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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Momentum-Space Entanglement and the Gravity of Entanglement in Ads/CFT”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-07-28T15:00:00 Geometric entanglement in Kitaev's toric code and transition to trivial phase by string tension Event Location: Hennings 301

July

28

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT

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Indiana Robot and the Temple of the Zipline! 14th Annual UBC Engineering Physics 253 Competition

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Add to Calendar 2014-07-28T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Momentum-Space Entanglement and the Gravity of Entanglement in Ads/CFT”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

August

07

2014

Thursday, 10:00 am | Event Location: Hennings Building, Room 200 (1961 East Mall) |

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Crystal symmetry and properties of low dimensional epitaxial oxides; interfaces and superlattices

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Add to Calendar 2014-08-07T10:00:00 Indiana Robot and the Temple of the Zipline! 14th Annual UBC Engineering Physics 253 Competition Event Location: Hennings Building, Room 200 (1961 East Mall)

August

18

2014

Monday, 11:00 am | Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Gertjan Koster, University of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology

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Imagine Day Welcome Info Session

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Add to Calendar 2014-08-18T11:00:00 Crystal symmetry and properties of low dimensional epitaxial oxides; interfaces and superlattices Event Location: AMPEL 311

September

02

2014

Tuesday, 11:00 am | Event Location: Hennings Building, Room 201 (1961 East Mall) |

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Investigating the early formation and evolution of planetary systems with sub-mm interferometers

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-02T11:00:00 Imagine Day Welcome Info Session Event Location: Hennings Building, Room 201 (1961 East Mall)

September

08

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Luca Ricci

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Sensitivity, resolution and speed in detection and tracking of single biomolecules

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-08T16:00:00 Investigating the early formation and evolution of planetary systems with sub-mm interferometers Event Location: Hennings 318

September

09

2014

Tuesday, 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL (Brimacombe Building) Room 311 | Speaker: Vahid Sandoghdar

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Medical Physics Seminars

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-09T12:00:00 2014-09-09T12:00:00 Sensitivity, resolution and speed in detection and tracking of single biomolecules Event Location: AMPEL (Brimacombe Building) Room 311

September

11

2014

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Electron-phonon mediated superconductivity probed by ARPES: from MgB2 to Li-decorated graphene")

Thursday, 3:00 pm | Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: BART LUDBROOK

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Antiferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model with Ultracold Atoms

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-11T15:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Electron-phonon mediated superconductivity probed by ARPES: from MgB2 to Li-decorated graphene") Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

September

11

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Randall Hulet, Rice University Texas, USA

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-11T16:00:00 Antiferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model with Ultracold Atoms Event Location: Hennings 201

September

15

2014

Astro Jamboree

Monday, 3:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: The Astronomy Group

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Exotic Phenomena in Topological States of Matter”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-15T15:00:00 Astro Jamboree Event Location: Hennings 318

September

16

2014

Tuesday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: MOHAMMAD MAHMOUDZADEHVAZIFEH

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Unifying theory for tuned-critical quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-16T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Exotic Phenomena in Topological States of Matter”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

September

18

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Mapping the Deep: First Discoveries from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-18T16:00:00 Unifying theory for tuned-critical quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes Event Location: Hennings 201

September

22

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Michele Bannister

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Scaffolded Quantitative Inquiry Labs: Developing Critical Thinking in the Introductory Physics Laboratory)

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-22T15:30:00 Mapping the Deep: First Discoveries from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey Event Location: Hennings 318

September

23

2014

Tuesday, 3:00 pm | Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: NATASHA HOLMES

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Visualizing the Quantum World

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-23T15:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Scaffolded Quantitative Inquiry Labs: Developing Critical Thinking in the Introductory Physics Laboratory) Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

September

24

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall | Speaker: J.C. Seamus Davis

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Pac. Inst. of Theoretical Physics Seminars

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-24T19:30:00 Visualizing the Quantum World Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall

September

25

2014

A Zeeman slower for the optimized production of laser-cooled Li and Rb gases

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: William Bowden

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Precision physics with few electron atoms and molecules

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-25T14:00:00 A Zeeman slower for the optimized production of laser-cooled Li and Rb gases Event Location: Henn 318

September

25

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Krzysztof Pachucki (U Warsaw)

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Characterizing the Distribution of Planetary Architectures with Kepler

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-25T14:00:00 Precision physics with few electron atoms and molecules Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

25

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Eric Ford, Penn State U, Center for Exoplanets & Habitable World

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Cyclotron-Based Production of Radioisotopes for Medical Imaging Studies”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-25T16:00:00 Characterizing the Distribution of Planetary Architectures with Kepler Event Location: Hennings 201

September

26

2014

Friday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: XINCHI HOU

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"Nematic order in fractional quantum Hall liquids"

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-26T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Cyclotron-Based Production of Radioisotopes for Medical Imaging Studies”) Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

September

29

2014

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Room 318 | Speaker: Joseph Maciejko (U Alberta)

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A Tour of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-29T12:00:00 "Nematic order in fractional quantum Hall liquids" Event Location: Room 318

September

29

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Adam Hincks (UBC)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Superconducting Pairing Symmetry: Application to LiFeAs”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-29T15:30:00 A Tour of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Event Location: Hennings 318

September

30

2014

Tuesday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SHUN CHI

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Back-reaction of Hawking Radiation on a Gravitationally Collapsing Star

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Add to Calendar 2014-09-30T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Superconducting Pairing Symmetry: Application to LiFeAs”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

October

01

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sean Stotyn

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Interplay of disorder, nematicity and magnetism in Fe-based Superconductors

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-01T13:00:00 Back-reaction of Hawking Radiation on a Gravitationally Collapsing Star Event Location: Hennings 318

October

02

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

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Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-02T14:00:00 Interplay of disorder, nematicity and magnetism in Fe-based Superconductors Event Location: Hennings 318

October

02

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Ann-Marie Chacko

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From black holes to badly behaved metals

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-02T14:00:00 Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

02

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University

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3D model atmospheres of white dwarfs

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-02T16:00:00 From black holes to badly behaved metals Event Location: Hennings 201

October

06

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Hubble Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore)

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Holographic Accelerated Heavy Quark-Anti-Quark Pair

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-06T15:30:00 3D model atmospheres of white dwarfs Event Location: Hennings 318

October

08

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Gordon Semenoff

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Bio-macromolecules and their complexes – An inspiration for statistical physics

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-08T13:00:00 Holographic Accelerated Heavy Quark-Anti-Quark Pair Event Location: Hennings 318

October

09

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Leo Golubovic, University of West Virginia

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Model and Probes of the Early and Dark Universe: Inflation and 21- cm Radiation in Cosmology”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-09T16:00:00 Bio-macromolecules and their complexes – An inspiration for statistical physics Event Location: Hennings 201

October

14

2014

Tuesday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: Michael Sitwell

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Reinventing Introductory Physics for Life Scientists (IPLS)

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-14T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Model and Probes of the Early and Dark Universe: Inflation and 21- cm Radiation in Cosmology”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

October

16

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Edward Redish, University of Maryland

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Cometary Impact Rates at Jupiter and Beyond

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-16T16:00:00 Reinventing Introductory Physics for Life Scientists (IPLS) Event Location: Hennings 201

October

20

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Luke Dones (SwRI)

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Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-20T15:30:00 Cometary Impact Rates at Jupiter and Beyond Event Location: Hennings 318

October

22

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Bob Wald, University of Chicago

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100 YEARS of SPACETIME & GRAVITY: an Evening with Bill and Bob

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-22T13:00:00 Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes Event Location: Hennings 318

October

22

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: Buchanan Building Block A - RM A102 / 1866 Main Mall | Speaker: Bill Unruh and Bob Wald

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Pac. Inst. of Theoretical Physics Seminars

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-22T19:30:00 100 YEARS of SPACETIME & GRAVITY: an Evening with Bill and Bob Event Location: Buchanan Building Block A - RM A102 / 1866 Main Mall

October

23

2014

Exploring isospin asymmetry and independence along the N=Z line

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Silvia Lenzi (INFN and U Padova)

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Ubiquity of planets and diversity of planetary systems: Origin and Destiny of multiple super Earths and gas giants.

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-23T14:00:00 Exploring isospin asymmetry and independence along the N=Z line Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

23

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Douglas NC Lin, University of California, Santa Cruz

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The Sad Story of the Cosmic EUV Background

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-23T16:00:00 Ubiquity of planets and diversity of planetary systems: Origin and Destiny of multiple super Earths and gas giants. Event Location: Hennings 201

October

27

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Matt McQuinn (University of Washington)

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Magnetic Stars for Holography

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-27T15:30:00 The Sad Story of the Cosmic EUV Background Event Location: Hennings 318

October

29

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennigs 318 | Speaker: Dan Carney, UBC

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Muonic atoms and proton radius puzzle

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-29T13:00:00 Magnetic Stars for Holography Event Location: Hennigs 318

October

30

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Chen Ji (TRIUMF)

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How to get into that “room at the bottom” of DNA analysis

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-30T14:00:00 Muonic atoms and proton radius puzzle Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

30

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Sabrina Leslie, McGill

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X-rays from Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars as a Diagnostic of their Interiors

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Add to Calendar 2014-10-30T16:00:00 How to get into that “room at the bottom” of DNA analysis Event Location: Hennings 201

November

03

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sharon Morsink (University of Alberta)

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Femtosecond broadband ellipsometry and magneto-optics: disentanglement of spin and charge dynamics

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-03T15:30:00 X-rays from Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars as a Diagnostic of their Interiors Event Location: Hennings 318

November

06

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Fabio Boschini, Politecnico di Milano

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Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-06T14:00:00 Femtosecond broadband ellipsometry and magneto-optics: disentanglement of spin and charge dynamics Event Location: Hennings 318

November

06

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Florian Beutler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Optimal control of quantum evolution: quantum state transformation, cooling, and nonadiabatic braiding

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-06T16:00:00 Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Event Location: Hennings 201

November

10

2014

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Henning 318 | Speaker: Armin Rahmani (UBC)

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The Cosmic Microwave Background and the future of Observational Cosmology

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-10T12:00:00 Optimal control of quantum evolution: quantum state transformation, cooling, and nonadiabatic braiding Event Location: Henning 318

November

10

2014

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Graeme Addison

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Spacetime versus the Quantum

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-10T15:30:00 The Cosmic Microwave Background and the future of Observational Cosmology Event Location: Hennings 318

November

12

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: Fairmont Lounge - St. John's College/2111 Lower Mall - University of British Columbia | Speaker: Joe Polchinski

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Pac. Inst. of Theoretical Physics Seminars

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-12T19:30:00 Spacetime versus the Quantum Event Location: Fairmont Lounge - St. John's College/2111 Lower Mall - University of British Columbia

November

13

2014

Thermal and electrical transport in the heavy fermion compound YbRh2Si2 under magnetic fields

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Heike Pfau, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

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Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-13T14:00:00 Thermal and electrical transport in the heavy fermion compound YbRh2Si2 under magnetic fields Event Location: Hennings 318

November

13

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Electron-Phonon Mediated Superconductivity Probed by ARPES: from MgB2 to Lithium-Decorated Graphene”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-13T14:00:00 Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

13

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: BART LUDBROOK

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Making Comparisons - A Strategy for Teaching Scientific Reasoning in a First Year lab

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-13T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Electron-Phonon Mediated Superconductivity Probed by ARPES: from MgB2 to Lithium-Decorated Graphene”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

November

13

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Doug Bonn, UBC

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