Valery NesvizhevskyILL - Neutrons for Society
Join us for a reception prior to the talk at 3:45 in PHY 150.
Eric ProuzetDepartment of Chemistry and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnnology,
University of Waterloo
Eric Prouzet carries out research in material chemistry and nanotechnology, focused on the synthesis of nanostructured materials such as porous materials and nano-objects.
Donna StricklandNobel Laureate
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Waterloo
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Join us for a reception prior to the talk at 3:45 in PHY 150.
Alán Aspuru-GuzikCanada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical & Quantum Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto
Randall KamienVicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Editor, Physical Review Letters (APS)
In a talk that I am hoping will quickly morph into a free-flowing Q and A session, I will discuss the role that PRL plays in disseminating your physics results. The process is a cascading sequence that entails interacting with journal editors, referees, conference chairs, journalists, department chairs, deans, funding agencies, and others. The tools, however, have changed in recent years; the arrival of social media, search engines, and electronic repositories have us in a state of flux. PRL published its first paper 60 (plus 1) years ago. Let's look back and forward.
A quantum material is a complex system in which electrons interact strongly and collaboratively. As such, quantum mechanics plays a dominant role in the versatile materials that allow us to explore emergent quantum phenomena as well as their potential applications in future technologies.
I hear it all the time: ‘to improve the recruitment and advancement of women and minorities in STEM, we need to change department culture. But I’m not hearing people discuss what department culture actually is. How can we assess, improve, or navigate a thing we don’t know?
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium- Polarization Resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Biomedically Relevant Applications
Speaker: Dr. Danielle Tokarz
Information regarding the structure and function of living tissues and cells is instrumental to the advancement of biochemistry and biophysics. Nonlinear optical microscopy, in particular, second harmonic generation (SHG), can provide such information. For instance, SHG microscopy can be used to visualize several biological tissues, while polarization-sensitive SHG imaging can be used to extract several parameters related to the ultrastructure of biological tissues. In this talk, I will discuss the use of polarization-resolved SHG microscopy to investigate the ultrastructure of collagen in diseased tissues as well as model systems to understand collagen disorganization in these tissues. I will also discuss the use of polarization-resolved SHG microscopy to investigate other biological tissues including the degradation of otoconia, inner ear calcite crystals which act as linear acceleration sensors.
Dr. Lisa Dang from the Université de Montréal will present a colloquium in the Department of Physics and Astronomy on Tuesday, February 27.