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2025 Seminars
Date	Speaker	Title
2025-06-24	Dr.Barak Shoshany , Brock University	Know Thy Frenemy: Understanding LLMs - Past, Present, and Future
2025-06-17	Dr.Andrei Catuneanu , Dana Holding Corporation	Magnetism of some Rare-Earth Orthochromites, RCrO3 with an Introduction to the Current Global Interest in Rare-Earths
2025-05-13	Dr.Reinhard Kremer , MPI for Solid State Research Stuttgart	From Scientific Innovation to Practical Application:“Hybrid” Aluminum-to-Copper Brazing for Next-Gen Electric Vehicle Power Electronics Cooling
2025-03-08	Dr.Rayf Shiell , Trent University	Communicating Optics: the big, the small, and the beautiful
2025-01-24	Dr.Barak Shoshany, Brock University	Breaking the Speed of Light Barrier
2025-01-21	Sergio de la Barrera, University of Toronto	Emergent Symmetries and Properties in Graphene Multilayers

2025 Thesis Defence Presentations
Date	Speaker	Title
2025-02-05 2pm CRN207	Jeremy Dion, PhD candidate	Discovery of a Pseudogap Attributed to Charge Density Wave Order at the β- β’ Phase Transition in As2Te3 and the Influence of Cu and Ge Doping on its Properties
2025-01-09 2pm PL600F	Hoda Talo, PhD candidate	Biophysical Insights into Lipid Oxidation Effects on Membrane Self-Organization and Enzymatic Catalysis Under Extreme Conditions
2025-01-15 11am CRN207	Parisa Rouzbazar, MSc candidate	Collective Excitonic Modes in Materials with Hexagonal Carbon Rings
2025 PHYS 7P91 Seminars
Date	Speaker	Title
2025-03-25 3pm H313	Rachit Kapoor, Public Presentation	Quantum Spin Liquids (QSLs)
2025-03-25 3pm H313	Jordan Fazio, Public Presentation	Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Modern Fluid Mechanics
2025-02-04 3pm H313	Samadhi Hewawasam, MSc in Materials Physics	Preparation and Polarized Raman Scattering Characterization of a Vanadium Based Misfit Chalcogenides
2025-02-04 3pm H313	Teresa Dong, Introductory Seminar	Next-Generation Anion Exchange Membranes for Clean Hydrogen Generation Systems

Unless otherwise noted, Departmental seminars are at 3:00 pm in MC H313.