LFS Today Oct 8, 2020

LFS Faculty Council Meeting – Today

The LFS Faculty Council Meeting will take place today, Oct 8 from 12:30-1:30 pm by Zoom. Please note there will be curriculum discussion at the meeting so we would like to encourage you to attend.

Agenda:

• 12:30-12:31 Call to Order and Territorial Acknowledgement – Rickey Yada
• 12:31-12:40 Dean’s message – Rickey Yada

1)      Adoption of agenda
2)      Minutes of May 21, 2020
3)      Action items from the last meeting on May 21, 2020

• 12:40-1:30 pm Curriculum proposal discussion/approval – Zhaoming Xu

Workday HR & Finance Office Hours – Today

The LFS HR and Finance teams are continuously striving to best support you as you get ready for Workday Go-live next month! As such, we have organized weekly “Office Hours” with HR & Finance team members. The purpose of these sessions is to provide you a channel to raise any questions you may have after attending Workday webinars or self-learn sessions.

These Office Hours will take place every Thursday at 11am, from October 8 to October 29, 2020.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62036394155?pwd=YkMzdUdqNWZqckRSNGhHTmxvSmtUZz09
Meeting ID: 620 3639 4155
Passcode: 019068

If you are not able to join during Office Hours, you may also check IRP searchable Q&A database for answers to common asked questions (CWL authentication required).

Graduate Certificate of Aquaculture Guest Seminar

Join the Graduate Certificate of Aquaculture program for the following guest seminar:

October 8 – Today

“Fish and Aquatic Animal Welfare” by Dr. Becca  Frank, New York University

Becca Franks completed a Killiam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Animal Welfare Program in LFS and is now a research scientist at NYU in New York working on cognition and behavior in fish.
 
Host: Dr. Andrea Frommel, Afrommel@zoology.ubc.ca
Join Zoom Meeting Time: 10:00
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69186181386?pwd=QWY4b2ZaN0dkRlIxd0krTnd0dUR2UT09

Flu Season is Coming – Get Immunized!

The Pharmacists Clinic at the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is a participant in the Provincial Influenza Campaign, which provides influenza vaccination (flu shots) free of charge to eligible BC residents.

Vaccination against measles mumps and rubella (MMR), tetanus and pneumococcal pneumonia will also be available in limited quantities.

Faculty, staff, students, and others on and around campus (who are age 5 and older) are welcome.

ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED (NO WALK-INS PERMITTED)
COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS IN EFFECT

Wednesday, October 28 from 8:30am – 12:30pm

Thursday, October 29 from 1pm – 5pm

Monday, November 2 from 1pm – 5pm

Wednesday, November 4 from 8:30am – 12:30pm

Pharmaceutical Sciences Building
The Atrium (open space on the first floor)
2405 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC

Click Here for Location Map

Register online at https://pharmsci.ubc.ca/flu (Chrome or Safari Browser preferred).

UBC Advanced Research Computing Training

Register now for the Fall 2020 training and learn how public cloud platforms can transform your research.
 
These sessions are aimed at researchers at UBC who want to get a better understanding of using public cloud services in today’s research environment. 
 
https://arc.ubc.ca/arc-cloud-computing-research-fall-training
 
Learning Outcomes
This series offers an introduction to cloud computing on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services platforms. Sessions will introduce cloud concepts and services, including:

• Creating, securing and maintaining virtual machines
• Machine learning and high-performance computing
• Storage options
• Cost-optimization best practices

Format
Our courses will include a mix of virtual hands-on learning and lecture-style presentations. All session times will be live on Microsoft Teams or Zoom with some sessions being recorded. Please note that certain sessions will be restricted to a maximum number of participants to ensure that we can provide effective hands-on instruction. Session recordings, presentations and other materials for some courses will be made as soon as possible after the Fall Training has completed.
 
Presentation links will be sent to all participants who have successfully registered. If you do not receive a presentation link, please check your Junk or Spam folders to ensure the email wasn’t incorrectly filtered. If you still have not received a presentation link, please send an email to arc.support@ubc.ca with the subject “ARC Cloud Training Presentation Link” and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
 
Prerequisites
Some courses may require pre-requisite knowledge, software or hardware. Prerequisites are listed per course. We have tried to keep the required skills to a minimum in order to ensure all are able to attend. Please review course descriptions for more details.

Cost
Registration is free!

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) Seminar

Topic: From marine heatwaves to compound events
Speaker: Thomas Frölicher, SNSF Assistant Professor, University of Bern
When: Friday, October 9, 11:00am
RSVP: https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/
More info.

University Consortium Graduate Students Forum Abstract Submission

Abstract submission for the Virtual University Consortium Graduate Students Forum (UCGF) 2020 is now open.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, UCGF 2020 will be held fully virtual on December 10-11, hosted by Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It takes the theme of “Resilient Food and Agricultural System for Accelerating Economic Recovery: Strategy and Implementation”. Sub-theme includes:

1. Sustainable production system
2. Logistics and value chain
3. Sustainable agribusiness
4. Agro-industry 4.0
5. Institutions and society

UC members are invited to nominate their graduate students (Master or Doctoral) to submit extended abstracts. A maximum of five students per university (ideally one per sub-theme) will be accepted to present their research through oral-video presentation. We would appreciate it if you could send us the list of your nominated students separately prior to having them submit their extended abstracts so that only nominated students could be acknowledged for UC support. Abstract submission is until 20 November 2020 only.

More information, including abstract template and link to abstract submission system, is available at ucgf.faperta.ugm.ac.id.