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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

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

April

2013

Black hole Inspirals and Spectroscopy of the Green Function

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Marc Casals

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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

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

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

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

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

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-11T14:00:00 Ultrafast Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of Charge- and Spin-Ordered Nickelates Event Location: Hennings 318

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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Add to Calendar 2013-04-12T09:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: A new approach to photometric redshift contamination, providing critical insight for weak lensing cosmology) Event Location: Henn 318

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

Anisotropic topological insulators

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

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-16T03:30:00 Anisotropic topological insulators Event Location: AMPEL 311

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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Add to Calendar 2013-04-16T12:00:00 A Mini-course on Scientific Writing for Astronomers (I. The writing process) 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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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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April

2013

The Quest for the Higgs Boson

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Matt Strassler

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-18T16:00:00 The Quest for the Higgs Boson Event Location: Hennings 201

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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: 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

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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Add to Calendar 2013-05-24T16:00:00 State-to-State Spectroscopy and Chemistry by Vacuum Ultraviolet Laser Photoionization and Photoelectron Methods Event Location: Chem D-215

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

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

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

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

Novel macroscopic quantum states in dipolar gases

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

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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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Add to Calendar 2013-06-03T12:00:00 Quantum sensing and engineering with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond Event Location: Hennings 318

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

Search for Natural SUSY with ATLAS at the LHC

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Anadi Canepa (TRIUMF)

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-13T14:00:00 Search for Natural SUSY with ATLAS at the LHC Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

June

2013

Chasing the nematic phase in Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 with optical investigations

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: L. Degiorgi (ETH)

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-13T14:00:00 Chasing the nematic phase in Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 with optical investigations Event Location: Hennings 318

June

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Particle Phenomenology at the Frontiers”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: PETER WINSLOW

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-14T12:30:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Particle Phenomenology at the Frontiers”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

June

2013

Control and Manipulation of the Kerr-lens Mode-locking Dynamics in Lasers

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Shai Yefet (Bar-Ilan University)

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-17T11:00:00 Control and Manipulation of the Kerr-lens Mode-locking Dynamics in Lasers Event Location: Chem D-215

June

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “The Leftovers of Planet Formation: The Small Body Populations of Our Solar System and Exoplanet Systems”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SAMANTHA LAWLER

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-17T12:20:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “The Leftovers of Planet Formation: The Small Body Populations of Our Solar System and Exoplanet Systems”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

June

2013

Detecting Non-Abelian Anyons by Charging Spectroscopy

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Gilad Ben-Shach

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-18T14:00:00 Detecting Non-Abelian Anyons by Charging Spectroscopy Event Location: AMPEL 311

June

2013

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Angle-resolved photoemission and density functional theory studies of topological materials)

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: ZHI-HUAI ZHU

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-19T13:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Angle-resolved photoemission and density functional theory studies of topological materials) Event Location: Henn 309

June

2013

Max-Planck-UBC workshop: “From Quantum Matter to Quantum Information” June 24-27

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-24T09:00:00 Max-Planck-UBC workshop: “From Quantum Matter to Quantum Information” June 24-27 Event Location: tba

June

2013

Max-Planck-UBC workshop: “Scanning Probe Microscopy for the Study of Quantum Materials” June 28-30

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Add to Calendar 2013-06-28T09:00:00 Max-Planck-UBC workshop: “Scanning Probe Microscopy for the Study of Quantum Materials” June 28-30 Event Location: tba

July

2013

PHAS workshop: “Quantum Information and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” July 2-5

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July

2013

Ultracold hydrogen atoms: a versatile coolant for producing microkelvin molecules

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Jeremy M. Hutson (Durham University, UK)

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-05T16:00:00 Ultracold hydrogen atoms: a versatile coolant for producing microkelvin molecules Event Location: Chem D-215

July

2013

Physics Education Research Session

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Various

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-11T14:00:00 Physics Education Research Session Event Location: Hennings 318

July

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Emergence of Riemannian Manifolds from Graphs and Aspects of Chern-Simons Theory”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SI CHEN

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-18T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Emergence of Riemannian Manifolds from Graphs and Aspects of Chern-Simons Theory”) Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

July

2013

At the interface between electron- and hole-doped curates

| Event Location: AMPEL 311 | Speaker: Marcel Hoek, University of Twente

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-18T14:00:00 At the interface between electron- and hole-doped curates Event Location: AMPEL 311

July

2013

An electron electric dipole moment experiment using a fountain of laser-cooled francium

| Event Location: Chem D-215 | Speaker: Harvey Gould

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-19T16:00:00 An electron electric dipole moment experiment using a fountain of laser-cooled francium Event Location: Chem D-215

July

2013

A Comprehensive Study of Relativistic Gravity using PSR B1534+12

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Emmanuel Fonseca

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-26T16:00:00 A Comprehensive Study of Relativistic Gravity using PSR B1534+12 Event Location: Henn 318

July

2013

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Incorporating Microdosimetry into Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning with Multi-Scale Monte Carlo Simulations”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: JOSEPH LUCIDO

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-29T09:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Incorporating Microdosimetry into Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning with Multi-Scale Monte Carlo Simulations”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre