Physics Events
Theoretical Physics Institute Recordings
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Physics Colloquium Recordings
April 8, 2022
Paul Myers, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta "From the Arctic Ocean to the Labrador Sea Through the Canadian Arctic — Processes and Pathways" (UAlberta Google account required)
April 1, 2022
Daniel Baxter, Fermilab: "Photographing dark matter with CCDs" (Public)
March 25, 2022
Charles Brown, UC Berkeley: "An isolated drop of superfluid liquid helium as an optomechanical system" (Public)
March 18, 2022
Eve Lee, McGill University: "Towards the origin of exoplanet diversity: from super-Earths to Jupiters" (Public)
March 11, 2022
Tomáš Bzdušek, Paul Scherrer Institute: "Simulating hyperbolic matter on a circuit board" (Public)
March 4, 2022
John Ruan, Bishop's University: "Inference Challenges for Next-Era Multi-Messenger Astrophysics" (UAlberta Google account required)
February 18, 2022
Andal Narayanan, Raman Research Institute: "Induced transparency effect in cyclically connected systems: Fundamentals and applications" (Public)
February 11, 2022
Roubing Dong, University of Victoria: "Observational planet formation" (Public)
February 7, 2022
Laura Fissel, Queen's University: "Studying the formation of stars with stratospheric balloon-borne telescopes" (UAlberta Google account required)
January 28, 2022
Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto: " Imaging of Atherosclerosis using Photoacoustic Techniques with Pulsed and Continuous-Wave Optical Excitation (UAlberta Google account required)
January 21, 2022
Charles Horowitz, Indiana University: " The PREX and CREX neutron density experiments and neutron stars" (Public)
January 14, 2022
Samantha Lawler, University of Regina: " Megaconstellations of satellites are about to ruin the night sky for everyone" (Public)
December 3, 2021
Corey Gray, LIGO: " Blackfoot Poetry: From Einstein to Spacetime (UAlberta Google account required)
November 19, 2021
Robert Smith, University of Alberta: " Making Megascience: The History of the James Webb Space Telescope" (UAlberta Google account required)
November 5, 2021
Michael Manhart, ETH Zurich: " Dynamics of microbal growth and evolution" (UAlberta Google account required)
October 15, 2021
Laura Classen, MPI Solid State: " The many faces of electrons in quantum materials: multi-talent graphene" (Public)
October 1, 2021
Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine: " Telling Stories about Physics" (UAlberta Google account required)
September 17, 2021
Erik Rosolowsky, University of Alberta: " Resolving the Open Questions in Galaxy Evolution" Part 1, Part 2 (UAlberta Google account required)
September 7, 2021
Rodrigo Fernandez, University of Alberta: " Probing Physics with Astrophysical Transients and Compact Objects" (UAlberta Google account required)
March 26, 2021
Ingrid Stairs, University of British Columbia: " The Short-Timescale Universe According to CHIME (UAlberta Google account required)
March 5, 2021
Pascale Garaud, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Layering instabilities in fluid dynamics" (UAlberta Google account required)
February 26, 2021
Jess McIver, University of British Columbia: "New gravitational-wave discoveries: results from LIGO-Virgo’s third observing run" (Public)
February 12, 2021
Paul François, McGill University: "Gene network for physicists: evolution and coarse graining"(Public)
February 5, 2021
Alannah Hallas, University of British Columbia: "Designing a Quantum Spin Liquid on the Pyrochlore Lattice" (Public)
January 29, 2021
Nancy Forde, Simon Fraser University: "Collagen: a fascinating responsive material building block from Nature" (Public)
January 15, 2021
Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis: "Monitoring a Single Vortex in Superfluid Helium" ( UAlberta Google account required)
January 8, 2021
Damiano Caprioli, University of Chicago: "New Insights on the Origin of Cosmic Rays" (Public)
November 27, 2020
Iris Dillman, TRIUMF/University of Victoria: "From the Lab to the Cosmos (and Back): How Radioactive Beam Facilities Help to Better Understand Our Origins" ( UAlberta Google account required)
November 6, 2020
Christopher Wanjek, MPH (US National Institutes of Health): " Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond" (UAlberta Google account required)
October 30, 2020
Shohini Ghose, Wilfred Laurier University: "Hunting for quantum butterflies" (UAlberta Google account required)
October 23, 2020
Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago: "Strongly-interacting systems: from fractional quantum Hall effect to field-theoretic dualities" (Public)
October 16, 2020
Eldon Emberly, Simon Fraser University: "Organizing space at the cellular scale using molecular lawnmowers"(UAlberta Google account required)
September 25, 2020
Greg Sivakoff, University of Alberta: "Winds of Change around Black Holes" (Public)
September 18, 2020
Franz Bauer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: "Unveiling a population of Fast extragalactic X-ray transients" (UAlberta Google account required)
September 11, 2020
Gil Porat, University of Alberta: "Extreme-ultraviolet frequency-comb lasers" (UAlberta Google account required)