Regional Scientific Calendar - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Thursday, March 4, 1:00 pm in PHY 308, Seminar, Jeff Lundeen, National Research Council (NRC)
The search for Fock: Generating, manipulating, and detecting single photons
Monday, March 8, Colloquium, Roger Melko, University of Waterloo
Computing Entanglement in Simulations of Quantum Condensed Matter
Monday, March 22, Colloquium, Ion Nechita, University of Ottawa
Random graph states and the Fuss-Catalan ensembles of density matrices

UW – DEPT. OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Colloquium Series held Thursdays at 4:00 PM in Rm. PHY 150, refreshments at 3:30 PM in PHY 153

Thursday, March 4, Colloquium, Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
New Topologically Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter
Thursday, March 11, Colloquium, Yuri Lyubchenko, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Protein Misfolding, Weak Interactions And Alzheimer's Disease
Thursday, March 18, Colloquium, Virgis Barzda, University of Toronto
Application of Nonlinear Microscopy for Biomedical Imaging
Thursday, March 25, Colloquium, Duncan O'Dell, McMaster University
Quantum Catastrophes

UW - DEPT. OF ASTROPHYSICS AND GRAVITATION
Astro Lunch talks take place on Wednesdays from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM in room PHY 308

Wednesday, March 3, Astro Lunch Talk, Bob Abraham
TBA
Wednesday, March 10, Astro Lunch Talk - Student Seminar, Bryan Gillis
Stellar Chemical Signatures and Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
Wednesday, March 17, Astro Lunch Talk, Town Hall Meeting in Toronto
TBA
Wednesday, March 24, Astro Lunch Talk - Student Seminar, Clif Kirkpatrick
A Common Mass Scale for Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way
Wednesday, March 31, Astro Lunch Talk, Gretchen Harris
TBA

UW - DEPT. OF MATHEMATICS

Wednesday, March 3, 11:30 am in Rm. MC 5136, Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar, Christina Knoebel and Nicholas LaCompte, University of Waterloo
Total graph colouring and the probabilistic method, and A brief overview of unitary codes and unitary t-designs
Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 pm in Rm. MC 5046, Pure Mathematics Seminar, Chris Eagle, University of Waterloo
Differential Galois Extensions
Wednesday, March 3, 1:30 pm in Rm. MC 5136, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Eric Cheung, University of Waterloo
A risk model under periodic dividend decisions
Wednesday, March 3, 2:30 pm in Rm. MC 5136, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Chris Groendyke, Pennsylvania State University
Bayesian Inference for Contact Networks Given Epidemic Data
Wednesday, March 3, 3:30 pm in Rm. DC 1304, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Yuen Fei Lung, University of Hong Kong
Pricing Asian Options and Equity-Indexed Annuities with Regime-switching by Trinomial Tree Method
Thursday, March 4, 11:30 am in Rm. MC 5158, Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar, Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
Using convex optimization to find and count integer points in polyhedra
Thursday, March 4, 1:30 pm in Rm. MC 2018B, Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar, Brendan Rooney, University of Waterloo
The Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem for Intersecting Families of Permutations
Thursday, March 4, 2:30 pm in Rm. MC 5158, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Timothy Hanson, University of Minnesota
Two Applications of Mixtures of Polya Trees
Thursday, March 4, 4:00 pm in Rm. MC 5046, Pure Mathematics Seminar, Clinton Loo, University of Waterloo
Infinitary Formulas - Part 2
Friday, March 5, 1:30 pm in Rm. MC 5136, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Chengguo Weng, Towson University
Empirical-based Optimal Reinsurance Models
Friday, March 5, 2:30 pm in Rm. MC 5158, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Brian Hartman, Texas A&M University
From Argentina to Zimbabwe: Where Should I Sell My Widgets?
Friday, March 5, 3:30 pm in Rm. MC 5158, Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar, Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
The number of matrices and a random matrix with prescribed row and column sums and 0-1 entries
Friday, March 5, 3:30 pm in Rm. MC 5046, Pure Mathematics Seminar, Laura Marti, University of Waterloo
A Fourier algebra for a locally compact groupoid
Tuesday, March 9, 2:00 pm in Rm. MC 5158, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, Kerrie Nelson, Harvard Medical School
Improving the Reliability of Diagnostic Tests in Population-based Agreement Settings
Thursday, March 11, 4:00 pm in Rm. MC 5158, Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar, David Haziza, Universite de Montreal
Robust estimation in finite population sampling using the conditional bias of a unit
Thursday, March 18, 4:00 pm in Rm. MC 5046, Pure Mathematics Seminar, Russell O'Conner, McMaster University
Formal Mathematics using Dependent Type Theory
Friday, March 19, 1:30 pm in Rm. MC 5136, Computer Science Seminar, Rosario Gennaro, IBM Research
Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers

UW - QUANTUM MATTERS GROUP
Regular seminars are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am in room P&A 308

Wednesday, March 3, 10:00 am in P&A 308, Seminar, Max Metlitski, Harvard University
The Spin Density Wave Transition and the Genus Expansion
Tuesday, March 9, Seminar, Chris Henley, Cornell University
The Coulomb Phase in Frustrated Systems
Tuesday, March 23, Seminar, Leonardo Degiorgi, Laboratorium fur Festkorperphysik
Spectroscopy in broken symmetry ground states
Tuesday, March 30, Seminar, Oleg Tchernyshov, John Hopkins University
TBA

WLU - FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Friday, March 12, 3:00 pm in Rm. BA113, Seminar, Eduardo Leandro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
TBA

WLU - CSASM

U OF GUELPH - DEPT. OF PHYSICS
Colloquia take place every Tuesday at 4:00 PM in room MacN 101, coffee will be available prior to start.

Wednesday, March 17, 4:00 pm in Rm. MacN 113, CAP Lecture, Keshav Dasgupta, McGill University
How String Theory Explains the Origin of our Universe
Tuesday, March 23, Colloquium, Matthew Choptuik, University of British Columbia
TBA
Tuesday, March 30, Colloquium, Nancy Forde, Simon Fraser University
Using Optical Forces to Probe Mechanical Response from Single Molecules to Biomaterials

U OF GUELPH – MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Friday, March 5, 3:30 pm in Rm. SCIE 1511, Seminar, Jeffrey Andrews, University of Guelph
Recent advances in model-based clustering
Thursday, March 18, 2:40 pm in Rm. SCIE 1511, Seminar, Hristo Kojouharov, University of Texas at Arlington
TBA
Thursday, March 18, 4:30 pm in Rm. SCIE 1504, Seminar, April Khademi, University of Toronto
Automatic analysis of flair-weighted neuro mris with white matter lesions

MCMASTER - DEPT. OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Colloquia take place Wednesdays at 3:20 PM in ABB 102

Wednesday, March 3, Colloquium, Joel E. Moore, University of California
New Topologically Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter
Wednesday, March 10, Colloquium, John Katsaras, NRC
Cholesterol's Location In Bilayers May Be Determined By Lipid Composition
Wednesday, March 24, Colloquium, Michael Fall, John Hopkins University
TBA
Wednesday, March 31, Colloquium, Brad Marston, Brown University
TBA

MCMASTER - DEPT. OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Colloquia take place Fridays at 3:30 in Rm. HH305

Friday, March 5, 2:30 pm in Rm. HH 410, Mathematical Biology Seminar, Jianping Xu, McMaster University
Experimental evolution of a pathogenic yeast
Friday, March 5, Colloquium, Alasdair Urquhart, University of Toronto
Von Neumann, Goedel and Complexity theory
Tuesday, March 9, 3:30 pm in Rm. HH410, AIMS/Phimac Seminar, Guenbo Hwang, University of Vermont
Initial-boundary value problems for the integrable discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation
Friday, March 12, 2:30 pm in Rm. HH 410, Mathematical Biology Seminar, Mike Delorme, McMaster University
Evaluating the impact of pH1N1 vaccination in Montreal using SEIR-based forecasting

MCMASTER - ORIGINS INSTITUTE
Colloquia take place Mondays at 2:30 PM in Rm. MCDL 1110, coffee served at 2:15 PM

Monday, March 8, Colloquium, Eugene V. Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH
Comparative genomics, systems biology and the prospects of a "postmodern" evolutionary synthesis
Monday, March 15, Colloquium, Alan Stocker, University of Pennsylvania
Perception as optimal inference: validating the Bayesian hypothesis
Monday, March 29, Colloquium, Colin Norman, John Hopkins University
The Solar System's 10 Galactic Year Voyage through the Interstellar Medium
Monday, April 5, Colloquium, Duane Moser, The Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada
TBA

UWO - PHYSICS
Colloquia take place Thursday at 1:00 pm in Rm. 215 PAB

Thursday, March 4, Colloquium, Brian McNamara, University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute
Supermassive Black Holes: Workhorses of the Universe
Tuesday, March 9, 12:30 pm in PAB Rm. 137, CAP Lecture, Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and the nature of reality
Thursday, March 11, 11:30 am in PAB Rm. 36, Graduate Seminar, Matthew Fox, University of Western Ontario
13C metabolic imaging overview and imaging considerations
Thursday, March 11, Colloquium, Stephen Bougher, University of Michigan
Solar Cycle and Season Variations of the Mars Thermosphere & Ionosphere: Existing Measurements, Model Predictions and Preparations for the NASA MAVEN Mission
Tuesday, March 16, 12:30 pm in PAB Rm. 36, Graduate Seminar, Elizabeth Silber, University of Western Ontario
Propagation of a fragmented meteoroid through the atmosphere: 3D numerical modeling and applications to observations
Thursday, March 18, Colloquium, J. D. Smith, Ritter Observatory, University of Toledo
The Dark Side of the Light: Galaxies beyond a Micron
Thursday, March 25, 11:30 am in PAB Rm. 36, Graduate Seminar, Sarah Kefayati, University of Western Ontario
TBA
Thursday, March 25, 1:30 pm in PAB Rm. 233, Colloquium, Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center
Life in Extreme Environments
Tuesday, March 30, 12:30 pm in PAB Rm. 36, Graduate Talk, Maher Ahmed, University of Western Ontario
How to help your students win a Nobel Prize: Coaching creative thinking through teaching
Thursday, April 1, Colloquium, Franco Gaspari, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
TBA

UWO - APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Colloquia take place on Wednesdays at 2:30 pm in Rm. MC 204 and Thursdays at 3:30 pm in Rm. MC 108

Thursday, March 11, Colloquium, Martin Bendersky, City University of New York
Structure of some toric spaces
Wednesday, March 17, Colloquium, Lydia Bourouiba, MIT
TBA
Thursday, March 18, Colloquium, Adrian Wadsworth, University of California - San Diego
TBA
Thursday, March 25, Colloquium, Bruce Gilligan, University of Regina
TBA

UWO - PHILOSOPHY

Friday, March 12, 3:30 pm in Rm. STH 1145, Colloquium, Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa
A Tsunami Wave of Science
Friday, March 19, 3:30 pm in Rm. STH 1145, Colloquium, Peter Calami, Carleton University
Science Rules OK!

U OF T – CITA

Thursday, March 4, 2:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Sarah Shandera, Perimeter Institute
TBA
Friday, March 5, 3:10 pm, Seminar, Louis Leblond, Perimeter Institute
TBA
Monday, March 8, 3:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Jim Stone, Princeton
TBA
Thursday, March 11, 2:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Marc van der Sluys, University of Alberta
TBA
Monday, March 15, 3:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University
TBA
Friday, March 19, 11:10 am in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Amjad Ashoorioon, Uppsala University
TBA
Monday, March 22, 2:00 pm in Cody Hall, Rm. 107, Technical Lecture, Jerry Ostriker, Princeton
Formation of Massive Galaxies
Tuesday, March 23, 7:30 pm in Koffler Institute Building, Room 108, Public Lecture, Jerry Ostriker, Princeton
Heart of Darkness
Thursday, March 25, 2:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Dejan Stojkovic, University of Buffalo
Electroweak stars: Electroweak Matter Destruction as Exotic Stellar Engine
Monday, March 29, 3:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Jeremy Heyl, University of British Columbia
TBA
Tuesday, March 30, 2:10 pm in Rm. MP 1318A, Seminar, Denis Leahy, University of Calgary
TBA

U OF T– DEPT. OF PHYSICS
Physics Colloquia take place of Thursdays at 4:10 PM in Rm. MP 102

Thursday, March 4, 12:00 pm in Rm. MP 134, Geophysics Seminar, Richard Smith, Laurentian University
TBA
Thursday, March 4, Colloquium, Yuhai Tu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
From molecules to behavior: E. coli's memory, computation and chemotaxis
Friday, March 5, 2:00 pm in Rm. MP 102, Institute for Optical Sciences Lecture, Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester
Nonlinear Optics - Status and Future
Monday, March 8, 11:10 am in Rm. MP 606, Quantum Optics Seminar, Michael Moore, Michigan State University
TBA
Monday, March 8, 1:20 pm in Koffler Rm. 108, Institute for Optical Sciences Lecture, Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester
Controlling the Velocity of Light: Fundamentals and Applications
Tuesday, March 9, 4:00 pm in Rm. MP 103, Institute for Optical Sciences Lecture, Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester
Quantum Imaging: Enhanced Image Formation Using Quantum States of Light
Wednesday, March 10, 12:10 pm in Rm. MP 606, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Chris Henley, Cornell University
The Coulomb phase in frustrated systems
Thursday, March 11, 3:00 pm in Rm. MP 1115, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Alioscia Hamma, Perimeter Institute
Lieb-Robinson bounds and the structure of correlations in quantum many body systems
Thursday, March 11, 4:00 pm in Rm. MP 101, Seminar, Rob Stewart, University of Houston
Advances in "3D/4D Seismic Imaging"
Thursday, March 11, Colloquium, Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto
TBA
Monday, March 15, 11:10 am in Rm. MP 606, Quantum Optics CQIQC Seminar, Lev Vaidman, Tel Aviv University
Where is the Quantum Particle between two Measurements?
Wednesday, March 17, 4:00 pm in Rm. MP 134, Geophysics Seminar, David Clark, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering
Improved methods for interpreting magnetic gradient tensor data
Thursday, March 18, Colloquium, Paul Wiseman, McGill University
Mapping protein dynamics in living cells via fluorescence fluctuation and correlation analysis in space, time and reciprocal space
Monday, March 22, 1:00 pm in Rm. MP 606, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, L. Degiorgi, Laboratorium fur Festkorperphysik, ETH - Zurich
Spectroscopy in broken symmetry ground states
Wednesday, March 24, 12:10 pm in Rm. MP 606, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Jorg Schmalian, Iowa State University
TBA
Thursday, March 25, Colloquium, Jane Wang, Cornell University
How Insects Fly and Turn
Monday, March 29, 11:10 am in Rm. MP 606, Quantum Optics Seminar, Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University
Precision measurements with Sr Dimers
Tuesday, March 30, 8:00 pm in the Isabel Bader Theatre, Geophysics Lecture, David MacKay FRS, Cambridge University
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
Wednesday, March 31, 12:10 pm in Rm. MP 606, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Oleg Tchernyshyov, John Hopkins University
Spin excitations with Fermi statistics in frustrated antiferromagnets
Thursday, April 1, Colloquium, Peter Krieger, University of Toronto
TBA

U OF T – ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA
Fridays at 2 PM, in Cody Hall.

Friday, March 5, Colloquium, Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with LIGO
Friday, March 12, Colloquium, Mariska Kriek, Princeton University
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
Friday, March 19, Colloquium, Alex Wolszczan, Penn State University
Planets around evolved stars
Friday, March 26, Colloquium, Linda Smith, Space Telescope Science Institute
TBA

U OF T - DEPT. OF MATH

Monday, March 8, 4:10 pm in Rm. HU 1018, Geometry and Topology Seminar, Matthew Kahle, Stanford University
The fundamental group of random 2-complexes
Wednesday, March 24, 2:10 pm in Rm. BA 6183, Number/Representation Theory Seminar, Alina Bucur, Institute for Advanced Study
The number of points on curves over finite fields
Monday, March 29, 2:10 pm in Rm. BA 6183, Symplectic Seminar, Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
Ricci solitons

FIELDS INSTITUTE

Tuesday, March 9, 1:30 pm in the 3rd Floor Stewart Library, Quantitative Finance Seminar, Rudra Jena, Ecole Polytechnique
Arbitrage Opportunities in Misspecified Stochastic Volatility Models
Friday, March 12, 3:30 pm, CMM Seminar, L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
On growth and form: mathematics, mechanics and morphogensis
Friday, March 12, 3:30 pm, CMM Seminar, L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
On growth and form: mathematics, mechanics and morphogensis
Wednesday, March 24, 3:10 pm, Colloquium, Jane Wang, Cornell University
Computing Insect Flight and Falling Paper
Thursday, March 25, 4:10 pm, Colloquium, Jane Wang, Cornell University
How Insects Fly and Turn
Wednesday, March 31, 5:00 pm, Quantitative Finance Seminar, Dilip Madan, University of Maryland and Stan Uryasev, University of Florida
TBA

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