Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

The Wall Exchange

Dr. B. Brett Finlay, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dr. Finlay, award-winning microbiologist, examines how bacteria live in the human body and help maintain good health. The microbiota (also known as the normal flora of the human body) is comprised of thousands of species of microbes. Only recently have we begun to appreciate the role of these organisms in health, impacting on diarrhea, obesity, various bowel diseases, type I diabetes, asthma, and even brain development. In developed countries, we have gone to great lengths to minimize our exposure to microbes, both pathogenic and harmless. The Hygiene Hypothesis suggests that perhaps we have gone too far, as hominids have evolved in a sea of microbes, and actually need exposure to microbes early in life to develop normally. This talk will explore new research on the role of the microbiota in health, mechanisms used by microbes to cause disease, and new approaches to counter infections, including potentially using the microbiota to prevent other diseases.

Location: The Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street, Vancouver
Time: 7:30 pm

Doors open at 6:30 pm. Come early to hear the Oscar Hicks jazz sextet!

Tickets are free but must be reserved and are in limited supply. Reserve your ticket online.

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Lecture by Dr. Thomas Erneux, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium

Delay problems appear in all scientific disciplines from biology to physics. As soon as there is a mechanical, physiological, or human control, there is a delay because time is needed to observe and react. If the delay is too important, oscillatory responses appear. But a properly used delayed feedback may also stabilize an unstable system. Our understanding of the positive and negative effects of a delay has progressed to the point that oscillatory outputs are used in applications. This presentation will review a series of problems and illustrate the different expectations of the researcher depending on his background.


Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Henry Angus Building, UBC, Room 241, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Dr. Ronald M. Rapee, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University and Director of the Centre for Emotional Health

Social anxiety disorder is a highly chronic disorder, usually beginning very early in life with little remission and impacts on relationships, career, and physical health. Psychological treatments have had moderate success, although the effects of treatment are the lowest among any of the anxiety disorders. Recent developments in research have pointed to several directions that hold promise for improved treatments. These include focusing intervention to underlying mechanisms, use of cognitive enhancers to increase effects, and reductions in automatic attention toward threat. Interest has also begun to focus on broader dissemination of treatments via the internet. The talk will summarise, what we know, what is promising, and where we might head.

Location: Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310, 2125 Main Mall
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

International Visiting Research Scholar public event

Lecture by Dr. Mark Bray and Dr. Oro Kwo, University of Hong Kong

Increasing numbers of families are deciding that regular schooling is not by itself adequate to meet their children’s needs. Accordingly, they enrol in supplemental programs of various kinds. Some of these programs echo the regular school curriculum, while others focus on sports, minority languages and religious education, etc..

This lecture will focus on what is widely called ‘shadow education’, i.e. curriculum content that mimics that in the regular schools and that is provided in exchange for a fee outside school hours. Shadow education is a longstanding phenomenon in East Asia, and is increasingly evident in North America, including Vancouver. The lecture will map the global growth of the phenomenon and comment on its implications for social and economic development.

 Time: May 13, 2013 from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Neville Scarfe Building, UBC, Room 310, 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver

International Roundtable public event

Charles Renfro will speak about the importance of the arts within considerations of building design, function, and urban planning. His keynote will be preceded by short artist interventions representing Dubai, Panama City, and Vancouver. This event will have special resonance within the Vancouver cultural and architectural communities in light of current negotiations for new buildings for the Vancouver Art Gallery, Presentation House Gallery, and C.H. Scott Gallery, the closing of the Vancouver Playhouse and the Waldorf Hotel, as well as the increasing squeeze on production spaces and studios for artists.

Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: MOCAP, North Building, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 1399 Johnson Street, Granville Island
International Roundtable: “Speculative Cities”
 

International Roundtable public event

As part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, the Bonding through Bars International Roundtable will host a public film screening and panel discussion. No Burqas Behind Bars will explore the lives and intimate stories of mothers and their children with lived prison experience in Afghanistan. Please join us for an eye-opening and inspiring evening.

Panelists:
Eva Sajoo, Muslim Studies Centre, SFU and Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (CW4WAfghan)
Mo Korchinski, filmmaker, prison advocate and former inmate

Buy tickets to the film screening here.

Time: 6:00 pm
Location: VanCity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver,, BC
International Roundtable: “Bonding through Bars - Incarcerated Mothers and their Children"

Special Event

Professor Caryl Phillips, author and playwright

Professor Caryl Phillips, award-winning and internationally acclaimed British author and playwright, will join us in Vancouver for a special event to discuss themes from his many plays and books, including how the experience of newcomers is often shaped by the personalities of cities in which they choose to settle. Illustrated by passages from his writing, Professor Phillips will explore the cultural legacies of colonialism, with a particular focus on the historical and cultural connections between Europe, Africa and the Americas. He will examine the immigrant experience of identity, place and belonging, interweaving threads from many of his novels that hinge on cultural and social dislocation  associated with the migratory experience, slavery, racism, and stereotyping.

Location: Great Hall, 4th floor, Supreme Court Building, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

This event is free, but space is limited. Please register online by Wednesday, May 8th to reserve your seat. If you would like to attend the event but did not pre-register, seats may become available at the door. Please email nicola.johnston@pwias.ubc.ca for more information.

Please click here to listen to a Wall Workout Interview Series podcast with Professor Phillips.

International Roundtable public event

Speaker: Dr. Margaret Mutu

Māori studies was first taught at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1951 against a backdrop of strong Pākehā (European) resistance to its inclusion in the academy. Today it is taught from its own small and marginalised department in the Faculty of Arts, and in similar units in the Medical School and in the School of Education. Individual Māori academic staff hold positions in several other teaching and research units and there are six Māori research facilities. Yet Māori student enrolments are only half what they should be, Māori staff numbers are a third and Māori student course and degree completion rates are far less than those of non-Māori. This most unsatisfactory state of affairs is the result of all Māori aspects of the UoA being subject to Pākehā hegemony and hence control. In this paper I will provide an overview of what an indigenized UoA might look like before considering the history of Māori studies at UoA and the current situation in terms of governance, management, research and teaching. I will briefly consider the pros and cons of teaching and conducting research in Māori and/or Indigenous studies in a Pākehā institution before considering some strategies for achieving the indigenization of the UoA.

Time: 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm
Location:  Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 North West Marine Drive, UBC
International Roundtable: "Place, Belonging and Promise: Indigenizing the International Academy"

International Roundtable public event

Join us as a panel of international visionaries share how they are working to change the lives and paths of children whose parents are living behind bars.

Hear from and speak with:

Pushpa Basnet: CNN Hero of the year and founder of the Butterfly Home for children of parental incarceration in Nepal.
Geoff Cowper: Lawyer in current BC Supreme Court Constitutional challenge on a women’s right to keep her baby in Jail. Recipient of Deputy Minster award for outstanding achievement.
Sharon Content: Founder of Children of Promise in NY, embracing and empowering children whose parents are behind bars. Featured on MSNBC, ABC and recipient of the NY Post Leadership award.
Debbie Kilroy: CEO of Sisters Inside, Australia, advocating for the rights of women in the criminal justice system. Helped develop the UN rules on the treatment of women prisoners (Bangkok rules)
Sharon McIvor: Lawyer and Activist. Successfully challenged the Federal Government to amend the Indian Act (the “McIvor” amendments).

Moderated by: Chesa Boudin, Author, Lawyer, Rhodes Scholar and child of parental incarceration.

Location: Oakridge Adventist Church, 5350 Baillie Street, Vancouver
Time: 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
A free or by donation event.
International Roundtable: "Bonding through Bars - Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children"

International Roundtable Discussion

Principal Investigator: Dr. Shelly Johnson, School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts, UBC

International Roundtable Discussion

Principal Investigators: Dr. Shelly Rosenblum, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Canada; Professor Keith Wallace, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC; and Professor Scott Watson, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC

International Roundtable Discussion

Principal Investigators: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin, UBC Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education SIFP, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Kirsten Hargreaves, Centre for Environmental Health Equity; Samantha Sarra, Centre for Environmental Health Equity; and Tara Zupancic, The Centre for Environmental Health Equity

International Roundtable public event

Low health literacy has a critical impact on the cost and quality of health care. Three out of ten Canadians are at the lowest level of general literacy, leaving them at risk of being unable to read instructions for medications, easily understand written instructions, or fully comply with their treatment regimen. This realization has resulted in an increased focus on health and literacy linkages, and has sparked concern across the spectrum of health care providers about how to work effectively with low literate populations. “Health literacy” as a link between literacy and health is, therefore, becoming increasingly important for social, economic and health development.

During this session we will hear from a number of speakers who will describe their research exploring various aspects of the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes.

Economic Aspects of Health Literacy
Presented by: Stirling Bryan and Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Utilization of an Internet-based Health Platform for Managing Chronic Diseases
at a Distance
Presented by: Scott Lear

Ethnicity and Cardiovascular Disease
Presented by: Nadia Khan

Sustaining Self-management Efforts in Community-based Settings: A Peer Support Model
Presented by: Tricia Tang

Exploration of Health Literacy Skills among First Nations Young Adults
Presented by: Lorie Donelle

Health Literacy as a Situated Literacy
Presented by: Victoria Purcell-Gates

A Cross Sectoral Approach to Health Litearcy: The BC HL Network
Presented by: Marina Niks

Support Self-management in People with Arthritis through Digital Media
Presented by: Linda Li

There will also be a poster presentation: posters may be viewed before or after the session, or during breaks.

Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
Location:  Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room, 6476 North West Marine Drive
International Roundtable: "Creating a Knowledge Hub in Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Management"

International Roundtable public event

The International Roundtable on "A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect and Emotion Across Disciplines" is pleased to present a concert staging and interactive workshop of Gertrude Stein’s  “For the Country Entirely. A Play in Letters,” with music by Dorothy Chang, based on a scenario by Adam Frank, and directed by Adam Henderson. This is the pilot episode of Adam Frank’s Radio Free Stein, a large-scale serial sound project that aims to render a number of Stein’s 80 plays into recorded dramatic and musical form.

Musicians: Mark Ferris and Domagov Ivanovic (violins), Marcus Takizawa (viola), Rebecca Wenham (cello); Actors: Kurt Evans, Lucia Frangione, Cara McDowell, and Alan Marriott

Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Western Front: 303 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada
International Roundtable: "A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect and Emotion Across Disciplines"

International Roundtable public event

Exhibition of work by the 2013 graduates of The University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Carlos Colin, Kate Henderson, Chris Howison, Erin Siddall, Tristan Sober-Blodgett, and Stephen Wichuk.

Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1825 Main Mall, UBC
International Roundtable: "A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect and Emotion Across Disciplines"

International Roundtable Discussion

Principal Investigators: Dr. Adam Frank, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, UBC; and Dr. Shelly Rosenblum, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC

International Roundtable Discussion

Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark FitzGerald, Institute for Heart and Lung Health, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

International Roundtable public event

Rachel Iwaasa, a pianist known for bold and innovative concerts, will present an evening of Mozart and Beethoven, together with De Profundis, a piano and spoken word piece by American composer, Frederic Rzewski.

Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Gessler Shelley Hall (Room 116), Music Building, 6361 Memorial Road
International Roundtable: "A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect and Emotion Across Disciplines"

French Scholars Series: English Lectures by Notable French Academics

Dr. Marianne Bastid Bruguière

The past haunts and informs the present. China's frontiers are a central concern today, as she becomes increasingly dominant in Asia. Her southernmost land frontier passes through wild mountains. Historically it was not clearly defined. There was constant friction between successive Chinese dynasties and their southern neighbor. When France created her colony in Indochina, frontier issues were contentious and remained so until the end of French colonial rule. Thereafter the frontier continued to pose difficulties between Vietnam and China, making for hostility, and, in 1979, war. The maritime frontiers have been equally contested, with China, Vietnam and the Philippines making conflicting claims to the seas between them. The Sino/Vietnamese frontier issues, always potential flash points, can only be understood in historical perspective.

Location: Institute of Asian Research, Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Exploratory Workshop public event

Dr. Carlos Fausto, Professor of Anthropology, Museu Nacional/Federal, University of Rio de Janeiro

This is the second lecture in the Exploratory Workshop entitled "Artefacts of Encounter: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Interdisciplinary Perspective."

Location: Museum of Anthropology, Michael Ames Theatre, 6393 NW Marine Drive
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Exploratory Workshop public event

Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor, Maori Studies and Anthropology, University of Auckland, Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, UBC

This is the first lecture in the Exploratory Workshop entitled "Artefacts of Encounter: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Interdisciplinary Perspective."

Location: First Nations House of Learning, 1985 West Mall
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

A reception will precede the lecture at 5:00 pm.

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Dr. Nelia Susana Dias, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, ISCTE-IUL Lisbon

What are the relationships between cultures and languages characterized as ‘endangered’ and the techniques aimed at preserving them? To what extent are the practices of documentation and preservation central in identifying some entities as endangered? Focusing on museum collections and on databases, the talk will examine, first, how technologies of documentation shape the construction of data deemed significant, the kind of knowledge such data constitutes and the structures into which it is organized. Secondly, the talk questions the extent to which the notion of endangerment is an exclusively Western and late modern culturally particular phenomenon, inquiring the dual valuation – of the endangered entities themselves and of the practices of preserving and documenting those entities - inherent to the endangerment process.

Location: Michael Ames Theatre, Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Drive
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Dr. Ilya Averbukh, Patricia Elman Bildner Professorial Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science

Dr. Averbukh will briefly overview some recent developments in the field of laser control of molecular rotation, including selective spinning of molecular isotopes and nuclear spin isomers, and control of the sense of molecular rotation by short laser pulses. He will also present the recent proposal on observing quantum resonances and quantum chaotic phenomena (including Anderson localization) in the rotation of laser-kicked molecules, and will discuss the results of the first experiments done at UBC. Finally, Dr. Averbukh will consider some macroscopic manifestations of the laser-induced molecular rotation in dense gas samples, including photoacoustic effects, generation of gas vortices, and rotational Doppler shift for a light propagating through such a medium.

Location: Room 215, Chemistry Building, 2036 Main Mall
Time: 4:00 pm to 5: 00 pm

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Dr. Maria Lohan, Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast

Feminist studies trail blazed a path of change in academic research on reproduction during the late twentieth century. However, such work for the most part focused on women’s lives to the exclusion of men’s. Men’s experiences were not seen as dynamic and changing in response to feminism and women’s changing lives. In this talk I will explore how the rise of the study of masculinities and post-structuralist theory within feminism invites a re-conceptualisation of fertility and reproduction in inter-relational terms. I will demonstrate how concepts from these feminist informed approaches can be used to theorise men’s experiences of reproduction and parenting in ways which do not re-exclude women’s.

Location: Room T206, School of Nursing, 3rd Floor, UBC Hospital, 2211 Wesbrook Mall
Time: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Public Talk

Dr. Randy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University

Skilled object manipulation involves the interplay between predictive and reactive control mechanisms and in this talk Professor Flanagan  will discuss the nature of these control mechanisms, and the memory and learning systems that support them. In addition to evidence from behaviour experiments, he will also discuss recent functional neuroimaging work examining the neural mechanisms underlying the planning of manipulation tasks.

Location: Room X836 (Boardroom), Department of Computer Science, ICICS/CS Building, 2366 Main Mall
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Speaker: Dr William Wong, a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction.
His research interest is in the representation design of information and the interaction design of user interfaces to support naturalistic decision-making in complex dynamic environments.

The lecture will highlight how visual analytics can be used in analysing and managing financial systemic risk.

Location: Dodson Room, 3rd floor, Irving K Barber Learning Centre,1961 East Mall
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews (Sociology)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

International Visiting Research Scholar public talk

Speaker: Dr. Colin Ware, Director, Data Visualization Research Lab, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire

Location: Hugh Dempster Pavillion, Room 110, 6245 Agronomy Road,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

This talk will introduce visual thinking algorithms as a way of describing the dialogue between humans and computers involved in visual thinking. These algorithms are described using simple pseudo-code and are intended to support design decisions regarding which visualization methods to use.  Examples of visual thinking will be given, including design sketching, generalized fisheye views and reasoning with a social network diagram.

For more information, please see our poster.

The Wall Hour

Panelists: Lawrence Pitt, Associate Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, UVic; James Tansey, Associate Professor and Executive Director ISIS Research Centre, Sauder School of Business, UBC; Matt Horne, Director, Climate Change program, Pembina Institute

Moderator: Brent Sauder, Director, Strategic Partnerships Office, UBC

Location: BC Hydro Theatre, CIRS Building, 2260 West Mall
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Free and open to the public.
A light lunch will be provided.

Join us for a timely discussion on the state of North America’s unprecedented hydrocarbon landscape and its complex, new interplay with climate policy. What is the current day and near future NA oil and gas supply and demand? What are the implications of this domestic industry on climate change, and what are effective policies needed to address it? We hope you are able to join us in a discussion around these important energy questions, and more.

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Ernest Mathijs (Film Studies)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Lara Boyd (Physical Therapy and Brain Research Centre)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

French Scholars Lecture Series

Lecturer: Professor Yann Moulier Boutang is Professor of Economics at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne and International Adjunct Professor of the Fernand Braudel Institute at SUNY Binghamton.

Location: Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, Room 122, 1822 East Mall, UBC
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Professor Moulier Boutang’s public lecture will highlight the increasing interrelationships of global media networks and economic production.

For more information please see the poster.

Special Event

Lecturer: Dr. Ignacio Tirado, Professor, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Location: Law Boardroom, UBC Robson Square
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

As the European Union (EU) economies grew more integrated, the insolvency of corporations with interests in two or more EU countries became a problem that needed to be tackled. As a consequence, the EU Regulation on insolvency proceedings was approved and entered into force in May 2002.  The talk will provide an overview of the most important decisions and the issues that still need to be solved. Analytical reference will be made to the European Commission's report assessing the first ten years of application of the Regulation and its proposals for reform. 

Please see our poster for more information.

The Wall Hour

Talk by Dr. W.H. Katie Zhong, Westinghouse Distinguished Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU), and 2012 Wall International Visiting Research Scholar and UBC’s Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory.

Location: Michael Smith Laboratories Lecture Theatre, Room 102, 2185 East Mall, UBC
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

A free event, open to the public. Light lunch provided.
Space is limited. Please see poster for registration.

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Cynthia Nicol (Curriculum and Pedagogy)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Exploratory Workshop

Speaker: Kendall Ho, Director, eHealth Strategy Office, UBC; Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Library; Gunther Eysenbach, Centre for eHealth Global Innovation, Toronto ON; Ana Lucia Ruggiero, Pan-American Health Organization WHO, Washington DC

A free public forum that will address the growing use of social media in promoting health and wellness.  Can Twitter be good for my health?  What are the best social media resources to help me manage my medical problems?  Can I find useful health information on Facebook? Yammer? Tumblr?  How can I help others be healthy through Social Media?  Why should I know about “Patients Like Me”, “Quantified Self”, “CureTogether”?

Location: UBC Robson Square Theatre, Room C300, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

This is a public event, followed by a reception.  For more details see our poster.

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Mark Warren (Political Science)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Stephen Sheppard (Forest Resources Management & Landscape Architecture)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Please note, this event includes a book signing.

The Wall Hour

Talk by Professor Erin Baines and Professor Pilar Riaño-Alcalá from the Liu Institute for Global Issues

Location: Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room, 6476 NW Marine Drive, UBC
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

A free event, open to the public. Light lunch provided.
Space is limited. Please see poster for registration.

A discussion of the myriad and complex ways those affected by violence improvise ways of living together again in the space of the everyday, a contribution to a field increasingly criticized for the disjuncture between state-led mechanisms and the lived realities of those afflicted.

Wall Scholars Café

Dr. Diana Lary (History)

Location: UBC Law at Allard Hall, 4th floor Terrace Lounge, 1822 East Mall
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

International Visiting Research Scholar

Speaker: Professor Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor of Economics, Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley

Location: Buchanan Tower 1197, 1873 East Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Professor Scotchmer will review the economic ideas behind the essential facilities doctrine, discuss how different bodies of law and regulation address similar economic problems, and show how the antitrust remedies that have been imposed lead to different economic outcomes than the other legal or regulatory solutions.

For more information, please see our poster.

International Visiting Research Scholar

Speaker: Dr. Giancarlo Panaccione is Senior Researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), permanent staff at Laboratory TASC of the IOM (Istituto Officina dei Materiali), located in Trieste

Location: Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL), Rm 311, Brimacombe Building, 2355 East Mall, University of British Columbia
Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm

Owing to the fascinating rules of quantum mechanics, surface electrons of a Topological Insulator (TI) do not experience any resistance, thus promising the realization of future dissipationless magnetic devices and fault tolerant computers. In this talk, selected examples of the current research on TIs will be presented, with a particular focus on the control of their electronic and magnetic properties.

For more information, please see our poster.

Wall Scholars' Café

Speaker: Ilan Vertinsky, Sauder School of Business and The Institute of Asian Research

Location: Peter Wall Institute Lounge
Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pm