Events
December
2022
| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Adekunle Aina, PhD student
Protein aggregation-related diseases, in particular neurodegenerative diseases, are characterized by the aberrant perturbation of the underlying protein conformational ensemble. Effectively presenting epitopes using vaccines, to raise conformationally selective antibodies, is a central problem in treating neurodegenerative diseases.
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December
2022
| Event Location: HEBB 114 | Speaker: Dr. Reuven Gordon (UVic)
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There is a new class of technologies emerging for observing unmodified proteins in action and at the single molecule level. This colloquium will give an introduction to our nanoaperture optical tweezer approach and overview the developments from other groups also working in the area. I will also review our work on using these nanoapertures to isolate single Erbium emitters in nanocrystals for single photon sources at fiber optic communication wavelengths, and to study resonant energy transfer between two perovskite quantum dots.
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December
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Thomas Scaffidi - University of California Irvine
Thomas Scaffidi - University of California Irvine
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr. Chris Hayward, Centre for Computational Astrophysics, NY
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Prof. Jess McIver, University of British Columbia
TALK RECORDING AVAILABLE AT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1is7783zB9tYQksLkmcAZ5E5NQu7mZvOP/view
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November
2022
| Event Location: HEBB 114 | Speaker: Dr. Kate Pachal (TRIUMF)
Link to join remotely - look for today's date. The live stream will start at 4:00pm.
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November
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Long Ju
Long Ju – MIT Physics Department
Title: Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Trilayer Graphene/hBN Moire Superlattice
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November
2022
| Event Location: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61408939131?pwd=cGxvZDU4Zi9oTmVySjg1RTN2T1E5QT09, Passcode: 524103 | Speaker: Peter Gysbers, PhD student
Atomic nuclei exhibit many phenomena not limited to excited states, decays, reactions, and clustering. Nuclear processes control the evolution of stars and explain the abundances of chemical elements in the universe. Nuclear physics can be used to answer fundamental questions about underlying particle physics and cosmology, such as the symmetry between matter and antimatter or the nature of neutrinos.
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr. Ashish Mahabal, Caltech
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Danny Fusco, MSc student, University of British Columbia
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November
2022
| Event Location: HEBB 114 | Speaker: Joel Primack (University of California Santa Cruz)
Link to join remotely - look for today's date. The live stream will start at 4:00pm.
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November
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Professor Kai-Mei Fu
Professor Kai-Mei Fu - University of Washington
Title: Quantum point defects: Can these defects be less defective?
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Lars Künkel (PHAS)
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Pulsars are rotating neutron stars which emit faint beams of electromagnetic radiation. In pulsar searches large effort is expended to discover these pulses in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. Simultaneously recovering the frequency-dependent delay (dispersion) and the periodicity of the signal is a complex and demanding task, which is further exacerbated by the presence of various types of radio-frequency interference (RFI) and observing-system effects.
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr. Kirsty Gardner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia
TALK RECORDING AVAILABLE AT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mADq5Za4GFPS_9Y9er3nZivHHMcqEn_k/view?usp=share_link
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November
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Joyce Poon - Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Joyce Poon - Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr Falk Herwig, Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy (University of Victoria)
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November
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr. Colby Delisle, University of British Columbia
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In this talk, I will discuss how matter systems can lose quantum coherence by interacting with an environment consisting of low-energy photons or gravitons. This process will be illustrated using a simple model of an interferometry experiment. I'll focus particularly on how earlier results - which identified a relationship between "soft" photons/gravitons and boundary terms in the electromagnetic and gravitational matter currents - allows one to easily quantify precisely how much decoherence is caused by "leading" and "sub-leading" soft radiation.
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November
2022
| Event Location: HEBB 114 | Speaker: Dr. Aaron Boley
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November
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Professor Romain Vasseur - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Romain Vasseur – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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October
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr. Garima Singh, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre * The speaker will deliver the talk remotely on Zoom. The talk will be live-streamed on Zoom in Henn 318
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October
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Dr. Derek Davis, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
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October
2022
| Event Location: TRIUMF auditorium | Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University
*** Special time and location*** Thursday October 27 at 2:00pm TRIUMF auditorium ***
Event information: The Oct 27th colloquium is jointly organized with TRIUMF’s seminar series and will be hosted by TRIUMF at 2:00pm in the TRIUMF auditorium. From UBC Exchange Bay 5 you can catch the #49 bus to TRIUMF Centre at 1:42pm and 1:49 pm to arrive before the seminar.
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October
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Zac Ward - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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October
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: PHAS students: Dave Miller and Lucas Kuhn
Speakers:
Dave Miller, PHAS: "Massive white dwarfs from nearby young clusters."
Lucas Kuhn, PHAS: "Probing broad line region dynamics with single-epoch line profiles."
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October
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Victor Pozsgay, PhD candidate, Imperial College London
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October
2022
| Event Location: Hebb 114 | Speaker: Dr. Todd Woodward
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October
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: PHAS students: Arefe Abghari and George Wang
Speakers:
Arefe Abghari: "Extracting Hierarchical Wavelet Coefficients from Full-Sky Maps."
George Wang
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October
2022
| Event Location: Hebb 114 | Speaker: Dr. David Reichman
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October
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Dr. Anushya Chandran - Boston University
Dr. Anushya Chandran: Boston University
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October
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Dr. Anushya Chandran
Dr. Anushya Chandran: Boston University
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October
2022
| Event Location: HEBB 114 | Speaker: Dr. Nicole Vassh
Link to join remotely - look for today's date. The live stream will start at 4:00pm.
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October
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 288 | Speaker: Tarun Tummuru - PhD student
Abstract: The notion of twisting and stacking two-dimensional van der Waals materials has emerged as a paragon for realizing novel electronic states. With the goal of engineering topological superconductivity, we go beyond the archetypal example of twisted bilayer graphene and consider structures composed of proximitized quantum wires and high-Tc cuprate superconductors.
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October
2022
| Event Location: HENNINGS Room 318 | Speaker: Chi-kwan Chan (University of Arizona / Steward Observatory)
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September
2022
| Event Location: HEBB Building Room 114 | Speaker: Nicole Vassh (TRIUMF), Steve Plotkin (PHAS), Sabrina Leslie (PHAS/MSL), Mike Hasinoff (UBC) and Kate Pachal (TRIUMF), Chris Hearty (PHAS), Josh Folk (PHAS)
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Abstract: The UBC department of physics and astronomy and affiliate institutions have a number of exciting research topics that are actively recruiting students. This jamboree event will highlight six diverse research projects seeking students from the PHAS department.
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September
2022
| Event Location: Zoom - Virtual Event | Speaker: Dr. Tina Rost
Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64243489212?pwd=YkFSMDdxN3Nhbm15aExBdTF6MnBvQT09
Meeting ID: 642 4348 9212
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September
2022
| Event Location: HEBB 114 | Speaker: Steve Michnick, Université de Montréal
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September
2022
| Event Location: The Brimacombe Building: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Dr. Guosong Hong - Stanford University
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September
2022
| Event Location: HEBB Building, Room 114 | Speaker: Discussion leader: Ingrid Stairs, UBC
Abstract: In 2020, the Physics and Astronomy (PHAS) Equity and Inclusion Committee a
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September
2022
| Event Location: The Brimacombe Building: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Sabrina Leslie: Associate Professor, UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy and Michael Smith Labs Affiliate Faculty member, SBME, GSAT, BIONF
Title: Single-molecule microscopy of RNA-lipid-nanoparticles: bringing the nanoscale physics to help advance nanomedicines
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August
2022
| Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: PhD student:Robin Newhouse
The Standard Model of particle physics is a powerful theory of nature, yet it does not account for all physical observations. Notably, the nonzero masses of the three neutrino flavours and their transformations into one another suggest the need for an extension of the Standard Model. One such extension postulates the existence of Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs, N ) — right-handed neutrino states that do not interact with other particles except through mixing with Standard Model neutrinos. HNLs may generate light neutrino masses through the so-called “seesaw mechanism.”
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August
2022
| Event Location: HENN 318 |
Hello everyone!
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July
2022
| Event Location: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61385552566?pwd=WDg4UDhxZy8rQWphb3FxOFdyWFBGZz09 Passcode: 791344 | Speaker: PhD student, Oliver Yam
We study the effects of the Peierls electron-phonon coupling in different multi-band systems. In contrast to the more commonly employed Holstein coupling, which is used in single-band models and is momentumindependent, the momentum-dependent Peierls coupling can explicitly treat coupling to multiple bands. Our results demonstrate the importance of using the Peierls coupling in modelling complex systems
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July
2022
| Event Location: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67592194700?pwd=NHdUb1pqQ08wZUNwQ3dsQjB5blZ6UT09 Passcode: 695934 | Speaker: PhD Student, Colby Delisle
The electromagnetic and gravitational fields transfer information between physical systems. This work is an attempt to better understand how matter systems communicate quantum information with one another using these fields, and also how quantum information about matter is broadcast into the fields themselves. We study the former process in Part I and the latter in Part II, by answering two distinct but related questions.
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June
2022
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Graham Baker(PhD student)
Electrical conduction becomes non-local when an inhomogeneous electronic distribution is induced with spatial variation shorter than the mean free path (MFP) between momentum-relaxing electronic scattering processes. Two important methods of inducing such a distribution are via the size and skin effects. In the size effect, one or more dimensions of a medium are reduced below the MFP.
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June
2022
| Event Location: room 203 of the graduate student centre | Speaker: Javiera Fernanda Parada Torres
This thesis introduces two new extragalactic distance determination
methods; the first uses the median magnitude of carbon-rich asymptotic
giant branch stars (CS), while the second uses the combined luminosity
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May
2022
| Event Location: Henn 318 & https://cern.zoom.us/j/63497174616?pwd=UDNRN1JLSUNVemd0SnJhalVuYlcvQT09 | Speaker: PhD student: Robin Hays
The Standard Model (SM) is the governing theory of particle physics. Although its predictions are in excellent agreement with experimental observations, it does not provide a full picture of the physical universe. The Higgs boson is the SM's most recently-discovered particle and a crucial ingredient of the theory. Measuring any deviation between its observed and expected properties could pave the way toward a more complete theory.
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May
2022
| Event Location: Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61164285940?pwd=QWFiV0JZT3VwTXVacnc4SEh5UVErdz09. Password: 053582. | Speaker: PhD student: David Wakeham
Black holes are regions of spacetime from which nothing can escape. This is already strange, but more puzzling is the fact that, over time, quantum mechanics causes black holes to leak energy and disappear. What happens to the objects that fell inside? The unitarity of quantum mechanics suggests one answer, and computations in semiclassical gravity another. To determine which is correct, we need to understand how quantum and gravitational effects interact.
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May
2022
| Event Location: University of Winnipeg or Watch live! (See webinar registration link below) | Speaker: PHAS PhD student and UBC 3MT winner (2022) Emilie Carpentier is moving to the next round to compete at this year's Western Regional Three-Minute Thesis competition in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her topic, "Liver Cancer? No need to hold your breath for a cure!". Researching in the field of medical physics, Emilie's work focuses on improving radiation treatments and dosages for liver and pancreatic cancers. See more on Emilie's research and graduate student experience here: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/carpentier-emilie.
2022 Western Regional Three-Minute Thesis Competition is being hosted by the University of Winnipeg on May 6, 2022 from 2:00-4:30 pm (CST)
Seventeen graduate schools across western Canada are sending their local Three-Minute Thesis Competition winners to compete in the 2022 Western Regional Competition!
Originally developed by the University of Queensland, the Three-Minute Thesis is an annual research communication competition challenging graduate students to communicate their scholarly research and its significance in three minutes or less.
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April
2022
| Event Location: Hennings 201 (and via zoom) | Speaker: Equity and Inclusion Committee
-- This event is cancelled for Thursday, April 28th --
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April
2022
| Event Location: zoom : https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63707269353?pwd=YnZKMzd4K0NKWGtESUJSS2JXNGU5Zz09 Passcode: 486279 | Speaker: MengXing Na, PhD student
Quantum materials manifest exciting macroscopic electronic properties that emerge from microscopic electron interactions -- such as those between the electron and the lattice. Extensive research effort has been dedicated to understanding the physics of these materials; among these, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has the unique capability of taking ``photos" of the electronic band structure.
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