Upcoming Events

Jessica Rodgers Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 6, 2023 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 6, 2023 1:20 PM
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba Title and abstract to come. Read More

Summer Student Research Talks

Fri. Jan. 13, 2023 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 13, 2023 1:20 PM
Undergraduate Summer Research Talks & Other Opportunites for 2023 Students will be giving a talk about their past summer research experiences... Read More

Gwen Grinyer Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 3, 2023 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 3, 2023 1:20 PM
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Regina Title and Abstract to come. Read More

Christopher Bidinosti Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 24, 2023 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 24, 2023 1:20 PM
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg Title and Abstract to come. Read More

Poster Contest Workshop

Wed. Aug. 1, 2018 12:30 PM - Wed. Aug. 1, 8012 1:20 PM
In order to better prepare our participants for the 13th Annual Randy Kobes Research Symposium, a workshop will be made available to all... Read More

Edward Cloutis Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 25, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 25, 2022 1:20 PM
Edward Cloutis, University of Winnipeg, Department of Geography A Week in the Life of the NASA Mars Rovers Operating a sophisticated rover on... Read More

Samar Safi-Harb Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 18, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 18, 2022 1:20 PM
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba What's up with the Winnipeg-sized Stars? Compact objects are among the... Read More

UofW & WITP Presents a Colloquium with Kyle Shiells

Thu. Nov. 3, 2022 2:30 PM - Thu. Nov. 3, 2022 3:30 PM
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba Nuclear Femtography: Probing the Inside of the Nucleon Around the turn of the millennium, exciting new... Read More

Taraneh Andalib Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 28, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 28, 2022 1:20 PM
Data Scientist at FlexPay and Chief Data Scientist at Health Futures Inc. From Physics to Data Science We are living in a world where we have... Read More

David Kaiser Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 21, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 21, 2022 1:20 PM
David Kaiser, Professor of Physics Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Nobel Prize... Read More

Mark Abotossaway Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 7, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 7, 2022 1:20 PM
University of Winnipeg Alumnus Aerospace Engineer, Blue Origin From U(Winnipeg) to Blue I recently joined Blue Origin as a Structures Engineer. I... Read More

Xiaoyue Li Colloquium

Fri. Sep. 23, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Sep. 23, 2022 1:20 PM
Searching for Dark Matter Axions with Haloscopes The nature of dark matter and the "strong CP problem" remain some of the most intriguing... Read More

WITP Symposium 2022

Wed. Aug. 17, 2022 9:00 AM - Wed. Aug. 17, 2022 3:30 PM
The WITP is happy to announce its annual Symposium will take place Wednesday, August 17th (exact time TBD). This will be a hybrid in-person/zoom... Read More

WITP Colloquium: Alex Buchel

Mon. Jun. 6, 2022 11:00 AM - Mon. Jun. 6, 2022 12:20 PM
Alex Buchel, Western University & Perimter Institute Dynamical fixed points in strongly coupled holographic systems Typically, an interactive... Read More

Physics Honours Thesis Talks

Wed. Apr. 6, 2022 4:00 PM - Wed. Apr. 6, 2022 5:00 PM
Physics Honours Thesis Talks: 4:00 - 4:20pm Kiera Pond Augusto"Development of Ultra-Precise Cesium Magnetometers"Supervisor: Dr. Jeff... Read More

PUPSS Colloquium: Samantha Lawler

Fri. Mar. 25, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 25, 2022 1:20 PM
Dr. Samantha Lawler, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Campion College and the Department of Physics University of Regina, Regina,... Read More

Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 18, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 18, 2022 1:20 PM
Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil NSF & KICP Fellow Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of... Read More

PUPSS Colloquium: Paul Barclay

Fri. Mar. 11, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 11, 2022 1:20 PM
PUPSS Colloquium Speaker, Paul Barclay Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Member of the Institute for Quantum... Read More

Physics Student Awards Night

Mon. Mar. 7, 2022 7:00 PM - Mon. Mar. 7, 2022 8:00 PM
2022 Virtual Physics Student Awards Night Join us for an evening of celebration to acknowledge outstanding students who have received a... Read More

PUPSS Colloquium: Dr. Garth Huber

Fri. Mar. 4, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 4, 2022 1:20 PM
Dr. Garth Huber, Dept. of Physics, University of Regina, SK Electron-Ion Collider: A major new scientific facility to probe the heart of nuclear... Read More

Dan Xiao Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 18, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 18, 2022 1:20 PM
Dan Xiao, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor, Dept. of Physics Affordable Magnetic Resonance Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is well known... Read More

WITP Seminar: Jose Ezquiaga

Thu. Feb. 17, 2022 12:00 PM - Thu. Feb. 17, 2022 1:00 PM
Dr Jose Ezquiaga will continue his "virtual visit" on Thursday with a colloquium for the Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics... Read More

CAP Speakers: Dr. Kevin Hewitt & Anastasia Smolina

Mon. Feb. 14, 2022 12:30 PM - Mon. Feb. 14, 2022 1:20 PM
Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Speakers:Dr. Kevin Hewitt, Dalhousie UniversityMs. Anastasia Smolina, University of Toronto Location: ... Read More

Jose Ezquiaga Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 11, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 11, 2022 1:20 PM
Jose Maria Ezquiaga NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Chicago Exploring the dark universe with gravitational waves  Gravitational waves... Read More

Ali Ajmi Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 4, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 4, 2022 1:20 PM
Ali Ajmi, Postdoc in Neutrino Physics, University of Winnipeg Neutrinos and their Exciting Travel Story Neutrinos are the most abundant particles... Read More

Evan McDonough Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 28, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 28, 2022 1:20 PM
The Light and Fuzzy Side of Dark Matter The identity of dark matter remains a mystery, despite decades of theorizing and detection efforts. This... Read More

UWMSSA & UWPSA Student Seminars

Tue. Jan. 25, 2022 6:00 PM - Tue. Jan. 25, 2022 7:45 PM
  Program with details attached (titles/abstracts): docs/abstractbook.pdf Read More

Katherine Pachal

Fri. Jan. 21, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 21, 2022 1:20 PM
Research Scientist at TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC Research scientist focusing on experiments with beyond-Standard-Model physics implications. Currently... Read More

Coburg Exchange Talk

Fri. Jan. 14, 2022 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 14, 2022 2:20 PM
Zoom in with guest speaker Michael Wick, program director of the Coburg exchange program. He will be providing information and answering any... Read More

Summer Student Research Talks

Wed. Jan. 12, 2022 12:30 PM - Wed. Jan. 12, 2022 1:20 PM
Students will be giving a talk about their past summer research experiences and what job opportunities are available this Summer, 2022. Come on out... Read More

Henri Sanness Salmon Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 26, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 26, 2021 1:20 PM
Former Physics alumni, Henri Sanness Salmon. Transport of floating particles on the free surface of turbulent streaming waters We investigate... Read More

Dr. Tetjana Ross Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 19, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 19, 2021 1:20 PM
Dr. Tetjana Ross, Research Scientist Institute of Ocean Sciences Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC   Listening to the Ocean in... Read More

Laurence Perreault -Levasseur Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 12, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 12, 2021 1:20 PM
Assistant Professor Perreault-Levasseur, Department of Physics, University of Montreal   Entering a New, Data-driven Era for Precision... Read More

Gordan Krnjaic Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 5, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 5, 2021 1:20 PM
Gordan Krnjaic, Associate Scientist at FermilabAssistant Professor, University of Chicago   Dial M for Muons The... Read More

Rowan Thomson Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 29, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 29, 2021 1:20 PM
Rowan ThomsonProfessor and Canada Research Chair, Physics Department Assistant DeanEquity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Faculty of ScienceCarleton... Read More

Dr. James Halverson Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 22, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 22, 2021 1:20 PM
Dr. James Halverson Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, Northeastern University   Build Quantum Fields out of Neurons Deep learning is... Read More

WITP Seminar

Tue. Oct. 5, 2021 12:00 PM - Tue. Oct. 5, 2021 1:00 PM
WITP Seminar 5 Oct 2021, 12PM Central Dr Seyda Ipek, Carleton University Title: Why are we here? Matter -- antimatter asymmetry of the... Read More

Dr. David Kaiser Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 1:20 PM
Dr. David KaiserMassachusetts Institute of Technology   Cosmic Bell Experiments: Using Quasars to Test Quantum Theory Abstract: For... Read More

Dr. Chitra Rangan Colloquium

Fri. Sep. 24, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Sep. 24, 2021 1:20 PM
Dr. Chitra RanganProfessor, Department of Physics, University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario   Quantum Control of Ultrafast Processes in... Read More

2021 Medical Physics Symposium

Mon. Aug. 16, 2021 9:00 AM - Mon. Aug. 16, 2021 1:15 PM
2021 Medical Physics Summer Student Symposium 10 Participating students will be giving a 15-minute presentation regarding their summer research.... Read More

Special Physics Colloquium: Dr. Rachel Houtz

Wed. Apr. 21, 2021 2:00 PM - Wed. Apr. 21, 2021 3:00 PM
The department of Physics would like to invite the community to attend the following presentation for tenure-track consideration. Dr. Rachel... Read More

Special Physics Colloquium: Dr. Evan McDonough

Mon. Apr. 19, 2021 2:00 PM - Mon. Apr. 19, 2021 3:00 PM
The department of Physics would like to invite the community to attend the following presentation for tenure-track consideration. Dr. Evan... Read More

Special Physics Colloquium: Dr. James Sully

Wed. Apr. 14, 2021 2:00 PM - Wed. Apr. 14, 2021 3:00 PM
The department of Physics would like to invite the community to attend the following presentation for tenure-track consideration. Dr. James... Read More

Special Physics Colloquium: Dr. Veronica Diez

Tue. Apr. 13, 2021 10:30 AM - Tue. Apr. 13, 2021 11:30 AM
The department of Physics would like to invite the community to attend the following presentation for tenure-track consideration.  Dr.... Read More

Physics Student Honours Thesis Talks

Mon. Apr. 5, 2021 12:30 PM - Mon. Apr. 5, 2021 1:20 PM
The Department of Physics Presents: Student Honours Thesis Public Presentations   Shawna Skelton (supervisor: Dr. Andrew Frey)Title:... Read More

Dr. Anand Yethiraj, CAP Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 26, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 26, 2021 1:20 PM
CAP Speaker, Dr. Anand Yethiraj, Professor University of Newfoundland, St. John's   Using the physics of bubbles to squeeze out more... Read More

Gina Passante Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 19, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 19, 2021 1:20 PM
Gina Passante, Associate Professor, PhysicsCalifornia State University, Fullerton   Student Thinking about Measurements and Uncertainty in... Read More

Jamie Cidro & Angeline Nelson Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 12, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 12, 2021 1:20 PM
Jaime Cidro, PhD Professor, Department of Anthropology Canada Research Chair in Health and Culture Director, MDP Indigenous Development Angeline... Read More

Dr. Phil Langill Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 5, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 5, 2021 1:20 PM
PUPSS Guest lecturer, Dr. Phil LangillDirector, Rothney Astrophysical ObervatoryDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, University of... Read More

Dr. Nikolay Kolev Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 26, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 26, 2021 1:20 PM
PUPSS Guest speaker, Dr. Nikolay KolevDepartment of Physics, University of Regina   A Chat about Math, the Universe and Darkness Recent... Read More

Michael Beck Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 12, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 12, 2021 1:20 PM
Dr. Michael Beck, PostdocDepartment of Physics & Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg   TerraByte: UofW's Digital... Read More

Dr. Phil Chan Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 5, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 5, 2021 1:20 PM
Associate Professor, Phil ChanDeputy Head, Department of PhysicsFaculty of Science, National University of Singapore   Soft Hadron Physics... Read More

Dr. Locke Spencer Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 29, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 29, 2021 1:20 PM
PUPSS Guest speaker, Dr. Locke Spencer   A Canadian Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future of the Far-Infrared Universe Over half of... Read More

Dr. Susann Tegtmeier Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 22, 2021 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 22, 2021 1:20 PM
PUPSS Guest Lecturer, Dr. Susann Tegtmeier Department of Physics and Engineering Physics University of Saskatchewan   Impact of the... Read More

Dr. Robert Brandenberger Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 20, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 20, 2020 1:20 PM
Dr. Robert Brandenberger, McGill University Stephen Hawking - A Personal Perspective Stephen Hawking was one of the leading theoretical physicists... Read More

Dr. Gabor Kunstatter Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 13, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 13, 2020 1:20 PM
Dr. Gabor Kunstatter, Professor Emeritus, University of Winnipeg   A Look at the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics: How Blackholes Benefit... Read More

Dr. Aaron Slepkov CAP Lecture Tour Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 6, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 6, 2020 1:20 PM
2020 CAP Lecture Tour Dr. Aaron Slepkov, Trent University Chair, Physics & Astronomy Canada Research Chair in the Physics of... Read More

Dr. Cornelia Hoehr Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 30, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 30, 2020 1:20 PM
Dr. Cornelia Hoehr, University of Victoria TRIUMF lecture tour How nuclear physics can treat cancer - radiotherapy at TRIUMFAbstract: Besides being... Read More

Dr. Demitre Serletis Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 23, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 23, 2020 1:20 PM
Presenter:  Dr. Demitre Serletis, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAANS,... Read More

Dr. Sandor Demeter Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 2, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 2, 2020 1:20 PM
Dr. Sandor Demeter MSc, MHP, FRCPCAdjunct Prof - Physics – U of WAssociate Prof – Health Sciences - U of M   Lens of... Read More

2020 Summer Student Medical Physics Symposium

Wed. Aug. 5, 2020 10:00 AM - Wed. Aug. 5, 2020 1:00 PM
On August 5, 2020 the University of Winnipeg will host the annual Medical Physics Undergraduate Summer Student Symposium. This year it will take... Read More

Sheryl Herrera Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 27, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 27, 2020 1:20 PM

Naman Agarwal Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 27, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 27, 2020 1:20 PM
Holographic Complexity: What, Why and How In the regime of puzzles surrounding black holes, a promising solution is introduced by the concept of... Read More

Ted Protosavage Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 20, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 20, 2020 1:20 PM

Aaron Slepkov Colloquium

Mon. Mar. 16, 2020 12:30 PM - Mon. Mar. 16, 2020 1:20 PM
  2020 CAP Lecture Tour Speaker Microwave grape plasma and the shape of water The sparking of grapes in a household microwave oven has... Read More

Jason Donev Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 13, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 13, 2020 1:20 PM
  Why are people fighting for the right to have nuclear waste buried in the back yard? Addressing the climate crisis with a plan for... Read More

Colloquium: John Hanesiak

Fri. Jan. 31, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 31, 2020 1:20 PM
Dr. John Hanesiak Professor, University of Manitoba Department of Environment & Geography, Centre for Earth Observation... Read More

Summer Student Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 24, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 24, 2020 1:20 PM
Physics Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities 2020 In the first half of this colloquium, students will share their work experience as a... Read More

Chad Gislason Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 17, 2020 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 17, 2020 1:20 PM
Chad Gislason CET, MB Hydro HVdc Statistics and Lightning Specialist   Lightning - Tracking, Trending, and Outages In 2019, lightning... Read More

Andrew Frey Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 29, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 29, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Andrew Frey, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg The Winnipeger's Guide to the 2019 Nobel Prize in... Read More

Colloquium: Joshua Hollett

Fri. Nov. 15, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 15, 2019 1:20 PM
Joshua Hollett, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry University of Winnipeg   New Quantum Chemical Tools from a Fundamental... Read More

Juliette Mammei Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 1, 2019 1:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 1, 2019 2:20 PM
I'm Flipping out - Active Engagement Works! Over the past couple of years the University of Manitoba Faculty of Science has made an effort to... Read More

Wouter Deconinck Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 25, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 25, 2019 1:20 PM
Wouter Deconinck, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Manitoba   Searching for TeV Scale Physics in Precision Electroweak... Read More

Dr. Art McDonald Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 18, 2019 2:00 PM - Fri. Oct. 18, 2019 3:00 PM
2015 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and 2019 Honorary Doctor of Science Recipient: Arthur B. McDonald From the Tiniest Particles to the Farthest... Read More

Caleb Hasler Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 4, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 4, 2019 1:20 PM
Caleb Hasler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg Webpage: https://calebthasler.wordpress.com/   If CO2 in freshwater is... Read More

Jeff Martin Colloquium

Wed. Oct. 2, 2019 12:30 PM - Wed. Oct. 2, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Jeff Martin, University of Winnipeg, Department of Physics   Details to come. Read More

Dr. Gabor Kunstatter Colloquium

Fri. Sep. 27, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Sep. 27, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Gabor Kunstatter, Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg What can quantum gravity tell us about the beginning and end of time? Despite... Read More

Michael Zhang Colloquium

Fri. Sep. 13, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Sep. 13, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Michael Zhang Research Director, Seven Oaks Wellness Institute Adjunct Professor, Physics, University of Winnipeg Intraoperative MRI There is a... Read More

PUPSS Colloquium, Dr. Lenaic Couedel

Wed. Sep. 11, 2019 12:30 PM - Wed. Sep. 11, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Lénaïc COUËDEL, University of Saskatchewan, Chair, Division of Plasma Physics - CAP Prairie Universities Physics... Read More

Physics Undergraduate Honours Thesis Public Presentations

Mon. Apr. 1, 2019 1:00 PM - Mon. Apr. 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Physics Honours Thesis Public Presentations This year we have two undergraduate students who will be giving their honours thesis public... Read More

Physics Curriculum Update Info Session

Mon. Mar. 25, 2019 12:30 PM - Mon. Mar. 25, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Andrew Frey, Physics Curriculum Committee Chair, will overview upcoming changes to core physics courses and major streams and how they might or... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Robert Green

Fri. Mar. 22, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 22, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Robert GreenAssistant Professor, University of SaskatchewanPrairie Speaker Series Resonant X-ray Studies of Quantum Materials at the Canadian... Read More

Colloquium: Mark Abotossaway

Wed. Mar. 6, 2019 12:30 PM - Wed. Mar. 6, 2019 1:20 PM
Mark Abotossaway Life as a Structural Engineer Mark Abotossaway graduated from the University of Winnipeg in 2010 with a BSc Physics degree, and... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Mark Walton

Fri. Mar. 1, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 1, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Mark Walton Physics and Astronomy The University of Lethbridge Phase-Space Quantum Mechanics An introduction will be given to the... Read More

CAP Lecture: Dr. David McKeen

Mon. Feb. 11, 2019 12:30 PM - Mon. Feb. 11, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. David McKeen TRIUMF, CAP Lecturer 2019   Dark Matter: what is it good for? A very diverse set of observations over enormous ranges of... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Melanie Martin

Fri. Feb. 1, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 1, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Melanie Martin Professor, Physics The University of Winnipeg   Brainy Physics In this talk I will explain the development of... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Shelley Tulloch

Fri. Jan. 25, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 25, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Shelley Tulloch Associate Professor & Department Chair, AnthropologyThe University of Winnipeg   Reconciliation and... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Blair Jamieson

Fri. Jan. 18, 2019 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 18, 2019 1:20 PM
Dr. Blair Jamieson Associate Professor, Physics The University of Winnipeg   What Have We Learned About Neutrinos, and What is... Read More

Colloquium: Summer Research Opportunities

Fri. Nov. 30, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 30, 2018 1:20 PM
Undergraduate Student Summer Research Opportunities Are you interested in a summer research job in physics? If so, come listen to professors from... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Jeff Martin

Wed. Nov. 28, 2018 12:30 PM - Wed. Nov. 28, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Jeff Martin Professor, Physics The University of Winnipeg When He-II freezes over We use He-II to make ultracold neutrons.  I... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Andrew Frey

Fri. Nov. 16, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 16, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Andrew Frey Associate Professor, Physics The University of Winnipeg To BH or Not To BH Gravitational Stability of AdS and What That... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Jonathan Thiessen

Thu. Nov. 15, 2018 10:00 AM - Thu. Nov. 15, 2018 10:50 AM
Dr. Jonathan Thiessen Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University Imaging Scientist, Lawson Health Research... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Stefi Baum

Fri. Nov. 9, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 9, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Stefi Baum Dean, Faculty of Science & Professor, Physics & Astronomy The University of Manitoba The Long Arc of Science Using... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Nora Casson

Fri. Nov. 2, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 2, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Nora Casson Assistant Professor, Geography The University of Winnipeg On the Bubble: Contributions of Ponds and Wetlands to Greenhouse... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. John Walker

Fri. Oct. 26, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 26, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. John Walker Post Doctoral Fellow at TRIUMF Latest results from T2K and prospects for Hyper-Kamiokande and E61 Neutrinos are the lightest... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Andrew Yau

Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 19, 2018 1:20 PM
Andrew W. Yau University of Calgary, Department of Physics and Astronomy The Physics of Thin Air: Tracking the Aurora and Other Space Weather... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Sandor Demeter

Fri. Sep. 28, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Sep. 28, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Sandor Demeter Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, The University of ManitobaSection Head, Nuclear Medicine, Health Sciences... Read More

13th Annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Research Symposium

Wed. Sep. 19, 2018 8:30 AM - Wed. Sep. 19, 2018 2:30 PM
13th Annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Research Symposium The 13th annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Research Symposium displays some of the... Read More

Mark McCrea and Kyla Smith Technical Seminar

Fri. Aug. 24, 2018 11:00 AM - Fri. Aug. 24, 2018 12:20 PM
Mark McCrea Univ. Kentucky, Post-Doctoral Scholar Magnetic Coil Design Methods for the SNS nEDM Experiment Measurements of the neutron electric... Read More

Honors Thesis Public Presentations

Mon. Apr. 2, 2018 2:30 PM - Mon. Apr. 2, 2018 5:30 PM
The Department of Physics Presents 5 Honors Thesis Presentations each 20 minutes in duration running from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Snacks and... Read More

CAP Speaker Colloquium: Erica Caden, SNOLAB

Fri. Mar. 23, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 23, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Erica Caden, SNOLAB What we don't know about Neutrinos! One might think that after studying a category of particles for almost a century,... Read More

Student Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 16, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 16, 2018 1:20 PM
Student-led colloquium: Tim Coates, Kelsey Duncan and Raphael Hoult Solar Sailing to Mars The University Physics Competition asks teams of 3... Read More

Jacob Burgess Colloquium

Tue. Mar. 6, 2018 10:00 AM - Tue. Mar. 6, 2018 11:00 AM
Dr. Jacob Burgess, PUPSS Speaker Assistant Professor, Ultrafast Microscopy & Magnetism Research Group University of Manitoba, Department of... Read More

Prairie Climate Centre Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 2, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 2, 2018 1:20 PM
Henry David (Hank) Venema & Jeff Diamond, Prairie Climate Centre High Performance Computing for Climate Solutions Advances in high performance... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Chris Crawford

Wed. Feb. 13, 2019 12:30 PM - Tue. Feb. 13, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Chris Crawford Associate Professor The University of Kentucky   Life at Low Coupling Constant While nuclear structure is dominated by... Read More

Valery Radchenko Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 9, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 9, 2018 1:20 PM
TRIUMF Speaker Tour. Valery Radchenko, Research Scientist Production and Application of Radionuclides for Radiopharmaceutical Science The use of... Read More

Robert Stamps Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 26, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 26, 2018 1:20 PM
Dr. Robert Stamps, FRSE FInstP FAPS Professor and Head of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba Magnetics With A... Read More

Physics Summer Student Research Opportunities

Fri. Jan. 12, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 12, 2018 1:20 PM
Come on out and hear about our undergraduate summer research opportunities in Physics for 2018! You'll hear first-hand from our undergrads... Read More

Gabriel Chernitsky Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 5, 2018 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 5, 2018 1:20 PM
Gabriel Chernitsky Graduate Student, Department of Physics, University of McGill Searching for Fast Optical Transients in the VERITAS Archives Fast... Read More

Jon Ziprick Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 24, 2017 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 24, 2017 1:20 PM
Jon Ziprick, Postdoctural fellow at UWinnipeg and UManitoba Gravitational waves: a new window to the universe We live in an exciting time for... Read More

Student Colloquium

Mon. Nov. 20, 2017 12:30 PM - Mon. Nov. 20, 2017 1:20 PM
Student-led colloquium: Raphael Hoult, co-president of the Physics Student Association General Relativity: Without the Math General Relativity is... Read More

12th Annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Science Poster Competition

Wed. Sep. 20, 2017 9:00 AM - Wed. Sep. 20, 2017 1:30 PM
The 12th annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Poster Contest displays some of the excellent quality research by undergraduate students at The... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Chris Stock

Wed. Sep. 13, 2017 12:30 PM - Wed. Sep. 13, 2017 1:20 PM
Dr. Chris Stock, University of Edinburgh Center for Science at Extreme Conditions, School of Physics Solitary magnetic excitations in... Read More

Poster Contest Workshop

Wed. Aug. 2, 2017 12:30 PM - Wed. Aug. 2, 2017 1:20 PM
In order to better prepare our participants for the 12th Annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Science Poster Contest, a workshop will be made... Read More

Science Rendezvous

Sat. May. 13, 2017 11:00 AM - Sat. May. 13, 2017 3:00 PM
Join us in another exciting year of Science Rendezvous! This festival provides hands-on experiments, activities, and demonstrations open to the... Read More

Honours Thesis Presentations

Mon. Apr. 3, 2017 11:30 AM - Mon. Apr. 3, 2017 1:30 PM
11:15am - 11:30am - Mingle & Get Seated 11:30 - 11:55am - Michael Honke Supervisor: Chris Bidinosti Title: "A Highly Parallelized Bloch... Read More

Michael Woodside Colloquium

Mon. Mar. 20, 2017 12:30 PM - Mon. Mar. 20, 2017 1:20 PM
Michael Woodside, University of Alberta CAP speaker The Physics of Folding: Watching Structures Self-Assemble in Single Biological Molecules using... Read More

Danielle Pahud Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 10, 2017 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 10, 2017 1:20 PM
Danielle Pahud, Instructor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba Stellar Winds : A Sun-centered historical... Read More

Don N. Page Colloquium

Thu. Feb. 16, 2017 4:00 PM - Thu. Feb. 16, 2017 5:00 PM
Anthropic Estimates for Many Parameters of Physics and Astronomy Old anthropic arguments gave two approximate power-law relationsbetween the... Read More

Peter Geltenbort Colloquium

Wed. Feb. 1, 2017 12:30 PM - Wed. Feb. 1, 2017 1:20 PM
Research with very cold and ultra-cold neutrons Due to their outstanding property to be storable and hence observable for long periods of time... Read More

John Walker Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 20, 2017 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 20, 2017 1:20 PM
John Walker, T2K Neutrino Masses Neutrinos are the lightest Standard Model particle, and among the least understood. The discovery of neutrino... Read More

Alex Nielsen Colloquium

Wed. Jan. 18, 2017 12:30 PM - Wed. Jan. 18, 2017 1:20 PM
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors saw the first... Read More

Physics Summer Student Talk

Mon. Jan. 16, 2017 12:30 PM - Mon. Jan. 16, 2017 1:20 PM
Our summer students of 2016 will be presenting the research projects they were working on over the summer. Come hear what they have to say and... Read More

Dr. Trevor J. Stocki Colloquium

Fri. Dec. 2, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Dec. 2, 2016 1:20 PM
Dr. Trevor J. Stocki Research Scientist/Adjunct Professor Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada/Carleton University From the 1960s Fallout to... Read More

Gabor Kunstatter Colloquium

Fri. Nov. 18, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 18, 2016 1:20 PM
Dr. Gabor Kunstatter, University of Winnipeg Black Holes, Firewalls and Exorcisms In February of 2016, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced... Read More

Jon Ziprick Colloquium

Fri. Jan. 13, 2017 12:30 PM - Tue. Nov. 8, 2016 1:20 PM
Jon Ziprick was a former undergraduate and MSc student of the University of Winnipeg before completing his PhD at Perimeter Institute. Jon is now... Read More

James Schellenberg Colloquium

Fri. Oct. 28, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 28, 2016 1:20 PM
James Schellenberg, Founder and CTO at Cubresa Inc. Making Meaning in the Startup The founder of local company Cubresa will speak and take... Read More

11th Annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Science Student Poster Competition

Wed. Sep. 21, 2016 9:00 AM - Wed. Sep. 21, 2016 1:30 PM
The 11th Randy Kobes Undergraduate Poster Contest displays some of the excellent quality research by undergraduate students at The University of... Read More

Medical Physics Undergraduate Summer Student Symposium

Fri. Aug. 5, 2016 9:00 AM - Fri. Aug. 5, 2016 2:00 PM
On August 5, 2016 the University of Winnipeg will host the annual Medical Physics Undergraduate Summer Student Symposium. This year it will take... Read More

Jorma Louko Colloquium

Wed. Jun. 29, 2016 3:00 PM - Wed. Jun. 29, 2016 4:00 PM
The Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics Presents a Colloquium with: Jorma LoukoUniversity of Nottingham Low Energy Lorentz Violation from... Read More

Dr. Art McDonald Public Lecture

Wed. Jun. 1, 2016 7:30 PM - Wed. Jun. 1, 2016 8:30 PM
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observing the Sun from 2km Underground We are excited and honoured to have Dr. Art McDonald, 2015 Nobel Prize... Read More

Dr. Michael Landry Colloquium

Thu. Apr. 7, 2016 3:00 PM - Thu. Apr. 7, 2016 4:00 PM
Dr. Michael Landry for the LIGO and Virgo Scientific CollaborationsLIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech Observation of Gravitational Waves from a... Read More

2016 Honours Theses Talks

Mon. Apr. 4, 2016 2:15 PM - Mon. Apr. 4, 2016 3:45 PM
Student Presentations of Honours Theses Research Physics Honours students will each present their Honours Thesis work - the culmination of their... Read More

Laura Cobus Colloquium

Fri. Apr. 1, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Apr. 1, 2016 1:20 PM
Laura Cobus, University of Manitoba Time Reversal of Ultrasound: From Applied Imaging to Pure Physics Research The concept of time-reversal... Read More

Ruediger Picker Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 18, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 18, 2016 1:20 PM
Probing the Universe with Neutrons Ruediger Picker, Research Scientist at TRIUMF The knowledge of fundamental properties of the neutron helps us... Read More

Jeroen Stil Colloquium

Fri. Mar. 11, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 11, 2016 1:20 PM
Jeroen Stil, University of Calgary The New Radio Astronomy Radio astronomy is changing, as more observatories are outfitted with broad-band... Read More

Daniel Rickey Colloquium

Fri. Feb. 26, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 26, 2016 1:20 PM
Daniel RickeyImaging PhysicistCancerCare Manitoba Three-dimensional printing has increased in popularity over the past few years.  At... Read More

CAP Speaker: Prof. J. Michael Roney

Wed. Feb. 10, 2016 12:30 PM - Wed. Feb. 10, 2016 1:20 PM
Prof. J. Michael RoneyInstitute of Particle Physics, and University of Victoria Applying Quantum Entanglement to Search for New Physics at TeV... Read More

Colloquium - Dale Kellington

Fri. Feb. 5, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 5, 2016 1:20 PM
Dale KellingtonOrthopaedic Innovation Centre - OIC Precision Labs - Precision ADM Product Development Physics Cars, airplanes, medical devices, and... Read More

Summer Student Colloquium

Mon. Feb. 1, 2016 12:30 PM - Mon. Feb. 1, 2016 1:20 PM
Our summer students of 2015 will be presenting the research projects they were working on over the summer. Come hear what they have to say and... Read More

PUPSS Talk: Garth Huber

Fri. Jan. 29, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 29, 2016 1:20 PM
Deep Exclusive Meson Production: Studies of Underlying Quark-Gluon Structure at Jefferson Lab's Hall C One of the top 10 unsolved problems in... Read More

Vanessa Palmer M.Sc. Thesis Presentation

Mon. Jan. 25, 2016 2:30 PM - Mon. Jan. 25, 2016 4:30 PM
Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Manitoba Understanding White Matter Pathology Through Correlating Longitudinal and... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Can-Ming Hu

Fri. Jan. 22, 2016 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 22, 2016 1:20 PM
Dr. Can-Ming HuDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba Title: Cavity Spintronics Abstract: The art of experimental Condensed... Read More

Graduate Research at the Frontiers of Physics & Astronomy

Fri. Nov. 27, 2015 3:00 PM - Fri. Nov. 27, 2015 4:45 PM
3:00pm - Caffeine, confections and congeniality3:30pm - Lectures commence4:45pm - Quaff, peck and ponder 1.  Sheryl Herrera Using... Read More

Colloquium: Thomas Linder, TRIUMF

Fri. Nov. 20, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 20, 2015 1:20 PM
Status of T2K and Planning for Hyper-Kamiokande In this talk I will briefly cover the current status of the T2K, before describing the proposed... Read More

Colloquium: Brad Cownden and Fady Shaker

Fri. Nov. 13, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 13, 2015 1:20 PM
Brad Cownden PhD Student, University of WinnipegSupervisor: Dr. Andrew Frey TITLE: To Infinity and Back: Modelling Black Hole Formation in Anti-de... Read More

Public Talk: Dr. Blair Jamieson

Fri. Oct. 30, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 30, 2015 1:30 PM
Dr. Blair Jamieson, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg connection to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded... Read More

Colloquium - Dr. Jamie Ritch

Fri. Oct. 23, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 23, 2015 1:20 PM
Dr. Jamie Ritch, University of Winnipeg Ligands for Coordination Chemistry Incorporating Selenium Selenium has widespread applications in... Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Saurya Das

Fri. Oct. 2, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 2, 2015 1:30 PM
Dr. Saurya Das, University of Lethbridge Our Universe: the known, unknown and some speculations Our Universe is quite simple at scales larger than... Read More

Colloquium - Dr. Blair Jamieson

Fri. Sep. 25, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Sep. 25, 2015 1:20 PM
Dr. Blair Jamieson, University of Winnipeg Quantum Adventures with Neutrinos The neutrino was originally proposed by Pauli as a mass-less, weakly... Read More

10th Annual Randy Kobes Poster Competition

Wed. Sep. 16, 2015 9:00 AM - Wed. Sep. 16, 2015 1:00 PM
The Faculty of Science is proud to announce the 10th Annual Randy Kobes Poster Competition! Read More

Colloquium: Dr. Hideki Maeda

Fri. Jul. 17, 2015 3:30 PM - Fri. Jul. 17, 2015 4:30 PM
Dr. Hideki Maeda, Professor at Hokkai-Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan All are welcome to join the Physics department on Friday, July 17th,... Read More

Physics Honours Students' Presentations of Theses

Mon. Apr. 6, 2015 2:00 PM - Mon. Apr. 6, 2015 5:00 PM
Student Presentations of Honours Theses Research Physics Honours students will each present their Honours Thesis work - the culmination of their... Read More

Graduate Research Talk

Fri. Mar. 27, 2015 3:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 27, 2015 4:30 PM
University of Manitoba Physics' Colloquium "Graduate Research at the Frontiers of Physics and Astronomy" Graduate Students in the... Read More

CAP Lecture Tour - Dr. Lindsay LeBlanc

Fri. Mar. 13, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Mar. 13, 2015 1:20 PM
Dr. Lindsay LeBlanc University of Alberta, Department of Physics Exploring the Secrets of Many-Particle Quantum Systems Using Laser-Cooled Quantum... Read More

Lecture of Interest - Probabilities from Lotteries to Polls

Fri. Feb. 27, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 27, 2015 1:30 PM
Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal University of Toronto, Department of Statistics From Lotteries to Polls to Monte Carlo This talk will use randomness and... Read More

Prairie Seminar Series - Dr. Doug Gingrich

Fri. Feb. 13, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 13, 2015 1:20 PM
Dr. Doug Gingrich University of Alberta, Department of Physics The Higgs Boson: Road to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics The 2013 Nobel Prize in... Read More

3 Minute Thesis Competition - Vanessa Palmer

Wed. Feb. 11, 2015 12:30 PM - Wed. Feb. 11, 2015 2:30 PM
Vanessa Palmer (Co-supervisors: Drs. M. Martin and F. Lin) will compete in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition! Come out to show your support! Click... Read More

Prarie Seminar Series - Dr. Locke Spencer

Fri. Feb. 6, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Feb. 6, 2015 1:20 PM
Dr. Locke Spencer University of Lethbridge, Department of Physics & Astronomy The Far-Infrared Universe: From Star Formation to the Cosmic... Read More

Lecture of Interest - Psychology of Pseudoscience

Wed. Feb. 4, 2015 12:30 PM - Wed. Feb. 4, 2015 1:30 PM
The Psychology of Pseudoscience Dr. Clark is a cognitive psychologist interested in the fallibility of human thinking and the corrective nature of... Read More

Prairie Seminar Series - Dr. Andrew Yau

Fri. Jan. 23, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 23, 2015 1:30 PM
Dr. Andrew Yau University of Calgary, Department of Physics & Astronomy "Visualizing the Invisible in Space: CASSIOPE e-POP" The... Read More

Colloquium - Dr. Ross Stokke

Fri. Jan. 9, 2015 12:30 PM - Fri. Jan. 9, 2015 1:20 PM
Dr. Ross Stokke University of Winnipeg, Deptartment of Mathematics "The Banach-Tarski Paradox" Simply put, the Banach-Tarski paradox says... Read More

MSc Oral Exam - Paul Mikula

Tue. Dec. 16, 2014 10:00 AM - Tue. Dec. 16, 2014 11:00 AM
Paul Mikula (supervisor: Dr. Gabor Kunstatter, UWinnipeg Physics Department) "Yang-Mills Flow in 1+1 Dimensions Coupled with a Scalar... Read More

MSc Oral Exam - Bradley Cownden

Tue. Dec. 9, 2014 1:00 PM - Tue. Dec. 9, 2014 2:00 PM
Bradley Cownden (supervisor: Dr. Andrew Frey, UWinnipeg Physics Department) "Linear Perturbations of Type IIB SUGRA in Flux... Read More

Skywalk Lecture - Dr. Jeff Martin

Wed. Nov. 26, 2014 12:00 PM - Wed. Nov. 26, 2014 1:00 PM
Magnetic Fields from Neurons and Neutrons Part of the Skywalk Concert & Lecture Series, Dr. Jeff Martin presents an engaging scientific... Read More

Student Colloquium

Mon. Nov. 24, 2014 12:30 PM - Mon. Nov. 24, 2014 1:20 PM
Attend this Student Colloquium to hear presentations from staff about Physics opportunities, and from students about their experiences: - Summer... Read More

Colloquium - Dr. Renee Douville

Fri. Nov. 21, 2014 12:30 PM - Fri. Nov. 21, 2014 1:20 PM
Dr. Renee Douville University of Winnipeg, Department of Biology Tickle me ERV: How inflammation is coupled with the induction of endogenous... Read More

Colloquium - The Black Hole Information Loss Problem: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Fri. Oct. 24, 2014 12:30 PM - Fri. Oct. 24, 2014 1:30 PM
Dr. Gabor Kunstatter Abstract: There is substantial evidence that black holes exist in binary star systems and at the center of most galaxies,... Read More