September 21, 2005 Nanomagnetism
Kristen Buchanan, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

September 26, 2005 Martian Analogue Sites in the Canadian High Arctic for Exobiology Investigations
Dr. Lyle Whyte
, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University. Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology

September 28, 2005 The Youngest Neutron Stars
David Helfand
, Columbia University

October 3, 2005 The Role of Red Giant Stars in the Origin of the Elements
Amanda Karakas, McMaster University

October 5, 2005 Supersolid order from disorder, or how do bosons overcome their frustration?
Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto

October 12, 2005 Cosmic Superstrings
Rob Myers
, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

October 19, 2005 The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment: A Centenary Perspective
Clifford Will
, Washington University, Physics Department

October 26, 2005 Proteins at Interfaces
James Forrest
, University of Waterloo

November 2, 2005 Testing Einstein's Universe
Norbert Bartell
, York University

November 9, 2005 Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dipole interactions: rotons and other instabilities
Duncan O'Dell, University of Sussex
, Department of Physics & Astronomy

November 23, 2005 A Possible Solution to the High Temperature Superconductivity Phenomena
Chandra Varma
, University of California - Riverside
, Department of Physics

November 30, 2005 Canada and Extremely Large Telescopes
Ray Carlberg
, Astronomy Department - University of Toronto

December 7, 2005 DNA-inspired physics: theory and biological relevance
Bae-Yeun Ha
, University of Waterloo

December 14, 2005 Two-electron spin states in a Random Nuclear Field
Josh Folk
, University of British Columbia
, Department of Physics & Astronomy

January 4, 2006 Granular Materials
Allison Ferguson, Brandeis University

January 11, 2006 Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale
Paul Goldbart
, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

January 18, 2006 Neutrino Physics Beyond SNO
Mark Chen

January 25, 2006 Superfluidity in solid helium and solid hydrogen
Moses Chan
, Penn State University
, Department of Physics

February 1, 2006 Living in dimension lower than meets the eye: Sliding phases in classical and quantum statistical mechanics
Sumanta Tewari, University of Maryland
, Department of Physics

February 6, 2006 Quasiparticles and Vortices in d-wave Superconductors
Oskar Vafek, Stanford University
, Department of Physics

February 8, 2006 Fractionalization in a strongly correlated many-body system
Sung-Sik Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, Cambridge, Massachusetts

February 13, 2006 Nonequilibrium Quantum Mechanics of Strongly Correlated Systems: General Results and Application to Molecular Devices
Aditi Mitra, University of Toronto
, Department of Physics

February 15, 2006 Incompressible Quantum Liquids And New Conservation Laws
Alexander Seidel, University of Berkeley, California
, Department of Physics

March 1, 2006 A dual vortex lattice - from a phase fluctuating superconductor to a vibrating pair Wigner crystal
Tami Pereg-Barnea, University of Texas

March 8, 2006 Nanokelvin fermions in microscopic traps
Joseph Thywissen
, University of Toronto

March 22, 2006 Control of Star Formation by Gravitational Instability and Supersonic Turbulence
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
, American Museum of Natural History
, Columbia University

March 23, 2006 Musical Physics
Chris Waltham
, University of British Columbia
, Department of Physics & Astronomy

March 29, 2006 Rings in Resonance: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond
Eugene Chiang, University of California, Berkeley

April 5, 2006 Topological Order, Spin Liquid, and Quantum Critical Point
Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto

May 25, 2006 In-plane optical conductivity and pseudogaps in electron-doped cuprate superconductors
Nicole Bontemps, CNRS-ESPCI
, Laboratoire de Physique du Solide
, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris (France)

June 1, 2006 Optics of superconductors out of equilibrium: Eavesdropping the two bands in MgB2
Ricardo Lobo, ESPCI-CNRS, Paris, France

July 6, 2006 Constrained orthogonal polynomials; coordinates, modes and maps for the density functional
Bertrand Giraud, CEN Saclay, France

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