2010 - 2011
Equipping Planets for Life
Sep 20, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Ralph Pudritz, Director, Origins Institute
Searches for microlife in the Earth's atmosphere
Sep 27, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India
Perhclorate and organics in mid-latitudes on Mars and implications for the search for life
Oct 04, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Chris McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science & Astrobiology
The Role of Electromagnetic and Nuclear Forces in Structure Formation
Oct 18, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Norman Murray, University of Toronto, CITA
Minimal cells, hydrothermal vent biofilms and the origin of multi-cellular communities
Oct 25, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,John Baross, University of Washington (Seattle), Biological Oceanography
The New World of Terrestrial Exoplanets
Nov 01, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Origin of Massive Stars
Nov 08, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Mark Krumholz, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Better learning algorithms for neural networks
Nov 15, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science (joint Origins Institute/SHARCNet colloquium)
Memory Storage in the Mammalian Brain
Nov 29, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,David Linden, John's Hopkins University, Department of Neuroscience
Waves and wave interactions: from small scales to very large
Dec 06, 2010 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Walter Craig, McMaster University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Human Exploration of Mars
Jan 10, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,David Williams, McMaster University, Department of Surgery
Interstellar meteoroids: do solid particles arrive at Earth from outside our Solar System?
Jan 17, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Paul Wiegert, The University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Use of Multiple Analytical Techniques to Investigate the Nature and Mechanism of Formation of Primitive Organic Materials
Jan 24, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Henderson James (Jim) Cleaves, Camegie Institution of Washington, Geophysics Laboratory
Time and the Universe
Jan 31, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,William G. Unruh, University of British Columbia, Department of Physics & Astronomy
A convivial origin of life on the Earth: A cooperative network of RNA replicators
Feb 07, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Niles Lehman, Portland State University, Department of Chemistry
Life in the rocks? Biosignatures of microbial communities in Mars analogue environments
Feb 14, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Lori Ziolkowski, Origins/School of Geography & Earth Sciences, McMaster Univesity
Sulfur Isotope Studies of Martian Meteorites: Looking for the Origin of Sulfate on Mars
Feb 28, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Sang-Tae Kim, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University
The Major Transitions in Evolution: A Physiological Perspective
Mar 07, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Andrew Knoll, Harvard University, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Making Sense of High-Dimensional Data and Visualizations
Mar 14, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Alyssa Goodman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Evolution of the Brain and Cognition: From Early Hominins to Hobbits
Mar 21, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Dean Falk, School for Advanced Research; Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Dark Side of the Force: Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies
Mar 28, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Tim Heckman, John Hopkins University, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Origins Research Symposium
Apr 04, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,Origins Research Specialization Students, McMaster University, Origins Institute
Nanopore Analysis of Nucleic Acids: From an Idea to a Working Instrument
May 09, 2011 from 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM — MDCL-1110,David Deamer, Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz