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2021 Events
January
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Jan 16, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: David Sivak. Frontiers of Modern Physics -
Jan 20, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Chapin Korosec. Modelling and engineering burnt-bridges ratchets -
Jan 22, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Stephanie Simmons. The International Race For A Quantum Computer -
Jan 29, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Guillermo Quispe Pena. Gravity-related wave-function collapse models -
Jan 29, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Howard Trottier. The not-so-secret history of the Trottier Observatory
February
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Feb 03, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Andela Saric. Modelling protein assembly in health and disease -
Feb 04, 2021 at 9:30AM Online
: Wilson Poon. The Soft Matter Physics of COVID-19 -
Feb 5, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Hamza Hanif. A TESS view of Galactic Bulge X-ray sources -
Feb 5, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Koushik Bar. Magnetoreception -
Feb 06, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Ivan Prpic. Frontiers of Modern Physics -
Feb 8, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Stephanie Simmons. 2021 CAP Lecture Series -
Feb 10, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: KC Huang. Regulation of cell elongation and division under fluctuating resource constraints -
Feb 11, 2021 at 5:00PM Online
: Andrei Frolov, Timothy Audas, and Nienke E. van Houten. Nobel Prize Lectures -
Feb 12, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Nicholas Brunelle. The Search for Axions as a Dark Matter Candidate -
Feb 12, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Matthew Leighton. The Physics of Hurricanes -
Feb 12, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Alannah Hallas. Designing a Quantum Spin Liquid on the Pyrochlore Lattice -
Feb 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Florian Baer. Why Brazil Nuts are on Top: Size-Segregation in a Vibrated Granular Medium -
Feb 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Olha Farion. Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of a Single Photon -
Feb 26, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: SFU Physics. 2021 Poster Competition
March
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Mar 5, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Leea Stott. Utilizing Neurons for Digital Logic circuits -
Mar 5, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Kiyoshi Masui. A Synoptic View of Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME -
Mar 06, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Djuna Croon. Frontiers of Modern Physics -
Mar 10, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Valentin Jaumouillé. Receptor diffusion and mechanical coupling as determinants of the cellular internalization of particulate material -
Mar 12, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Obinna Uzoh. A single-atom heat engine -
Mar 12, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Jonathan Barenboim. A Protocol for Counterfactual Quantum Communication -
Mar 19, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Prithviraj Basak. Inferring potentials in a feedback-trap using machine learning -
Mar 19, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Joshua Kanaganayagam. Simulating icy wind turbines -
Mar 19, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Zachary Vernon. Scaling photonic quantum computers -
Mar 24, 2021 at 10:30AM Online
: Alexandru Paler. A real-time and reliable operating system for quantum computers -
Mar 24, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: John Dutcher. Stiffness and Deformability of Soft Hydrated Polysaccharide Nanoparticles -
Mar 25, 2021 at 9:30AM Online
: Sabine Hossenfelder. How beauty leads physics astray -
Mar 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Mayur Patel. Quantizing Photosynthesis -
Mar 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Nasrin Azari. Racetrack Memory: The Future Third Dimension of Data Storage -
Mar 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Sina Falakian. How droplets can find their way? -
Mar 31, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Jing Chen. What does a lysis pattern tell about phage-bacteria co-propagation?
April
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Apr 07, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Ré Mansbach. Learning from Life: Understanding and Design of Complex Biophysical Systems through Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning -
Apr 8, 2021 at 9:30AM Online
: Eric Schibli. Nanostructure and ion dynamics of novel ionenes via scattering and simulation -
Apr 8, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Abbas Nakhlband. Investigation of complex impurity centers in zinc oxide -
Apr 09, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Nadia Drake. 300 Million Earths: The Search for Life in the Cosmos (from a science journalist's perspective) -
Apr 10, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Rtiuparna Kanungo. Frontiers of Modern Physics -
Apr 13, 2021 at 9:00AM Online
: Alex Yang. Investigation of core-shell nanowires via electron-beam-induced current -
Apr 14, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Daniel Charlebois. Quantifying the Transition from Non-Genetic to Genetic Drug Resistance -
Apr 20, 2021 at 9:00AM Online
: Paul Omelchenko. Spin current propagation in metallic heterostructure: Pt, Pt/Au and Ta -
Apr 21, 2021 at 9:00AM Online
: Avinash Kumar. Anomalous relaxation in colloidal systems -
Apr 21, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Hesham El-Sherif. Towards Scalable High-Resolution Characterization of Confined 2D Metals -
Apr 23, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Chapin Korosec. Modelling & Engineering burnt-bridge ratchet molecular motors -
Apr 26, 2021 at 9:30AM Online
: Eugene Hu. Modelling the Transcriptional Regulation of Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer
May
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May 05, 2021 at 3:30PM Online
: Department of Physics. Discover Physics @SFU 2021 -
May 08, 2021 at 3:30PM Online
: Faculty of Science. Meet SFU Scientists: Science Rendezvous and International Astronomy Day -
May 8, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Sun Kwok. Frontiers of Modern Physics -
May 17-19, 2021 Online
: SFU Physics. SFU-IIT Bombay Workshop: Quantum Science and Technologies -
May 26, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Eric Bell. Islands no more: how do mergers affect galaxies and their satellites?
June
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Jun 2, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Jinyi Shangguan. Science of VLTI/GRAVITY near-infrared interferometer and the studies of luminous AGNs -
Jun 8, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Jens Lassen. Laser resonance ionization - and its application for an element selective ion source -
Jun 9, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Samir Salim. AGN emission line diagnostic diagrams -
Jun 9, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: David Sivak. Measuring DNA mechanics on the genome scale -
Jun 16, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Eric Jones. Mechanical feedback promotes bacterial adaptation to antibiotics -
Jun 17, 2021 at 1PM Online
: Parker Reid. Applied Quantum Annealing for Particle Tracking: Optimisation for the HL-LHC -
Jun 18, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Claudia Cicone. The hidden circumgalactic medium -
Jun 22, 2021 at 9:30am Online
: Maria Tchernycheva. Nitride nanowire light emitting diodes -
Jun 22, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Erol Girt. TBA -
Jun 23, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Alice Shapley. The Search for Ionizing Radiation at High Redshift -
Jun 23, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Mark Rempel. Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by cryo-EM -
Jun 29, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Joanna Woo. Stellar Populations and the Structural Evolution of Galaxies -
Jun 30, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Nir Mandelker. The evolution of cold accretion flows in the CGM of massive galaxies and proto-clusters at z>2
July
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Jul 6, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Nancy Forde. Tugging on our unstable protein building blocks, one molecule at a time -
Jul 7, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Chiara Circosta. Looking for observational signatures of feedback from active galactic nuclei -
Jul 7, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Matt Leighton. Bacteria solve the problem of crowding by moving slowly -
Jul 13, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Kero Lau. On the dawn of quantum technological revolution: what should we care? -
Jul 14, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Jenny Greene. Dwarf Galaxies and Their Black Holes -
Jul 20, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Karen Kavanagh. What do you need for diffraction? -
Jul 21, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Koushik Bar. A hydraulic instability drives the cell death decision in the nematode germline -
Jul 21, 2021 at 3:00PM Online
: Sandro Tacchella. The diversity of building up the quiescent sequence at redshift z~1 -
Jul 27, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Bernd Stelzer. Particle Physics, the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson -
Jul 27, 2021 at 2:00PM Online
: Etienne Dreyer. The search for new high-mass resonances in the dilepton final state using the full Run-2 ATLAS dataset of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions -
Jul 28, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Chiaki Kobayashi. Chemodynaical evolution of galaxies -
Jul 28, 2021 at 10:00AM Online
: Scott Aaronson. Shadow Tomography of Quantum States: Progress and Prospects -
Jul 28, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Sina Falakian. Localization atomic force microscopy
August
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Aug 3, 2021 at 12PM Online
: Simon Watkins. Semiconductor nanowires: what good are they? -
Aug 4, 2021 at 11:30AM Online
: Eldon Emberly. Transcription-dependent spatial organization of a gene locus -
Aug 06, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Joseph Lucero. Stochastic Thermodynamics of Gaussian Information Engines -
Aug 18, 2021 at 2:00PM Online
: Christopher Coutts. Growth of ZnO nanowires by MOCVD on sputter deposited metallic underlayers
September
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Sept 17, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Department of Physics. Physics Research Jamboree 2021 -
Sep 22, 2021 at 10AM Online
: Hannes Bernien . Engineering quantum processors and quantum networks atom-by-atom -
Sept 23, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Steve Presse. Unraveling nanoscopic dynamics from single photon arrivals -
Sep 23, 2021 at 3PM Online
: Gopolang Mohlabeng . Discovering Dark Matter Beyond the Weak Scale -
Sep 24, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Clarice Aiello. From nanotech to living sensors: unraveling the spin physics of biosensing at the nanoscale
October
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Oct 01, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Hamza Hanif. Hint of New Physics? An overview of the latest result from the Muon g–2 Experiment -
Oct 01, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Tyson Schilbach. Rad-ical Fungi: A Potential Avenue for Nuclear Clean-up -
Oct 1, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: David Morrissey. Searching for dark matter all the way down to the neutrino floor -
*Oct 7, 2021 at 11:30AM* Online
: Aleksandra Walczak. Prediction in immune repertoires -
Oct 7, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Emma Lathouwers. Energy and information flows in strongly coupled rotary motors -
Oct 08, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Olha Farion. Ultracold Atoms As A Platform for Studying Spin Diffusion -
Oct 08, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Nasrin Azari. Spin ice materials and magnetic monopoles -
Oct 15, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Mark Rempel. Polyvalent Motor Dynamics with Burnt Bridge Ratchet Model -
Oct 15, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Aida El-Khadra. The mysterious muon -
Oct 21, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Josh Milstein. Learning to Count with Quantitative Single-Molecule Imaging -
Oct 22, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Mayur Patel. Prediction of Global Warming: Nobel Prize – 2021 -
Oct 22, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Mae Abedi. OT and HOT: Manipulation of light on the micro-scale -
Oct 22, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Stan Williams. Building Brain-Inspired Computers with Nonlinear Dynamical Materials -
Oct 28, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Matt Thomson. Programming force, fluid-flow, and motility in biological active matter -
Oct 29, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Leea Stott. Towards Purcell-enhanced readout of the T-center in Silicon -
Oct 29, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Nicholas Brunelle. Raman Based All-Optical Control of Solid-State Qubits -
Oct 29, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Nikta Fakhri. Broken symmetries in living matter
November
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Nov 4, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Maikel Rheinstadter. Functional and functionalized membranes -
Nov 5, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Alex Bunka. Quark and Gluon Jet Response from Dijet and Z/Gamma + Jet Events at ATLAS -
Nov 5, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Joshua Kanaganayagam. Magnetic fields for protecting Silicon T-center nuclear qubits from a hyperfine interaction -
Nov 5, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Lindsay LeBlanc. Quantum technology with warm, cold, and ultracold atoms -
Nov 10, 2021 at 10:40am Online
: Emma Lathouwers. Energy and information flows in strongly coupled rotary machines -
Nov 12, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Adam Riess. Surprises from the Expansion of the Universe -
Nov 18, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Dvira Segal. Quantum refrigerators from classical kinetics -
Nov 19, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Guillermo Quispe. A new mechanism for primordial black hole formation during a cosmological first-order phase transition -
Nov 19, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Mohammad Mostaan. The emergence of the classical world from quantum physics -
Nov 19, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Eun-Ah Kim. Machine learning in condensed matter -
Nov 25, 2021 at 1:00PM Online
: Natasha Mhatre. What moves (in) a tree cricket ear? -
Nov 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Jakub Stacho. Undersea Background Characterization for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment -
Nov 26, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Israel Lumumba. Generating a Molecular Movie with Femtosecond Electron Pulses -
Nov 26, 2021 at 2:30PM Online
: Nigel Cooper. Topological quantum matter out of equilibrium
December
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Dec 3, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Jake Stewart. Resonant Scattering As A Tool For Soft-Matter Characterization -
Dec 3, 2021 at 1:30PM Online
: Pak Tik Fong. Demonstration of Discrete Time Crystals in a Quantum system -
Dec 3, 2021 at 2:30PM SSB 7172
: Dept of Physics. Physics Undergrad Pizza Party -
Dec 06, 2021 at 12:30PM Convocation Mall
: . The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women -
Dec 10, 2021 at 1PM Online
: Aria Payamara. Analyzing the effect that Non-uniform Receptor distribution and Secretion of Chemo attractants has on Cell Chemotaxis