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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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April

2016

Waves, vortices and superfluids

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

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-21T16:00:00 Waves, vortices and superfluids Event Location: Hennings 201

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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Add to Calendar 2016-04-21T14:00:00 Transient Dynamics of d-Wave Superconductors after a Sudden Excitation 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: “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

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

Nuclear astrophysics with ORRUBA

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

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Add to Calendar 2016-04-04T14:00:00 Nuclear astrophysics with ORRUBA Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

April

2016

Filtering in Low Temperature Physics Experiments

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

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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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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

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

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: “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

Introduction to Celestial Navigation

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Dominique Prinet

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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

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

Next Generation Quantum Computers

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

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March

2016

Entropy-Stabilized Oxides

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


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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

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

Imaging and Analysis of Quantum Materials using Low Voltage Electron Microscopy

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: David C. Bell, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-17T16:00:00 Imaging and Analysis of Quantum Materials using Low Voltage Electron Microscopy Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Luminescent Properties Of Pb-Based (PbX) Colloidal Quantum Dots (CQDs) In Vacuum, On Silicon And Integrated With A Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: CHARLES ALDEN FOELL III

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-17T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Luminescent Properties Of Pb-Based (PbX) Colloidal Quantum Dots (CQDs) In Vacuum, On Silicon And Integrated With A Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

March

2016

Climate commitments -- It's not about targets anymore.

| Event Location: Hennings Building (RM 200) 6224 Agricultural Road - UBC | Speaker: Honourable Elizabeth May (Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands Leader of the Green Party of Canada)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-16T19:30:00 Climate commitments -- It's not about targets anymore. Event Location: Hennings Building (RM 200) 6224 Agricultural Road - UBC

March

2016

Nucleosynthesis of isotopes in stellar explosions

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-16T16:00:00 Nucleosynthesis of isotopes in stellar explosions Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

March

2016

Hunting for the Largest Black Holes

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Nicholas McConnell (Plaskett Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-14T15:30:00 Hunting for the Largest Black Holes Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

Is Holography About Fractional Conformal Laplacians?

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-11T12:30:00 Is Holography About Fractional Conformal Laplacians? Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

Nanoscale Ferroelectric Behavior from in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Christopher T. Nelson

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-11T11:00:00 Nanoscale Ferroelectric Behavior from in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

Biological Motors

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Michelle Wang, Cornell

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March

2016

Anomalous Dimensions and Unparticles in the Cuprate Superconductors

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Philip Phillips

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-10T14:00:00 Anomalous Dimensions and Unparticles in the Cuprate Superconductors Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

Green function for the nonlinear Luttinger Liquid from nonlinear steepest descent

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Tom Price (Cambridge University, UK)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-08T14:00:00 2016-03-08T14:00:00 Green function for the nonlinear Luttinger Liquid from nonlinear steepest descent Event Location: Henn 318

March

2016

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “White Dwarf Populations in Globular Clusters”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: RYAN GOLDSBURY

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-08T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “White Dwarf Populations in Globular Clusters”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

March

2016

The stars as a Sun

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Derek Buzasi (Florida Gulf Coast University)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-07T15:30:00 The stars as a Sun Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

In-situ Investigation of Growth and Superconductivity of Single-Layer FeSe Films on SrTiO3

| Event Location: Ampel 311 | Speaker: Jianfeng Ge (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

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March

2016

Resolving the Solar Neutrino Problem at SNO

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Chris Waltham and Scott Oser, UBC Physics and Astronomy

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-03T16:00:00 Resolving the Solar Neutrino Problem at SNO Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2016

Atomic-resolution studies of materials by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Ondrej L. Krivanek, Arizona State University

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-03T14:00:00 Atomic-resolution studies of materials by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2016

The Search for Gravitational Waves

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Mike Landry (LIGO Hanford/ Caltech/ Virgo)

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-03T14:00:00 The Search for Gravitational Waves Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

March

2016

2016 CAP Lecture - Real Life on Fake Mars: A Student Guide to Becoming an Everyday Astronaut

| Event Location: Henn 200 | Speaker: Dr. Ross Lockwood, U of Alberta

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Add to Calendar 2016-03-01T12:30:00 2016 CAP Lecture - Real Life on Fake Mars: A Student Guide to Becoming an Everyday Astronaut Event Location: Henn 200