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By Kevin Lindstrom on June 9, 2008
UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy professor Dr. Ian Affleck has been recognized by the American Physical Society’s as one of their Outstanding Referees. “The Outstanding Referee program was instituted in 2008. The highly selective award program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. The program [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on June 6, 2008
A team of physicists at the Californian Institute of Technology has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang. Dr Adrienne Erickcek, and colleagues from the California Institute for Technology (Caltech), now believes these fluctuations contain hints that our Universe “bubbled off” from a [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on June 4, 2008
This long awaited report by the US Climate Change Science Program analyzes the effects of global change on natural and human environments, agriculture, water resources, social systems, energy production and use, transportation, and human health. It analyzes current trends in global change, both natural and human-induced, and it projects major trends for the future. On [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on June 2, 2008
Brian Greene, a professor of physics at Columbia, and the author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, writes about “the powerful role science can play in giving life context and meaning.” Put a Little Science in Your Life ** photo by smiling_da_vinci
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By Kevin Lindstrom on May 30, 2008
New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community AT ONE POINT in his career, Nobel Laureate Sir Harold W. Kroto was the second most highly cited chemist in Britain—topped only by the University of Southampton’s Martin Fleischmann, one of the proponents of cold fusion. Kroto, who codiscovered C60 and is currently [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 28, 2008
The Journal of Number Theory has created a presence on YouTube with video author abstracts. JNT features selected research articles that represent the broad spectrum of interest in contemporary number theory and allied areas. A valuable resource for mathematicians, the journal provides an international forum for the publication of original research in this field. http://www.youtube.com/user/JournalNumberTheory
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By Kevin Lindstrom on May 23, 2008
As part of the UBC Library’s mandate to archive undergraduate research, two honors theses have just been added to the Physics and Astronomy Community in cIRcle – UBC’s Information Repository. Measurement of Upsilon (1S) Production at BaBar by Rocky So. A Deformation Induced Quantum Dot by Daniel Woodsworth. If you are interested in contributing your [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 21, 2008
IEEE.tv is an internet based television network that produces and delivers special-interest programming about technology and engineering for the benefit of IEEE’s members and the general public. IEEE.tv Public Access is free of charge to the public, and does not require IEEE membership or log-in. Here is the url to view its programs – http://www.ieee.tv [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 14, 2008
Microsoft’s much anticipated WorldWide Telescope was released on Tuesday – May 12th, 2008. There is a very nice article about it in the New York Times – Two New Ways to Explore the Virtual Universe, in Vivid 3-D Moreover, around two months ago, Google also introduced a Web-based version of Google Sky, layering space images [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 12, 2008
Dr. Bernard Laval and his PhD student Alex Forrest were invited to join a NOAA Signature Expedition to do baseline mapping of the state of coral reefs surrounding Bonaire (Dutch Antilles) using UBC-Gavia, UBC’s robot submersible. More information about the expedition can be found at: NOAA Ocean Explorer: Bonaire 2008. **Photo by divemasterking2000
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