Copy of Saturday Morning Lectures Fall 2026 (Surrey dates)

Welcome or welcome back to the Saturday Morning Lectures, bringing you to the cutting edge of physics through researchers in Vancouver!
About this Event

The Fall 2026 season of the Saturday Morning Lectures is about to begin. Please see the agenda below, and note the varying locations for the different lecture days. The dates listed under this event series are the ones located in Surrey.

Note we are not asking you to reserve tickets on EventBrite at this time. If we encounter issues with room capacity we may change this later in the season.

October 3, TRIUMF Auditorium

10:00 Aaron Boley (UBC), "Things that flash and beep in the night: future technologies and the changing sky"

11:10 Alex Hands (TRIUMF), "The Cosmic K*ll Switch: How space weather turns off tech"

October 10, Surrey City Center Branch Library room 418

10:30 Aaron Boley (UBC), "Things that flash and beep in the night: future technologies and the changing sky"

11:40 Alex Hands (TRIUMF), "The Cosmic K*ll Switch: How space weather turns off tech"

October 31, TRIUMF Auditorium

10:00 Cariad Knight (UBC), "Escaping Plato's Cave: Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Understand the Brain"

11:10 Qinrui Liu (SFU), "Unveiling the High-Energy Universe with Ghost Particles"

November 7, Surrey City Center Branch Library room 120

10:30 Cariad Knight (UBC), "Escaping Plato's Cave: Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Understand the Brain"

11:40 Qinrui Liu (SFU), "Unveiling the High-Energy Universe with Ghost Particles"

November 28, TRIUMF Auditorium

Early Career Research Spotlight featuring the work of graduate students and postdocs