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June

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A new approach to photometric redshift contamination, providing critical insight for weak lensing cosmology”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: JONATHAN REMBY EMBRO BENJAMIN

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-10T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A new approach to photometric redshift contamination, providing critical insight for weak lensing cosmology”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

June

2013

Quantum sensing and engineering with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Steven Bennett, Harvard University

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May

2013

Novel macroscopic quantum states in dipolar gases

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Gora Shlyapnikov, Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-30T16:00:00 Novel macroscopic quantum states in dipolar gases Event Location: Hennings 201

May

2013

Super Efimov effect

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dr. Sergej Moroz (INT, University of Washington)

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-30T14:00:00 Super Efimov effect Event Location: Hennings 318

May

2013

Cosmology - its tortuous history, glorious present and bright future (Hogg Lecture)

| Event Location: Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall Vancouver BC; http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?656) | Speaker: Malcolm Longair

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-28T19:30:00 Cosmology - its tortuous history, glorious present and bright future (Hogg Lecture) Event Location: Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall Vancouver BC; http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?656)

May

2013

How Physics Works - a History of the Development of Quantum Mechanics

| Event Location: Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall Vancouver BC; http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?656) | Speaker: Malcolm Longair

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-27T16:00:00 How Physics Works - a History of the Development of Quantum Mechanics Event Location: Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall Vancouver BC; http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?656)

May

2013

Department of Physics & Astronomy Open House

| Event Location: Hennings Building | Speaker: Various

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-25T10:00:00 Department of Physics & Astronomy Open House Event Location: Hennings Building

May

2013

State-to-State Spectroscopy and Chemistry by Vacuum Ultraviolet Laser Photoionization and Photoelectron Methods

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Cheuk-Yiu Ng, University of California, Davis

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May

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Emergence of Riemann manifolds from graphs and aspects of Chern-Simons theory)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: SI CHEN

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-21T11:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Emergence of Riemann manifolds from graphs and aspects of Chern-Simons theory) Event Location: Henn 318

May

2013

Backscattering Between Helical Edge States via Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Adrian Del Maestro, University of Vermont

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-16T14:00:00 Backscattering Between Helical Edge States via Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Event Location: Hennings 318

May

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Using multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations to incorporate microdosimetry into clinical radiation therapy")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: JOSEPH LUCIDO

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-16T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Using multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations to incorporate microdosimetry into clinical radiation therapy") Event Location: Henn 309

May

2013

“The Waters I am Entering No One yet Has Crossed”: Alexander Friedman and the Origins of Modern Cosmology

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Ari Belenkiy (Simon Fraser University)

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-09T14:00:00 “The Waters I am Entering No One yet Has Crossed”: Alexander Friedman and the Origins of Modern Cosmology Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

May

2013

A local realistic reconciliation of the EPR paradox

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Bryan C. Sanctuary, McGill

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-03T16:00:00 A local realistic reconciliation of the EPR paradox Event Location: Chem D-215

May

2013

How considering student motivation can improve our understanding of learning and instruction

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Dan Belenky

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May

2013

Junior Physics & Engineering Competition

| Event Location: Hennings 200 and 202 | Speaker: n/a

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-03T09:00:00 Junior Physics & Engineering Competition Event Location: Hennings 200 and 202

May

2013

Integer anomalous quantum Hall effect and fractional excitations in itinerant magnets.

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Armin Rahmanisisan, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Add to Calendar 2013-05-02T14:00:00 Integer anomalous quantum Hall effect and fractional excitations in itinerant magnets. Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2013

Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of reflection symmetry

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Ching-Kai Chiu (University of Illinois)

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-25T14:00:00 Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of reflection symmetry Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Particle Phenomenology at the Frontiers)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: PETER WINSLOW

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-22T12:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Particle Phenomenology at the Frontiers) Event Location: Henn 318

April

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Search for Long-Lived, Heavy Particles in Final States with a Muon and Multi-Track Displaced Vertex with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: CHANG WEI LOH

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-22T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Search for Long-Lived, Heavy Particles in Final States with a Muon and Multi-Track Displaced Vertex with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

April

2013

The Quest for the Higgs Boson

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matt Strassler

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April

2013

A Mini-course on Scientific Writing for Astronomers (III. Ethical Aspects )

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Chris Sterken, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-18T12:00:00 A Mini-course on Scientific Writing for Astronomers (III. Ethical Aspects ) Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2013

A Mini-course on Scientific Writing for Astronomers (II. Communication by Graphics)

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Chris Sterken, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-17T12:00:00 A Mini-course on Scientific Writing for Astronomers (II. Communication by Graphics) Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2013

A Mini-course on Scientific Writing for Astronomers (I. The writing process)

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Chris Sterken, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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April

2013

Anisotropic topological insulators

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Roland Hayn form the Université d'Aix-Marseille

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April

2013

Anapole moment measurement in francium laser cooled atoms

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Eduardo Gomez, FrPNC collaboration

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April

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A new approach to photometric redshift contamination, providing critical insight for weak lensing cosmology)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: JONATHAN BENJAMIN

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April

2013

Ultrafast Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of Charge- and Spin-Ordered Nickelates

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Giacomo Coslovich (UC Berkeley)

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April

2013

Giant molecular clouds in the Galactic centre: The past, current and future of star formation

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Cornelia Lang (University of Iowa)

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-08T16:00:00 Giant molecular clouds in the Galactic centre: The past, current and future of star formation Event Location: Hennings 318

April

2013

Using Lasers to Rotate Molecules

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Dr. Ilya Sh. Averbukh, Weizmann Institute of Science

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-05T16:00:00 Using Lasers to Rotate Molecules Event Location: Chem D-215

April

2013

Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding

| Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Kamil Michnicki, MIT

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-04T10:00:00 Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding Event Location: Hennings 309B

April

2013

Black hole Inspirals and Spectroscopy of the Green Function

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Marc Casals

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March

2013

The exotic life of Majorana states in quantum wires and beyond

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Gil Refael, Caltech

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-28T16:00:00 The exotic life of Majorana states in quantum wires and beyond Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "The Leftovers of Planet Formation: Small Body Populations of Our Solar System and Exoplanet Systems")

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: SAMANTHA LAWLER

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-28T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "The Leftovers of Planet Formation: Small Body Populations of Our Solar System and Exoplanet Systems") Event Location: Henn 309

March

2013

Quantum Control and Fault-tolerant quantum computing

| Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Gerardo Paz, UCL Los Angeles

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March

2013

Critical collapse of Einstein-Vlasov matter

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Arman Akbarian

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March

2013

All Things White Dwarf: From the telescope to the computer to the laboratory

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Don Winget (Unversity of Texas at Austin)

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-25T16:00:00 All Things White Dwarf: From the telescope to the computer to the laboratory Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2013

Physics & Astronomy Graduate Student Open House (by invitation)

| Event Location: Henn 318 |

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-22T08:30:00 Physics & Astronomy Graduate Student Open House (by invitation) Event Location: Henn 318

March

2013

The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities; A Physicist's Search for Unifying Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Dynamics

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-21T16:00:00 The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities; A Physicist's Search for Unifying Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Dynamics Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2013

Spectra of doped Helium Nanodroplets, helium clusters, and hydrogen clusters: Structure and Dynamics of Quantum-Solvated Systems

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Wolfgang Jaeger, U of Alberta

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-21T16:00:00 Spectra of doped Helium Nanodroplets, helium clusters, and hydrogen clusters: Structure and Dynamics of Quantum-Solvated Systems Event Location: Chem D-215

March

2013

Gravitational decoherence: progress so far

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Philip C. E. Stamp

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-20T13:00:00 Gravitational decoherence: progress so far Event Location: Henn 309

March

2013

Galactic archaeology in and around the Milky Way

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Else Starkenburg (University of Victoria)

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March

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on unconventional superconductor strontium ruthenate”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: CHRISTIAN NEIL VEENSTRA

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-15T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on unconventional superconductor strontium ruthenate”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

March

2013

A Framework for k-12 Science Education, its role in the US and its messages for a broader audience

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Helen Quinn, Stanford

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-14T16:00:00 A Framework for k-12 Science Education, its role in the US and its messages for a broader audience Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2013

Novel Phases in Mott-insulating iridates

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yogesh Singh

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March

2013

Disentangling the in- and out-of-plane components of the microwave surface resistance in Tl-2201

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Mahyad Aghigh

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-13T16:00:00 Disentangling the in- and out-of-plane components of the microwave surface resistance in Tl-2201 Event Location: Henn 318

March

2013

Unruh-DeWitt detectors in stationary and time- dependent situations

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Lee Hodgkinson

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-13T13:00:00 Unruh-DeWitt detectors in stationary and time- dependent situations Event Location: Henn 309

March

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Four Dimensional Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Planning System for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Lung Cancers”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ERIKA CHIN

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-11T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Four Dimensional Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Planning System for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Lung Cancers”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

March

2013

Recent developments for statistical inference on 'Big Data'

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alexandre Bouchard (UBC Department of Statistics)

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-11T16:00:00 Recent developments for statistical inference on 'Big Data' Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Characterizing magnetization exchange in healthy human as well as bovine brain”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SAEED KALANTARI

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-08T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Characterizing magnetization exchange in healthy human as well as bovine brain”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

March

2013

Topological States in Graphene-Based Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Allan H. MacDonald, University of Texas

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-07T16:00:00 Topological States in Graphene-Based Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Event Location: Hennings 201