Synergy Day 2019 Highlights
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AMPEL’s Takahata, Tang, and Walus promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to AMPEL Faculty members: Konrad Walus, Shuo Tang & Kenichi Takahata promoted to Full Professor. All three have made significant contributions in their respective fields. Konrad has been focusing in the area of nanotechnology and microsystems, specifically including quantum-dot cellular automata, lab-on-a-printer technology and 3D bioprinting, and nano-structured materials, andmicro-sensors. Ken has also been […]
Synergy Day 2018
Synergy Day 2018
AMPEL & The Brimacombe Building Expansion!
As illustrated in the accompanying photographs, the east end of the original Brimacombe Building has now a brand new four story-plus-basement wing connected to it on the east end, running along East Mall. Approximately 2/3 of the new laboratory and office space will house existing and soon-to-be hired SBQMI faculty members’ groups, with the […]
Research Development – Toward Foldable Touchscreens
Bend, Stretch, and Touch: Locating a finger on an actively deformed transparent sensor array UBC team leader Prof. John Madden and PhD Student Mirza Saquib Sarwar, have recently developed a foldable transparent material sensor, based on ion-containing hydrogel electrodes. The development of bendable, stretchable, and transparent touch sensors is an emerging technological goal in […]
AMPEL and UBC to host PCAMM 2016
Saturday December 10, 2016 – 2020/2030 Kaiser Building at UBC (map) The Pacific Centre for Advanced Materials and Microstructures (PCAMM) brings together world-class expertise and sophisticated materials research infrastructure at The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and The University of Victoria. This collaborative venture seeks to ensure that developments in materials growth, fabrication, […]
International Workshop on Laser Ultrasonics for Metallurgy Returns to UBC
In 2013, UBC Materials Engineering and the Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering (CMPE) hosted the first ever International Workshop on Laser Ultrasonics for Metallurgy. This event attracted several researchers and industrial partners around the world to learn more about this technology and its possible application. The 2nd International Workshop on Laser Ultrasonics for Metallurgy […]
AMPEL Founder Keith Brimacombe Elected to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
Professor Keith Brimacombe was a teacher and leader who advocated university-industry partnerships and interdisciplinary research. His efforts had a profound impact on metallurgical engineering, and through his career he carried a vision of a multidisciplinary facility for “processing that cuts across the entire spectrum of metals and materials‘ and ‘tools of process engineering that will […]
AMPEL to host UBC Year of Light Celebration
As part of the UBC Department of Physics & Astronomy’s Year of Light celebrations, AMPEL will be hosting tours of its light-related labs on Saturday, October 17. In addition, AMPEL Faculty members will be presenting talks on a variety of light-related subjects, including the use of Light for Communications, and the development of Quantum Optical […]
Dr. Dan Bizzotto wins Prix Jacques Taccusel
AMPEL Faculty and Executive Committee member Dan Bizzotto has been awarded the Prix Jacques Taccusel Congratulations Dan!