Events

Monday, 01 November 2021, 5:00pm -- ??

Undergraduate Physics Lounge, CCIS L2-003

UAP-JEDI’s first craft night - All are welcome, we look forward to seeing you there! Please

Come to meet the community, bring your own craft or join in on our dishcloth knitting workshop. No prior knitting experience required! We will provide instruction, needles, and yarn in a variety of fun colours.

Friday, 24 September 2021, 15:00 - 16:30

CCIS L1-140 (Lower-level lecture hall) -- Hybrid event via Zoom (connection info TBA)

Join this department-wide workshop and presentation by EDI professional, Ana Sofia Barrows. She will share some information about best practices for EDI in STEM (including reflecting on our own Census 2021 results), and offer suggestions for real, practical actions we can all do to make our department stronger. This event, during our regular, weekly colloquium time, will include opportunities for conversation and to engage with peers.

Thursday, 23 September 2021

In-person and online

Avadh Bhatia Room, 4th Floor CCIS (Physics Department Common Room) ~and/or~
Online via Board Game Arena

[In-person gathering to be adjusted according to evolving public health guidelines; updates can be found here]

Come to meet the community, join in some board games, and meet some new people. We'll also have more information about UAP-JEDI and how to get involved!

For those who can’t come to the in-person board game evening, or would prefer not to, we will be hosting an online board game event at the same time, using Zoom and Board Game Arena.

If you would like to play board games online do the following:

1. Visit this link to Board Game Arena and create a free account

2. Take a look at the board games that they have implemented on their platform and make note of which games you know or are interested in playing. All games, premium or non-premium are possible.

3. Fill out this form so that we can add you to our group on the platform, and come up with a good list of games to try playing

The University of Alberta Physics for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Graduate Physics Student Association are jointly hosting a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon:

February 10th at 4:30pm (MST)

At our online event, attendees of all experience levels will learn how to edit Wikipedia articles through a hands-on editing session and contribute directly to improving the quality and diversity of information on the internet.

Contribute directly to the quality and coverage of information on the internet for women and minority physicists in Canada! At our online event, attendees of all experience levels will learn how to edit Wikipedia articles through a learning session and hands-on editing.

Sign-up using this Google form and we will reach out soon with more details.

All students, faculty, researchers, and staff are welcome to this event. We especially welcom people from equity-seeking groups in physics, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minority/racialized groups, and members of LGBTQ2S+ communities.

The University of Alberta Physics for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are hosting a social:

February 1st at 7:00pm (MST)

Join us on Gather.town for an opportunity to meet other physicists. We'll play a little trivia, and then people can play games or just chat! https://gather.town/app/2BHyuWX7imDiyqSh/GPSA%20Student%20Symposium

Hunting for quantum butterflies

Friday, 30 October 2020

3:00 - 4:30 pm

Online connection details to come.

Chaos is all around us. From weather patterns to population dynamics to stock market volatility to the orbits of Jupiter’s moons, nonlinear and chaotic behaviour is commonly observable in our classical world. At the quantum level, the concept of chaos and its connection to quantum uncertainty is still ambiguous. This talk will discuss how chaos manifests itself in the quantum world, and how it impacts quantum phenomena such as entanglement and fidelity decay that play important roles in quantum information processing.

Professor Shohini Ghose is Professor of Physics & Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science, President of the Canadian Association of Physicists, and TED Senior Fellow. Additionally, she is a 2017 Inductee of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Friday, 30 October 2020

2:00 - 2:45 pm

Zoom Meeting *

Join us for a discussion starting with some questions about Shohini's path into physics, and her work towards equity, diversity, and inclusion in physics (and STEM more broadly). Following this initial discussion, the floor will be open for questions and comments from participants, especially from students and postdocs.

Prof. Shohini Ghose is a Professor of Physics & Computer Science at Wilfred Laurier University in Guelph, ON. She is the current NSERC Chair for Women in Science & Engineering (CWSE) for Ontario and the Founding Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science. Her many other accomplishments include being the Past President of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), a 2018 Senior TED Fellow, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

* Zoom Meeting Info:

Meeting ID: 980 0474 5193

Passcode: butterfly

Participants must join using an account in the domain *.ualberta.ca

https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/98004745193?pwd=d1dmeWZaR1hRY0xxd0RCYkFaOWtxUT09