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, September 25, 2023 (8:30 AM) to Saturday, September 30, 2023 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 25, 2023
8:30 AM Welcome addresses
Welcome addresses
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome guests to Nelson Mandela University - Sibongile Muthwa (Vice-Chancellor of Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)

8:45 AM Welcome guests to George - Alderman Leon van Wyk (George Municipality Executive Mayor)

8:55 AM Welcome guests on behalf of the LOC & IOC - Azwinndini Muronga (LOC Chair, Nelson Mandela University)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:00 AM The interactions of Physics, Environmental, and Developmental Issues: Taking complexity Seriously - George Ellis (University of Cape Town)
10:00 AM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

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

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

11:30 AM 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 PM The Naturally Unnatural Standard Model of Particle Physics - Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)
12:30 PM Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Challenges of 4th generation accelerator-based light sources - Simone Di Mitri (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and Univ. of Trieste)

2:30 PM 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)

3:00 PM “The first African Light Source: lighting the future of Africa” - Gihan Kamel (SESAME Synchrotron light Source)
3:30 PM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
4:00 PM Heavy Ion/ Particle Physics
Heavy Ion/ Particle Physics
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

4:00 PM 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))

4:15 PM A Light shed on Lepton Flavor Universality in B meson decays - Sonali Patnaik (OUAT Bhubaneshwar)

4:30 PM 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))

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

5:00 PM 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)

5:15 PM 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
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

4:00 PM X-Ray and Terahertz Source Based on Energy Recovery Linac. - Sanae Samsam (INFN Milano)

4:15 PM Luminosity calibration and beam-beam interactions at hadron colliders with Q-Gaussian beams - Mohamed Abed (Tomsk Polytechnic University)

4:30 PM A novel 3D vertex model predicts the biomechanical factors of cell delamination in stratified epithelial tissues - Somiealo AZOTE epse HASSIKPEZI (Syracuse University)

4:45 PM Electronic Structure Calculations using Quantum Computing - Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan (University of the Witwatersrand)

5:00 PM STUDY OF SPECTRA OF HF VI - Exaucé BOKAMBA MOTOUMBA (Marien NGOUABI University)

5:15 PM The Role of Optical Fiber Sensor in Internet of Things: Applications and Challenges: Review - Paul Macheso
5:30 PM Break
Break
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
6:30 PM
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

6:30 PM Early Career Panel Discussion—"Beauty of Physics"
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
8:30 AM News and Information
News and Information
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

8:30 AM News and Info - Dolly Ntintili (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) Reatile Mosia (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)
8:45 AM Keynote address
Keynote address
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

8:45 AM Address by the Director of iThemba LABS - Makondelele Victor Tshivhase (iThemba LABS)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Boosting Physics in Africa within the ASFAP Strategy: Particle physics as prototype - Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University (MA))
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:30 AM African Astronomical Society – from Cape to Cairo - Thebe Rodney Medupe (NWU, South Africa)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 PM 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 PM Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
2:00 PM Keynote address
Keynote address
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Address by BD Reddy, PhD | Professor Emeritus Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town
2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

2:15 PM The renewable energy and green hydrogen landscape in Namibia - Aina Kauluma (ASP2022)

2:45 PM 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)

3:15 PM State of Renewable Energy Development in South Africa - Sophie Mulaudzi (university of venda, South Africa)
3:45 PM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Regency Room
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

4:15 PM Dark Matter: Looking beyond the Lamppost - Jacques Pienaar (The University of Chicago)

4:45 PM New Approaches on Dark Matter Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon, US)

5:15 PM 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)
5:45 PM
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

5:45 PM 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, September 27, 2023
8:45 AM News and Information
News and Information
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

8:45 AM An overview of the African School of Physics - Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Compact Colliders of Tomorrow for High Energy Physics - Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:30 AM Science diplomacy and developing communities - Irvy Gledhill (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

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

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

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

12:00 PM Neutrons and Model Membranes - Giovanna Fragneto (ESS)
12:30 PM Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Biophysics in Africa - Kayode DADA (UJ/WITS Sentech Radiation Biology Research Group, South Africa)

2:30 PM Life science research using neutrons at the European Spallation Source: applications, instruments, and support labs - Zoe Fisher (European Spallation Source)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

3:00 PM Tiny drones to target cancer, powered by Artificial Intelligence - Wilfred Ngwa (Global Oncology University)
3:30 PM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
4:00 PM Computing/ Nuclear Physics
Computing/ Nuclear Physics
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Investigating octupole correlations in Xe nuclei with mass A < 120 - Sanjay Kumar Chamoli (Department of Physics & Astrophysics University of Delhi, Delhi, INDIA)

4:15 PM Enhancing Reactor Performance: Computational Study on Optimizing Beryllium Shim Plates in the Nigerian Research Reactor-1 - Dennis Solomon

4:30 PM Isospin breaking in the upper fp-shell nuclei - George Lowani Zimba (FRIB)

4:45 PM 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.)

5:00 PM Indoor exposure prediction through Monte Carlo Simulation Geant4 : Case of primary schools of the Doukkala-Abda Region - Asmae Ettoufi (Hassan II University of Casablanca)

5:15 PM 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
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

4:00 PM 3D Position-Sensitive Semiconductor Detectors for Nuclear Fuel Imaging - Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)

4:15 PM The Mu2e experiment and its electromagnetic calorimeter - Fabio Happacher (Fermilab)

4:30 PM 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)

4:45 PM Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii an Astronomia (Swahili for "Educate a girl, educate the entire community with Astronomy"). - Ann Njeri

5:00 PM Genius in Africa - Jesutofunmi Fajemisin (University of South Florida, USA)

5:15 PM Citizens and Travelers II - A Collection of African Scientists' stories - Jesutofunmi Fajemisin (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA)

5:30 PM USATLAS SWT2-OU Storage Evolution from XRootD to CEPH - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

6:00 PM The Quest for Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Shaaban Khalil (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt)
Thursday, September 28, 2023
8:45 AM News and Information
News and Information
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

8:45 AM The 4th Edition of the African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics, ACP2025, in Togo - Amou Komi Apélété (University of Lomé, Togo)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Capturing a quantum image without a camera - Chané Moodley (QLAB, Raphta (PTY) LTD, Waterfall, Johannesburg,South Africa)

9:30 AM Introduction to spintronics: (c.f. Overcoming the skyrmion Hall effect) - Collins Ashu Akosa (Waseda University, Japan)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

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

11:00 AM 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 AM Unleaching the power of digital transformation in accelerator physics: a new collaborative approach - Adnan Ghribi Ghribi Adnan (CEA/CNRS, France)

12:00 PM Workforce development in quantum information science - Silvia Zorzetti (Fermilab)
12:30 PM Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
Lunch / Registration / Poster Session
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: George Room
Contributions

2:00 PM List of contributed posters

3:10 PM Press Event / Special Session: Proving Einstein’s Theory Again in Africa, 100 Years Later - David Levitt (Research Fellow, Stochastic Labs)
3:30 PM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
4:00 PM Materials Physics/ Medical Physics/ Computing
Materials Physics/ Medical Physics/ Computing
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Electronic and magnetic properties of Selected TM doped MoS2 monolayer: A DFT calculation - Eric K. K. Abavare

4:15 PM 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)

4:30 PM High-quality Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) produced graphene. - Hleko Chauke (Mintek)

4:45 PM Performance of a Bifacial Solar Module Under Different Backgrounds - Gloria Katunge (University of Nairobi)

5:00 PM 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)

5:15 PM 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
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

4:00 PM 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))

4:15 PM Search for the dark vector boson - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:30 PM 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))

4:45 PM 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)

5:00 PM Topological Stars and Gravity - Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University)
5:30 PM Break
Break
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
6:30 PM
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

6:30 PM Conference dinner and keynote address - Thandi Mgwebi (Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation at Nelson Mandela University,)
Friday, September 29, 2023
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Nonlinear electrostatic fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosphere - Odutayo Rufai (NASA/CUA)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Collaborative Research in Machine Learning on the African Continent - Omololu Akin-Ojo (ICTP-EAIFR Univ. Rwanda & Physics Department, Univ. Ibadan Nigeria)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

9:30 AM Cultivating the skills ecosystem of the future - Jean Greyling (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)
10:00 AM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Regency Room
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

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

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

11:30 AM Engaging teachers for informal education in modern physics - Pedro Abreu (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))
12:00 PM 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 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
1:30 PM ASK An ASP (Alumni)
ASK An ASP (Alumni)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

1:30 PM Opening - George Lowani Zimba (FRIB) Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)

1:35 PM Trailblaizing: From ASP (MSc Student) to PDRA in Extragalactic Astrophysics - Ann Njeri

1:45 PM A brief story tale of an ASP alumnus - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

1:55 PM Bridging Africa and inspiring the future through science - Brenda Namumba (Wits Centre for Astrophysics, South Africa)

2:05 PM My Journey from ASP to Medical Physics - Jesutofunmi Fajemisin

2:15 PM From ASP to Illuminating Africa's Future in Light Sources - Sanae Samsam

2:25 PM Escaping the Prism - Aina Kauluma (ASP2022)

2:35 PM High energy physics: The edge of possibility - Xola Gugulethu Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

2:45 PM A passion for physics at the nanoscale - Katawoura Beltako (UNA)

2:55 PM Closing - George Lowani Zimba (FRIB) Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

1:30 PM IoT and its implications to Africa - Agu Collins Agu (National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA))

1:52 PM 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)

2:14 PM 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)

2:36 PM Cosmic Watch for Education and Outreach in Africa and Beyond - Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US))
3:00 PM Break / Registration / Poster Session
Break / Registration / Poster Session
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Regency Room
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

3:30 PM African Countries Joining Large International Collaborations - PHENIX and EIC - BENARD MULILO (The University of Zambia)

3:45 PM The glue that binds us all: The Science of the Electron-Ion Collider - Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

4:15 PM The Status and Opportunities at the Electron Ion Collider - Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University, US)

4:45 PM Discussion on EIC
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Charlotte Room
Contributions

3:30 PM Towards black hole movies with the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) - Lott Frans (University of Namibia, Radboud University, IRA-INAF)

4:00 PM Overview of Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) activities at iThemba LABS-NRF - Mlungisi Nkosi (iThemba LABS, South Africa)

4:30 PM 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)
5:20 PM Closing talk and vote of thanks
Closing talk and vote of thanks
5:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Regency Room
Contributions

5:20 PM Closing—ASP/ACP Outlook - Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Saturday, September 30, 2023

9:00 AM ATLAS Masterclass at Inkcubeko Science Centre
ATLAS Masterclass at Inkcubeko Science Centre
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Up to 36 high school learners will be "particle physicsts for a day" in which they learn about the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room: Regency Room

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