Events list for the academic year starting September, 2011
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Jaymie Matthews (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
Mon, 2011-09-12 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Super-Earths are solid planets more massive than Earth but less massive than ice giants like Neptune. There are no...
Alexia Schulz (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Mon, 2011-09-19 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The regularity in the shape of dark matter profiles is one of the most robust predictions of hierarchical structure...
Rita Mann (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
Mon, 2011-09-26 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The formation of planetary systems is intimately connected to the properties of the circumstellar disks in which they...
Sarah Brough (Anglo-Australian Observatory)
Mon, 2011-10-03 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is currently a 144-square-degree multi-wavelength survey including optical...
Linda Levin (Swinburne University, Australia)
Fri, 2011-10-07 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Using the Parkes radio telescope, we have been searching for pulsars and fast transients within the High Time...
Kaspar von Braun (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and Caltech)
Mon, 2011-10-17 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
We currently know of more than 500 extrasolar planets orbiting a variety of different host stars. These stars almost...
Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)
Mon, 2011-10-24 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Accretion disks and jets are ubiquitous astrophysical phenomena. Given the potential feedback between supermassive...
Leonid Levitov (MIT)
Fri, 2011-10-28 14:00
Grad Theses
Hennings 318
This talk will discuss recent prediction of chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene [1...
Brad Ramshaw (UBC)
Fri, 2011-10-28 16:00
Graduate Students Seminars
Hennings 318
Much like the valence electrons in an atom, the electrons at the Fermi surface of a metal are the electrons in the...
Martin Hendry (University of Glasgow)
Mon, 2011-10-31 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The nascent field of gravitational wave astronomy is entering an exciting phase, with construction of the Advanced LIGO...
Vichi Antoci
Mon, 2011-11-07 16:00 - 17:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Helioseismology is a mature field that has led to remarkably accurate knowledge of the solar interior. With the success...
Rosalba Perna (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Mon, 2011-11-14 16:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the brightest light sources in the Universe, as well as the most distant sources known....
Dirk Bouwmeester (University of California,Santa Barbara/University of Leiden)
Wed, 2011-11-16 19:30 - 20:30
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall (Fairmont Social Lounge)
The founders of quantum mechanics, including Einstein and Bohr, asked how quantum physics could be understood in terms...
Augusto Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Thu, 2011-11-17 14:00
TRIUMF Talks
NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, 4250 Wesbrook Mall
The structure of nuclei far from the stability line is a central theme of research in nuclear physics. Key to the...
Charles Kane (Penn State)
Thu, 2011-11-17 16:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
A topological insulator is a material that is an insulator on its interior,but has special conducting states on its...
Michael Niemack (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Boulder)
Mon, 2011-11-21 16:00 - 17:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have played a major role in the development of the "...
Claudio Giannetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Thu, 2011-11-24 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
In strongly-correlated systems the electronic properties at the Fermi energy are intertwined with those at high energy...
Marie-Claire Shanahan (University of Alberta)
Fri, 2011-11-25 14:00
TRIUMF Talks
NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, 4250 Wesbrook Mall
This presentation will examine identity as a way of understanding gender patterns in participation and persistence in...
Nadya Mason (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Thu, 2011-12-01 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Superconductors are materials that can have zero electrical resistance. They are thus of great interest for...
Andrey Mischenko (Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group, Riken, Japan)
Mon, 2011-12-05 12:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennins 318
The angle resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES) and optical conductivity (OC) of the underdoped high temperature...
Gary Hinshaw (University of British Columbia)
Wed, 2011-12-07 19:30 - 20:30
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, Fairmont Lounge
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is the oldest light in the universe - it is literally the remnant heat...
Catherine Johnson (UBC Earth and ocean Sciences
Mon, 2012-01-09 16:00 - 17:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
On March 18, 2011 MESSENGER became the first spacecraft ever to orbit our Solar System’s innermost planet. The...
David Albert (Columbia University)
Wed, 2012-01-11 19:30 - 20:30
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, Fairmount Social Lounge
We make our way about in the world with the conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past....
Would Schrodinger's Cat have collapsied its own wavefunction? A Search for Gravitational Decoherence
Cisco Gooding (UBC)
Thu, 2012-01-12 12:00 - 13:00
Gravity Seminars
Hennings 318
Despite nearly a hundred years of investigation, the puzzling conflict between general relativity and quantum theory...
David Sinclair (Carleton University and TRIUMF)
Thu, 2012-01-12 14:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
Neutrinoless double beta decay offers a window on some unique and important properties of the neutrino. This process is...
Steve Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)
Thu, 2012-01-12 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Reconciling quantum mechanics with gravity is perhaps the most conceptually profound unsolved problem from twentieth...
Steve Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)
Fri, 2012-01-13 10:00 - 11:00
Quantum Information Seminars
Hennings 309B
If black hole evolution respects quantum mechanics, it should be possible to describe it in terms of unitary evolution...
David Tannor (Weizmann Institute of Science
Mon, 2012-01-16 15:00
AMO Seminars
Chem D-215
Ever since the advent of Quantum Mechanics, there has been a quest for a trajectory based formulation of quantum theory...
Ray Jayawardhana
Mon, 2012-01-16 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
On-going searches for extrasolar planets, despite certain limitations in sensitivity, have already revealed a...
Dave Tsang (Caltech)
Thu, 2012-01-19 12:00 - 13:00
Gravity Seminars
Hennings 318
The resonant excitation of neutron star (NS) modes by tides is investigated as a source of short gamma-ray burst (sGRB...
Alexandre Blais (Universite de Sherbrooke)
Thu, 2012-01-19 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Coupling of superconducting qubits to quantized microwave fields stored in electrical circuits has opened new...
Klaus Mueller-Dethlefs (Manchester)
Thu, 2012-01-19 17:30
AMO Seminars
Chem D-215
Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) was first achieved in the liquid phase in helium a century and, for gas phase atoms, a...
James Di Francesco (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
Mon, 2012-01-23 16:00 - 17:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The Herschel Space Observatory is revolutionising our understanding of star formation. Its access to far-infrared and...
Marc Casals (Perimeter Institute)
Thu, 2012-01-26 12:00 - 13:00
Gravity Seminars
Hennings 318
In the spacetime of a spherically-symmetric (Schwarzschild) black hole it is possible to construct a quantum state...
Andrew Houck (Princeton University)
Thu, 2012-01-26 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
Photons do not interact strongly in nature, and have thus been relegated to a role as a tool rather than an object of...
Joseph Thywissen (University of Toronto)
Thu, 2012-01-26 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Ultracold atoms are ideal systems in which to study many-body quantum dynamics: these neutral gases are held in...
Artur Apreysan
Mon, 2012-01-30 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings
With the start-up of collisions in the LHC in 2009 the fundamental physics entered the most exciting era of our...
Eric Donovan (University of Calgary)
Mon, 2012-01-30 16:00 - 17:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, creating our magnetosphere. Magnetospheric processes are...
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tue, 2012-01-31 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings RM 318
Are fluid turbulence and critical phenomena analogous to one another? In this talk, I explain that this connection may...
Mark Raizen (University of Texas, Austin)
Thu, 2012-02-02 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
In 1871, James Clerk Maxwell proposed a thought experiment, and in 1907, Albert Einstein made a prediction. Both men...
Mark Raizen (UT Austin)
Fri, 2012-02-03 16:00 - 17:00
AMO Seminars
Chem D-215
In this talk I will report on our progress towards trapping of a single atom in the ground motional state "on demand."...
Alison Lister
Mon, 2012-02-06 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
The standard model of particle physics describes current collider physics data extremely well, but we know it has some...
Scott Dodelson (University of Chicago)
Mon, 2012-02-06 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Vlad Georghiu (University of Calgary)
Wed, 2012-02-08 14:00 - 15:00
Quantum Information Seminars
Hennings 309B
I will introduce the notion of stabilizer quantum error correcting codes and perfect quantum secret sharing schemes,...
Jahred Adelman (Guest Speaker)
Thu, 2012-02-09 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
After the end of the LHC's 2011 proton-proton run, ATLAS is performing a wide range of exciting searches for new...
Carolina Adamo (Dep't of Materials Science and Eng., Cornell Universityi)
Thu, 2012-02-09 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
Strain and dimensional confinement can be used to tune magnetic and ferroelectric properties or enhance device...
Dominique Fortin, TRIUMF
Thu, 2012-02-09 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
With the large 5 fb-1 sample of pp collisions recorded in 2011, ATLAS has taken full advantage of the opportunity to...
Shana Kelley
Thu, 2012-02-09 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
The analysis of panels of molecular biomarkers offers
valuable diagnostic and prognostic information for clinical...
David Pekker (Caltech)
Fri, 2012-02-10 13:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Henning 318
We study a two dimensional gas of repulsively interacting
bosons in the presence of both an optical lattice and a trap...
David Pekker (Caltech)
Fri, 2012-02-10 13:00 - 14:00
AMO Seminars
Hennings 318
We study a two dimensional gas of repulsively interacting bosons in the presence of both an optical lattice and a trap...
John Grunsfeld (Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Fri, 2012-02-10 15:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 201
Dr. Grunsfeld is Deputy Director of STScI and a retired NASA astronaut, nicknamed the "Hubble Repairman" because he was...
Dr. John Grunsfeld, Deputy Director, Space Telescope Science Institute and Former NASA Astronaut
Sat, 2012-02-11 20:15 - 21:30
Astronomy Colloquia
Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC
Dr. Grunsfeld’s research has covered x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, high-energy cosmic ray studies, and development of...
Corrine Mills (Guest Speaker)
Mon, 2012-02-13 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
In December, 2011, the CMS and ATLAS experiments presented preliminary results in the search for Standard Model Higgs...
Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
Mon, 2012-02-13 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
In this talk, I will test concordance cosmology on three different cosmic scales. (1) On the super-horizon scale, Copi...
Scott Aaronson (MIT)
Wed, 2012-02-15 19:30 - 21:30
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall (Fairmont Lounge)
How does physics limit what we can compute? This is a fundamental question, not just for mathematics and computer...
Scott Ransom (National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA))
Thu, 2012-02-16 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Over the past several years, astrophysical observations of neutron stars using X-rays and radio wavelengths have made...
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Thu, 2012-02-16 19:00 - 22:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Music > Building Auditorium
The concert is a mix of classical, folk, jazz, and rock/pop music performed by students, faculty, and staff. A...
Jann Tallinn
Thu, 2012-02-16 19:30 - 21:30
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
Buchanan Room A101 - 1866 Main Mall (UBC)
The emergence of self-replicating physical systems 4 billion years ago marked the start of terrestrial evolution -...
Boris Spivak (University of Washington)
Fri, 2012-02-17 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
The Pfaffian phase of electrons in the proximity of a half-filled Landau level is understood to be a p+ip...
Sun Kwok (The University of Hong Kong)
Fri, 2012-02-17 15:00 - 16:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The last phase of stellar evolution from the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) to proto-planetary nebulae, to planetary...
Karlheinz Langanke, GSI
Tue, 2012-02-21 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
In the coming years the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research will be constructed at the GSI campus in Darmstadt,...
Gilad Gour (U Calgary)
Wed, 2012-02-22 14:00 - 15:00
Quantum Information Seminars
Hennings 309B
An important open problem in quantum information concerns with the question whether entanglement between signal states...
Gary Glatzmaier
Fri, 2012-02-24 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF auditorium
Observations of the zonal winds and magnetic fields on giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn beg the questions of what...
Leon Loveridge (University of York/ UK)
Mon, 2012-02-27 14:00 - 15:00
Quantum Information Seminars
Hennings 318
The theorem of Wigner, Araki and Yanase (WAY) demonstrates that there are constraints to quantum measurements when...
Joseph Burns (Cornell University)
Mon, 2012-02-27 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 201 - DIFFERENT ROOM THAN USUAL
The Cassini mission has been observing Saturn, its satellites and rings since July 2004. I will mention some of its...
Mon, 2012-02-27 19:00 - 20:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hebb Theatre
Astronomy is more than just observing; it's making sense of those observations. A good theorist needs a good...
Scott Webster
Tue, 2012-02-28 12:30 - 15:30
Grad Theses
The Penthouse, Graduate Student Centre
ABSTRACT:
The use of molecular beam epitaxy as a method for producing solid state host
crystals for planar waveguide...
Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana University)
Thu, 2012-03-01 12:00 - 13:30
Gravity Seminars
Henn 318
Consider a stellar-mass black hole (mass $\sim 10$ solar masses) in a
close orbit around a supermassive black hole (...
Oliver Stelzer-Chilton, TRIUMF
Thu, 2012-03-01 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
It is through radiative quantum corrections that the W boson mass is sensitive to other particles. As a result, it can...
Paul Wiggins (University of Washington)
Thu, 2012-03-01 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Almost all biological systems exhibit precise spatial and temporal control of protein, mRNA, and DNA localization,...
Jen Moroz
Fri, 2012-03-02 15:00 - 16:00
Graduate Students Seminars
Hennings 304 (different room!)
Medical Physics applies physics concepts, theories and methods to
medicine. Primary applications include diagnostic...
Leslie Sage (University of Maryland and the journal Nature)
Mon, 2012-03-05 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Nature is one of the world's leading scientific journals, publishing many papers that receive wide attention by the...
Bill Unruh (UBC)
Thu, 2012-03-08 12:00 - 13:30
Gravity Seminars
Hennings 318
In the 80's Banks, Peskin and Susskind argued that black hole
information loss of necessity implied energy non-...
Rainer Blatt (University of Innsbruck)
Thu, 2012-03-08 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Since the mid nineties of the 20th century it became apparent that one of the centuries’ most important technological...
Dr. Colin Gay and Dr. Douglas Scott
Fri, 2012-03-09 18:30 - 20:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 201
Journey from the smallest to largest imaginable scales to explore our understanding of the physical world. UBC...
Steven Johnston (Leibniz Institute, Dresden)
Mon, 2012-03-12 12:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
A large number of viewpoints exist regarding the nature of the electron-phonon (e-ph) interaction in the high-Tc...
Stephen Kane (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech)
Mon, 2012-03-12 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
The field of exoplanets has rapidly expanded from the exclusivity of exoplanet detection to include exoplanet...
Dr. Simon Bates - Dean of Learning & Teaching, and Professor of Physics Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Tue, 2012-03-13 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
Many courses delivered at universities still utilise the lecture as the primary mode of information transmission or...
Peter G.Wolynes
Wed, 2012-03-14 19:30 - 21:00
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
St. John's College - 2111 Lower Mall, Fairmont Lounge
The enormous variety manifested in the material world has always fascinated people, but has been hard to fit into an...
Milind Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Thu, 2012-03-15 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
NRC IFCI Building, room 1310
I will review the scientific motivation for an ambitious long-baseline accelerator neutrino program. I will...
Robert McPherson (UVic, TRIUMF)
Thu, 2012-03-15 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Almost 20 years after the start of construction, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is begining to probe the physics...
Toshinori Suzuki (Kyoto University and RIKEN, JAPAN)
Thu, 2012-03-15 17:30 - 18:30
AMO Seminars
Chem D-215
Ultrafast internal conversion processes in isolated aromatic molecules were studied by time-resolved photoelectron...
Aditi Mitra (NYU)
Fri, 2012-03-16 13:00 - 14:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
How an interacting many-particle system prepared in an initial state which is far from equilibrium evolves in time, and...
Aditi Mitra (NYU)
Fri, 2012-03-16 13:00 - 14:00
AMO Seminars
Henn 318
How an interacting many-particle system prepared in an initial state which is far from equilibrium evolves in time, and...
Michael S. Fuhrer - Director, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials - University of Maryland
Mon, 2012-03-19 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov for their experiments, conducted only...
Congjun Wu -- University of California, San Diego
Mon, 2012-03-19 14:00 - 15:00
Theory Seminars
Hennings 318
The study of topological electron states started with the 2D quantum Hall effect in the external magnetic fields...
Congjun Wu -- University of California, San Diego
Mon, 2012-03-19 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
The study of topological electron states started with the 2D quantum Hall effect in the external magnetic fields which...
Scott Chapman (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)
Mon, 2012-03-19 16:00 - 17:00
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Studying ultraluminous galaxies (ULIRGs) at early times (z > 2) provides insight into the formative phases of...
PHAS faculty members and students
Thu, 2012-03-22 12:30 - 13:45
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 200
Join us at our beyond first year open house to learn more about programs and student involvements in Physics &...
Adam Burrows (Princeton University)
Thu, 2012-03-22 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
NRC IFCI Building, room 1310
Core-collapse supernovae are a puzzle that has challenged theorists and computational science for half a century. Such...
Matthew Augustine (UC Davis)
Thu, 2012-03-22 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
With the emergence of a new technique, wine collectors now have a promising procedure for quantifying the amount of...
Alexander Lvovsky (Univ of Calgary)
Thu, 2012-03-22 17:30 - 18:30
AMO Seminars
Chem D-215
Although the quantum nature of light has been discovered over a century ago, controlling its quantum states still...
H.H. Weitering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee
Mon, 2012-03-26 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
Plasmons are electronic density fluctuations inside a metal that usually resonate at ultraviolet frequencies. In...
Norm Murray (Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics)
Mon, 2012-03-26 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Feedback from young stars plays a critical role in shaping the galaxy mass function, particularly at the low mass end,...
Sanaz Vafaei
Tue, 2012-03-27 09:00 - 12:00
Grad Theses
Leon's Lounge, Graduate Student Centre
ABSTRACT: Weak gravitational lensing provides a means to measure the total mass in the Universe. The incoming light...
James Williams
Wed, 2012-03-28 14:00 - 15:15
Condensed Matter Seminars
AMPEL 311
The ability to measure and manipulate complex particles in the solid state is a cornerstone of modern condensed-...
Wojciech Tadeusz Fedorko
Wed, 2012-03-28 15:00 - 16:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 304
Despite an overwhelming experimental success of the Standard Model
several open questions persist. Among the possible...
Darren Grant, University of Alberta
Thu, 2012-03-29 12:30 - 14:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 201
In one of the planet's most extreme environments, South Pole Station Antarctica, scientists have
instrumented more than...
Bernhard Keimer (Max-Plank Institute, Stuttgart, Germany)
Thu, 2012-03-29 16:00 - 17:00
Department Colloquia
Hennings 201
Starting from a tutorial introduction to conventional and unconventional superconductivity, this talk will provide an...
Anton Smessaert
Fri, 2012-03-30 16:00 - 17:00
Graduate Students Seminars
Hennings 304 (different room!)
In the last three decades computer simulations have been established as a third pillar of modern physics next to...
Nicholas Law (Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, U. Toronto)
Mon, 2012-04-02 16:00 - 17:15
Astronomy Colloquia
Hennings 318
Cool stars are superb places to look for planets: their low masses and small radii enhance planetary signatures, and...
Margaret Dobrowolska-Furdyna
Thu, 2012-04-12 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
GaMnAs is a ferromagnetic semiconductor which is considered to be an ideal candidate for spintronic applications....
Casey Bloomquist
Thu, 2012-04-19 10:00 - 11:00
AMO Seminars
Hennings 318
Sequences of ultrashort laser pulses have been used to control rotational excitation of ensembles of molecules. Control...
Sergey Frolov
Thu, 2012-04-19 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
Majorana fermions are particles identical to their own antiparticles, first introduced by Majorana as hypothetical...
Sergey Zhdanovich
Wed, 2012-04-25 09:00 - 12:00
Grad Theses
Henn 318
ABSTRACT:
The main goal of this PhD work is an experimental study of coherent excitation of atomic and molecular...
Alain Aspect
Wed, 2012-04-25 19:30 - 21:00
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminars
Buchanan A101 - 1866 Main Mall - Univesity of British Columbia
In 1935, with Podolsky and Rosen, Einstein discovered what Schrödinger called entanglement", a phenomenon so strange...
Thomas Grégoire (Carleton)
Thu, 2012-04-26 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
Supersymmetry is one of the preferred frameworks for solving the hierarchy problem. However, to this day, there is no...
Yasuhiro Ohshima
Mon, 2012-04-30 02:30 - 03:30
AMO Seminars
Chem D-215
When a gaseous molecular sample is irradiated by an intense nonresonant ultrashort laser pulse, the laser field exerts...
Tim Chupp (Michigan)
Tue, 2012-05-01 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
Fundamental neutron physics impacts physics at many scales from the origin of the elements produced in the early...
Jason Petta
Mon, 2012-05-07 14:00 - 15:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Hennings 318
Circuit quantum electrodynamics studies the interactions between the microwave field of a cavity and an artificial atom...
Edward Taylor (McMaster University)
Wed, 2012-05-09 13:00 - 14:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Henn 318
Chiral superconducting states have attracted an enormous amount of interest in recent years, due both to their...
Vladimir Hinkov, QMI / MPG-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials
Mon, 2012-05-14 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
Neutron and resonant x-ray scattering are powerful methods to study correlated states in condensed matter. Here, I will...
Karl G. Sandeman Physics, Imperial College, London
Mon, 2012-05-14 13:00 - 14:00
Condensed Matter Seminars
Henning 318
The fundamental understanding of solid-state phase transitions is crucial to technological innovation. To the most well...
Brad Ramshaw
Tue, 2012-05-15 11:00 - 14:00
Grad Theses
Henn 318
Abstract:
High-temperature superconductivity was discovered in 1986 in copper-oxide materials, and since that time the...
Bill Mills
Tue, 2012-05-15 12:00 - 15:00
Grad Theses
Henn 304
ABSTRACT:
A generic search for new detector-stable high-mass particles at the LHC using the ATLAS detector is conducted...
Louis Lyons (Oxford University)
Wed, 2012-05-16 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
(Outline format)
Introduction to likelihood. Error estimate.
Simple examples: (1) Peak mass and width (2) Lifetime...
Oliver Stelzer-Chilton
Thu, 2012-05-17 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
The Standard Model of Particle Physics has been extremely successful in describing fundamental particles and their...
Sandy Martinuk
Thu, 2012-05-17 11:00 - 14:00
Grad Theses
Henn 309
ABSTRACT:
In order to offer students a physics education that will be useful outside the classroom, students need to...
TYLER HUGHES
Thu, 2012-05-17 12:00 - 15:00
Grad Theses
Room 700, Research Pavilion @ VGH
ABSTRACT:
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is a technique used to...
Louis Lyons (Oxford University)
Thu, 2012-05-17 14:00 - 15:00
TRIUMF Talks
TRIUMF Auditorium
(Outline format)
CLAS discovery and un-discovery of penta-quarks
Distinguishing a peak from a statistical...
Ariel Sibilia
Fri, 2012-05-18 16:00 - 17:00
Graduate Students Seminars
Hennings 318
I will discuss a unique quantum computational method, used in Quantum
Field Theory, called the Instanton method. The...
Dr. Anna Cimmino
Mon, 2012-05-28 15:00 - 16:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 304
The most pressing issue in particle physics today is the understanding of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB). In...
Anand Bhattacharya (GUEST SPEAKER Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory)
Thu, 2012-06-07 11:00 - 12:00
Upcoming Other Talks
Hennings 318
The complex oxides have set the stage for some of the most intriguing phenomena including high temperature...
