Name: The 3rd African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2023)
Start: 2023-09-25T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-30T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Protea Hotel King George

The 3rd African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2023)

from Monday 25 September 2023 (08:30) to Saturday 30 September 2023 (18:00)

Monday 25 September 2023
08:30 Welcome addresses
Welcome addresses
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

08:30 Welcome guests to Nelson Mandela University - Sibongile Muthwa (Vice-Chancellor of Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)

08:45 Welcome guests to George - Alderman Leon van Wyk (George Municipality Executive Mayor)

08:55 Welcome guests on behalf of the LOC & IOC - Azwinndini Muronga (LOC Chair, Nelson Mandela University)
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:00 The interactions of Physics, Environmental, and Developmental Issues: Taking complexity Seriously - George Ellis (University of Cape Town)
10:00 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Regency Room
10:30
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

10:30 The Status, Challenges and Opportunities of Medical Physics in Africa - Christoph J Trauernicht (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

11:00 Neutrinos as a Window into New Physics beyond the Standard Model - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)

11:30 Unveiling New Frontiers in Particle Physics: Exploring Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC - Haifa Rejeb Sfar (The State University of New York SUNY (US))

12:00 The Naturally Unnatural Standard Model of Particle Physics - Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)
12:30 Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Regency Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

14:00 Challenges of 4th generation accelerator-based light sources - Simone Di Mitri (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and Univ. of Trieste)

14:30 Developing an African Inverse Compton Scattering source of advanced X-rays as an incubator on the path towards the African Light Source - Luca Serafini (INFN)

15:00 “The first African Light Source: lighting the future of Africa” - Gihan Kamel (SESAME Synchrotron light Source)
15:30 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Regency Room
16:00 Heavy Ion/ Particle Physics
Heavy Ion/ Particle Physics
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

16:00 Measurements of heavy-flavour production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ALICE detector - Tebogo Joyce Shaba (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))

16:15 A Light shed on Lepton Flavor Universality in B meson decays - Sonali Patnaik (OUAT Bhubaneshwar)

16:30 Measurement of the Energy Response of the ATLAS Calorimeter to Charged Pions from tau-lepton Decays in Run 2 Data - Meryem Noury (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))

16:45 Search for axions in H → aa → 4γ decays at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment - Hajar Imam (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))

17:00 LA-CoNGA physics: an open science education collaboration between Latin America and Europe for High Energy Physics - Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3)

17:15 Measurement of the electroweak cross-section for a same-sign W boson pair produced in association with two jets using 139/fb of ATLAS data - Chilufya Mwewa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Accelerator Physics/ Biophysics/ Materials
Accelerator Physics/ Biophysics/ Materials
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

16:00 X-Ray and Terahertz Source Based on Energy Recovery Linac. - Sanae Samsam (INFN Milano)

16:15 Luminosity calibration and beam-beam interactions at hadron colliders with Q-Gaussian beams - Mohamed Abed (Tomsk Polytechnic University)

16:30 A novel 3D vertex model predicts the biomechanical factors of cell delamination in stratified epithelial tissues - Somiealo AZOTE epse HASSIKPEZI (Syracuse University)

16:45 Electronic Structure Calculations using Quantum Computing - Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan (University of the Witwatersrand)

17:00 STUDY OF SPECTRA OF HF VI - Exaucé BOKAMBA MOTOUMBA (Marien NGOUABI University)

17:15 The Role of Optical Fiber Sensor in Internet of Things: Applications and Challenges: Review - Paul Macheso
17:30 Break
Break
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Regency Room
18:30
18:30 - 20:30
Contributions

18:30 Early Career Panel Discussion—"Beauty of Physics"
Tuesday 26 September 2023
08:30 News and Information
News and Information
08:30 - 08:45
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

08:30 News and Info - Dolly Ntintili (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) Reatile Mosia (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)
08:45 Keynote address
Keynote address
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

08:45 Address by the Director of iThemba LABS - Makondelele Victor Tshivhase (iThemba LABS)
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:00 Boosting Physics in Africa within the ASFAP Strategy: Particle physics as prototype - Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University (MA))
09:30
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:30 African Astronomical Society – from Cape to Cairo - Thebe Rodney Medupe (NWU, South Africa)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

10:00 Transition from Biomass to Sustainable Green Energy Storage Devices - Balla Diop Ngom (University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar)
10:30 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Regency Room
11:00
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

11:00 The beauty of the Higgs boson - Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3)
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

11:30 The Physics of a Trillion Degrees - William Alexander Horowitz (University of Cape Town (ZA))

12:00 Electromagnetic Field Evolution in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision and its Effect on Flow of Particles - Tewodros Gezhagn (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University on nuclear physics, Ethiopia)
12:30 Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Regency Room
14:00 Keynote address
Keynote address
14:00 - 14:15
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

14:00 Address by BD Reddy, PhD | Professor Emeritus Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town
14:15
14:15 - 16:20
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

14:15 The renewable energy and green hydrogen landscape in Namibia - Aina Kauluma (ASP2022)

14:45 Opportunities and challenges of exploiting white and green hydrogen in Africa to decarbonise the global economy - Daniel Ayuk Mbi Egbe (African Network of Solar Energy)

15:15 State of Renewable Energy Development in South Africa - Sophie Mulaudzi (university of venda, South Africa)
15:45 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Regency Room
16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

16:15 Dark Matter: Looking beyond the Lamppost - Jacques Pienaar (The University of Chicago)

16:45 New Approaches on Dark Matter Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon, US)

17:15 The growth and structure of nearby galaxies based on HI observations: capabilities of SKA pathfinders: KAT-7 and MeerKAT. - Brenda Namumba (Wits Centre for Astrophysics, South Africa)
17:45
17:45 - 18:45
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

17:45 Inverse Compton Scattering & Light Source Research Infrastructure - Luca Serafini (INFN-Milan) Simon Connell (Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.)
Wednesday 27 September 2023
08:45 News and Information
News and Information
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

08:45 An overview of the African School of Physics - Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:00 Compact Colliders of Tomorrow for High Energy Physics - Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:30 Science diplomacy and developing communities - Irvy Gledhill (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

10:00 Future careers for scientists and engineers – a look into the crystal ball - Surya Raghu (ETCube)
10:30 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Regency Room
11:00
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

11:00 The application of physics in weather and climate sciences - Mary-Jane Bopape (SAEON National Office, NRF, South Africa)
11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

11:30 IDIA Science Gateway For Radio Astronomy - Rob Simmonds (IDIA & University of Cape Town, South Africa)
12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

12:00 Neutrons and Model Membranes - Giovanna Fragneto (ESS)
12:30 Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Regency Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

14:00 Biophysics in Africa - Kayode DADA (UJ/WITS Sentech Radiation Biology Research Group, South Africa)

14:30 Life science research using neutrons at the European Spallation Source: applications, instruments, and support labs - Zoe Fisher (European Spallation Source)
15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

15:00 Tiny drones to target cancer, powered by Artificial Intelligence - Wilfred Ngwa (Global Oncology University)
15:30 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Regency Room
16:00 Computing/ Nuclear Physics
Computing/ Nuclear Physics
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

16:00 Investigating octupole correlations in Xe nuclei with mass A < 120 - Sanjay Kumar Chamoli (Department of Physics & Astrophysics University of Delhi, Delhi, INDIA)

16:15 Enhancing Reactor Performance: Computational Study on Optimizing Beryllium Shim Plates in the Nigerian Research Reactor-1 - Dennis Solomon

16:30 Isospin breaking in the upper fp-shell nuclei - George Lowani Zimba (FRIB)

16:45 Use of a High Resolution ΔE-E Gas-Ionisation Detector for the 6Li + 10B System at ELAB = 20 MeV - Samuel Odumu Ogana John (Center for Applied Radiation Science and Technology (CARST), North-West University (NWU), Mafikeng Campus, South Africa.)

17:00 Indoor exposure prediction through Monte Carlo Simulation Geant4 : Case of primary schools of the Doukkala-Abda Region - Asmae Ettoufi (Hassan II University of Casablanca)

17:15 Indoor radon and ambient equivalent dose measurements using a locally manufactured low-cost smart electronic device and validation with reference instruments - Mbarndouka Taamté Jacob (Research Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology, Institute of Geological and Mining Research)
Instrumentation / Detectors/ Physics Education / Quantum Computing
Instrumentation / Detectors/ Physics Education / Quantum Computing
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

16:00 3D Position-Sensitive Semiconductor Detectors for Nuclear Fuel Imaging - Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)

16:15 The Mu2e experiment and its electromagnetic calorimeter - Fabio Happacher (Fermilab)

16:30 Long-term protection of thermal quantum correlations and their role in enhancing quantum teleportation protocol - Fadwa BENABDALLAH (LPHE-Modeling and Simulation, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco)

16:45 Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii an Astronomia (Swahili for "Educate a girl, educate the entire community with Astronomy"). - Ann Njeri

17:00 Genius in Africa - Jesutofunmi Fajemisin (University of South Florida, USA)

17:15 Citizens and Travelers II - A Collection of African Scientists' stories - Jesutofunmi Fajemisin (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA)

17:30 USATLAS SWT2-OU Storage Evolution from XRootD to CEPH - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))
18:00
18:00 - 18:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

18:00 The Quest for Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Shaaban Khalil (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt)
Thursday 28 September 2023
08:45 News and Information
News and Information
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

08:45 The 4th Edition of the African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics, ACP2025, in Togo - Amou Komi Apélété (University of Lomé, Togo)
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:00 Capturing a quantum image without a camera - Chané Moodley (QLAB, Raphta (PTY) LTD, Waterfall, Johannesburg,South Africa)

09:30 Introduction to spintronics: (c.f. Overcoming the skyrmion Hall effect) - Collins Ashu Akosa (Waseda University, Japan)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

10:00 Novel probes of dark matter at the LHC - Deepak Kar (University of Witswatersrand)
10:30 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Regency Room
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

11:00 High Performance Computing developments in South Africa: The Efforts in support of Physics - Happy Sithole (National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure System, NICIS, South Africa)

11:30 Unleaching the power of digital transformation in accelerator physics: a new collaborative approach - Adnan Ghribi Ghribi Adnan (CEA/CNRS, France)

12:00 Workforce development in quantum information science - Silvia Zorzetti (Fermilab)
12:30 Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Regency Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: George Room
Contributions

14:00 List of contributed posters

15:10 Press Event / Special Session: Proving Einstein’s Theory Again in Africa, 100 Years Later - David Levitt (Research Fellow, Stochastic Labs)
15:30 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Regency Room
16:00 Materials Physics/ Medical Physics/ Computing
Materials Physics/ Medical Physics/ Computing
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

16:00 Electronic and magnetic properties of Selected TM doped MoS2 monolayer: A DFT calculation - Eric K. K. Abavare

16:15 Enhanced removal of Methyl red dye from aqueous solutions using Zirconium oxide impregnated Royal palm fiber Activated carbon (ZrO2-RPAC) - Bernice Yram Danu (University of Energy and Natural Resources)

16:30 High-quality Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) produced graphene. - Hleko Chauke (Mintek)

16:45 Performance of a Bifacial Solar Module Under Different Backgrounds - Gloria Katunge (University of Nairobi)

17:00 Assessment of cystamine’s radioprotective ability under high dose-rate irradiation: a Monte Carlo multi-track chemistry simulation study - Penabei Samafou (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)

17:15 Computational fluid dynamics modelling of the infectiousness of airborne droplets. - Mbolahasina Ralijaona (Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Particle Physics/ Astrophysics
Particle Physics/ Astrophysics
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

16:00 Search for a Higgs boson decaying to a four lepton plus missing transverse energy final state via four vector bosons - Xola Gugulethu Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

16:15 Search for the dark vector boson - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:30 The dark side of the photon, ongoing ATLAS search for dark matter through a dark photon. - Hannah Van Der Schyf (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:45 Cosmic web topology and the characteristics of dark matter subhaloes - Feven Markos Hunde (Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland)

17:00 Topological Stars and Gravity - Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University)
17:30 Break
Break
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Regency Room
18:30
18:30 - 20:30
Contributions

18:30 Conference dinner and keynote address - Thandi Mgwebi (Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation at Nelson Mandela University,)
Friday 29 September 2023
08:30
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

08:30 Nonlinear electrostatic fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosphere - Odutayo Rufai (NASA/CUA)
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:00 Collaborative Research in Machine Learning on the African Continent - Omololu Akin-Ojo (ICTP-EAIFR Univ. Rwanda & Physics Department, Univ. Ibadan Nigeria)
09:30
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

09:30 Cultivating the skills ecosystem of the future - Jean Greyling (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)
10:00 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Regency Room
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

10:30 GENDER Equity and Equality in the research area - Maria Rosaria Masullo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:00 A look into the physics education system in Zambia and Africa as a whole - Chilufya Mwewa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:30 Engaging teachers for informal education in modern physics - Pedro Abreu (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))
12:00 Lunch / Registration / Poster Session / Discussion session on Physics Education (13:00-14:00)
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session / Discussion session on Physics Education (13:00-14:00)
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Regency Room
13:30 ASK An ASP (Alumni)
ASK An ASP (Alumni)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

13:30 Opening - George Lowani Zimba (FRIB) Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)

13:35 Trailblaizing: From ASP (MSc Student) to PDRA in Extragalactic Astrophysics - Ann Njeri

13:45 A brief story tale of an ASP alumnus - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:55 Bridging Africa and inspiring the future through science - Brenda Namumba (Wits Centre for Astrophysics, South Africa)

14:05 My Journey from ASP to Medical Physics - Jesutofunmi Fajemisin

14:15 From ASP to Illuminating Africa's Future in Light Sources - Sanae Samsam

14:25 Escaping the Prism - Aina Kauluma (ASP2022)

14:35 High energy physics: The edge of possibility - Xola Gugulethu Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

14:45 A passion for physics at the nanoscale - Katawoura Beltako (UNA)

14:55 Closing - George Lowani Zimba (FRIB) Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

13:30 IoT and its implications to Africa - Agu Collins Agu (National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA))

13:52 Empowering Students through Hands-On Learning: The IoT Development Lab at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana - Isaac Armah Mensah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)

14:14 Zigbee-based wireless smart device for enclosed space real-time air quality monitoring: Experiment, data analysis and risk assessment - Taamté Jacob Mbarndouka (Institute of Geological and Mining Research, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

14:36 Cosmic Watch for Education and Outreach in Africa and Beyond - Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US))
15:00 Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Regency Room
15:30
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

15:30 African Countries Joining Large International Collaborations - PHENIX and EIC - BENARD MULILO (The University of Zambia)

15:45 The glue that binds us all: The Science of the Electron-Ion Collider - Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

16:15 The Status and Opportunities at the Electron Ion Collider - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University, US)

16:45 Discussion on EIC
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

15:30 Towards black hole movies with the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) - Lott Frans (University of Namibia, Radboud University, IRA-INAF)

16:00 Overview of Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) activities at iThemba LABS-NRF - Mlungisi Nkosi (iThemba LABS, South Africa)

16:30 Large Detector Systems in Particle Physics Experiments and the Role Africa Will Play in the Detector Technologies of the Future? - Kondo Gnanvo (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), US)
17:20 Closing talk and vote of thanks
Closing talk and vote of thanks
17:20 - 17:50
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

17:20 Closing—ASP/ACP Outlook - Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Saturday 30 September 2023

09:00 ATLAS Masterclass at Inkcubeko Science Centre
ATLAS Masterclass at Inkcubeko Science Centre
09:00 - 16:00
Up to 36 high school learners will be "particle physicsts for a day" in which they learn about the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

09:00 - 17:00
Room: Regency Room

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