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March

2016

Artificial design of correlated electron systems with atomic precision

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Roman Engel-Herbert

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-21T11:00:00 Artificial design of correlated electron systems with atomic precision Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

The Environment of an Unusual Starless Galactic Center Molecular Cloud

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Betsy Mills (Jansky Fellow, University of Arizona and Steward Observatory)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-21T15:30:00 The Environment of an Unusual Starless Galactic Center Molecular Cloud Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

Entropy-Stabilized Oxides

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jon-Paul Maria, North Carolina State University


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March

2016

Next Generation Quantum Computers

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Mark Johnson, D-wave

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March

2016

EASTER MONDAY - UBC CLOSED - NO ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

| Event Location: Not Hennings 318 (or anywhere, for that matter). |

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-28T15:30:00 EASTER MONDAY - UBC CLOSED - NO ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Event Location: Not Hennings 318 (or anywhere, for that matter).

March

2016

All About the Lipid Membrane: Phase Transition and Deformation

| Event Location: Room 311 – 2355 East Mall Brimacombe Building | Speaker: Dr. Jun Fan

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-30T14:00:00 All About the Lipid Membrane: Phase Transition and Deformation Event Location: Room 311 – 2355 East Mall Brimacombe Building

March

2016

Introduction to Celestial Navigation

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Dominique Prinet

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March

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “The TRIUMF Nine-cell SRF Cavity for ARIEL”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: PHILIPP ULRICH KOLB

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-30T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “The TRIUMF Nine-cell SRF Cavity for ARIEL”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

March

2016

Design of Functional Materials for Solar Energy Conversion

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Paul Ndione

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-31T11:00:00 Design of Functional Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonance Studies in Ultra-Cold Gases of 6Li and Rb Atoms”)

| Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: WILL GUNTON

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-31T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonance Studies in Ultra-Cold Gases of 6Li and Rb Atoms”) Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

March

2016

Beyond First Year

| Event Location: Henn 200 |

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March

2016

Hacking the Superconducting Nanowire: Detecting Single Photons, Resurrecting the Cryotron, and Pushing Current Around Corners

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Karl Berggren, MIT

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-31T14:00:00 Hacking the Superconducting Nanowire: Detecting Single Photons, Resurrecting the Cryotron, and Pushing Current Around Corners Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

TBA--cm theory

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Piers Coleman, Rutgers Dept. of Physics

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March

2016

Combining Ytterbium and Lithium: Molecules and Quantum Degenerate Mixtures

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Subhadeep Gupta

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April

2016

Filtering in Low Temperature Physics Experiments

| Event Location: Room 208 (Outreach Lab) | Speaker: Damien Quentin

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April

2016

Nuclear astrophysics with ORRUBA

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Steven Pain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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April

2016

Intrinsic alignments : Theoretical and numerical insights

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sandrine Codis (Canadian Institue for Theoretical Astrophysics)

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-04T15:30:00 Intrinsic alignments : Theoretical and numerical insights Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Development of a Small Animal MR Compatible PET Insert”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: GREG STORTZ

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-05T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Development of a Small Animal MR Compatible PET Insert”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

April

2016

Tunable Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth Nickelate Heterostructures

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Matthias Hepting, MPI-FKF Stuttgart

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April

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Extensions Beyond Standard Models”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: CLEMENS ADOLPHS

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-06T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Extensions Beyond Standard Models”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

April

2016

Relaxation and thermalization in many-body systems coupled to different bosonic degrees of freedom

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: J. Bonča, University of Ljubljana

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-07T14:00:00 Relaxation and thermalization in many-body systems coupled to different bosonic degrees of freedom Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2016

Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer.

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Stephan Meyer, University of Chicago

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-07T16:00:00 Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer. Event Location: Hennings 201

April

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Holographic Gauge/Gravity Duality and Symmetry Breaking in Semimetals”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: NAMSHIK KIM

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-08T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Holographic Gauge/Gravity Duality and Symmetry Breaking in Semimetals”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

April

2016

Modeling gas–dust interactions in debris disks

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alex Richert (Penn State University)

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-11T15:30:00 Modeling gas–dust interactions in debris disks Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2016

Dark Energy and Condensate Stars: Macroscopic Effects of the Quantum Trace Anomaly in Low Energy Gravity

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Emil Mottola, LNAL

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April

2016

Amazing Paper - the art, science and future opportunities

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Mark Martinez (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-14T14:00:00 Amazing Paper - the art, science and future opportunities Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

April

2016

Probing the Warped Side of our Universe with Gravitational Waves and Computer Simulations

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Kip Thorne, Cal. Tech.

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-14T16:00:00 Probing the Warped Side of our Universe with Gravitational Waves and Computer Simulations Event Location: Hennings 201

April

2016

100 Years of General Relativity: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Interstellar

| Event Location: Science World (1455 Quebec St ) | Speaker: Dr. Kip Thorne

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-14T19:00:00 100 Years of General Relativity: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Interstellar Event Location: Science World (1455 Quebec St )

April

2016

From ultracold to ultrafast, two instances of analogue simulation using cold atoms

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Frédéric Chevy (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-18T14:00:00 From ultracold to ultrafast, two instances of analogue simulation using cold atoms Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Fluctuations and Phase Transitions in Quantum Ising Systems”)

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: RYAN MCKENZIE

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-21T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Fluctuations and Phase Transitions in Quantum Ising Systems”) Event Location: Henn 309

April

2016

Transient Dynamics of d-Wave Superconductors after a Sudden Excitation

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Francesco Peronaci, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy

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April

2016

Waves, vortices and superfluids

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Frederic Chevy, ENS Paris and Ecole Polytechnique

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April

2016

Ferroic engineering of atomic layers to create a room-temperature multiferroic

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Julia Mundy

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-22T11:00:00 Ferroic engineering of atomic layers to create a room-temperature multiferroic Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2016

Arrested relaxation in an isolated molecular ultracold plasma

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Edward Grant (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-27T11:00:00 Arrested relaxation in an isolated molecular ultracold plasma Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Holographic Entanglement Entropy: Structure and Applications from Noncommutative Theories to Energy Conditions")

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: CHARLES RABIDEAU

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-02T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Holographic Entanglement Entropy: Structure and Applications from Noncommutative Theories to Energy Conditions") Event Location: Henn 318

May

2016

Theranostics: The future of nuclear medicine

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Steven Larson (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-04T14:00:00 Theranostics: The future of nuclear medicine Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Geometry from Quantum Mechanics: Entanglement, Energy Conditions and the Emergence of Space")

| Event Location: Henn 301 | Speaker: PHILIPPE SABELLA GARNIER

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-05T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Geometry from Quantum Mechanics: Entanglement, Energy Conditions and the Emergence of Space") Event Location: Henn 301

May

2016

PUBLIC VIEWING OF THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY

| Event Location: Plaza in front of Koerner Library, UBC |

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-09T09:00:00 PUBLIC VIEWING OF THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY Event Location: Plaza in front of Koerner Library, UBC

May

2016

Double Beta Decay and the Challenges It Poses for Nuclear Physics

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-12T14:00:00 Double Beta Decay and the Challenges It Poses for Nuclear Physics Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

2016

Quantum criticality in heavy fermion metals

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Emilian Marius Nica, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University

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May

2016

Transform & Diagonalize (T&D) approaches to electronic structure with applications to molecular spectroscopy

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Marcel Nooijen, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-13T14:00:00 Transform & Diagonalize (T&D) approaches to electronic structure with applications to molecular spectroscopy Event Location: Hennings 318

May

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “On-Surface Self-Assembly and Characterization of a Macromolecular Charge Transfer Complex by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: MARTINA CARLA CAPSONI

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-16T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “On-Surface Self-Assembly and Characterization of a Macromolecular Charge Transfer Complex by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

May

2016

SEMINAR CANCELLED

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Molecular Foundry LBNL

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-17T14:30:00 SEMINAR CANCELLED Event Location: AMPEL 311

May

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Control of molecular rotation with an optical centrifuge")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: ALEKSEY KOROBENKO

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-18T13:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Control of molecular rotation with an optical centrifuge") Event Location: Henn 309

May

2016

On susy gauge theories, in the effective description with coupling fields'

| Event Location: Henn 301 | Speaker: Jean-Pierre Derendinger, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bern University

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May

2016

On susy gauge theories, in the effective description with coupling fields

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jean-Pierre Derendinger, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bern University

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May

2016

Aspects of Ising-nematic quantum critical point

| Event Location: Henn 304 | Speaker: Ipsita Mandal

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May

2016

TBA

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-26T11:00:00 TBA Event Location: AMPEL 311

May

2016

Fluctuating charge order in the optimally-doped high temperature superconductor, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois

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May

2016

Design Principles of Shift Current Photovoltaics

| Event Location: Henn 304 | Speaker: Ashley Cook (U Toronto)

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