All aboard for #S24MRS ! A beautiful evening for a train ride. 🚆
Catch our talks on Tues & Wed!

Tues PM QT05.01.02 - Sarah Burke - Topology and Symmetry in Square-Nets Probed by STM

QT01.05.05 - Rysa Greenwood - Dynamics of excited states in C60 by tr-ARPES

🎉 Congratulations to Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Deputy Scientific Director Marcel Franz on being awarded the 2024 Brockhouse Medal by the Canadian Association of Physicists CAPhys.

qmi.ubc.ca/blusson-qmi-th…

💥 Happy #WorldQuantumDay from the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute community 💫

🎉 Happy World Quantum Day from all of us at UBC's Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) UBC PHAS Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute UBC Science - Today, we're excited to open our doors to QMI's Family & Friends for a tour of our labs, science demos, and ice cream!

#worldquantumday

We were delighted to host ItalyinCanada's Scientific Attaché, Prof. Conti for a visit to Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute -- Prof. Conti toured the facilities and heard about the Institute's research & development capabilities.

Thank you for taking the time to visit us Prof. Conti!

We are thrilled to announce that one of our directors, Prof. Keimer, has won a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, one of the most prestigious grants in the EU! Congratulations, Prof. Keimer! 🥳 Read more about the ERC Advanced Grants at the following link. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

(1/2) Thanks to funding from the BC government, UBC is adding 778 new spaces over six years in technology-related programs on the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.

UBC is adding 778 new student spaces thanks to a $14.8M provincial investment—including new seats in undergraduate data science and microbiology and immunology.

science.ubc.ca/news/ubc-addin…

🧑🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 We are investing in the post-secondary education that people need to gain the skills & knowledge for the jobs of today & the future. At University of British Columbia this means nearly 800 new tech seats at Michael Smith Labs to train British Columbians to enter the #LifeScience sector.

news.ubc.ca/2024/04/12/ubc…

📣 We're thrilled to announce Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute is now an affiliate of Quantum Industry Canada (QIC), a national #consortium dedicated to advancing the country’s #quantum technology sector.

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#innovation #commercialization #collaboration

Researchers, including some from UBC PHAS, observed gravitational waves from the collision of a likely neutron star and an object likely to be a ‘light’ black hole, 650 million light-years from Earth.

The signal helps fill the theorized ‘mass gap.’

More: bit.ly/3xqbxlG

Great new work by Yun-Wen Mao and Roman Krems UBC Chemistry Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute - 'Efficient interpolation of molecular properties across #chemical compound space with low-dimensional descriptors' - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… #machinelearning #ChemicalSpace #compchem #quantum #AI #molecules

Looking forward to the April's edition of Zernike Institute Groningen colloquium University of Groningen by Andrea Damascelli Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute University of British Columbia on the topic of #quantum #materials by design

On April 8th get ready to look up! Come join us for this partial eclipse viewing outreach event where students and faculty will be your guides, sharing eclipse glasses and telescopes for you to view it safely. See you there! @ubc UBC Science @triumf_lab #eclipse #astronomy

Interested in the latest innovations and #commercialization prospects in #quantum materials? From quantum computing to communication and sensing, these materials offer capabilities beyond traditional technologies. Iman Yahyaie John Hepburn Université de Sherbrooke ow.ly/I36J50R7Ih7

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New Tri-Agency Guidance on Research Security.

The federal granting agencies are committed to providing Canada’s research community with the most up-to-date information and best practices to safeguard their research.

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🏡 We are excited to invite you to the QMI Family & Friends Day on Saturday, April 13, to celebrate the QMI Community and #WorldQuantumDay . The event will take place in the Brimacombe Building, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/mt4zucfh

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an intentional opportunity to celebrate and recognize the valuable contributions of trans community members – and reflect on how we can all contribute to trans inclusion.

Find events and resources: bit.ly/3IWSQZh

🔭We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Shohini Ghose to UBC for a book signing and talk on the pivotal role women play in science, along with stories of those scholars whose achievements have gone unnoticed.

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#IWD2024