 2:30PM *In-person in C9000*
Dept of Physics, SFU. Professors Answering Simple Questions -
Mar 18, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Edo Kussell, New York University. Memory in Bacteria: From Single Cells to Ecologies -
Mar 11, 2022 at 2:30PM *C9000* and online
Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University. Is the Universe magnetized? -
Mar 4, 2022 at 2:30PM *C9000 & Online*
Nigel Smith, TRIUMF. A window on TRIUMF -
Feb 18, 2022 at 2:30PM C9000 & Online
Andre Marziali, UBC. The physics of race cars -
Feb 11, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Megan Valentine, University of California Santa Barbara. Harnessing nature’s ingenuity to make tough and stimuli-responsive materials -
Feb 4, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Andrew Pelling, University of Ottawa. Messy, Soft and Squishy: The Complex Biophysics and Mechanobiology of Living Cellular Systems -
Jan 28, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Philip Stamp, UBC. Quantum gravity in the lab -
Jan 21, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Elham Kashefi, Sorbonne/University of Edinburgh/Quantum Algorithms Institute Canada. Verification of Quantum Computation -
Jan 14, 2022 at 2:30PM Online
Oliver Stelzer-Chilton, TRIUMF. Searching in (the) dark and new directions at the Large Hadron Collider -
Nov 26, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge. Topological quantum matter out of equilibrium -
Nov 19, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University. Machine learning in condensed matter -
Nov 12, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University. Surprises from the Expansion of the Universe -
Nov 5, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Alberta. Quantum technology with warm, cold, and ultracold atoms -
Oct 29, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Nikta Fakhri, MIT. Broken symmetries in living matter -
Oct 22, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Stan Williams, Texas A&M. Building Brain-Inspired Computers with Nonlinear Dynamical Materials -
Oct 15, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois. The mysterious muon -
*Oct 7, 2021 at 11:30AM* Online
Aleksandra Walczak, École Normale Supérieure. Prediction in immune repertoires -
Oct 1, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
David Morrissey, TRIUMF. Searching for dark matter all the way down to the neutrino floor -
Sep 24, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Clarice Aiello, UCLA. From nanotech to living sensors: unraveling the spin physics of biosensing at the nanoscale -
Apr 09, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Nadia Drake, National Geographic. 300 Million Earths: The Search for Life in the Cosmos (from a science journalist's perspective) -
Mar 25, 2021 at 9:30AM Online
Sabine Hossenfelder, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. How beauty leads physics astray -
Mar 19, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Zachary Vernon, Xanadu. Scaling photonic quantum computers -
Mar 5, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Kiyoshi Masui, MIT/CHIME. A Synoptic View of Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME -
Feb 12, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Alannah Hallas, UBC. Designing a Quantum Spin Liquid on the Pyrochlore Lattice -
Feb 04, 2021 at 9:30AM Online
Wilson Poon, University of Edinburgh. The Soft Matter Physics of COVID-19 -
Jan 29, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Howard Trottier, SFU Physics. The not-so-secret history of the Trottier Observatory -
Jan 22, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
Stephanie Simmons, SFU Physics. The International Race For A Quantum Computer
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Nov 20, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Margaret Gardel. Cytoskeletal mechanics, active matter, cellular force transmission -
Nov 20, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Margaret Gardel. Design Principles of Morphogenetic Matter -
Nov 13, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Elisa Resconi. Experimental physics with cosmic particles, P-ONE collaboration -
Nov 06, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Andreas Hilfinger. Stochastic models of cellular processes -
Oct 29, 2020 at 9:30AM Online
: Lieven Vandersypen. Fault tolerant quantum computing -
Oct 23, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Mohammad Hafezi. Topological physics: from photons to electrons -
Oct 16, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Suzanne Mohney. Contacts to 2D devices, synthesis and processing of thin films and nanostructures -
Oct 2, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: David Weitz. Droplet microfluidics: biology one picoliter at a time -
Sep 25, 2020 at 2:30PM Online
: Levon Pogosian. The Hubble tension and the magnetic universe -
Mar 6, 2020 at 2:30pm in C9000
: Gregory R. Sivakoff. 2020 CAP Lecture - Gregory R. Sivakoff: Winds of Change around Black Holes -
Mar 13, 2020 at 2:30pm in C9000
: Pat Scott . Searches for dark matter and new physics with GAMBIT -
Feb 28, 2020 at 2:30pm in C9000
: Sara Ellison . Clash of the Titans: Galaxy mergers in the nearby Universe -
Feb 14, 2020 at 2:30 pm in C9000
: Katie Mack. Dark Matter: A Cosmological Perspective -
Jan 24, 2020 at 2:30 in C9000
: Stephen Morris. Consider the Icicle -
Jan 17, 2020 @ 2:30PM in C9000
: Yuri Suzuki. Exploring Spin and Topological Phenomena in Complex Oxide Thin Films -
Nov 22, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Paul Wiggins. Why systems biology shouldn’t work… but does… and what heat capacity and black holes explain about learning -
Nov 15, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Shirley Ho. Simulating the Universe with Machine Learning -
Nov 08, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Eundeok Mun. Quantum criticality and frustrated spin systems -
Nov 01, 2019 at 2:30PM
: David Griffiths. Hidden Momentum -
Oct 18, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Ravin Bhatt. Composite Fermions and their Fermi Surfaces -
Oct 11, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Avery Broderick. Unmasking black holes with the Event Horizon Telescope -
Oct 04, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Ken Urquhart. So you got your PhD in Physics at SFU…now what? -
Oct 25, 2019 at 2:30PM
: David Sivak. Design principles of molecular machines: efficient control and functional coupling -
Sep 27, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Frank Close. The Lopsided Universe Or Unstable Symmetry and Stable Unsymmetry: The key to Life, the Universe and almost Everything -
Sep 20, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Jens Dilling. Understanding the universe, one isotope at a time -
Apr 05, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Kent Irwin. Searching for Axion Dark Matter: Quantum Sensors and the Dark Matter Radio -
Apr 01, 2019 at 1:30PM
: Steven Brunton. Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Complex Systems: Uncovering Interpretable and Generalizable Nonlinear Models -
Mar 29, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Will Percival. Making cosmological measurements with standard rulers and standard shapes -
Mar 22, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Feng Wang. Engineering Correlated Physics in Two-Dimensional Moire Superlattices -
Mar 15, 2019 at 2:30pm in AQ3159
: John Davis. Quantum Technologies Enabled by Cavity-Optomechanics at Low Temperatures -
Feb 08, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Itai Cohen. Atomic Layer Deposition Origami: a technology platform for nanoscale machines, sensors, and robots -
Feb 01, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Stephane Kéna-Cohen. 2019 CAP Lecture - Stephane Kéna-Cohen: Room-temperature quantum fluids of light -
Jan 25, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Tom Devereaux . Photon spectroscopies in correlated materials in and out of equilibrium -
Jan 18, 2019 at 2:30PM
: Stefania Gori. With the Higgs into the dark -
Jan 11, 2019 at 2:30PM Online
: Cohl Furey. Towards a more efficient model of particle physics -
Nov 23, 2018 at 12PM
: Heather Lewandowski. Engaging Students in Authentic Scientific Practices in Physics Lab Courses -
Nov 16, 2018 at 12PM
: Ian Fisher. Feeling the Strain: Fields for Electronic Nematic Order -
Nov 09, 2018 at 12PM
: Kari Dalnoki-Veress. Soft Materials at surfaces and interfaces: Elastocapillarity -
Nov 02, 2018 at 12PM
: Erich Mueller. Atoms in Cavities -
Oct 19, 2018 at 12PM
: Andy Bunn. Occam's Razor and Climate Change: How to Explain Climate Change to Non-Scientists -
Oct 12, 2018 at 12PM
: Yann Chemla. Probing nature’s nano-machines with “next generation” single-molecule techniques -
Oct 05, 2018 at 12PM
: Valery Milner. Making and Teaching Waves With Modern Technology -
Sep 28, 2018 at 12PM
: BRAD FILIPPONE. Exploring Symmetry Violations with Free Neutrons -
Sep 21, 2018 at 12PM
: ROB CALDWELL. Polarization of the Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background -
Apr 13, 2018 at 2:30PM
: RICHARD G. HARRIS. Quantum magnetism on a chip -
Apr 06, 2018 at 2:30PM
: ALEX LEVINE. The mechanics of cells: A meeting of mechanics, fluctuations, and geometry -
Mar 23, 2018 at 2:30PM
: DARIA AHRENSMEIER. Adventures in Educational Development -
Mar 16, 2018 at 2:30PM
: FRANS PRETORIUS. The Dynamical, Strong-Field Regime of General Relativity -
Mar 09, 2018 at 2:30PM
: KEN CLARK. CAP Lecture: Dark Matter: How to Hunt for the Unknown -
Feb 09, 2018 at 2:30PM
: Hong Liu. The reasonable and unreasonable effectiveness of hydrodynamics in exotic quantum matter -
Feb 02, 2018 at 2:30PM
: Giovanni Vignale. The impossible spin and its applications -
Jan 26, 2018 at 2:30PM
: Ido Golding. Deciphering The Stochastic Kinetics Of Gene Regulation -
Jan 19, 2018 at 2:30PM
: Joanne O'Meara. Experiments in Teaching Physics -
Jan 12, 2018 at 2:30PM
: Anatoli Polkovnikov. Quantum geometry: from adiabatic transformations to quantum speed limits