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November

2016

Simulating Spacetime

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matt Choptuik

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November

2016

EXO - Searching for a Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Thomas Brunner (McGill)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-24T14:00:00 EXO - Searching for a Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2016

Josephson Currents Induced by the Witten Effect

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jeroen van den Brink, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Germany

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November

2016

Exploding stars- Laboratories for astrophysics

| Event Location: EOS building, room 5104 | Speaker: Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)

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November

2016

Milestones toward Majorana-based topological quantum computing

| Event Location: Hennings318 | Speaker: Ryan Mishmash (Caltech)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-21T12:00:00 Milestones toward Majorana-based topological quantum computing Event Location: Hennings318

November

2016

Topological insulators: from spin-orbit coupling to supersymmetry-on-a-chip

| Event Location: Henning 201 | Speaker: Joseph Maciejko (University of Alberta)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-17T16:00:00 Topological insulators: from spin-orbit coupling to supersymmetry-on-a-chip Event Location: Henning 201

November

2016

Superfluid density and microwave conductivity of FeSe superconductor

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: David Broun, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University

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November

2016

Ion Traps for Astrophysics: Where no trap has gone before

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Jason Clark (Argonne)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-17T14:00:00 Ion Traps for Astrophysics: Where no trap has gone before Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2016

Cosmology under a microscope: Watching the growth of topological defects across a quantum phase transition

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Cheng Chin (University of Chicago)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-10T16:00:00 Cosmology under a microscope: Watching the growth of topological defects across a quantum phase transition Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2016

Macroscopic character of composite high temperature superconducting wires and enhancement of superconductivity by magnetic field

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Boris Spivak, University of Washington

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-10T14:00:00 Macroscopic character of composite high temperature superconducting wires and enhancement of superconductivity by magnetic field Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2016

Gravity and Entanglement

| Event Location: St. Johns' College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC) | Speaker: Mark van Raamsdonk

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-09T19:30:00 Gravity and Entanglement Event Location: St. Johns' College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC)

November

2016

A summer with the GSI FRS Ion Catcher and its Multi Reflection ToF spectrometer

| Event Location: EOS building, room 5104 | Speaker: Andrew Finlay (UBC - IsoSiM student)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-09T15:45:00 A summer with the GSI FRS Ion Catcher and its Multi Reflection ToF spectrometer Event Location: EOS building, room 5104

November

2016

How Dynamical Chaos Shapes the Architectures of Planetary Systems

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dan Tamayo (CITA and University of Toronto Centre for Planetary Sciences)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-07T15:30:00 How Dynamical Chaos Shapes the Architectures of Planetary Systems Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2016

Driven Dirac Materials

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alexander Balatsky (Nordita and Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-04T12:00:00 Driven Dirac Materials Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2016

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Chris Pritchet (UVic)

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-03T16:00:00 The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2016

Wakefield Acceleration: Reaching Beyond the Giga-electron-volt-per-meter Frontier

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: James Rosenzweig (UCLA)

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November

2016

Molecular Mechanism of ACAP1BAR-PH proteins assembling on membrane

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jun Fan

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October

2016

PIENU: a high-precision measurement of the pion branching ratio

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Tristan Sullivan (UBC/TRIUMF)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-31T15:30:00 PIENU: a high-precision measurement of the pion branching ratio Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2016

CANCELLED: The first massive black holes

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Marta Volonteri (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

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October

2016

The faulty reasoning used by Poynting in determining energy fluxes in electrical conductors

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Albert Curzon (SFU) & Frank Curzon (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-27T16:00:00 The faulty reasoning used by Poynting in determining energy fluxes in electrical conductors Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2016

Nuclear physics experiments at Institut Laue-Langevin

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Ulli Koester (ILL Grenoble)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-27T14:00:00 Nuclear physics experiments at Institut Laue-Langevin Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2016

Radioisotope production at CERN

| Event Location: EOS building, room 5104 | Speaker: Ulli Koester (ILL Grenoble)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-26T15:45:00 Radioisotope production at CERN Event Location: EOS building, room 5104

October

2016

Microwave Studies on FeSe Superconductors.

| Event Location: Room: 311 AMPEL 2355 East Mall | Speaker: Meng Li

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-25T15:00:00 2016-10-25T15:00:00 Microwave Studies on FeSe Superconductors. Event Location: Room: 311 AMPEL 2355 East Mall

October

2016

Neuroimaging and Innovative Labeling Strategies

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Bertrand Kuhnast (CEA)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-25T14:00:00 Neuroimaging and Innovative Labeling Strategies Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2016

Observing the evolution of solids in protoplanetary disks

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sean Andrews - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-24T15:30:00 Observing the evolution of solids in protoplanetary disks Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2016

Ultracold Disordered Quantum Gases

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Prof. Brian DeMarco (UIUC)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-20T16:00:00 Ultracold Disordered Quantum Gases Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2016

Partial Dynamical Symmetries and Rotation-Vibration Interactions in deformed nuclei and notes on the dangers of statistical tests of nuclear models

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Richard Casten (Yale)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-20T14:00:00 Partial Dynamical Symmetries and Rotation-Vibration Interactions in deformed nuclei and notes on the dangers of statistical tests of nuclear models Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2016

Magnetism meets topology: Quantum anomalous Hall effect and Chiral spin liquids

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-20T14:00:00 Magnetism meets topology: Quantum anomalous Hall effect and Chiral spin liquids Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2016

Under the light of a red sun: Prospects for life on Proxima b

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jaymie Matthews (UBC Physics & Astronomy)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-17T15:30:00 Under the light of a red sun: Prospects for life on Proxima b Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2016

Nuclear Weapons: Sources of Strength or Vulnerability?

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Aron Bernstein, Physics Dept. and Lab for Nuclear Science, MIT

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October

2016

Cosmology, Cell Phones, and Video Games: Mapping Dark Energy with CHIME

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Keith Vanderlinde (U Toronto)

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October

2016

The Dark Side of the Universe

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Pauline Gagnon

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October

2016

Unifying the Universe

| Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC) | Speaker: Andrei Barvinsky - Lebedev Institute, Moscow

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-12T19:30:00 Unifying the Universe Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge / 2111 Lower Mall (UBC)

October

2016

Cancelled - Nuclear Physics for the Astrophysical r-Process

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Matthew Mumpower (Los Alamos)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-12T14:00:00 Cancelled - Nuclear Physics for the Astrophysical r-Process Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2016

Dynamical de Sitter phase in strongly coupled gauge theories in expanding Universe

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Ariel Zhitnitsky

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-12T12:00:00 Dynamical de Sitter phase in strongly coupled gauge theories in expanding Universe Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2016

THANKSGIVING DAY HOLIDAY

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: NO ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM TODAY

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-10T15:30:00 THANKSGIVING DAY HOLIDAY Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Mass and Geometric Measurements of Binary Radio Pulsars”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: EMMANUEL FONSECA

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-07T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Mass and Geometric Measurements of Binary Radio Pulsars”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

October

2016

What has the LHC taught us about the top quark?

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Alison Lister (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-06T16:00:00 What has the LHC taught us about the top quark? Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2016

Simulating Spacetime

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Matthew Choptuik (UBC/CIFAR)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-06T14:00:00 Simulating Spacetime Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2016

From Ultralong-range Molecules to Rydberg Polarons in a Bose Gas

| Event Location: Chem D-213 | Speaker: Thomas C. Killian, Rice University

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-05T14:30:00 From Ultralong-range Molecules to Rydberg Polarons in a Bose Gas Event Location: Chem D-213

October

2016

Density matrix of the Universe and a new type of hill-top inflation

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Andrei Barvinsky

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-05T12:00:00 Density matrix of the Universe and a new type of hill-top inflation Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2016

Stellar streams and fundamental physics

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jo Bovy (University of Toronto)

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-03T15:30:00 Stellar streams and fundamental physics Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2016

Beyond Fundamental Research, Why Physicists Excel in High Tech

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Moe Kermani (Vanedge Capital)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-29T16:00:00 Beyond Fundamental Research, Why Physicists Excel in High Tech Event Location: Hennings 201

September

2016

Radiofrequency Cavities Applications for Heavy-Ions and Electron Linear Accelerator

| Event Location: EOS building, room 5104 | Speaker: Edward Thoeng (UBC - IsoSiM student)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-28T15:45:00 Radiofrequency Cavities Applications for Heavy-Ions and Electron Linear Accelerator Event Location: EOS building, room 5104

September

2016

The Hubble constant in the era of precision cosmology

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Lucas Macri (Texas A&M University)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-26T15:30:00 The Hubble constant in the era of precision cosmology Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2016

When galaxies and puppets collide: Adventures in astronomy outreach

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Jaymie Matthews (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-22T16:00:00 When galaxies and puppets collide: Adventures in astronomy outreach Event Location: Hennings 201

September

2016

Cooper like pairing induced by electron ionic polarizability

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yizhak Yacoby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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September

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "A high-precision measurement of the pi -> e nu branching ratio")

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: TRISTAN SULLIVAN

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-22T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "A high-precision measurement of the pi -> e nu branching ratio") Event Location: Henn 318

September

2016

ASTRO-JAMBOREE 2016

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: All members of the UBC Astronomy Group

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-19T15:00:00 ASTRO-JAMBOREE 2016 Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2016

Quamtum Critical Dynamics in Many Body Systems

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Jianda Wu (University of California, San Diego)

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