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February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: John Grunsfeld (Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins Univ.)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-10T15:00:00 CANCELLED - but you are invited to the Vancouver Institute Lecture on Saturday, 11 Feb, by this speaker Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2012

| Event Location: Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC | Speaker: Dr. John Grunsfeld, Deputy Director, Space Telescope Science Institute and Former NASA Astronaut

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-11T20:15:00 A Hubble Adventure: Repairing the Telescope and Its Exciting New Discoveries Event Location: Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Corrine Mills (Guest Speaker)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-13T11:00:00 The Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the WW to dilepton final state Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC Physics & Astronomy)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-13T16:00:00 Cosmology on large and small cosmic scales Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2012

| Event Location: St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall (Fairmont Lounge) | Speaker: Scott Aaronson (MIT)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-15T19:30:00 Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable Event Location: St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall (Fairmont Lounge)

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Scott Ransom (National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA))

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-16T16:00:00 Neutron Star Masses and Basic Physics Consequences Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2012

| Event Location: Music > Building Auditorium | Speaker: n/a

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-16T19:00:00 UBC Physics & Astronomy Departmental Concert Event Location: Music > Building Auditorium

February

2012

| Event Location: Buchanan Room A101 - 1866 Main Mall (UBC) | Speaker: Jann Tallinn

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-16T19:30:00 Planetary Optimization and Advanced General Intelligences: the 'intelligence stairway' Event Location: Buchanan Room A101 - 1866 Main Mall (UBC)

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Boris Spivak (University of Washington)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-17T14:00:00 A Typology for Quantum Hall Liquids Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sun Kwok (The University of Hong Kong)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-17T15:00:00 Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2012

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Karlheinz Langanke, GSI

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-21T14:00:00 The FAIR chance for nuclear astrophysics Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Gilad Gour (U Calgary)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-22T14:00:00 Local additivity of the minimum entropy output of a quantum channel Event Location: Hennings 309B

February

2012

| Event Location: TRIUMF auditorium | Speaker: Gary Glatzmaier

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-24T14:00:00 Computer simulations of convection and magnetic field generation in planets Event Location: TRIUMF auditorium

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Leon Loveridge (University of York/ UK)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-27T14:00:00 Conservation law induced limitations to quantum measurements Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 - DIFFERENT ROOM THAN USUAL | Speaker: Joseph Burns (Cornell University)

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-27T16:00:00 Planetary rings: An evolving view from Cassini Event Location: Hennings 201 - DIFFERENT ROOM THAN USUAL

February

2012

| Event Location: Hebb Theatre |

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-27T19:00:00 Discarded Worlds: Astronomical ideas that were almost correct... Event Location: Hebb Theatre

February

2012

| Event Location: The Penthouse, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: Scott Webster

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Add to Calendar 2012-02-28T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Growth and structure of yttrium sesquioxide epitaxial films”) Event Location: The Penthouse, Graduate Student Centre

March

2012

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana University)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Modelling Extreme Mass Ratio Binary Black Hole Inspirals Event Location: Henn 318

March

2012

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton, TRIUMF

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-01T14:00:00 The New Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass by CDF Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Paul Wiggins (University of Washington)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-01T16:00:00 The dynamics of E. coli ultra-structure Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 304 (different room!) | Speaker: Jen Moroz

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-02T15:00:00 Medical Physics: Application of Physics for Detecting, Staging and Treating Cancers Event Location: Hennings 304 (different room!)

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Leslie Sage (University of Maryland and the journal Nature)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-05T16:00:00 How to publish a paper in Nature Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Bill Unruh (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-08T12:00:00 Decoherence with energy conservation Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Rainer Blatt (University of Innsbruck)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-08T16:00:00 The Quantum Way of Doing Computations Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Dr. Colin Gay and Dr. Douglas Scott

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-09T18:30:00 The Nature of Everything! (Free Public Lecture) Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Steven Johnston (Leibniz Institute, Dresden)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-12T12:00:00 A view of electron-phonon coupling in the high-Tc cuprates and its interplay with the Coulomb interactions Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Stephen Kane (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-12T16:00:00 Applications for the Precise Timing of Exoplanetary Orbits Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Simon Bates - Dean of Learning & Teaching, and Professor of Physics Education at the University of Edinburgh.

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-13T11:00:00 Two ways to invert the physics classroom Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, Fairmont Lounge | Speaker: Peter G.Wolynes

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-14T19:30:00 Landscapes of Matter, Energy and Life Event Location: St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, Fairmont Lounge

March

2012

| Event Location: NRC IFCI Building, room 1310 | Speaker: Milind Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-15T14:00:00 Design and status of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Event Location: NRC IFCI Building, room 1310

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Robert McPherson (UVic, TRIUMF)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-15T16:00:00 Light at the start of the tunnel: the Higgs coming into focus Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Toshinori Suzuki (Kyoto University and RIKEN, JAPAN)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-15T17:30:00 Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of non-adiabatic dynamics in gas and liquid phases Event Location: Chem D-215

March

2012

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Aditi Mitra (NYU)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-16T13:00:00 Dissipative and quasi-thermal effects at long times after a quantum quench Event Location: Henn 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Aditi Mitra (NYU)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-16T13:00:00 Dissipative and quasi-thermal effects at long times after a quantum quench Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Michael S. Fuhrer - Director, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials - University of Maryland

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-19T11:00:00 Dirac Materials: Graphene and Beyond Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Congjun Wu -- University of California, San Diego

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-19T14:00:00 Isotropic Landau Levels of Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Fermions in 3D Flat Space Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Congjun Wu -- University of California, San Diego

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-19T14:00:00 Isotropic Landau Levels of Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Fermions in 3D Flat Space Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Scott Chapman (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-19T16:00:00 New insights into the the high redshift ULIRG population Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 200 | Speaker: PHAS faculty members and students

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-22T12:30:00 PHAS Beyond First Year Open House Event Location: Hennings 200

March

2012

| Event Location: NRC IFCI Building, room 1310 | Speaker: Adam Burrows (Princeton University)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-22T14:00:00 Theory for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions Event Location: NRC IFCI Building, room 1310

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matthew Augustine (UC Davis)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-22T16:00:00 Fruit of the Vine, Two Buck Chuck, or Lighter Fluid: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Wine and Homeland Security Problems Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Alexander Lvovsky (Univ of Calgary)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-22T17:30:00 Quantum technology of light: a ten-year progress report Event Location: Chem D-215

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: H.H. Weitering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-26T11:00:00 Plasmons under extreme dimensional confinement Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Norm Murray (Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-26T16:00:00 Feedback and Galaxy Formation Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2012

| Event Location: Leon's Lounge, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: Sanaz Vafaei

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-27T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Alternative Estimators for Weak Gravitational Lensing” Event Location: Leon's Lounge, Graduate Student Centre

March

2012

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: James Williams

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-28T14:00:00 Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Topological Insulator Devices Event Location: AMPEL 311

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 304 | Speaker: Wojciech Tadeusz Fedorko

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-28T15:00:00 Searching for New Symmetries and Extra Dimensions at ATLAS Event Location: Hennings 304

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Darren Grant, University of Alberta

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-29T12:30:00 Ghosts in the ice- Searching for the Universe's highest energy particles at the South Pole - CAP Undergraduate Lecture Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Bernhard Keimer (Max-Plank Institute, Stuttgart, Germany)

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-29T16:00:00 Towards a quantitative understanding of high-temperature superconductivity Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2012

| Event Location: Hennings 304 (different room!) | Speaker: Anton Smessaert

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Add to Calendar 2012-03-30T16:00:00 Computer simulations in physics and how we explore the glass phase Event Location: Hennings 304 (different room!)