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April

2015

Rhenium - A Special Element - Both Radioactively and Non-Radioactively

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Urs Hafeli (UBC)

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March

2015

The Young and the Restless Stars

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Lynne Hillenbrand

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March

2015

ANNUAL ASTRONOMY CLUB MINI-CONFERENCE

| Event Location: Henn 202 | Speaker: Astronomy Undergraduate Students

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-26T17:00:00 ANNUAL ASTRONOMY CLUB MINI-CONFERENCE Event Location: Henn 202

March

2015

Physsoc Wine & Cheese

| Event Location: Henn 318 |

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March

2015

Frustrated magnetism, magnetization plateaux, and the mystery of SrCu2(BO3)2

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: F. Mila, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-26T14:00:00 Frustrated magnetism, magnetization plateaux, and the mystery of SrCu2(BO3)2 Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2015

A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at <z> = 0.5 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Paul Schechter (MIT)

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-23T15:30:00 A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at <z> = 0.5 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2015

Structural controls on subduction zone slow earthquakes

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Pascal Audet, University of Ottawa

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-19T15:30:00 Structural controls on subduction zone slow earthquakes Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2015

Physics and Chemistry at the Single-Molecule Level

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Latha Venkataraman, Department of Applied Physics and Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

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March

2015

Graduate Student Career Workshop

| Event Location: Hennings 304 | Speaker: Michael More

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March

2015

The unique capabilities of betaNMR with radioactive isotope beams for quantum material science

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: David Cortie (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-18T16:00:00 The unique capabilities of betaNMR with radioactive isotope beams for quantum material science Event Location: Henn 309

March

2015

Infrared Quantum Gravity

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: John Donoghue, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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March

2015

Circumstellar disks and planet formation with ALMA

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Meredith Hughes (Wesleyan)

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March

2015

Quantum Space Time

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Bianca Dittrich, Perimeter Institute

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March

2015

The Search for Exotic Physics in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor BiPd

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Darren Peets, Seoul National University

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March

2015

A Window into New Physics via Heavy Quarks

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Hassan Jawahery (U Maryland)

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March

2015

The HTRU All-Sky Radio Pulsar Survey

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Cherry Ng (UBC)

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March

2015

Graduate Program Open House (by invitation)

| Event Location: Mostly in Hennings 318 |

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March

2015

Physics Olympics

| Event Location: Hebb, Hennings | Speaker: See description

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March

2015

Laser Resonance Ionization - an element selective ion source

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Jens Lassen (TRIUMF)

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March

2015

Eccentricities of planets in multi-planet extra-solar systems: Insights from classical secular theory.

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Christa Van Laerhoven

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-02T15:30:00 Eccentricities of planets in multi-planet extra-solar systems: Insights from classical secular theory. Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2015

Why blog? 3 bloggers share their experiences

| Event Location: Hennings 208 | Speaker: Theresa Liao, Eric Mills, Jared Stang

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February

2015

What your mother….er….advisor never told you: The other things we need to learn (and teach)

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Doug Arion, Carthage College

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-26T15:30:00 What your mother….er….advisor never told you: The other things we need to learn (and teach) Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2015

Quantum spin Hall effect subject to magnetic field as a quantum Hall bilayer

| Event Location: Hennings 319 | Speaker: Dmitry Pikulin, University of British Columbia

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February

2015

3 Minute Thesis Competition 2015

| Event Location: Henn 301 | Speaker: Graduate Students

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-26T14:00:00 3 Minute Thesis Competition 2015 Event Location: Henn 301

February

2015

CAP lecture: “Optoacoustic Imaging: Lightning and thunder in tissues”

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: William Whelan, University of Prince Edward Island

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-26T12:30:00 CAP lecture: “Optoacoustic Imaging: Lightning and thunder in tissues” Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2015

In His Own Words: the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

| Event Location: St. John&#039;s College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia | Speaker: Diana Kormos-Buchwald

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-25T19:30:00 In His Own Words: the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Event Location: St. John&#039;s College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia

February

2015

Alternative Lifestyles in Old Open Star Clusters: At the Interface of Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Robert Mathieu (U Wisc-Madison)

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-23T15:30:00 Alternative Lifestyles in Old Open Star Clusters: At the Interface of Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Holographic Gauge/Gravity Duality and Symmetry Breaking in Semimetals”)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: NAMSHIK KIM

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-23T12:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Holographic Gauge/Gravity Duality and Symmetry Breaking in Semimetals”) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

February

2015

Radioactive In Beams Production

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Pierre Bricault

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February

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Study of Spatial Encoding and Decoding in MRI)

| Event Location: Henn 304 | Speaker: TOM DEPEW

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-16T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Study of Spatial Encoding and Decoding in MRI) Event Location: Henn 304

February

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Electro-Optic Diffraction Grating Employing Electrophoresis, Supercapacitance, and Total Internal Reflection)

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: JASON RADEL

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February

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Microscopic perspective of polymer glasses during physical aging and mechanical deformation)

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: ANTON SMESSAERT

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-13T16:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Microscopic perspective of polymer glasses during physical aging and mechanical deformation) Event Location: Henn 309

February

2015

Where’s Supersymmetry?

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Jonathan Bagger, TRIUMF

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February

2015

Amorphous Mixed-Metal Oxides Tailored for Water Oxidation Catalysis

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Curtis Berlinguette, Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical &amp; Biological Engineering UBC

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February

2015

Renewal Events in Glass Forming Liquids -- Glass Dynamics with Ideal Age Zero

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Julian Helfferich, Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France and Theoretical Polymer Physics, University Freiburg, Germany

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-10T15:00:00 Renewal Events in Glass Forming Liquids -- Glass Dynamics with Ideal Age Zero Event Location: Henn 309

February

2015

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Self-gravitating Interferometry and Intrinsic Decoherence)

| Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: DAVID (CISCO) GOODING

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-10T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Self-gravitating Interferometry and Intrinsic Decoherence) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

February

2015

E.W. Vogt Scientific Symposium

| Event Location: University Golf Club |

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February

2015

Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Clifford Will, University of Florida

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February

2015

CANCELLED - Recent Results on the Higgs boson from ATLAS

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF and UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-05T14:00:00 CANCELLED - Recent Results on the Higgs boson from ATLAS Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

February

2015

Accelerators across Science and Society

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Lia Merminga

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February

2015

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Merging Black Hole and Cosmological Horizons”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ALAIN PRAT

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-03T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Merging Black Hole and Cosmological Horizons”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

February

2015

Meteoritic and Planetary Constraints on Our Protoplanetary Disk

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Steve Desch (ASU)

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Add to Calendar 2015-02-02T15:30:00 Meteoritic and Planetary Constraints on Our Protoplanetary Disk Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2015

The ancient myths: More than (crazy) fiction

| Event Location: Henn 208 (the Outreach Lab) | Speaker: Jeff Maki

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-30T12:00:00 The ancient myths: More than (crazy) fiction Event Location: Henn 208 (the Outreach Lab)

January

2015

Quantum critical metals and their instabilities

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Shamit Kachru, Stanford University

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January

2015

Structure Models for Nuclear Masses and Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Alex Brown (Michigan State)

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-29T14:00:00 Structure Models for Nuclear Masses and Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

January

2015

Spin ice: at the dawn of a new day?

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Michel Gingras, Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Waterloo

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-29T14:00:00 Spin ice: at the dawn of a new day? Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2015

The Origin of Stellar Masses

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Mark Krumholz (UCSC)

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-26T15:30:00 The Origin of Stellar Masses Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2015

Ettore Majorana and his strange particles

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Marcel Franz, UBC

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January

2015

Screening Cloud and Majorana Fermions

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Domenico Giuliano, U. Callabria, Italy

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January

2015

Physics & Astronomy Career Night

| Event Location: Michael Smith Lab (2185 East Mall) | Speaker: See description

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-21T17:15:00 Physics & Astronomy Career Night Event Location: Michael Smith Lab (2185 East Mall)