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January

2013

3rd Annual Physics & Astronomy Career Night.

| Event Location: The Abdul Ladha Science Student Centre (ALSSC) | Speaker: see event description

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-16T17:15:00 3rd Annual Physics & Astronomy Career Night. Event Location: The Abdul Ladha Science Student Centre (ALSSC)

January

2013

The WISE view of the Solar System

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Joseph Masiero (Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-17T11:00:00 The WISE view of the Solar System Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

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

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: ERIKA CHIN

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-17T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A Four Dimensional Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Planning System for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Lung Cancers) Event Location: Henn 309

January

2013

Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

| Event Location: Hennings 319 | Speaker: Mohsen K. Akhlaghi, UBC (work done while at IQC and the University of Waterloo)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-17T14:00:00 Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors Event Location: Hennings 319

January

2013

EXO and the quest for Majorana Neutrino Masses

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Giorgio Gratta, Stanford

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-17T16:00:00 EXO and the quest for Majorana Neutrino Masses Event Location: Hennings 201

January

2013

Molecular Dynamics: From Attosecond Physics to Biophotonics

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Albert Stolow (NRC)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-17T17:00:00 Molecular Dynamics: From Attosecond Physics to Biophotonics Event Location: Chem D-215

January

2013

Dark Matter Searches with the ICECUBE detector

| Event Location: Hennings 207 | Speaker: Matthias Danninger

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-18T09:00:00 Dark Matter Searches with the ICECUBE detector Event Location: Hennings 207

January

2013

Towards Improving Sampling and Understanding of Biomolecular Information in Molecular Dynamics Calculations

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Thomas Woolf, Johns Hopkins University

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-18T12:00:00 Towards Improving Sampling and Understanding of Biomolecular Information in Molecular Dynamics Calculations Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

A Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying to Top Quark Paris in the Boosted Fully Hadronic Channel on ATLAS

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Trisha Farooque

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-21T13:00:00 A Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying to Top Quark Paris in the Boosted Fully Hadronic Channel on ATLAS Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

Kepler Strikes Exoplanetary Gold: Systems of Multiple Transiting Planets

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Darin Ragozzine (University of Florida)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-21T16:00:00 Kepler Strikes Exoplanetary Gold: Systems of Multiple Transiting Planets Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

High-temperature processing of solids in disks: Exploring the signatures of shocks

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Aaron Boley (University of Florida)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-24T11:00:00 High-temperature processing of solids in disks: Exploring the signatures of shocks Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

Observation of Zitterbewegung in a degenerate quantum gas

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: I. B. Spielman (University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-24T14:00:00 Observation of Zitterbewegung in a degenerate quantum gas Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

January

2013

COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED!

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Paul Steinhardt, Princeton

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-24T16:00:00 COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED! Event Location: Hennings 201

January

2013

Seeing worlds in grains of sand

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Amaya Moro-Martin (Centro de Astrobiología, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (Madrid) & Princeton University

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-28T10:00:00 Seeing worlds in grains of sand Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

Effects of disordered substitutions and vacancies in Fe based superconductors from first principles

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Tom Berlijn, Brookhaven National Lab and University of Florida

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-28T13:30:00 Effects of disordered substitutions and vacancies in Fe based superconductors from first principles Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

Re-thinking first year physics labs

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Natasha Holmes, Carl Michal, Georg Rieger, Ido Roll, Jeff Young

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January

2013

Detecting and characterising extrasolar planets by direct imaging

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Thayne Currie (Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-31T11:00:00 Detecting and characterising extrasolar planets by direct imaging Event Location: Hennings 318

January

2013

The Proton Radius Puzzle: A Challenge to all of us

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Gerald Miller (University of Washington, Seattle)

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-31T14:00:00 The Proton Radius Puzzle: A Challenge to all of us Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

January

2013

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Earth's Magnetic Field

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Carl Michal, UBC

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Add to Calendar 2013-01-31T16:00:00 Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Earth's Magnetic Field Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2013

Big puzzles with small galaxies: Exploring the extreme faint end of the galaxy luminosity function

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Alan McConnachie (National Research Council, Victoria)

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-04T16:00:00 Big puzzles with small galaxies: Exploring the extreme faint end of the galaxy luminosity function Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2013

Layer-by-layer entangled spin-orbital texture of the topological surface state in Bi2Se3

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Jason Zhu (UBC)

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-07T14:00:00 Layer-by-layer entangled spin-orbital texture of the topological surface state in Bi2Se3 Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2013

Final Results from WMAP

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Gary Hinshaw

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February

2013

Exploring planets far, far away... without hyperdrive: The latest results of the Kepler exoplanet census

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Jaymie Matthews

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-14T16:00:00 Exploring planets far, far away... without hyperdrive: The latest results of the Kepler exoplanet census Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Patient-Specific Internal Dose Calculation Techniques for Clinical Use in Targeted Radionuclide Therapy”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: JOSHUA GRIMES

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-18T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Patient-Specific Internal Dose Calculation Techniques for Clinical Use in Targeted Radionuclide Therapy”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

February

2013

Visualizing heavy fermions emerging in a quantum critical Kondo lattice

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Eduardo da Silva Neto (Princeton University)

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-18T14:00:00 Visualizing heavy fermions emerging in a quantum critical Kondo lattice Event Location: AMPEL 311

February

2013

Neutrinos from stored muon beams: an incremental approach to the Neutrino Factory

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial College, London)

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-20T14:00:00 Neutrinos from stored muon beams: an incremental approach to the Neutrino Factory Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

February

2013

Superconducting ruthenates and cuprates synthesized by molecular beam epitaxy and pulsed laser ablation

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yoshiharu Krockenberger

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-21T14:00:00 Superconducting ruthenates and cuprates synthesized by molecular beam epitaxy and pulsed laser ablation Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2013

Adaptive Optics at Keck Observatory

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Peter Wizinowich (Keck Observatory)

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-25T16:00:00 Adaptive Optics at Keck Observatory Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2013

Implementing new teaching techniques: How to train and use TA's effectively

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Georg Rieger, Jonathan Massey-Allard, Firas Moosvi

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-26T12:30:00 Implementing new teaching techniques: How to train and use TA's effectively Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2013

Kepler: NASA's Exo-earth Census

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Natalie Batalha, San Jose State University

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Add to Calendar 2013-02-28T16:00:00 Kepler: NASA's Exo-earth Census Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2013

Heating and cooling in galaxy groups and clusters

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Arif Babul (University of Victoria)

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-04T16:00:00 Heating and cooling in galaxy groups and clusters Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2013

Universal Uncertainty Relations

| Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Vlad Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the Univ. of Calgary

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-06T14:30:00 Universal Uncertainty Relations Event Location: Hennings 309B

March

2013

Ligand hole effects in transition-metal compounds with small charge-transfer energy

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Takashi Mizokawa (Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo)

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-07T14:00:00 Ligand hole effects in transition-metal compounds with small charge-transfer energy Event Location: Hennings 318

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

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

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

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

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

Novel Phases in Mott-insulating iridates

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yogesh Singh

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-14T14:00:00 Novel Phases in Mott-insulating iridates Event Location: Hennings 318

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

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

Galactic archaeology in and around the Milky Way

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

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-18T16:00:00 Galactic archaeology in and around the Milky Way Event Location: Hennings 318

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

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

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

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

Critical collapse of Einstein-Vlasov matter

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Arman Akbarian

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Add to Calendar 2013-03-27T13:00:00 Critical collapse of Einstein-Vlasov matter 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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Add to Calendar 2013-03-27T14:30:00 Quantum Control and Fault-tolerant quantum computing Event Location: Hennings 309B