Event Time:
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 | 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Event Location:
Chemistry building B250 (2036 Main Mall)
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2025-10-07T12:45:00
2025-10-07T14:00:00
Scanning the Periodic Table: The View of Structure-Property Relationships From the Atomic Scale
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*This event is part of a Lectures in Modern Chemistry series, hosted by the Department of Chemistry*
Theme: Functional Materials, Nature of Matter, Technology
Abstract: TBD
Bio:
Sarah holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the UBC Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy departments.
Her research interests broadly encompass the study of electronic processes where nanoscale structure influences or reveals the underlying physics. Using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques, our group investigates materials for organic electronics and optoelectronics, 2-dimensional materials, and materials where a nanoscale view offers the potential for new understanding.
Learn More:
See her Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute website: https://qmi.ubc.ca/team-member/sarah-burke/
Read more on her research website: https://lair.phas.ubc.ca/
Event Location:
Chemistry building B250 (2036 Main Mall)
Event Time:
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Event Location:
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2)
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2025-10-22T12:00:00
2025-10-22T13:00:00
Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years | Uncanny Slippages: Entropy and Transformation
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Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years
This fall, join UBC scholars who will discuss productive intersections of their own work and the current exhibition, followed by a discussion that includes the audience. Guests will address Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years, which, like much of the artist’s work, often stages minimal but charged spatial interventions that hold time in suspension. From his use of threshold spaces—gardens, ruins, makeshift barriers—to his invocation of hospitality and its withdrawal, his practice is deeply engaged with questions of memory, disappearance and the limits of narrative.
Uncanny Slippages: Entropy and Transformation with Bronwen Tate and Adele Ruosi This conversation brings physics and poetic form together, addressing themes of materiality, structure, rhythm and metaphor—inviting reflection on scale, pattern and the felt experience of space and matter as they resonate with Akhavan’s practice.
Event Location:
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2)