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September

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "An Analysis of the Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos")

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: SHIMPEI TOBAYAMA

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-16T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "An Analysis of the Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos") Event Location: Henn 318

September

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "2+1d Quantum Field Theories in Large N limit")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: HAMID OMID

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-16T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "2+1d Quantum Field Theories in Large N limit") Event Location: Henn 309

September

2016

In Search of Dark Matter

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-15T16:00:00 In Search of Dark Matter Event Location: Hennings 201

September

2016

Material Science (details to be confirmed)

| Event Location: EOS building, room 5104 | Speaker: David Cortie (ANU Canberra)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-14T15:45:00 Material Science (details to be confirmed) Event Location: EOS building, room 5104

September

2016

The Milky Way Galaxy: Inferring the dark matter from the light

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Gwendolyn Eadie (McMaster University)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-12T15:30:00 The Milky Way Galaxy: Inferring the dark matter from the light Event Location: Hennings 318

September

2016

RESCHEDULED TO MONDAY

| Event Location: _ | Speaker: Gwendolyn Eadie (McMaster University)

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September

2016

Colloquium Cancelled

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

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-08T14:00:00 Colloquium Cancelled Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

September

2016

Long Range Transfer of interacting fermions in Quantum Dot Arrays

| Event Location: RM 309B - Hennings (6224 Agricultural Road) | Speaker: Prof Gloria Platero (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, SPAIN)

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Add to Calendar 2016-09-06T10:00:00 Long Range Transfer of interacting fermions in Quantum Dot Arrays Event Location: RM 309B - Hennings (6224 Agricultural Road)

August

2016

Towards High Precision Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in the Extreme Ultraviolet

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Gil Porat JILA/University of Colorado Boulder

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Add to Calendar 2016-08-26T14:00:00 2016-08-26T14:00:00 Towards High Precision Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in the Extreme Ultraviolet Event Location: AMPEL 311

August

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Temperature-driven spectral weight transfer in doped magnetic insulators")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: MIRKO MOELLER

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Add to Calendar 2016-08-26T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Temperature-driven spectral weight transfer in doped magnetic insulators") Event Location: Henn 309

August

2016

The emergence of geometry on the domain walls of topological phases

| Event Location: Room 309 Hennings | Speaker: Prof. Zhengcheng Gu (PI---> Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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Add to Calendar 2016-08-18T11:00:00 The emergence of geometry on the domain walls of topological phases Event Location: Room 309 Hennings

August

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Validation and Optimization of Myelin Water Imaging in Preclinical Model of Spinal Cord Injury")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Henry S. Chen

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Add to Calendar 2016-08-18T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Validation and Optimization of Myelin Water Imaging in Preclinical Model of Spinal Cord Injury") Event Location: Henn 309

August

2016

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

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: RYAN MCKENZIE

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Add to Calendar 2016-08-15T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Fluctuations and Phase Transitions in Quantum Ising Systems”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

August

2016

Design and manipulation of functional molecular nanosystems

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Johannes Barth, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich

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Add to Calendar 2016-08-10T14:00:00 Design and manipulation of functional molecular nanosystems Event Location: AMPEL 311

July

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Cosmological Tests of Gravity”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ALI NARIMANI

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-25T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Cosmological Tests of Gravity”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

July

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Quantum coherent control of laser-kicked molecular rotors")

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: MARTIN BITTER

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-20T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Quantum coherent control of laser-kicked molecular rotors") Event Location: Henn 318

July

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Geometry from Quantum Mechanics: Entanglement, Energy Conditions and the Emergence of Space”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: PHILIPPE-ALEXANDRE SABELLA-GARNIER

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-18T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Geometry from Quantum Mechanics: Entanglement, Energy Conditions and the Emergence of Space”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

July

2016

Orientation and Alignment Echoes

| Event Location: Hennings 302 | Speaker: Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute of Science

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-14T12:30:00 Orientation and Alignment Echoes Event Location: Hennings 302

July

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Control of Molecular Rotation with an Optical Centrifuge”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ALEKSEY KOROBENKO

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-13T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Control of Molecular Rotation with an Optical Centrifuge”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

July

2016

Thrill your grandparents and excite your friends: strategies for explaining your research to non-scientists.

| Event Location: Hebb 10 | Speaker: Alan Manning

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-08T12:00:00 Thrill your grandparents and excite your friends: strategies for explaining your research to non-scientists. Event Location: Hebb 10

July

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Mass and Geometric Measurements of Binary Radio Pulsars")

| Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: EMMANUEL FONSECA

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-07T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Mass and Geometric Measurements of Binary Radio Pulsars") Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

July

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Holographic Entanglement Entropy: Structure and Applications from Noncommutative Field Theories to Energy Conditions”)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: CHARLES RABIDEAU

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Add to Calendar 2016-07-05T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Holographic Entanglement Entropy: Structure and Applications from Noncommutative Field Theories to Energy Conditions”) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

June

2016

An integrated photonics platform for NV centres in diamond

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Michael Gould, University of Washington,

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-24T14:00:00 2016-06-24T14:00:00 An integrated photonics platform for NV centres in diamond Event Location: AMPEL 311

June

2016

Towards realizing topological superconductivity in quantum wires

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Vincent Mourik, University of New South Wales

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-23T14:00:00 Towards realizing topological superconductivity in quantum wires Event Location: Hennings 318

June

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Localized Bladder Dose Accumulation in Relation to Urinary Toxicity in Multi-Fraction Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy")

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: ROJA ZAKARIAEE

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-21T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Localized Bladder Dose Accumulation in Relation to Urinary Toxicity in Multi-Fraction Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy") Event Location: Henn 318

June

2016

Magnetically manipulated atomic and molecular beams

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Gil Alexandrowicz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-20T14:00:00 Magnetically manipulated atomic and molecular beams Event Location: Chem D-215

June

2016

Energy Loss Spectroscopy at High Resolution: Applications to Functional Oxides and Nanoplasmonics

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Gianluigi Botton

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-20T11:00:00 Energy Loss Spectroscopy at High Resolution: Applications to Functional Oxides and Nanoplasmonics Event Location: Hennings 318

June

2016

40 Years of Lattice QCD

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: G. Peter Lepage (Cornell)

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-09T14:00:00 40 Years of Lattice QCD Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

June

2016

Cross-interface electron-phonon interactions in FeSe Films on oxide substrates

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Steve Johnston, University of Tennessee

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-02T14:00:00 Cross-interface electron-phonon interactions in FeSe Films on oxide substrates Event Location: Hennings 318

June

2016

Underground Nuclear Astrophysics - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Frank Strieder (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)

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Add to Calendar 2016-06-02T14:00:00 Underground Nuclear Astrophysics - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

2016

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observation of Flavour Change for Solar Neutrinos

| Event Location: Henn 201 | Speaker: A. B. McDonald, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario for the SNO Collaboration

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-31T15:00:00 The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observation of Flavour Change for Solar Neutrinos Event Location: Henn 201

May

2016

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Cosmological Tests of Gravity")

| Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building | Speaker: ALI NARIMANI

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-30T11:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Cosmological Tests of Gravity") Event Location: Room 309, Hennings Building

May

2016

Discovery of an electronic Goldstone mode in the (putative) excitonic insulator, 1T-TiSe2

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

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-27T14:00:00 2016-05-27T14:00:00 Discovery of an electronic Goldstone mode in the (putative) excitonic insulator, 1T-TiSe2 Event Location: AMPEL 311

May

2016

Design Principles of Shift Current Photovoltaics

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

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-26T14:00:00 2016-05-26T14:00:00 Design Principles of Shift Current Photovoltaics Event Location: Henn 304

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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Add to Calendar 2016-05-26T11:00:00 2016-05-26T11:00:00 Fluctuating charge order in the optimally-doped high temperature superconductor, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x Event Location: AMPEL 311

May

2016

Aspects of Ising-nematic quantum critical point

| Event Location: Henn 304 | Speaker: Ipsita Mandal

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Add to Calendar 2016-05-25T14:00:00 2016-05-25T14:00:00 Aspects of Ising-nematic quantum critical point Event Location: Henn 304

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Add to Calendar 2016-05-12T14:00:00 Quantum criticality in heavy fermion metals Event Location: Hennings 318

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

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

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: "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

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