Building Research Data Management Services and Infrastructure in Canada and at UBC
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | March 1, 2016, 1:00-2:30pm | Dodson Room (302) | Dugan O’Neil, Compute Canada Chief Science Officer, and Chuck Humphrey, Director of Portage, will talk about collaborative initiatives for research data management and what they mean to various stakeholder communities, including, researchers, funding agencies, libraries, research service offices, ethics boards, IT units, and others.
alumni UBC – Innovation city: Is Vancouver poised to make a quantum leap?
February 3, 2016 | Entrepreneurs at companies like Slack and Hootsuite have put Vancouver’s $23 billion high tech industry on the map. But building the economy of tomorrow—not to mention a utopian, Star Trek future—means taking a step beyond the digital. We need fundamental leaps in computing power, clean energy, and smart materials.
Celebrate Science 2013 Making Science Fun
This year’s celebration of science took place in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. The featured scientist was Dr. Andrew Trites, Professor & Director, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Fisheries Centre at UBC whose research on pinnipeds (Steller sea lions, northern fur seals, and harbor seals) is designed to further the conservation and understanding of marine mammals. In […]
UBC Science's 50th Anniversary Lecture – Science: The Gender Dimension
Women remain underrepresented in many fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Esteemed panelists, planetary scientist and NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal winner Dr. Laurie Leshin, zoologist and MacArthur Genius grant winner Dr. Sally Otto, and Vice President, Response Biomedical Corp and UBC Science Alumna Dr. Barbara Kinnaird-Steen, with our moderator Dr. Simon Peacock, […]
Approaches to the Anthropocene – a Conversation with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Philippe Descola and Dr. Bruno Latour are two of France’s most prominent intellectuals, and both have redefined their respective fields of expertise by considering the place of human agency – and non-human actors – in the construction of the modern world. In this conversation, Dr. […]
Eric Peterson – Hakai Research Institute
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In this talk, Hakai Beach Institute co-founder Eric Peterson discusses the work of the institute, which is located on the only deeded land of an uninhabited island, Calvert. Calvert Island is 161 square kilometers and is in turn in the middle of an uninhabited 1,200-square-kilometer marine-conservation […]
Michael Bull – Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions – Mobile Sound Technologies
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions. Michael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies (Media and Film, Centre for Material Digital Culture) at the University of Sussex. He has worked extensively on the nature of auditory experience and recently published Sound Moves […]
Sheldon Solomon – The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. An existential psychodynamic evolutionary theory will be presented based on Ernest Becker’s (The Denial of Death) claim that self-esteem and cultural worldviews function to ameliorate the anxiety associated with the uniquely human awareness of vulnerability and mortality. Psychological equanimity is hypothesized […]
Trevor Pinch – Listening and Participating in AcidPlanet: A study of An Online Music Site
Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Pinch has a degree in Physics from the Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bath. He taught sociology at the University of York before moving to the USA. Together with Wiebe Bijker, he […]
Natasha Ivanova – Formation of low-mass X-ray binaries with a black hole accretor
Ivanova is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Alberta. She completed a M.Sc in mathematics and astronomy at Saint-Petersburg State University, then was an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford. Ivanova has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, and most recently is the ninth recipient of the Beatrice D. Tremaine […]