Announcing...

A new series started on Friday, February 3rd, 2006 entitled Homer's Physics 101. It features down-to-earth talks, geared towards your absolute know-nothing whatsoever about physics, person (in other words for support staff). This give us a chance to figure out what these guys do. So, if you have a question about what a nebula is, or what do you mean by light years, now is your chance to boldly go where no support staff has gone before.

As this is a lunch time seminar, pizza will be provided. So, we need to know asap who would like to attend. (Profs, you can come but please don't ask any hard questions). Our first guinea pig (oops, lecturer) will be Andrew Cumming, who will bravely try to answer any outer space questions we may have.

The series thus far...

Friday, November 21st, 2014

Nonlinear geophysics and climate closure: Game over for climate skeptics

Shaun Lovejoy

Friday, November 29th, 2013

Homer's Adventures Under the Looking Glass: Seeing Single Molecules

Sabrina Leslie

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Shooting lasers at diamonds

Lily Childress

Friday, February 8th, 2013

7th Anniversary Edition: Exoplanets

Andrew Cumming

Friday, November 16th, 2012

The Dark Side of the Universe

Jim Cline

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Controlling Micro-Trampolines with Light - A Guitarists's Guide to Optomechanics

Jack Sankey

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Discovery of a New Particle

Andreas Warburton

Friday, April 13th, 2012

The weather and climate as problems in physics: scale invariance and multifractals

Shaun Lovejoy

Friday, February 17th, 2012

The amazing world of String Theory

Keshav Dasgupta

Friday, May 13th, 2011

The naked truth about THz radiation

David Cooke

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Quantum Machines

Bill Coish

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Cooking with the stars

John Crawford

Friday, April 9th, 2010

In Awe of Atoms: The Lego Blocks of Stuff

Mark Sutton

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Homer on Neutron Scattering

Dominic Ryan

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Gamma-ray Astronomy and related projects at McGill

David Hanna

Friday, January 16th, 2009

A Matter of Antimatter

Steven Robertson

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Homer's journey to the center of matter

François Corriveau

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Why does Homer need a quantum computer?

Michael Hilke

Friday, September 27th, 2008

String Theory and Black Holes

Alex Maloney

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Quantum Strangeness In Unexpected Places

Aash Clerk

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Was there a Big Bang?

Robert Brandenberger

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Hottest ever since the Big Bang!

Sangyong Jeon

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Dark Matter & Dark Energy

Gil Holder

Friday, January 18th, 2008

What's the buzz about nano?

Peter Grütter

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Seeing Beauty in High-Energy Particle Collisions

Andreas Warburton

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Why do we need bigger and bigger accelerators To See Smaller and Smaller Structure?

Guy Moore

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Neutron Stars: Physics in the Extreme

Victoria M. Kaspi

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

The Physics of Homer's Brain

Paul Wiseman

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanical Properties in Soft Things!

Maria Kilfoil

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Experimental Particle Physics

Brigitte Vachon

Friday, February 16th, 2007

How High Is The Sky

Bob Rutledge

Friday, October 27th, 13 700 002 006 ABB

Probing the opposite ends of time with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Matt Dobbs

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Darn cold nano-stuff

Guillaume Gervais

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Observing atoms at work

Roland Bennewitz

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Uncovering the Secret Life of Molecules: Adventures in Physics and Chemistry

Brad Siwick

Friday, March 10th, 2006

Homer (Astro)Physics 102

Tracy Webb

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Homer (Astro)Physics 101

Andrew Cumming