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Upcoming Events
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- Fun with Physics — Sink or Float?
- McGill Physics Outreach class geared for kids ~8-12.
November 1st and 14th, 2020, 11:00 (Eastern).
Sign-up here.
- Scientific Revolutions Computing Hackathon
- November 2-3, 2019, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
- 2nd Global 21cm Workshop
- October 7th-9th, McGill University
- Cosmology Research at McGill
- Wednesday. September 11th, 2019
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
- Physics Matters
- Auriane Canesse (McGill University) -
The
Secrets of Quantum Levitation: Superconductivity and its Application
Tuesday, June 4th 2019, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Mayank Singh (McGill University) -
From Radioactivity to Quarks: The Evolution of Nuclear Physics
Tuesday, May 7th 2019, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Guilherme Franzmann (McGill University) -
On the Nature of Time
Tuesday, April 9th 2019, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Tyler Enright (McGill University) -
The Physics of Batteries and their Role in Future Technologies
Tuesday, March 12th 2019, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Megan Cowie (McGill University) -
‘Seeing’ atoms: Our world at the nanoscale
Tuesday, February 5th 2019, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 2018/19 Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- Wendy Freedman
January 24th & 25th, 2019 [Poster]
- Physics Matters
- Vanessa Graber
(McGill University) -
Neutron
Stars - Extraordinary Cosmic Laboratories
Thursday, December 13th 2018, 19:00
Room 204, McConnell Engineering Building.
- Physics Matters
- Hannah Wakeling
(McGill University) -
Why Does it (Anti-)Matter?
Thursday, November 15th 2018, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 2018 Scientific Revolutions Computing Hackathon
- November 3-4, 2017, Phi Centre
- Physics Matters
- Marty Otto
(McGill University) -
Capturing Atomic Motion with the Worlds Fastest Cameras
Thursday, October 25th 2018, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Benjamin Dringoli
(McGill University) -
Unpacking Gravitational Waves: The Road to Discovery
Thursday, September 27th 2018, 19:00
W-215, Arts Building.
- Physics Matters
- William Witcak-Krempa
(Université de Montréal) -
Entanglement Matters
Thursday, April 5th 2018, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Northeast Cosmology Workshop
- March 16th-18th 2018
Boardroom, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling
- Physics Matters
- Shaun Lovejoy
(McGill University) -
Weather, Macroweather and Climate: Big and Small, Fast and Slow, Our Random Yet Predictable Atmosphere
Thursday, March 1st, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Aaron
Dominguez
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln) -
Discovering the Truth in High Energy Physic
Thursday, February 8th 2018, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 2017/18 Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- Alan Guth
January 18th & 19th, 2018 [Poster]
- Physics Matters
- Audrey Moores
(McGill University) -
How Green Chemistry Invents New Ways from Abundant Resources and Energies
Thursday, January 4th 2018, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Normand Mousseau
(Université de Montréal) -
Winning the War on Climate Change: Twelve Myths Debunked
Thursday, December 7th 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 2017 Scientific Revolutions
Computing Hackathon
- November 4-5, 2017, Société des Arts et Technology
- Physics Matters
- Michael Hilke (McGill University) -
The Beautiful Two-dimensional World: An Exploration of Flatworld
Thursday, November 2nd 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Amy Szuchmacher Blum (McGill University) -
Metamaterials: Going Beyond What Nature Gives Us
Thursday, October 5th 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Robert Brandenberger (McGill University) -
What Was Before The Big Bang - And How Might We Tell?
Thursday, September 7th 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 3rd Annual
Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada
- May 24-26, 2017, UQÀM [Poster]
- McGill-Dartmouth
Cosmology Day
- May 25th 2017, ERP Boardroom (room 105)
- Physics Matters
- Qi Feng (McGill University) -
Machine Learning and Crowdsourcing Made
Easy for Physicists: Everybody Can Teach a Machine a Little Physics
Thursday, May 4th 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Nicolas Cowan (McGill University) -
Global Warming: We've Had This Coming For
A Long Time
Thursday, April 6th 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 2016/17 Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- Rainer Weiss
March 9th & 10th, 2017 [Poster]
- Journée Des Femmes en Sciences
- March 7th, PK-1140, Pavillon Kennedy du Campus des Sciences de l'UQÀM [Poster]
- Physics Matters
- John
Kildea (Medical Physics Unit, McGill University) -
Cutting it Both Ways - Ionizing Radiation
and Cancer
Thursday, March 2nd 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Brian
Watson (St. Lawrence University) -
From N-Rays to Cold Fusion to NASA's
EMDrive: A Tour of Pathological Science
Thursday, February 2nd 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- Physics Matters
- Alex Maloney -
Black Holes, String Theory and
Quantum Gravity
Thursday, January 5th 2017, 19:00
Keys Auditorium, Ernest Rutherford Physics Buidling.
- 2016 Scientific Revolutions
Computing Hackathon
- July 9-10, 2016, Société des Arts et Technology
- AFM Summer School and Workshop
- May 12-13 2016, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
- 2nd Physics Matters Lecture
- Thursday, April 7th 2016, 19:00, Keys Auditorium (room 112).
- 1st Physics Matters Lecture
- Thursday, March 10th 2016, 19:00, Keys Auditorium (room 112).
- The Happy Hours 2016
- February 4th 2016, McGill's Department of Physics
- 2015/16 Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- Alain Aspect
November 19th & 20th, 2015 [Poster]
- Applications of AdS/CFT to QCD and condensed matter physics
- October 19-23, 2015, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Universié de Montréal
- AdS/CFT, self-adjoint extension and the resolution of cosmological singularities
- July 6-10 2015, Centre de Recheches Mathematiques
- The Neutron Star Radius, And All That Jazz (RADIUS15)
- June 30 - July 2 2015, McGill University
- Hard Probes 2015
- June 29-July 3 2015, McGill University
- Public Astro Night
- Richard Léveillé: Modern Planetary Science: Exploring the Diversity of our Solar System
March 19th 2015, 19:00 [Poster]
- 2015 Beatty Public Lecture
- Perspectives on the Search for Other Earths, Debra
Fischer, Yale University
March 12th 2015 (McIntyre Medical Building,
room 522) [Poster]
- 30th Public Astro Night
- Howard Trottier: The Passion and Science of Amateur
Astronomy: A Scientist's Diary
February 19th 2015, 19:00 [Poster]
Howard Trottier is the recipient of the 2014 Qilak award for Astronomy
Communications, Public Education and Outreach
Note special venue: Timmins Auditorium,
Montreal Neurological Institute (3801 rue University)
- 2015 CAP/Year of Light Lecture
- Through the Optics of the Eye to a Window on the
Brain, Melanie Campbell, University of Waterloo
February 18th 2015, 15:30, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Sébastien Guillot: Are we there yet? Climbing the rungs of the cosmic ladder
January 15th 2015, 19:00 [Poster]
- Introduction to Programming
- January 10 & 11 2015, 08:00-16:00, Trottier Building
[Poster]
- Livestream: Philae landing on 67P/CG
- November 12th 2014, 09:00 [Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Laurens Keek: The X-ray sky: Black Holes and Neutron Stars
November 20th 2014, 19:00 [Poster]
- 2014/15
Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- David Wineland
November 6th & 7th, 2014 [Poster]
- Data Visualization by David Taylor
- November 4th, 12:00-13:00 2014, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
[Poster]
- McGill Physics Open House
- Sunday, October 26th 2014, 10:00-16:00 [Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- René Doyon: The quest for life outside the Solar System
October 16th 2014, 19:00 [Poster]
- Department Reunion 2014
- October 17th 2014, 16:30-18:30
- Public Astro Night
- Robert Ferdman: Discovering radio blips and blasts: from pulsars to
fast radio burts
September 18th 2014, 19:30 [Poster]
- Mini-Workshop on the bulk-to-boundary correspondence in AdS/CFT
- August 6 - 8 2014, McGill University
- Public Astro Night
- Lyle Whyte: The Search for Little Green Bugs on Mars and
Astrobiology
July 17th 2014, 20:30 [Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Jean-François Rajotte: Gamma-ray Astronomy: The
Atmosphere as a 3D Display
June 19th 2014, 20:30 [Poster]
- Saturday Morning Astronomy
- Fun hands-on activities & observations of the Sun as part
of Québec-wide 9th 24 heures de
science, May 10th 2014, 10:00
[Poster]
- Astro Kids Night
- Fun hands-on activities & night-sky observations as part
of Québec-wide 9th 24 heures de
science, May 9th 2014, 20:00
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- R. Brandenberger, M. Dobbs, V. Kaspi: Inflation, The Big
Bang and Gravitational Waves: A Panel Discussion on the Results of the
BICEP2 Telescope
April 24th 2014, 20:00
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Marie-Michèle Limoges (U. de Montréal): La Cartographie
de l'Univers à Travers les Âges (in french)
March 20th 2014, 19:00
[Poster]
- Astro Kids Night
- February 27th 2014, 18:30
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Gil Holder: Does this Dark Matter Make my Galaxy Look
Fat?
February 20th 2014, 19:00
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Matt Dobbs: CHIME: a new Canadian radio telescope for mapping the
Universe in 3D
January 16th 2014, 19:00
[Poster]
- Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
- McGill University, January 10-12, 2014 [Poster]
- 2013/14
Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- Andrea Ghez
November 21st & 22nd, 2013 [Poster]
- Physics Homecoming 2013
- October 18th 2013, 16:30-18:30
- R.E. Bell Lecture:
You Can't See Them, But They're EVERYWHERE!
- Janet Conrad,
MIT
Friday, October 25th 2013, 15:30 [Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Patrick Dufour: Tales from the Crypt: Autopsies of white
dwarf stars reveal hidden secrets
October 17th, 2013, 19:00
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Duncan Hanson: The afterglow of the Big Bang
September 19th, 2013, 19:30
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Robert Rutledge: Black Holes: From A to Y
August 15th, 2013, 20:00
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Ryan Lynch: NANOGrav: Opening a New Frontier in Astronomy
July 18th, 2013, 20:30
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Gabrielle Simard: Neutrinos: Les messagers invisibles du
Cosmos (in french)
June 20th, 2013, 20:30
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Andrew Cumming: In Search for New Worlds: the Diverse
Properties of Exoplanets
May 23rd, 2013, 20:30
[Poster]
- N=2 Jeometry And ApplicationZ workshop Part II
- May 22-24, 2013, McGill University
- Adventures in Superspace
- April 19-20, 2013, McGill University
- Public Astro Night
- Yashar Hezaveh: Looking through the Largest Telescopes of
the Universe
April 18th, 2013, 20:00
[Poster]
- Telescopes of the Future & Astrophysics of Today
- A Workshop in Honour of Lorne Trottier
April 18th 2013, 13:30-18:00, Thomson House, McGill University
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Amy Bender: The South Pole Telescope: Observing the Infant
Universe from the End of the World
March 21st, 2013, 19:30
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Robert Brandenberger: What was before the Big Bang?
February 21st, 2013, 19:00
[Poster]
- 2012/13
Anna I. McPherson Lectures
- Brian
Schmidt, Nobel Laureate
January 31st & February 1st, 2013 [Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Michel Burelle: The Space Race: Venturing out of the cradle,
on the Wings of Apollo
January 17th, 2013, 19:00
[Poster]
- Public Astro Night
- Stephen Ng: Cosmic Fireworks:
Supernova Explosions and Their Aftermaths
November 15th, 2012, 19:00
- Searching for Cosmic
Strings in New Observational Windows
- October 26-28, 2012, McGill University
- Public Astro Night
- Tracy Webb: All the Colours the Eye
Can't See: studying the universe with different kinds of light
October 18th, 2012, 19:00
- Physics Cocktail Reception
- October 12th, 2012, 16:00-18:00
- Summer School in Computational Materials
Science
- July 9-13, 2012, McGill University
- A symposium on contemporary subatomic physics
- June 12-14, 2012, McGill University
- 2012 JET Summer School
- June 16-18, 2012, McGill University
- N=2 Jeometry And ApplicationZ workshop
- June 20-22, 2012, McGill University
- McGill-CSA Space Day
- March 1st, 9:00-16:00, Faculty Club Ballroom
- 49th Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics
Conference
- Tremblant, February 23-26, 2012
- GIG1 -
Entrepeneurship, Science-based
- Starting January 18th, 2012
- GIG2 -
Science students on the move
- Starting January 16th, 2012
- Northeast
Cosmology Workshop
- September 30th - October 2nd, 2011
- Holography and Universality of Black Holes, Part Deux
- September 9th-11th, 2011
- Dark
Matter From Every Direction
- April 1st-3rd, 2011, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
- CPM's 20th anniversary
- November 5th, 2010, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
- Cosmological Backreaction Workshop
- October 31st-November 1st, 2010, McGill University
- 2010/11 Anna I. McPherson Lecture [Poster]
- Jack Szostak, October 13th, 2010
- NT10: 11th International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes
- June 27th-July 2nd, 2010, Montréal
- Strong and Electroweak Matter 2010
- June 29th-July 2nd, 2010, McGill University
- Graphene Satellite Symposium 2010
- June 27th-28th, 2010, Montréal
- AdS/CFT: Condensed Matter, Holographic QCD and Fluid Mechanics
- June 25th-27th,2010, McGill University
- Hands-on Summer School on Advanced AFM Techniques and International Workshop on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Conductive AFM
- June 1st-4th, 2010, Montréal
- 2nd Holographic Cosmology Worskhop
- May 10th-11th, 2010, Montréal
- 2009/10 Anna I. McPherson Lectures [Poster]
- David Gross, March 25th and 26th, 2010
- APS plaques unveiling
- November 30th, 16:00, Keys Auditorium (ERP room 112)
- Black Holes Sing [Poster]
- Janna Levin, Barnard College, Columbia University
Thursday, November 12th 2009, 18:45, Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium
- Workshop on Holography and Universality of Black Holes
- November 6th-8th, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E.
Bell Conference Room (room 103)
- The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time [Poster]
- Sean Carroll, Caltech
Monday, October 19th 2009, 18:00, Stephen Leacock Building, room 132
- Workshop on Holographic
Cosmology
- October 2nd-4th 2009, McGill University
- Origins and Aliens: The Search for Other Earths [Poster]
- Sarah
Seager, MIT
Monday, September 21st 2009
- Feynman's Broader Impact [Poster]
- Doug Osheroff, Stanford University
Monday, September 14th 2009, 15:30
- Understanding the Columbia Accident [Poster]
- Doug Osheroff, Stanford University
Friday, September 11th 2009, 16:30
- Workshop: Next Generation X-ray Sources
- Friday, May 1, 2009, McGill University
- Rutherford's Nobel Prize Celebration
- Rutherford: Canada's First Nobel Laureate [PDF]
- John Campbell, University of Canterbury
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 17:30
- 2008/09 Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture
The LHC: the world's most powerful microscope and telescope [PDF]
- John Ellis, CERN
Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 18:00
- 2008/09 Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture
What may we expect from the LHC? [PDF]
- John Ellis, CERN
Friday, October 24th 2008, 15:30
- AdS/CFT, Condensed Matter and QCD
- October 3rd-5th 2008, McGill
- McGill Speaker Series: Carl Wieman
- September 24th and 25th, 2008 [PDF]
Co-sponsored with T-Pulse
- Large Hadron Collider Start-up Event
- Wednesday, September 10th 2008, Ernest Rutherford Physics Bldg
- Eighth Canadian
Summer School on Quantum Information
- Université de Montréal, June 9-13, 2008
- The Fifth
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Symposium
- Thomson House, April 3rd-4th 2008
- R.E. Bell Lecture:
QCD,
strings and black holes: A duality between gravity and field theory
- Juan Maldacena,
Institute for Advanced Study
Friday, March 28th
- 2007/08
Anna I. McPherson
Lectures
- George Smoot
- February 14th and 15th (Poster [PDF])
- Speaker Series: Eric Mazur
- Confessions of a
converted lecturer
- Wednesday, January 16th 2008, 16:00
- Wrapping light around
a hair
- Thursday, January 17th 2008, 16:00
- Sponsors:
Department of Physics,
T-Pulse and
Teaching and Learning Services
- Organizational Meeting for Quebec
Synchrotron Users
- Montréal, November 10th, 2007
- 40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More
- Montréal, August 12th-17th, 2007
- Graduate Physics
Conference Canada America Mexico (CAM) 2007
- Montréal, August 9th-11th, 2007
- Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions
- Montréal, July 16th-19th, 2007
- Monte Carlo Techniques in Radiotherapy Delivery and Verification: Third McGill International Workshop
- Montréal, May 29th-June 1st, 2007
- International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensors
- Montréal, May 27th-30th 2007
- 40th Anniversary Reunion of the 1967 Honours Physics Class
- My Adventures in Photonic Crystals
- Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA
- Tuesday, May 15th 2007, 14:00
- M-Theory: A “Theory of Everything” Confronts the Real World
- Burt Ovrut, University of Pennsylvania
- Tuesday, May 15th 2007, 15:30
- The Fourth Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Symposium
- March 29-30 2007, Thomson House
- 2006/2007
Anna I. McPherson
Lectures
- Wolfgang Ketterle
- March 1st and 2nd 2007
- The Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium Series
- A cosmic coincidence: Why is the universe just right
for life?
- Thursday, January 25th, 2007, 17:00
- Special Seminar: Why
is general relativity a geometric theory?
- Harvey R. Brown
- Friday, November 10th 2006, 12:00
- Public Lecture:
The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books
- James Kakalios
- Thursday, November 9th 2006, 18:00
- Geant4@McGill
- September 25th-28th 2006
- In Heaven and on Earth 2006
- Montréal, July 5-7th 2006
- Mini-Beatty Lectures 2005/2006
- Robert
Kirshner
- March 30th and 31st 2006
- The Unwritten Letters of Mileva and Albert Einstein
- Werner and Inge Israel
- Thursday, January 26th 2006, 18:00
- Poster [PDF]
- Mini-Beatty Lectures 2005/2006
- Roger
Blandford
- January 5th and 6th 2006
- Department's
Christmas Party 2005
- 2005/2006
Anna I. McPherson
Lectures
- Brian Greene
- Monday, November 21st 2005
- Dean Martin Roast
- Friday, May 6th, 2005
- Workshop String Gas Cosmology
- April 30 - May 1, 2005
- Subal Das Gupta Festschrift and
2004 Robert E. Bell Lecture
- Saturday, December 4th 2004
- 2004/2005
Anna I. McPherson
Lectures
- Claude
Cohen-Tannoudji
- October 14th and 15th, 2004
- 2003/2004
Anna I. McPherson
Lectures
- Joseph Taylor
- January 8th and 9th, 2004
-
Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC)
- October 30-November 1, 2003
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Topics in Heavy Ion Collisions
- June 25-28, 2003
-
McGill Workshop on Advanced Materials for Nano-Science and Nano-Technology
- October 4-6, 2002
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NC-AFM 2002: 5th International Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy
- August 11-14, 2002
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