Add to Calendar 2025-11-24T12:00:00 2025-11-24T13:30:00 Undergraduate USRA Workshop Event Information: 2025 USRA Workshop Dear Students, We are running our annual USRA Application Workshop on Monday, November 24th, from 12pm-1pm, in HENN 318.  This workshop features student panelists who have received a summer USRA, plus advisors and staff to help answer student questions on how to apply, etc.Bring your lunch! We will have hot chocolate and timbits to keep it cozy. Links: About our USRA cycle: https://phas.ubc.ca/undergraduate-summer-research-awards Read about students' experiences here: https://phas.ubc.ca/undergraduate-usra-student-experiences Article: "Learning through research - how USRA recipients make the most out of their experience" https://phas.ubc.ca/learning-through-research-how-usra-recipients-make-most-out-their-research-experiences  Event Location: HENN 318

Add to Calendar 2025-11-25T11:00:00 2025-11-25T12:00:00 PHAS Tuesday Tea! Event Information: We welcome you to our Weekly PHAS TUESDAY TEA! This is the best physics community tea event in town!  Join us Tuesdays from 11am-noon in the atrium outside of HENN 200 for some social chit-chat and tasty treats! We welcome all new summer students, new grad students, staff and faculty to meet new-to-you colleagues, catch up with your physics community and to learn about current happenings in the PHAS Department.  Your hosts from the EDI Community Building Working Group are: Jess McIver Adele Ruosi Evan Goetz Mona Berciu Howard Li Mandana Amiri We look forward to meeting you! Event Location: In the atrium outside of HENN 200

Add to Calendar 2025-11-27T14:00:00 2025-11-27T15:30:00 Physics Careers & Navigating Your Path Event Information: Meet Dr. Alan Poon: PHAS Alumni (did his PhD under supervisor Dr. Chris Waltham) Currently Program Head and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development and 2025-26 Career Mentoring Fellow. Fellow of the American Physical Society Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS) This talk is for all students (undergrad and grad), postdocs, and interested faculty. Alan's wish is to share information on job opportunities for students with undergraduate and higher degrees. Bio: Alan Poon received his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of British Columbia. He joined Berkeley Lab in1998, and is currently the Program Head of the Neutrinos Program and the Deputy Director of the Lab’s Nuclear Science Division. After contributing to the award-winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and KamLAND experiments that demonstrated neutrino oscillations in the solar and reactor neutrinos, he and his colleagues of the Neutrino Astrophysics Group have been exploring the mass properties of neutrinos in the MAJORANA, LEGEND, and KATRIN experiments, as well as implementing radiation detection technologies in other fields. He is passionate about science outreach and education, and organizes the annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts event at Berkeley Lab. Links: See Alan's Bio on UBC Magazine: Alan Poon, BSc'91, PhD'98 | UBC Magazine See Alan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-poon-4225503b/ Explore the LBNL: Home – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Some of his work is caught on one of our PHAS history posters! See here: vandegraaff_final_flattened_reduced.pdf Event Location: HENN 318

Add to Calendar 2025-11-30T13:15:00 2025-11-30T15:00:00 2025 Faraday Show: A Science Show for Kids and their Families Event Information: Hey Vancouver kids and families! Our annual Faraday Show is UBC’s premium science lecture, designed for children and all those who are ‘young at heart’. It is presented by UBC Physics & Astronomy students, faculty and staff. This year’s theme is: Expanding our Senses & Movements with Tech! We will explore questions such as: What is it like to see beyond the dark like reindeer, or snakes? How can we sense invisible forces? and How can tech improve our balance? All these questions and more will be answered through fun demonstrations and hands-on activities! Show schedule: Pre-Show (table top demonstrations): 1:15PM – 1:55PM Stage Show (stage presentations): 2:00PM – 3:00PM Where: HEBB Theatre 2045 East Mall, UBC Vancouver campus. The North Parkade is the closest parking lot to the HEBB building. When: SUNDAY, November 30th, 2025        Science Fair: 1:00PM – 1:55PM       Stage Show: 2:00PM – 3:00PM Cost: FREE! We ask that you please bring non-perishable food items to support Greater Vancouver Food Bank member, The Kettle Society. RSVP HERE so we know that you’re coming! We recommend arriving 15-20 minutes earlier for good seats. *Planning Tip* Plan a day on campus! Mention “Faraday Show” at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum on Sunday November 30th, between 10am-5pm and get 50% off admission. This show is FREE! We ask that you please bring non-perishable food items to support Greater Vancouver Food Bank member, The Kettle Society. We will collect items on site.  No RSVP required, although we recommend arriving 15-20 minutes earlier for good seats. Event Location: HEBB 100

Add to Calendar 2025-12-11T16:00:00 2025-12-11T17:00:00 seed2STEM: An overview of an effective indigenous outreach program Event Information: About: Through the seed2STEM program, university labs host Indigenous high school students in Grade 9-12 for 6-week, paid summer research internships on a topics including neuroscience, engineering, chemistry, biology, math, physics, and other areas of STEM. Students are paid minimum wage to work 25 hours a week on research projects. This past summer, the UBC PHAS dept hosted a cohort of seed2STEM students. Join us to learn more about the seed2STEM program from some of our recent PHAS mentors and get ideas for level-appropriate projects that include these talented students in your research team.  We will also include an overview of the upcoming UBC PHAS LaunchPad program, supporting indigenous university students in summer physics and astronomy research at UBC.    Resources: Read more about seed2STEM: https://icord.org/seed2stem/ About Launchpad 2026: https://phas-launchpad-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/   Event Location: HENN 201

Add to Calendar 2025-12-11T18:00:00 2025-12-11T19:30:00 How the Universe works: The physics of Christmas Event Information: Curious about how the universe actually works? Join the experts from UBC’s Department of Physics and Astronomy to find out fun facts about everything from the Milky Way to radio waves in this new, accessible science series: How the Universe Works! All are welcome! Abstract: Christmas/Santa physics facts: once a year, in a 24 hour period, Santa delivers presents to children all over th eworld. How does he do it??? Join Douglas Scott to learn about the advanced physics behind reindeer, whether Santa uses special relativity, general relativity and/or curved space-time? If quantum mechanics are part of his magic, and if Elves use nano-technology to make the presents? Bio: Douglas Scott is a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy specializing in Cosmology. His research interests include: the universe, large scale structures, the cosmic microwave background, dark matter, galaxies, the solar system and space science. Specifically, he is most concerned with Physical Cosmology, which can be split into 2 major branches: the detailed study of how structure formed; and the investigation of the parameters which describe the entire Universe. His research involves several different parts of both of these branches. From the origins and description of the Universe to its future fate, Douglas Scott has a hand in researching and adding to the collective knowledge of many universal physics questions.   Event Location: Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch (Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level)