Talks, Seminars, and Colloquia

The department sponsors a lively and highly interactive series of lunch-time talks on various topics of current interest in astronomy, physics, and other areas of science. Students have a wonderful opportunity to see why the current "hot topics" are of such great interest to physicists. We also organize special events where internationally recognized speakers are invited to visit us.

2007 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title and Abstract

January 19th
Nicolas Tremblay
Bishop's University

Are We Alone in the Universe?

January 26th
Shahn Nadeau
Bishop's University

Stellar Nuclear Energy Generation II: Thermonuclear Reactions From H to Fe

February 2nd
Caroline Foster
Bishop's University

The Millennium Simulation

February 9th
Florian Maisonneuve
Bishop's University

Supernovae

February 22nd
Walter Stephan
Bishop's University

The Highs and Lows of Superconductivity

March 16th
Dr. Georges Michaud
Departement de physique,
Universite de Montreal

Atomic Diffusion in Pop. II Stars, Globular Clusters and WMAP

March 23rd
Caroline Foster
Bishop's University

Distances in Astronomy: The Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Universe

April 2nd
Madjid Allili
Bishop's University

TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAPES USING MORSE THEORY

May 1st
Audrey Jacques
Bishop's University

Local Dynamics and Cosmological Expansion

May 1st
David Pawluczuk
Bishop's University

Sky Surface Density of Brown Dwarfs

May 1st
Deanna MacLennan
Bishop's University

One Loop Quantum Corrections to the Newtonian Potential

June 1st
Thomas P. Sotiriou
SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies,
Trieste, Italy

General Relativity is the Theory of Gravity, isn't it?