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January

2014

Dark D-brane Cosmology

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Danielle Wills, Durham University

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-15T13:00:00 Dark D-brane Cosmology Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2014

Describing anisotropy in the gravitational wave background with pulsar timing

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Chiara Mingarellin (University of Birmingham)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-13T16:00:00 Describing anisotropy in the gravitational wave background with pulsar timing Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2014

Effective field theory of p-wave interacting fermions in two dimensions

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sergej Moroz(INT, UW, Seattle)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-13T12:00:00 Effective field theory of p-wave interacting fermions in two dimensions Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2014

Quantum Annealing and the D-Wave devices

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-09T16:00:00 Quantum Annealing and the D-Wave devices Event Location: Hennings 201

January

2014

Emergent quantum phases in the iron pnictides and heavy fermion materials

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-09T14:00:00 Emergent quantum phases in the iron pnictides and heavy fermion materials Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2014

Departmental 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: Henn 309 | Speaker: ROBERT KOSZTYLA

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-09T09:00:00 Departmental 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: Henn 309

January

2014

Talk Postponed - "Einstein the Philosopher"

| Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge - 2111 Lower Mall | Speaker: Don Howard

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-08T19:30:00 Talk Postponed - "Einstein the Philosopher" Event Location: St. John's College - Fairmont Lounge - 2111 Lower Mall

January

2014

Scrambling on Causal Horizons

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dan Carney, UT Austin

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December

2013

Universal Time-Dilation Decoherence and Quantum Reference Frames

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Cisco Gooding, University of British Columbia

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Add to Calendar 2013-12-18T13:00:00 Universal Time-Dilation Decoherence and Quantum Reference Frames Event Location: Hennings 318

December

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "“Novel Backlighting Techniques for High Dynamic Range Displays”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: Jakob Emmel

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Add to Calendar 2013-12-13T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "“Novel Backlighting Techniques for High Dynamic Range Displays”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

December

2013

Faraday Science Show - the Physics & Astronomy of the Human Body

| Event Location: UBC Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall on UBC campus) |

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Add to Calendar 2013-12-08T14:00:00 Faraday Science Show - the Physics & Astronomy of the Human Body Event Location: UBC Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall on UBC campus)

December

2013

Atoms at Resonance: Scattering and losses of a Bose gas at unitarity

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Andrew Grier, Ecole Normale Superieure, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

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Add to Calendar 2013-12-06T11:00:00 Atoms at Resonance: Scattering and losses of a Bose gas at unitarity Event Location: Henn 318

December

2013

How to Find the Needle in the Haystack: Variable Star Lightcurve Classification Techniques

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Andy Becker, University of Washington

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Add to Calendar 2013-12-05T16:00:00 How to Find the Needle in the Haystack: Variable Star Lightcurve Classification Techniques Event Location: Hennings 201

December

2013

CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY and GRAVITATIONAL DECOHERENCE in SOLID STATE SYSTEMS

| Event Location: Room 318 Hennings | Speaker: Prof. Phil Stamp (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2013-12-02T12:00:00 CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY and GRAVITATIONAL DECOHERENCE in SOLID STATE SYSTEMS Event Location: Room 318 Hennings

November

2013

Physically Meaningful or Mathematically Pedantic?

| Event Location: Henn 301 (NOT the usual room!) | Speaker: Connor Behan

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-29T16:00:00 Physically Meaningful or Mathematically Pedantic? Event Location: Henn 301 (NOT the usual room!)

November

2013

Studying Nanoscale Magnetization Dynamics and Ratiometric Thermometry Using Spectroscopy

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Dr. Chih-Hao Hsia (Researcher Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica)

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-29T16:00:00 Studying Nanoscale Magnetization Dynamics and Ratiometric Thermometry Using Spectroscopy Event Location: Chem D-215

November

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: MATTHEW F. HASSELFIELD

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-29T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

November

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title:" Charge Localization Phenomena in Correlated Oxides")

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: RICCARDO COMIN

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-29T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title:" Charge Localization Phenomena in Correlated Oxides") Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

November

2013

Is “interactive” teaching sufficient to promote conceptual development in physics?

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Paula Heron, University of Washington

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-28T16:00:00 Is “interactive” teaching sufficient to promote conceptual development in physics? Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2013

Photometric properties of Ultra-Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs) in the M87, M49 and M60 regions

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Chengze Liu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-25T16:00:00 Photometric properties of Ultra-Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs) in the M87, M49 and M60 regions Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

Generation and propagation of correlations in non-equilibrium many-body systems

| Event Location: Room 318 Hennings | Speaker: Dr. Jean-Sebastien Bernier (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-25T12:00:00 Generation and propagation of correlations in non-equilibrium many-body systems Event Location: Room 318 Hennings

November

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Study of background gas collisions in atomic traps)

| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: JANELLE VAN DONGEN

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-22T15:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Study of background gas collisions in atomic traps) Event Location: HENN 318

November

2013

Improving student understanding of physics through research

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Chandralekha Singh

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November

2013

Topological Materials at the Nanoscale

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Jenny Hoffman, Harvard

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November

2013

Recent advances in PET tracer and technology development at the University of Geneva

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Yann Seimbille (University of Geneva)

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-21T14:00:00 Recent advances in PET tracer and technology development at the University of Geneva Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

November

2013

White Noise and Correlated Paths

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Friedemann Queisser

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November

2013

Physics Education Brown Bag Lunch

| Event Location: Hennings 318 |

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-19T12:30:00 Physics Education Brown Bag Lunch Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

What's a galaxy?

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: George Lake (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich)

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November

2013

Fermion production in gauge theories

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Florian Hebenstreit (University of Heidelberg)

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November

2013

The emergent collective phenomena of structure and elasticity in architecturally complex media

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Paul Goldbart, Georgia Tech

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-14T16:00:00 The emergent collective phenomena of structure and elasticity in architecturally complex media Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2013

Observation of Majorana quantum critical behavior in a resonant level coupled to a dissipative environment.

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Gleb Finkelstein, Duke University

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-14T14:00:00 Observation of Majorana quantum critical behavior in a resonant level coupled to a dissipative environment. Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

Higgs Boson - and Beyond

| Event Location: Fairmont Lounge - St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall (UBC) | Speaker: Colin Gay

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-13T19:30:00 Higgs Boson - and Beyond Event Location: Fairmont Lounge - St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall (UBC)

November

2013

Classifying Spherically Symmetric Euclidean Instantons

| Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: Sean Stotyn

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November

2013

Novel functionalities at oxide interfaces: magnetism and its electric field control.

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Jacobo Santamaria

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-12T11:00:00 Novel functionalities at oxide interfaces: magnetism and its electric field control. Event Location: Henn 318

November

2013

NO ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM TODAY - UBC IS CLOSED FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY

| Event Location: Wherever you observe Remembrance | Speaker: None

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-11T16:00:00 NO ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM TODAY - UBC IS CLOSED FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY Event Location: Wherever you observe Remembrance

November

2013

A talk by Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques

| Event Location: Chemistry B250 | Speaker: Dr. David Saint-Jacques

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-07T17:30:00 A talk by Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques Event Location: Chemistry B250

November

2013

Magnetism in quantum gases

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Dan Stamper-Kurn, Berkeley

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-07T16:00:00 Magnetism in quantum gases Event Location: Hennings 201

November

2013

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies of charge ordering and rotational symmetry breaking in the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Eduardo H da Silva Neto, UBC

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-07T14:00:00 Scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies of charge ordering and rotational symmetry breaking in the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

The Spherically Symmetric SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills Equations

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Daniel Jackson, Monash University

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-06T13:00:00 The Spherically Symmetric SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills Equations Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

Structure and Dynamics of Water Interfaces Revealed by Novel Interface-Selective Nonlinear Spectroscopy

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Tahei Tahara (RIKEN, Japan)

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-05T16:00:00 Structure and Dynamics of Water Interfaces Revealed by Novel Interface-Selective Nonlinear Spectroscopy Event Location: Chem D-215

November

2013

Physics & Astronomy Education Research Reading Group

| Event Location: Hennings 318 |

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-05T12:30:00 Physics & Astronomy Education Research Reading Group Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

Adventures into the Kuiper Belt: Accretion, composition, and the proto-planetary disc

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Wes Fraser (National Research Council, Victoria, BC)

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Add to Calendar 2013-11-04T16:00:00 Adventures into the Kuiper Belt: Accretion, composition, and the proto-planetary disc Event Location: Hennings 318

November

2013

Exact Holographic Mapping and Emergent Space-time Geometry

| Event Location: Henning 318 | Speaker: Prof. Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford University)

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November

2013

Interactions between teaching assistants and students boost engagement in physics labs

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Jared Stang

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October

2013

On Quantum Tunnelling

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute

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Add to Calendar 2013-10-31T16:00:00 On Quantum Tunnelling Event Location: Hennings 201

October

2013

Oxide Nanoelectronics On Demand

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh

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October

2013

A symmetry-respecting topologically-ordered surface phase of 3d electron topological insulators.

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Max Metliski (UCSB)

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Add to Calendar 2013-10-28T12:00:00 A symmetry-respecting topologically-ordered surface phase of 3d electron topological insulators. Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2013

Studying many-body states with quantum noise

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Eugene Demler, Harvard

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October

2013

Disorder, interactions, and zero-bias anomalies

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Rachel Wortis, Trent University

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Add to Calendar 2013-10-24T14:00:00 Disorder, interactions, and zero-bias anomalies Event Location: Hennings 318

October

2013

Time and Life in the Universe - Public Lecture

| Event Location: UBC Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall V6T 1Z4, Vancouver) Room 1013 | Speaker: Graca Rocha and Pascal Lee

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Add to Calendar 2013-10-23T19:30:00 Time and Life in the Universe - Public Lecture Event Location: UBC Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall V6T 1Z4, Vancouver) Room 1013