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December

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse”)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: ARMAN AKBARIAN KALJAHI

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Add to Calendar 2015-12-04T13:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse”) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

December

2015

Very High Energy astrophysics and the Cerenkov Telescope Array

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Rene Ong, UC San Diego

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Add to Calendar 2015-12-03T16:00:00 Very High Energy astrophysics and the Cerenkov Telescope Array Event Location: Hennings 201

December

2015

From the 1960s Fallout to Fukushima: A look at Cesium in the Canadian Arctic

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Trevor Stocki (Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada/Carleton University)

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Add to Calendar 2015-12-03T14:00:00 From the 1960s Fallout to Fukushima: A look at Cesium in the Canadian Arctic Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

December

2015

Superconductivity, diamagnetism, mean inner potential and charge asymmetry of condensed matter

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jorge Hirsch

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Add to Calendar 2015-12-03T14:00:00 Superconductivity, diamagnetism, mean inner potential and charge asymmetry of condensed matter Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Searching for Dark Matter Axions

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Leslie Rosenberg, U Washington

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-26T16:00:00 Searching for Dark Matter Axions Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2015

Short stories in soft condensed matter of how complex behavior in membrane systems arises from minimal components

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sarah Keller, University of Washington

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-26T14:00:00 Short stories in soft condensed matter of how complex behavior in membrane systems arises from minimal components Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “New Methods for Deblending Spectral Energy Distributions in Confused Imaging”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: TODD MACKENZIE

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-26T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “New Methods for Deblending Spectral Energy Distributions in Confused Imaging”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

November

2015

AN INFORMAL Pre-CHRISTMAS EVENING with EINSTEIN

| Event Location: Hennings Building - RM 200 (6224 Agricultural Road) UBC | Speaker: Walter Hardy, Jeremy Heyl, Philip Stamp, Bill Unruh

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-25T19:30:00 AN INFORMAL Pre-CHRISTMAS EVENING with EINSTEIN Event Location: Hennings Building - RM 200 (6224 Agricultural Road) UBC

November

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Cluster Counting in Drift Chambers for Particle Identification and Tracking”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: JEAN-FRANÇOIS CARON

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-25T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Cluster Counting in Drift Chambers for Particle Identification and Tracking”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

November

2015

The Diversity and Demographics of Distant Rocky Worlds

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Leslie Rogers (Caltech)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-23T15:30:00 The Diversity and Demographics of Distant Rocky Worlds Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

AMO

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Deborah Jin JILA and UC Boulder

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-19T16:00:00 AMO Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2015

Accelerator systems development of the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR)

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Oliver Kester (GSI Darmstadt/Goethe University Frankfurt)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-19T11:00:00 Accelerator systems development of the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Novel Optimization Platform and its Applications to the TRIUMF Energy Recovery Linac”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: CHRIS GONG

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-19T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Novel Optimization Platform and its Applications to the TRIUMF Energy Recovery Linac”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

November

2015

Teaching Seminar

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: A.E. Curzon and F.L. Curzon

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-17T12:00:00 Teaching Seminar Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Fast Radio Bursts: Lessons in Deduction

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sarah Burke Spolaor (Caltech)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-16T15:30:00 Fast Radio Bursts: Lessons in Deduction Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Non-Fermi-liquid scattering rates and anomalous band dispersions in ironpnictides and ironchalcogenides - an ARPES study

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Jörg Fink, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-16T14:00:00 Non-Fermi-liquid scattering rates and anomalous band dispersions in ironpnictides and ironchalcogenides - an ARPES study Event Location: AMPEL 311

November

2015

Novel quantum magnetism and Mott physics with Sp(2N) and SU(2N) symmetries - large spin ultra-cold fermions are different

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: CongJun Wu (UCSD)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-16T12:00:00 Novel quantum magnetism and Mott physics with Sp(2N) and SU(2N) symmetries - large spin ultra-cold fermions are different Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Facilitating public understanding of science in a technological society

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Ivan Semeniuk The Globe and Mail

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-12T16:00:00 Facilitating public understanding of science in a technological society Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2015

Crystal Growth and High-Pressure Synthesis of Solid-State Materials

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Nikolai Zhigadlo, Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-12T14:00:00 Crystal Growth and High-Pressure Synthesis of Solid-State Materials Event Location: AMPEL 311

November

2015

The Physics of Electron-Electron Scattering

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Krishna Kumar (Stony Brook)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-12T14:00:00 The Physics of Electron-Electron Scattering Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2015

Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei:Coevolution (Or Not) Of Black Holes And Host Galaxies

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: John Kormendy (University of Texas at Austin)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-09T15:30:00 Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei:Coevolution (Or Not) Of Black Holes And Host Galaxies Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Quantitative Determination of the Pairing Interactions for High Temperature Superconductivity in Cuprates

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Chandra Varma (UCR)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-09T12:00:00 Quantitative Determination of the Pairing Interactions for High Temperature Superconductivity in Cuprates Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: SPECT/CT Quantification of Lu-177 for Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy Treatments of Neuroendocrine Tumors)

| Event Location: VGH Research Pavilion - Room 700 | Speaker: CARLOS URIBE

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-06T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: SPECT/CT Quantification of Lu-177 for Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy Treatments of Neuroendocrine Tumors) Event Location: VGH Research Pavilion - Room 700

November

2015

Magnetized-Target Fusion at General Fusion

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Michel Laberge, General Fusion

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-05T16:00:00 Magnetized-Target Fusion at General Fusion Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2015

Engineering Domain Walls and Planar Rumpling to Create a Room-Temperature Multiferroic

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Julia Mundy, UC Berkeley

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-05T14:00:00 Engineering Domain Walls and Planar Rumpling to Create a Room-Temperature Multiferroic Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

The REDTOP project: Rare Eta Decays with a Tpc for Optical Photons

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Corrado Gatto (INFN)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-05T11:00:00 The REDTOP project: Rare Eta Decays with a Tpc for Optical Photons Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Penning Trap Mass Measurements to Test Three-body Forces in Atomic Nuclei”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: AARON GALLANT

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-04T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Penning Trap Mass Measurements to Test Three-body Forces in Atomic Nuclei”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

November

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Protein-Solvent Interactions and Classical Density Functional Theory”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ERIC MILLS

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-03T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Protein-Solvent Interactions and Classical Density Functional Theory”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

November

2015

Astronomy in the era of the LSST: Understanding our universe a bit at a time.

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Andrew Connolly (University of Washington)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-02T15:30:00 Astronomy in the era of the LSST: Understanding our universe a bit at a time. Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2015

The MYRRHA project and its role in the European P&T strategy for High Level Waste Management

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Hamid Ait Abderrahim (SCK CEN)

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-02T13:30:00 The MYRRHA project and its role in the European P&T strategy for High Level Waste Management Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Quantum Simulations of the Interaction between Solutes and Spatial Defects in Metals”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: LIAM HUBER

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-02T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Quantum Simulations of the Interaction between Solutes and Spatial Defects in Metals”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

October

2015

Antoni Gaudi: God's Architect

| Event Location: Henn 208 | Speaker: Ricardo Chavez Gonzalez

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-30T12:00:00 Antoni Gaudi: God's Architect Event Location: Henn 208

October

2015

Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Bryan Gaensler, Toronto

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T16:00:00 Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2015

Using long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations to benchmark enhanced sampling methods

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Albert C. Pan (D. E. Shaw Research)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T14:00:00 2015-10-29T14:00:00 Using long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations to benchmark enhanced sampling methods Event Location: Henn 309

October

2015

The photo-Nernst effect in graphene

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: David Cobden, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T14:00:00 The photo-Nernst effect in graphene Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Extracting Higgs boson couplings from LHC data

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Heather Logan (Carleton U)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-29T14:00:00 Extracting Higgs boson couplings from LHC data Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

Gravitation and the Cosmos: 100 Years after Einstein's Discovery of General Relativity

| Event Location: St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall - UBC Campus | Speaker: Abhay Ashtekar

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-28T19:30:00 Gravitation and the Cosmos: 100 Years after Einstein's Discovery of General Relativity Event Location: St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall - UBC Campus

October

2015

Loop Quantum Cosmology & The Very Early Universe: Interplay between theory and Observations

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Abhay Ashtekar

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-28T13:00:00 Loop Quantum Cosmology & The Very Early Universe: Interplay between theory and Observations Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Common Envelope and the Formation of Close Neutron Star Binaries

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Morgan MacLeod (UCSC)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-26T15:30:00 Common Envelope and the Formation of Close Neutron Star Binaries Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Understanding Inflation

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matias Zaldariaga, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-22T16:00:00 Understanding Inflation Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2015

Layered Nanoparticles for Targeted Alpha Generator Radiotherapy

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: David Robertson (U Missouri)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-22T14:00:00 Layered Nanoparticles for Targeted Alpha Generator Radiotherapy Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

The Coolest Place in the Solar System: Opportunistic Science with the Dark Energy Survey

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: David Gerdes (U. Michigan)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-19T15:30:00 The Coolest Place in the Solar System: Opportunistic Science with the Dark Energy Survey Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Year of Light Celebration at UBC

| Event Location: Room 310, Hugh Dempster Pavilion |

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-17T13:00:00 Year of Light Celebration at UBC Event Location: Room 310, Hugh Dempster Pavilion

October

2015

Induced Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Manu Paranjape, Université de Montréal

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-16T11:00:00 2015-10-16T11:00:00 Induced Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons Event Location: Henn 318

October

2015

"Gravity and Entanglement"

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Mark Van Raamsdonk

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October

2015

Challenges of very high-energy electron therapy of cancer

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-15T14:00:00 Challenges of very high-energy electron therapy of cancer Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

October

2015

Mapping Optoelectronic Properties at their Native Length Scale in Lead Halide Perovskites and 2-D MoSe2

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-15T14:00:00 Mapping Optoelectronic Properties at their Native Length Scale in Lead Halide Perovskites and 2-D MoSe2 Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ELHAM ALIPOUR KHAYER

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-15T12:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

October

2015

Edge currents in chiral superfluids and superconductors

| Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: Wen Huang (McMaster and KITP)

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-13T13:00:00 Edge currents in chiral superfluids and superconductors Event Location: Hennings 309

October

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: ARMAN AKBARIAN

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-13T11:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building