Events for May 13, 2026

Semi-annual Hamilton-KW LMAG lunch. Guest: Tom Dean, engineer and well-known <a href="http://speaker.Agenda:" target="_blank" title="speaker.Agenda:">speaker.Agenda: 11:30 a.m. arrival12:00 noon: lunch12:45 p.m. speaker1:30 p.m. adjournmentSouthcote 53 Tap and Grill, 534 Garner Rd E, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada,L9G 0A1

In order to provide an appropriate level of energy to the whole world, nuclear energy is still going to play an important role. Nuclear energy can help reducing the CO2 emissions, which today are excessive. The problematics of nuclear waste can be solved using long-term geological storage in deep suitable formations. Partitioning and transmutation can help reducing the radiotoxicity of spent fuel to more acceptable durations of time. The MYRRHA project investigates since more than 20 years the possibility to demonstrate transmutation at a reasonable power level. In this paper we present the current state of the MYRRHA reactor design and the associated research and development <a href="http://activities.A" target="_blank" title="activities.A">activities.A live Q&A with registered attendees will follow the presentation. Please visit our website at bit.ly/nuclear_series2 for additional details. Recorded webinars will be posted there shortly thereafter for free on-demand <a href="http://viewing.In" target="_blank" title="viewing.In">viewing.In addition, please ensure you also register at:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SioQ-dr1T56onOJGn3ssFQ#/registration as provided in the webinar location below to receive the Zoom <a href="http://link.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="link.Speaker(s):">link.Speaker(s): Dr. Hamid Aït Abderrahim, Event Moderator:Dr. Cinzia Da ViàVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/559637

Phononic frequency combs (PFC) are the mechanical analogues of celebrated photonic frequency combs. These represent a newly documented physical phenomenon in the well-researched physical domain of mechanical resonators . The emergence of PFC is mediated by nonlinear modal coupling. Through a series of experiments using micromechanical resonators, various physical features of PFC have been identified. These include drive parameters for comb operation, hysteresis for comb spectrum tailoring and nonlinear sensitivity to physical perturbations. My talk will describe the physics of PFC and will emphasize how these combs could be foundational to the fields of materials science, molecular science and chemical science. In that respect, I will present our first conceptual demonstrations of material combs, molecular combs and chemical combs respectively. I will also showcase our recent demonstrations of broadband PFC using optical tweezers and phonon lasers . The future work will be focused on the applications of PFC in sensing, communications and quantum information <a href="http://science.1" target="_blank" title="science.1">science.1. Ganesan, A., Do, C. and Seshia, A., 2017. Phononic frequency comb via intrinsic three-wave mixing. Physical review letters, 118(3), p.033903.2. de Jong, M.H., Ganesan, A., Cupertino, A., Gröblacher, S. and Norte, R.A., 2023. Mechanical overtone frequency combs. Nature Communications, 14(1), p.1458.3. Xiao, G., Feng, Z., Kuang, T., Huang, R., He, Y., Chen, X., Zuo, Y., Han, X., Xiong, W., Tan, Z. and Ganesan, A., 2026. Ultrabroadband phonon laser frequency comb. Advanced Photonics, 8(2), <a href="http://pp.026004-026004.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="pp.026004-026004.Speaker(s):">pp.026004-026004.Speaker(s): Adarsh , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554934

The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and IEEE Blockchain Chapter are co-hosting an in-person debate and networking event in downtown Vancouver on May 13th at 5:30PM! This event is supported by IEEE Victoria Section, IEEE Vancouver Section, IEEE Toronto Blockchain Group, IEEE Victoria Student Branch and UVic Engineering and Computer Science Co-op Office. Creative AI is the industrial sponsor of this event. If you’re in Vancouver for Web Summit or on co-op there, we hope you’ll join us in person - but we will also be streaming the debate over <a href="http://Zoom.Debate" target="_blank" title="Zoom.Debate">Zoom.Debate Topic: Blockchain in the age of AI Agents: Increased Trust or Increased Threat?Debaters: a mix of academics and industry perspectivesLocation: UBC Robson CampusTime: ~5:30-6:30PM (speaking portion, in-person & online), ~6:30-7:30PM (open networking, in-person only)Light refreshments will be served at the in-person Vancouver <a href="http://event.Please" target="_blank" title="event.Please">event.Please register here for in-person or online attendance: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/blockchain-in-the-age-of-ai-agents-increased-trust-or-increased-threat-tickets-1987688049463Co-sponsored" target="_blank" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/blockchain-in-the-age-of-ai-agents-increased-trust-or-increased-threat-tickets-1987688049463Co-sponsored">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/blockchain-in-the-age-of-ai-agents-increased-trust-or-increased-threat-tickets-1987688049463Co-sponsored by: Navneet PopliSpeaker(s): , , , , UBC Robson Campus, Downtown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6Z 3B7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/559190