Events

On behalf of the UBC Postdoctoral Association, we are pleased to announce that UBC Postdoctoral Research Day 2026 will be held on Monday, November 30 at the Life Sciences Institute (2350 Health Sciences Mall).

This annual event celebrates the diverse research of UBC’s postdoctoral fellows. The day will feature oral and poster presentations, a keynote talk, a panel discussion, and networking opportunities with peers and faculty across disciplines.

Hey Everyone! We have a FREE SCIENCE SHOW for you!

We invite you to our amazing science discovery event, our 2026 Faraday Show! happening on Sunday, November 29th, 2026 in HEBB theatre, from 1-3pm.

This Free event is for scientists of all ages and their families who are keen to discover science!

Many-body systems host states where many different degrees of freedom are intertwined. This makes them exceptionally difficult to investigate, but also gives unprecedented opportunity to control energy and information transfer across chemical and physical states. In this talk, I will show some recent efforts to study and control these interactions leveraging the technique of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). In the first part of the talk, I will show our discovery of intertwined interactions between plasmons and high-order phonons in the layered copper oxides [1,2].

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Prof. Renee Hložek is an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in Canada.

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Welcome to our 2026 PHAS Career Night

For all Physics & Astronomy undergrads, come and meet PHAS graduates who have carved out interesting and varied non-academic careers in physics and astronomy fields. Our alumni panel will share their stories, tips, tricks and recommendations on driving your own career path with a Physics, Astronomy, or science degree in Canada and abroad. 

Panelists, faculty and staff will be available after the presentations for questions and networking!

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Dr. Ronan Kerr is a Canadian astrophysicist whose research primarily focuses on star formation, stellar populations, and the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems.

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Ultrafast control of magnetisation by light offers a promising route toward energy-efficient information technologies operating on intrinsic magnetic timescales. By engineering the temporal, spectral and polarisation properties of ultrashort light pulses, one can launch the precessional motion of spins, manipulate the magnetic phases and drive the magnetic order far from equilibrium. My research pursues “on-demand” control of magnetism, based on selective perturbing microscopic interaction parameters, which can be used to transform materials into a desired magnetic state.