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Join us for Science Rendezvous at UBC Blusson QMI!
UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute 2355 East Mall, VancouverQMI is taking part in Science Rendezvous, and we’d love to invite everyone interested in science to come by and enjoy the institute during this free, family-friendly science festival! 📍 Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 🗓️ Saturday, May 9, 2026, 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. 🎟️ Free + all ages […]
Unboxing Quantum: Spooky Action
Virtual eventSpooky Action at a Distance Quantum Entanglement and Spooky Action won the Nobel Prize in physics this year. Once considered a boogieman in physicists' closets, quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest, most unintuitive phenomena in the natural world. Dubbed “spooky action at a distance” by Einstein himself, this quantum behavior puzzled scientists for years […]
Unboxing Quantum: Tiny Devices and Huge Detectors
Virtual eventTalk summary: Gravitational-wave observatories based here on Earth let us see events in space, such as black holes merging. The two LIGO observatories in the U.S. have 4-kilometer-long arms and a range of sophisticated components, and they are undergoing upgrades over the next few years to improve their performance. What does the Stewart Blusson Quantum […]