2016 Seminars
Date	Speaker	Title
January 12	Joe Szabo, Niagara Health System, Walker Family Cancer Centre	Medical Physics at the Walker Family Cancer Centre
January 26	David Crandles, Brock University	Giant Permittivity Materials
February 2	Patrick Clancy, University of Toronto	Exploring spin-orbit-driven physics in iridates with synchrotron x-rays
February 4, 3:00 pm, WH 207	PHYS 4F90 presentations	D. Wachmann, F. Ahmed, Z. Sutherland, M. Pula
February 9	Scott Menary, York University	Would an Anti-apple Fall Up? CAP Undergraduate Lecture Tour
February 23	Zin Tun, National Research Council Canada Canadian Nuclear Laboratories	Neutron Reflectometry – a tool for research on thin films and surfaces
March 8	Jan Kycia, Univ. of Waterloo	Specific heat and magnetization studies of Dy2Ti2O7
March 14, 2:00 pm, WH202	Ron Rogge, Canadian Nuclear Labs	Physics Solves a Mystery
Date	Speaker	Title
September 27	Tapash Chakraborty, University of Manitoba	Search for Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanostructures
October 4	Kari Dalnoki-Veress, McMaster University	Soft Materials at surfaces and interfaces: Elastocapillarity
Friday, October 7, 3:45pm PL311	PHYS 4F90 Presentations	D. Vaillancourt, A. Romano
October 18	Mats Selen, University of Illinois	From Particle Physics to Education: The Role of Tinkering
October 25	Chris Bergevin, York University	The active ear

2016 Thesis Defence Presentations
Date	Speaker	Degree	Title
January 5	Andrew Cheesman	MSc	Optimizing Computational Frameworks to Study the Influence of the Protein Environment on the Individual Site Energies of Chromophores in Photosystem II of Photosynthesis
April 8	Egor Ospadov	PhD	Theory and Application of a Pure-sampling Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm
June 6	Dmitry Pshenitsin	PhD	Conservation laws of magneto-hydrodynamics and their symmetry transformation properties
August 23	Brad Van Oosten	PhD	A Multi-Scale Molecular Dynamic Approach to the Study of the Outer Membrane of the Bacteria Psudomonas Aeruginosa PA01 and the Biocide Chlorhexidine

Unless otherwise noted, Departmental seminars are at 1:00pm in MC H313.