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February

2017

Dark Matter and the Search for a Fifth Force

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine)

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-09T14:00:00 Dark Matter and the Search for a Fifth Force Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

February

2017

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

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: NAMSHIK KIM

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-09T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Holographic Gauge/Gravity Duality and Symmetry Breaking in Semimetals”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

February

2017

Politics, Morality, Innovation and Fraud in Physical Science and Technology

| Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC) | Speaker: Prof. Jed Buchwald

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-08T19:30:00 Politics, Morality, Innovation and Fraud in Physical Science and Technology Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC)

February

2017

Operation and scale-up of single-atom spin qubits in silicon

| Event Location: RM 318 - Hennings (6224 Agricultural Road) | Speaker: Andrea Morello

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-08T10:00:00 Operation and scale-up of single-atom spin qubits in silicon Event Location: RM 318 - Hennings (6224 Agricultural Road)

February

2017

The Universe of soils

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

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-06T15:30:00 The Universe of soils Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2017

What can defect bound states tell us? A case study of superconducting LiFeAs

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Shun Chi, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UBC

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-06T13:00:00 What can defect bound states tell us? A case study of superconducting LiFeAs Event Location: AMPEL 311

February

2017

Novel nano-structured materials and opto-electronic devices for classical and quantum optical applications

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Johann Peter Reithmaier (Uni. Kassel)

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-02T16:00:00 Novel nano-structured materials and opto-electronic devices for classical and quantum optical applications Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2017

Algebraic Approach to Phase Problem

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Pavel Trochtchanovitch

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February

2017

Who Has Seen The WIMP? Neither You Nor I

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Daniel McKinsey (UC Berkeley)

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Add to Calendar 2017-02-02T14:00:00 Who Has Seen The WIMP? Neither You Nor I Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

January

2017

Myelin-Specific MRI: From Development to Application in Clinical Trials

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Shannon Kolind, PhD

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-31T11:00:00 Myelin-Specific MRI: From Development to Application in Clinical Trials Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

Early modern multiverses from Digges to Milton

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dennis Danielson (UBC Department of English)

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-30T15:30:00 Early modern multiverses from Digges to Milton Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

101 years of General Relativity: from Einstein in 1915 to Relativistic Cosmology in the 21st century.

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Pedro Ferreira (Oxford)

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-26T16:00:00 101 years of General Relativity: from Einstein in 1915 to Relativistic Cosmology in the 21st century. Event Location: Hennings 201

January

2017

Discovering and Harnessing Molecular Scale Driving Forces at the Nano/Bio Interface

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Jim Pfaendtner, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington

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January

2017

Sliced Basis Set Approach to Quantum Chemistry with DMRG

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Miles Stoudenmire, UC Irvine

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-26T14:00:00 Sliced Basis Set Approach to Quantum Chemistry with DMRG Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

2017 CAP Lecture: The Physics of Folding: Watching Structures Self-Assemble in Single Biological Molecules using Laser Tweezers

| Event Location: Hennings 202 | Speaker: Michael Woodside, University of Alberta

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-26T12:30:00 2017 CAP Lecture: The Physics of Folding: Watching Structures Self-Assemble in Single Biological Molecules using Laser Tweezers Event Location: Hennings 202

January

2017

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "A Silicon Photonic Circuit for Optical Trapping and Characterization of Single Nanoparticles")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: HAMED MIRSADEGHI

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-24T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "A Silicon Photonic Circuit for Optical Trapping and Characterization of Single Nanoparticles") Event Location: Henn 309

January

2017

Gravitational waves: exploring the extremes of physics and astronomy

| Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC) | Speaker: Yanbei Chen - Caltech

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-23T19:00:00 Gravitational waves: exploring the extremes of physics and astronomy Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC)

January

2017

Radio cosmology in South Africa

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yin-Zhe Ma ( University of KwaZulu-Natal)

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January

2017

Chiral spin liquids in SU(N) fermionic Mott insulators with artifical gauge fields

| Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: Miklos Lajko, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-20T13:00:00 Chiral spin liquids in SU(N) fermionic Mott insulators with artifical gauge fields Event Location: Hennings 309

January

2017

Iron Pnictides: A New Piece in the High Tc Superconductivity Puzzle.

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Adriana Moreo (ORNL/Univ. Tennessee)

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-19T16:00:00 Iron Pnictides: A New Piece in the High Tc Superconductivity Puzzle. Event Location: Hennings 201

January

2017

Electronic Structure of Metal Halide Perovskite Surfaces and Interfaces

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Antoine Kahn, Princeton University

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-19T14:00:00 Electronic Structure of Metal Halide Perovskite Surfaces and Interfaces Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

When the universe was hot and sticky: Characterizing the quark-gluon plasma

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Charles Gale (McGill)

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-19T14:00:00 When the universe was hot and sticky: Characterizing the quark-gluon plasma Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

January

2017

The anisotropic nature of white matter vasculature and its relevance to MRI of perfusion and blood oxygenation

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alexander Rauscher, PhD

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-17T11:00:00 The anisotropic nature of white matter vasculature and its relevance to MRI of perfusion and blood oxygenation Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

Measuring the geometry of the Universe with Euclid

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alina Kiessling (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-16T15:30:00 Measuring the geometry of the Universe with Euclid Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

Exploratory Synthesis and Property Investigation of Novel Functional and Superconducting Materials

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Nikolai Zhigadlo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-16T14:00:00 Exploratory Synthesis and Property Investigation of Novel Functional and Superconducting Materials Event Location: AMPEL 311

January

2017

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Decay spectroscopy of N ~ Z nuclei in the vicinity of 100Sn”)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: JASON PARK

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-12T16:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Decay spectroscopy of N ~ Z nuclei in the vicinity of 100Sn”) Event Location: Henn 318

January

2017

Iron pnictides: unconventional s-wave superconductors

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: OsKar Vafek (NHMFLab/FSU, Tallahassee)

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January

2017

'Ultrafast Optical Control of Complex Quantum Materials

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Stefan Kaiser, 4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart and Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research

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January

2017

Galaxy Fertility: Nature vs. Nurture

| Event Location: Hennings 301 - NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM | Speaker: Gary Mamon (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

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January

2017

Imaging the wonderful watery world of the brain and spinal cord: A myelin specific MRI method to study neurological disease

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Cornelia Laule

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-10T11:00:00 Imaging the wonderful watery world of the brain and spinal cord: A myelin specific MRI method to study neurological disease Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

Organic matter in the Universe: From Solar System to distant galaxies

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

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-09T15:30:00 Organic matter in the Universe: From Solar System to distant galaxies Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2017

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Assessment of spatially inhomogeneous radiation dose response in the parotid gland")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: HALEY CLARK

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-06T16:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Assessment of spatially inhomogeneous radiation dose response in the parotid gland") Event Location: Henn 309

January

2017

Fast Radio Bursts: a mysterious new class of astronomical object

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Kiyo Masui (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2017-01-05T16:00:00 Fast Radio Bursts: a mysterious new class of astronomical object Event Location: Hennings 201

January

2017

Symmetries in anyon systems

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Fiona Burnell, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

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December

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “An Analysis of the Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SHIMPEI TOBAYAMA

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-16T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “An Analysis of the Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

December

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “2+1d Quantum Field Theories in Large N Limit”)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: HAMID OMID

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-16T11:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “2+1d Quantum Field Theories in Large N Limit”) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

December

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Constraining the Flux and Cross Section Models with Data from the ND280 Detector using FGD1 and FGD2 for the 2016 Joint Oscillation Analysis at T2K")

| Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: CHRISTINE NIELSEN

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-16T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Constraining the Flux and Cross Section Models with Data from the ND280 Detector using FGD1 and FGD2 for the 2016 Joint Oscillation Analysis at T2K") Event Location: Henn 302

December

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Deformable Motion Correction and Spatial Image Analysis in Positron Emission Tomography”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: IVAN SERGEEVICH KLYUZHIN

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-16T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Deformable Motion Correction and Spatial Image Analysis in Positron Emission Tomography”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

December

2016

Next questions in neutrino physics and the NOvA and DUNE experiments

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Ryan Patterson (Caltech)

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-15T14:00:00 Next questions in neutrino physics and the NOvA and DUNE experiments Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

December

2016

Faraday Show: Good Vibrations! The Physics of sound, music, & concerts

| Event Location: HEBB 100 Theatre (2045 EAST MALL) | Speaker: PHAS undergrad/grad/faculty/staff

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-11T14:00:00 Faraday Show: Good Vibrations! The Physics of sound, music, & concerts Event Location: HEBB 100 Theatre (2045 EAST MALL)

December

2016

The enigma of Fast Radio Bursts

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Paul Scholz (Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Fellow)

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-07T15:00:00 The enigma of Fast Radio Bursts Event Location: Hennings 318

December

2016

THIS WEEK'S ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM WILL BE ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON

| Event Location: None today | Speaker: Check the entry on 9 December for details

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December

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Localized Bladder Dose Accumulation in Relation to Urinary Toxicity in Multi-Fraction Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ROJA ZAKARIAEE KOUCHAKSARAEE

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-05T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Localized Bladder Dose Accumulation in Relation to Urinary Toxicity in Multi-Fraction Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

December

2016

Benchmarking Progress towards Quantum Computing

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Joseph Emerson

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December

2016

Competition of Topological and Nematic Phases in the Two-dimensional Electron Gas

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Gábor Csáthy, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-01T14:00:00 Competition of Topological and Nematic Phases in the Two-dimensional Electron Gas Event Location: Hennings 318

December

2016

New Directions in Searching for the Dark Universe

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)

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December

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Nonequilibrium Transport in Electron Solids”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: OLEKSANDR ROSSOKHATY

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Add to Calendar 2016-12-01T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Nonequilibrium Transport in Electron Solids”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

November

2016

From pebbles to planets

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Katherine Kretke (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-28T15:30:00 From pebbles to planets Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2016

Quantum Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields in Semimetallic Films and Wires

| Event Location: Hennings318 | Speaker: Danny Bulmash

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-28T12:00:00 Quantum Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields in Semimetallic Films and Wires Event Location: Hennings318

November

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Temperature-Driven Spectral Weight Transfer in Doped Magnetic Insulators”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: MIRKO MÖLLER

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-25T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Temperature-Driven Spectral Weight Transfer in Doped Magnetic Insulators”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre