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July

2015

IRTG "Cold Controlled Systems" (CoCo) - Kick-off Meeting

| Event Location: MSL 102 |

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Add to Calendar 2015-07-28T09:00:00 IRTG "Cold Controlled Systems" (CoCo) - Kick-off Meeting Event Location: MSL 102

July

2015

Geometric Magnetic Frustration in Double Perovskite Oxides A2BB'O6

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Jeremy Carlo (Villanova)

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Add to Calendar 2015-07-30T14:00:00 Geometric Magnetic Frustration in Double Perovskite Oxides A2BB'O6 Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

August

2015

Hydrogen bonds and two dimensional materials investigated using noncontact atomic force microscopy

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Bingkai Yuan, China Academy of Engineering Physics

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-05T14:00:00 Hydrogen bonds and two dimensional materials investigated using noncontact atomic force microscopy Event Location: AMPEL 311

August

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Quantum simulations of the interaction between solutes and spatial defects in metals)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: LIAM HUBER

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-06T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Quantum simulations of the interaction between solutes and spatial defects in metals) Event Location: Henn 318

August

2015

Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Masaki Oshikawa, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-06T14:00:00 Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids Event Location: Hennings 318

August

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Protein-Solvent Interactions and Classical Density Functional Theory)

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: ERIC MILLS

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-20T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Protein-Solvent Interactions and Classical Density Functional Theory) Event Location: Henn 309

August

2015

Exotic rotations, triaxiality and shape coexistence in A = 130-140 nuclei

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Costel Petrache (Université Paris-Sud)

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-20T14:00:00 Exotic rotations, triaxiality and shape coexistence in A = 130-140 nuclei Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

August

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Accurate Measurement of Brain Water Content by Magnetic Resonance”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SANDRA M. MEYERS

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-24T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Accurate Measurement of Brain Water Content by Magnetic Resonance”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

August

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids”)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: SILVESTRE AGUILAR-MARTINEZ

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-24T11:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids”) Event Location: Henn 318

August

2015

The Nonconservative Action Principle: Basic Formalism and Numerical Applications

| Event Location: TBA (Likely Hennings 318) | Speaker: Dave Tsang

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-24T15:30:00 The Nonconservative Action Principle: Basic Formalism and Numerical Applications Event Location: TBA (Likely Hennings 318)

August

2015

Information field theory — the logic of perception, applied to cosmology & astrophysics

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Torsten Ensslin

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-26T12:00:00 2015-08-26T12:00:00 Information field theory — the logic of perception, applied to cosmology & astrophysics Event Location: Henn 318

August

2015

When Art Meets Science

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: David Harris (TRIUMF Artist in Residence)

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-27T14:00:00 When Art Meets Science Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

August

2015

Spin sensing and magnetic design at the single atom level

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Alexander Ako Khajetoorians, Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Radboud University, Nijmegen

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-28T14:00:00 Spin sensing and magnetic design at the single atom level Event Location: AMPEL 311

August

2015

Search for T-violation in Neutron-Induced Compound Nuclei

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Hirohiko Shimizu (Nagoya U)

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Add to Calendar 2015-08-31T14:00:00 Search for T-violation in Neutron-Induced Compound Nuclei Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

2015

Precision Experiments on Mirror Transitions

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Maxime Brodeur (Notre Dame)

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-03T14:00:00 Precision Experiments on Mirror Transitions Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

2015

Dark Photon Search in e+e- Annihilation

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: James Alexander and Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-10T14:00:00 Dark Photon Search in e+e- Annihilation Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

2015

Hunting for new physics with taus at ATLAS

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Sarah Demers (Yale)

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-15T14:00:00 Hunting for new physics with taus at ATLAS Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

2015

In Search of the First Light: How the 30m Telescope will Revolutionize Astronomy

| Event Location: Science World (1455 Quebec St Vancouver, BC V6A 3Z7) | Speaker: Dr. Paul Hickson

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-16T18:45:00 In Search of the First Light: How the 30m Telescope will Revolutionize Astronomy Event Location: Science World (1455 Quebec St Vancouver, BC V6A 3Z7)

September

2015

Dance, Physics, Teaching and a Model for Interdisciplinary Work

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Sarah Demers, Yale

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-17T11:00:00 Dance, Physics, Teaching and a Model for Interdisciplinary Work Event Location: Henn 318

September

2015

High Energy, High Hopes: Run 2 at ATLAS

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Prof. Sarah Demers, Yale

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-17T16:00:00 High Energy, High Hopes: Run 2 at ATLAS Event Location: Hennings 201

September

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Novel Optimization Platform and Its Applications to the TRIUMF Energy Recovery Linac)

| Event Location: TRIUMF, ISAC II Conf. Room | Speaker: CHRIS GONG

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-21T11:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Novel Optimization Platform and Its Applications to the TRIUMF Energy Recovery Linac) Event Location: TRIUMF, ISAC II Conf. Room

September

2015

Classifying and detecting symmetry fractionalization in gapped 2D spin liquids

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Yang QI (PI, Waterloo)

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-21T12:00:00 Classifying and detecting symmetry fractionalization in gapped 2D spin liquids Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Cluster Counting in Drift Chambers for Particle Identification and Tracking)

| Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: JEAN-FRANÇOIS CARON

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-22T11:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Cluster Counting in Drift Chambers for Particle Identification and Tracking) Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

September

2015

Organic Solar Cells based on Diluted Heterojunction

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Moritz Riede, Oxford University

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-24T14:00:00 Organic Solar Cells based on Diluted Heterojunction Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2015

Thin-Film Alchemy: Using Strain and Dimensionality to Unleash the Hidden Properties of Oxides

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Darrell G. Schlom, Cornell

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-24T16:00:00 Thin-Film Alchemy: Using Strain and Dimensionality to Unleash the Hidden Properties of Oxides Event Location: Hennings 201

September

2015

Spontaneous Loop Currents and Chiral Topological States in Optical Lattices

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Xiaopeng Li (JQI, Maryland, USA)

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-28T12:00:00 Spontaneous Loop Currents and Chiral Topological States in Optical Lattices Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2015

Theoretical Challenges in the Dark Energy Program

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Andrew Zentner

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-28T15:30:00 Theoretical Challenges in the Dark Energy Program Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Cold Antihydrogen Experiments and Radial Compression of Antiproton Clouds in the ALPHA Apparatus at CERN)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: ANDREA GUTIERREZ

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Add to Calendar 2015-09-29T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Cold Antihydrogen Experiments and Radial Compression of Antiproton Clouds in the ALPHA Apparatus at CERN) Event Location: Henn 318

October

2015

The physics of virus self-assembly

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Vinnothan Manoharan, Harvard

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-01T16:00:00 The physics of virus self-assembly Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2015

Bayesian planet searches for the 10 cm/s radial velocity era

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Phil Gregory (UBC Physics & Astronomy)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-05T15:30:00 Bayesian planet searches for the 10 cm/s radial velocity era Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Deep Exclusive Meson Production: Studies of Underlying Quark-Gluon Structure at Jefferson Lab's Hall C

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Garth Huber (U Regino)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-06T14:00:00 Deep Exclusive Meson Production: Studies of Underlying Quark-Gluon Structure at Jefferson Lab's Hall C Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

Imaging molecules: A journey from real to reciprocal space and back

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Stefan Tautz, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich & Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-08T14:00:00 Imaging molecules: A journey from real to reciprocal space and back Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Building and Understanding Nano-materials

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Oussama Moutanabbir POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL

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October

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: ARMAN AKBARIAN

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-13T11:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

October

2015

Edge currents in chiral superfluids and superconductors

| Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: Wen Huang (McMaster and KITP)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-13T13:00:00 Edge currents in chiral superfluids and superconductors Event Location: Hennings 309

October

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ELHAM ALIPOUR KHAYER

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-15T12:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

October

2015

Challenges of very high-energy electron therapy of cancer

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-15T14:00:00 Challenges of very high-energy electron therapy of cancer Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

Mapping Optoelectronic Properties at their Native Length Scale in Lead Halide Perovskites and 2-D MoSe2

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-15T14:00:00 Mapping Optoelectronic Properties at their Native Length Scale in Lead Halide Perovskites and 2-D MoSe2 Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

"Gravity and Entanglement"

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Mark Van Raamsdonk

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October

2015

Induced Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Manu Paranjape, Université de Montréal

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-16T11:00:00 2015-10-16T11:00:00 Induced Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons Event Location: Henn 318

October

2015

Year of Light Celebration at UBC

| Event Location: Room 310, Hugh Dempster Pavilion |

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-17T13:00:00 Year of Light Celebration at UBC Event Location: Room 310, Hugh Dempster Pavilion

October

2015

The Coolest Place in the Solar System: Opportunistic Science with the Dark Energy Survey

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: David Gerdes (U. Michigan)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-19T15:30:00 The Coolest Place in the Solar System: Opportunistic Science with the Dark Energy Survey Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Layered Nanoparticles for Targeted Alpha Generator Radiotherapy

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: David Robertson (U Missouri)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-22T14:00:00 Layered Nanoparticles for Targeted Alpha Generator Radiotherapy Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

Understanding Inflation

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matias Zaldariaga, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-22T16:00:00 Understanding Inflation Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2015

Common Envelope and the Formation of Close Neutron Star Binaries

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Morgan MacLeod (UCSC)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-26T15:30:00 Common Envelope and the Formation of Close Neutron Star Binaries Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Loop Quantum Cosmology & The Very Early Universe: Interplay between theory and Observations

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Abhay Ashtekar

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-28T13:00:00 Loop Quantum Cosmology & The Very Early Universe: Interplay between theory and Observations Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Gravitation and the Cosmos: 100 Years after Einstein's Discovery of General Relativity

| Event Location: St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall - UBC Campus | Speaker: Abhay Ashtekar

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-28T19:30:00 Gravitation and the Cosmos: 100 Years after Einstein's Discovery of General Relativity Event Location: St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall - UBC Campus

October

2015

Extracting Higgs boson couplings from LHC data

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Heather Logan (Carleton U)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T14:00:00 Extracting Higgs boson couplings from LHC data Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

Using long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations to benchmark enhanced sampling methods

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Albert C. Pan (D. E. Shaw Research)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T14:00:00 2015-10-29T14:00:00 Using long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations to benchmark enhanced sampling methods Event Location: Henn 309

October

2015

The photo-Nernst effect in graphene

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: David Cobden, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T14:00:00 The photo-Nernst effect in graphene Event Location: Hennings 318