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Physics & Astronomy Undergraduate Honours Theses Online

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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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope released

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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Celebration of Erich Vogt's four decades of Physics teaching and research.

By Kevin Lindstrom on April 25, 2008

Dr. Erich Vogt In addition to an outstanding career as a top researcher and scientist in the field of nuclear physics, Dr. Erich Vogt was one of the founders of the TRIUMF project at the University of British Columbia, the largest university-based scientific laboratory in Canada for particle and nuclear physics. Dr. Vogt is a [...]

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WMAP 5-year data: Let’s test Inflation Podcast

By Kevin Lindstrom on April 18, 2008

UBC’s Dr. Mark Halpern gave a presentation on Thursday April 17 about WMAP and some of the results from their five years with of data. The audio and pdf presentation is available at http://hdl.handle.net/2429/730 Abstract: We have released maps and data for five years of observation of the cosmic microwave background with the Wilkinson Microwave [...]

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Lives of White Dwarf Stars – UBC Physics podcast

By Eugene Barsky on April 7, 2008

Here is a recent presentation by Dr. Harvey Richer. Here is an abstract: White dwarf stars are the burnt out remnants that remain after a star like the Sun has completed its nuclear evolution. In such a star there are no remaining nuclear energy sources, so the star evolves by simply radiating its stored thermal [...]

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