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Garth Huber (University of Regina)13/06/2015, 13:30
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Prof. David Hornidge (Mount Allison University)13/06/2015, 15:40
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Adam Sarty (Saint Mary's University)13/06/2015, 15:58
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Prof. Charles Gale (McGill University)13/06/2015, 16:41
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Juliette Mammei13/06/2015, 17:20
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Michael Roney (University of Victoria)14/06/2015, 10:00
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Garth Huber (University of Regina)14/06/2015, 10:00
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Prof. Tony Noble (Queen's University)14/06/2015, 10:20
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Mark Boulay (Q)14/06/2015, 10:30
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iris Dillmann14/06/2015, 10:35
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Christine Kraus14/06/2015, 10:50
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Carl Svensson14/06/2015, 11:00
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Prof. Gilles Gerbier (Queen's University)14/06/2015, 11:10
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Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)14/06/2015, 11:25
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Tony Noble (Queen's University)14/06/2015, 11:30
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Prof. David Sinclair (Carleton University)14/06/2015, 11:50
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Prof. Gilles Gerbier (Queens' University)14/06/2015, 12:10
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Prof. Darren Grant (University of Alberta)14/06/2015, 13:00
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Rituparna Kanungo (TRIUMF)14/06/2015, 13:08
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Dr David Morrissey (TRIUMF), Prof. Heather Logan (Carleton University)14/06/2015, 13:20
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Juliette Mammei (University of Manitoba)14/06/2015, 13:26
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Francesco Raimondi14/06/2015, 13:44
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Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)14/06/2015, 14:00
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Alexandros Gezerlis14/06/2015, 14:09
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Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF (CA))14/06/2015, 14:10
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Prof. Jeffery Martin (University of Winnipeg)14/06/2015, 14:20
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Iris Dillmann14/06/2015, 14:21
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Dr Christopher Hearty (IPP / UBC)14/06/2015, 14:40
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Adam Garnsworthy14/06/2015, 14:40
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Randy Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))14/06/2015, 15:00
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James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))14/06/2015, 15:30
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Prof. Kevin Graham (Carleton University)14/06/2015, 15:35
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Dr Toshio Numao14/06/2015, 15:45
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David Sinclair14/06/2015, 15:55
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Prof. Clarence Virtue (Laurentian University)14/06/2015, 16:05
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Prof. David Hanna (McGill University)14/06/2015, 16:20
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Dr Glen Marshall (TRIUMF)14/06/2015, 16:30
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Prof. Randy Lewis (York University)14/06/2015, 16:40
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Prof. Alison Lister (UBC)14/06/2015, 16:55
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Dr Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)14/06/2015, 17:25
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Garth Huber (University of Regina)14/06/2015, 17:41
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John Martin (York University (CA))15/06/2015, 08:30
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Olivier Gagnon (Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation)15/06/2015, 09:05
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Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University)15/06/2015, 09:25
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Nigel Smith (SNOLab)15/06/2015, 10:00Other Sessions or Meetings / Autres séances ou réunions
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Dean Karlen (University of Victoria (CA))15/06/2015, 10:25
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Yasuhiro Okada (KEK)15/06/2015, 11:00
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Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia)15/06/2015, 11:35
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Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))15/06/2015, 12:05
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Michael Roney (University of Victoria)15/06/2015, 12:25
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Prof. Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)15/06/2015, 13:00Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierThousands of exoplanets are known to orbit nearby stars with the statistical inference that every star in our Milky Way Galaxy should have at least one planet. Beyond their discovery, a new era of “exoplanet characterization” is underway with an astonishing diversity of exoplanets driving the fields of planet formation and evolution, interior structure, atmospheric science, and orbital...Go to contribution page
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Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)15/06/2015, 13:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe description of nuclei starting from the constituent nucleons and the realistic interactions among them has been a long-standing goal in nuclear physics. In recent years, a significant progress has been made in developing ab initio many-body approaches capable of describing both bound and scattering states in light and medium mass nuclei based on input from QCD employing Hamiltonians...Go to contribution page
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Andrei Semenov15/06/2015, 13:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéSilicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are novel photo sensorss that are needed for many applications in a broad range of fields. The advantages of such detectors are that they feature low bias ($<$100V) operation, high gain (10$^5$ to 10$^6$), insensitivity to magnetic fields, excellent photon detection efficiency (PDE), and the ability to operate in field conditions over a range of...Go to contribution page
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Konstantin Kabin (RMC)15/06/2015, 13:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThere are very few exact solutions for the motion of a charged particle in specified magnetic field. These solutions have considerable theoretical as well as pedagogical value. In this talk I will briefly describe several known analytical solutions, such as motion in the equatorial plane of a dipole and in a constant gradient field. Particular attention will be given to a relatively unknown...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Julien Beaudoin Bertrand (Université Laval)15/06/2015, 13:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéAttosecond Physics is an emerging field at the international level which now provides tabletop attosecond (as=10^-18 s.) light sources extending from the extreme ultraviolet (XUV, 10-100 eV) to X-rays (keV) [1]. This feat opens new avenues in atomic and molecular spectroscopies [2], especially, to perform time-resolved experiments of ultrafast electron dynamics on the unexplored attosecond...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University)15/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéI will review the recent work on the phases and quantum phase transitions in the electronic systems that feature the parabolic band touching at the Fermi level, the celebrated and well-studied example of which is the bilayer graphene. In particular, it will be argued that such three-dimensional systems are in principle unstable towards the spontaneous formation of the (topological) Mott...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Samoil Bilenky (JINR (Dubna))15/06/2015, 13:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Standard Model teaches us that in the framework of such general principles as local gauge symmetry, unication of weak and electromag- netic interactions and Brout-Englert-Higgs spontaneous breaking of the elec- troweak symmetry nature chooses the simplest possibilities. Two-component left-handed massless neutrino elds play crucial role in the determination of the charged current...Go to contribution page
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15/06/2015, 13:45Other Sessions or Meetings / Autres séances ou réunionsOral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)This session is a panel discussion and Q&A on researcher-industry collaborations and NSERC funding opportunities. Panelists include: Irene Mikawoz (NSERC Prairies Regional Office), Donna Strickland (U. of Waterloo), Wayne Hocking (Western U.), Kristin Poduska (Memorial U.), Chijin Xiao (U. of Saskatchewan) and Andranik Sarkissian (Plasmionique Inc). -- Cette séance consistera en un débat...Go to contribution page
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Robert Wolkow (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéQuantum dots are small entities, typically consisting of just a few thousands atoms, that in some ways act like a single atom. The constituent atoms in a dot coalesce their electronic properties to exhibit fairly simple and potentially very useful properties. It turns out that collectives of dots exhibit joint electronic properties of yet more interest. Unfortunately, though extremely...Go to contribution page
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Jeremy Heyl (UBC)15/06/2015, 13:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWhite dwarfs and neutron stars are two of the densest objects in the Universe. Discovered 105 and 45 years ago, these objects are two of the best astrophysical laboratories of fundamental physics. The simple existence of white dwarfs is a stellar-size manifestation of quantum physics. I will describe how we use these objects today to study quantum-chromodynamics, quantum-electrodynamics,...Go to contribution page
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Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA))15/06/2015, 13:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWhile the LHC is ramping up for it's second run at yet higher centre-of-mass energy, the experimental Collaborations are not only preparing for this run, but also ensuring that the maximum amount of information is extracted from the data taken in 2011 and 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. Many precision standard model measurements have been carried out, spanning...Go to contribution page
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Joseph Maciejko (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTopological phases of matter are characterized by the absence of low-energy bulk excitations and the presence of robust gapless surface states. A prime example is the three-dimensional (3D) topological band insulator, which exhibits a bulk insulating gap but supports gapless 2D Dirac fermions on its surface. This physics is ultimately a consequence of spin-orbit coupling, a single-particle...Go to contribution page
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Alexei Kouznetsov (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 14:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Energetic electron precipitations cause atmospheric ionization - a complicated process which depends on many parameters. We present our energetic particles precipitation model which consists of three main parts: Energetic electron sources; Coupled electron/photon transport in the earth atmosphere; RIOMETERs and Very Low Frequency (VLF) receivers response to energetic electron precipitations....Go to contribution page
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Manuela Venturi (University of Victoria (CA))15/06/2015, 14:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéA detailed review on the properties of the Higgs boson, as measured with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, will be given. The results shown here use approximately 25 fb-1 of pp collision data, collected at 7 TeV and 8 TeV in 2011 and 2012. The measurements of the mass, couplings properties and main quantum numbers will be presented. Prospects for the upcoming Run2, starting in May 2015, will be...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jonathan Williams (Simon Fraser University)15/06/2015, 14:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)A neutron generator facility under development at Simon Fraser University (SFU) utilizes a commercial deuterium- tritium neutron generator (Thermo Scientific P 385) to produce 14.2 MeV neutrons at a nominal rate of $3\times10^8$ neutrons/s. The facility will be used to produce radioisotopes to support a research program including nuclear structure studies and neutron activation...Go to contribution page
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Dr Juris P. Svenne (University of Manitoba, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)15/06/2015, 14:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The Multi-Channel Algebraic-Scattering (MCAS) method, developed in 2003 for the analysis of low-energy nuclear spectra and of resonant scattering, continues to be effectively used for nuclear-structure studies. The MCAS approach allows the construction of the nucleon-core model Hamiltonian which can be defined in detail (coupling to the collective modes, rotational or vibrational, diverse...Go to contribution page
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Denis Leahy15/06/2015, 14:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéA supernova explosion occurs to end the life of a massive star (with mass of more than 8-10 times that of the sun). These explosions create and eject the elements that make up everything around us, including the earth. The life of a massive star will be outlined, and its sudden death in a supernova event. Following the explosion, the ejected material and energy interacts with the surrounding...Go to contribution page
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Sarah Burke (University of British Columbia)15/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe inter- and intra- molecular energy transfer that underlies transport, charge separation for photovoltaics, and catalysis are influenced by both the spatial distribution of electronic states and their energy level alignment at interfaces. In organic materials, the relevant length scales are often on the order of a single molecular unit. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Aksel Hallin (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe SNO+ experiment, at the SNOLAB underground laboratory, consists of 780 Mg of linear alkylbenzene scintillator contained in the 12 m diameter SNO acrylic sphere and and observed by the SNO photomultiplier tubes. SNO+ will be loaded with tellurium, at approximately the 0.3% level to enable a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay. This talk will detail the experiment, the...Go to contribution page
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Haille Sharum (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Terahertz pulse spectroscopy has been widely used for probing the optical properties and ultrafast carrier dynamics of materials in the far-infrared region of the spectrum. Recently, sources of intense terahertz (THz) pulses with peak fields higher than 100 kV/cm have allowed researchers to explore ultrafast nonlinear THz dynamics in materials, such as THz-pulse-induced intervalley scattering...Go to contribution page
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Glenda De los Reyes (Physics Department, University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We use time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) spectroscopy to study the effects of surface passivation and nanocrystal (NC) size on the ultrafast PL dynamics of colloidal SiNCs. The SiNCs were passivated by dodecylamine and ammonia, and exhibit blue emission centered at ~473 nm and ~495 nm, respectively. For both functionalizations, increasing the size of the NCs from ~3 nm to ~6 nm did not...Go to contribution page
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Hossna Gharaee (university of Alberta, Departement of Physics)15/06/2015, 14:30Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)There is renewed interest in the Moon as a potential base for scientific experiments and space exploration. Earth's nearest neighbour is exposed directly to the solar wind and solar radiation, both of which present hazards to successful operations on the lunar surface. In this paper we present lunar wake simulation and analytic results and discuss them in the context of observations from the...Go to contribution page
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Ms Vlora Riberdy (University of Windsor)15/06/2015, 14:30Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Zinc is a crucial element needed for many processes in the human body. It is essential for enzymatic activity and many cellular processes, such as cell division. A zinc deficiency can lead to problems with the immune system, birth defects, and blindness. This problem is especially important to address in developing countries where nutrition is limited. Supplements can be taken to increase the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Gaëtan Landry (Dalhousie University)15/06/2015, 14:30Industrial and Applied Physics / Physique industrielle et appliquée (DIAP-DPIA)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The bouncing of sports balls is often characterized in terms of the coefficient of restitution, which represents the ratio of the after-impact velocity to the before-impact velocity. While the behaviour of the coefficient of restitution as a function of the internal pressure of the ball has been studied, no theoretical justification has been given for any parametric curve fitted to the data....Go to contribution page
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Mr Joel Hutchinson (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The combination of many-body interactions and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a two-dimensional fermion system gives rise to an exotic array of phases in the ground state. In previous analyses, it has been found that in the low fermion density limit, these are nematic, ferromagnetic nematic, and spin-density wave phases. At ultra-low densities, the ground state favours the ferromagnetic nematic...Go to contribution page
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Dr Louis Ozeke (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Accurate specification of the global distribution of ultra-low frequency (ULF) wave power in space is critical for determining the dynamics and acceleration of outer radiation belt electrons. Current radiation belt models use ULF wave radial diffusion coefficients which are analytic functions of Kp based on ULF wave statistics. In this presentation we show that these statistical based analytic...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kalpana Singh Singh (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino physics experiment investigating neutrinoless double beta decay and neutrino oscillations. The SNO+ detector consists of a 12m diameter acrylic vessel (AV), surrounded by ultra-pure water and approximately 9500 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) which are positioned on a stainless steel PMT support structure (PSUP). The acrylic vessel will be filled with liquid...Go to contribution page
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Chav Chhiv Chau (University of Toronto (CA))15/06/2015, 14:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Searches for the anomalous quartic gauge coupling of two photons to two W bosons (WWAA) were made at LEP and Tevatron. More recently many searches have been performed by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Among the processes sensitive to these couplings are the Wy and yy -> WW production. In hadron colliders, yy -> WW events where the W bosons decay into...Go to contribution page
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Valery Milner (UBC)15/06/2015, 14:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéExtremely fast rotating molecules, known as “super-rotors”, may exhibit a number of unique properties, from rotation-induced nano-scale magnetism to formation of macroscopic gas vortices. Orchestrating molecular spinning in a broad range of angular frequencies is appealing from the perspectives of controlling molecular dynamics. Yet in sharp contrast to an optical excitation of molecular...Go to contribution page
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Dr Rainer Dick (University of Saskatchewan)15/06/2015, 14:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Several groups have recently reported observation of large scale structures which exceed the size limits expected from standard structure formation in a 13.8 billion years old LambdaCDM universe. On the other hand, the concept of crosstalk between overlapping 3-branes carrying gauge theories was recently introduced in arXiv:1502.03754[hep-th]. Crosstalk impacts the redshift of signals from...Go to contribution page
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Roshan Achal (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Undesired circuit heating results from the billions of electrons flowing through our devices every second. Heating wastes energy (leading to shorter battery life), and also puts a limit on computational speeds. The solution to excess heat generation is of huge commercial interest and has led to a large push towards nanoscale electronics which are smaller and more energy efficient. Proposed...Go to contribution page
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Dr John Root (Canadian Neutron Beam Centre)15/06/2015, 14:45Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe federal government recently announced its decision to shut down the NRU reactor in 2018. The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor commenced operation in 1957, to provide neutrons for several missions simultaneously, including the production of neutron beams to support fundamental experimental research on solids and liquids, advancing knowledge of condensed matter physics. Today, the...Go to contribution page
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Kaveh Gharavi (University of Waterloo)15/06/2015, 15:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Superconducting proximity effects are of fundamental interest and underlie recent proposals for experimental realization of topological states. Here we study superconductor-quantum dot- superconductor (S-QD-S) junctions formed by contacting short- channel InAs nanowire transistors with Nb leads. When the carrier density is low, one or more quantum dots form in the nanowire...Go to contribution page
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Adam Mayer (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 15:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Double-beta (\beta\beta) decay measurements are a class of nuclear studies with the objective of detecting the neutrinoless (0\nu) decay variants. Detection of a 0\nu\beta\beta decay would prove the neutrino to be massive and to be its own anti-particle (i.e., a Majorana particle). A key parameter in the detection of the 0\nu\beta\beta decay is the energy, or Q-value, of the decay. ^{96}Zr...Go to contribution page
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Chengrui Wang (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 15:00Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Results of analysis of Cluster spacecraft data will be presented that show that intense ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves in the inner magnetosphere can be excited by the impact of interplanetary shocks and solar wind dynamic pressure variations. The observations reveal that such waves can be damped away rapidly in a few tens of minutes. We examine mechanisms of ULF wave damping for two...Go to contribution page
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Mr Andrew Macdonald (University of British Columbia)15/06/2015, 15:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (FT-STS) has become an important experimental tool for the study of electronic structure. By combining the local real space picture of the electronic density of states provided by scanning tunneling microscopy with the energy and momentum resolution of FT-STS one can extract information about the band structure and dispersion. This has been...Go to contribution page
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Tyler Dauphinee15/06/2015, 15:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)We present an undergraduate-accessible analysis of a single quantum particle within a simple double well potential through matrix mechanics techniques. First exploring the behavior in a symmetric double well (and its peculiar wavefunctions), we then examine the effect that varying well asymmetry has on the probability density. We do this by embedding the potential within a larger infinite...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dean Chapman (Canadian Light Source Inc.)15/06/2015, 15:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Canadian Light Source (CLS) is Canada’s premier source of intense light for research, spanning from the far infrared to hard x-rays. The facility has been in operations for 10 years and in that time has hosted over 2,000 researchers from academic institutions, government, and industry, from 10 provinces and 2 territories, and provided a scientific service critical in over 1,000 scientific...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dmytro Sydorenko (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 15:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéA comprehensive model of the Earth ionosphere has been developed [Sydorenko and Rankin, 2012 and 2013]. The model is two-dimensional, it resolves the meridional direction and the direction along the geomagnetic field. The dipole coordinates are used, the azimuthal symmetry is assumed. The model considers torsional Alfven waves and includes the meridional convection electric field. The electric...Go to contribution page
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Tatiana Rappoport (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)15/06/2015, 15:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in graphene is extremely weak, making it a promising spin conductor for spintronic devices. However, for many applications it is desirable to also be able to generate spin currents.Theoretical predictions and recent experimental results suggest one can engineer the spin Hall effect in graphene by greatly enhancing the spin-orbit coupling in the vicinity of an...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Eundeok Mun (Simon Fraser University)15/06/2015, 15:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIntensive study of strongly correlated electronic systems has revealed the existence of quantum phase transitions from ordered states to disordered states driven by non-thermal control parameters such as chemical doping, pressure, and magnetic field. In this presentation I will discuss a recent progress of magnetic field-tuned quantum criticality with particular emphasis on the Fermi liquid...Go to contribution page
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Mr William Davis (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)15/06/2015, 15:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Background: In place of the uniform dose distributions used in conventional radiotherapy, spatially-fractionated radiotherapy techniques employ a planar array of parallel high dose ‘peaks’ and low dose ‘valleys’ across the treatment area. A group at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency have developed a mini-beam collimator for use with a medical linear accelerator operated at a nominal energy of...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Green15/06/2015, 15:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe idea that the early universe included an era of accelerated expansion (Inflation) was proposed to explain very qualitative features of the first cosmological observations. Since then, our observations have improved dramatically and have lead to high precision agreement with the predictions of the first models of inflation, slow-roll inflation. At the same time, there has been significant...Go to contribution page
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Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick), Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)15/06/2015, 15:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéOur research group has investigated the spectra of several gases of environmental importance using our 3-channel laser spectrometer or the experimental facility at the far-infrared beamline at the Canadian Light Source. Our results have been used by others through our contributions to the HITRAN and GEISA databases used by the atmospheric community and we have made our own contributions to the...Go to contribution page
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Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)15/06/2015, 15:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe existence of dark matter is a prominent puzzle in model physics, and it strongly motivates new particle physics beyond the standard model.I will review theoretical candidates for dark matter as proposed in the literature, and their status in light of recent experimental searches. I will also discuss new possibilities of dark matter theories and related research avenues.Go to contribution page
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835. The turbulent hydrodynamics and nuclear astrophysics of anomalous stars from the early universeFalk Herwig (University of Victoria)15/06/2015, 15:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe anomalous abundances that can be found in the most metal-poor stars reflect the evidently large diversity of nuclear production sites in stars and stellar explosions, as well as the cosmological conditions for the formation and evolution of the first generations of stars. Significant progress in our predictive understanding of nuclear production in the early universe comes now within reach...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jason Donev (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 16:00Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Energy issues are important to Canada, and a logical topic for Canadians to teach. The Energy Education group at the University of Calgary has built a free on-line resource suitable for teaching an 'energy for everyone' course from a physics department. This resource includes interactive data visualizations and real world simulations to help students understand the role of energy in modern societyGo to contribution page
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Charmainne Cruje (Ryerson University)15/06/2015, 16:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Polyethylene glycol (PEG) has promoted the prospective cancer treatment applications of gold nanoparticles (GNPs). *In vivo* stealth of GNPs coated with PEG (PEG-GNPs) takes advantage of the enhanced permeability and retention effect in tumor environments, making them suitable for targeted treatment. Because PEG minimizes gold surface exposure, PEG-GNP interaction with ligands that mediate...Go to contribution page
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David Chevrier (Canadian Light Source)15/06/2015, 16:15Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The Acquaman project (Acquisition and Data Management) was started in early 2010 at the Canadian Light Source. Over the past four years, the project has grown to support five beamlines by providing beamline control, data visualization, workflow, data organization, and analysis tools. Taking advantage of modular design and common components across beamlines, the Acquaman team has demonstrated...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ronald Lees (Centre for Laser, Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Department of Physics, University of NB)15/06/2015, 16:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Structure from high torsional levels of the CD$_3$OH isotopologue of methanol has been analyzed in Fourier transform spectra recorded at the Far-Infrared beamline of the Canadian Light Source synchrotron in Saskatoon. Energy term values for $A$ and $E$ torsional species of the third excited torsional state, v$_t$ = 3, are now almost complete up to rotational levels $K$ = 15, and thirteen...Go to contribution page
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Sheldon Campbell (The Ohio State University)15/06/2015, 16:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The angular power spectrum is a powerful observable for characterizing angular distributions, popularized by measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The power spectra of high energy cosmics ($\gamma$-rays, protons, neutrinos, etc.) contains information about their sources. Since these cosmics are observed on an event-by-event basis, the nature of the power spectrum measurement...Go to contribution page
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Prof. B. Gino Fallone (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 16:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité**Purpose:** We designed and first whole-body clinical linac-MRI hybrid (linac-MR) system to provide real-time MR guided radiotherapy with current imaging and treatment. Installation began in our clinic in 2013, and the world-first images from a linac-MR on a human volunteer were obtained in July 2014. **Methods:** The linac-MR consists of an isocentrically mounted 6 MV linac that...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jo-Anne Brown (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 16:15Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)According to the wikipedia entry, psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours. Since learning involves mental functions, it only makes sense that psychology has a role in the classroom - including a post-secondary physics class. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one model that provides a framework for...Go to contribution page
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Laila Obied (Brock University)15/06/2015, 16:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)This work aims to develop Ge:Mn dilute magnetic semiconductor and study the fundamental origin of ferromagnetism in this system. Using ion implantation at $77$ K, a single crystal Ge wafer was doped with magnetic Mn ions. The implantation was done at ion energy of $4.76$ MeV with a fluence of 2 x 10$^{16}$ ion/cm$^2$. X-ray diffraction (XRD) of the as-implanted sample showed that the implanted...Go to contribution page
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Mr Kameron Palmer (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 16:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)In 1929 Oskar Klein solved the Dirac equation for electrons scattering off of a barrier. He found that the transmission probability increased with potential height unlike the non-relativistic case where it decreases exponentially. This phenomenon can also been in a graphene lattice where the energy bands form a structure known as a Dirac cone around the points where they touch. In this project...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 16:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéAfter a brief account of the physics of the Quark-Nova (explosive transition of a neutron star to a quark star), I will discuss its implications and applications to High Energy and Nuclear Astrophysics. The talk will focus on Quark-Novae in the context of Super-Luminous Supernovae and in the context of the origin of heavy elements (r-process nucleosynthesis). The Quark-Nova has the...Go to contribution page
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Ljubomir Nikolic (Natural Resources Canada)15/06/2015, 16:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéDark regions seen in extreme ultraviolet and X-ray images of the solar corona, called coronal holes (COHO), are known to be sources of fast solar wind streams. These streams often impact the Earth’s magnetosphere and produce geomagnetic storms to which Canada is susceptible. COHO are associated with open coronal magnetic field lines along which fast solar wind streams emanate from the Sun....Go to contribution page
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Dr Bei Cai (Queen's University)15/06/2015, 16:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe DEAP-3600 experiment uses 3.6 tons of liquid argon for a sensitive dark matter search, with a target sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section of 10^{-46} cm^2 at 100 GeV WIMP mass. This high sensitivity is achievable due to the large target mass and the very low backgrounds in the spherical acrylic detector design as well as at the unique SNOLAB facility....Go to contribution page
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Nazanin Samadi (University of Saskatchewan)15/06/2015, 16:30Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Synchrotron radiation experiments critically depend on the stability of the photon beam position. The position of the photon beam at the experiment or optical element location is set by the electron beam source position and angle as it traverses the magnetic field of the bend magnet or insertion device. An ideal photon beam monitor would be able to measure the photon beam’s position and...Go to contribution page
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Ryan Peck15/06/2015, 16:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Quantum defects are useful in interpreting high energy atomic states in terms of simple Hydrogenic energy levels. We will find the energy levels for 1snp singlet and triplet P state Helium from $n = 2$ to $n = 12$ with some of the most accurate helium atom calculations to date using the exact non-relativistic Hamiltonian with wave functions expanded in a basis set of Hylleraas...Go to contribution page
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Jo-Anne Brown (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 16:30Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Teaching large physics classes - especially to non-physics majors that may have developed an extraordinary aversion to anything math-related - can be a challenge, even for the best instructors. However, there are a few techniques, drawn from psychology, that can help improve the experience for both the instructor and the students. In this talk, I will present a 'five-step program' I...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ahmad Almudallal (Memorial University of Newfoundland)15/06/2015, 16:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Thermal activation processes represent the biggest challenge to maintain data on magnetic recording media, which is composed of uniformly magnetized nano-meter grains. These processes occur over long time scales, years or decades, and result in reversing magnetization of the media grains by rare events. Typically, rare events present a challenge if modelled by conventional micromagnetic...Go to contribution page
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Ivan Padilla (University of Toronto)15/06/2015, 16:30Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to detect B-modes in the CMB at degree angular scales. Such a signal is a characteristic of early universe gravitational waves, a cornerstone prediction of inflationary theory. Hanging from a balloon at an altitude of 36 km allows the instrument to bypass 99% of the atmosphere and get an unobstructed view of the sky at 90 and 150 GHz. The...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jean-François Bisson (Université de Moncton)15/06/2015, 16:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Ytterbium-doped yttrium oxide thin films were obtained with a variant of pulsed laser deposition, called reactive crossed-beam laser deposition, wherein a cross-flow of oxygen, synchronized with the laser pulses, is used for oxidizing and entraining the ablation products of a Yb/Y alloy target towards a substrate placed inside a vacuum chamber [1]. The nanostructure of the films is examined...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gavin Cranmer-Sargison (Department of Medical Physics, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency)15/06/2015, 16:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Small field dosimetry is difficult, yet consistent data is necessary for the clinical implementation of advanced radiotherapy techniques. In this work we present improved experimental approaches required for standardizing measurement, Monte Carlo (MC) simulation based detector correction factors as well as methods for reporting experimental data. A range of measurements and MC modelling...Go to contribution page
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Fred Sage (University of Saskatchewan)15/06/2015, 16:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)There has recently been a renewed interest in minimal Higgs-portal dark matter models, which are some of the simplest and most phenomenologically interesting particle physics explanations of the observed dark matter abundance. In this talk, we present a brief overview of scalar and vector Higgs-portal singlet dark matter, and discuss the nuclear recoil cross sections of the models. We show...Go to contribution page
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Mr Luis Welbanks (University of Calgary)15/06/2015, 16:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)When a massive star depletes its fuel it may undergo a spectacular explosion; the supernova. If the star is massive enough, it can undergo a second explosion; the Quark nova. The origin for this second explosion has been argued to be the transition from Hadronic-to-Quark-Matter (Ouyed et al. 2013). Hadronic-to-Quark-Matter phase transition occurs when hadronic (nucleated) matter under high...Go to contribution page
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Vahid Bahrami Yekta (University of Victoria)15/06/2015, 16:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Incorporation of Bismuth into GaAs causes an anomalous bandgap reduction (88 meV/% for dilute alloys) with rather small lattice mismatch compared to ternary In or Sb alloys. The bandgap can be adjusted over a wide range of infrared wavelengths up to 2.5 μm by controlling the Bi content of the alloy which is useful for laser, detector and solar cell applications. Semiconductor lasers are...Go to contribution page
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Ward Wurtz (Canadian Light Source Inc.)15/06/2015, 16:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Synchrotron light sources routinely produce brilliant beams of light from the infrared to hard X-ray. Typically, the length of the electron bunch is much longer than the wavelength of the produced radiation, causing the electrons to radiate incoherently. Many synchrotron light sources, including the Canadian Light Source (CLS), can operate in special modes where the electron bunch, or...Go to contribution page
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Prof. William van Wijngaarden (Physics Department, York University)15/06/2015, 16:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)A number of experiments have precisely measured fine and hyperfine structure splittings as well as isotope shifts for several transitions at optical frequencies for 6,7Li [1]. These data offer an important test of theoretical techniques developed by two groups to accurately calculate effects due to QED and the finite nuclear size in 2 and 3 electron atoms. The work by multiple groups...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pavelich Robert (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 16:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)We present a general method using matrix mechanics to calculate the bandstructure for 1D periodic potential arrays, filling in a pedagogical gap between the analytic solutions to the Kronig-Penney model and more complicated methods like tight-binding. By embedding the potential for a unit cell of the array in a region with periodic boundary conditions, we can expand in complex exponential...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sean W. Fleming (Environment Canada, MSC Science Division)15/06/2015, 16:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Water scarcity is an acute global concern under population and economic growth, and understanding hydroclimatic variation is becoming commensurately more important for resource management. Climatic drivers of water availability vary complexly on many time- and space-scales, but serendipitously, the climate system tends to self-organize into coherent dynamical modes. Two of these are El...Go to contribution page
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Christopher Polachic15/06/2015, 17:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The dynamic Hubbard model (DHM) improves on the description of strongly correlated electron systems provided by the conventional single-band Hubbard model through additional electronic degrees of freedom, namely a second, higher energy orbital and associated hybridization parameters for interorbital transitions. The additional orbital in the DHM provides a more realistic modeling of...Go to contribution page
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Ms Taleana Huff (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 17:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Hydrogen terminated silicon (100) $2 \times 1$ (H:Si(100)) is examined using a novel non-contact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) approach. NC-AFM gives access to unique information on the surface such as unperturbed surface charge distributions, chemical bonding, and surface forces. H:Si(100) is an attractive surface for examination due to its potential for nano-electronics. Dangling...Go to contribution page
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Joshua Wienands (University of British Columbia)15/06/2015, 17:00Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)A new high-density ultra cold neutron source is being constructed and developed at TRIUMF in Vancouver, BC with collaborators from Japan and several Canada research groups. One of the first goals of this collaboration is to measure the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron to an uncertainty of <10$^{-27}$ e-cm. To measure the nEDM, a magnetic resonance (MR) experiment on polarized...Go to contribution page
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Mr Donald A. Fernandes (Ryerson University)15/06/2015, 17:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)There is interest for the use of nanoemulsions as therapeutic agents, particularly Perfluorocarbon (PFC) droplets, whose amphiphilic shell protects drugs against physico-chemical and enzymatic degradation. When delivered to their target sites, these PFC droplets can vaporize upon laser excitation, efficiently releasing their drug payload and/or imaging tracers. Due to the optical properties of...Go to contribution page
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Pitam Mitra (University of Alberta)15/06/2015, 17:00Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The PICO collaboration (formerly PICASSO and COUPP) uses bubble chambers for the search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter. Such bubble chambers are scalable, can have large target masses and can be operated at regimes where they are insensitive to backgrounds such as beta and gamma radiation. The PICO-60 experiment is a bubble chamber that has been developed and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Miguel Alcubierre (National University of Mexico)15/06/2015, 19:30Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierIn this talk I will give a short introduction to some of the basic concepts of Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which is at the basis of all of modern physics. In particular, I will concentrate on the concept of causality, and why causality implies that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum. I will later discuss some of the basic ideas behind Einstein’s other...Go to contribution page
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Bassel Abdel Samad (Moncton University)16/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)During the past decade a great interest has been shown in the study of transition tungsten trioxide (WO3) thin films. The reason is that this transition presents a number of interesting optical and electrical properties. While their optical properties are very well studied in view of their application in smart windows, not much study is focussed on their electrical properties as a function of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Sara Seager (Massachusett institute of technology)16/06/2015, 08:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéFrom the first tentative discoveries to veritable spectra, the last 15 years has seen a triumphant success in observation and theory of exoplanet atmospheres. Yet the excitement of discovery has been mitigated by lessons learned from the dozens of exoplanet atmospheres studied, namely the difficulty in robustly identifying molecules, the possible interference of clouds, and the permanent...Go to contribution page
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Charles Doran (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 08:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe problem of classifying off-shell representations of the N-extended one-dimensional super Poincare algebra is closely related to the study of a class of decorated graphs known as Adinkras. We show that these combinatorial objects possess a form of emergent supergeometry: Adinkras are equivalent to very special super Riemann surfaces with divisors. The method of proof critically involves...Go to contribution page
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Grigory Rogachev (Texas A&M University)16/06/2015, 08:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéRemarkable advances have been made toward achieving the long-sought-after dream of describing properties of nuclei starting from realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions in the last two decades. The ab initio models were very successful in pushing the limits of their applicability toward nuclear systems with ever more nucleons and exotic neutron to proton ratios. Predictions of these models...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Gregoire (Carleton University)16/06/2015, 08:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéAfter the first run of LHC, the parameter space of supersymmetric theories is under serious pressure. In this talk I will present attempts at natural SUSY model building and also discuss the consequences of relaxing the naturalness assumption of supersymmetric theories.Go to contribution page
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Douglas Scott (UBC)16/06/2015, 08:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Planck satellite has completed its mission to map the entire microwave sky at nine separate frequencies. A new data release was made in February 2015, based on the full mission, and including some polarization data for the first time. The Planck team has already produced more than 100 papers, covering many different aspects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We have been able to...Go to contribution page
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Ge Zhuang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)16/06/2015, 08:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe experimental research in recent years on the J-TEXT tokamak are summarized, the most significant results including observation of core magnetic and density perturbations associated with sawtooth events and tearing instabilities by a high-performance polarimeter-interferometer (POLARIS), investigation of a rotating helical magnetic field perturbation on tearing modes, studies of resonant...Go to contribution page
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Adam Sarty (Saint Mary's University), Mrs Claire Varley (Customer Experience Manager – Higher Education, Pearson Canada)16/06/2015, 08:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThis presentation will provide an overview of the online resources which Pearson Education can provide to help support your university physics teaching. We will begin with an overview of how one faculty member has implemented and used Pearson resources in his first-year physics course sequence, and the plans in place for including further tools in the coming year. The presentation will then...Go to contribution page
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Prof. D,A. Bonn (University of British Columbia)16/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéLiFeAs is one of several pnictide and chalcogenide superconductors that can be grown in single-crystal form with relatively few defects. Spectroscopy away from any native defects reveals a spatially uniform superconducting gap, with two distinct gap edges. Quasiparticle interference over the gap energy range provides evidence for an S+- pairing state. We further explore the spectroscopy of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Melanie Campbell (University of Waterloo)16/06/2015, 08:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)PURPOSE. Calculations of retinal blur and eye power are developed and used to study blur on the retina of the growing chick eye. The decrease in defocus and optical blur during growth is known to be an active process. Here we show that the rate of defocus reduction is proportional to the amount of blur on the retina. METHODS. From literature values of chick eye parameters, the amounts of...Go to contribution page
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David Cooke (McGill University)16/06/2015, 08:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn this talk we discuss recent experiments using ultra-broadband time-resolved THz spectroscopy (uTRTS) studying charge and excitonic degrees of freedom in the novel photovoltaic material CH3NH3PbI3. This technique uses near single-cycle and phase stable bursts of light with an ultra-broad bandwidth spanning 1 - 125 meV to take snapshots of a material's dielectric function or optical...Go to contribution page
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Duncan O'Dell (McMaster University)16/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTracking the quantum dynamics following a quench of a range of simple many-body systems (e.g. the two and three site Bose-Hubbard models, particles on a ring), we find certain common structures with characteristic geometric shapes that occur in all the wave functions over time. What are these structures and why do they appear again and again? I will argue that they are quantum versions of the...Go to contribution page
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Randy Belanger (McMaster University)16/06/2015, 09:00Surface Science / Science des surfaces (DSS)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The growth of the first atomic layer of an ultrathin film begins with the deposition of isolated islands. Upon further deposition, the islands increase in size until, at some critical deposition, the merging of the islands creates at least one connected region of diverging size. This universal phenomenon describing connectivity is termed “percolation” and occurs at a “percolation transition”...Go to contribution page
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Dr Esmat Elhami (University of Winnipeg)16/06/2015, 09:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Introduction: Positron emission tomography (PET) is a highly sensitive, quantitative and non-invasive detection method that provides 3D information on biological functions inside the body. There are several factors affecting the image data, including normalization, scattering, and attenuation. In this study we have quantified the effect of scattering and attenuation corrections on the PET...Go to contribution page
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Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)16/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn this talk I'll survey the current observational status in cosmology, highlighting recent developments such as results from the Planck satellite, and speculate on what we might achieve in the future. In the near future some important milestones will be exploration of the neutrino sector, and much better constraints on the physics of the early universe via B-mode polarization. In the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Denis Morris (Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke)16/06/2015, 09:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe advance of non-contact measurements involving pulsed terahertz radiation presents great interests for characterizing electrical properties of a large ensemble of nanowires. In this work, InP and Si nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy or by chemical vapor deposition on silicon substrates were characterized using optical-pump terahertz probe (OPTP) transmission experiments. The...Go to contribution page
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Paul C Haljan (Simon Fraser University)16/06/2015, 09:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Small arrays of laser-cooled trapped ions are widely used for quantum information research, but they are also a versatile mesoscopic system to investigate physics with a flavor reminiscent of familiar models in condensed matter. For example, in a linear rf Paul trap, laser-cooled trapped ions will organize into a linear array when the transverse confinement of the trap is strong enough;...Go to contribution page
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Zoltan Gecse (University of British Columbia (CA))16/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéSupersymmetry is one of the most motivated theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. It explains the mass of the observed Higgs boson and provides a Dark Matter candidate among other attractive features. A striking prediction of Supersymmetry is the existence of a new particle for each Standard Model one. I will highlight results of the extensive program of the ATLAS...Go to contribution page
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Kaori Tanaka (University of Saskatchewan)16/06/2015, 09:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWe examine possible coexistence or competition between charge density waves (CDW) and superconductivity (SC) in terms of the extended Hubbard model. The effects of band structure, filling factor, and electron-phonon interactions on CDW are studied in detail. In particular, we show that van Hove singularities per se can lead to the formation of CDW, due to a substantial energy gain by...Go to contribution page
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Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 09:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe atomic mass is a unique identifier of each nuclide, akin to a human fingerprint, and manifests the sum of all interactions among its constituent particles. Hence it provides invaluable insights into many disciplines from forensics to metrology. At TRIUMF Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science (TITAN), Penning trap mass spectrometry is performed on radioactive nuclides, particularly...Go to contribution page
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Dr Weixing Ding (UCLA)16/06/2015, 09:15Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéBoth the magnetic fluctuations and electron density fluctuations are important parameters for fusion-oriented plasma research since fluctuation-driven transport dominates in high temperature magnetic confinement devices. The far-infrared laser systems are employed to measure both the Faraday rotation and electron density simultaneously with time response up to a few microseconds in reversed...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alan Wilman (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 09:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMagnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging method for examining hydrogen protons and their local environment. Inferences can be made about the local environment from the signal relaxation (decay or recovery) or phase evolution. For many years, phase images were largely discarded in favor of magnitude images only, which dominate clinical MRI. Although the sensitive nature of...Go to contribution page
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Karen Yeats (Simon Fraser University)16/06/2015, 09:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéI will discuss two recent ideas on how to better understand the underlying structure of Dyson-Schwinger equations in quantum field theory. These approaches use primarily combinatorial tools; classes of rooted trees in the first case and chord diagrams in the second case. The mathematics is explicit and approachable.Go to contribution page
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Jeremy Scott (University of Lethbridge)16/06/2015, 09:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Over half of the energy emitted by the Universe appears in the relatively unexplored Far-Infrared (FIR) spectral region, which is virtually opaque from the ground and must be observed by space-borne instrumentation. The European Space Agency (ESA) Planck and Herschel Space Observatories, launched together on 14 May 2009, have both provided pioneering observations in this spectral range from...Go to contribution page
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Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)16/06/2015, 09:15Surface Science / Science des surfaces (DSS)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)ZnO has rich electronic and optical properties that are influenced by surface structure and composition, which in turn are strongly affected by interactions with water and carbon dioxide. We correlated the effects of particle size, surface area, and crystal habit with data from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and zeta potential measurements to compare the degradation of ZnO powders prepared...Go to contribution page
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652. **WITHDRAWN** Density Functional Theory Study of Hydrogen on Metal Oxide and Insulator SurfacesProf. Abdulwahab Sallabi (Physics Department, Misurata University, Misurata , Libya)16/06/2015, 09:30Surface Science / Science des surfaces (DSS)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Hydrogen molecule is being promoted as an environmentally clean energy source of the future. In order to use hydrogen as a source of energy, infrastructures have to be built. These infrastructures are efficient processes for hydrogen extraction, and efficient processes and materials for hydrogen storage. The major problem facing the use of hydrogen as a clean source of energy is the storage...Go to contribution page
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Ernie McFarlane (University of Guelph), Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia), Martin Williams (University of Guelph)16/06/2015, 09:30Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéJoin Nelson Education and some of Canada’s leading physics educators for a demonstration of enhanced WebAssign and a discussion around physics education research in practice including the use of digital learning tools to promote better learning outcomes.Go to contribution page
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Alexei Kouznetsov (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 09:30Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Nuclear spallations accompanying Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) propagation through the atmosphere forms a so-called "cascade shower" by means of production of secondary protons, photons, neutrons, muons, pions and other energetic particles. World-wide Neutron Monitor (NM) network has been deployed for the ground-based monitoring of energetic protons and neutrons precipitations. Real time data...Go to contribution page
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Joydip Ghosh (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 09:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Quantum walk (QW) on a disordered lattice leads to a multitude of interesting phenomena, such as Anderson localization. While QW has been realized in various optical and atomic systems, its implementation with superconducting qubits still remains pending. The major challenge in simulating QW with superconducting qubits emerges from the fact that on-chip superconducting qubits cannot hop...Go to contribution page
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Frederick Dallaire (Universite de Montreal (CA))16/06/2015, 09:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Searches for vector-like quarks are motivated by Composite Higgs models assuming a new strong sector and predict the existence of new heavy resonances. A search for single production of vector-like quarks is performed for the through the exchange of a heavy gluon in the $p p \to G^* \to B\bar b/\bar B b \to H b \bar b \to b~\bar b~b~\bar b$ process, where $G^*$ is a heavy color octet vector...Go to contribution page
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Dr James Booth (British Columbia Institute of Technology)16/06/2015, 09:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéLaser cooling and trapping of atoms has created a revolution in physics and technology. For example, cold atoms are now the standard for time keeping which underpins the GPS network used for global navigation. In this talk, I will describe a research collaboration between BCIT, UBC (Kirk Madison) and NIST (Jim Fedchak - Sensor Science Division) with the goal of creating a cold atom (CA) based...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Melanie Martin (Physics, University of Winnipeg, Radiology, University of Manitoba)16/06/2015, 09:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Mouse brain white matter (WM) damage following the administration of cuprizone was studied weekly using diffusion tensor imaging, quantitative magnetization transfer imaging, T2-weighted MRI (T2w), and electron microscopy (EM). A previous study examined correlations between MR metrics and EM measures after 6 weeks of feeding. The addition of weekly *ex vivo* tissue analysis allows for a more...Go to contribution page
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Mr Lee J. Evitts (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 09:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Excited states in $^{62}$Ni were populated with a (p, p') reaction using the 14UD Pelletron accelerator at the Australian National University. The proton beam had an energy of 5 MeV and was incident upon a self-supporting $^{62}$Ni target of 1.2 mg/cm$^2$. Electric monopole transition strengths were measured from simultaneous detections of the internal conversion electrons and $\gamma$-rays...Go to contribution page
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Alex Cushley16/06/2015, 09:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Amateur radio and other signals used for dedicated purposes, such as the Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), are signals that exist for another reason, but can be used for ionospheric sounding. Whether mandated and government funded or voluntarily constructed and operated, these networks provide data that can be used for scientific...Go to contribution page
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Dr Pablo Diaz Benito (University of Lethbridge)16/06/2015, 09:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)In this talk we construct two infinite sets of self-adjoint commuting charges for a quite general CFT. They come out naturally by considering an infinite embedding chain of Lie algebras, an underlying structure that share all theories with gauge groups U(N), SO(N) and Sp(N). The generality of the construction allows us to carry all gauge groups at the same time in a unified framework, and so...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Michael Bradley (Physics & Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)16/06/2015, 09:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéPlasma Ion Implantation (PII) is a versatile ion implantation technique which allows very high fluence ion implantation into a range of targets. The technique is conformal to the surface of the implanted object, which makes it suitable for a wide range of applications. The ease with which high ion fluences can be delivered means that the technique can be used to change the stoichiometry (e.g....Go to contribution page
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Dr Stephen Julian (University of Toronto)16/06/2015, 09:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)PrOs$4$Sb${12}$ is a cubic metal with an exotic superconducting ground state below 1.8 K. The crystal fields around the Pr site are such that it has a singlet ground state and a magnetic triplet just 8K above the ground state. Under an applied magnetic field, the triplet splits, and the S$_z = +1$ state crosses the singlet state at easily accessible magnetic fields. In the region of the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Hanna (McGill University)16/06/2015, 09:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a novel radio telescope currently under construction at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, BC. Comprising four 20-m by 100-m parabolic cylinders, each equipped with 256 antennas along its focal line, CHIME is a `software telescope' with no moving parts. It will measure the 21-cm emission from neutral...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pascal Lefebvre (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 09:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Quantum communication is based on the possibility of transferring quantum states, generally encoded into so-called qubits, over long distances. Typically, qubits are realized using polarization or temporal modes of photons, which are sent through optical fibers. However, photons are subject to loss as they travel through optical fibers or free space, which sets a distance barrier of around 100...Go to contribution page
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Bruno Olaizola Mampaso (Nuclear Physics Group - University of Guelph)16/06/2015, 10:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The region below $^{68}$Ni has recently attracted great attention, from both experimental and theoretical studies, due to the observation of a sub-shell closure at N=40 and Z=28. The collectivity in the region is revealed in the even-even Fe and Cr isotopes by the low energy of the first 2$^+$ states and the enhanced $B(E2;2^+\rightarrow0^+)$ reduced transition probabilities, which peak at...Go to contribution page
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Carl Chandler (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 10:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We survey briefly the electron-phonon interactions in metals with an emphasis on applications in electron-phonon mediated superconductivity. While BCS theory and Eliashberg theory have significant predictive power, the microscopic Hamiltonians for the processes they describe are still an open area of study. We will examine the hitherto unsolved BLF-SSH model of electrons interacting with...Go to contribution page
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David Morrissey (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 10:00Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)It is not known how to explain the excess of matter over antimatter with the Standard Model. This matter asymmetry can be accounted for in certain extensions of the Standard Model through the mechanism of electroweak baryogenesis (EWBG), in which the extra baryons are created in the early Universe during the electroweak phase transition. In this talk I will review EWBG, connect it to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bill Whelan (Dept of Physics, University of Prince Edward Island)16/06/2015, 10:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Optical spectroscopy has become a valuable tool in biomedical diagnostics because of its ability to provide biochemical information on endogenous and exogenous chromophores present in tissues. In this work, point radiance spectroscopy using a white light source is investigated 1) to measure the optical properties of bulk tissues and 2) to detect localized gold nanoparticles in tissue mimicking...Go to contribution page
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Adriana Predoi-Cross (University of Lethbridge)16/06/2015, 10:00Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Methane is an important greenhouse gas in the terrestrial atmosphere and a trace gas constituent in planetary atmospheres. We report measurements of the self- and air-broadened Lorentz widths, shifts and line mixing coefficients along with their temperature dependences for methane absorption lines in the 2.22 to 2.44 microns spectral range. This set of highly accurate spectral line shape...Go to contribution page
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Caleb John (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 10:00Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Reliable true random number generation is essential for information theoretic security in a quantum cryptographic system based on quantum key distribution (QKD) and one-time pad encryption [1]. Various random number generation methods have already been proposed and demonstrated, such as schemes based on the detection of single photons [2], whose rate is limited by the dead time of single...Go to contribution page
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Paul Mikula (University of Manitoba)16/06/2015, 10:00Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The Yang-Mills flow equations are a parabolic system of partial differential equations determined by the gradient of the Yang-Mills functional, whose stationary points are given by solutions to the equations of motion. We consider the flow equations for a Yang-Mills-Higgs system, where the gauge field is coupled with a scalar field. In particular we consider the Abelian case with axial...Go to contribution page
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Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)16/06/2015, 10:15Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierThe Physics community has known the importance of Active Learning (AL) for the last twenty years (see [1,2]). A recent analysis of 225 studies on AL [3] has demonstrated that “active learning appears effective across all class sizes --- although the greatest effects are in small (n <= 50) classes.” Physicists have innovated both technologies and techniques for AL [4,5]. Yet, most classes,...Go to contribution page
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16/06/2015, 13:00List of proposed workshops, teachers will be asked to sign up for three workshop at most. A separate registration form for workshops will be sent to the teachers by the teachers local committee. - Cavendish experiment (measuring G) - Millikan oil drop. (obtaining the basic electron charge) - e/m for electrons. - Electron diffraction (verifying particle wave duality). - Video analysis of...Go to contribution page
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Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 13:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTRIUMF operates a suite of [H-] cyclotrons (13, 2 x 30, 42 and 500 MeV) which, in addition to supplying our basic science program, are used to produce a variety of medical isotopes. Within the next few years TRIUMF will also begin isotope production in our new Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) – a 50 MeV, 10 mA continuous-wave electron linac. The breadth and power of our infrastructure...Go to contribution page
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Jesko Sirker (U Manitoba)16/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéDisorder in a non-interacting quantum system can lead to Anderson localization where single-particle wave functions become localized in some region of space. Recently, the study of interaction effects in systems which do exhibit Anderson localization has attracted renewed interest. In my talk I will present recent theorerical progress in understanding localization in many-body systems. I...Go to contribution page
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Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado)16/06/2015, 13:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéModeling, which includes developing, testing, and refining models, is a central activity in physics. Well-known examples from include everything from the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom to the Standard Model of particle physics. Modeling, while typically considered a theoretical activity, is most fully represented in the laboratory where measurements of real phenomena intersect with...Go to contribution page
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Luc Stafford (U.Montréal)16/06/2015, 13:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéGraphene films were exposed to the late afterglow of a reduced-pressure N2 plasma sustained by microwave electromagnetic fields. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) shows that plasma-generated N atoms are incorporated into both pyridinic and pyrrolic groups, without excessive reduction of sp2 bonding. Nitrogen incorporation was found to be preceded by N adsorption, where N adatom density...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Leroy Cogger (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 13:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Fast Auroral Imager (FAI) on the CASSIOPE Enhanced Outflow Probe (e-POP) consists of two CCD cameras, which measure the atomic oxygen emission at 630 nm and prompt auroral emissions in the 650 to 1100 nm range, respectively, using a fast lens system and high quantum-efficiency CCDs to achieve high sensitivity, and a common 26 degree field-of-view to provide nighttime images of about 650 km...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Robert Thompson (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 13:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn 2010, the ALPHA Collaboration working at the AD Facility at CERN achieved the first capture and storage of atomic antimatter with our confinement of low temperature antihydrogen in an Ioffe-type magnetic minimum atom trap. [1] This achievement was only reached through the application of a range of tools and techniques from an interdisciplinary spectrum of fields, including AMO Physics. ...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jean-Francois Fortin (Laval University)16/06/2015, 13:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe behavior of coupling constants in quantum field theory under a change of energy scale is encoded in the renormalization group. At fixed points of the renormalization group flow, quantum field theories exhibit conformal invariance and are described as conformal field theories. The larger spacetime symmetry of conformal field theory is not the smallest possible extension of Poincare...Go to contribution page
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Wendy Taylor (York University (CA))16/06/2015, 13:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe most exciting discovery to come from the LHC would be that of something completely unexpected. To that end, the ATLAS experiment has been enthusiastically analyzing the 2012 LHC data recorded at a centre of mass energy of 8 TeV looking for any possible evidence of new physics. A variety of signatures has been considered, including heavy resonances, excesses above the Standard Model...Go to contribution page
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Dr Peter Bender (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 13:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe shape coexistence and shape transition at $N=60$ in the Sr, Zr region is the subject of substantial current experimental and theoretical effort. An important aspect in this context is the evolution of single particle structure for $N<60$ leading up to the shape transition region, which can be calculated with modern large scale shell model calculations using a $^{78}$Ni core or Beyond...Go to contribution page
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Dr Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)16/06/2015, 13:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe PICO collaboration, a merger of COUPP and PICASSO experiments, searches for dark matter particles using superheated fluid detectors. These detectors can be operated within a set of conditions where they become insensitive to the typically dominant electron recoil background. Additionally, the acoustic measurement of the bubble nucleation makes possible the rejection of additional...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Aycan Yurtsever (INRS-EMT)16/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéUnderstanding matter at the dynamic and microscopic levels is fundamental for our ability to predict, control and ultimately design new functional properties for emerging technologies. Reaching such an understanding, however, has traditionally been difficult due to limited experimental methodologies that can simultaneously image both in space and time. Ultrafast transmission electron...Go to contribution page
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Mr Gabriel David Palacino Caviedes (York University (CA))16/06/2015, 14:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)A search for highly ionizing particles produced in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC is performed with the ATLAS detector. A dedicated trigger increases significantly the sensitivity to signal candidates stopping in the electromagnetic calorimeter and allows to probe particles with higher charges and lower energies. Production cross section limits are obtained for stable particles in...Go to contribution page
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Andrew Yau (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 14:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) is an 8-instrument scientific payload on the Canadian CASSIOPE small satellite, comprised of plasma, magnetic field, radio, and optical instruments designed for in-situ observations in the topside polar ionosphere at the highest-possible resolution. Its science objectives are to quantify the micro-scale characteristics of plasma outflow in the polar...Go to contribution page
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Ben Smith (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 14:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)DEAP-3600 is a dark matter experiment based at SNOLAB. It uses 3600kg of liquid argon as a target, and searches for scintillation light from argon nuclei struck by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Argon-39 atoms also undergo beta decay, and the recoiling electrons also produce scintillation light. Beta decays are expected to occur at least $10^8$ times as frequently as WIMP...Go to contribution page
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Mr Aaron Chester (Simon Fraser University Department of Chemistry)16/06/2015, 14:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Along the $N=Z$ line, shell gaps open simultaneously for prolate and oblate deformations; the stability of these prolate and oblate configurations is enhanced by the coherent behaviour of protons and neutrons in $N=Z$ nuclei. Additionally, amplification of proton-neutron interactions along the $N=Z$ line may yield information on the isoscalar pairing interactions which have been predicted in...Go to contribution page
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Andrew Frey (University of Winnipeg)16/06/2015, 14:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéGravitational collapse in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime is dual to thermalization of energy injected to the ground state of a strongly coupled gauge theory. Following work by Bizon and Rostworowski, numerical studies of massless scalar fields in Einstein gravity indicate that generic initial states thermalize, given time, even for arbitrarily small energies. From the gravitational...Go to contribution page
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Lohrasp Seify (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 14:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)In 2011, the ALPHA collaboration created and trapped neutral anti-hydrogen particles for the first time in history [1]. Key to this achievement was the demonstration of evaporative cooling of charged particles in a Penning Trap, a cooling method that had not previously been achieved with trapped low temperature ions [2]. Work is currently underway at the University of Calgary to...Go to contribution page
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Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)16/06/2015, 14:15Women in Physics / Femmes en physique (CEWIP-CEFEP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéA century ago it was only Marie Curie and a few other women who were part of the physics community, but in 2014, CAP and IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) brought over 200 women physicists from 52 countries to Waterloo for the 5th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP). ICWIP 2014 was held at Wilfrid Laurier University from August 5 to 8, 2014. This...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pranai Vasudev (University of Toronto)16/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)While normally quantum mechanical effects are observable at cryogenic temperatures and at very small length scales, our work brings these quantum phenomena to the macroscopic length scale and to room temperature. Our work focuses on the possibility of room-temperature thermal equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of quantum well exciton-polaritons in micrometer scale cavities...Go to contribution page
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Marek Malac16/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe scattering of the fast electrons by a sample in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) results in a measurable signal and also leads to sample damage. In an extreme case, the damage can be severe and can proceed faster than data can be collected. The fundamental limit on whether a measurement can be performed is set by the interaction cross section and collection efficiency for the...Go to contribution page
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Mark de Jong (Canadian Light Source Inc.)16/06/2015, 14:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Canadian Light Source (CLS) has been working on a project to develop a facility that uses a 35 MeV high power (40 kW) electron linac to produce medical isotopes. This project was funded by Natural Resources Canada’s Non-reactor-based Isotope Supply Program which was initiated following the lengthy shutdowns of the NRU reactor at Chalk River that caused significant shortages of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Ying Tsui (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 14:15Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWarm Dense Matter (WDM) is a material under extreme conditions which has near solid density but has a temperature of several electron volts. It is a state lies in between condense matter state and plasma state. The study of materials under extreme conditions is currently a forefront area of study in material science and has generated enormous scientific interest. The understanding of WDM is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bin Jian (National Research Council)16/06/2015, 14:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)A novel magnetic microtrap has been demonstrated for ultracold neutral atoms [1]. It consists of two concentric currents loops having radii r1 and r2. A magnetic field minimum is generated along the axis of the loops if oppositely oriented currents flow through the loops. Selecting r2/r1 = 2.2 maximizes the restoring force to the trap center. The strength and position of the microtrap...Go to contribution page
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Dr Berta Beltran (Univeristy of Alberta)16/06/2015, 14:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The DEAP-3600 experiment is looking for dark matter WIMPs by detecting the scintillation light produced by a recoiling liquid argon nucleus. Using a 1 tonne fiducial volume a WIMP-nucleon cross section sensitivity of 10^{-46} cm2 in is expected for 3 years of data taking for a 100GeV WIMP. DEAP-3600 has been designed for a target background of 0.6 events in the WIMP region of interest in 3...Go to contribution page
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Jason Park (University of British Columbia/TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 14:30Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Self-conjugate nuclei, where $N=Z$, exhibit a strong $pn$ interaction due to the large overlap of wavefunctions in identical orbitals. The heaviest $N=Z$ nuclei studied so far is $^{92}$Pd, and it has demonstrated a strong binding in the $T = 0$ interaction [1]. As the mass number increases, the nucleus approaches the doubly-magic $^{100}$Sn. To investigate the evolution of the $pn$...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ralf Meyer (Laurentian University)16/06/2015, 14:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Nanostructed materials make it possible to tailor the vibrational properties of a system for specific uses like thermoelectric applications or phononic waveguides. In this work, the vibrational properties of two-dimensional silicon nanostructures are studied. The nanostructures are build from arrays of nanowires that are arranged in such a manner that they form a periodic lattice. The method...Go to contribution page
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James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))16/06/2015, 14:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn 2010 the Canadian led MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was unanimously approved by CERN's Research Board to start data taking in 2015. MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its groundbreaking physics program defines over 30 scenarios that...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Themens (University of New Brunswick)16/06/2015, 14:30Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The problem of receiver Differential Code Biases (DCBs) in the use of GPS measurements of ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) has been a constant concern amongst network operators and data users since the advent of the use of GPS measurements for ionospheric monitoring. While modern methods have become highly refined, they still demonstrate unphysical bias behavior, namely notable solar...Go to contribution page
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Ms Fatima Garcia (Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 14:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Access to new and rare radioactive isotopes is key to their application in nuclear science. Radioactive ion beam (RIB) facilities around the world, such as TRIUMF (Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, 4004 Westbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3), work to develop target materials that generate ion beams used in nuclear medicine, astrophysics and fundamental physics...Go to contribution page
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Mr Antoine Durocher-Jean (U. Montreal)16/06/2015, 14:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)In recent years, atmospheric-pressure plasmas have gained a lot of interest in view of their interest for fast treatment of materials over large area wafers. While such plasmas are typically based on corona or dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) for processing of thin samples (for example roll-to-roll systems), a number of applications require the treatment of thicker samples and thus the use...Go to contribution page
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Lindsay LeBlanc (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 14:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéUltracold quantum gases are an ideal medium with which to explore the many-body behaviour of quantum systems. With a century of research in atomic physics at the foundation, a wide variety of techniques are available for manipulating the parameters that govern the behaviour of these systems, including tuning the interactions between particles and manipulating their potential energy...Go to contribution page
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Dr James Day (University of British Columbia)16/06/2015, 14:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)It has been established that male students outperform female students on almost all commonly-used physics concept inventories. However, there is significant variation in the factors that contribute to this gender gap, as well as the direction in which they influence it. It is presently unknown if such a gender gap exists on the relatively new Concise Data Processing Assessment (CDPA). To get...Go to contribution page
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Ahmad Almudallal (Memorial University of Newfoundland)16/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)We employ several computer simulation techniques to study the phase behaviour of a simple, two dimensional monodisperse system of particles interacting through a core-softened potential comprising a repulsive shoulder and an attractive square well. This model was previously constructed and used to explore anomalous liquid behaviour in 2D and 3D, including liquid-liquid phase separation [1]....Go to contribution page
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Thomas McElroy (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 14:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)DEAP-3600, comprised of a 1 tonne fiducial mass of ultra-pure liquid argon, is designed to achieve world-leading sensitivity for spin-independent dark matter interactions. DEAP-3600 measures the time distribution of scintillation light from the de-excitation of argon dimers to select events. This measurement allows background events from Ar39 decays to be rejected at a high level. The...Go to contribution page
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Mr Vedran Jelic (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The terahertz scanning tunneling microscope (THz-STM) is a new imaging and spectroscopy tool that is capable of measuring picosecond electron dynamics at the nanoscale. Free-space THz pulses are commonly used for non-contact conductivity measurements, but they are diffraction limited to millimeter length scales. We can overcome this limit by coupling THz pulses to a sharp metal tip through...Go to contribution page
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Barry Davids (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 14:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The Electromagnetic Mass Analyser EMMA is a recoil mass spectrometer for TRIUMF's ISAC-II facility designed to separate the recoils of nuclear reactions from the heavy ion beams that produce them and to disperse the recoils according to their mass/charge ratio. In this talk I will present an update on the construction and commissioning of the spectrometer and its components.Go to contribution page
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Joel Hutchinson (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 14:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We apply the AdS/CFT correspondence to study a quantum Hall system at strong coupling. Fermions at finite density in an external magnetic field are put in via gauge fields living on a stack of D5 branes in Anti-deSitter space. Under the appropriate conditions, the D5 branes blow up to form a D7 brane which is capable of forming a charge-gapped state. We add finite temperature by including a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gordon James (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 14:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)In the first year of operation of the ePOP instruments on the Canadian small satellite CASSIOPE, a number of passes were recorded during which the Radio Receiver Instrument (RRI) measured radiation from powerful high-frequency ground transmitters that act as ionospheric heaters. In the case of measurements of transionospheric propagation from the Sura heating facility in Russia, located at...Go to contribution page
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Xiaoming Zhang (University of Western Ontario)16/06/2015, 15:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Earthquakes may be seen as an example of self-organized criticality. When we transform the Gutenberg-Richter law of earthquake magnitude, the seismic moment, as a measure of the energy released, yields a power law distribution indicating a self-similar pattern. The earthquake dynamics can be modelled by employing the spring-block system, which features a slowly-driving force, failure threshold...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jamie Sanchez-Fortun Stoker (University of Regina)16/06/2015, 15:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) has emerged as a rival device to traditional photodetectors such as the photomultiplier tube (PMT). Over the past decade, SiPMs - also known as Multi-pixel photon counters (MPPCs) and Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) - have found applications in fields ranging from, for example, high-energy physics and atmospheric lidar, to homeland security,...Go to contribution page
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ChunJun Cao (Caltech)16/06/2015, 15:00Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)It has been proposed that the Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA), which is efficient at reproducing CFT ground states, also captures certain aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, MERA reproduces the Ryu-Takayanagi-type formula and the network structure is similar to a discretized AdS space where the renormalization direction gives rise to the additional bulk...Go to contribution page
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Alexandre Koustov (U)16/06/2015, 15:00Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Polar cap flow pattern and intensity depend on the IMF Bz and By components. For IMF Bz<0, the pattern is consistently two-celled, and previous studies indicate that flows are fastest near noon and midnight for By<0 and during afternoon-dusk hours for By>0. In this study, we investigate the polar cap flow intensity in two ways. First we consider highly-averaged (over each month of...Go to contribution page
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Ben Xu (Memorial University)16/06/2015, 15:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Structural disorder in calcium carbonate materials is a topic of intense current interest in the fields of biomineralization, archaeological science, and geochemistry. In these fields, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a standard material characterization tool because it can clearly distinguish between amorphous calcium carbonate and calcite. Earlier theoretical work based on...Go to contribution page
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Mianzhen Mo (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 15:00Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Study of the ionization state of material in the warm dense matter regime is a significant challenge at present. Recently, we have demonstrated that the femtosecond duration Betatron x-ray radiation from the laser wakefield acceleration of electrons is capable of being employed as a probe to directly measure the ionization states of warm dense aluminum via K-shell line absorption spectroscopy...Go to contribution page
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Allison Radich (University of Guelph)16/06/2015, 15:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)As part of a broader program to study the evolution of collectivity in the even-even nuclei above tin, a series of $\beta$-decay measurements of the odd-odd Cs isotopes into the even-even Xe isotopes, specifically $^{122,124,126}$Xe, have been made utilizing the 8$\pi$ spectrometer at TRIUMF-ISAC. The 8$\pi$ spectrometer consisted of 20 Compton-suppressed high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Simone Pisana (York University)16/06/2015, 15:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéHeat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) has been recognized as a leading technology to increase the data storage density of hard disk drives[1]. Dispersions in the properties of the grains comprising the magnetic medium can lead to grain-to-grain Curie temperature variations, which drastically affect noise in the recorded magnetic transitions, limiting the data storage density capabilities in...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 15:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTRIUMF operates the Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) rare isotope facility as well as the Centre for Molecular and Materials Science (CMMS), which uses muons and isotopes. The ISAC facility comprises 18 state of the art experiments for experimental programs in nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, and fundamental symmetries. CMMS features several state-of-the-art set-ups for muon...Go to contribution page
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William Archer (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 15:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéLarge ion temperature anisotropies (temperature perpendicular to magnetic field larger than parallel to magnetic field) in narrow regions of enhanced ion flow have been identified by the Electric Field Instruments on board the Swarm satellites as a persistent feature of the high latitude midnight-sector auroral zone. These flow channels typically span less than 100 km latitudinally with ion...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jenna Smith (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 15:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Recent developments in many-body calculation methods have extended the application of *ab initio* interactions to medium-mass nuclei near closed shells. Detailed nuclear data from these isotopes are necessary to evaluate the many-body calculation methods and to test the predictive capacity of the interactions. $^{47}$Ca and $^{47}$K are each one nucleon removed from the doubly-magic nucleus...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Osamu Ishihara (Chubu University/Yokohama National University)16/06/2015, 15:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéEarlier research on plasma turbulence and later research development on a complex plasma are discussed. Study of nonlinear evolution of instabilities in a collisionless plasma, especially ion acoustic instability and Buneman instability, revealed the role of plasma collective modes in the heating of plasma particles. It was essential for plasma waves to grow in time, resulting in the heating...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Bill Coish (McGill University)16/06/2015, 15:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéQubit coherence measurements are now sufficiently accurate that they can be used to perform 'spectroscopy' of noise due to a complex environment. Measuring not only the decay time, but also the form of decay as a function of some external parameter (e.g. temperature) can determine the nature of the dominant decoherence source. I will describe how temperature-dependent measurements of qubit...Go to contribution page
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16/06/2015, 15:45Women in Physics / Femmes en physique (CEWIP-CEFEP)Moderator: Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University Panellists: Sara Seager (MIT), Adriana Predoi-Cross (University of Lethbridge) and Wendy Taylor (York University)Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicholas Hastings (University of Regina)16/06/2015, 15:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe current generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments employ an off-axis $\nu_\mu$ (or $\bar{\nu}_\mu$) beam produced by the decay of pions created when a proton beam strikes a target. The beam is monitored at detector facilities near the production point before travelling hundreds of kilometres to a far detector. Aiming the beam centre slightly away from the far...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gilles Gerbier (Queens University)16/06/2015, 15:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe SuperCDMS collaboration operates cryogenic germanium detectors to search for particle dark matter (WIMPs), so far at Soudan Underground Laboratory in Minnesota, US. The EURECA collaboration gathers EDELWEISS, a European collaboration also operating cryogenic germanium detectors, at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, and CRESST who operate cryogenic scintillating detectors (CaWO4) at the...Go to contribution page
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Michael Woodside (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 15:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe self-assembly of intricate structures by proteins is a complex process involving myriad degrees of freedom. Such “folding” is usually described in terms of a diffusive search over a multi-dimensional energy landscape in conformational space for the lowest-energy structure. The diffusion coefficient, *D*, encodes the rates at which microscopic motions occur during folding and is thus of...Go to contribution page
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Ms Jennifer Pore (Simon Fraser University)16/06/2015, 16:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Due to its very low natural abundance of 0.004%, the structure of the magic nucleus $^{46}$Ca has not been studied in great detail compared to its even-even Ca neighbors. The calcium region is currently a new frontier for modern shell model calculations based on NN and 3N forces [1,2], so detailed experimental data from these nuclei is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the region....Go to contribution page
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Dr Apichart Linhananta (Lakehead University)16/06/2015, 16:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Protein aggregation is a medically relevant phenomenon that can lead to protein-folding diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Prion’s. The aggregation process is largely determined by hydrogen bonds (HB), involving hundreds of peptides, over a period of days or even months. This rules out molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of all-atom protein models in explicit solvents. However, coarse-grained...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jeff Bale (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 16:15Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)TRIUMF’s new Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) is the up and coming producer of rare isotope beams for nuclear science in Canada. It will triple the number of beamlines available to both of the (rare) Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facilities, and will expand their range of available isotopes. An overview of ARIEL and the CANadian Rare-isotope facility with Electron-Beam ion...Go to contribution page
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Fady Shaker (university of winnipeg)16/06/2015, 16:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)T2K is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan, that targets the measurement of the mixing angle between the first and the third neutrino mass eigenstates ($\theta_{13}$) by looking for the appearance of electron neutrinos ($\nu_e$) in a beam of muon neutrinos ($\nu_\mu$), as well as a precision measurement for the mass difference between the the second and the third...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrei Smolyakov (University of Saakatchewan)16/06/2015, 16:15Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéDevices with stationary, externally applied, electric field which is perpendicular to a moderate amplitude magnetic field B₀, are now a common example of magnetically controlled plasmas. High interest applications involve Penning type plasma sources, magnetrons for plasma processing, magnetic filters for ion separation, and electric space propulsion devices such as Hall thrusters. One common...Go to contribution page
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Dr Thayyil Jayachandran (University of New Brunswick)16/06/2015, 16:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The polar cap ionosphere, an important part of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere system, is formed by ionization of the neutral atmosphere by solar radiation and particle precipitation under internal transportation and chemical processes. The polar ionosphere is primarily driven by magnetospheric convection and neutral circulation, and undergoes structuring over a wide range of temporal...Go to contribution page
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Christopher Pugh (University of Waterloo)16/06/2015, 16:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)NanoQEY (Nano Quantum EncrYption satellite) is a demonstration satellite which will show the feasibility of implementing Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) between two ground stations on earth using a satellite trusted node approach. One of the main objectives of NanoQEY is to eliminate the necessity for a fine pointing system which will reduce cost and planning time for a satellite. The system...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ryan Underwood (Queens University)16/06/2015, 16:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)SuperCDMS searches for dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with cryogenic germanium detectors. WIMPs interacting with atomic nuclei deposit energy in form of lattice vibrations (phonons) which propagate through the cylindrical Ge single crystal (75 mm diameter, 25 mm high) until they are absorbed by the phonon sensors covering part of the flat surfaces of...Go to contribution page
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David Broun (Simon Fraser University)16/06/2015, 16:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn the so-called "heavy-fermion" metals, the hybridization of the conduction band with electrons localized in partially filled $f$ orbitals leads to the formation of heavy quasiparticles, for which the effective mass can be renormalized by a factor of 100 or more. However, the itinerant nature of these quasiparticles competes with a tendency to form more conventional, magnetically ordered...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ryan Dunlop (University of Guelph)16/06/2015, 16:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)In adopted models for the $s$-process, it is assumed that helium shell flashes give rise to two neutron bursts at two different thermal energies $(kT\sim10$ keV and $kT\sim25$ keV). The contribution to the isotopic abundance of $^{116}$Cd from the higher temperature neutron bursts are calculated assuming thermal equilibrium between the ground state and the long-lived isomeric state of...Go to contribution page
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Dr James Bueno (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 16:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The DEAP-3600 dark matter detector at SNOLAB will search for scattering of weakly interacting massive particles from a 3600 kg liquid argon target. The liquid argon is held in a spherical vessel made from acrylic, with the highest standards of purity for both bulk acrylic and removal of surface activities. At the top of the vessel there is a neck opening to the cooling system, and alpha...Go to contribution page
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Christine Nielsen (University of British Columbia)16/06/2015, 16:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is composed of a near detector at 280m and a far detector at Super-Kamiokande located 295 km from the neutrino beam in Tokai. The main oscillation analyses are performed using fits to the data collected at the far detector. These analyses depend on our ability to predict the event rates and energy spectra at the far detector, which...Go to contribution page
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Mr Andrew MacLean (University of Guelph)16/06/2015, 16:30Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)When a excited nuclear state emits successive $\gamma$-rays in a $\gamma-\gamma$ cascade, $X^{**} \rightarrow X^{*} + \gamma_{1} \rightarrow X + \gamma_{2}$ an anisotropy is found in the spatial distribution of $\gamma_{2}$ with respect to $\gamma_{1}$. By defining the direction of $\gamma_{1}$ to be the z-axis, the intermediate level, $X^{*} $, in general will have an uneven distribution of...Go to contribution page
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Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 16:30Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Pixelated Geiger-mode avalanche photo-diodes also called silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are replacing traditional vacuum photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) in numerous applications in subatomic physics, medical imaging and condensed matter. They have several advantages being insensitive to magnetic field, having higher efficiency, more uniform gain, and being more compact. However, they still...Go to contribution page
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Mr Matthew Patrick (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 16:30Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Small Scale Dynamics of Poynting Flux Measured With Swarm We present case studies of ionospheric Poynting flux using the instruments onboard the three ESA Swarm spacecraft. The three Swarm satellites each carry an Electric Field Instrument (EFI) that can be used to measure ion drift velocities. During the first months of the mission the satellites were in nearly circular, polar orbits at...Go to contribution page
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Jennifer Tang (McMaster University)16/06/2015, 16:30Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking, and behaviour. One of the hallmarks of the disease is the formation of neurotoxic senile plaques, primarily consisting of amyloid-β peptides. Despite their importance for the pathogenesis of the disease, little is known about the properties of these plaques and the process by which they form. We developed a model...Go to contribution page
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Chetan Deshmukh (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 16:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Many applications of quantum information processing benefit from, or even require, the possibility to detect the number of photons in a given signal pulse without destroying the photons nor the encoded quantum state. We propose and show first steps towards the implementation of such a Quantum Non-Demolition (QND) measurement for time-bin qubits. To implement this measurement, we first store a...Go to contribution page
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John Bowman (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 16:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The matrix transpose is an essential primitive of high-performance parallel computing. In plasma physics and fluid dynamics, a matrix transpose is used to localize the computation of the multidimensional Fast Fourier transform, the engine that powers the pseudospectral collocation method. An adaptive parallel matrix transpose algorithm optimized for distributed multicore architectures...Go to contribution page
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Robert Girardin (Lakehead University)16/06/2015, 16:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Amyloid Beta (A$\beta$) plaques have long been correlated with Alzheimer's disease; however, efforts made to link the plaques to pathogenic effects or utilize them for diagnostic purposes have not been very fruitful. Modern investigations point to peptide intermediate structures or their oligomers as likely candidates for the toxic agents, yet much remains unknown about the aggregation life...Go to contribution page
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Ken Clark (University of Toronto)16/06/2015, 16:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)IceCube and its low energy extension DeepCore have been deployed at the South Pole and taking data since early 2010. Originally designed to search for high energy (on the order of PeV) events, IceCube has recently published the detection of the highest energy events ever recorded. At the same time, enhancements to the detector have been installed to focus on lower energy events. With a...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Silvia Mittler (University of Western Ontario)16/06/2015, 16:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTwo new evanescent field microscopy technologies based on glass slab waveguides with permanent coupling gratings are introduced: waveguide evanescent field fluorescence (WEFF) microscopy and waveguide evanescent field scattering (WEFS) microscopy. The technologies are briefly described and the experimental setup based on a conventional inverted microscope is introduced and compared to...Go to contribution page
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Michelle Dunlop (University of Guelph)16/06/2015, 16:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)High precision measurements of superallowed Fermi beta transitions between 0$^+$ isobaric analogue states allow for stringent tests of the electroweak interaction described by the Standard Model. In particular, these transitions provide an experimental probe of the unitary of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, the Conserved-Vector-Current (CVC) hypothesis, as well as set limits on...Go to contribution page
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Derek Cranshaw (Queen's University)16/06/2015, 16:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The DEAP-3600 experiment is a spherical dark matter detector searching for WIMPs by detecting scintillation light in a 3600 kg mass of liquid argon. Before the ultraviolet scintillation light passes through the optically clear acrylic vessel and light guides to the surrounding photomultiplier tubes, it must pass through a wavelength-shifting layer of tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB). Trace amounts...Go to contribution page
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Mr Stephen Lane (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 16:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are the electromagnetic resonances of dielectric spheres, cylinders, or rings. The WGM wavelengths can shift when the resonant field interacts with a local analyte fluid. This work demonstrates a fluorescent core microcapillary that utilizes WGMs for biosensing applications. This device consists of a glass microcapillary with a 50-μm-diameter inner channel. The...Go to contribution page
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Taylor Cameron (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 16:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Auroral arcs are known to be caused by electrons with keV energies interacting with the neutral atmosphere. However, there is much more to the aurora than auroral arcs. There is a wide range of phenomena that are grouped together as "diffuse aurora". Suprathermal electron precipitation (having energies between 1 eV and a keV) often contributes to the diffuse aurora. Much less is known about...Go to contribution page
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Jean Barrette (McGill University)16/06/2015, 16:45History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The Weber electrodynamometer is an instrument used to measure the absolute value of electric power (or current if one knows the voltage). It works by measuring the mechanical torque between two pairs of coils induced by the current in the coils. This is one of the first research instrument bought in 1895 by the newly created McGill Physics Department for 177£. McGill College apparatus...Go to contribution page
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Yangyang Shen (University of Calgary)16/06/2015, 17:00Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Low-energy ion upflows associated with ion heating processes in the cusp/cleft and polar cap regions are investigated using conjunctions of the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) satellite and the Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR-N) in June 2014 and February 2015. e-POP encountered the cusp/cleft ion fountain at 10-14 MLT and around 1000km altitude during these conjunction...Go to contribution page
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Mr R. A. Behbahani (University of Saskatchewan)16/06/2015, 17:00Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs) are used for medical applications including positron emission tomography (PET). The required activity for N-13for PET is about 4 GBq for a myocardial blood perfusion assessment. Dense plasma focus (DPF) has been considered as a low cost methods for producing SLRs as an alternative to conventional cyclotron facilities. A low energy dense plasma focus has been...Go to contribution page
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Dr Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 17:00Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)In the past decade, a remarkable progress has been made in the neutrino oscillation determining the lepton mixing (PMNS) angles, except for the CP violating phase delta_CP. The next step is to determine this remaining phase and then over-constraining the PMNS matrix to test its unitarity. Testing the unitarity is an effective way to search for physics beyond the standard model, as is...Go to contribution page
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Zhenfu Zhang (University of Toronto)16/06/2015, 17:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play critical roles in regulatory protein interactions. Cap-dependent translation initiation is regulated by the interaction of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) with disordered eIF4E binding proteins (4E-BPs) in a phosphorylation dependent manner. Fluorescence correlation and time-resolved anisotropy spectroscopies were used to detect and assess...Go to contribution page
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Nikita Bernier (TRIUMF)16/06/2015, 17:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)GRIFFIN (Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei) was installed at the TRIUMF-ISAC-I facility during 2014 and represents a major upgrade to the 8$\pi$ spectrometer which operated at ISAC for the past decade. With an array of 16 large-volume hyper-pure germanium (HPGe) clover detectors, instrumented with a state-of-the-art digital data acquisition system, the array...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Purschke (University of Alberta)16/06/2015, 17:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Terahertz (THz) pulse science is a rapidly developing field, and has been applied extensively in the characterization of ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors and nanostructures. The recent development of intense THz pulse sources in lithium niobate (LN), however, allows the dynamics of transient states to be directly manipulated by the large electric field of the THz pulse itself. We have used...Go to contribution page
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John Root (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)16/06/2015, 19:00Other Sessions or Meetings / Autres séances ou réunionsInvited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Canadian federal government recently announced its decision to shut down the NRU reactor in 2018. The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor commenced operation in 1957, to provide neutrons for several missions simultaneously, including the production of neutron beams to support fundamental experimental research on solids and liquids. Today, the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre manages...Go to contribution page
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Ted Hsu (MP, Kingston and the Islands)16/06/2015, 19:10Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéHow can physicists have a stronger voice in government? We should be regularly posing this question before government budget decisions, before funding deadlines for scientific projects or infrastructure loom. Scientists in general, not to mention physicists, are not represented in large numbers in the country’s legislatures, nor are they commonly sighted in the halls and offices of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gary Albach (Former President and CEO, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures)16/06/2015, 19:55Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMany physicists find rewarding careers outside universities, in industry and government service. Gary Albach has collected paycheques from all three sectors and shares job-seeking tips plus the terrors and challenges of the inelastic collisions within his career as a “lapsed physicist”.Go to contribution page
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16/06/2015, 20:30Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité- Shalon MacFarlane (Technology Transfer Manager, TEC Edmonton) - Ted Hsu (Member of Parliament, Kingston and the Islands)Go to contribution page
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16/06/2015, 20:50Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité(Albach, MacFarlane, Hsu)Go to contribution page
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Nigel Smith (SNOLab)17/06/2015, 08:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéSNOLAB is a deep underground research facility, based at a depth of 2km in the Vale Creighton mine, near Sudbury, Ontario. The SNOLAB research programme is primarily based around particle and astroparticle physics projects studying the Galactic dark matter, neutrinoless double beta decay and natural sources of neutrinos. Several leading edge technologies have been developed to study these...Go to contribution page
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David Kubiznak (Perimeter Institute)17/06/2015, 08:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe mass of a black hole has traditionally been identified with its energy. We describe a new perspective on black hole thermodynamics, one that identifies the mass of a black hole with chemical enthalpy, and the cosmological constant as thermodynamic pressure. This leads to an understanding of black holes from the viewpoint of chemistry, in terms of concepts such as Van der Waals fluids,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Malcolm Kennett (Simon Fraser University)17/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWhen graphene is placed in a strong magnetic field it exhibits quantum Hall states at fillings that can be predicted by taking into account the relativistic form of the low-energy electronic excitations and ignoring interactions between electrons. However, additional quantum Hall states are observed at filling fractions $\nu$ = 0 and $\nu$ = $\pm$1 that are not explained within a picture of...Go to contribution page
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Barry Sanders (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 08:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéA single-shot Toffoli, or controlled-controlled-NOT, gate is desirable for classical and for quantum information processing. The Toffoli gate alone is universal for reversible computing and, accompanied by the Hadamard gate, are universal for quantum computing. The Toffoli gate is a key ingredient for (non-topological) quantum error correction. Currently Toffoli gates are achieved by...Go to contribution page
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Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)17/06/2015, 08:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Many Physics Departments in Canada and around the world face similar challenges: low enrollment numbers for physics majors, long graduation times, retention problems, and the desire – or pressure – to improve the student experience. In February 2015, a team from the Physics Department at SFU attended the “Building a Thriving Undergraduate Physics Program” workshop organized by the APS and...Go to contribution page
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John Q Xiao (University of Delaware)17/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéSpin-orbital coupling driven toques have been observed in magnetic bilayers consisting of a ferromagnet (FM) and heavy metal (HM) or topological insulator (TI). It has been demonstrated that the spin-orbit torques driven by an in-plane current can switch magnetization, manipulate magnetic domains and excite magnetization auto-oscillation. However, the microscopic mechanism for the spin-orbit...Go to contribution page
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David Sivak (Simon Fraser University)17/06/2015, 08:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMolecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of energy, and they feature prominently in essentially any major cell biological process. A plausible hypothesis holds that evolution has sculpted these machines to efficiently transmit energy and information in their natural contexts, where energetic fluctuations are large and nonequilibrium driving forces are...Go to contribution page
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William Axel Leight (Carleton University (CA))17/06/2015, 08:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéPlanned upgrades to the LHC will significantly increase its luminosity, leading to large increases in particle flux which will pose a challenge for the ATLAS detector. Phase-1 upgrades, to be installed during the upcoming Long Shutdown 2 during 2018 and 2019, will both enhance the ATLAS trigger system to handle these higher luminosities without damaging physics performance as well as...Go to contribution page
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Kevin graham17/06/2015, 08:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) effort continues to develop techniques and technology towards the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Discovery of this process would reveal new properties of neutrinos including first measurement of the neutrino mass scale, evidence that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and first measurement of a lepton number violating process. Searching for...Go to contribution page
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Johnathan Burchill (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 08:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéEarth's ionized upper atmosphere is ablated into space at a rate of 1 kilogram per second. This outflowing flux is comprised of significant amounts of heavy ions, such as oxygen, whose source populations in the F region ionosphere are sufficiently cool (~1000 K) to be strongly gravitationally bound to the Earth. Here lies a mystery: What processes operate on the cool, dense, low-altitude (*F*...Go to contribution page
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Dr Theodore Hodapp (American Physical Society)17/06/2015, 09:00Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThere are about 760 colleges and universities that offer an undergraduate degree in physics in the United States. Some are small and educate only a few physics students each year, while others attract, educate, and graduate dozens. The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers have organized a number of workshops to help departments build and improve their...Go to contribution page
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Farokh Mivehvar (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 09:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The atom-photon interaction is significantly amplified when the radiation field is confined inside a high-finesse cavity, resulting in a complex, coupled dynamics of the quantized matter and radiation fields. This coupled dynamics in turn mediates long-ranged interactions between atoms. Here we demonstrate how to simultaneously induce spin-orbit (SO) coupling and long-ranged interactions in a...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Giovanni Fanchini (The University of Western Ontario)17/06/2015, 09:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéFrom the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, recognizing the synthesis of fullerene, to the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to the discovery of graphene, carbon-based nanomaterials have evolved into one of the hottest area in materials science. Utilization of large-area graphene thin films as transparent conductors in solar cells and energy-efficient light emitting devices may take...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Richard Marchand (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 09:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Solar Orbiter is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission scheduled for launch early in 2017, with the objective of providing observations of unprecedented quality of the sun and solar wind at locations ranging from 0.28 to 0.9 astronomical units (AU). During its journey, Solar Orbiter will experience a vast range of space-environment conditions, including intense radiation and solar wind plasma...Go to contribution page
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Pouya Khaghani17/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment which is located at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario. Using 780 tonnes of organic liquid scintillator, SNO+ will search for neutrino-less double beta decay of 130Te. In addition, measuring low energy solar neutrinos are planned for the second phase. Looking for rare events requires very stringent background limits. One of the sources originates from...Go to contribution page
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Mr Bradley Hauer (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 09:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Since its inception in the early 1900s, the theory of quantum mechanics has provided an excellent model for very small objects, such as single atoms or molecules. However, as we move to larger and larger systems, we eventually return to the classic realm, where Newtonian mechanics takes over. In order to probe this quantum-to-classical crossover, we propose an experiment by which we can...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Silvia Mittler (University of Western Ontario)17/06/2015, 09:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Organometallic chemical vapour deposited (OMCVD) gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can be successfully used for biosensing. For the sensing mechanism an absorption feature, the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), is implemented. Typically in this bio-sensing approach is monitoring the changes in the peak position of the LSPR via absorption spectroscopy during a highly specific binding...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Ariel Edery (Bishop's)17/06/2015, 09:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)We discuss the physics of *restricted Weyl invariance*, a symmetry of dimensionless actions in four dimensional curved space time. When we study a scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity with Weyl(conformal) weight of $-1$ (i.e. scalar field with the usual two-derivative kinetic term), we find that dimensionless terms are either fully Weyl invariant or are Weyl invariant if the conformal...Go to contribution page
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Sebastien Rettie (University of British Columbia (CA))17/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The planned luminosity increase of the LHC will allow the precise measurement of Higgs boson properties and extend the search for new physics phenomena beyond the standard model. To maintain excellent detection and background rejection capability in the forward region of the ATLAS detector, part of the muon detection system is scheduled to be upgraded during the LHC long shutdown period of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ian Lawson (SNOLAB)17/06/2015, 09:15Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Experiments currently searching for dark matter, studying properties of neutrinos or searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay require very low levels of radioactive backgrounds both in their own construction materials and in the surrounding environment. These low background levels are required so that the experiments can achieve the required sensitivities for their searches. SNOLAB has...Go to contribution page
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Dr Raphael Turcotte (Advanced Microscopy Program, Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA)17/06/2015, 09:30Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The hematopoietic stem cell niche is a specialized bone marrow microenvironment where blood-forming cells reside. Interactions between these rare cells and their niche need to be studied at the single-cell level. While live animal cell tracking with optical microscopy has proven useful for this purpose, a more thorough characterization requires novel approaches. This can be accomplished by...Go to contribution page
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Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)17/06/2015, 09:30Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The SNOLAB underground laboratory has 50 thousand square feet of floor space all kept as a class 2000 clean room. This suppresses backgrounds from Uranium and Thorium which comprise approximately 1ppm of mine dust and a few ppm of concrete. The systems used to maintain and monitor the cleanliness will be discussed as well as results from cleanliness audits. Air in mines typically has much...Go to contribution page
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Allison MacDonald (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 09:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Recent developments in fabrication techniques have allowed reductions in the size of mechanical resonators to the micro- and nano-scale facilitating their use as exquisite sensors of a variety of phenomena. When coupled to optical cavities, these resonators become an attractive means for investigating the limits of quantum mechanics, as well as powerful tools for building hybrid quantum...Go to contribution page
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753. Performance of the first Canadian-made muon chamber prototype for the ATLAS experiment upgrade.Benoit Lefebvre (McGill University (CA))17/06/2015, 09:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The planned luminosity increase of the LHC will allow the precise measurement of Higgs boson properties and extend the search for new physics phenomena beyond the standard model. To maintain excellent detection and background rejection capability in the forward region of the ATLAS detector, part of the muon detection system is scheduled to be upgraded during the LHC long shutdown period of...Go to contribution page
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Andranik Sarkissian (PLASMIONIQUE Inc)17/06/2015, 09:30Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéPlasma, known also as the forth state of mater, constitutes over 99.9% of our universe. However, our planet appears to be an exception to the rule, where plasma, in its natural state, exists only rarely. The incentive for human to generate and study plasma state started as scientific curiosity, but it has grown into an important enabling industrial tool, with applications in variety of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Réjean Plamondon (École Polytechnique de Montréal)17/06/2015, 09:30Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)In a recent paper [1] on the modeling of emergent trends in complex biological and physical systems, an overview of the Bayesian approach [2] that we have used to describe the space-time curvature of a static spherically symmetric massive system was presented. The first part of this conference summarizes the main steps of this development. Reinterpreting Einstein gravitation equation in the...Go to contribution page
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Christopher DiLoreto (University of Windsor)17/06/2015, 09:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Developing methods for the detection of single molecule interacting with the environment has been a large area of research. These methods are quite varied in their execution and include antigen binding, surface plasmon resonance, fluorescence among many others. These methods all take advantage of the fact that molecular processes often change how a substrate interacts with light when a...Go to contribution page
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Logan Sibley (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 09:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Is the neutrino its own anti-particle? The SNO+ detector at SNOLAB is set to join the international competition of experiments seeking to answer this fundamental question. Its sheer size – a 12 m diameter acrylic sphere holding 780 t of liquid scintillator containing more than 2 t of dissolved tellurium and observed by nearly 9500 photomultiplier tubes – puts SNO+ among those experiments with...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kevin Resch (University of Waterloo)17/06/2015, 09:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéEntanglement is required for most applications in quantum information science. In optics, the most widespread source of entangled photon pairs is the nonlinear optical process of parametric down-conversion. Through this process, single high energy pump photons are converted into pairs of lower energy photons. In the first part of my talk I will describe our realization of cascaded...Go to contribution page
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Bradley Cownden (University of Manitoba)17/06/2015, 09:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We consider linear perturbations of the background type IIB SUGRA solutions and find the equations of motion for the moduli. In particular, we allow for spacetime fluctuations of the positions of the D3-branes in the compact dimensions. We postulate an ansatz for the 5-form flux due to the motion of the D3-branes, and a corresponding first-order part of the metric. The movement of the...Go to contribution page
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Callum Doolin (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 09:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Optical microdisks are intriguing devices due to their small size, compatibility with standard planar micro/nano-fabrication techniques, and ability to support high-Q whispering gallery modes. We fabricate and explore the use of thin (130 nm) Si$_3$N$_4$ disks with diameters of 15 - 30 μm as refractive index sensors, using a dimpled-tapered fiber to couple with the optical modes under water....Go to contribution page
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Prof. Dean Karlen (University of Victoria (CA))17/06/2015, 09:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe physics potential for an electron-positron linear collider operating at energies above LEP-II has been established for more than a decade. The case is even stronger now that we know the Higgs boson has a mass that allows a linear collider to make precisions studies of its properties. There is renewed excitement in this project with the Japanese Government considering hosting the facility....Go to contribution page
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Mr Dennis D. Fernandes (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)17/06/2015, 09:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The role of oligomers in signalling via G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) has been under debate. The oligomeric size of several GPCRs has been studied using fluorescence-based techniques and have provided inconsistent results, while their attendant G proteins have received little attention. In this study, the oligomeric nature of the GPCR signalling complex comprising the M2 muscarinic...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Marc Dignam (Queen's University)17/06/2015, 09:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Due to the linear dispersion of graphene, it has recently been predicted that third harmonic generation should be observed in monolayer graphene [1]. Although recent experiments have demonstrated third harmonic generation in a 45-layer thick sample [2], there has been no indication of harmonic generation in monolayer graphene [3]. To understand why this is the case and to try to maximize the...Go to contribution page
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Chris Miranda (Memorial University of Newfoundland)17/06/2015, 10:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Transfer of lipid material between mulitlamellar reservoirs and the surface active layer is required to maintain the functional surfactant layer in alveoli. Surfactant Protein B (SP-B) is believed to facilitate interlayer contact implicit in such activity. The way in which SP-B might promote trafficking of surfactant material was investigated using mixtures bilayered micelles containing long-...Go to contribution page
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Dr Prayush Kumar (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)17/06/2015, 10:00Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The direct detection of gravitational waves is imminent with the network of Advanced LIGO, Virgo, Geo, KAGRA detectors coming online. Coalescing binaries of stellar-mass black holes are one of the flagship sources for these terrestrial detectors. Planned detection searches that will be performed over the instrument data rely on models of inspiraling compact binaries. In this talk I would...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mohammad Zahidul Hossain Khan (Memorial University)17/06/2015, 10:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The area of carbon nanotubes (CNT)-polymer composites has been progressing rapidly in recent years. Pure CNT and CNT-polymer composites have many useful (industry related) properties ranging from good electrical conductivity to superior strength. However the full potential of using pure CNTs has been severely limited because of complications associated with the dispersion of CNTs. CNTs tend...Go to contribution page
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Mr Sabastine Ezugwu (The University of Western Ontario)17/06/2015, 10:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)In order to investigate the suitability of random arrays of nanoparticles for plasmonic enhancement in the visible-near infrared range, we introduced three-dimensional scanning near-field optical microscopy (3D-SNOM) imaging as a useful technique to probe the intensity of near-field radiation scattered by random systems of nanoparticles at heights up to several hundred nm from their surface...Go to contribution page
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Mr Zachary Tchir (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 10:00Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The ultrafast laser generated high harmonics is currently a hot research topics. Higher order harmonics generation in a 0.5 mm thick ZnO bulk crystal irradiated by ultrashort pulses from mid IR laser has been reported recently [1]. Because of the long interaction length in the bulk media the effects from self phase modulation become significant and the consequences are deformation of the ...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wick Haxton (University of Washington / University of California)17/06/2015, 10:45Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierThe discovery 15 years ago that neutrinos have mass and can spontaneously change their flavors has led to intense activity in nuclear and particle physics, including plans for powerful neutrino beams for long-baseline oscillation experiments and for ton-scale ultraclean underground detectors for double beta decay studies. Our improved knowledge of neutrinos has also enabled us to understand...Go to contribution page
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Dr John Page (University of Manitoba)17/06/2015, 11:30Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierWaves in complex media are often strongly scattered due to mesoscopic heterogeneities, leading to unusual phenomena which continue to fascinate us and enrich our basic understanding of the wave physics of condensed matter. Examples range from strikingly large variations in wave speeds to unusual refraction and tunneling effects, and even to the complete inhibition of wave propagation, due to...Go to contribution page
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Charles Gale (McGill University)17/06/2015, 12:00Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierThe phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD, the theory of the strong interaction) is only poorly known. There is currently a vibrant experimental and theoretical program that concentrate on the study and the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma, a fundamental state of matter that existed a few microseconds after the Big Bang. I will describe the theoretical aspects of this...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marzena Kastyak-Ibrahim (University of Manitoba)17/06/2015, 13:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)A new approach for the preparation and submission of laboratory reports for a first year Physics course has been developed at the University of Manitoba. Students are able to complete the data collection and analysis as well as the preparation and submission of the lab report during the three hour lab period. The students are provided with a template prepared in Microsoft Excel to help analyze...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dmitry Gavrilov (University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada)17/06/2015, 13:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMethods of non-destructive analysis and quality control are an inherent part of progress in development of modern materials for science and industry. Many of these methods and techniques find new, sometimes unexpected, applications in other fields as well. This presentation is devoted to an outline of those imaging methods which made their paths from science and industry to the delicate...Go to contribution page
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Dr Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)17/06/2015, 13:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéALPHA is an international project at CERN, with substantial Canadian involvement, whose ultimate goal is to test symmetry between matter and antimatter via comparisons of the properties of atomic hydrogen with its antimatter counter-part, antihydrogen. After several years of development, we have recently achieved significant milestones, including the first stable confinement of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Nicolas Yunes (Montana State University)17/06/2015, 13:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéEinstein's theory has passed all tests to date in the quasi-stationary weak-field, where gravitational dynamics are weak and quadrupolar, while velocities are small relative to the speed of light. The highly non-linear and dynamical regime of the gravitational interaction, however, remains mostly unexplored. The imminent detection of gravitational waves will open a window into this regime that...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wayne Hocking (University of Western Ontario)17/06/2015, 13:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMesospheric Ozone has significant chemical impact in the upper atmosphere, and its seasonal and annual variability needs to be better understood. Many large and expensive satellites have been flown over the last 20 years in search of such measurements. By carefully investigating the role of ozone in the high-temperature, hypersonic environment of overdense meteors, we have been able to...Go to contribution page
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Michael Rogers (University of Ottawa)17/06/2015, 13:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWhen coherent radiation is scattered by particles, its scattering pattern is modulated by *speckle*. If the scattering particles move, the speckle will change accordingly. This principle forms the basis of XPCS (X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy), which utilizes bright, coherent X-rays to probe nanoscale particle motion. We will discuss our recent efforts to extend XPCS in two different...Go to contribution page
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Claudio Kopper (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 13:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe spectrum of cosmic rays includes the most energetic particles ever observed. The mechanism of their acceleration and their sources are, however, still mostly unknown. Observing astrophysical neutrinos can help solve this problem. Because neutrinos are produced in hadronic interactions and are neither absorbed nor deflected, they point directly back to their source. Neutrinos may also be...Go to contribution page
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Dr Roger Raman (University of Washington)17/06/2015, 13:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTransient Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) in the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) has generated toroidal current on closed flux surfaces without the use of the central solenoid. When induction from the solenoid was added, CHI initiated discharges in NSTX achieved 1 MA of plasma current using 65% of the solenoid flux of standard induction-only discharges. In addition, the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sebastian Goennenwein (Walther-Meissner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Garching, Germany)17/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe generation and the detection of pure spin currents are fascinating challenges in modern solid state physics. In ferromagnet/normal metal thin film heterostructures, pure spin currents can be generated, e.g., by means of spin pumping [1], or via the application of thermal gradients in the so-called spin Seebeck effect [2]. An elegant scheme for detecting spin currents relies on the inverse...Go to contribution page
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Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 13:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)In this talk we present a possible explanation, based on torsionally mediated proton-spin-overall-rotation interaction operators, for the surprising observation in Nizhny Novgorod several years ago[1] of doublets in some Lamb-dip sub-millimeter-wave transitions between torsion-rotation states of E symmetry in methanol. These observed doublet splittings, some as large as 70 kHz, were later...Go to contribution page
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Robert Raussendorf (UBC)17/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWe describe a universal scheme of quantum computation by state injection on rebits (states with real density matrices). For this scheme, we establish contextuality and Wigner function negativity as computational resources, extending results of [M. Howard et al., Nature 510, 351–355 (2014)] to two-level systems. For this purpose, we define a Wigner function suited to systems of n rebits, and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gordon Drake (University of Windsor)17/06/2015, 14:00Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)There are currently several experiments in progress to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model by high precision studies of angular correlations in the $\beta$ decay of the helium isotope $^6{\rm He} \rightarrow\, ^6{\rm Li} + e^- + \bar{\nu}_e$. An essential part of the analysis is to understand the energy distribution and spectra of the recoil ions. After the $\beta$ decay...Go to contribution page
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Natalia Krasnopolskaia (University of Toronto)17/06/2015, 14:00Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Creating a paperless laboratory course does not only mean "going green" involving a friendly attitude to environment, but gives a lot of new opportunities in achieving additional learning outcomes. Among the other important advantages of the paperless course are reducing the lab report preparation time for students and optimizing the grading process for TAs/Lab Demonstrators. The paperless...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tetyana Antimirova (Ryerson University)17/06/2015, 14:15Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The undergraduate laboratory is an integral part of the physics curriculum because of the experimental nature physics as a discipline. The importance of the laboratory component in physics education cannot be overemphasized. Considerable efforts were made and resources invested in revitalizing the introductory undergraduate laboratories and integrating these experiences...Go to contribution page
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Fatemeh Fani Sani (UofA)17/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Spatial inhomogeneity on the nanoscale is intrinsic to most thin film materials used in nanomagnetic technology, and can affect both static and dynamic magnetic responses [1]. Understanding the detailed effects of local inhomogeneity becomes increasingly important as device dimensions shrink. Focused ion beam irradiation is an elegant way to carry out local magnetic patterning to create highly...Go to contribution page
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Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)17/06/2015, 14:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMeasurements of the parity violating electron-proton and electron-electron asymmetries in the number of scattered electrons can be extremely sensitive probes for signatures of new physics beyond the standard model up to mass scales as high as $\Lambda/g \simeq 7.5~ TeV$. The basic reason for this is that the measured asymmetry has a simple and, within the Standard Model (SM), precisely...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Osamu Mitarai (Tokai University)17/06/2015, 14:15Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéSTOR-1M and STOR-M tokamaks have been impacting a fusion research in two areas: [1] Alternating current (AC) operation, and [2] Central solenoid (CS)-less plasma current start-up in a tokamak. I would like to look back on these researches and talk about their possible future impacts. [1] AC operation in STOR-1M and STOR-M: In design of STOR-1M and -M tokamaks, the iron core image field...Go to contribution page
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Benedikt Riedel (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 14:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometre-scale neutrino telescope completed in the Austral summer of 2010/2011. The detector forms a lattice of 5,160 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) installed in the South Polar ice cap at depths from 1450 to 2450 m. IceCube is designed to detect astrophysical neutrinos upward of 100 GeV and to study neutrino oscillations with atmospheric neutrinos...Go to contribution page
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Radovan Urban (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 14:15Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Atomically defined tips gained significant attention over the past decades to be used as gas field ion sources (GFISs) for helium ion microscopy (HIM) and non-staining ion beam writing applications, electron sources for high resolution SEM, TEM and electron holography, as well as scanning probe microscopy, namely STM and AFM. Single atom tips (SATs) represent a unique subgroup of atomically...Go to contribution page
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Jonathan Baugh (University of Waterloo)17/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Josephson effect in a nanowire-based superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junction is studied theoretically and experimentally, focusing on the effects of nanoscale confinement on the current-phase relationship of the junction. We identify a new type of Josephson interference based on the coupling of an applied axial magnetic flux to N-section Andreev quasiparticles (bound and...Go to contribution page
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Ingrid Stairs (UBC)17/06/2015, 14:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMillisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) exhibit tremendous rotational stability and therefore provide a means to detect gravitational waves passing near the Earth. Three collaborations are using the world's largest radio telescopes to observe arrays of MSPs with the goal of making such a detection. This talk will review the expected gravitational-wave sources, the methodology and the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ahmad Hosseinizadeh (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)17/06/2015, 14:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)X-ray free electron lasers, such as Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, can be used to generate diffraction patterns of non-crystalline biological objects, like viruses. Then the main goal is to extract the high-resolution 3D structure of such particles by assembling 2D diffraction data with random orientations. However, structure determination still remains as a major challenge, and powerful...Go to contribution page
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Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick), Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 14:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Ammonia is indeed an ubiquitous molecule, it can be found in various astrophysical objects such as planetary atmospheres, comets and interstellar medium, and its presence in exoplanets and in the atmosphere of cold stars must be taken in serious consideration. The 15N isotopic variety could be very important since it allows the knowledge of the 14N/15N ratio in the universe. Although lists of...Go to contribution page
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Samuel Kristoffersen (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 14:15Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The ERWIN-II (improved E-Region Wind Interferometer) is a Michelson interferometer, located at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nu. It measures the airglow irradiance and winds via Doppler shifts in the airglow emissions – green line (557.7 nm) at a height of ~97 km, O2 (560 nm) at ~94 km, and OH (543 nm) at ~87 km. These measurements are made at a very...Go to contribution page
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Sarah Nowicki (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 14:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The IceCube detector is designed to detect very high-energy neutrino events (exceeding 1 PeV) from astrophysical sources. DeepCore, a low-energy array, was designed to extend the reach of IceCube down to ~10 GeV. Data analyses at the low energies have unique challenges compared to their high-energy counterparts, including achieving robust reconstructions of the energy and angular properties...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Nafiseh Sang-Nourpour (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada ; Photonics Group, Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51665-163, Iran)17/06/2015, 14:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We introduce a general theory for describing modes and characteristics of linear, homogeneous, isotropic waveguide materials and metamaterials with slab and cylindrical geometries. Our theory accommodates exotic media such as double-negative-index and near-zero-index metamaterials as special cases, and we demonstrate that our general theory exhibits electromagnetic duality that would...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jeffery Langille (UNB)17/06/2015, 14:30Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The Michelson Interferometer for Airglow Dynamics Imaging (MIADI) is a ground based optical instrument designed to obtain two dimensional images of the line of sight Doppler wind and irradiance field in the mesosphere. The intention of the instrument is to measure the perturbations in the airglow due to the presence of gravity waves. In its current configuration, the instrument observes a ~80...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marjan Shayegan (Postdoctoral Researcher)17/06/2015, 14:30Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Collagens represent a prominent family of fibrous structural proteins present in the majority of connective tissues in mammals that contribute to their mechanical behaviors. Collagen self-assembles into well-defined structures including fibrils, which makes it an excellent example of a hierarchical biological system with a broad range of functions. It is known that fibril formation kinetics...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ronald Delos Reyes (University of Alberta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)17/06/2015, 14:30Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The performance of a silicon-based MEMS strain sensor was assessed using static and dynamic strain. Static strain response of the sensor was tested under static bending and uniaxial loading conditions. Dynamic strain response was evaluated at frequencies of 10 Hz, 63 Hz, and 175 Hz using an aluminum cantilever beam mounted on an electrodynamic shaker. The static strain response showed that the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Lihui Bai (University of Manitoba)17/06/2015, 14:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Lihui Bai$^{1}$, M. Harder$^{1}$, Y. P. Chen$^{2}$, X. Fan$^{2}$, J. Q. Xiao$^{2}$, and C.-M. Hu$^{1}$ $^{1}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3T2N2 and $^{2}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA We use electrical detection, in combination with microwave transmission, to investigate both...Go to contribution page
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Michael Wieser (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 14:30Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)For most graduate students, the only exposure to undergraduate teaching comes from interacting with students in a junior teaching laboratory or tutorial, or perhaps giving an individual lecture to cover the absence of a faculty member. When graduate students eventually become instructors, they are given the challenging task of teaching a lecture section without much experience and with...Go to contribution page
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Nicolas Quesada (University of Toronto)17/06/2015, 14:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Frequency conversion (FC) is one of the most common nonlinear processes used in quantum optics. This process has the property that the Hamiltonian that governs it does not commute with itself at different times, and hence time ordering becomes an important aspect in the description of its dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that the Magnus expansion provides an appropriate description of...Go to contribution page
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Kimberly Strong (University of Toronto)17/06/2015, 14:45Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéFourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy provides a powerful tool for probing the atmosphere. Solar absorption spectroscopy can be used to measure atmospheric abundances of tropospheric and stratospheric trace gases, while emission spectroscopy also provides information about clouds and the radiation budget. High-quality time series of composition measurements, along with critical...Go to contribution page
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Chijin Xiao (Univ. of Saskatchewan)17/06/2015, 14:45Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéCurrent fueling technologies, such as gas puffing or pellet injection, are unable to send fuels directly to the reactor core due to premature evaporation and ionization at the edge of the reactor. Compact torus (CT) injection as a means for fueling a magnetically confinement fusion reactor as a research topic at the University of Saskatchewan started in early 90’s. Compact torus formed in a...Go to contribution page
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Prof. François Légaré (INRS-EMT)17/06/2015, 14:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)In recent years, Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy has emerged as a powerful technique to image in situ non-centrosymmetric structures in biological tissues, such as collagen, a major structural protein of vertebrates. However, due to the coherence of SHG signal, intensity depends not only on the density and the overall organization of harmonophores, but also on their relative...Go to contribution page
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Mr Colin Bruulsema (Laurentian University)17/06/2015, 14:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Supernovae are the favoured location in the universe for certain processes necessary for the formation of heavy elements, and the only location where the effects of neutrino-neutrino scattering could plausibly be observed. This makes supernovae relevant to the fields of both nuclear astrophysics and particle physics. A core collapse supernova can be detected by the immense burst of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. D.A. Bonn (University of British Columbia)17/06/2015, 14:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Recent work on first year labs at UBC have focussed on teaching students widely-applicable data handling skills: especially, understanding uncertainty, statistical tools, and graphical techniques. In the past year we have also targeted students' critical thinking, with a relatively simple framework that asks students to make quantitative comparisons, reflect on those comparisons, and...Go to contribution page
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Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)17/06/2015, 14:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMultiqubit entangled states are an important resource for networked information processing and communication. Here, we explore the use of entangled channels for various controlled teleportation schemes. In controlled teleportation (CT), the teleportation can proceed only with the permission and participation of one or more controllers. Thus, the controller’s role is of key importance in CT...Go to contribution page
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Glen Marshall (TRIUMF)17/06/2015, 14:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, a_mu = (g_mu - 2)/2, has been measured to 0.54 ppm, and when compared to the Standard Model (SM) calculation of similar precision, a discrepancy of 3.6 sigma remains unexplained. This is perhaps a hint of new interactions beyond the SM, stimulating much theoretical interest and speculation. The muon g-2 experiment responsible for...Go to contribution page
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Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech)17/06/2015, 14:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéGravitational waves are distortions in the metric of space-time, the detection of which would provide key information on strong gravity and the astrophysical systems that produce them: supernovae, spinning compact stars, and the coalescence of compact binary systems (CBCs). LIGO is a gravitational wave observatory composed to two 4km interferometric detectors separated by 3000km, in Hanford...Go to contribution page
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Sara Ho (Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences)17/06/2015, 14:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (Fedoruk Centre) is in the process of commissioning the Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences as a multidisciplinary research and commercial radiopharmaceutical production facility. At the heart of the facility is a multipurpose 24 MeV cyclotron capable of producing a number of radioisotopes for use in research in humans, animals...Go to contribution page
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Dylan Grandmont (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G7)17/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Torque magnetometry using torsional resonators provides a highly sensitive platform for resolving magnetic signatures in single meso-scale elements. In the static case, sample magnetizations are biased using a DC field while an AC excitation is applied at a frequency equal to the mechanical resonance of the torsional device. The resulting torque is then measured using an interferometric...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ish Dhand (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 15:00Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We combine single- and two-photon interference procedures for characterizing any multichannel passive linear optical interferometer accurately and precisely. Accuracy is achieved by accounting for systematic errors due to spatiotemporal and polarization mode mismatch and estimating those mismatch parameters through calibrating on one known beam splitter. Enhanced precision is achieved by curve...Go to contribution page
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Tania Wood (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 15:00Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)IceCube, the world’s largest neutrino detector, is designed to measure the highest energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical events. Augmented with a low-energy array, called DeepCore, IceCube has the ability to perform precision measurements of the high flux of atmospheric neutrinos for energies ranging from approximately 10 GeV to a few 100 TeV. When combined with the measurements by...Go to contribution page
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Tushar Biswas (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 15:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Nanomechanical resonators are good sensors because of their small mass, high frequency and high quality factor. In particular for mass sensing, the adsorbent mass is estimated from the shift in mechanical resonance frequency. Fantastic progress has been made in mass sensitivity, reaching the single protein and even yoctogram mass level. Yet this technique alone is not sufficient to identify...Go to contribution page
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Evan Rand (University of Guelph)17/06/2015, 15:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)A nuclear-structure campaign has been initiated to investigate the isotopes of Hg around mass 199. To date, $^{199}$Hg provides the most stringent limit on an atomic electric dipole moment (EDM)$~$[1]. The observation of a permanent EDM would represent a clear signal of CP violation from new physics beyond the Standard Model. Theoretical nuclear-structure calculations for $^{199}$Hg are...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jonathan Sharp (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 15:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Although MRI offers highly diagnostic medical imagery, patient access to this modality worldwide is very limited when compared with X-ray or ultrasound. One reason for this is the expense and complexity of the equipment used to generate the switched magnetic fields necessary for MRI encoding. These field gradients are also responsible for intense acoustic noise and have the potential to induce...Go to contribution page
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Mr Benoit Blanchet (Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup)17/06/2015, 15:00Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Do you remember those labs in college when you just followed your teacher's instructions? You probably barely do right? In order to increase students' involvement in the scientific process (and to increase motivation), I tried a different approach. I trained them to become autonomous researchers. At first, I gave them detailed instructions and complete theoretical framework. Then...Go to contribution page
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Francois Legare (INRS-EMT)17/06/2015, 15:45Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierHigh power laser amplification of octave spanning or even octave exceeding spectra is a formidable technological challenge since the universal dilemma of gain narrowing is only one of many problems on this path. The shortcoming of all present femtosecond (1fs = 0.000000000000001s) laser amplification schemes suffer from opposing conditions for either high amplification level (=> high peak...Go to contribution page
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John Martin (Department of Physics and Astronomy)17/06/2015, 16:15Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierI have been fortunate to participate in the evolution of particle physics in Canada for a large fraction of its history. I will discuss developments from 1972 to its current lively state, illustrating with a few examples from the experiments on which I have collaborated. With the recent discovery of the Higgs boson the Standard Model is now complete, but is known to be an incomplete...Go to contribution page
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Janis McKenna (University of British Columbia), Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia)17/06/2015, 19:00Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The Physics Olympics is an annual high school physics competition held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This year, more than 400 students on 56 teams, with at least one teacher/coach per team, came from all over British Columbia to participate in the 37th Annual Physics Olympics. The competition consists of six hands-on events, of which two are pre-built by the students in...Go to contribution page
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Ish Dhand (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:00Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We devise a procedure for calculating boson realizations of canonical basis-states of SU$(n)$ for arbitrary $n$. We employ our boson realization to calculate Wigner $\mathcal{D}$-functions of SU$(n)$ in the canonical Gelfand-Tsetlin basis and connect these functions to outputs from multi-photon interferometry.Go to contribution page
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Dr Marcin Kuźniak (Queen's University), Dr Tina Pollmann (Laurentian University)17/06/2015, 19:00Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The DEAP detector uses 255 photo multiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect the faint scintillation light from possible WIMP interactions in liquid argon. A photoelectron released when a scintillation photon strikes the front face of the PMT is amplified inside the PMT, and the resulting single-photoelectron (SPE) charge signal recorded. Due to random fluctuations in the amplification process, the...Go to contribution page
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Ms Atifa Syed (Physics Department, York University)17/06/2015, 19:00Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have stated that precipitation has changed by up to 1% for each decade in the 20th century [1]. Indeed, the Clausius Clapeyron equation predicts absolute humidity increases by about 7% for each degree of warming assuming no change in the relative humidity. This study analyzed monthly precipitation observations recorded at over 1,000...Go to contribution page
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Steffen Cruz17/06/2015, 19:00Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Nuclei near the magic numbers of protons and neutrons are observed to have a spherical shape for the low lying states. Nuclei between magic numbers, where the binding energy tends to be lower, are often observed to show deformation in low lying states. These deformations are perceived to have either a prolate or oblate nature. States within a nucleus that have different shapes that are close...Go to contribution page
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Mercedes Martinson (University of Saskatchewan)17/06/2015, 19:00Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)At the Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Canada, the BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) bend magnet (BMIT-BM) beamlines and insertion device (BMIT-ID) have been very successful in their mission to image biological tissue and conduct live animal imaging studies. However, since their inception, they’ve been limited by the vertical beam size. This poses limitations for imaging modalities such as...Go to contribution page
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Marjan Shayegan17/06/2015, 19:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Linearly extending long DNA molecules in sub-50 nm nanochannels for genomic analysis, while retaining their structural integrity, is a major technological challenge. We employ ``Convex Lens-induced Confinement'' (CLiC) microscopy to gently load DNA into nanogrooves from above, overcoming the limitations of side-loading techniques used in direct-bonded nanofluidic devices. In the CLiC...Go to contribution page
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Ms Fatema Liza (University fo Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:00Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Many high intensity laser applications can generate large magnetic fields up to the level of 100’s of Tesla. In particular, the application of circularly polarized [1] or orbital angular mode (OAM) laser beams [2] can be used to generate such large fields using the inverse Faraday Effect (IFE). These fields can play an important role in the generation and guiding of electrons in laser plasma...Go to contribution page
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Paul Kim (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Torsional resonators are an effective platform to study various material and optical properties. Current advances in nanofabrication techniques allow miniaturization of these torsional oscillators down to micron scale devices but they are often limited by their detection methods. Using a high quality optical resonator ($Q > 10^5$) coupled with a mechanical oscillator, which are the basis of...Go to contribution page
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Luca La Volpe (INRS)17/06/2015, 19:00Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)In the last few years, accelerating optical beams propagating along a curved trajectory have attracted a lot of attentions. Since Airy beams were the first to be introduced into optics, they have been employed in a variety of applications, such as the generation of curved plasma channels, optical trapping and manipulation, and micro-fabrication. It has been shown that accelerating beams can be...Go to contribution page
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Mr Patrick Kilcullen (University of Northern British Columbia)17/06/2015, 19:00Industrial and Applied Physics / Physique industrielle et appliquée (DIAP-DPIA)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Royal Canadian Navy VICTORIA Class submarines must operate with enhanced stealth using rubber acoustic tiles over their steel hulls to provide SONAR cloaking and absorb emanating noise. These tiles, as well as a connective grouting compound, form an opaque covering of virtually the entire hull surface. In evaluating the integrity of the hull as a pressure vessel it is of paramount importance...Go to contribution page
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Prof. John de Bruyn (The University of Western Ontario)17/06/2015, 19:02Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)Vibrating wire devices have been used in the past to determine the viscosity of Newtonian fluids. We are investigating the use of a vibrating wire device to measure the viscous and elastic moduli of non-Newtonian fluids. Our device consists of a small diameter tungsten wire under tension and immersed in a fluid. When a magnetic field is applied and an alternating current is passed through...Go to contribution page
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Shaun Kerr (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:02Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The efficient generation of MeV proton beams using lasers is an area of interest due to its potential applications, ranging from radiotherapy to the fast ignition concept for inertial confinement fusion. Various efficiency-enhancing schemes have been put forward, including using ultra-clean pulses with nm thick foils, and structured targets such as hemispheres to enhance fields. One method,...Go to contribution page
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Jamie Sanchez-Fortun Stoker (University of Regina)17/06/2015, 19:02Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Silicon photomultipliers - also known as Multi-pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs) - are a type of photodetector that have shown great potential for many applications such as nuclear and particle physics, nuclear medicine, biophotonics, outer space, military, atmospheric or automotive distance control lidar, radioactivity detection and monitoring, and nuclear hazard/threat detection. Out group has...Go to contribution page
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J. N. Westwood-Bachman (University of Alberta, National Institute for Nanotechnology)17/06/2015, 19:02Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)All-optical actuation and detection of nanomechanical devices has emerged as a promising transduction technique with high displacement sensitivity1-3. However, symmetric mechanical modes are difficult to detect with integrated photonics because the symmetry causes a zero effective index shift. Detection of higher order modes, including symmetric modes, is desirable for sensing...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Neda Amiri (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:02Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Sulfur dioxide oxidation and the effect of oxidation products in formation and growth of aerosols have been studied widely. Despite this, significant gaps still exist in understanding the SO2 oxidation pathways in various locations. A study of SO2 and aerosol sulphate downwind of the oil sands region was conducted as part of the FOSSILIS campaign in the summer 2013. Size segregated aerosols...Go to contribution page
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Eric R Miller (The University of British Columbia)17/06/2015, 19:02Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Construction is underway at TRIUMF by an international collaboration on a high-density ultra-cold neutron source. Its primary experiment will be a measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM). The experiment uses an NMR technique known as Ramsey resonance to detect electric-field correlated shifts in the precession frequency of ultra-cold neutrons. Previous-generation nEDM...Go to contribution page
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Anindita Dutta (University of Lethbridge)17/06/2015, 19:02Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We introduce a non-spherical metric motivated from quantum gravity. We study the time evolution of scalar field induced gravity using numerical methods.Go to contribution page
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Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)17/06/2015, 19:02Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The DEAP-3600 detector uses natural liquid argon as target material for WIMP interactions. Natural argon contains the beta emitter Ar-39, which will create about 3600 beta events per second, uniformly distributed across the active detector volume. By fitting the shape of the beta spectrum from these events as a function of event position, a position-dependent energy calibration of the whole...Go to contribution page
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Mr Adriel Arsenault (McGill University)17/06/2015, 19:02Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)We present the design and construction of a versatile, open-frame inverted microscope system for wide-field fluorescence and single molecule imaging. The microscope chassis and modular design allow for customization, expansion, and experimental flexibility. We present two components that are included with the microscope which extend its basic capabilities and together create a powerful...Go to contribution page
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Mr Benjamin Dupuis (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)17/06/2015, 19:04Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)In Bohmian mechanics, quantum particles follow causal deterministic trajectories. These trajectories obey an equation of motion much like Newton's, with the addition of a "quantum potential" linked to the Schrödinger wave function. Quantum probabilities stem from the absence of precise knowledge of initial conditions, and they are recovered exactly if one assumes that initial particle...Go to contribution page
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Mr Hichem Mezaoui (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 19:04Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The chaotic behavior of the space plasma in the polar region is analyzed and characterized. The study was carried out using the amplitude and phase components of the GPS (Global Positioning System) L1 signal time series sampled at 50 Hz. A stationary signal is obtained after removing the trend due to the background electron density variability and the Doppler shift due to the satellite...Go to contribution page
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Peter Nguyen (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:04Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Probing ultrafast processes over subpicosecond and picosecond time scales provides fundamental insight into the nature of materials. We have experimentally demonstrated terahertz (THz)-pulse-induced tunneling in a scanning tunneling microscope (THz-STM) to image surfaces with simultaneous nanometer spatial resolution and subpicosecond time resolution.However, the exact mechanism by which THz...Go to contribution page
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Laila Nawsheen Manzoor (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:04Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)High intensity laser plasma interactions are often affected by the preplasma created by leakage laser light (typically millijoules over nanoseconds) prior to the main high energy laser pulse (typically 100’s of joules). Even small amounts of preplasma can alter the absorption of laser light and creation of high energy electrons and ions in the interaction process. This can have significant...Go to contribution page
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Pietro Giampa (Queen's University), Dr Tina Pollmann (Laurentian University)17/06/2015, 19:04Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The current standard model of cosmology relies on the presence of vast amounts of Dark Matter throughout the universe, made from particles that have never been observed in the laboratory. New particles are also predicted from the side of particle physics, where they arise in theoretical extensions that would make the standard model of particle physics consistent. The new particle favoured for...Go to contribution page
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Andrei Tretiakov (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:04Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)A strong need for computational power as well as limits of classical computers has led to the development of quantum information science. One of the critical problems in realizing quantum computing is manipulating quantum bits while maintaining coherence. One of the possible solutions is to use a hybrid system that combines the long coherence times available in microscopic quantum systems with...Go to contribution page
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M. Adam Webb (Canadian Light Source)17/06/2015, 19:04Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) facility provides synchrotron-specific imaging and radiation therapy capabilities [1-5]. There are two separate end-stations used for experiments: the Bending Magnet (BM) 05B1-1 beamline [3] and the Insertion Device (ID) 05ID-2 beamline [4-5]. Core research programs include human and animal reproduction, cancer imaging and therapy, spinal cord injury...Go to contribution page
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Mr Luis Carlos Welbanks Camarena (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:06Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Van der Waals interactions are fundamental for molecular reactions such as aerosol formation, adsorption of atoms and molecules on surfaces, protein conformation and many more. Infrared absorption spectra of weakly-bound van der Waals complexes provide the necessary information to develop inter-molecular potential energy surfaces. During the past five years, our group has been systematically...Go to contribution page
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Anthony McCaffrey (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 19:06Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a valuable tool in the measurement and monitoring of ionospheric total electron content (TEC). To obtain accurate GPS-derived TEC, satellite and receiver hardware biases, known as differential code biases (DCBs), must be removed. A number of sources calculate and provide GPS satellite DCBs, one such source is the Centre for Orbit Determination in Europe...Go to contribution page
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Mr Anthony Piazza (University of Windsor)17/06/2015, 19:06Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)In the field of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), it has been shown that trace elements can typically be detected at the parts per million level. However, to decrease the limit of detection further, there is a need to enhance the relatively small spectral lines of the trace elements. The technique of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is one of the best tools for providing this...Go to contribution page
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Courtney Mielnichuk17/06/2015, 19:06Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)DEAP-3600 is dark matter detector that will be searching for spin-independent interactions of weakly interacting massive particles with a 1000 kg fiducial volume of liquid argon contained in an acrylic sphere. Strict material selection has been implemented to minimize the presence of uranium and thorium. Alpha decays of these elements in the detector neck will produce scintillation light...Go to contribution page
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Ariel Gomez (Canadian Light Source)17/06/2015, 19:06Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The status of the construction of the Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector, at the Canadian Light Source, will be discussed. The sector will be in operation in 2017 and will support a diverse, active and successful community of Canadian and international materials scientists. The instrumentation will meet their diverse needs by providing excellent performance over a broad x-ray...Go to contribution page
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Jeff Krupa (University of British Columbia)17/06/2015, 19:06Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Ultrafast all-optical switching offers great benefit to communication technologies, as all-optical logic operations can be performed at tremendous (terabit-per-second) data rates. Semiconductors are an obvious choice to perform such switching, given their strong optical nonlinearity, but standard bulk semiconductors suffer from relatively slow recombination—often with nanosecond or microsecond...Go to contribution page
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Kaveh Mozafari (ExcellenSation)17/06/2015, 19:06Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)We are pretty sure about four fundamental forces in the universe. Some of the forces are well behaved and can be explained in different context. Electromagnetism is among the well understood ones. On the other side, gravitational force seems to reveal different faces in various situation and trying to explain it in a unified theorem with other forces has not been successful yet. I have come to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anandram Venkatasubramanian (Post Doctoral research fellow)17/06/2015, 19:08Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The Gas Chromatography (GC) – Mass Spectrometer (MS) system is the industry benchmark in research and chemical analysis. However given that MS systems are large and complicated instrumentation, chemical analyses have a long turnaround time. In this regard, portable GCs have carved a market niche but they have poor sensitivities. Recent demonstrations with Nanooptomechanical (NOMS) resonators...Go to contribution page
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Rose (Deborah) Chung (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:08Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Refractometric sensors can be used to detect small changes in refractive index (RI) of an analyte fluid. In microfluidics, they can be used to measure temperature or chemical changes in a miniscule analyte volume. Refractometric sensors can be extended into the biosensing domain via chemical functionalization of the sensor surface. My project goal is to find ways to improve the sensitivities...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bei Cai (Queen's University)17/06/2015, 19:08Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The success of any Dark Matter experiment depends on the ability of reducing any possible sources of backgrounds. For the DEAP-3600 experiment, surface backgrounds were reduced in-situ by removing more than 100 microns of acrylic from the most inner part of the detector with a resurfacing robot (Resurfacer). This machine was successfully run for over 200 hours, combined with a purge gas system...Go to contribution page
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Alex Cushley17/06/2015, 19:08Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Amateur radio and other signals used for dedicated purposes, such as the Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), are signals that exist for another reason, but can be used for ionospheric sounding. Whether mandated and government funded or voluntarily constructed and operated, these networks provide data that can be used for scientific...Go to contribution page
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Chandra Curry (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:08Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)After decades of being referred to as the terahertz gap, terahertz radiation is now routinely used in spectroscopic and imaging applications. Further advancement, however, has been limited by the lack of high-energy sources. New studies indicating higher terahertz conversion efficiencies [1] open up the possibility of novel applications in high energy density physics. One such application...Go to contribution page
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Taras Hrushevskyi (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:08Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)One of the most important achievements in physics during recent years is the ability to create a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) in neutral atoms. The study of BEC gives us an opportunity to discover new physics phenomena, to probe the laws of quantum mechanics and to better understand enigmatic world of small particles. A very powerful tool for these purposes is quantum simulation of...Go to contribution page
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Ying Tsui (University of Alberta), Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelarator Laboratory)17/06/2015, 19:10Plasma Physics / Physique des plasmas (DPP)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)Terawatt and Petawatt class high power laser systems have pre-pulses that can significantly affect the interaction physics. For example, in cone-guided high-intensity laser experiments the preformed plasma could cause filamentation and beam refraction [1]. Pre-pulses arrive picoseconds to nanoseconds before the main laser pulse can significantly increase the initial scale length and electron...Go to contribution page
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Mr Robert Ridgway (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:10Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Plasma density in the outer terrestrial magnetosphere is highly variable, both in space and time. Spacecraft observations are very sparse, and photoelectric charging makes direct in-situ measurements extremely challenging. In this report we present a new remote sensing method which could be a significant source of information about conditions in the dayside magnetosphere. This...Go to contribution page
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Mohammed Eltahlawy (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:10Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)High intensity laser systems are finding many new applications in MeV to GeV particle generation and acceleration to Fast Ignition pulses for Laser Fusion Energy Drivers. In some cases, in order to enhance the electric fields associated with the laser plasma interactions longer wavelengths are advantageous. Thus, there is considerable interest in the development of high intensity systems in...Go to contribution page
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Mr S. K. Roy (Department of Physics, University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), Canada.)17/06/2015, 19:10Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)It has been demonstrated that optimum dynamic range (DR) and high quality factor (Q) of NEMS resonators provides unprecedented mass sensitivity [1]. The mass sensitivity and frequency stability of these devices are limited by their thermomechanical (TM) noise. TM noise goes down with Q as pressure increases, at the same time enhanced critical amplitude leads to a higher DR value with better...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nicolas Giasson (Université Laval)17/06/2015, 19:10Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The Skyrme model, which was first proposed over half a century ago, is now understood as a low-energy effective theory of QCD where baryons (and nuclei) emerge as topological solitons. It provides a relatively good picture of the nucleons, but it overestimates their binding energies in nuclei by at least an order of magnitude. The present work is based on a recent extension of the original...Go to contribution page
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Yvan Ung (University of Montreal)17/06/2015, 19:10Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We consider the decay of “false kinks,'' that is, kinks formed in a scalar field theory with a pair of degenerate symmetry-breaking false vacua in 1+1 dimensions. The true vacuum is symmetric. A second scalar field and a peculiar potential are added in order for the kink to be classically stable. As with any tunneling event, the rate is proportional to $\exp{-S_E}$ where $S_E$ is the Euclidean...Go to contribution page
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Bing Yang (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:12Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Patchy pulsating aurora (PPA) is a very common ionospheric phenomenon and thus offers us a unique opportunity to study the inner magnetospheric dynamics. It is usually excited by a few to 10s Kev electrons and occurs in the equatorward part of the auroral oval. Many previous studies have been done to investigate the motion of PPA patches, but none of them were based on a large dataset. In this...Go to contribution page
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Dr Wei-Wei Zhang (IQST, University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:12Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Quantum walks are known to provide a universal platform for quantum algorithms and hence, are useful for quantum computation and information processing. Unlike other methods of simulating quantum protocols, quantum walks can be realized in classical systems. One of the interesting class of quantum walks is the electric quantum walk where the dynamics of the (charged) quantum walker is...Go to contribution page
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Hugh Ramp (University of Alberta)17/06/2015, 19:12Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Dome microcavities are on-chip optomechanical devices formed by two quarter-wave Bragg stacks of silicon on silica. One of these mirrors is buckled away from the chip and is allowed to vibrate. These vibrations are thermally driven and can be detected using shifts in the optical resonances of the cavity. We use COMSOL Multiphysics software model to the coupling between the optical and...Go to contribution page
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Hon Wai Lau (IQST, Univeristy of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:12Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Lots of efforts are currently made in many areas to bring quantum effects to the macroscopic level. A particularly dramatic class of macroscopic superposition states are the so-called cat states, which has been demonstrated in experiment with over one hundred microwave photons. In our recent works, we have proposed an experimental scheme to create spin cat states in Bose-Einstein condensates...Go to contribution page
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Chris Vail (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 19:14Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)This work will present the analysis approach developed to detect of gravity waves and the variation in gravity wave parameters deduced from the airglow images taken by the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) All Sky Imager (PASI). PASI has been in operation since November 2007 at PEARL in Eureka, Nunavut with images being taken on average every minute during the winter...Go to contribution page
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Dr Robert L. Varty (Consultant in Engineering Science)17/06/2015, 19:14Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)Heavy water consists of molecules of deuterium oxide. Heavy water is used in applications that require the special nuclear properties of a deuterium (hydrogen-2) atom. These applications have included solar-neutrino detectors and nuclear-fission reactors. The thermophysical properties of heavy water have been considered in such applications. Since the mass of a deuterium-oxide molecule is...Go to contribution page
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Nicolas Quesada (University of Toronto)17/06/2015, 19:16Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)We describe the role of mode and particle entanglement in Quantum Enhanced Optical Metrology (QEOP). To this end we study the properties of the quantum Fisher information $\mathfrak{F}$ that bounds from below the sensitivity $\Delta^2 \varphi$ of any phase estimation protocol $\Delta^2 \varphi \geq 1/\mathfrak{F}$. We recently showed [1] that the optimal measurement sensitivity of quantum...Go to contribution page
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Suhad SBEIH (Memorial University of Newfoundland)17/06/2015, 19:16Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Because they can exhibit a collapse transition at high temperatures or pressures, microgel colloids are of interest because of their potential for applications in areas like drug delivery and chemical separation that involve the uptake, encapsulation and release of small or biological molecules. In this work, we have used deuterium NMR and dynamic light scattering (DLS) to relate the...Go to contribution page
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Ms Kateryna Yakymenko (student)17/06/2015, 19:16Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Arc-like auroral structures in the polar cap often move in the dawn-dusk direction. Speeds of such motions vary between ~100 m/s and 2 km/s depending on the magnetic local time of observations. In the midnight sector, typical speeds of 300-500 m/s have been reported. We show that these values are somewhat larger than plasma flow speeds in the zonal direction typically observed by the Clyde...Go to contribution page
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Renjie Liu (Lakehead University)17/06/2015, 19:18Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Molecular self-assembly of organic layers at surfaces is a powerful method to achieve the design and fabrication of nanostructures. The self-assembly of large-scale 2-d supramolecular networks at silicon surfaces is a particular challenge due to the large number of dangling bonds which suppress the diffusivity of adsorbed molecules and even break the molecules apart via the formation of Si-C...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jeremy Scott (Student at the University of Lethbridge)17/06/2015, 19:18Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The Herschel Space Observatory, Herschel, is a flagship mission of the European Space Agency operational from 2009-2013 with Canadian participation supported by the Canadian Space Agency. Herschel has enabled ground-breaking astrophysical observations through providing the first unfettered access to the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Herschel Gould Belt Survey (GBS)...Go to contribution page
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Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick), Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)17/06/2015, 19:18Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)The line parameters for transitions of acetylene broadened by carbon dioxide are needed for studies of planetary atmospheres that have a high content of carbon dioxide. carbon dioxide-broadened line widths and nitrogen-pressure induced line shifts have been measured for transitions in the band of acetylene located at 1.53 microns at seven temperatures in the range 213–333K to obtain the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jonas Valiunas (Lakehead University)17/06/2015, 19:20Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Fiber-optic sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings have been established as rugged and reliable devices and have found applications in environmental monitoring, oil and gas reservoir monitoring, and in performing temperature, pressure, and strain measurements. However, new sensors with higher sensitivity, greater accuracy, and a simpler design, using fiber laser technology, would provide...Go to contribution page
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John de Bruyn (Western University)17/06/2015, 19:20Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)Gels based on polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) can be formed by repeated freezing and thawing of a solution of the polymer. PVA cryogels have applications as biomaterials, including artificial tissue and drug delivery systems. The mechanical and electrical properties of polymeric materials can be changed significantly by adding a small amount of nanometer-sized particles. In this work, the dielectric...Go to contribution page
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Christopher Cully (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:20Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)ABOVE, the Array for Broadband Observations of VLF/ELF Emissions, is a network of radio instruments located across western Canada. The instruments monitor natural and artificial electromagnetic radiation in the frequency range from 200 Hz to 75 kHz. The primary scientific focus is on energetic particle precipitation: we infer precipitation into the atmosphere based on the observed amplitude...Go to contribution page
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Eric Davis (University of Calgary)17/06/2015, 19:22Atmospheric and Space Physics / Physique atmosphérique et de l'espace (DASP-DPAE)Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)We report first results on energetic electron precipitation using the recently deployed ABOVE array. ABOVE is a ground-based array of Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio receivers located across western Canada. With the new instruments, we characterize the properties of electron precipitation during a geomagnetic storm using changes to the phase and amplitude of VLF radio waves from ground based...Go to contribution page
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Michelle Przedborski (Brock University)17/06/2015, 19:22Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Granular materials play a major role in our daily lives and are vital to the function of a diverse array of industries, from agriculture to mining to pharmaceutical manufacturing. Understanding the dynamics of granular media is of fundamental importance to the study of matter in general, and beyond being intimately connected to a variety of natural geophysical phenomena, knowledge of the...Go to contribution page
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Jalal Norooz Oliaee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)17/06/2015, 19:22Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)In this paper the dependence of Er-doped distributed feedback (ED-DFB) fiber laser output power on Erbium ion concentration is investigated theoretically. Numerical results show that by increasing ion concentration, the output power reaches a maximum and decreases for very high ion concentrations due to homogeneous up-conversion effect. Maximum value of output power of the ED-DFB fiber laser...Go to contribution page
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Jean-François Bisson (Université de Moncton)17/06/2015, 19:24Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)We propose a novel anisotropic Bragg mirror made of alternating high- and low-index layers of one single material, of which the refractive index is controlled by changing the angle between the sample normal and the average direction of the evaporated material during the deposition process, a technique called glancing angle deposition or GLAD, which affects the nanoporosity and hence the...Go to contribution page
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18/06/2015, 07:30Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe federal government recently announced its decision to shut down the NRU reactor in 2018. The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor commenced operation in 1957, to provide neutrons for several missions simultaneously, including the production of neutron beams to support fundamental experimental research on solids and liquids, advancing knowledge of condensed matter physics. Today, the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Travis Martin (TRIUMF)18/06/2015, 08:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe discovery of a new resonance consistent with the standard model Higgs boson has had a drastic effect on predictions of new physics. Everything about the discovery, from the mass, to the spin, to the production and decay rates tells us about the stability of the Higgs and the nature and scale of new physics. In this talk, I will discuss the consequences of the discovery of the Higgs boson...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Zisis Papandreou (Uinversity of Regina)18/06/2015, 08:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe primary goal of the GlueX experiment is to conduct a definitive mapping of states in the light meson sector with an emphasis on searching for exotic hybrid mesons as evidence of gluonic excitations, in an effort to understand the phenomenon of confinement in Quantum Chromo Dynamics. The experiment, housed in the new Hall-D facility at Jefferson Lab following its accelerator upgrade to...Go to contribution page
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Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))18/06/2015, 08:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéLess than two decades ago, brane world scenarios offered paradigms to reinterpret the 4-D Planck scale as an effective gravity scale arising for a more fundamental lower gravity scale in higher dimensions. These ideas allowed new phenomenological models to be developed and helped guide searches for low-scale gravity at the Tevatron and LHC. One of the most exciting outcomes of these...Go to contribution page
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Mark Freeman (University of Alberta)18/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéAn optomechanically-based magnetic resonance spectrometer will be described. The demonstration of inductive detection of nuclear spin precession, in 1945, launched magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a general-purpose tool. As a complement to this, the precession of magnetic dipoles can be choreographed to yield an AC mechanical torque on a torsion sensor. Optical transduction of mechanical...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andriy Kovalenko (Natinal Institute for Nanotechnology, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, 11421 Saskatchewan Dr., Edmonton, AB, T6G 2M9, Canada)18/06/2015, 08:45Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe three-dimensional reference interaction site model with the Kovalenko-Hirata closure (3D-RISM-KH molecular theory of solvation) is Ornstein-Zernike type integral equation theory of liquids. Based on first principles of statistical mechanics, the 3D-RISM-KH theory consistently accounts for effect of chemical specificities of solvent, co-solvent, ions, and ligands on biomolecules solvation...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (University of Montreal)18/06/2015, 08:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéPhysics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) affects low-energy processes such as meson decays through loop-suppressed contributions. Precision physics to separate loop-level corrections are therefore considered vital for the discovery of BSM physics at the intensity frontier. I will describe the current status of research in the field of $B$ decays, concentrating on its role in establishing the...Go to contribution page
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Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University)18/06/2015, 08:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéHow do you keep a classroom of 100 undergraduates actively learning? Can students practice communication and teamwork skills in a large class? How do you boost the performance of underrepresented groups? The SCALE-UP Project has addressed all these questions. Classes in all the STEM areas plus many in the humanities are currently being offered at more than 250 institutions around the world....Go to contribution page
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Aleksandrs Aleksejevs (Memorial University of Newfoundland)18/06/2015, 08:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe best way to search for the physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) is by using a diverse set of probes - not just at the energy and the cosmic frontiers, but also the low-energy measurements relying on high precision and high luminosity. Precision tests of the SM, using parity-violating (PV) interaction, gives us possibility to reach the TeV scale, which is complimentary to the LHC searches...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Philip Stamp (UBC)18/06/2015, 09:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIt is argued that gravity should cause a breakdown of quantum mechanics, at low energies, accessible in principle to table-top experiments. I show that one can formulate a theory of quantum gravity in which gravitational correlations exist between worldline or worldsheet paths, for the particle or field of interest. Using a generalized equivalence principle, one can give a unique form...Go to contribution page
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Maikel Rheinstadter (McMaster University)18/06/2015, 09:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéOne of the major challenges of modern physics is to contribute to biology and life-sciences. Neutron and X-ray beams are prime tools to study molecular structure and dynamics in membranes in-situ, under physiological conditions [1]. The experiments give access to nanoscale diffusion processes within and across the membranes, effects of macromolecules on membrane properties, such as ethanol...Go to contribution page
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Calvin Kalman (Concordia University)18/06/2015, 09:15Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)It has been argued that for novice students to acquire a full understanding of scientific texts, they also need to pursue a recurrent construction of their comprehension of scientific concepts. The course dossier method has students examine concepts in multiple passes; first through reflective writing on text before it is considered in the classroom, next in a one page essay at the end of the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Tristan Sullivan (University of British Columbia)18/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)The $\pi\rightarrow e \nu$ branching ratio $R_\pi= \frac{ \Gamma(\pi\rightarrow e \nu + \pi\rightarrow e \nu \gamma)}{\Gamma(\pi\rightarrow \mu \nu + \pi\rightarrow \mu \nu \gamma)},$ one of the most precisely calculated weak interaction Standard Model observables involving quarks, provides a sensitive test of lepton universality and severe constraints on many new physics...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jason Ho (University of Saskatchewan)18/06/2015, 09:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts many bound states that have not yet been conclusively identified, and as more charmonium-like XYZ states are being discovered, interest is increasing in matching these theoretical bound states with experimental observation. Among these states are hybrid mesons: bound states of a quark, an antiquark, and a gluon. With upcoming experiments such as GlueX,...Go to contribution page
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Aashish Clerk (McGill University)18/06/2015, 09:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe field of quantum optomechanics involves studying the interaction of a mechanical resonator and photons in a cavity. It has seen remarkable progress in the past few years, and holds considerable promise for both fundamental studies of quantum phenomena, as well as applications to quantum information processing and ultra-sensitive detection. In this talk, I will discuss recent theory work...Go to contribution page
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Richard Polifka (University of Toronto (CA))18/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn the presentation, latest results in search for Higgs boson decays and production mechanisms in the SM as well as BSM context will be presented. The focus will be on rare decays which were not directly observable during the Run1 data taking period (integrated luminosity of approximately 25 fb-1), these will be then compared with expectations for the full High Luminosity LHC Upgrade...Go to contribution page
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Mohammad Ahmady (Mount Allison University)18/06/2015, 09:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The forward backward asymmetry distribution for the rare dileptonic decay $B \to K^* \mu^+ \mu^-$ in the region below the $J/\psi$ resonance is calculated. We use the form factors for $B\to K^*$ transition which are predicted by the anti-de Sitter/Quantum Chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) correspondence. We compare our results with those obtained from QCD sum rules.Go to contribution page
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Dr Ruben Sandapen (Mount Allison University & Universite de Moncton)18/06/2015, 09:30Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)We compute the isospin asymmetry distribution in the rare dileptonic decay B→K*μ+μ-, in the dimuon mass squared (q2) region below the J/Ψ resonance, using nonperturbative inputs as predicted by the anti–de Sitter/quantum chromodynamics correspondence and by sum rules. We predict a positive asymmetry at q2=0 which flips sign in the region q2∈[1,2] GeV2 to remain small (≤2%) and negative for...Go to contribution page
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Tom Steele (U of Saskatchewan)18/06/2015, 09:30Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéMany of the charmonium-like XYZ resonances observed by Belle, Babar, CLEO and BESIII collaborations in the past decade are difficult to interpret as conventional quark-antiquark mesons. After a brief review of the XYZ resonances, theoretical scenarios for these states will be presented with an emphasis on results from QCD sum-rule methods.Go to contribution page
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Blair Jamieson (University of Winnipeg)18/06/2015, 09:30Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)A high intensity UCN source, and an experiment to measure the neutron Electric Dipole Moment (nEDM) are being developed for TRIUMF. Some new physics extensions to the standard model predict nEDM VALUES both above the present limit on the nEDM leading to their abandonment, and just below the present limit where there are several other model predictions vulnerable to the same fate. This...Go to contribution page
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Ms Mandana (Mandy) Sobhanzadeh (Mount Royal University)18/06/2015, 09:30Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The language of science is a language that scientists use to talk about nature. Students are not familiar with this language and as a result they have great difficulty understanding scientific texts. Students trend to memorize the materials that they see in the textbook without thinking about their meaning, because they believe that language and words hold the knowledge and they need to use...Go to contribution page
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Jonathan Johannes18/06/2015, 09:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Biological electron transfer (ET) reactions are fundamental to the production of energy in all living cells. Efficient, site-selective electron transfer is crucial for effective metabolic processes to sustain life. An accurate description of the electron transfer process through a protein complex is lacking. In particular, with the MADH and amicyanin protein complex, found in the bacteria...Go to contribution page
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Soumen Deb (University of Lethbridge)18/06/2015, 09:45Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Quantum gravity induced modifications of position/momentum commutation relation brings about a modification of the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, to what is known as the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). It has been shown earlier that the GUP-induced corrections to the Schrödinger equation, when applied to a non-relativistic particle in a one-dimensional infinite potential well,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Katerina Katsika (TRIUMF)18/06/2015, 09:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Measuring the neutron Electric Dipole Moment (nEDM) would help answer fundamental cosmological questions like why matter dominated over antimatter even though they are thought to be produced at equal amounts after the Big Bang. One of the main sources of the systematic uncertainties in the recent nEDM experiments was related to magnetic field fluctuations. For the KEK-RCNP/TRIUMF experiment...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia)18/06/2015, 09:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Questioning is a key physics teaching skill. It relies on teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) (Shulman, 1986) and willingness to engage students in inquiry. A number of technology-enhanced pedagogies that promote conceptual science questions’ use have been developed lately (Keller et al., 2007). One of the most common is Peer Instruction (Lasry, 2008; Mazur, 1997; Milner-Bolotin,...Go to contribution page
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Paul Barclay (University of Calgary)18/06/2015, 09:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéSingle crystal diamond is a desirable material for use in nanophotonics and optomechanics thanks to its well known excellent optical and mechanical properties. However, one can argue that diamond's most compelling characteristic its ability to host color center defects, such as the nitrogen vacancy, whose spin can be used to store and manipulate quantum information. These "artificial atoms"...Go to contribution page
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Reyhaneh Rezvani (Universite de Montreal (CA))18/06/2015, 09:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)A search for Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion and decaying into invisible particles using 20.3 fb−1 of 8 TeV data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. Data-driven techniques are used to estimate the main Standard Model backgrounds. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV and assuming the Standard Model production cross-section, an upper bound of 0.29 is set on...Go to contribution page
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Michael Roney (University of Victoria)18/06/2015, 09:45Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéBelle II will probe the 'flavour sector' of particle physics at the high-luminosity SuperKEKB e+e- collider, located at the KEK laboratory in Japan. Accelerator commissioning will start in 2016, with the goal of collecting 50 inverse attobarns of data by 2024, which is thirty times the combined integrated luminosity of the two previous generation B-factories, PEP-II at SLAC and KEKB at KEK....Go to contribution page
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Mr Mark McCrea (University of Manitoba)18/06/2015, 10:00Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)The n3He experiment aims to measure the parity violating asymmetry in the direction of proton emission from the capture polarized cold neutrons in an unpolarized gaseous $^3$He target from the reaction $\vec{n}+^3He\rightarrow T+p$. The size of the asymmetry is estimated to be $(-9.5 \rightarrow 2.5)\times 10^{-8}$, and our goal measurement accuracy is $2\times10^{-8}$. The asymmetry is a...Go to contribution page
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Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)18/06/2015, 10:00Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Based on the findings from decades of Physics Education research (PER), many physics instructors today use student-centered teaching methods to support active or inquiry based learning. One method that is getting increasingly popular is the flipped classroom, where students watch the “lecture” on video, at their own pace, and use the valuable class time to work on problems together. For...Go to contribution page
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Mr Matthew Robbins (University of Lethbridge)18/06/2015, 10:00Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)As it is currently not possible to access the natural energy scale of quantum gravity (the Planck scale), it is important to look for low-energy effects, e.g. the quantum gravity induced perturbative corrections to non-relativistic quantum mechanics. One such avenue of approach is studying the corrections to the Schrödinger equation via the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) proposed in...Go to contribution page
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Vahid Rezania (MacEwan University)18/06/2015, 10:00Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)We develop a computational model for the transport and metabolism of drugs as well as oxygen in the functional unit of the liver called the lobule. The functional unit of an organ is the smallest structural unit that can independently serve all of the organ’s functions. In previous studies, starting from a simple idealized model of the lobule composed of liver cells and sinusoid flow paths,...Go to contribution page
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Rüdiger Picker (urn:Google)18/06/2015, 10:15Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe knowledge of fundamental properties of the neutron helps us understand many aspect of the universe. It all starts right after the Big Bang: matter wins over antimatter in the Universe, making our existence possible. The main ingredient to that, matter anti-matter asymmetry, requires major violation of another fundamental symmetry, called CP violation. This, in turn might show up in a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jonathan Ziprick (urn:Google)18/06/2015, 10:15Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)We study a pressureless dust coupled to gravity with an arbitrary cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in 2+1 dimensions. This theory has interesting classical solutions and yet remains simple enough to explore the non-perturbative quantization of gravitational degrees of freedom. On the classical side we find the Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole as a static solution when $\Lambda<0$, and for...Go to contribution page
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Mr Matthew Mitchell (University of Calgary)18/06/2015, 10:15Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Cavity optomechanics provides a platform for exquisitely controlling coherent interactions between photons and mesoscopic mechanical excitations. Cavity optomechanics has recently been used to demonstrate phenomena such as laser cooling, optomechanically induced transparency, and coherent wavelength conversion. These experiments were enabled by photonic micro- and nanocavities engineered to...Go to contribution page
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Mr Gregory Gomes (Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga and Department of Physics, University of Toronto)18/06/2015, 10:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)A large number of proteins, termed intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), fail to fold into well-defined three-dimensional structures. Many of these IDPs are associated with diseases, such as cancer or neurodegenerative disorders. In contrast to well-folded proteins, the polymer properties of IDPs are often crucial aspects of their functions. Correspondingly, to develop a better...Go to contribution page
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Mr Savino Longo (University of Victoria)18/06/2015, 10:15Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)To prepare for the large backgrounds expected to be present in the Belle II detector from the SuperKEKB e+e- collider, the radiation hardness of several ($5 \times 5 \times 30 \text{cm}^3$) thallium doped cesium iodide scintillation crystals are studied to accumulated $\sim 1$ MeV photon doses of up to 1000 Gray. The sample set of crystals studied consists of 2 spare crystals from the Belle...Go to contribution page
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Dylan Malenfant (University of Windsor)18/06/2015, 10:30Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)There is an urgent need in the medical, environmental health and safety, security, and food-processing industries for a technology capable of rapid and sensitive bacterial pathogen identification. In response to this, we have shown that laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) can be used as a real-time elemental assay capable of discriminating between bacteria at both the species and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Sourabh Kumar (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary T2 N 1N4, Alberta, Canada)18/06/2015, 10:30Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Vigorous efforts are currently being undertaken to bring quantum effects such as superposition and entanglement to the macroscopic level. One prominent goal in this context is the creation of entanglement between a microscopic and a macroscopic system, following Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment that involved a decaying nucleus and a cat. A natural setting for testing these predictions...Go to contribution page
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Keith Ng (University of Waterloo)18/06/2015, 10:30Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)Classically, the equivalence principle tells us that an observer cannot determine the global structure of spacetime using local measurements. After reviewing previous results demonstrating the sensitivity of detectors to spacetime, I proceed to our most recent result: that one can distinguish between a detector in flat space and one inside a hollow spherical shell by measuring the energy...Go to contribution page
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Pierre Savard (University of Toronto (CA))18/06/2015, 11:15Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierIn July of 2012, the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Standard Model Higgs boson was announced. Following the discovery, additional data were collected and the experiments improved the calibration of the detectors and their analysis techniques. In this talk, I will present an updated description of our understanding of the Higgs boson and discuss future research plans as the...Go to contribution page
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Francis Halzen (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wiscons)18/06/2015, 11:45Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierThe IceCube project has transformed one cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. The instrument detects 100,000 neutrinos per year in the GeV to PeV energy range. Among those, we have recently isolated a flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. I will discuss the instrument, the analysis of the data, and the significance of the discovery of cosmic neutrinos.Go to contribution page
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Jean-Francois Arguin (Universite de Montreal (CA))18/06/2015, 12:30
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Nathaniel Lasry (John Abbott College)18/06/2015, 13:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Physics education research (PER) is a blooming field with a widespread research agenda spanning through several orders of magnitude, from micro-cognitive processes happening in a few tens of milliseconds to the expertise achieved in 10 000+ hours. Although the number of PER researchers in Canada is growing along with the interest and demand from physics educators, individual PER researchers...Go to contribution page
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John Davis (University of Alberta)18/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIt is well known that objects containing many atoms, such as superfluids and superconductors, can behave quantum mechanically when each particle occupies the same ground state. But can large objects demonstrate collective quantum behavior even when their constituent particles do not? For example, can a nanomechanical resonator be coaxed into a ground state of a vibrational degree of freedom?...Go to contribution page
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Rachel Wortis (Trent University)18/06/2015, 13:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn 1958, Phil Anderson showed that the wavefunctions of noninteracting particles moving in a random potential can become localized in space. Anderson localization has since been observed in a wide variety of systems. However, interactions between particles aren’t always negligible. In fact it is precisely the materials in which electron-electron interactions are most significant that are of...Go to contribution page
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805. An emergent phase transition as an organizing principle for strongly correlated superconductorsAndre-Marie Tremblay (Universite de Sherbrooke)18/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéBand theory and BCS theory are arguably the most successful theories of condensed matter. Yet, both of them fail miserably for high-temperature cuprate superconductors and layered organic superconductors. New theoretical methods are required. In this talk, I compare experiment in cuprates and layered organics with theoretical results obtained from extensions of dynamical mean-field theory for...Go to contribution page
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Wayne Hiebert (National Institute for Nanotechnology)18/06/2015, 14:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe ultrasensitivity enabled by nano-optomechanical systems has rich potential from torque sensors able to see nanoscale magnet volumes to cantilever mass sensors able to weigh single large molecules. Mass sensitivity is determined from a combination of mechanical resonance sharpness (quality factor) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). With optomechanics, the signal readout technique is no...Go to contribution page
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Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)18/06/2015, 14:15Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)When students start their graduate studies, they face new challenges: managing their time between course work, research and teaching, learning new skills such as reading research papers and writing research proposals, or dealing with difficult undergrads in their tutorial. Since all our new graduate students are affected by these issues to some degree, in 2012 the SFU Physics Department...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Frank Marsiglio (University of Alberta)18/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Electrons in metals move around and they interact with one another via the Coulomb interaction. When electrons form extended (i.e. Bloch) states they do the same thing. Yet very often they form a collective exotic state like superconductivity. Is this the consequence of pairing via an attractive interaction, or is something more subtle at work? This talk will discuss what is currently not...Go to contribution page
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Jack Sankey (McGill University)18/06/2015, 14:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn the field of optomechanics we have learned to use the forces exerted by laser light to gain a new level of control over a wide variety of mechanical systems, from kilogram-scale mirrors in gravitational wave detectors to nanomechanical elements in cryogenic environments. In this talk I will discuss how a very modest source of laser light (i.e. a few milliwatts) in an optical resonator can...Go to contribution page
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Dr Philip Langill (University of Calgary)18/06/2015, 14:45Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)There are many pedagogical and logistical challenges in the delivery of the large ~1000 student introductory physics course, for non-physics majors. Logistical challenges are best addressed with a little better planning and a lot more funding and manpower. The challenge of creating and administering an effective exam usually relies a little on funding and a lot on planning. This...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alexandre Brolo (University of Victoria)18/06/2015, 15:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéNanostructured metallic surfaces support surface plasmon (SP) excitations. The resonance conditions depend on the optical properties at the metal-dielectric interface. For instance, the monitoring of the shift of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) due to molecular adsorption events is a well-established approach in biosensing. The SPR condition also leads to an increase in the electric field...Go to contribution page
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Joerg Rottler (UBC)18/06/2015, 15:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéYielding and the slow plastic flow of amorphous solids exhibit striking heterogeneities: swift localised particle rearrangements take place in the midst of a more or less homogeneously deforming medium. At low temperatures, failure events become increasingly correlated and develop self-similar properties that resemble critical phenomena. Moreover, plastically deforming regions organize...Go to contribution page
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Jean-Claude KIEFFER (EMT-INRS)18/06/2015, 15:45Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéThe ultrafast laser technology is evolving toward higher peak and average power and shorter pulse. I will review the world wide effort in this sector and present some technologies that have been recently, or will be soon, integrated at ALLS to achieve very high peak power. The roadmaps for some laser-based machines targeting application of x-ray imaging and particle acceleration in medical and...Go to contribution page
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John Root (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)18/06/2015, 16:15Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéBecause of the unique way that neutrons interact with matter, neutron scattering methods provide knowledge about materials that often complements the insights provided by other instruments or techniques and that sometimes reveals information that is very difficult or impossible to obtain otherwise. Located at the NRU research reactor, within the Chalk River site of Canadian Nuclear...Go to contribution page
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Sabrina Leslie (McGill University)18/06/2015, 16:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéA wide range of life-preserving processes, such as DNA transcription and repair, rely on weak intermolecular interactions and slow dynamics which occur at high concentrations, over long time periods, and often under confinement. Visualizing dynamic processes can present a challenge to fluorescence microscopy, the work horse for resolving biological processes at the molecular scale. To address...Go to contribution page
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Fabien Souris (University of Alberta)18/06/2015, 16:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)We have built and investigated the properties of a nanofluidic Helmoltz resonator operating with superfluid $^4$He. The density oscillations of the fluid are measured with an on-chip capacitor, allowing us to probe a small volume of helium contained in the resonator. Oscillators based on superfluid $^4$He are expected to reach high quality factors due to its high purity and dissipationless...Go to contribution page
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Tayyaba Firdous (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2E1, Canada)18/06/2015, 16:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)Magnetic properties for isolated and small-scale assemblies of nanoparticles are generally derived from measurements of bulk nanoparticle systems. To complement this, we aim to investigate these properties for individual assemblies of single-domain magnetite nanoparticles. Nanoparticles, ~ 50 nm in size and harvested from magnetotactic bacteria, were deposited by Nano eNnabler (BioForce...Go to contribution page
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Steven Rehse (University of Windsor)18/06/2015, 16:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéWhen a short pulse of laser light is focused to a small spot, the energy density may be high enough to ablate and partially ionize whatever material was in the focal volume of the laser (whether it was a solid, liquid, or gas.) This ionized gas plume can strongly interact with the incident laser pulse, quickly leading to significant heating and further ionizations, resulting in a...Go to contribution page
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Alexander E. Kobryn (National Institute for Nanotechnology)18/06/2015, 16:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)The steady increase in the complexity of new industrial materials and the need to accurately predict their properties have resulted in rapid development of sophisticated methods of modelling on multiple length and time scales. A simple hierarchical approach combines different methods for different scales (quantum mechanical, microscopic, mesoscopic) interpreted independently. Information...Go to contribution page
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Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)18/06/2015, 17:00Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Structural control in colloidal films has potential benefits for photonics, material templating, and in fundamental studies of phase transitions. Although there are numerous self-assembly techniques to prepare colloidal crystals, there is great variability in the methods used to characterize order and disorder in these materials. In this work, we take on the task of assessing different kinds...Go to contribution page
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Esam Hussein (University of Regina)19/06/2015, 08:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéComputed tomography (CT) is an inverse problem in which an image is reconstructed from measurements, making use of the forward problem presented by the well-known Beer-Lambert Law for the absorption of a beam of monochromatic radiation. Then, the natural logarithm of the relative intensity of a transmitted beam of radiation leads to a linear problem in the form of a Radon transform, the...Go to contribution page
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Shane Koscielniak (TRIUMF)19/06/2015, 08:45Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéHosted by TRIUMF, supported by a consortium of 14 Canadian Universities led by the U.Victoria, and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the National Research Council and the province of British Columbia, the ARIEL project commenced design and construction of the ARIEL buildings and the 50 MeV, 10 mA capable electron linear accelerator (e-linac) in September 2010. The accelerator,...Go to contribution page
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Jinshan Wu (Beijing Normal University)19/06/2015, 08:45Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéIn this talk, I will try to answer two questions about physics: First, how important is each subfield and second, how does a specific subfield influence other subfields? We modify the well-known open-system Leontief Input-Output Analysis in economics into a closed-system analysis focusing on eigenvalues and eigenvectors and the effects of removing one subfield. We apply this method to the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Lia Merminga (TRIUMF)19/06/2015, 09:15Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invitéTRIUMF has embarked on the construction of ARIEL, the Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory, with the goal to substantially expand TRIUMF’s existing capabilities in rare isotope production and utilization for nuclear physics and astrophysics, materials science and health science. ARIEL will use proton-induced spallation and electron-driven photo-fission of ISOL targets for the production of...Go to contribution page
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Carl Kumaradas (Ryerson University)19/06/2015, 09:15Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)There has been a recent increase in the use plasmonic nanoparticles for biomedical applications, such photo-thermal therapy, optical and optoacoustic imaging, and biosensors. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are of particular interest due to their strong plasmon resonances, stability and biocompatibility. Plasmon coupling occurs when GNPs aggregate resulting in a shift of the resonance wavelength....Go to contribution page
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Dr Zhigang Cheng (University of Alberta)19/06/2015, 09:15Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Recent experiments by Hallock and coworkers [1] observed mass transport through solid $^4$He and suggested it was due to flow along dislocation lines. In those measurements, helium was injected and removed through Vycor “electrodes” filled with superfluid $^4$He. Here, we report the results of a related experiment: a Vycor rod filled with superfluid $^4$He is sandwiched between two bulk solid...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Xiaosong Chen (Institute of Theoretical Physics, China Academy of Science)19/06/2015, 09:30Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
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Gautam Das (Lakehead Uniersity)19/06/2015, 09:45Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)Fiber-optic sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings have been established as rugged and reliable devices and have found applications in environmental monitoring, oil and gas reservoir monitoring, and in performing temperature, pressure, and strain measurements. However, new sensors with higher sensitivity, greater accuracy, and a simpler design, using fiber laser technology, would provide...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David A. Weitz (SEAS Harvard)19/06/2015, 12:45Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénierThe stiffness of cells is commonly assumed to depend on the stiffness of their surrounding: bone cells are much stiffer than neurons, and each exists in surrounding tissue that matches the cell stiffness. In this talk, I will discuss new measurements of cell stiffness, and show that cell stiffness is strongly correlated to cell volume. This affects both the mechanics and the gene expression in...Go to contribution page
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