2019 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2019

Session

R1-1 History of Physics (DHP) | L'histoire de la physique (DHP)

R1-1

6 Jun 2019, 10:45

Simon Fraser University

Conveners

R1-1 History of Physics (DHP) | L'histoire de la physique (DHP)

• Patrick Clancy (McMaster University)

2470. Early Days of the TRIUMF Cyclotron

David Axen (University of British Columbia (CA))

06/06/2019, 10:45

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

By the mid nineteen sixties a vibrant culture of nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry and nuclear medicine was well established across Canada. Immediately following the cyclotron commissioning in 1974 active programs in nuclear physics, pion and muon physics,pion therapy, and isotope production were initiated. I will describe the configuration of the laboratory and focus on experiments with...

2452. History of µSR: Applied Particle Physics

Prof. Jess H. Brewer (TRIUMF & UBC)

06/06/2019, 11:15

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

I will review the history of muon spin rotation/relaxation/resonance (µSR), from its origins in elementary particle physics through its evolution into an essential probe of molecular and materials science, noting how each solution to a problem for one use of muons engendered opportunities for other uses. Canada has played a disproportionate role in this saga, in a series of technological...

2430. Pierluigi Falco (1977-2014) and his Contributions to Mathematical Physics

Dr Francesco Barletta (CMÉC)

06/06/2019, 11:45

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

On the fifth anniversary of his death, we want to remember Dr. Pierluigi Falco, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the California State University (CSU) in Northridge. Dr. Falco completed a Degree in Physics at Università La Sapienza in Rome, and a PhD in Mathematics at the same university, followed by a postdoctoral position in the Mathematics Department at the University of British...

2488. Physicists and the first Pugwash Conference in 1957

Dr David Fleming (Mount Allison University)

06/06/2019, 12:00

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

In 1955, a number of prominent scientists, alarmed by the danger of nuclear weapons, signed a public statement which became known as the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. This document urged scientists to take a more active role in assuring nuclear weapons would not be used again, and recommended a meeting of international scientists to open dialogue on the topic. The first such meeting, which...