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SUMMARY:Join us for Science Rendezvous at UBC Blusson QMI!
DESCRIPTION:QMI is taking part in Science Rendezvous\, and we’d love to invite everyone interested in science to come by and enjoy the institute during this free\, family-friendly science festival! \n📍 Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute\, 2355 East Mall\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z4 \n🗓️ Saturday\, May 9\, 2026\, 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. \n🎟️ Free + all ages \nVisitors will get to explore the quantum world through lab tours and demos\, including: \n\nCrystal growth lab \nThe beautiful crystals found in nature represent only a tiny fraction of what’s possible using all the elements on the periodic table. The Hallas Lab designs and grows crystals not found in nature\, particularly materials with strong quantum mechanical effects\, giving rise to exotic magnetic and electronic properties.\nScanning tunnelling microscopy \nSee how the Laboratory for Atomic Imaging Research probes the quantum world\, exploring materials that may hold the key to next-generation quantum technologies.\nQuantum levitation track demo\nWitness the spectacular science of quantum levitation! In this demo\, a superconducting puck is locked in place by magnetic flux lines and defies gravity by floating above a magnetic track.\nQuantum materials lab\nOur lab studies new kinds of materials that could one day help build better technologies. To understand them\, we use powerful tools that let us “see” how tiny particles called electrons move inside these materials. We also try to change how these materials behave.\nUltrafast Spectroscopy lab\nWe use lasers to rapidly and remotely measure critical minerals in rocks. Our approach could have a significant impact in transitioning mining towards a more sustainable future in all phases of the mining cycle: exploration/planning\, excavation and processing.\n\nWe’re also looking for a couple of student volunteers to help welcome visitors and support activities throughout the day. Volunteers will receive lunch! \nInterested in volunteering? Please email James Day at jday@phas.ubc.ca. \nView the full UBC Science Rendezvous program here: https://science.ubc.ca/events/rendezvous \nView the Tour Map
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LOCATION:UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute\, 2355 East Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:Unboxing Quantum: Spooky Action
DESCRIPTION:Spooky Action at a Distance\nQuantum Entanglement and Spooky Action won the Nobel Prize in physics this year. Once considered a boogieman in physicists’ closets\, quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest\, most unintuitive phenomena in the natural world. Dubbed “spooky action at a distance” by Einstein himself\, this quantum behavior puzzled scientists for years before we could demonstrate it experimentally. In this talk\, you will hear about the fascinating science behind entanglement in a fun\, interactive\, and accessible way! \n  \n\n\nSpeaker Bio\nElla is the Quantum Computing Outreach Coordinator at UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach\, where she focuses on lowering barriers for youth to engage with STEM. Her program involves making quantum computing a more accessible topic for learners of all ages through summer camps\, workshops\, local events and more. Ella has a Bachelor’s Degree in Astronomy from UBC’s Physics and Astronomy Department. She is a big fan of all things Halloween\, particularly when there is a way to make it overlap with science. \n\n\nRSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unboxing-quantum-spooky-action-tickets-416733841137 \nUnboxing Quantum page: https://qmi.miffanytark.com/programs/unboxing-quantum/
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LOCATION:British Columbia
CATEGORIES:Public,Unboxing Quantum
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SUMMARY:CM Seminar:  Controlling Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter from a Theory Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prineha Narang\, Assistant Professor at Harvard University \n  \nMy group’s research focuses on how quantum matter behaves\, particularly away from equilibrium\, and how we can harness emergent effects in these systems. In this context\, I will focus on our newly introduced approaches to describe excited-states in quantum matter\, including electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions beyond leading order\, and predicting emergent states introduced by external drives. Next\, I will discuss a class of exotic collective excitations which are unique to time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) superconductors and propose a number of means by which these excitations can be experimentally detected\, introducing a notion of “collective mode spectroscopy” of TRSB superconductors1. Building on this\, I will present avenues in using electromagnetic cavities and resonators to probe and control quantum matter discussing methods to treat electrons\, photons and phonons on the same quantized footing\, accessing new observables in strong light-matter coupling 2\,3. Understanding the role of such strong light-matter interactions in the regime of strongly-correlated electronic systems is of paramount importance to fields of study across condensed matter physics\, quantum optics\, and quantum chemistry 4-6. Our theoretical and computational framework7-9 opens new routes by which the important problem of strongly-correlated quantum dynamics may be studied in these fields. Finally\, I will give an outlook on driving correlated quantum systems far out-of-equilibrium to control the coupled electronic and lattice degrees-of-freedom and connect these recent predictions with ultrafast THz experiments underway. \n  \n\nPoniatowski\, N. R.\, Curtis\, J. B.\, Yacoby\, A. & Narang\, P. Spectroscopic signatures of time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity. arXiv [cond-mat.supr-con] (2021).\nSchäfer\, C.\, Flick\, J.\, Ronca\, E.\, Narang\, P. & Rubio\, A. Shining Light on the Microscopic Resonant Mechanism Responsible for Cavity-Mediated Chemical Reactivity. arXiv [quant-ph] (2021).\nPhilbin\, J. P. et al. Room temperature single-photon superfluorescence from a single epitaxial cuboid nano-heterostructure. arXiv [physics.optics] (2021).\nJuraschek\, D. M.\, Meier\, Q. N. & Narang\, P. Parametric Excitation of an Optically Silent Goldstone-Like Phonon Mode. Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 124 (2020).\nJuraschek\, D. M.\, Narang\, P. & Spaldin\, N. A. Phono-magnetic analogs to opto-magnetic effects. Phys. Rev. Research 2\, 043035 (2020).\nJuraschek\, D. M.\, Neuman\, T.\, Flick\, J. & Narang\, P. Cavity control of nonlinear phononics. Phys. Rev. Research 3\, L032046 (2021)\n    Rivera\, N.\, Flick\, J. & Narang\, P. Variational Theory of Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122\, 193603 (2019).\nFlick\, J.\, Rivera\, N. & Narang\, P. Strong light-matter coupling in quantum chemistry and quantum photonics. Nanophotonics 7\, 1479–1501 (2018).\nFlick\, J. & Narang\, P. Cavity-Correlated Electron-Nuclear Dynamics from First Principles. Physical Review Letters vol. 121 (2018).\n\n  \nBiosktech: Prineha Narang came to Harvard University from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she worked as a Research Scholar in Condensed Matter Theory in the Department of Physics. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prineha’s work has been recognized by many awards and special designations\, including a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, a Max Planck Sabbatical Award from the Max Planck Society\, and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics in 2021\, an NSF CAREER Award in 2020\, being named a Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for pioneering innovations in quantum science\, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research\, and a Top Innovator by MIT Tech Review (MIT TR35).
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