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January

2014

The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TUM

| Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Peter Fierlinger (TU Munich)

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-30T14:00:00 The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TUM Event Location: TRIUMF

January

2014

Gamma-ray Astronomy at the Highest Energies

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: David Hanna, McGill University

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January

2014

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Advances in nanopore sensing for DNA and protein analysis)

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: NAHID JETHA

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-31T10:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Advances in nanopore sensing for DNA and protein analysis) Event Location: Henn 309

January

2014

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Searches for new resonances decaying to top-antitop quark pairs with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions)

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: STEPHEN SWEDISH

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Add to Calendar 2014-01-31T14:00:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Searches for new resonances decaying to top-antitop quark pairs with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions) Event Location: Henn 318

February

2014

Symmetry protected topological orders in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Zhengcheng Gu (Perimeter)

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-03T12:00:00 Symmetry protected topological orders in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2014

Motion of a Mirror under Infinitely Fluctuating Quantum Vacuum Stress

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Qingdi Wang, UBC

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-05T13:00:00 Motion of a Mirror under Infinitely Fluctuating Quantum Vacuum Stress Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2014

Universality and symmetry of charge ordering phenomena in underdoped cuprates

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Riccardo Comin

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February

2014

New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter

| Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)

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February

2014

Pursuing gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Michael Landry (LIGO observatory), for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-06T16:00:00 Pursuing gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2014

Getting students to reflect in the lab

| Event Location: Henn 309 | Speaker: Natasha Holmes

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February

2014

Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-12T13:00:00 Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2014

Quantum optical control of mechanical systems: from levitated nano-spheres to gravitational wave detectors

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)

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February

2014

Schroedinger's Mirrors: Confronting Quantum Physics with Gravity

| Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College (2111 Lower Mall) | Speaker: Marcus Aspelmeyer

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-12T19:30:00 Schroedinger's Mirrors: Confronting Quantum Physics with Gravity Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College (2111 Lower Mall)

February

2014

Does Protective Measurement Tell us Anything about Quantum Reality?

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Amit Hagar, Indiana University, History & Philosophy of Science department

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-13T16:00:00 Does Protective Measurement Tell us Anything about Quantum Reality? Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2014

Fermi Surface Signature of a Quantum Critical Point Near Optimal Doping in a High-Tc Superconductor

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Brad Ramshaw

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-20T14:00:00 Fermi Surface Signature of a Quantum Critical Point Near Optimal Doping in a High-Tc Superconductor Event Location: Hennings 318

February

2014

CMS at the LHC

| Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers)

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-20T14:00:00 CMS at the LHC Event Location: TRIUMF

February

2014

Physics Education Research: Lessons from Video

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Derek Muller

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-20T16:00:00 2014-02-20T16:00:00 Physics Education Research: Lessons from Video Event Location: Hennings 201

February

2014

3 Minute Thesis Competition - Info Session

| Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: Douglas Scott and Janis McKenna

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-24T15:00:00 3 Minute Thesis Competition - Info Session Event Location: Henn 302

February

2014

Astrophysics' Extreme Matter Experiments: Understanding the Diagnostics

| Event Location: TRIUMF | Speaker: Chris Fryer (Los Alamos)

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Add to Calendar 2014-02-27T14:00:00 Astrophysics' Extreme Matter Experiments: Understanding the Diagnostics Event Location: TRIUMF

February

2014

Production, Trapping and Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen – the ALPHA Experiment at CERN

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Walter Hardy, UBC

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March

2014

Earth's oxygenation and early biological evolution

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Sean Crowe (UBC Earth & Ocean Sciences and Life Sciences Institute)

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March

2014

Intrinsic and environmental gravitational decoherence

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Fumika Suzuki, UBC

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March

2014

"Einstein the Philosopher"

| Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia | Speaker: Don Howard

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-05T19:30:00 "Einstein the Philosopher" Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia

March

2014

3 Minute Thesis Competition

| Event Location: Henn 302 | Speaker: Graduate Students

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-06T14:00:00 3 Minute Thesis Competition Event Location: Henn 302

March

2014

Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Christine Wilson, McMaster University

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-06T16:00:00 Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2014

Annual UBC Physics Olympics

| Event Location: Hennings and Hebb |

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-08T08:30:00 Annual UBC Physics Olympics Event Location: Hennings and Hebb

March

2014

Erich W. Vogt Celebration of Life - Saturday, March 8, 2014

| Event Location: Sage Bistro, 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, B.C. |

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March

2014

A new relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics

| Event Location: Hennings 309 | Speaker: Francisco Guzman, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo

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March

2014

The Frontier of Fundamental Physics

| Event Location: Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia | Speaker: David Gross

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March

2014

Final PhD 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: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: ROBERT KOSZTYLA

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-13T09:00:00 Final PhD 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: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre

March

2014

CAP Lecture - “Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction”

| Event Location: Henn 201 | Speaker: Dr. Jeff Lundeen from University of Ottawa

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-13T12:30:00 CAP Lecture - “Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction” Event Location: Henn 201

March

2014

Not of this Earth: the advent of neutrino astronomy

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Darren Grant, University of Alberta

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March

2014

Decoding color codes by projection onto surface codes

| Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Nicolas Delfosse, Universite de Sherbrooke

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-14T10:00:00 Decoding color codes by projection onto surface codes Event Location: Hennings 309B

March

2014

Fractional Solitons on the edge of the Fractional Quantum Hall states: Revealing topology through a non-linear dynamics

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Prof. Paul Wiegmann (Simon's Center/U of Chicago)

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-17T12:00:00 Fractional Solitons on the edge of the Fractional Quantum Hall states: Revealing topology through a non-linear dynamics Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2014

The density and velocity field of galaxies

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC Physics and Astronomy)

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March

2014

CANCELLED

| Event Location: Hennings 318 |

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March

2014

A physicist in disguise: predicting loan defaults

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Fernando Nogueira

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March

2014

Recent progress (or lack thereof) in direct searches for dark matter

| Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium | Speaker: Juan Collar (U Chicago)

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-20T14:00:00 Recent progress (or lack thereof) in direct searches for dark matter Event Location: TRIUMF Auditorium

March

2014

A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Ingrid Stairs, UBC

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-20T16:00:00 A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System Event Location: Hennings 201

March

2014

(By invitation only) UBC Physics & Astronomy Graduate Open House

| Event Location: Hennings 318 mostly | Speaker: n/a

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-21T08:30:00 (By invitation only) UBC Physics & Astronomy Graduate Open House Event Location: Hennings 318 mostly

March

2014

The Cosmological Context of Star Formation

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Tom Quinn (University of Washington)

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March

2014

Contextuality supplies the magic for quantum computation

| Event Location: Hennings 309B | Speaker: Mark Howard, IQC Waterloo

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-25T14:00:00 Contextuality supplies the magic for quantum computation Event Location: Hennings 309B

March

2014

CANCELLED

| Event Location: Hennings 318 |

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March

2014

Beyond First Year with Physics & Astronomy

| Event Location: Henn 201 |

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March

2014

Physics in Vantage College

| Event Location: Henn 318 | Speaker: Joss Ives and Georg Rieger

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March

2014

Accurate variational solution for a hole doped into a CuO2 layer

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Hadi Ebrahimnejad

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-27T14:00:00 Accurate variational solution for a hole doped into a CuO2 layer Event Location: Hennings 318

March

2014

Driving Topology, Hunting Majoranas

| Event Location: Hennings 201 | Speaker: Tami Pereg-Barnea, McGill

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March

2014

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Search for Supersymmetry and Universal Extra Dimensions in Final States with Three Leptons and Missing Transverse Momentum in 20.7 fb-1 of √s = 8 TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector”)

| Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: SAMUEL KING

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-28T16:00:00 Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A Search for Supersymmetry and Universal Extra Dimensions in Final States with Three Leptons and Missing Transverse Momentum in 20.7 fb-1 of √s = 8 TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector”) Event Location: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

March

2014

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth Technology and Properties of GaAsBi Alloys”)

| Event Location: Room 200, Graduate Student Centre | Speaker: RYAN B LEWIS

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March

2014

The Life and Times of a Superfluid Vortex Ring

| Event Location: Hennings 318 | Speaker: Michael McNeil Forbes (Washington State University)

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-31T12:00:00 The Life and Times of a Superfluid Vortex Ring Event Location: Hennings 318