2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Speaker List

• Bassel Abdel Samad (Moncton University)
  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Electrical and optical properties of electrochromic Tungsten trioxide (WO3) thin films at temperature range 300 to 500K

• Roshan Achal (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    On the Road to Low Power Circuitry: Analysis of Si Dangling Bond Charging Dynamics

• Mohammad Ahmady (Mount Allison University)
  • Speaker at

    The forward-backward asymmetry in $B\to K^*\mu^+\mu^-$.

• Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Flipping a graduate level course on Modern Electrodynamics

  • Speaker at

    Learning from our neighbours about “Building a Thriving Undergraduate Physics Program”

  • Speaker at

    The design, implementation and continuous improvement of "Introduction to Graduate Studies: Research and Teaching in Physics" at SFU

• Gary Albach (Former President and CEO, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures)
  • Speaker at

    Inelastic Collisions Outside Academe: Alternate Careers for Physicists

• Miguel Alcubierre (National University of Mexico)
  • Speaker at

    Faster than the Speed of Light

• Aleksandrs Aleksejevs (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Speaker at

    The Hunt for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the Precision Frontier

• Ahmad Almudallal (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Speaker at

    Extensions of Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to study thermally activated grain reversal in dual-layer Exchange Coupled Composite recording media.

  • Speaker at

    Inverse melting in a simple 2D liquid

• Neda Amiri (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Possibility of determining predominant SO2 oxidation pathways by isotope fractionation or source apportionment

• Tetyana Antimirova (Ryerson University)
  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Upper Level Undergraduate Physics Laboratories Competencies

• William Archer (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Anisotropic ion temperatures and ion flows adjacent to auroral precipitating electrons

• Jean-Francois Arguin (Universite de Montreal (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Status report

• Adriel Arsenault (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Single-Molecule Microscopy System for Tunable Nanoscale Confinement

• Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Speaker at

    Report from TRIUMF Director

• Vahid Bahrami Yekta (University of Victoria)
  • Speaker at

    Investigation of the effect of growth condition on defects in MBE grown GaAs1-xBix

• Lihui Bai (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Spin pumping in electrodynamically coupled magnon-photon systems

• Jeff Bale (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Development and simulations of the CANREB RFQ buncher and cooler at the TRIUMF facility

• Paul Barclay (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Nanophotonic Optomechanics in Diamond

• Jean Barrette (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    The Electrodynamometer of the McPherson Collection of Scientific Instruments

• Jonathan Baugh (University of Waterloo)
  • Speaker at

    Orbital Interference Effects in Nanowire Josephson Junctions for Exploring Majorana Physics

• Julien Beaudoin Bertrand (Université Laval)
  • Speaker at

    Following an Auger Decay by Attosecond Pump-Probe Measurements

• R. A. Behbahani (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Dense Plasma Focus for Short-Lived Isotope Activation

• Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University)
  • Speaker at

    Student Centered Active Learning Environment with Upsidedown Pedagogies

• Randy Belanger (McMaster University)
  • Speaker at

    Characterization of the 2D percolation transition in ultrathin Fe/W(110) films using the magnetic susceptibility

• Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))
  • Speaker at

    ILC

• Berta Beltran (Univeristy of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Early studies of detector optical calibrations for DEAP-3600

• Peter Bender (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Single particle structure in neutron-rich Sr isotopes approaching $N=60$

• Nikita Bernier (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    The First Radioactive Beam at GRIFFIN: $^{26}$Na for Decay Spectroscopy

• Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (University of Montreal)
  • Speaker at

    Status and Prospects for Theoretical Studies of B-meson Decays

• Samoil Bilenky (JINR (Dubna))
  • Speaker at

    Neutrino in the Standard Model and beyond

• Jean-François Bisson (Université de Moncton)
  • Speaker at

    The nanostructure of (Ybx, Y1-x)2O3 thin films obtained by reactive crossed-beam laser ablation using bright-field and high-angle annular dark-field STEM imaging.

  • Speaker at

    Anisotropic Bragg mirror made from one single material used for polarized laser emission from a Yb-doped YAG ceramic

• Tushar Biswas (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Explosive molecule detection by nanomechanical resonator and photothermal spectroscopy

• Benoit Blanchet (Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup)
  • Speaker at

    Off with the training wheels: Student centered approach to lab work.

• D.A. Bonn (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Making Comparisons - A Strategy for Teaching Scientific Reasoning in a First Year Lab

  • Speaker at

    Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of LiFeAs

• James Booth (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
  • Speaker at

    Cold Atom Metrology: Progress towards a New Absolute Pressure Standard

• Mark Boulay (Q)
  • Speaker at

    DEAP

• John Bowman (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Adaptive Matrix Transpose Algorithms for Distributed Multicore Processors

• Michael Bradley (Physics & Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Plasma Ion Implantation for Photonic and Electronic Device Applications

• Alexandre Brolo (University of Victoria)
  • Speaker at

    Gold Nanostructures and Their Applications

• David Broun (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Optical properties and Fermiology near field-tuned quantum critical points

• Jo-Anne Brown (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Essential Psychology in Physics - MBTI and You

  • Speaker at

    Essential Psychology in the Physics Classroom - Five Steps to Improve Classroom Effectiveness

• Colin Bruulsema (Laurentian University)
  • Speaker at

    Long-Term Supernova Monitoring with HALO

• James Bueno (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Alpha particle backgrounds from the neck of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

• Johnathan Burchill (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Up, out, and away: Probing the initial stages of ion outflow with Swarm

• Sarah Burke (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Polarization induced energy level shifts at organic semiconductor interfaces probed on the molecular scale by scanning tunnelling microscopy

• Bei Cai (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment -- Updates and First Commissioning Data Results

  • Speaker at

    In-situ Surface Contamination Removal With the DEAP-3600 Resurfacing Robot

• Taylor Cameron (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Small Scale Structuring in Electron Precipitation as seen by the ePOP Suprathermal Electron Imager

• Sheldon Campbell (The Ohio State University)
  • Speaker at

    Determining Power Spectra of High Energy Cosmics

• Melanie Campbell (University of Waterloo)
  • Speaker at

    The Rate of Reduction of Defocus in the Chick Eye is Proportional to Retinal Blur

• ChunJun Cao (Caltech)
  • Speaker at

    Constraints and Bulk Physics in the AdS/MERA Correspondence

• Carl Chandler (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    A Variational Wave Function for Electrons coupled to Acoustic Phonons

• Dean Chapman (Canadian Light Source Inc.)
  • Speaker at

    CLS 2.0: The Next 10 Years

• Chav Chhiv Chau (University of Toronto (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Measurement of the yy -> WW cross-section and searches for anomalous quartic gauge couplings WWAA at the ATLAS experiment

• Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelarator Laboratory)
  • Speaker at

    Characterization of Initial Target Conditions in High Intensity Laser Solids Interaction Experiments

• Xiaosong Chen (Institute of Theoretical Physics, China Academy of Science)
  • Speaker at

    (tba)

• Zhigang Cheng (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Probing helium mass flow through a solid-liquid-solid double Junction

• Aaron Chester (Simon Fraser University Department of Chemistry)
  • Speaker at

    Doppler shift lifetime measurements using the TIGRESS Integrated Plunger

• David Chevrier (Canadian Light Source)
  • Speaker at

    Acquaman: Scientific Software as the Beamline Interface

• Rose (Deborah) Chung (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Improving sensitivities and detection limits of fluorescence-based microcavity refractometric sensors

• Ken Clark (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Deep Core and PINGU - Studying Neutrinos in the Ice

• Aashish Clerk (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Quantum Reservoir Engineering in Optomechanical Systems

• Leroy Cogger (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    New View of Aurora from Space using the e-POP Fast Auroral Imager

• Bill Coish (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Improving Physical Models of Qubit Decoherence and Readout

• David Cooke (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Ultrafast dynamics of mobile charges and excitons in hybrid lead halide perovskites

• Bradley Cownden (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Linear perturbations of type IIB SUGRA in flux compactifications

• Gavin Cranmer-Sargison (Department of Medical Physics, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency)
  • Speaker at

    A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO STANDARDIZING SMALL FIELD DOSIMETRY IN RADIOTHERAPY APPLICATIONS

• Derek Cranshaw (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    Optimizing the wavelength-shifter thickness for alpha suppression in the DEAP-3600 detector

• Charmainne Cruje (Ryerson University)
  • Speaker at

    Cancer cell targeting gold nanoparticles for therapeutics

• Steffen Cruz
  • Speaker at

    Evolution of Single Particle Structure in Exotic Strontium Isotopes

• Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)
  • Speaker at

    Status of Dark Matter Theories

• Christopher Cully (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Early results from the ABOVE radio instrument array

• Chandra Curry (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Terahertz source development for studying Warm Dense Matter and High Energy Density Plasmas

• Alex Cushley
  • Speaker at

    Ionospheric Sounding Opportunities Using Signal Data From Pre-existing Amateur Radio And Operational Networks

  • Speaker at

    Ionospheric Sounding Opportunities Using Signal Data From Pre-existing Amateur Radio And Operational Networks

• Frederick Dallaire (Universite de Montreal (CA))
  • Speaker at

    A search for heavy gluon and vector-like quark in the 4b final state in pp collisions at 8 TeV

• Gautam Das (Lakehead Uniersity)
  • Speaker at

    Detection of Trace Gases using Fiber Laser Technology- Part 1

• Tyler Dauphinee
  • Speaker at

    Asymmetric Wavefunctions from Tiny Perturbations

• Barry Davids (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    The Electromagnetic Mass Analyser EMMA

• John Davis (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Optomechanics in a Millikelvin Environment: Towards QND Measurements

• William Davis (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Medical linear accelerator mounted mini-beam collimator: transferability study

• Eric Davis (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    A Case Study of Energetic Electron Precipitation Using Ground-Based VLF Radio Data

• James Day (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Gender gaps in a first-year physics lab

• Soumen Deb (University of Lethbridge)
  • Speaker at

    Discreteness of Space in a Weak Gravitational Field

• John de Bruyn (Western University)
  • Speaker at

    Development of a Vibrating Wire Rheometer

  • Speaker at

    Dielectric spectroscopy of polyvinyl alcohol cryogels

• Mark de Jong (Canadian Light Source Inc.)
  • Speaker at

    Producing Medical Isotopes with Electron Linacs

• Glenda De los Reyes (Physics Department, University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Energy transfer dynamics in blue emitting functionalized silicon nanocrystals

• Ronald Delos Reyes (University of Alberta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
  • Speaker at

    Performance Assessment of a Silicon-Based Piezoresistive MEMS Strain Sensor

• Chetan Deshmukh (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Towards a Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement for Photonic Qubits

• Ish Dhand (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Accurate and Precise Characterization of Linear Optical Interferometers

  • Speaker at

    Algorithms for Boson Realizations of SU(n)

• Pablo Diaz Benito (University of Lethbridge)
  • Speaker at

    Novel Charges in CFT's

• Rainer Dick (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    No "End of Greatness": Superlarge Structures and the Dawn of Brane Astronomy

• Marc Dignam (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    Third Harmonic Terahertz Response Optimization of Doped Monolayer Graphene

• Iris Dillmann
  • Speaker at

    Discussion on Nuclear Astrophysics (19)

• Iris Dillmann
  • Speaker at

    Nuclear Astrophysics aspects of the Gamma-Ray program (20+5)

• Christopher DiLoreto (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    The effect of off-resonant excitation on intensity-intensity correlation spectra in three-level, lambda systems

• Weixing Ding (UCLA)
  • Speaker at

    Magnetic Fluctuations Measurements in Magnetized Confinement Plasmas

• Jason Donev (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    An online resource for teaching about energy

• Callum Doolin (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Silicon Nitride microdisk resonators as refractometric sensors in water

• Charles Doran (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Geometrization of N-Extended 1-Dimensional Supersymmetry Algebras

• Gordon Drake (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    Atomic Recoil Processes following He-6 Beta Decay

• Ryan Dunlop (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    The first GRIFFIN Experiment: An investigation of the $s$-process yields for $^{116}$Cd

• Michelle Dunlop (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    High-Precision Half-Life Measurements for the Superallowed $\beta^+$ emitter $^{10}$C

• Benjamin Dupuis (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
  • Speaker at

    Bohmian trajectories for harmonic oscillator and Coulomb potentials

• Antoine Durocher-Jean (U. Montreal)
  • Speaker at

    Deposition of functional coatings on glass substrates using a recently-developed atmospheric-pressure microwave plasma jet

• Anindita Dutta (University of Lethbridge)
  • Speaker at

    Quantum corrected numerical relativity

• Ariel Edery (Bishop's)
  • Speaker at

    Restricted Weyl Invariance in Four-Dimensional Curved Spacetime

• Esmat Elhami (University of Winnipeg)
  • Speaker at

    Image Analysis and Quantification for PET Imaging

• Mohammed Eltahlawy (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Development of a High Intensity Yb:YAG Pumped Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification Laser System

• Lee J. Evitts (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Electric Monopole Transition Strengths in $^{62}$Ni

• Sabastine Ezugwu (The University of Western Ontario)
  • Speaker at

    Three-dimensional scanning near field optical microscopy imaging of random arrays of copper nanoparticles and their use for plasmonic solar cell enhancement

• B. Gino Fallone (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Development and Imaging of the World’s first Whole-Body Linac-MRI Hybrid System

• Giovanni Fanchini (The University of Western Ontario)
  • Speaker at

    Interfacing organic and carbon-based nanomaterials towards their applications in sustainable energy

• Fatemeh Fani Sani (UofA)
  • Speaker at

    Controlling magnetization dynamics with artificial pinning sites in thin magnetic disks

• Dennis D. Fernandes (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    The oligomeric composition of the M2 muscarinic receptor and the G protein signalling complex: a single molecule study

• Donald A. Fernandes (Ryerson University)
  • Speaker at

    Multifunctional perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions for cancer therapy and imaging

• Tayyaba Firdous (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2E1, Canada)
  • Speaker at

    Torque Magnetometry of an Individual Aggregate of ~350 Nanoparticles

• Sean W. Fleming (Environment Canada, MSC Science Division)
  • Speaker at

    Using an information theory-based method for statistical detection of high-frequency climate signals in northern-hemisphere water supply variations

• Jean-Francois Fortin (Laval University)
  • Speaker at

    Scale and Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory

• Mark Freeman (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Torsional Optomechanics

• Andrew Frey (University of Winnipeg)
  • Speaker at

    Dynamics of Gravitational Collapse in AdS Space-Time

• Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF (CA))
  • Speaker at

    ALPHA

• Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Casting Light on Antimatter: Fundamental Physics with the ALPHA Antihydrogen Trap

• Olivier Gagnon (Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation)
  • Speaker at

    Canada Foundation for Innovation and Subatomic Physics

• Charles Gale (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Extreme QCD: Characterizing the Quark-Gluon Plasma (15+3)

  • Speaker at

    QCD under extreme conditions: Hot, shiny fluids and sticky business

• Fatima Garcia (Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Calculation of isotope yields for radioactive beam production

• Adam Garnsworthy
  • Speaker at

    Discussion on Nuclear Structure (20)

• Dmitry Gavrilov (University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada)
  • Speaker at

    A review of imaging methods in analysis of works of art. Thermographic imaging method in art analysis.

• Zoltan Gecse (University of British Columbia (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Hunt for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector at LHC

• Gilles Gerbier (Queens University)
  • Speaker at

    NEWS Experiment

  • Speaker at

    SuperCDMS

  • Speaker at

    Status of the SuperCDMS and European Cryogenic Dark Matter experiments

• Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Moller Experiment at JLAB

  • Speaker at

    High Precision Weak Charge Measurements using Parity Violating Electron Scattering: Looking for Signatures of New Physics at the Precision Frontier

• Alexandros Gezerlis
  • Speaker at

    From nuclear forces to structure and astrophysics (10+2)

• Hossna Gharaee (university of Alberta, Departement of Physics)
  • Speaker at

    Properties of the lunar wake inferred from hybrid-kinetic simulations and an analytic model

• Kaveh Gharavi (University of Waterloo)
  • Speaker at

    Andreev and Josephson transport in InAs nanowire-based quantum dots

• Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  • Speaker at

    Fabulous Physicists from Around the World: The tale of ICWIP 2014

  • Speaker at

    Multiqubit entangled channels for quantum communication in networks

• Joydip Ghosh (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Simulating Anderson localization via a quantum walk on a one-dimensional lattice of superconducting qubits.

• Pietro Giampa (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter detector

• Nicolas Giasson (Université Laval)
  • Speaker at

    Skyrmion configurations for Near-BPS Skyrme Models

• Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Low-scale gravity phenomenology

• Robert Girardin (Lakehead University)
  • Speaker at

    Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Beta(25-35): An Oligomeric Aggregation Simulation From Monomers to Ordered Filaments

• Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    Status of the PICASSO and PICO experiments

• Sebastian Goennenwein (Walther-Meissner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Garching, Germany)
  • Speaker at

    Spin Currents in Magnetic Insulator/Normal Metal Heterostructures

• Gregory Gomes (Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga and Department of Physics, University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Inferring compactness and asphericity of disordered protein ensembles by single molecule FRET spectroscopy and coarse grained simulations

• Ariel Gomez (Canadian Light Source)
  • Speaker at

    The Brockhouse X-ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector at the Canadian Light Source

• Kevin Graham (Carleton University)
  • Speaker at

    MRS - Carleton/Victoria/Queens

• Kevin graham
  • Speaker at

    The EXO Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

• Dylan Grandmont (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G7)
  • Speaker at

    Towards Microwave-Frequency Spin Mechanics

• Darren Grant (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    IceCube

• Daniel Green
  • Speaker at

    Probing the Nature of Inflation

• Thomas Gregoire (Carleton University)
  • Speaker at

    Natural and unnatural SUSY

• Paul C Haljan (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Hot and Cold Dynamics of Trapped Ion Crystals near a Structural Phase Transition

• Aksel Hallin (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Status of the SNO+ Experiment

• Francis Halzen (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wiscons)
  • Speaker at

    IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos

• David Hanna (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    VERITAS

  • Speaker at

    The CHIME Dark Energy Project

• Nicholas Hastings (University of Regina)
  • Speaker at

    Status of Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

• Bradley Hauer (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Nonlinear Optomechanics for Quantum Nondemolition Measurements

• Wick Haxton (University of Washington / University of California)
  • Speaker at

    Neutrino Physics: On Earth and in the Heavens

• Christopher Hearty (IPP / UBC)
  • Speaker at

    Belle II

• Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Nematic and non-Fermi liquid phases of systems with quadratic band crossing

• Falk Herwig (University of Victoria)
  • Speaker at

    The turbulent hydrodynamics and nuclear astrophysics of anomalous stars from the early universe

• Jeremy Heyl (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    Probing Physics with Observations of Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs

• Wayne Hiebert (National Institute for Nanotechnology)
  • Speaker at

    Applying nano-optomechanics to mass sensing

• Jason Ho (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    QCD Sum Rule Analysis of Heavy-light Hybrids for $J^{P}=1^{-}$

• Sara Ho (Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation)
  • Speaker at

    The Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences: Developing a multi-use cyclotron facility

• Wayne Hocking (University of Western Ontario)
  • Speaker at

    Measurement of Mesospheric Ozone Using Meteor Decay Times

• Theodore Hodapp (American Physical Society)
  • Speaker at

    Building Thriving Undergraduate Physics Programs

• David Hornidge (Mount Allison University)
  • Speaker at

    Compton Scattering Measurements at MAMI (15+3)

• Ahmad Hosseinizadeh (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)
  • Speaker at

    Structure Determination from Single-Particle X-ray Imaging

• Taras Hrushevskyi (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Using radio frequency radiation to discover new effects in ultracold gases

• Ted Hsu (MP, Kingston and the Islands)
  • Speaker at

    How physicists can have a stronger voice in Ottawa

• Garth Huber (University of Regina)
  • Speaker at

    General Discussion

  • Speaker at

    Introductory Comments

  • Speaker at

    Welcome & Introduction

• Taleana Huff (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization of Hydrogen Terminated Silicon (100) 2x1 Reconstruction

• Esam Hussein (University of Regina)
  • Speaker at

    The Physics of X-ray Tomography: Not as simple as it looks

• Joel Hutchinson (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Dilute limit of an interacting spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas

  • Speaker at

    Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of a Holographic Quantum Hall System

• Osamu Ishihara (Chubu University/Yokohama National University)
  • Speaker at

    From Plasma to Complex Plasma

• Gordon James (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Transmission of Waves from a High-Frequency Ionospheric Heater to the Topside Ionosphere

• Blair Jamieson (University of Winnipeg)
  • Speaker at

    Simultaneous Spin Measurement for Ultra Cold Neutrons at TRIUMF

• Thayyil Jayachandran (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    Generation, dynamics, and decay of a polar cap patch

• Vedran Jelic (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Terahertz Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Ultrahigh Vacuum

• Bin Jian (Physics Department, York University)
  • Speaker at

    Changes in Global Precipitation from 1850 to the Present

  • Speaker at

    Demonstration of a Microtrap Array and manipulation of Array Elements

• Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)
  • Speaker at

    Maintaining Clean Rooms at the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory

  • Speaker at

    Simulation study of the use of internal Ar-39 beta decays for energy calibration of the DEAP-3600 detector.

• Jonathan Johannes
  • Speaker at

    Bridging the gap between theoretical and experimentally inferred reorganization energy

• Caleb John (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    True Random Number Generation based on Interference between Two Independent Lasers

• Root John (Canadian Neutron Beam Centre)
  • Speaker at

    The 2018 Shutdown of the NRU Reactor

• Stephen Julian (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Quantum oscillation studies of quantum criticality in PrOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$

• Konstantin Kabin (RMC)
  • Speaker at

    Examples of exact solutions of charged particle motion in magnetic fields and their applications.

• Calvin Kalman (Concordia University)
  • Speaker at

    Helping Students to get a Better Understanding of Concepts; ‘Course Dossier Method’

• Rituparna Kanungo (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Reaction spectroscopy of rare isotopes with low and high-energy beams (15+3)

• Dean Karlen (University of Victoria (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Report from Subatomic Physics Long Range Plan Committee Chair

  • Speaker at

    Status of the Future Linear Collider

• Marzena Kastyak-Ibrahim (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    A New format for Reporting in a First Year Physics Laboratory

• Katerina Katsika (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    High-voltage breakdown studies with Xe-129 for an nEDM experiment at TRIUMF

• Malcolm Kennett (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Chiral symmetry breaking and the quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene

• Shaun Kerr (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Intense, double pulse irradiation of targets for MeV proton acceleration

• Pouya Khaghani
  • Speaker at

    Modeling the Leaching of 222Rn Daughters into the SNO+ Detector

• Mohammad Zahidul Hossain Khan (Memorial University)
  • Speaker at

    Investigation of the interaction between the single walled carbon nanotube and conjugated oligomers using various dispersion correction DFT methods

• Jean-Claude KIEFFER (EMT-INRS)
  • Speaker at

    Review of the recent progress at the Advanced Laser Light Source facility and applications

• Patrick Kilcullen (University of Northern British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Water and Defect Detection Beneath Rubber Using Terahertz Reflection Tomography

• Paul Kim (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Optomechanics with a Twist

• Alexander E. Kobryn (National Institute for Nanotechnology)
  • Speaker at

    Multiscale modeling of multifunctional, hybrid and nanomaterials: from quantum chemical and microscopic to coarse-grained level with an effective pair potential

• Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Experimental test of the unitarity of the leptonic mixing (PMNS) matrix

• Claudio Kopper (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Recent Results from IceCube

• Shane Koscielniak (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    TRIUMF ARIEL Electron Linear Accelerator

• Alexandre Koustov (U)
  • Speaker at

    Dawn-dusk asymmetry in the intensity of polar cap flows as seen by SuperDARN

• Alexei Kouznetsov (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Energetic Electron Precipitation Model

  • Speaker at

    Neutron Monitor Atmospheric Pressure Correction Method Based on Galactic Cosmic Rays tracing and MCNP Simulations of Cascade Showers

• Andriy Kovalenko (Natinal Institute for Nanotechnology, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, 11421 Saskatchewan Dr., Edmonton, AB, T6G 2M9, Canada)
  • Speaker at

    Molecular Theory of Solvation Based Miltiscale Modeling of Biomolecular Systems and Functions

• Natalia Krasnopolskaia (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Paperless physics laboratory course using the Blackboard resources.

• Christine Kraus
  • Speaker at

    SNO+

• Samuel Kristoffersen (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    Wind and Gravity Wave Observations with ERWIN-II

• Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Advanced Instrumentation at TRIUMF

• Jeff Krupa (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Semiconductor Nanoparticles

• David Kubiznak (Perimeter Institute)
  • Speaker at

    Black hole chemistry: thermodynamics with Lambda

• Prayush Kumar (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
  • Speaker at

    Gravitational-wave searches for Binary Black Holes: waveform models

• Sourabh Kumar (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary T2 N 1N4, Alberta, Canada)
  • Speaker at

    Optomechanical Micro-Macro Entanglement.

• Carl Kumaradas (Ryerson University)
  • Speaker at

    Computational modeling of Plasmon coupled gold nanoparticles for biomedical applications

• Marcin Kuźniak (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    Calibration of the DEAP-3600 photomultiplier tubes

• Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Low-energy, precision experiments with ion traps: mass measurements and decay spectroscopy

• Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech)
  • Speaker at

    Searching for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences with Advanced LIGO

• Gaëtan Landry (Dalhousie University)
  • Speaker at

    The coefficient of restitution of inflatable balls

• Stephen Lane (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Protein Biosensing with Fluorescent-Core Microcapillaries

• Philip Langill (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    The "PHAS Smart Exam" an attempt to improve the examination process of the multi-section intro physics course.

• Jeffery Langille (UNB)
  • Speaker at

    Imaging mesospheric winds using the Michelson Interferometer for Airglow Dynamics Imaging (MIADI)

• Nathaniel Lasry (John Abbott College)
  • Speaker at

    Launching the Canadian Institute of Physics Education Research (CIPhER)

• Hon Wai Lau (IQST, Univeristy of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Proposal of creating spin cat states in Bose-Einstein condensates

• Luca La Volpe (INRS)
  • Speaker at

    Two-dimensional accelerating beams along arbitrary trajectories and enhancement of their peak intensities

• Ian Lawson (SNOLAB)
  • Speaker at

    Ultra-Low Background Counting and Assay Studies At SNOLAB

• Denis Leahy
  • Speaker at

    Observations and Theory of Supernova Explosions and their Remnants

• Lindsay LeBlanc (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Engineered spin-orbit coupling in ultracold quantum gases

• Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    RECENT LINE-SHAPE STUDIES INVOLVING TRANSITIONS OF ACETYLENE BROADENED BY CARBON DIOXIDE

  • Speaker at

    SPECTROSCOPIC LINE-SHAPE STUDIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND METROLOGIC APPLICATIONS

  • Speaker at

    The spectrum of 15NH3 in the 66-2000 cm-1 region

  • Speaker at

    CLS Synchrotron FIR Spectroscopy of High Torsional Levels of CD3OH: The Tau of Methanol

• Pascal Lefebvre (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Towards quantum repeaters using frequency multiplexed entanglement

• Benoit Lefebvre (McGill University (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Performance of the first Canadian-made muon chamber prototype for the ATLAS experiment upgrade.

• François Légaré (INRS-EMT)
  • Speaker at

    A new strategy to build ultrafast lasers; Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification

  • Speaker at

    Interferometric second harmonic generation imaging of biological tissues

• William Axel Leight (Carleton University (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Summary of ATLAS-Canada Upgrades

• Sabrina Leslie (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Getting into that "Room at the Bottom" of DNA Analysis using Tunable Nanoscale Confinement

• Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado)
  • Speaker at

    Model-Based Reasoning in Upper-division Lab Courses

• Randy Lewis (York University)
  • Speaker at

    Theory Review - QCD

• Apichart Linhananta (Lakehead University)
  • Speaker at

    Coarse-Grained computer simulations of Alzheimer’s beta-amyloid peptides, using the Mercedes-Benz Hydrogen Bond Potential

• Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA))
  • Speaker at

    ATLAS

  • Speaker at

    Summary of ATLAS Standard Model measurements (including top quark)

• Renjie Liu (Lakehead University)
  • Speaker at

    Adsorption of thiophene-based molecules at passivated silicon surfaces

• Fatema Liza (University fo Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Measurement of High Magnetic Fields in Laser Produced Plasmas

• Heather Logan (Carleton University)
  • Speaker at

    Theory review-Higgs, EW, BSM

• Savino Longo (University of Victoria)
  • Speaker at

    Radiation Hardness of Thallium Doped Cesium Iodide Scintillation Crystals

• Allison MacDonald (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Optomechanics in a dilution refrigerator

• Andrew Macdonald (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Set Point Effects in Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

• Joseph Maciejko (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Collective modes and interacting Majorana fermions in topological superfluids

• Andrew MacLean (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    Gamma-Gamma Angular Correlation Measurements With GRIFFIN

• Marek Malac
  • Speaker at

    Means of mitigating the limits to characterization of radiation sensitive samples in an electron microscope.

• Dylan Malenfant (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    Effects of Bacterial Specimen Preparation on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectra

• Juliette Mammei
  • Speaker at

    Discussion on HQP Issues (40)

  • Speaker at

    Electroweak measurements of nuclear neutron densities via PREX and CREX at JLab (15+3)

• Laila Nawsheen Manzoor (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Interferometric characterization of preplasma density for laser created plasmas

• Richard Marchand (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Kinetic modelling of Solar Orbiter space environment

• Glen Marshall (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    g-2 at JPARC

  • Speaker at

    Muon g-2/edm at J-PARC

• Frank Marsiglio (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Dynamic Hubbard model description os superconductivity

• John Martin (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
  • Speaker at

    Report from NSERC SAP ES

  • Speaker at

    From Quarks to Neutrinos, Adventures in Particle Physics

• Jeffery Martin (University of Winnipeg)
  • Speaker at

    UCN

• Melanie Martin (University of Winnipeg)
  • Speaker at

    Correlating quantitative MR changes with pathological changes in the white matter of the cuprizone mouse model of demyelination

• Travis Martin (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Before and After - Consequences of the Higgs Discovery

• Mercedes Martinson (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Focus study to measure phase effects of a bent Laue beam expander

• Adam Mayer (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Double-beta decay half-life of 96Zr – nuclear physics meets geochemistry

• Anthony McCaffrey (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    Comparison of IGS Network GPS Receiver DCBs Provided by CODE and a Single Station Estimation Method

• Mark McCrea (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Current Status of a Measurement of Hadronic Parity Violation in the Capture of Cold Neutrons on Helium-3

• Thomas McElroy (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Single photon counting for the DEAP dark matter detector

• Ernie McFarlane (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    A panel discussion of PER and Enhanced WebAssign in teaching physics

• Janis McKenna (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    37 Years of High School Physics Olympics Competitions at the University of British Columbia

• Lia Merminga (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    ARIEL: Driving Scientific Discovery and Innovation with TRIUMF's Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory

• Ralf Meyer (Laurentian University)
  • Speaker at

    Molecular-dynamics simulations of two-dimensional Si nanostructures

• Hichem Mezaoui (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    Characterization of Ionospheric Scintillation at High Latitude

• Courtney Mielnichuk
  • Speaker at

    Study of neck alpha backgrounds in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

• Paul Mikula (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Yang-Mills Flow in the Abelian Higgs Model

• Eric R Miller (The University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Pulsed Laser Spectroscopy of Xe129 for a Co-magnetometer in the TRIUMF Neutron Electron Dipole Moment Experiment

• Valery Milner (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    Molecular SuperRotors: Control and properties of molecules in extreme rotational states

• Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    A panel discussion of PER and Enhanced WebAssign in teaching physics

  • Speaker at

    37 Years of High School Physics Olympics Competitions at the University of British Columbia

  • Speaker at

    Investigation of PeerWise Technology Implementation to Promote Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Physics Teacher-Candidates: From Theory to Practice

• Chris Miranda (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Speaker at

    Effect of lipid composition on peptide-induced coalescence in bicellar mixtures

• Osamu Mitarai (Tokai University)
  • Speaker at

    Impacts of STOR tokamaks on fusion research

• Matthew Mitchell (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    High cooperativity optomechanics with wide-bandgap materials

• Pitam Mitra (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Status of the PICO-60 Dark Matter Search Experiment

• Silvia Mittler (University of Western Ontario)
  • Speaker at

    Evanescent Waveguide Microscopies for Bio-Application

  • Speaker at

    OMCVD AuNP Grown on Polymer Substrates: An approach Towards Mass Fabrication of Biosensors

• Farokh Mivehvar (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Cavity-induced spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensation: A new approach for exploring cold atoms

• Mianzhen Mo (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Measurements of Ionization States in Warm Dense Aluminum with Femtosecond Betatron Radiation from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

• Denis Morris (Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke)
  • Speaker at

    Carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanowires studied using optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy

• David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Theory review-Higgs, EW, BSM

  • Speaker at

    Electroweak Baryogenesis and the LHC

• Kaveh Mozafari (ExcellenSation)
  • Speaker at

    Unified Theory of Forces

• Eundeok Mun (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Field-tuned quantum criticality of heavy fermion systems

• Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Ab initio calculations of nuclear structure and reactions

• Keith Ng (University of Waterloo)
  • Speaker at

    Particle detectors in (curved) space: the equivalence principle and QFT.

• Peter Nguyen (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Coupling THz Pulses to a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

• Christine Nielsen (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Constraining Oscillation Analysis Inputs at the T2K Near Detector

• Ljubomir Nikolic (Natural Resources Canada)
  • Speaker at

    Solar wind modelling for operational forecasting

• Tony Noble (Queen's University)
  • Speaker at

    Particle Astrophysics CFREF

  • Speaker at

    PICO

• Jalal Norooz Oliaee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)
  • Speaker at

    Numerical Analysis of Er-doped DFB Fiber Laser: Er ion Concentration and Output Power Optimization

• Sarah Nowicki (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Direct reconstruction - a new event reconstruction algorithm for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

• Toshio Numao
  • Speaker at

    NA62

• Laila Obied (Brock University)
  • Speaker at

    Ge:Mn Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor

• Duncan O'Dell (McMaster University)
  • Speaker at

    Universal features of quantum dynamics: quantum catastrophes

• Yasuhiro Okada (KEK)
  • Speaker at

    Status and future plan of KEK and J-PARC

• Bruno Olaizola Mampaso (Nuclear Physics Group - University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Fast-timing mesurements in neutron-rich $^{65}$Co

• Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Quark-Novae : Implications to High-Energy and Nuclear Astrophysics

• Louis Ozeke (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Explaining the Newly Discovered Third Radiation Belt

• Ivan Padilla (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Searching for the echoes of inflation from a balloon - The first SPIDER flight

• John Page (University of Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Exploring wave phenomena in complex, strongly scattering materials using ultrasound

• Gabriel David Palacino Caviedes (York University (CA))
  • Speaker at

    A Search for Magnetic Monopoles and Exotic Long-lived Particles with Large Electric Charge at ATLAS

• Kameron Palmer (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Klein Tunnelling in Graphene

• Zisis Papandreou (University of Regina)
  • Speaker at

    Commissioning of the GlueX Experiment

• Jason Park (University of British Columbia/TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Isomeric decay spectroscopy of 96Cd

• Matthew Patrick (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Poynting Flux Measured with Swarm

• Ryan Peck
  • Speaker at

    Analysis of Quantum Defects in high energy Helium P states

• Anthony Piazza (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    Optical Pumping Within a Laser-Induced Plasma to Enhance Trace Element Signal Intensity

• Rüdiger Picker (urn:Google)
  • Speaker at

    FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH ULTRA-COLD NEUTRONS COMES TO CANADA

• James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))
  • Speaker at

    MRS - Alberta/Toronto

  • Speaker at

    The MoEDAL Experiment at the LHC - a New Light on the High Energy Frontier

• Simone Pisana (York University)
  • Speaker at

    A pump-probe technique to measure the Curie temperature distribution of exchange-decoupled nanoscale ferromagnet ensembles

• Réjean Plamondon (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
  • Speaker at

    Revisiting the Solar System and Beyond

• Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Speaker at

    Quantitative metrics for assessing positional and orientational order in colloidal crystals

  • Speaker at

    You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone: ambient surface degradation of ZnO powders

• Christopher Polachic
  • Speaker at

    A Multiorbital DMFT Analysis of Electron-Hole Asymmetry in the Dynamic Hubbard Model

• Richard Polifka (University of Toronto (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Search for new SM Higgs decays and production mechanisms, and BSM Higgs production

• Tina Pollmann (Laurentian University)
  • Speaker at

    Calibration of the DEAP-3600 photomultiplier tubes

  • Speaker at

    The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter detector

• Jennifer Pore (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Investigating the Structure of $^{46}$Ca through the $\beta^{-}$ Decay of $^{46}$K Utilizing the New GRIFFIN Spectrometer

• Adriana Predoi-Cross (University of Lethbridge)
  • Speaker at

    SELF- AND AIR-BROADENED LINE SHAPE PARAMETERS OF METHANE IN THE 2.3 MICRONS RANGE

• Michelle Przedborski (Brock University)
  • Speaker at

    Granular assemblies: a sandbox of nonlinear physics phenomena

• Christopher Pugh (University of Waterloo)
  • Speaker at

    NanoQEY Quantum Key Distribution Satellite

• David Purschke (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Ultrafast modulation of photoluminescence in semiconductors by intense terahertz pulses

• Nicolas Quesada (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Observing the effects of Time Ordering in Single Photon Frequency Conversion

  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Particle vs. Mode Entanglement in Quantum Enhanced Optical Metrology

• Allison Radich (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    New decay modes of the high-spin isomer of $^{124}$Cs

• Francesco Raimondi (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Ab initio nuclear theory for structure and reactions (20+5)

• Roger Raman (University of Washington)
  • Speaker at

    Solenoid-free Plasma Start-up in NSTX using Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI)

• Hugh Ramp (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Modeling dome microcavities in COMSOL

• Evan Rand (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    Investigation of the E2 and E3 matrix elements in $^{200}$Hg using direct nuclear reactions

• Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    Generating Ideas for Active and Experiential Learning in Physics

• Tatiana Rappoport (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  • Speaker at

    Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect in Graphene

• Robert Raussendorf (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    Wigner function negativity and contextuality in quantum computation on rebits

• Steven Rehse (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    Interdisciplinary Applications of Optical Spectroscopy on a Laser-Induced Plasma

• Kevin Resch (University of Waterloo)
  • Speaker at

    Entangled photon triplets: a new quantum light source and a test of nonlocality

• Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Technical support for experiment development and construction

  • Speaker at

    Photodetection with SiPM in particle physics and materials science

• Sebastien Rettie (University of British Columbia (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Test beam performance measurements of novel Thin Gap Detectors for the ATLAS experiment upgrade.

• Vahid Rezania (MacEwan University)
  • Speaker at

    Oxygen distribution in the liver lobule: Three dimensional computational Models

• Reyhaneh Rezvani (Universite de Montreal (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Search for an Invisibly Decaying Higgs Boson Produced via Vector Boson Fusion in pp Collisions at s√=8 TeV using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

• Maikel Rheinstadter (McMaster University)
  • Speaker at

    Frontiers in Membrane Biophysics

• Vlora Riberdy (University of Windsor)
  • Speaker at

    Rapid Elemental Analysis of Human Finger Nails Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

• Robert Ridgway (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Determining the equatorial dayside plasma density using travel-time magnetoseismology

• Benedikt Riedel (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Long-Term Stability of Backgrounds in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

• Matthew Robbins (University of Lethbridge)
  • Speaker at

    Modifications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Motivated by Quantum Gravity

• Pavelich Robert (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    The Kronig-Penney model extended to arbitrary potentials via numerical matrix mechanics

• Grigory Rogachev (Texas A&M University)
  • Speaker at

    Light Exotic Nuclei Studied via Resonance Scattering

• Michael Rogers (University of Ottawa)
  • Speaker at

    Measuring flow and yielding with coherent x-rays

• Michael Roney (University of Victoria)
  • Speaker at

    Introduction-IPP Director's Report

  • Speaker at

    Long Range Plan: Next Steps for IPP

  • Speaker at

    The Belle II Experiment at the SuperKEKB e+e- Collider

• John Root (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)
  • Speaker at

    Advanced Instrumentation at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre

  • Speaker at

    The 2018 Shutdown of the NRU reactor

• Joerg Rottler (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    Plasticity in amorphous solids

• S. K. Roy (Department of Physics, University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), Canada.)
  • Speaker at

    Poor Q-factor? - no problem: nano-optomechanical mass sensing in ambient conditions

• Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Nuclear Astrophysics with DRAGON/TUDA/EMMA (15+3)

• Fred Sage (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Direct Detection Prospects for Higgs-portal Singlet Dark Matter

• Abdulwahab Sallabi (Physics Department, Misurata University, Misurata , Libya)
  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Density Functional Theory Study of Hydrogen on Metal Oxide and Insulator Surfaces

• Nazanin Samadi (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    A Phase Space Beam Position Monitor for Synchrotron Radiation

• Jamie Sanchez-Fortun Stoker (University of Regina)
  • Speaker at

    Coincidence Measurements using the SensL MatrixSM-9 Silicon-photomultiplier Array

  • Speaker at

    Low-Light Photosensor Applications in Plant Imaging & Personal Radiation Detection

• Ruben Sandapen (Mount Allison University & Universite de Moncton)
  • Speaker at

    Isospin asymmetry in B→K∗μ+μ− using AdS/QCD

• Barry Sanders (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    High-fidelity single-shot Toffoli gate via quantum control

• 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)
  • Speaker at

    Generalized Waveguide Theory including Electromagnetic Duality

• Jack Sankey (McGill University)
  • Speaker at

    Optically-Defined Micromechanical Sensors

• Andranik Sarkissian (PLASMIONIQUE Inc)
  • Speaker at

    PLASMA TECHNOLOGY: ITS CURRENT and FUTURE IMPACT ON VARIOUS INDUSTRIES

• Adam Sarty (Saint Mary's University)
  • Speaker at

    Nucleon electromagnetic form factor measurements at JLab (15+3)

  • Speaker at

    Pearson Education’s digital resources for supporting Physics teaching: Mastering Physics

• Pierre Savard (University of Toronto (CA))
  • Speaker at

    The Higgs Boson, 3 years after the discovery

• Suhad SBEIH (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Speaker at

    Deuterium NMR and Rheology of Microgel Colloids at Ambient and High Pressure

• Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Accelerator-Based Medical Isotope Production at TRIUMF

• Jeremy Scott (Student at the University of Lethbridge)
  • Speaker at

    The Far-Infrared Universe: from the Universe's oldest ligth to the birth of its youngest stars

  • Speaker at

    Pre-stellar Cores in the Aquila Rift

• Douglas Scott (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    New results from Planck

• Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Speaker at

    Exoplanet Atmospheres: Triumphs and Tribulations

  • Speaker at

    Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

• Lohrasp Seify (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Evaporative Cooling in Electromagnetic Radio Frequency Ion Traps

• Andrei Semenov
  • Speaker at

    Evaluation of SiPM Arrays and Use for Radioactivity Detection and Monitoring

• Fady Shaker (university of winnipeg)
  • Speaker at

    Electron Neutrino Cross Section Measurements at the T2K Off-Axis Near Detector

• Jonathan Sharp (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    MR Imaging with Radiofrequency Phase Gradients

• Haille Sharum (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Ultrafast imaging of nonlinear terahertz pulse transmission in semiconductors

• Marjan Shayegan
  • Speaker at

    Investigating the correlation between molecular structure and mechanical properties of collagen using optical tweezers

  • Speaker at

    Massively parallel genomic analysis using tunable nanoscale confinement

• Yangyang Shen (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Cusp Ion Upflows Observed by e-POP SEI and RISR-N: Initial Results

• Logan Sibley (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Using 60Co as a high precision calibration device for the SNO+ detector

• David Sinclair
  • Speaker at

    Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (25+5)

• David Sinclair (Carleton University)
  • Speaker at

    EXO

• Kalpana Singh Singh (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Extraction of optical parameters in SNO+ with an in-situ optical calibration system

• Jesko Sirker (U Manitoba)
  • Speaker at

    Many-body localization and potential realizations in cold atomic gases

• David Sivak (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Optimal control of microscopic nonequilibrium systems

• Jenna Smith (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    Beta-decay from $^{47}$K to $^{47}$Ca with GRIFFIN

• Nigel Smith (SNOLab)
  • Speaker at

    Report from SNOLAB Director

  • Speaker at

    Advanced Instrumentation Techniques developed for SNOLAB science programmes.

• Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  • Speaker at

    **WITHDRAWN** Planck, gravity waves, and cosmology in the 21st century

• Ben Smith (TRIUMF)
  • Speaker at

    DEAP-3600 trigger - the needle in the haystack

• Andrei Smolyakov (University of Saakatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Fluctuations and Transport in Hall devices with ExB drift

• Mandana (Mandy) Sobhanzadeh (Mount Royal University)
  • Speaker at

    Utilizing Reflective Writing in Introductory Physics Labatorials: Students Perspectives of Reflective Writing to Explore Science Textbooks

• Randy Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))
  • Speaker at

    HEPNET/Computing in HEP

• Fabien Souris (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Superfluid $^4$He Helmoltz nanoresonator

• Luc Stafford (U.Montréal)
  • Speaker at

    Modification of graphene films in the flowing afterglow of microwave plasmas at reduced-pressure

• Ingrid Stairs (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    Searching for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars

• Philip Stamp (UBC)
  • Speaker at

    A Correlated Worldline Theory of Quantum Gravity

• Tom Steele (U of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    QCD and the XYZs

• Kimberly Strong (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    CAFTON and PEARL: Using Ground-based FTIR Spectroscopy to Probe Atmospheric Composition over Canada

• Tristan Sullivan (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Initial Results from the TRIUMF PIENU Experiment

• Juris P. Svenne (University of Manitoba, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
  • Speaker at

    New horizons for MCAS: heavier masses and alpha-particle scattering.

• Carl Svensson
  • Speaker at

    Fundamental Symmetries aspects of the Gamma-Ray program (20+5)

• Dmytro Sydorenko (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Development of Comprehensive Model of Earth Ionosphere and its Application for Studies of MI-coupling

• Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    T2K+HyperK

• Kaori Tanaka (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Interplay of charge density waves and superconductivity

• Jennifer Tang (McMaster University)
  • Speaker at

    The Formation of Alzheimer's Plaques in Synthetic Membranes

• Wendy Taylor (York University (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Searches for Exotic Physics at ATLAS

• Zachary Tchir (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    ZnO Thin Film Samples Produced by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Ultrafast Laser High Harmonics Generation Studies

• David Themens (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    The nature of GPS receiver bias variabilities: An examination in the Polar Cap region and comparison to Incoherent Scatter Radar

• Robert Thompson (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Project ALPHA: Applying AMO Physics to Antimatter and Using Antimatter to Study AMO Physics

• Andre-Marie Tremblay (Universite de Sherbrooke)
  • Speaker at

    An emergent phase transition as an organizing principle for strongly correlated superconductors

• Andrei Tretiakov (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Ultracold gas coupled to a nanomechanical resonator via Zeeman interaction

• Ying Tsui (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Pump-probe Studies of Warm Dense Matter

  • Speaker at

    Characterization of Initial Target Conditions in High Intensity Laser Solids Interaction Experiments

• Raphael Turcotte (Advanced Microscopy Program, Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA)
  • Speaker at

    In vivo manipulations of single cells using an all-optical platform

• Ryan Underwood (Queens University)
  • Speaker at

    New Pulse Processing Algorithm for SuperCDMS

• Yvan Ung (University of Montreal)
  • Speaker at

    Tunneling decay of false kinks

• Radovan Urban (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Making and using atomically defined nanotips

• Chris Vail (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    Distribution of Gravity Wave Parameters over Eureka, Nunavut using the All Sky Imager

• Jonas Valiunas (Lakehead University)
  • Speaker at

    Detection of Trace Gases using Fiber Laser Technology- Part 2

• William van Wijngaarden (Physics Dept., York University)
  • Speaker at

    Precision Measurement of Lithium Hyperfine and Fine Structure Intervals

• Claire Varley (Customer Experience Manager – Higher Education, Pearson Canada)
  • Speaker at

    Pearson Education’s digital resources for supporting Physics teaching: Mastering Physics

• Robert L. Varty (Consultant in Engineering Science)
  • Speaker at

    Thermophysical Properties of Heavy Water and Pertinent Calculations

• Pranai Vasudev (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Light-Trapping Architecture for Room Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation of Exciton-Polaritons near Telecommunication Frequencies

• Anandram Venkatasubramanian (Post Doctoral research fellow)
  • Speaker at

    GC-MS to GC-NOMS: A step towards portable analysis

• Manuela Venturi (University of Victoria (CA))
  • Speaker at

    Measurement of the Higgs-boson properties with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

• Clarence Virtue (Laurentian University)
  • Speaker at

    Halo+upgrade at LNGS

• Chengrui Wang (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Fast damping of Alfven waves: Observations and modeling

• M. Adam Webb (Canadian Light Source)
  • Speaker at

    Update of the imaging capabilities of the biomedical imaging and therapy facility at the Canadian Light Source

• David A. Weitz (SEAS Harvard)
  • Speaker at

    Cell Stiffness and Cell Volume

• Luis Carlos Welbanks Camarena (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Application Of An Optical Parametric Oscillator For Infrared Spectroscopy Of Jet-Cooled Molecules And Complexes.

  • Speaker at

    Hadronic-to-Quark-Matter Phase Transition: Effects of Strange Quark Seeding.

• J. N. Westwood-Bachman (University of Alberta, National Institute for Nanotechnology)
  • Speaker at

    Photonic actuation and detection of higher order modes in nanomechanical resonators

• Bill Whelan (University of Prince Edward Island)
  • Speaker at

    Interstitial point radiance spectroscopy in turbid media

• Joshua N. Wienands (University of British Columbia)
  • Speaker at

    Dual Co-Magnetometer using Xe129 for Measurement of the
 Neutron’s Electron Dipole Moment

• Michael Wieser (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    The University of Calgary Instructor of Record mentorship program: helping graduate students make the transition to becoming effective instructors

• Jonathan Williams (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Neutron Generator Facility at SFU - GEANT4 Dose Prediction and Verification

• Martin Williams (University of Guelph)
  • Speaker at

    A panel discussion of PER and Enhanced WebAssign in teaching physics

• Alan Wilman (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Magnetic Susceptibility Mapping in Human Brain using High Field MRI

• Robert Wolkow (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Principles and methods enabling atom scale electronic circuitry

• Tania Wood (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Atmospheric Neutrino Measurement with IceCube Neutrino Observatory

• Michael Woodside (University of Alberta)
  • Speaker at

    Watching proteins fold: capturing the conformational diffusion of single molecules during structural self-assembly

• Rachel Wortis (Trent University)
  • Speaker at

    What does localization mean in interacting systems?

• Jinshan Wu (Beijing Normal University)
  • Speaker at

    Which Subfield of Physics is More Influential?

• Ward Wurtz (Canadian Light Source Inc.)
  • Speaker at

    Observation of Wakefields in Coherent Synchrotron Radiation at the Canadian Light Source

• John Q Xiao (University of Delaware)
  • Speaker at

    Optical measurement of spin-orbital torque in magnetic bilayers

• Chijin Xiao (Univ. of Saskatchewan)
  • Speaker at

    Compact Torus Injection for Fuelling

• Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick)
  • Speaker at

    RECENT LINE-SHAPE STUDIES INVOLVING TRANSITIONS OF ACETYLENE BROADENED BY CARBON DIOXIDE

  • Speaker at

    SPECTROSCOPIC LINE-SHAPE STUDIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND METROLOGIC APPLICATIONS

  • Speaker at

    The spectrum of 15NH3 in the 66-2000 cm-1 region

  • Speaker at

    SPIN-ROTATION HYPERFINE SPLITTINGS AT MODERATE TO HIGH J VALUES IN METHANOL

• Ben Xu (Memorial University)
  • Speaker at

    Identifying differences in long-range structural disorder in solids using mid-infrared spectroscopy

• Kateryna Yakymenko (student)
  • Speaker at

    Motion of the Polar Cap Arcs and Associated Plasma Flows

• Bing Yang (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    A Statistical Study of Drifts of Patchy Pulsating Aurora：Observed by THEMIS All-Sky Imagers

• Andrew Yau (University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    CASSIOPE e-POP and coordinated ground-based studies of polar ion outflow, auroral dynamics, wave-particle interactions, and radio propagation

• Karen Yeats (Simon Fraser University)
  • Speaker at

    Some discrete-flavoured approaches to Dyson-Schwinger equations

• Nicolas Yunes (Montana State University)
  • Speaker at

    Gravitational Waves Probes of Extreme Gravity Physics

• Aycan Yurtsever (INRS-EMT)
  • Speaker at

    Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy and its Nanoplasmonic Applications

• Zhenfu Zhang (University of Toronto)
  • Speaker at

    Kinetics of Chain Motions within the disordered eIF4E-BP2 protein

• Wei-Wei Zhang (IQST, University of Calgary)
  • Speaker at

    Electric quantum walks without electric field: an optical implementation scheme

• Xiaoming Zhang (University of Western Ontario)
  • Speaker at

    Cellular Automaton with nonlinear Viscoelastic Stress Transfer to Model Earthquake Dynamics

• Ge Zhuang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
  • Speaker at

    Overview of the Recent J-TEXT Results

• Jonathan Ziprick (urn:Google)
  • Speaker at

    Gravity and dust in 2+1 dimensions