Department of Physics & Astronomy

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February 18 , 2026

UBC Science Excellence Award Recipient Serves Outstanding Outreach

February 16 , 2026

Silent Giants, Hidden Fuel: ALMA Reveals Surprising Diversity of Dust and Gas in Quiescent Galaxies

February 10 , 2026

How giant galaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang

January 27 , 2026

UBC Prof. Takamasa Momose garners place in Physics World Top 10 Greatest Achievements

January 22 , 2026

A new optical centrifuge is helping physicists probe the mysteries of superfluids

January 7 , 2026

New Discovery Challenges Evolution of Galaxy Clusters

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Events

March

02

Conceptual Dilemmas in Salish Asterism Reconstruction: “The Canoe", "Cast away Children", “Grizzly Bear in the Sky” and "Camas Baking Pit"

Monday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Event Location: HENN 318

March

03

PHAS Tuesday Tea!

Tuesday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Event Location: In the atrium outside of HENN 200

March

05

Phonons with a Twist: Measuring the Phonon Hall Viscosity in a Proposed Quantum Spin Liquid

Thursday, 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Event Location: BRIM 311

March

05

The state and impact of quantum computing

Thursday, 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Event Location: HENN 318

March

05

High Pressure, Low Integrity: Debunking Claims of Room Temperature Superconductivity

Thursday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Event Location: HENN 201

March

05

Screening Saves Lives

Thursday, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Event Location: AMS [room location TBD and will be updated here before the event]

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