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Add to Calendar 2017-09-18T15:00:00 Is anyone out there? SETI@home and the Breakthrough Listen Project Event Location: Hennings 318

September

17

2017

PhD Comics

Sunday, 7:00 pm | Event Location: Hebb Theatre | Speaker: Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson

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The International Race For A Quantum Computer

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-17T19:00:00 PhD Comics Event Location: Hebb Theatre

September

14

2017

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Stephanie Simmons (SFU)

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Department Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-14T16:00:00 The International Race For A Quantum Computer Event Location: Hennings 201

September

14

2017

Interacting Majorana fermions in two dimensions

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Ian Affleck, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC

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NA62: how to look for Axions and Dark Photons at MeV, and how to hold the mirror up to eV Dark Matter

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-14T14:00:00 Interacting Majorana fermions in two dimensions Event Location: AMPEL #311

September

14

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUM Auditorium | Speaker: Babette Dobrich (CERN)

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Circumgalactic Matter Matters

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-14T14:00:00 NA62: how to look for Axions and Dark Photons at MeV, and how to hold the mirror up to eV Dark Matter Event Location: TRIUM Auditorium

September

11

2017

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

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Nature’s all-in-one: gateable superconductivity in the strongly correlated topological insulator WTe2

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-11T15:30:00 Circumgalactic Matter Matters Event Location: Hennings 318

September

07

2017

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Josh Folk (UBC)

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Department Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-07T16:00:00 Nature’s all-in-one: gateable superconductivity in the strongly correlated topological insulator WTe2 Event Location: Hennings 201

September

07

2017

Spectroscopic-Imaging and Spin-Polarized STM Studies of Superconductivity, Nematicity and Magnetism in 11-Iron Chalcogenide Superconductors

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Dr. Udai Raj Singh, Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics, University of Hamburg

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Final Results from the QWeak Experiment: A search for physics beyond the Standard Model via a measurement of the proton's weak charge

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-07T14:00:00 Spectroscopic-Imaging and Spin-Polarized STM Studies of Superconductivity, Nematicity and Magnetism in 11-Iron Chalcogenide Superconductors Event Location: AMPEL #311

September

07

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Michael Gericke (U Manitoba)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Investigations in Flatland: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Measurements of Noble Surface States and Magnetic Atoms on Magnesium Oxide”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-07T14:00:00 Final Results from the QWeak Experiment: A search for physics beyond the Standard Model via a measurement of the proton's weak charge Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

05

2017

Tuesday, 1:30 pm | Event Location: Room 311, Brimacombe Building (AMPEL) | Speaker: ANDREW JAMES MACDONALD

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Probing Emergent Phenomena Through Large-Scale Atom Manipulation

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-05T13:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Investigations in Flatland: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Measurements of Noble Surface States and Magnetic Atoms on Magnesium Oxide”) Event Location: Room 311, Brimacombe Building (AMPEL)

September

05

2017

Tuesday, 10:00 am | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Sander Otte, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology

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From Mars to the Multiverse

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-05T10:00:00 Probing Emergent Phenomena Through Large-Scale Atom Manipulation Event Location: AMPEL #311

September

01

2017

Friday, 7:00 pm | Event Location: Hebb Main Lecture Theatre - 2045 East Mall, UBC | Speaker: Prof. Lord Martin Rees

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Progress in the Fabrication and Imaging of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Patterned Dopant Nanostructures in Silicon

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-01T19:00:00 From Mars to the Multiverse Event Location: Hebb Main Lecture Theatre - 2045 East Mall, UBC

August

25

2017

Friday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Taylor Stock, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK

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The Ugly and the Beautiful: Versatile Uses of the 14C Bomb Peak

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-25T14:00:00 Progress in the Fabrication and Imaging of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Patterned Dopant Nanostructures in Silicon Event Location: AMPEL #311

August

24

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUM Auditorium | Speaker: Walter Kutschera (U Vienna)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A New Multiparametric MRI Protocol for Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-24T14:00:00 The Ugly and the Beautiful: Versatile Uses of the 14C Bomb Peak Event Location: TRIUM Auditorium

August

22

2017

Tuesday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 207, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: SHIRIN SABOURI

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-22T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A New Multiparametric MRI Protocol for Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer”) Event Location: Room 207, Anthropology and Sociology Building

August

21

2017

Solar Eclipse! @UBC

Monday, 9:30 am | Event Location: UBC Point Grey Campus - Plaza area between the AMS Student NEST (6133 University Blvd) and the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre (6163 University Blvd). | Speaker: UBC Professors and Students

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Searches for Supersymmetry in events with one-lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-21T09:30:00 Solar Eclipse! @UBC Event Location: UBC Point Grey Campus - Plaza area between the AMS Student NEST (6133 University Blvd) and the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre (6163 University Blvd).

August

18

2017

Friday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: MATTHEW GIGNAC

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Searches for Supersymmetry in events with one-lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-18T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Searches for Supersymmetry in events with one-lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector”) Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building

August

18

2017

Friday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: MATTHEW GIGNAC

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Asteroseismology: A new Keplerian revolution

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August

10

2017

Thursday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Professor Donald Kurtz (Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Quantum Mechanics of Composite Objects with Internal Entanglement”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-10T12:30:00 Asteroseismology: A new Keplerian revolution Event Location: Hennings 318

August

09

2017

Wednesday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: FUMIKA SUZUKI

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From manipulating oxide surface to thin film fabrications by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-09T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Quantum Mechanics of Composite Objects with Internal Entanglement”) Event Location: Henn 318

August

04

2017

Friday, 1:30 pm | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Fengmiao Li, UBC

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Observing a Scale Anomaly in Graphene : a Universal Quantum Phase Transition

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-04T13:30:00 From manipulating oxide surface to thin film fabrications by Molecular Beam Epitaxy Event Location: AMPEL #311

August

03

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Eric Akkermans, The Technion, Israel

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Atomic construction of two-dimensional materials

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-03T14:00:00 Observing a Scale Anomaly in Graphene : a Universal Quantum Phase Transition Event Location: AMPEL #311

August

03

2017

Thursday, 10:00 am | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Bruce A. Davidson, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; Oxide MBE Lab, CNR–IOM/TASC National Laboratory, Trieste, Italy

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Magnetic Field Study for a New Generation High Resolution Mass Separator")

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Add to Calendar 2017-08-03T10:00:00 Atomic construction of two-dimensional materials Event Location: AMPEL #311

July

28

2017

Friday, 10:30 am | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: MARCO MARCHETTO

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Ultracold Molecular Plasma”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-28T10:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Magnetic Field Study for a New Generation High Resolution Mass Separator") Event Location: Henn 318

July

28

2017

Friday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Room 207, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: MARKUS SCHULZ-WEILING

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Some thoughts on energy relaxation in an ultracold neutral plasma -- expanding and trapped dual-species plasmas

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-28T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Ultracold Molecular Plasma”) Event Location: Room 207, Anthropology and Sociology Building

July

27

2017

Thursday, 4:30 pm | Event Location: Chem D-213 | Speaker: Scott Bergeson, Brigham Young University

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Tuning Graphene’s Electronic and Transport Properties via Adatom Deposition”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-27T16:30:00 Some thoughts on energy relaxation in an ultracold neutral plasma -- expanding and trapped dual-species plasmas Event Location: Chem D-213

July

26

2017

Wednesday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: ALI KHADEMI

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Low-temperature dynamics in non-linear Luttinger liquids

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-26T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Tuning Graphene’s Electronic and Transport Properties via Adatom Deposition”) Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building

July

20

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Jesko Sirker

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Calculations in Modified Gauge Theory: Testing Some Ideas From QCD in a Toy Model")

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-20T14:00:00 Low-temperature dynamics in non-linear Luttinger liquids Event Location: AMPEL 311

July

19

2017

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: EVAN THOMAS

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Weak Gravitational Lensing Cross-Correlations”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-19T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Calculations in Modified Gauge Theory: Testing Some Ideas From QCD in a Toy Model") Event Location: Henn 318

July

17

2017

Monday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: TILMAN TROESTER

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Numerical Investigation of Spatial Inhomogeneities in Gravity and Quantum Field Theory"”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-17T13:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Weak Gravitational Lensing Cross-Correlations”) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

July

13

2017

Thursday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: ALEXANDRE VINCART-EMARD

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Nonlinear optical response of triple-mode silicon photonic crystal microcavities coupled to single channel input and output waveguides")

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-13T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Numerical Investigation of Spatial Inhomogeneities in Gravity and Quantum Field Theory"”) Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building

July

11

2017

Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: ELLEN SCHELEW

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Probing the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect")

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-11T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Nonlinear optical response of triple-mode silicon photonic crystal microcavities coupled to single channel input and output waveguides") Event Location: Henn 318

July

11

2017

Tuesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 301 | Speaker: HIDEKI TANIMURA

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Edge states and exact zero modes in topological 1D quantum magnets

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-11T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Probing the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect") Event Location: Henn 301

July

06

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: AMPEL #311 | Speaker: Frédéric Mila, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Quantitative Measurements of Rhenium-188 for Radionuclide Therapies”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-07-06T14:00:00 Edge states and exact zero modes in topological 1D quantum magnets Event Location: AMPEL #311

June

23

2017

Friday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: PEDRO LUIS ESQUINAS FERNÁNDEZ

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Searches for Supersymmetry in events with one-lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector")

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Add to Calendar 2017-06-23T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Quantitative Measurements of Rhenium-188 for Radionuclide Therapies”) Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building

June

19

2017

Monday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: MATTHEW GIGNAC

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Conductance of Junctions of Multiple Interacting Quantum Wires and Long Aharonov-Bohm-Kondo Rings”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-06-19T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Searches for Supersymmetry in events with one-lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector") Event Location: Henn 318

June

15

2017

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: ZHENG SHI

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Pass your proposal and get the grant: Telling your science as a story to enhance your message

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Add to Calendar 2017-06-15T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Conductance of Junctions of Multiple Interacting Quantum Wires and Long Aharonov-Bohm-Kondo Rings”) Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building

June

12

2017

Monday, 3:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318, UBC campus | Speaker: Christine Ackerley, Matthew Cimone, Jared Stang

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Investigations in Flatland: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Measurements of Noble Metal Surface States and Magnetic Atoms on MgO")

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Add to Calendar 2017-06-12T15:00:00 Pass your proposal and get the grant: Telling your science as a story to enhance your message Event Location: Hennings 318, UBC campus

June

06

2017

Tuesday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: AMPEL Room 311 | Speaker: ANDREW JAMES MACDONALD

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Composite System Quantum Mechanics with Internal Entanglement")

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Add to Calendar 2017-06-06T15:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Investigations in Flatland: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Measurements of Noble Metal Surface States and Magnetic Atoms on MgO") Event Location: AMPEL Room 311

June

06

2017

Tuesday, 11:00 am | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: FUMIKA SUZUKI

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Gold Coins of Newfoundland book launch

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Add to Calendar 2017-06-06T11:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Composite System Quantum Mechanics with Internal Entanglement") Event Location: Henn 318

May

25

2017

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (Seminar Room 307 6331 Crescent Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2) | Speaker: Harvey Richer

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Department Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-25T16:00:00 Gold Coins of Newfoundland book launch Event Location: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (Seminar Room 307 6331 Crescent Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)

May

25

2017

Investigating the Role of Disorder, Electron Concentration, and Lattice Compression in Uranium-based Heavy Fermion Systems

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Eteri Svanidze, McMaster University

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Single Particle Structure of Exotic Strontium Isotopes”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-25T14:00:00 Investigating the Role of Disorder, Electron Concentration, and Lattice Compression in Uranium-based Heavy Fermion Systems Event Location: Hennings 318

May

25

2017

Thursday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building | Speaker: STEFFEN JAMES CRUZ

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Weak gravitational lensing cross-correlations”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-25T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Single Particle Structure of Exotic Strontium Isotopes”) Event Location: Room 202, Anthropology and Sociology Building

May

23

2017

Tuesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 304 | Speaker: TILMAN TROESTER

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Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-23T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Weak gravitational lensing cross-correlations”) Event Location: Henn 304

May

18

2017

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Daniel R. Gamelin, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Numerical Investigation of Spatial Inhomogeneities in Gravity and Quantum Field Theory”)

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-18T14:00:00 Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots Event Location: Hennings 318

May

10

2017

Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: ALEXANDRE VINCART-EMARD

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Pursuing novel electronic states in two-dimensional systems

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-10T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Numerical Investigation of Spatial Inhomogeneities in Gravity and Quantum Field Theory”) Event Location: Henn 318

May

04

2017

Thursday, 11:00 am | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Ke Zou

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Building quantum materials with superconducting circuits

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-04T11:00:00 Pursuing novel electronic states in two-dimensional systems Event Location: Hennings 318

May

01

2017

Monday, 11:00 am | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Angela Kou

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Wafer-‐Scale Nanofabrication of Fluidic Microchips for Detecting and Controlling Single DNA Molecules

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Add to Calendar 2017-05-01T11:00:00 Building quantum materials with superconducting circuits Event Location: Hennings 318

April

25

2017

Tuesday, 11:30 am | Event Location: AMPEL 311, 2355 East Mall | Speaker: Dr. Qinghuang Lin, Sr. Manager and IBM Master Inventor, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

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Corralling a distant unseen planet with extreme resonant Kuiper Belt Objects

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Add to Calendar 2017-04-25T11:30:00 Wafer-‐Scale Nanofabrication of Fluidic Microchips for Detecting and Controlling Single DNA Molecules Event Location: AMPEL 311, 2355 East Mall

April

24

2017

Monday, 3:30 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Renu Malhotra (Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona)

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