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- B.Sc. (Honours Applied Physics, Co-op) Waterloo (1982)
- Ph.D., Toronto (1987) (NSERC postgraduate Scholarship, 1982-86) (research at
DESY in Hamburg, Germany)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caltech (1987-90) (research at SLAC in Stanford, California)
- IPP Research Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, U Victoria, based at
CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland (1990-93)
- Assistant Professor, U British Columbia (1993-97)
- NSERC Women's Faculty Award (1993-98)
- Associate Professor, U British Columbia (1997-2005)
- UBC Charles A. McDowell Award (1999)
- UBC Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship (2001-02)
- University of British Columbia Killam Teaching Prize (2005)
- Professor, U British Columbia (2005-present)
- Sabbatical Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Babar Run Coordinator 2005-6)
Physics Department Information
Courses I'm teaching now/recently
- Fall 06:
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Hyperphysics is a great intro to many basic concepts in Physics, including E&M
Courses taught at UBC:
- PHYS 102:
Electricity, Light and Radiation
- PHYS 102 tutorials (first year)
- PHYS 102 labs (first year, science)
- PHYS 107: Enriched
Physics I, course + tutorials: (Honours Physics, mechanics and waves)
- PHYS 108: Enriched Physics
II, course + tutorials:(Honours Physics, electricity and magnetism)
- PHYS 107/PHYS 121 labs: Enriched Physics 1 lab (Honours Physics)
- SCIE 001 labs: Science one physics lab (Honours Science, yr1)
- PHYS 108 labs: Enriched Physics II lab (Honours Science, yr 1)
- PHYS 153 labs: Elements of Physics lab (1st year Engineering)
- PHYS 301
course + tutorials: Electricity and Magnetism
- PHYS 304: Introduction to Quantum
Mechanics (Honours Physics)
- PHYS 348: Frontiers in Physics
- PHYS 354: Electric
and Magnetic Fields (Engineering Physics) course + tutorials
- PHYS 400: Introduction to Elementary
Particles
- PHYS 401: Electromagnetic Theory
(Honours Physics)
- PHYS 506: Introduction to Elementary
Particles (Graduate version)
Research Program
Conferences I'm Organizing/Co-organizing recently
- 11th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society,
Northwest Section May 14-16, 2009, UBC, Vancouver
- Canadian Association for Physicists Annual
Congress June 5-9, 2005, UBC, Vancouver.
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6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty, June 27-July3 ,
2004 in Chicago, USA.
- APS Northwest Section
Meeting May 30-31, 2003 Portland, Oregon
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5th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty, Conference Chair, June 25-29,
2002, here at University of British Columbia!
- APS Northwest Section
Meeting May 17-18, 2002.
Banff, Alberta, Canada
- APS Northwest Section
Meeting May 25-26, 2001. Seattle, Washington, USA
- Michael Smith's Legacy to
Canadian Women in Science and Technology Symposium, April 7th, 2001.
UBC, Vancouver BC.
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4th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty
Hadrons, June 26-30, 2000 in Valencia, Spain
- APS Northwest Section Meeting
May 19-22, 2000. Eugene, Oregon, USA
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3rd International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons,
June 30-July 3, 1998 in Genoa, Italy
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2nd International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons,
August 27-30, 1996 in Montreal, Canada
- CAP Congress,
1996
June 16-19, 1996, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada - Chair of PPD Division
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32nd Western Regional Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference February 17-19, 1995. Lake
Louise, Alberta - Chair Organizing Committee
Some Interesting Physics/Science Pages
Women Physics/Science Pages
- Women in Physics Reports/Papers/Resources
Where
is she right now?
A JPEG of my webmistress at work in the early stages of her career... Oh, what a babe!
Contact me if you are interested in Graduate
student and Postdoctoral Opportunities
We have a guaranteed funding policy for every graduate student we select,
see our
Graduate Program
Janis McKenna, UBC Department of Physics, Spring 2009. janis@physics.ubc.ca