Events List for the Academic Year

Final PhD Oral Examination (Thesis Title: “A new approach to photometric redshift contamination, providing critical insight for weak lensing cosmology”)

Event Time: Monday, June 10, 2013 | 9:00 am
Event Location:
Room 200, Graduate Student Centre
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

Quantum sensing and engineering with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond

Event Time: Monday, June 3, 2013 | 12:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Add to Calendar 2013-06-03T12:00:00 Quantum sensing and engineering with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond Event Location: Hennings 318

Novel macroscopic quantum states in dipolar gases

Event Time: Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 201
Add to Calendar 2013-05-30T16:00:00 Novel macroscopic quantum states in dipolar gases Event Location: Hennings 201

Super Efimov effect

Event Time: Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 2:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Add to Calendar 2013-05-30T14:00:00 Super Efimov effect Event Location: Hennings 318

Cosmology - its tortuous history, glorious present and bright future (Hogg Lecture)

Event Time: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | 7:30 pm
Event Location:
Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall Vancouver BC; http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?656)
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)

How Physics Works - a History of the Development of Quantum Mechanics

Event Time: Monday, May 27, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Event Location:
Hebb Theatre (2045 East Mall Vancouver BC; http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?656)
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)

Department of Physics & Astronomy Open House

Event Time: Saturday, May 25, 2013 | 10:00 am
Event Location:
Hennings Building
Add to Calendar 2013-05-25T10:00:00 Department of Physics & Astronomy Open House Event Location: Hennings Building

State-to-State Spectroscopy and Chemistry by Vacuum Ultraviolet Laser Photoionization and Photoelectron Methods

Event Time: Friday, May 24, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Event Location:
Chem D-215
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

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Emergence of Riemann manifolds from graphs and aspects of Chern-Simons theory)

Event Time: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 11:30 am
Event Location:
Henn 318
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

Backscattering Between Helical Edge States via Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Event Time: Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 2:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Add to Calendar 2013-05-16T14:00:00 Backscattering Between Helical Edge States via Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Event Location: Hennings 318

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: "Using multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations to incorporate microdosimetry into clinical radiation therapy")

Event Time: Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 1:00 pm
Event Location:
Henn 309
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

“The Waters I am Entering No One yet Has Crossed”: Alexander Friedman and the Origins of Modern Cosmology

Event Time: Thursday, May 9, 2013 | 2:00 pm
Event Location:
TRIUMF Auditorium
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

A local realistic reconciliation of the EPR paradox

Event Time: Friday, May 3, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Event Location:
Chem D-215
Add to Calendar 2013-05-03T16:00:00 A local realistic reconciliation of the EPR paradox Event Location: Chem D-215

How considering student motivation can improve our understanding of learning and instruction

Event Time: Friday, May 3, 2013 | 11:00 am
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Add to Calendar 2013-05-03T11:00:00 How considering student motivation can improve our understanding of learning and instruction Event Location: Hennings 318

Junior Physics & Engineering Competition

Event Time: Friday, May 3, 2013 | 9:00 am
Event Location:
Hennings 200 and 202
Add to Calendar 2013-05-03T09:00:00 Junior Physics & Engineering Competition Event Location: Hennings 200 and 202

Integer anomalous quantum Hall effect and fractional excitations in itinerant magnets.

Event Time: Thursday, May 2, 2013 | 2:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Add to Calendar 2013-05-02T14:00:00 Integer anomalous quantum Hall effect and fractional excitations in itinerant magnets. Event Location: Hennings 318

Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of reflection symmetry

Event Time: Thursday, April 25, 2013 | 2:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Add to Calendar 2013-04-25T14:00:00 Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of reflection symmetry Event Location: Hennings 318

Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Particle Phenomenology at the Frontiers)

Event Time: Monday, April 22, 2013 | 12:30 pm
Event Location:
Henn 318
Add to Calendar 2013-04-22T12:30:00 Departmental Oral Examination (Thesis Title: Particle Phenomenology at the Frontiers) Event Location: Henn 318

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 Time: Monday, April 22, 2013 | 9:00 am
Event Location:
Room 200, Graduate Student Centre
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

The Quest for the Higgs Boson

Event Time: Thursday, April 18, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Event Location:
Hennings 201
Add to Calendar 2013-04-18T16:00:00 The Quest for the Higgs Boson Event Location: Hennings 201