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Dark Matter Day
HR MacMillan Space Centre 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaLeading researchers from UBC Physics and Astronomy will take over the Planetarium Star Theatre at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre and present their research using novel visual displays to explain dark matter -- which is essentially invisible! If you can’t make it in person you can join in over Zoom.
Ars Scientia: An artist and a physicist walked into a glassblowing studio …
Virtual eventThe UBC Ars Scientia collaboration brings together artists and scientists to identify fruitful areas for interdisciplinary work. I'll describe how it plunged this theoretical physicist into a messy (and fun!) […]
Unboxing Quantum: Seeing the World in a Different Light
Virtual eventEveryday, the interaction between light and matter is giving us information about the world that we live in through our eyes. But the range of frequencies that our eyes are […]
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 […]
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 […]