Events
November
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Renee Hložek, University of Toronto
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Bio:
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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November
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Ronan Kerr, University of Toronto
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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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November
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Lisa Dang, University of Waterloo
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[Coming soon!]
Bio:
Professor Dang studies exoplanets strikingly different from our Solar System planets and characterizes their climate with a variety of world class space-based and ground-based observatories, most excitingly with the recently launched JWST. Before the exoplanets era, the architecture of the Solar System’s planets has long been the primary inspiration for planet formation and evolution theories.
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October
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Pratika Dayal, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
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October
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Natalia Korsakova (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
Abstract:
[TBD]
Bio:
Dr. Natalia Korsakova is an astrophysicist and researcher specializing in gravitational-wave astronomy and computational data analysis. She is currently a prominent member of the LISA team within the ARTEMIS laboratory at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) in Nice, France.
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October
| Event Location: HENN 201 | Speaker: Grace Mackenzie-Smith, Wesleyan University
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[coming soon!]
Bio:
Grace earned her bachelor's degree at Bowdoin College, majoring in physics and biology (with honors), and carrying out research on fruit fly epigenetics. She completed her Ph.D. and postdoc work at Princeton University where she investigated the effects of social isolation on bumblebees and the long-timescale structure of fruit fly behavior.
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October
| Event Location: HEBB 100 (2045 East Mall) https://maps.ubc.ca/?code=HEBB |
Welcome to our Fall 2026 Science Slam! The greatest science communication competition...ever! This event is a partnership between the Department of Physics & Astronomy and Science Slam Canada.
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October
| Event Location: Michael Smith Labs, Room 102 (2185 East Mall) | Speaker: Nancy Ford, Claire Atkinson, Miki Fujita, Cole Mauws and Ben Britton
Welcome to the October 7th, 2026 FOSI Seminar, featuring a series of talks on medical imaging by a local panel of experts:
UBC Imaging facility managers and directors will each deliver a 15-minute presentation highlighting their respective facilities. If your group has new students or if you want to learn about other facilities, you are all welcome to attend!
Below is the tentative order of talks (15-minute talk each) -
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October
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: William G. Unruh, University of British Columbia
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October
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Jason Rowe (Bishop's University)
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October
| Event Location: BRIM 311 | Speaker: Grace Pan (UMich/Periodic Labs)
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September
| Event Location: HENN 318 | Speaker: Gabriel Voith
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