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Nobel lauriate lecture in UBC – Beta beams and ion cooling : Future of accelerator driven neutrino oscillations? by Carlo Rubbia

By Eugene Barsky on May 4, 2011

Here is a podcast of a lecture by Carlo Rubbia who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer, recorded a couple of years ago by Kevin Lindstrom and myself here in UBC: Future of accelerator driven neutrino oscillations? More info about this lecture and the slides presented by Prof. [...]

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The 2010 Patex Bizarre Patents Calendar is Now Available

By Kevin Lindstrom on December 11, 2009

Ron Simmer Patent and IP Expert has once agained issued his Patex Bizarre Patents Calendar. This calendar documents the creative spirt of the human race reflected in patents. Check out Ron’s excellent site of patent and intellectual property links at the Patex website. Submitted by Kevin Lindstrom Science and Engineering Liaison Librarian

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High Altitude Balloon Photography on the Cheap

By Kevin Lindstrom on October 30, 2009

Interested in photography and rocketry and have a GPS enabled cell phone laying around? Have a look at how the MIT 1337arts crew pulled it off. Submitted by Kevin Lindstrom Liaison Librarian for ECE and EOS at the University of British Columbia

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Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives

By Kevin Lindstrom on July 24, 2009

The Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics holds more than a thousand tape-recorded interviews. Many of the oral history interview transcripts are now online. The interviews, conducted by the staff of the AIP Center for History of Physics and many other historians, offer unique insights into the lives, works, and [...]

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A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures – an article in PLoS One

A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures – an article in PLoS One

By Eugene Barsky on July 3, 2009

A very recent article on PLoS One is worth the read – Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Chute R, 2009 A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures. PLoS ONE 4(6): e6022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006022 Abstract: Background The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific [...]

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APS Northwest Section 11th Annual Meeting Plenary Session Podcasts

By Kevin Lindstrom on May 29, 2009

The following presentations including audio and visual when available are now online from cIRcle, the UBC Library’s digital repository. Building an organization that can build a quantum computer Rose, Geordie The Dark Side of the Universe Van Waerbeke, Ludovic Frontiers in Nuclear Theory: From Light Nuclei to Astrophysics Bacca, Sonia Identifying, measuring, and teaching physics [...]

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Ice Hockey and Statistics

By Kevin Lindstrom on May 8, 2009

Statistics isn’t just about bayesian disease mapping and analyzing incomplete multivariate data. Statistics has some very important applications for analyzing hockey – yes, ice hockey. While my team hasn’t made the playoffs for a while except for that glorious 2006 run, it might be interesting to for any of you hockey statisticians to apply the [...]

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2009 Earth and Ocean Science Honours Theses

By Kevin Lindstrom on May 1, 2009

The following 2009 Earth and Ocean Science undergraduate honours theses are available online from cIRcle – UBC Library’s Digital Repository. The Diamond Potential of the Tuwawi Kimberlite (Baffin Island, Nunavut). Cross, Jodi A pre-feasibility study to assess the potential of Open Loop Ground Source Heat to heat and cool the proposed Earth Science Systems Building [...]

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Canada Excellence Research Chairs – Phase 1 Competition Results

By Kevin Lindstrom on April 24, 2009

Canada Excellence Research Chairs – Phase 1 Competition Results Overview In 2008, the Government of Canada created a new permanent program to establish 20 prestigious research chairs–Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)–in universities across the country. The CERC program invests $28 million a year to attract and retain the world’s most accomplished and promising minds and [...]

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Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer? Shutdown Day May 2, 2009

By Kevin Lindstrom on March 13, 2009

Imagine no facebook, twitter, myspace, email, internet for a entire day? Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this. The idea [...]

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