Science – undergraduate classes
By Eugene Barsky on June 11, 2008
Here is another podcast we recorded back in April 2008. It is presented by Prof. Mark Halpern, from the UBC Physics and Astronomy Department. Here is the abstract for this presentation: The universe is filled with a thermal glow called the cosmic microwave background that comes from the hot plasma which filled it early on. [...]
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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 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 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 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 April 30, 2008
“Canada at a glance” presents the current Canadian demographic, education, health, justice, housing, income, labour market, economic, travel, financial, and foreign trade statistics. This booklet also includes important international comparisons, so that readers can see how Canada stacks up against its neighbours. Updated yearly, Canada at a glance is a very useful reference for those [...]
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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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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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