Add to Calendar 2025-11-14T18:00:00 2025-11-14T22:30:00 Cosmic Nights: The Search for Life with SETI Event Information: The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre celebrates Cosmic Nights! November 14th:  (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Meet our PHAS graduate students showcasing a booth at this popular event! We'll be doing our best to respond to the question of what other life could be out there, beyond our terrestrial planet.  This 19+ event is for all those who are interested in space, our universe and beyond! Tickets can be found at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cosmic-nights-the-search-for-life-with-seti-tickets-1689673562109?aff=Website  Event Location: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre (1100 Chestnut St. Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9)

Add to Calendar 2025-11-18T11:00:00 2025-11-18T12:00:00 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 2025-11-20T18:00:00 2025-11-20T19:30:00 How the Universe Works: How did the Universe begin? 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: In this talk we will explore how measurements we make today tell us the age of the Universe, and about conditions when it was much younger.  We have very direct evidence for conditions when the Universe was one week old and when it was a few minutes old.  With a specialized camera at the South pole we are probing the first tiny fraction of the first second. Bio: Mark Halpern is a Physics Professor at UBC who builds instruments to study cosmology.  He studies the thermal glow from the early Universe with instruments put into deep space or at the peaks of the Chilean Andes or the glaciers of the South Pole. Event Location: Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch (Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level)

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 2025-11-30T13:15:00 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:  [This will be announced, shortly! Be assured it will be amazing, fantastic, incredible and so, so interesting!]   Show schedule: Pre-Show (table top demonstrations): 1:15PM – 1:55PM Stage Show (stage presentations): 2:00PM – 3:00PM 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 2025-12-11T18:00:00 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)