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Not of this Earth: the advent of neutrino astronomy

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-14T10:00:00 Decoding color codes by projection onto surface codes Event Location: Hennings 309B

March

13

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Darren Grant, University of Alberta

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CAP Lecture - “Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction”

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-13T16:00:00 Not of this Earth: the advent of neutrino astronomy Event Location: Hennings 201

March

13

2014

Thursday, 12:30 pm | Event Location: Henn 201 | Speaker: Dr. Jeff Lundeen from University of Ottawa

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “18F-FDOPA Positron Emission Tomography and Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Radiation Therapy of High-Grade Gliomas with Dose Painting”

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-13T12:30:00 CAP Lecture - “Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction” Event Location: Henn 201

March

13

2014

Thursday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ROBERT KOSZTYLA

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The Frontier of Fundamental Physics

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-13T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “18F-FDOPA Positron Emission Tomography and Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Radiation Therapy of High-Grade Gliomas with Dose Painting” Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

March

12

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia | Speaker: David Gross

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A new relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-12T19:30:00 The Frontier of Fundamental Physics Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia

March

12

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: Francisco Guzman, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo

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Erich W. Vogt Celebration of Life - Saturday, March 8, 2014

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-12T13:00:00 A new relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics Event Location: Hennings 309

March

08

2014

Saturday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Sage Bistro, 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, B.C. |

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Annual UBC Physics Olympics

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-08T14:00:00 Erich W. Vogt Celebration of Life - Saturday, March 8, 2014 Event Location: Sage Bistro, 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, B.C.

March

08

2014

Saturday, 8:30 am | Event Location: Hennings and Hebb |

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Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-08T08:30:00 Annual UBC Physics Olympics Event Location: Hennings and Hebb

March

06

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Christine Wilson, McMaster University

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3 Minute Thesis Competition

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-06T16:00:00 Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory Event Location: Hennings 201

March

06

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: Graduate Students

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"Einstein the Philosopher"

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-06T14:00:00 3 Minute Thesis Competition Event Location: Henn 302

March

05

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia | Speaker: Don Howard

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Intrinsic and environmental gravitational decoherence

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-05T19:30:00 "Einstein the Philosopher" Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia

March

05

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Fumika Suzuki, UBC

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Earth's oxygenation and early biological evolution

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-05T13:00:00 Intrinsic and environmental gravitational decoherence Event Location: Hennings 318

March

03

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sean Crowe (UBC Earth & Ocean Sciences and Life Sciences Institute)

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Production, Trapping and Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen – the ALPHA Experiment at CERN

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-03T16:00:00 Earth's oxygenation and early biological evolution Event Location: Hennings 318

February

27

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Walter Hardy, UBC

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Astrophysics' Extreme Matter Experiments: Understanding the Diagnostics

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-27T16:00:00 Production, Trapping and Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen – the ALPHA Experiment at CERN Event Location: Hennings 201

February

27

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Chris Fryer (Los Alamos)

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3 Minute Thesis Competition - Info Session

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-27T14:00:00 Astrophysics' Extreme Matter Experiments: Understanding the Diagnostics Event Location: TRIUMF

February

24

2014

Monday, 3:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: Douglas Scott and Janis McKenna

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Astronomy Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-24T15:00:00 3 Minute Thesis Competition - Info Session Event Location: Henn 302

February

20

2014

Physics Education Research: Lessons from Video

Thursday, 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Derek Muller

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Physics and Astronomy Education

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-20T16:00:00 2014-02-20T16:00:00 Physics Education Research: Lessons from Video Event Location: Hennings 201

February

20

2014

CMS at the LHC

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers)

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Fermi Surface Signature of a Quantum Critical Point Near Optimal Doping in a High-Tc Superconductor

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-20T14:00:00 CMS at the LHC Event Location: TRIUMF

February

20

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Brad Ramshaw

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Does Protective Measurement Tell us Anything about Quantum Reality?

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-20T14:00:00 Fermi Surface Signature of a Quantum Critical Point Near Optimal Doping in a High-Tc Superconductor Event Location: Hennings 318

February

13

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Amit Hagar, Indiana University, History & Philosophy of Science department

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Schroedinger's Mirrors: Confronting Quantum Physics with Gravity

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-13T16:00:00 Does Protective Measurement Tell us Anything about Quantum Reality? Event Location: Hennings 201

February

12

2014

Wednesday, 7:30 pm | Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College (2111 Lower Mall) | Speaker: Marcus Aspelmeyer

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Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-12T19:30:00 Schroedinger's Mirrors: Confronting Quantum Physics with Gravity Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College (2111 Lower Mall)

February

12

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)

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Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-12T13:00:00 Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors Event Location: Henn 318

February

12

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna

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Getting students to reflect in the lab

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-12T13:00:00 Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors Event Location: Hennings 318

February

07

2014

Friday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Natasha Holmes

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Pursuing gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-07T12:00:00 Getting students to reflect in the lab Event Location: Henn 309

February

06

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Michael Landry (LIGO observatory), for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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Universality and symmetry of charge ordering phenomena in underdoped cuprates

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-06T16:00:00 Pursuing gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO Event Location: Hennings 201

February

06

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Riccardo Comin

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New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-06T14:00:00 Universality and symmetry of charge ordering phenomena in underdoped cuprates Event Location: Hennings 318

February

06

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)

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Motion of a Mirror under Infinitely Fluctuating Quantum Vacuum Stress

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-06T14:00:00 New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter Event Location: TRIUMF

February

05

2014

Wednesday, 1:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Qingdi Wang, UBC

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Symmetry protected topological orders in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-05T13:00:00 Motion of a Mirror under Infinitely Fluctuating Quantum Vacuum Stress Event Location: Hennings 318

February

03

2014

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Zhengcheng Gu (Perimeter)

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Searches for new resonances decaying to top-antitop quark pairs with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions)

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-03T12:00:00 Symmetry protected topological orders in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems Event Location: Hennings 318

January

31

2014

Friday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: STEPHEN SWEDISH

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Advances in nanopore sensing for DNA and protein analysis)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-31T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Searches for new resonances decaying to top-antitop quark pairs with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions) Event Location: Henn 318

January

31

2014

Friday, 10:00 am | Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: NAHID JETHA

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Gamma-ray Astronomy at the Highest Energies

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-31T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Advances in nanopore sensing for DNA and protein analysis) Event Location: Henn 309

January

30

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: David Hanna, McGill University

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Interplay of spin-orbit effects and electron delocalization in honeycomb iridates

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-30T16:00:00 Gamma-ray Astronomy at the Highest Energies Event Location: Hennings 201

January

30

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Kateryna Foyevstova

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The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TUM

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-30T14:00:00 Interplay of spin-orbit effects and electron delocalization in honeycomb iridates Event Location: Hennings 318

January

30

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Peter Fierlinger (TU Munich)

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Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Implementation of a Lyman-alpha Laser for Laser Cooling and Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-30T14:00:00 The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TUM Event Location: TRIUMF

January

28

2014

Tuesday, 9:00 am | Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: MARIO MICHAN

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Planet migration and the Kuiper belt: What our local debris disk tells us about the dynamical history of the Solar System

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-28T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Implementation of a Lyman-alpha Laser for Laser Cooling and Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen) Event Location: Henn 309

January

27

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Kat Volk (UBC Physics & Astronomy)

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Astronomy Colloquia

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-27T16:00:00 Planet migration and the Kuiper belt: What our local debris disk tells us about the dynamical history of the Solar System Event Location: Hennings 318

January

27

2014

Giant magnetoresistance in the variable range hopping regime

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Boris Spivak (University of Washington)

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Identifying and addressing student difficulties with proportional reasoning

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-27T12:00:00 Giant magnetoresistance in the variable range hopping regime Event Location: Hennings 318

January

24

2014

Friday, 11:00 am | Event Location: IBLC 2.22 | Speaker: Andrew Boudreaux

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The Landscape Problem of Frustrated Magnetism: Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found?

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-24T11:00:00 Identifying and addressing student difficulties with proportional reasoning Event Location: IBLC 2.22

January

23

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Michel Gingras Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo

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Description of continuum states in three-cluster systems

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-23T16:00:00 The Landscape Problem of Frustrated Magnetism: Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found? Event Location: Hennings 201

January

23

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Carolina Romero-Redondo (TRIUMF)

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Snapshots of the retarded electronic interaction with spin-fluctuations in high-temperature superconductors

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-23T14:00:00 Description of continuum states in three-cluster systems Event Location: TRIUMF

January

23

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Claudio Giannetti (i-Lamp & Università Cattolica, Brescia, Italy)

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Contacts and Unitary Atoms

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-23T14:00:00 Snapshots of the retarded electronic interaction with spin-fluctuations in high-temperature superconductors Event Location: Hennings 318

January

22

2014

Wednesday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Room 318 Hennings (TBF) | Speaker: Eric Braaten (Ohio State University)

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Discrete Wheeler DeWitt Equations

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-22T12:00:00 Contacts and Unitary Atoms Event Location: Room 318 Hennings (TBF)

January

21

2014

Tuesday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Reiko Toriumi, UC Irvine and Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille

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Neutrino astronomy - Recent Highlights from IceCube

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-21T12:00:00 Discrete Wheeler DeWitt Equations Event Location: Hennings 318

January

20

2014

Monday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Matthias Danninger (UBC Physics & Astronomy)

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Cancelled and rescheduled to Wednesday

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-20T16:00:00 Neutrino astronomy - Recent Highlights from IceCube Event Location: Hennings 318

January

20

2014

Monday, 12:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: TBA

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Nanomechanical Response of Bacteria to Antimicrobials: A Pressing Issue

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-20T12:00:00 Cancelled and rescheduled to Wednesday Event Location: Hennings 318

January

16

2014

Thursday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: John Dutcher, University of Guelph

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Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Carries in Graphene

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-16T16:00:00 Nanomechanical Response of Bacteria to Antimicrobials: A Pressing Issue Event Location: Hennings 201

January

16

2014

Thursday, 2:00 pm | Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alberto Crepaldi (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste)

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The Welcome Orientation for Women (WOW)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-16T14:00:00 Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Carries in Graphene Event Location: Hennings 318

January

16

2014

Thursday, 10:00 am | Event Location: Michael Smith Labs (2185 East Mall) | Speaker: see event description

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Annual Physics & Astronomy Career Night.

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-16T10:00:00 The Welcome Orientation for Women (WOW) Event Location: Michael Smith Labs (2185 East Mall)

January

15

2014

Wednesday, 5:15 pm | Event Location: Michael Smith Labs Theatre (2185 East Mall) | Speaker: see event description

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Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Manganese Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography, Autoradiography, and Magnetic Resonance”)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-15T17:15:00 Annual Physics & Astronomy Career Night. Event Location: Michael Smith Labs Theatre (2185 East Mall)

January

15

2014

Wednesday, 4:00 pm | Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: GEOFFREY JOHN TOPPIN

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