2023 - 2024

Speaker: Dr. R. G. Gillies, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, PUPSS

Date: March 19th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Characterizing the Ionosphere using High Frequency Radio Waves

 

Speaker: Mao Yoshii, Tokyo University

Date: March 12th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Invitation to heterolayer systems: Toward extension to the superconducting phase

 

Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Keintzel, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Date: March 5th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The Future Circular Electron-Positron Collider FCC-ee

 

Speaker: Lukas Fehr, PhD Candidate, Institute of Space & Atmospheric Studies, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: February 27th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Trace gas retrieval techniques from geostationary orbit

 

Speaker: Christopher Mahadeo, University of Illinois at Chicago

Date: February 13th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Something old, something new, something borrowed and something quantized

 

Speaker: Dr. Barry Sanders, Professor, University of Calgary, PUPSS

Date: February 6th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Kittens, cats and compasses: superposing coherent states for quantum sensing, quantum communication, quantum computing and quantum fun

 

Speaker: Ronan Lefol, PhD student, Université Laval (Québec) Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 30th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: A GPU-based patient-specific CT dosimetry tool

 

Speaker: Dr.Andrei Smolyakov, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 23rd, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Plasma Physics and Electric Propulsion in Space

 

Speaker: Dr. Locke Spencer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge, PUPSS

Date: January 16th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Mind the Gap:  The Far-Infrared Gap and Canadian Milestones on the Far-Infrared Astrophysical Roadmap

 

Speaker: Daniel Letros, PhD Candidate, Institute of Space & Atmospheric Studies, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 9th, 2024
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols with the Aerosol Limb Imager

 

Speaker: Ethan Selinger, Corey Crawford, and Ashley Moran, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: December 5th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The CaNoRock Field Experience

 

Speaker: Dr. Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Alberta

Date: November 28th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Light-Matter Interactions in Cold and Ultracold Neutral Atomic Gases: Applications to Quantum Technologies

 

Speaker: Daniel Billett, Institute of Space & Atmospheric Studies, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 21st, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Geomagnetic Storms: The time that air blew up 40 Starlink Satellites 

 

Speaker: Jong Hern Mun, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 14th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The Importance of Ion Temperature Profile in Collisional Sheath Modelling 

 

Speaker: Dr. Adam Bourassa, Institute of Space & Atmospheric Studies, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 31st, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The HAWC (High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour, and Clouds) satellite mission

 

Speaker: Dr. Garth Huber, Department of Physics, University of Regina

Date: October 24th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The Electron-Ion Collider: A Major New Scientific Facility to Probe the Heart of Nuclear Matter

 

Speaker: Dr. Daryl Jansen, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 17th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: What’s up with Astronomy at USask?

 

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Moewes, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 10th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Recent Developments in Next Generation Nitride Phosphors

 

 Speaker: Dr. Michael Bradley, Department Head, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 3rd, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Quantum Magnetometry for UltraCold Neutron EDM Measurements

 

Speaker: Dr. Magnus Ivarsen, Postdoc, Physics and Engineering Physics, ISAS

Date: September 26th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Plasma turbulence, directly embedded in the ionosphere by the pulsating aurora

 

Speaker: Chris Roth, Head of Data Science, Preteckt

Date: September 19th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Predictive Maintenance Using Physical Modelling and Machine Learning

 

Speaker: Lori Lisitza, Colleg of Granduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Date: September 12th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The Role of CGPS for Graduate Students

2022 - 2023

Speaker: Thamirys de Oliveira, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: April 4th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Heavy-light and Heavy-strange Diquark Mass Splitting from QCD Sum Rules

 

Speaker: Tanner PolischukPhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 28th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Measuring the Neutron Polarization from Photo-disintegrated deuterium

 

Speaker: Dr. Andy Kubik, CAP Lecturer, SNOLAB

Date: March 21st, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: A Universe-Wide Mystery: What is Dark Matter and How Might We Detect it?

 

Speaker: Emily Alexander, Isaac Nicholas, Alex Mayhew, and Cody Somers, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 16th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: CaNoRock Program

 

Speaker: Ethan Runge, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 14th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Vertical Trace Gas Profiles from an Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer

 

Speaker: Dr. Paul Barclay, Professor, University of Calgary

Date: March 7th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Diamond Photonics: Connecting Quantum Systems with Light and Sound

 

Speaker: Dr. Robyn A.D. Fiori, Research Scientist, Canadian Hazards Information Service of Natural Resources Canada

Date: February 28th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Development of Space Weather Services to Inform
Maritime Users of Space Weather Events Affecting High
Frequency Radio Communication

 

Speaker: Tahreem YousafPhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: High Fluence Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation for Fusion PFC material Testing

 

Speaker:  Dr. Evan McDonough, University of Winnipeg

Date: February 7th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Cosmological Condensed Matter Physics

 

Speaker:  Dr. Scott Chapman, Dalhousie and UBC

Date: February 3rd, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 175
Topic: CCAT-Prime: Sub-mm astronomy at 5600m with Prime Cam instrument

 

Speaker:  Dr. Marie-Cécile Piro, University of Alberta

Date: January 31st, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Towards the Ultimate Challenges for Dark Matter Detection

 

Speaker:  Dr. Gordon Sarty, Department of Psychology

Date: January 24th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: MRI as an example of Quantum Engineering

 

Speaker:  Dr. Devin Huyghebaert, Department of Physics & Technology, University of Norway

Date: January 17th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Investigating E- and D-Region Ionosphere Phenomena Using Incoherent Scatter Radar Systems

 

Speaker:  Gloria L. Manney, MLS Science Team, Northwest Research Associates

Date: January 10th, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) Observations of Recent Extreme Events in the Stratosphere

 

Speaker:  Patrick Braun, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: December 6th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Analysis of State-Dependent Fluorescence Effects in Multivalent Manganese Oxides and Determination of Electronic Structure  

 

Speaker:  Brian Pitzel, Braden Stand & Tarah Teixeira, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 22nd, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: CaNoRock Program  

 

Speaker:  Scott Rosendahl, Canadian Light Source

Date: November 15th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: So, you want to do Infrared Spectroscopy at a Synchrotron? 

 

Speaker:  Scott Rosendahl, Canadian Light Source

Date: November 15th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: So, you want to do Infrared Spectroscopy at a Synchrotron?

 

Speaker:  Pat Hauser, Safety & Compliance Coordinator, USASK Safety Resources

Date: November 1st, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Departmental Health and Safety Orientation

Speaker:  Dr. Ward Wurtz, Accelerator Physicist, Canadian Light Source

Date: October 25th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The BTS Upgrade Project: Physics and Project Management

Speaker:  Li Zhang, Science Librarian, University of Saskatchewan

Date: October 18th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Open access and predatory journals, and research data management (RDM)

Speaker:  Dr. Guillermo Hinojosa, UNAM

Date: October 4th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: On the discovery and confirmation of a new anionic species

Speaker:  Panelists from three continents - Current and Future Trends

*Topic: Applications of Isotopes in Medicine and Life Sciences
*Date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
*Time: 7 am
*Place: Webinar - please register https://www.11ici.org/september-28-2022

Speaker:  Prof. Jonas Fransson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Date: September 27th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: A correlated view of chiral-induced spin selectivity.

Speaker:  Dr. Barbaara Szpunar, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 20th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Enhanced Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuels and Small Modular Reactor for Saskatchewan.

Speaker:  Arash Tavassoli, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 13th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Drift instabilities, anomalous transport, and heating in low-temperature plasmas.

Speaker:  Dr. Lénaïc Couëdel, Graduate Chair, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 6th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Graduate Studies in Physics & Engineering Physics

2021 - 2022

Speaker:  Ramy Tannous, Institute for Quantum Computing, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo

Date: July 7th, 2022
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Place: Physics 165
Topic: Buidling the Canadian Quantum Internet:  Towards Ground to Space Quantum Channels

Speaker:  Dr. Zhi-Wei Wang, Post-Doc, University of Lethbridge

Date: April 5th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Thermodynamics of ordinary surface and energy definition in dynamical spacetimes

Speaker:  Bryan Kettle, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta  

*Date: Friday, April 1st, 2022
*Time: 4:00 pm
*Place: Thorvaldson 124
*Topic: Super Yangians: Where We Are Today

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Date: March 29th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Experimental Characterization of an Inductively-Coupled Plasma Ion Implantation System

Speaker:  Dr. Levan Lomidze, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Calgary

Date: March 22nd, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: The Earth's Ionosphere: Recent Observations and Modeling

Speaker:  Dr. Rob Pywell, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: March 15th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Gamma Rays and Blowfish

Speaker:  Jeremy Sakstein, Physics & Astronomy, University of Hawai'i

Date: March 8th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Direct Detection of Dark Energy

Speaker:  Dr. Alex Moewes, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: March 1st, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: Direct Measurements of Energy Levels in Next Generation Nitride Phosphors

Speaker:  Dr. Steven Rayan, Mathematics and Statistics and Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA), University of Saskatchewan

Date: February 15th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: New Models of Quantum Matter Inspired by Geometry

Speaker:  Dr. Rainer Dick, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: February 8th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Topic: String theory, antisymmetric tensor fields, and dark matter

Speaker:  Dr. Emile Carbone, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Energie Materiaux et Telecommunications

Date: February 1st, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Driving chemical reactions using renewable electricity in non-equilibrium Plasmas

Speaker:  Dr. Artur Sowa, Department of Math & Stats

Date: January 25th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: New Application of Harmonic Analysis to Quantum Theory and Engineering

Speaker:  Dr. Glenn Hussey, ISAS, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 18, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm Topic: The ionosphere: the transition region between the atmosphere and outer space

Speaker:  Kimberlee Dube, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 11th, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Satellite Limb Measurements of Stratospheric NOx

Speaker:  Dr. Raymond Golingo, Fuse Energy Technologies Inc, Montreal, QC

Date: November 30th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Title: Flow-Through Z-Pinch Research at Fuse

*Speaker:  Dr. Juna Kollmeier, Director, Canadian Instiute for Theoretical Astrophysics

*Date: November 29th, 2021
*Time: 7:30 pm
*Title: Mapping the Universe

Speaker:  Dr. Chary Rangacharyulu, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: November 23rd, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: From Atoms to Higgs Boson: Voyages in quasi-Spacetime

Speaker:  Dr. Yansun Yao, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: November 2nd, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Machine Learning Accelerated Material Simulation

Speaker:  Dr. Eric Donovan, Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary

Date: October 26th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Title: Building a Magnetosphere, One Particle at a Time

Speaker:  Nnanna Ukoji, PhD candidate, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: October 19th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Structure, Electronic Structure and Electronic Spectra of Simple Materials at High Pressure

Speaker: Dr. Stefano Valenti, University of California at Davis, Physics and Astronomy

Date: October 12th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Future of Transients in the era of robobtic telescopes

Speaker:  Dr. Matthew Toohey, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: October 5th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Title: Stratospheric aerosol, volcanic eruptions and climate variability

Speaker:  Dr. Robert Green, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: September 28th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Revealing and Tuning Exotic Emergent Phases in Quantum Materials

Speaker:  Heba Bsharat, Phd candidate

Date: September 21st, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Experimental Studies of the Improved Plasma Confinement on the STOR-M Tokamak

Speaker:  Dr. Mark Boland, CLS Machine Director

Date: September 14th, 2021
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Discovery Machines:  success, challenges and plans for futue particle accelerators

2019 - 2020

Speaker:  Prof Pasquale Bosso, University of Lethbridge

* Date: March 10th, 2020
* Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
* Place: Physics 175
* Title: Quantum Gravity Phenomenology from the Generalized Uncertainty Principle

Speaker:  Kate Langrell, Librarian

Date: March 3rd, 2020
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Writing a Thesis?

Speaker:  Helen Power, Librarian

Date: February 25th, 2020
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Managing Your Citations:  Introduction to Zotero

Speaker:  Professor Daniel Andruczyk, University of Illinois

Date: February 11th, 2020
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Using Liquid Lithium as a Plasma Facing Material in Nuclear Fusion Devices

Speaker:  Jason Ho, PhD Candidate, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: January 28th, 2020
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Beyond the Conventional Quark Model:  Using QCD Sum Rules to Explore the Spectrum of Exotic Hadrons

Speaker:  Robert Bauer, PhD Candidate, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: January 21st, 2020
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Probing matter with photons and electrons:  A study of Water and Flax

Speaker: Matthew Kozun, PhD Candidate, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: January 7th, 2020
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: The Aerosol Limb Imager:  A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge

Speaker:  Jeffrey Zielinski, PhD Candidate, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: November 19th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Micro/Macro-scale Instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas

Speaker:  Professor Toshiyuki Mitsuhashi, KEK High Energy Accelerator Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan

Date: October 8th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: A Flavour of Quantum Optics:  an Introduction to elementary Quantum Optics

Speaker:  Dr. Dean Chapman, Adjunct with Dept. of Physics, Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology

Date: October 1st, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: X-Ray Crystal Optics R&D at the Canadian Light Source

Speaker:  Dr. Gap Soo Chang, Physics & Engineering Physics

Date: September 24th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: How a physicist approaches a problem of environmental Bio-toxicity:  Sabbatical research at Seoul National University in Korea

 Speaker:  Peter Kuske, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin

Date: September 17th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Time Resolved Experiments at BESSY II - Today and in the Future with BESSY VSR

 Speaker:  Victoria Fisher, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

* Date: Thursday, June 20th, 2019
* Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
* Place: Physics 175
* Title: Making and Mending: Uncovering the Material in the Rise of Physice Research in Canada

2018 - 2019

Speaker: Dr. Jordan Morelli, PhD, P.Eng (USask 2003)

Date: March 26th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Applied Magnetics: Seeing Through Walls and Fueling the Future

Speaker: Dr. Mark Walton, Department of Physics, University of Lethbridge

Date: March 19th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Phase-Space Quantum Mechanics

Speaker: Dr. Teak Boyko, PhD, Canadian Light Source

Date: March 12th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Bandgap Engineering of Oxygen-Bearing High-Pressure Zirconium Nitride: c-Zr3-x(N1-xOx)4

Speaker: Dr. Drew Bertwistle, PhD, P.Eng

Date: February 12th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Swift Electrons and Brighter Beams - Future Accelerator Developments for the CLS

Speaker: Alex Palameta, PhD Candidate

Date: February 5th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Meson-Hybrid Mixing in Vector Heavy Quarkonium for QSD Sum Rules

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Bidinosti, Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg

Date: January 29th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: MRI: back to the future

* Speaker: Dr. Matthew Toohey, Candidate for Faculty Position

* Date: January 24th, 2019
* Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm
* Place: Physics 165
* Title: Stratosphere aerosol, volcanic eruptions and climate

Speaker: Nazanin Samadi, PhD Candidate

Date: January 22nd, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: A Vertical Phase Space Beam Postion and Emittance Monitor for Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Amir Qamar, PhD Candidate

Date: January 15th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy to probe the electronic structure of PbO based films for direct conversion imaging devices

Speaker: Dr. Chijin Xiao, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 8th, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Fusion - The Dream Energy Source

Speaker: Dr. Debora Griffin, Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Candidate for the Atmospheric and Climate Physics Faculty Postion

Date: November 20th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Plasma & Emissions detected from Space

Speaker: Dr. Michael Bradley, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 30th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Plasma & Ion Beam Physics for Materials Growth & Processing Applications

Speaker: Dr. Kathryn McWilliams, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 23rd, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Geomagnetic Field-Aligned Currents: Using Radars on the Ground to Estimate Currents Flowing Into and Out of the Earth's Ionosphere

Speaker: Dr. Yufeng Wang, Baydo Development Corporation

Date: October 16th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Get Prepared, opportunities are waiting gor you

Speaker: Patrick H.M. Galopeau, Research Scientist, LATMOS Lab, France

Date: October 9th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Radio Emissions as tools for understanding the magnetic fields of Jupiter and Saturn

Speaker: Dr. Tim Kelly, Department of Chemistry

Date: October 2nd, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Solution-processed photovoltaic devices: control and characterization of active layer morphology

* Speaker: Zsuzsanna Papp, Director Business Development Mitacs

* Date: September 27th, 2018
* Time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
* Place: Physics 175
* Title: Avenues of Mitacs Funding for Collaborative Projects and International Mobility.

Speaker: Dr. Lénaïc Couëdel, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 25th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Experimental Studies of Two-Dimensional complex plasma crystals: waves and instabilities

Speaker: Dr. Chary Rangacharyulu, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 18th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Nuclear Science and Technologies: Why Should We Care About?

Speaker: Dave Welsh, Emergency Planning Specialist with USask Safety Resources

Date: September 11th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Physics 103
Title: Physics Building Lockdowns and Evacuations

2017 - 2018

* Speaker: Percy Paul, M.Sc.

* Date: April 11th, 2018
* Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
* Place: Room 175 Physics Building
* Title: Twistors, Strings, and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

Speaker: Mark Boland, Associate Professor, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: April 3rd, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Accelerator Physics: An Enabler for Science

Speaker: Dr. Arundhati Dasgupta, CAP Lecturer, University of Lethbridge

Date: March 27th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Quantum Field Theory with Star Operators

Speaker: Devin Huyghebaert, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 20th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Investigations of Near-Earth Space using a Highly Advanced Newly Developed Auroral E-region Radar

Speaker: Carl Dunlea, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 6th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Magnetic Compression at General Fusion - Experiment Simulation

Speaker: Dr. Jacob Burgess, University of Manitoba

Date: February 6th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Watching Ultrafast Dynamics on a Single Atom

Speaker: Dr. Robert Green, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 30th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Resonant X-Ray Studies of Quantum Materials at the Canadian Light Source

Speaker: Dr. Pasha Ponomarenko, Research Associate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 23rd, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Unexpected SuperDARN: sea-ice, earthquakes etc.

Speaker: Dr. Doug Degenstein & Atmospheric Sensing Group

Date: January 16th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Atmospheric Remote Sensing at the University of Saskatchewan

Speaker: Dr. Andrei Smolyakov, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 9th, 2018
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Plasma Physics for electric propulsion and plasmonics applications

Speakers: Liam Graham, Liam Gray, Simone Hagey, and Connor Schentag
Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: December 5th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: CaNoRock XIV: A SIRIUS Mission

Speaker: Dr. Saurya Das, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge

Date: November 28th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Our Universe: the known, the unknown, and some speculations

Speaker: Professor Ronald B. Smith, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

Date: November 21st, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Momentum transport and deposition by gravity waves into the stratosphere:The DEEPWAVE AVE field experiment in New Zealand in 2014

Speaker: Professor Peter Bernath, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Old Dominion University Norfolk VA and Dept. of Chemistry, University of Waterloo

Date: November 7th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Atmospheric Chemistry Experiments (ACE): Spectroscopy from Orbit

Speaker: Landon Rieger, PhD Candidate

Date: October 31st, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Updating the stratospheric aerosol using limb-scattering measurements

Speaker: Lindsay Goodwin, PhD Candidate

Date: October 24th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: High-Latitude Convection Electric Fields in the Earth’s Ionosphere

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Kinar, Centre for Hydrology, Global Institute for Water Security

Date: October 17th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Environmental Physics of Hydrology and Glaciers in the Rocky Mountains

Speaker: Arnab Majumdar, PhD Candidate

Date: October 10th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Structural Phase Transition and Superconductivity at High Pressure

Speaker: Ivan Romandanov, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 3rd, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Large Scale Oscillations in Hall Plasmas

Speaker: Oleksandr Koshkarov, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 26th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Analytical and Numerical study of nonlinear phenomena in plasma physics

Speaker: Dr. Steven Rayan, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Date: September 19th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: The Inside Looking Out: Challenges for Geometry from Physics

2016 - 2017

 

Speaker: Dr. Lénaïc Couëdel CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire PIIM, Marseille, France

Date: April 11th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Room 103 Physics Building
Title: Experimental investigations of dusty plasmas: particle growth and two-dimensional complex plasma crystals

* Speaker: Dr. Art McDonald, Perimeter Institute, 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics

* Date: Saturday, April 1st, 2017
* Time: 2:00 - 3:15 pm
* Place: Convocation Hall, Peter MacKinnon Building
* Title: A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2km Underground

Speaker: Dr. Joyce M. McBeth, Department of Geological Sciences

Date: March 28th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Hartnell’s Time Machine: unravelling mysteries of metal exposure and diet on the Franklin Expedition

Speaker: Dr. Michael Woodside, University of Alberta

Date: March 21st, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: The Physics of Folding: Watching Structures Self-Assemble in Single Biological Molecules using Laser Tweezers

Speaker: Wei Chen, Post Doctoral Fellow, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 17th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: The hidden-charm exotic states in QCD

Speaker: Daniel Zawada, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: February 28th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere with Limb Scattered Sunlight

Speaker: Dr. Kathryn McWilliams, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: February 7th, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: The International Space Mission Training Program: The Masters' Level Opportunity after CaNoRock

* Speaker: John P. Sutter, Optics Scientist, Diamond Light Source, Ltd.

* Date: February 1, 2017
* Time: 2:30pm
* Place: CLS - Room 2068 A&B
* Title: So much to see, so much to do: Optics and metrology at the Diamond Light Source

Speaker: Dr. Christopher O'Dea, University of Manitoba

Date: January 24, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Black Holes vs Galaxies

Speaker: Dr. Masoud Ghezelbash, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 17, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Exact Solutions to the Einstein Field Equations Coupled to the Matter Fields

Speaker: Dr. Kaori Tanaka, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 10, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Majorana Strikes Back

Speaker: Kateryna Yakymenko, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: December 6th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Substorm Occurence Rates and Recurrence Times

Speaker: Dr. Yuki Nagai, Centre for Computational Science & e-Systems, Japan Atomic Energy Agency

* Date: November 28nd, 2016
* Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
* Place: Rm. 175, Physics Building
* Title: Nematic topological superconductivity in a doped topological insulator CuxBi2Se3

Speaker: Dr. Chary Rangacharyulu, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 22nd, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Photons and Neutrons: For Food and Medicine

Speaker: Dr. Igor Morozov, Deptartment of Geological Sciences

Date: November 15th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Q? (On the Q-factor for seismic attentuation)

Speaker: Dr. Mark Boland, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne

Date: November 8th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Blinded by the Light: The rise and rise of light sources and Accelerators in science.

Speaker: Dr. John Tse, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 1st, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: No Pressure, No Life

Speaker: Valeriy V. Kostyuchenko, Medical Physicist, Gamma Knife Centre, Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute, Moscow, Russia

* Date: October 26th, 2016
* Time: 3:30 pm
* Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
* Title: On the History of the Gamma Knife and Radiosurgery

Speaker: Valeriy V. Kostyuchenko, Medical Physicist, Gamma Knife Centre, Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute, Moscow, Russia

Date: October 25th, 2016
Time: 3:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Basics: a Physicist's Perspective

Speaker: Dr. Alexey Shevyakov, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Date: October 18, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Exact Solutions of a Fully Nonlinear Two-fluid Model

Speaker: Dr. Jean-Pierre St-Maurice, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 11th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: The generation and evolution of unstable plasma structures in the lower Ionosphere

Speaker: Dr. Matt Taylor, Lead Project Scientist ESA Rosetta Mission

* Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016
* Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
* Place: Rm. 107, Physics Building, Pizza will be provided
* Title: How We Landed a Thing on Another Really Faraway Thing: Q&A Session

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Moewes, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 27th, 2016Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Adjacent Iron-vacancy interactions as the Origin of Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in (In1-xFex)203

2015 - 2016

Speaker: Bassey Bassey, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: April 5th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Multiple Energy Synchrotron biomedical imaging system

Speaker: Professor Aram Teymurazyan, Physics Department, University of Regina

Date: March 29th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Novel Detectors for Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer

Speaker: Dr. Dean Chapman, Anatomy and Cell Biology

Date: March 22nd, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: X-Ray Optics for Biomedical Imaging Applications at the Canadian Light Source

Speaker: Akbar Rohollahi, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 15th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Investigation of the momentum transfer to the tokamak plasma through compact torus injection

Speaker: Zhi Wei Wang, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: March 8th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: The hidden world: Higgs, dark matter and conformal symmetry.

Speaker: Dr. Stanley Greenspoon, CAP Lecturer

Date: February 23rd, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Are We Alone? The Search for Extrasolar Planets and Extraterrestrial Life.

Speaker: David Saint-Jacques, Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency

Date: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building

Speaker: Dr. Sayf Elgriw, Post Doctoral Fellow, Physics and Engineering Physics

(Candidate for Experimental Plasma Physics Faculty Position)
* Date: Thursday, February 4th, 2016
* Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
* Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
* Title: Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Plasma Research in the STOR-M Tokamak and HOPE Innovations Inc.

Speaker: Ashton Reimer, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Investigating the Near-Earth Space Environment: SuperDARN Radar Signal Processing Analysis and Applications

Speaker: Dr. Feizhou He, Canadian Light Source

Date: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering: Recent Researches at CLS

Speaker: Dr. M. Umansky, Lawrence Livermore Natioanl Laboratory, CA, USA

* Date: Thursday, January 21st, 2016
* Time: 3:00 pm
* Place: Rm. 127, Physics Building
* Title: Plasma convective transport and detachment in innovative divertor configurations.

Speaker: Dr. Sasha Koustov, Physics and Engineering Phyisics

Date: January 19th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Transpolar electric potential as a parameter characterizing the near-Earth's space

Speaker: Dr. Andrei Smolyakov, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: January 12th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Space electric propulsion, plasma physics, and turbulence

Speaker: Dr. Jason Donev, University of Calgary

Date: January 5th, 2016
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Energy Poverty in the Modern World

Presenters: Daniel Letros, Yash Shukla, Taran Warnock, Physics and Engineering Physics

* Date: December 1st, 2015
* Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
* Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
* Title: CaNoRock XII

Speaker: Mercedes Martinson, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 24th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Phase-preserving Beam Expander for Biomedical Imaging

Speaker: Bassey Bassey, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: November 17th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Bent Laue Crystal Optics: Technology and Applications

Speaker: Dr. Locke Spencer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge

Date: November 3rd, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: The Far-Infrared Universe: progress in FIR astrophysics from star formation to the cosmic microwave background and beyond

Speaker: Dr. Yuanming Pan, Department of Geological Sciences

Date: October 27h, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Oxygen Vacancy Electron Centers in Crystalline Silica (SiO2): New Insights from EPR Experiments and DFT Calculations

Speaker: Jianbao Zhao, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 20th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title: Study of Mg2Si-based Thermoelectric Materials

Speaker: Brice Jamieson, ELIX Wireless, Vancouver

* Date: Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
* Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm
* Place: Rm. 175, Physics Building
* Title: The Wonderful (and occasionally unlikely) World of Engineering Physics Or: Fifteen Orders of Magnitude in Magnetics for Fun and Profit

Speaker: Dr. Ward Wurtz, Canadian Light Source

Date: October 13th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title:  Accelerator Physics at the Canadian Light Source

Speaker: Brenden Elash, PhD Candidate, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: October 6th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title:  Aerosol Limb Imager: From Concept to Balloon Flight to Results.

Speaker: Dr. Michael P. Bradley, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 29th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title:  High-Fluence Ion Implantation as a Nanofabrication Tool.

Speaker: Dr. JP St-Maurice, ISAS Executive Director, Physics and Engineering Physics

Date: September 22nd, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title:  Velocity Distributions in the Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere.

Speaker: Dr. Tim Kelly, Department of Chemistry

Date: September 15th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title:  Perovskite Solar Cells: From Device Fabrication to Device Degradation

Speaker: Jeff Lindsay, Safety Consultant, USask Wellness and Safety Resources

Date: September 8th, 2015
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Place: Rm. 103, Physics Building
Title:  Lab Safety Certification