2009-2010 Saturday Morning Lecture Series:
Frontiers of Modern Physics

TRIUMF, UBC, and SFU are proud to present the 2009-2010 Saturday morning lecture series on Frontiers of Modern Physics. The lectures will be at a level appropriate for high school students and members of the general public. There is no charge for admittance, and students are encouraged to bring friends and interested family members. Teachers and members of the public are also welcome.

There has been great interest in our latest lecture series. Due to limited (~85 person) seating, we ask that everyone planning to attend register (for free).


October 17, 2009
10am - 12pm		Short Term Climate Variability and Prediction - William Hsieh
(Lecture notes available)
How I Became A Scientist - the career paths of 4 BC Scientists See PDF - Panel Presentation
November 14, 2009
10am - 12pm		Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Ludo van Waerbeke
(Lecture notes available)
Making Light Go Through Tiny Holes - Karen Kavanagh
(Lecture notes available)
January 16, 2010
10am - 12pm		BLAST: Probing the star formation history of the universe from a balloon - G. Marsden
(Lecture notes available)
Postcards from the edge of the Solar System - J J Kavelaars
(Lecture notes available)
March 20, 2010
10am - 12pm		Nuclear Medicine and the Isotope Crisis - Tom Ruth
A Physicist Looks at Biology - Nanomachines in our Cells - Nancy Forde
April 17, 2010
10am - 12pm		We are all Stardust - Nuclear Physics in the Cosmos - Barry Davids
Collision Course - ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider - Isabel Trigger

While we encourage all interested students to attend, we ask that teachers do not make the lectures mandatory for their classes. We will not be signing attendance forms for students. If anyone has questions or concerns about this, please contact our student coordinator Dana Giasson.

A PDF poster for this lecture series is available for download here.

All lectures start on Saturday mornings at 10:00am in the TRIUMF auditorium. Free parking will be available in the TRIUMF parking lot.
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