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Add to Calendar 2014-05-30T12:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Models and Probes of the Early and Dark Universe: Inflation and 21-cm Radiation in Cosmology") Event Location: Henn 318

May

30

2014

Friday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 304 | Speaker: Heather Lewandowski

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The M-Theory Description of Type-IIA Quantum Black Holes

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-30T12:00:00 Preparing students for research experiences through instructional labs Event Location: Hennings 304

May

28

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Carlos Shahbazi, CEA-Saclay

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Astronomy Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-28T13:00:00 The M-Theory Description of Type-IIA Quantum Black Holes Event Location: Henn 318

May

24

2014

Public Solar Observations (UBC Alumni Weekend)

Saturday, 11:00 am | Event Location: North side of the Hennings Building (the area between the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Hennings) | Speaker: Mike Alexandersen

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Astronomy Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-24T11:00:00 Public Solar Observations (UBC Alumni Weekend) Event Location: North side of the Hennings Building (the area between the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Hennings)

May

23

2014

Within & beyond academia: Science Communication and Outreach

Friday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 304 | Speaker: Theresa Liao

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Recent Results on Shape Coexistence in Nuclei

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-23T12:00:00 Within & beyond academia: Science Communication and Outreach Event Location: Henn 304

May

22

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Wolfram Korten (CEA Saclay)

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Detailed Doping Survey of the Low-Energy Electrodynamics of YBa2Cu3O6+x)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-22T14:00:00 Recent Results on Shape Coexistence in Nuclei Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

21

2014

Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: JORDAN BAGLO

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Momentum-space entanglement and the gravity of entanglement in AdS/CFT)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-21T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Detailed Doping Survey of the Low-Energy Electrodynamics of YBa2Cu3O6+x) Event Location: Henn 318

May

14

2014

Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT

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Techniques for teaching critical thinking in a first year physics laboratory

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-14T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Momentum-space entanglement and the gravity of entanglement in AdS/CFT) Event Location: Henn 302

May

08

2014

Thursday, 11:00 am | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Natasha Holmes

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-08T11:00:00 Techniques for teaching critical thinking in a first year physics laboratory Event Location: Hennings 318

May

07

2014

The Decade of the WIMP

Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Edward "Rocky" Kolb (U Chicago)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-07T14:00:00 The Decade of the WIMP Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

07

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Philip Stamp, UBC

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Merging Black Hole and Cosmological Horizons)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-07T13:00:00 Correlated Worldline Theory: a Progress Report Event Location: Hennings 318

May

07

2014

Wednesday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Henn 301 | Speaker: ALAIN PRAT

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Exotic Phenomena in Topological States of Matter)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-07T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Merging Black Hole and Cosmological Horizons) Event Location: Henn 301

May

05

2014

Monday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: MOHAMMAD M.VAZIFEH

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Variational studies of dressed quasiparticles' properties and their interactions with external potentials)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-05T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Exotic Phenomena in Topological States of Matter) Event Location: Henn 318

May

05

2014

Monday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: HADI EBRAHIMNEJAD

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Extracting Molecular Information from Spectroscopic Data)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-05T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Variational studies of dressed quasiparticles' properties and their interactions with external potentials) Event Location: Henn 309

May

02

2014

Friday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Chem D215 | Speaker: CIAN MENZEL-JONES

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: The AdS / CFT Correspondence: bulk to boundary map and applications)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-02T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Extracting Molecular Information from Spectroscopic Data) Event Location: Chem D215

May

02

2014

Friday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: FERNANDO NOGUEIRA

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Search for new neutral high-mass resonances decaying into muon pairs with the ATLAS detector)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-02T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: The AdS / CFT Correspondence: bulk to boundary map and applications) Event Location: Henn 302

May

01

2014

Thursday, 2:30 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: SIMON VIEL

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Structure factors of S=1/2 spin chains and magnetism at the edges of graphene ribbons)

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Add to Calendar 2014-05-01T14:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Search for new neutral high-mass resonances decaying into muon pairs with the ATLAS detector) Event Location: Henn 318

April

28

2014

Monday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: HAMED KARIMI

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Superradiance of Degenerate Fermi Gases in a Cavity

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-28T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Structure factors of S=1/2 spin chains and magnetism at the edges of graphene ribbons) Event Location: Henn 309

April

28

2014

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Zhenhua Yu (Tsinghua University)

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Baryons, branes, and (striped) black holes: Applications of the gauge / gravity duality to quantum chromodynamics and condensed matter physics)

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-28T12:00:00 Superradiance of Degenerate Fermi Gases in a Cavity Event Location: Hennings 318

April

28

2014

Monday, 10:00 am | Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: JARED STANG

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-28T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Baryons, branes, and (striped) black holes: Applications of the gauge / gravity duality to quantum chromodynamics and condensed matter physics) Event Location: Henn 302

April

17

2014

Science with the SKA

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: HENNINGS 304 - Note change of room | Speaker: Robert Braun (Square Kilometre Array Observatory)

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Recent Results on Shape Coexistence in Nuclei

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-17T16:00:00 Science with the SKA Event Location: HENNINGS 304 - Note change of room

April

17

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Wolfram Korten (CEA Saclay)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Advances in Nanopore Sensing for DNA and Protein Analysis”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-17T14:00:00 Recent Results on Shape Coexistence in Nuclei Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

April

11

2014

Friday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: NAHID JETHA

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Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative End-of-Year Event

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-11T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Advances in Nanopore Sensing for DNA and Protein Analysis”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

April

11

2014

Friday, 9:30 am | Event Location: Earth Sciences Building (ESB), 2207 Main Mall |

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Quantum measurements and the Many-Worlds Theory

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-11T09:30:00 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative End-of-Year Event Event Location: Earth Sciences Building (ESB), 2207 Main Mall

April

09

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: St. Johns College (Fairmont Lounge) - 2111 Lower Mall | Speaker: David Wallace - University of Oxford

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Pac. Inst. of Theoretical Physics Seminars

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-09T19:30:00 Quantum measurements and the Many-Worlds Theory Event Location: St. Johns College (Fairmont Lounge) - 2111 Lower Mall

April

09

2014

BICEP2: B-mode Polarization from Gravitational Waves?

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jim Zibin, UBC

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Study of Background Gas Collisions in Atomic Traps”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-09T13:00:00 BICEP2: B-mode Polarization from Gravitational Waves? Event Location: Hennings 318

April

09

2014

Wednesday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building | Speaker: JANELLE VAN DONGEN

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Spinning Atoms with Light: a new twist on atom optics

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-09T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Study of Background Gas Collisions in Atomic Traps”) Event Location: Room 318, Hennings Building

April

03

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Bill Phillips, NIST Gaithersburg

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The Origin of the Elements and the Critical Role of Binary Stars

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-03T16:00:00 Spinning Atoms with Light: a new twist on atom optics Event Location: Hennings 201

April

02

2014

Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Robert Izzard (U. Bonn)

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A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at <z> = 0.4 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-02T14:00:00 The Origin of the Elements and the Critical Role of Binary Stars Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

March

31

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Paul Schechter (MIT and Kavli Institute)

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Astronomy Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-31T16:00:00 A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at <z> = 0.4 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars Event Location: Hennings 318

March

31

2014

The Life and Times of a Superfluid Vortex Ring

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Michael McNeil Forbes (Washington State University)

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Search for Supersymmetry and Universal Extra Dimensions in Final States with Three Leptons and Missing Transverse Momentum in 20.7 fb-1 of √s = 8 TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-31T12:00:00 The Life and Times of a Superfluid Vortex Ring Event Location: Hennings 318

March

28

2014

Friday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SAMUEL KING

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth Technology and Properties of GaAsBi Alloys”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-28T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Search for Supersymmetry and Universal Extra Dimensions in Final States with Three Leptons and Missing Transverse Momentum in 20.7 fb-1 of √s = 8 TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

March

28

2014

Friday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: RYAN B LEWIS

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Driving Topology, Hunting Majoranas

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-28T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth Technology and Properties of GaAsBi Alloys”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

March

27

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Tami Pereg-Barnea, McGill

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Accurate variational solution for a hole doped into a CuO2 layer

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-27T16:00:00 Driving Topology, Hunting Majoranas Event Location: Hennings 201

March

27

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Hadi Ebrahimnejad

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Physics in Vantage College

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-27T14:00:00 Accurate variational solution for a hole doped into a CuO2 layer Event Location: Hennings 318

March

27

2014

Thursday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Joss Ives and Georg Rieger

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Beyond First Year with Physics & Astronomy

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-27T12:30:00 Physics in Vantage College Event Location: Henn 318

March

27

2014

Thursday, 12:20 pm | Event Location: Henn 201 |

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-27T12:20:00 Beyond First Year with Physics & Astronomy Event Location: Henn 201

March

26

2014

CANCELLED

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 |

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Contextuality supplies the magic for quantum computation

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-26T13:00:00 CANCELLED Event Location: Hennings 318

March

25

2014

Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Mark Howard, IQC Waterloo

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The Cosmological Context of Star Formation

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-25T14:00:00 Contextuality supplies the magic for quantum computation Event Location: Hennings 309B

March

24

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Tom Quinn (University of Washington)

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(By invitation only) UBC Physics & Astronomy Graduate Open House

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-24T16:00:00 The Cosmological Context of Star Formation Event Location: Hennings 318

March

21

2014

Friday, 8:30 am | Event Location: Hennings 318 mostly | Speaker: n/a

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A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-21T08:30:00 (By invitation only) UBC Physics & Astronomy Graduate Open House Event Location: Hennings 318 mostly

March

20

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Ingrid Stairs, UBC

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Recent progress (or lack thereof) in direct searches for dark matter

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-20T16:00:00 A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System Event Location: Hennings 201

March

20

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Juan Collar (U Chicago)

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A physicist in disguise: predicting loan defaults

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-20T14:00:00 Recent progress (or lack thereof) in direct searches for dark matter Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

March

20

2014

Thursday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Fernando Nogueira

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-20T12:00:00 A physicist in disguise: predicting loan defaults Event Location: Henn 318

March

19

2014

CANCELLED

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 |

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The density and velocity field of galaxies

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-19T13:00:00 CANCELLED Event Location: Hennings 318

March

17

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC Physics and Astronomy)

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Fractional Solitons on the edge of the Fractional Quantum Hall states: Revealing topology through a non-linear dynamics

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-17T16:00:00 The density and velocity field of galaxies Event Location: Hennings 318

March

17

2014

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Prof. Paul Wiegmann (Simon's Center/U of Chicago)

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