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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Remarkable presentations from OMPI at 2011 Joint AAPM/COMP meeting
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The muon: "Who ordered that?"
Trevor J. Stocki
Research Scientist/Adjunct Professor
Radiation Protection Bureau/Carleton University
HP 4351
3:30PM- 4:30PM
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Direct Measurement of the Quantum Wavefunction
Charles Bamber
Research Scientist
NRC
HP 4351
3:30PM-4:30PM
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Muon Manna from the Heavens: Cosmic Rays and National Security
David Waller
Research Scientist
Defence Research and Development Canada
HP 4351
3:30PM- 4:30PM
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Dark Matter Search with CDMS and SuperCDMS
Wolfgang Rau
CRC/Assistant Professor
Queens University
HP4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Joint Physics Colloquium & OCIP Seminar: Why we care about the Higgs boson
Dr. Heather Logan
Professor of Physics
Carleton University
HP 4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Interfacing Physics and Biology by System-based Computational Modeling in Radiation Oncology: Prospects and Challenges
Issam El Naqa
Associate Professor
McGill University
HP 4351
3:30PM-4:30PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Joint Physics Colloquium & OCIP Seminar: "Physics challenges in proton therapy"
Harald Paganetti
Associate Professor/Director of Physics Research
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology
HP 4351
2:00PM- 3:00PM
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Time Series Analysis of Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments
Itay Yavin
Assistant Professor/Associate Faculty Member
McMaster University/Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
HP 4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Ottawa Carleton Institute for Physics Graduate Student Symposium: Fall 2011
Loeb Building, room C-164, Carleton University
2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Developing MRI Technology to Study Changes in the Architecture of the In Vivo Human Cerebral Cortex
Dr. Jennifer McNab
CIHR Research Fellow
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School
HP 4351
1:30pm-3:00pm
Monday, January 9, 2012
Detector Development for Compact and Multimodality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging Systems
Dr. Andrew Goertzen
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba
HP 4351
1:15pm-2:30pm
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Instrumentation to improve the spatial resolution and sensitivity in small animal PET
Dr. Sara St. James
Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program
Harvard Medical School
HP 4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Accelerator Production of the Medical Isotope Tc-99m
William T. Diamond
Emeritus
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (CRNL)
HP4351
3:30-4:30pm
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) - a new tool to probe the dark energy driven expansion history of the universe from z=1-3
Matt Dobbs
Canada Research Chair in Astro-particle Physics
Department of Physics, McGill University
HP 4351
3:30PM-4:30PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Astrophysics of Cold Dark Matter
Kristine Spekkens
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Royal Military College of Canada
HP 4351
3:30PM- 4:30PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Matter with Antimatter
Dr. David Morrissey
Research Scientist
TRIUMF
HP4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Monday, March 5, 2012
Special Department Seminar: The SPES Project: a Neutron Rich ISOL Facility for re-accelerated RIBs
Dr. Leandro Piazza
Research Scientist
INFN-Legnaro, Italy
HP 4351
10:15am-11:30am
Friday, March 16, 2012
Taking a "nu" Look: Studying Low-Energy Solar and Terrestrial Neutrinos with Borexino
Dr. Alex Wright
Physics Department, Princeton University
HP4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Searching for Oscillating Neutrinos at T2K: Results and Prospects
Dr. Mark Hartz
T2K Experiment, Toronto and York Universities
HP4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) Project
Gregg Wade
Professor
Department of Physics, Royal Military College of Canada
HP 4351
3:30PM- 4:30PM
Thursday, March 29, 2012
A paradigm shift in physics until 2025 because of the LHC?
Dr. David Cote
Physics Department Research Fellow
CERN, PH-ADP
HP4351
2:45pm-3:45pm
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Special CAP Lecture: "Efficiency in the Cell: How Cells Make Proteins Rapidly While Working to a Budget"
Dr. Paul Higgs
Professor
Physics Department, McMaster University
HP 4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Centers and Centroids of the Projection of a Sphere
Dr. Rolf Clackdoyle
Directeur de Recherche
Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Universite Jean Monnet
HP4351
3:30pm-4:30pm
Saturday, May 5, 2012
OMPI Seminar
Centre Foustanellas Auditorium - 2nd floor - The University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin Street
3:30pm - 5:00 pm