Name: 2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015
Start: 2015-06-13T06:00:00-06:00
End: 2015-06-19T17:00:00-06:00
Location: University of Alberta

Monday 15 June 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

08:30 Report from NSERC SAP ES - John Martin (York University (CA))

09:05 Canada Foundation for Innovation and Subatomic Physics - Olivier Gagnon (Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation)

09:25 Report from TRIUMF Director - Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University)

10:00 Report from SNOLAB Director - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)

10:25 Report from Subatomic Physics Long Range Plan Committee Chair - Dean Karlen (University of Victoria (CA))
09:30

09:30 - 11:00
Room: CCIS L1-047

10:45

10:45 - 11:00
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer

11:00

11:00 - 12:00
Room: CCIS L1-029
11:00 - 12:45
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

11:00 Status and future plan of KEK and J-PARC - Yasuhiro Okada (KEK)

11:35 T2K+HyperK - Hirohisa A. Tanaka (University of British Columbia)

12:05 ILC - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))

12:25 Long Range Plan: Next Steps for IPP - Michael Roney (University of Victoria)
12:00

12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 13:45
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

13:00 Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds - Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
13:45
13:45 - 15:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

13:45 Nematic and non-Fermi liquid phases of systems with quadratic band crossing - Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University)

14:15 Collective modes and interacting Majorana fermions in topological superfluids - Joseph Maciejko (University of Alberta)

14:45 Dilute limit of an interacting spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas - Joel Hutchinson (University of Alberta)

15:00 Andreev and Josephson transport in InAs nanowire-based quantum dots - Kaveh Gharavi (University of Waterloo)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 235
Contributions

13:45 NSERC's Partnership Program: Panel Discussion and Q&A / Programme de partenariats du CRSNG : Table ronde et Q&R
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

13:45 Principles and methods enabling atom scale electronic circuitry - Robert Wolkow (University of Alberta)

14:15 Polarization induced energy level shifts at organic semiconductor interfaces probed on the molecular scale by scanning tunnelling microscopy - Sarah Burke (University of British Columbia)

14:45 On the Road to Low Power Circuitry: Analysis of Si Dangling Bond Charging Dynamics - Roshan Achal (University of Alberta)

15:00 Set Point Effects in Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy - Andrew Macdonald (University of British Columbia)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

13:45 Examples of exact solutions of charged particle motion in magnetic fields and their applications. - Konstantin Kabin (RMC)

14:15 Energetic Electron Precipitation Model - Alexei Kouznetsov (University of Calgary)

14:30 Properties of the lunar wake inferred from hybrid-kinetic simulations and an analytic model - Hossna Gharaee (university of Alberta, Departement of Physics)

14:45 Explaining the Newly Discovered Third Radiation Belt - Louis Ozeke (University of Alberta)

15:00 Fast damping of Alfven waves: Observations and modeling - Chengrui Wang (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 239
Contributions

13:45 Probing Physics with Observations of Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs - Jeremy Heyl (UBC)

14:15 Observations and Theory of Supernova Explosions and their Remnants - Denis Leahy

14:45 No "End of Greatness": Superlarge Structures and the Dawn of Brane Astronomy - Rainer Dick (University of Saskatchewan)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

13:45 Evaluation of SiPM Arrays and Use for Radioactivity Detection and Monitoring - Andrei Semenov

14:15 Neutron Generator Facility at SFU - GEANT4 Dose Prediction and Verification - Jonathan Williams (Simon Fraser University)

14:30 Rapid Elemental Analysis of Human Finger Nails Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy - Vlora Riberdy (University of Windsor)

14:45 The 2018 Shutdown of the NRU Reactor - John Root (Canadian Neutron Beam Centre)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

13:45 Neutrino in the Standard Model and beyond - Samoil Bilenky (JINR (Dubna))

14:15 Status of the SNO+ Experiment - Aksel Hallin (University of Alberta)

14:45 Extraction of optical parameters in SNO+ with an in-situ optical calibration system - Kalpana Singh Singh (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)

15:00 Double-beta decay half-life of 96Zr – nuclear physics meets geochemistry - Adam Mayer (University of Calgary)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

13:45 Ab initio calculations of nuclear structure and reactions - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)

14:15 New horizons for MCAS: heavier masses and alpha-particle scattering. - Juris P. Svenne (University of Manitoba, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

14:30 The coefficient of restitution of inflatable balls - Gaëtan Landry (Dalhousie University)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

13:45 Summary of ATLAS Standard Model measurements (including top quark) - Alison Lister (University of British Columbia (CA))

14:15 Measurement of the Higgs-boson properties with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Manuela Venturi (University of Victoria (CA))

14:45 Measurement of the yy -> WW cross-section and searches for anomalous quartic gauge couplings WWAA at the ATLAS experiment - Chav Chhiv Chau (University of Toronto (CA))
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

13:45 Following an Auger Decay by Attosecond Pump-Probe Measurements - Julien Beaudoin Bertrand (Université Laval)

14:15 Ultrafast imaging of nonlinear terahertz pulse transmission in semiconductors - Haille Sharum (University of Alberta)

14:30 Energy transfer dynamics in blue emitting functionalized silicon nanocrystals - Glenda De los Reyes (Physics Department, University of Alberta)

14:45 Molecular SuperRotors: Control and properties of molecules in extreme rotational states - Valery Milner (UBC)
15:15

15:15 - 15:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer

15:45

15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 4-285
15:45 - 17:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

15:45 Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect in Graphene - Tatiana Rappoport (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

16:15 Klein Tunnelling in Graphene - Kameron Palmer (University of Alberta)

16:30 Extensions of Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to study thermally activated grain reversal in dual-layer Exchange Coupled Composite recording media. - Ahmad Almudallal (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

16:45 The Kronig-Penney model extended to arbitrary potentials via numerical matrix mechanics - Pavelich Robert (University of Alberta)

17:00 A Multiorbital DMFT Analysis of Electron-Hole Asymmetry in the Dynamic Hubbard Model - Christopher Polachic
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

15:45 SPECTROSCOPIC LINE-SHAPE STUDIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND METROLOGIC APPLICATIONS - Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick) Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)

16:15 CLS Synchrotron FIR Spectroscopy of High Torsional Levels of CD3OH: The Tau of Methanol - Ronald Lees (Centre for Laser, Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Department of Physics, University of NB)

16:30 Analysis of Quantum Defects in high energy Helium P states - Ryan Peck

16:45 Precision Measurement of Lithium Hyperfine and Fine Structure Intervals - William van Wijngaarden (Physics Department, York University)

17:00 Dual Co-Magnetometer using Xe129 for Measurement of the  Neutron’s Electron Dipole Moment - Joshua Wienands (University of British Columbia)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

15:45 Field-tuned quantum criticality of heavy fermion systems - Eundeok Mun (Simon Fraser University)

16:15 Ge:Mn Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor - Laila Obied (Brock University)

16:30 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. - Jean-François Bisson (Université de Moncton)

16:45 Investigation of the effect of growth condition on defects in MBE grown GaAs1-xBix - Vahid Bahrami Yekta (University of Victoria)

17:00 Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization of Hydrogen Terminated Silicon (100) 2x1 Reconstruction - Taleana Huff (University of Alberta)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

15:45 Development of Comprehensive Model of Earth Ionosphere and its Application for Studies of MI-coupling - Dmytro Sydorenko (University of Alberta)

16:15 Solar wind modelling for operational forecasting - Ljubomir Nikolic (Natural Resources Canada)

16:45 Using an information theory-based method for statistical detection of high-frequency climate signals in northern-hemisphere water supply variations - Sean W. Fleming (Environment Canada, MSC Science Division)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

15:45 Probing the Nature of Inflation - Daniel Green

16:15 Determining Power Spectra of High Energy Cosmics - Sheldon Campbell (The Ohio State University)

16:30 Searching for the echoes of inflation from a balloon - The first SPIDER flight - Ivan Padilla (University of Toronto)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

15:45 The turbulent hydrodynamics and nuclear astrophysics of anomalous stars from the early universe - Falk Herwig (University of Victoria)

16:15 Quark-Novae : Implications to High-Energy and Nuclear Astrophysics - Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary)

16:45 Hadronic-to-Quark-Matter Phase Transition: Effects of Strange Quark Seeding. - Luis Welbanks (University of Calgary)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

15:45 Medical linear accelerator mounted mini-beam collimator: transferability study - William Davis (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)

16:00 Cancer cell targeting gold nanoparticles for therapeutics - Charmainne Cruje (Ryerson University)

16:15 Development and Imaging of the World’s first Whole-Body Linac-MRI Hybrid System - B. Gino Fallone (University of Alberta)

16:45 A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO STANDARDIZING SMALL FIELD DOSIMETRY IN RADIOTHERAPY APPLICATIONS - Gavin Cranmer-Sargison (Department of Medical Physics, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency)

17:00 Multifunctional perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions for cancer therapy and imaging - Donald A. Fernandes (Ryerson University)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

15:45 Status of Dark Matter Theories - Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)

16:15 The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment -- Updates and First Commissioning Data Results - Bei Cai (Queen's University)

16:45 Direct Detection Prospects for Higgs-portal Singlet Dark Matter - Fred Sage (University of Saskatchewan)

17:00 Status of the PICO-60 Dark Matter Search Experiment - Pitam Mitra (University of Alberta)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CAB 239
Contributions

15:45 Asymmetric Wavefunctions from Tiny Perturbations - Tyler Dauphinee

16:00 An online resource for teaching about energy - Jason Donev (University of Calgary)

16:15 Essential Psychology in Physics - MBTI and You - Jo-Anne Brown (University of Calgary)

16:30 Essential Psychology in the Physics Classroom - Five Steps to Improve Classroom Effectiveness - Jo-Anne Brown (University of Calgary)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

15:45 CLS 2.0: The Next 10 Years - Dean Chapman (Canadian Light Source Inc.)

16:15 Acquaman: Scientific Software as the Beamline Interface - David Chevrier (Canadian Light Source)

16:30 A Phase Space Beam Position Monitor for Synchrotron Radiation - Nazanin Samadi (University of Saskatchewan)

16:45 Observation of Wakefields in Coherent Synchrotron Radiation at the Canadian Light Source - Ward Wurtz (Canadian Light Source Inc.)
17:15

17:15 - 19:30
Room: CCIS Ground Level Foyer
19:30
19:30 - 20:30
Room: Myer Horowitz Theatre
Contributions

19:30 Faster than the Speed of Light - Miguel Alcubierre (National University of Mexico)
20:30

20:30 - 21:30
Room: Dinwoodie Lounge
Tuesday 16 June 2015

07:30

07:30 - 09:00
Room: CCIS 4-285

08:30

08:30 - 16:00
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
08:30 - 10:00
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

08:30 Opening and Welcome, Calvin Kalman from CAP

08:45 Changing student's approach to learning physics, Calvin Kalman, Chair of CAP Division of Physics Education

09:15 Metamaterials: Controlling light,heat,sound and electrons at the nanoscale, Zubin Jacob, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UofA
08:45
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L1-029
Contributions

08:45 Pearson Education’s digital resources for supporting Physics teaching: Mastering Physics - Adam Sarty (Saint Mary's University) Claire Varley (Customer Experience Manager – Higher Education, Pearson Canada)

09:30 A panel discussion of PER and Enhanced WebAssign in teaching physics - Ernie McFarlane (University of Guelph) Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia) Martin Williams (University of Guelph)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

08:45 Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of LiFeAs - D,A. Bonn (University of British Columbia)

09:15 Interplay of charge density waves and superconductivity - Kaori Tanaka (University of Saskatchewan)

09:45 Quantum oscillation studies of quantum criticality in PrOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$ - Stephen Julian (University of Toronto)

10:00 A Variational Wave Function for Electrons coupled to Acoustic Phonons - Carl Chandler (University of Alberta)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

08:45 Ultrafast dynamics of mobile charges and excitons in hybrid lead halide perovskites - David Cooke (McGill University)

09:15 Carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanowires studied using optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy - Denis Morris (Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke)

09:45 Towards quantum repeaters using frequency multiplexed entanglement - Pascal Lefebvre (University of Calgary)

10:00 True Random Number Generation based on Interference between Two Independent Lasers - Caleb John (University of Calgary)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CAB 239
Contributions

08:45 The Rate of Reduction of Defocus in the Chick Eye is Proportional to Retinal Blur - Melanie Campbell (University of Waterloo)

09:00 Image Analysis and Quantification for PET Imaging - Esmat Elhami (University of Winnipeg)

09:15 Magnetic Susceptibility Mapping in Human Brain using High Field MRI - Alan Wilman (University of Alberta)

09:45 Correlating quantitative MR changes with pathological changes in the white matter of the cuprizone mouse model of demyelination - Melanie Martin (Physics, University of Winnipeg, Radiology, University of Manitoba)

10:00 Interstitial point radiance spectroscopy in turbid media - Bill Whelan (Dept of Physics, University of Prince Edward Island)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CAB 235
Contributions

08:45 Universal features of quantum dynamics: quantum catastrophes - Duncan O'Dell (McMaster University)

09:15 Hot and Cold Dynamics of Trapped Ion Crystals near a Structural Phase Transition - Paul C Haljan (Simon Fraser University)

09:30 Simulating Anderson localization via a quantum walk on a one-dimensional lattice of superconducting qubits. - Joydip Ghosh (University of Calgary)

09:45 Cold Atom Metrology: Progress towards a New Absolute Pressure Standard - James Booth (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

08:45 Exoplanet Atmospheres: Triumphs and Tribulations - Sara Seager (Massachusett institute of technology)

09:15 The Far-Infrared Universe: from the Universe's oldest ligth to the birth of its youngest stars - Jeremy Scott (University of Lethbridge)

09:30 Neutron Monitor Atmospheric Pressure Correction Method Based on Galactic Cosmic Rays tracing and MCNP Simulations of Cascade Showers - Alexei Kouznetsov (University of Calgary)

09:45 Ionospheric Sounding Opportunities Using Signal Data From Pre-existing Amateur Radio And Operational Networks - Alex Cushley

10:00 SELF- AND AIR-BROADENED LINE SHAPE PARAMETERS OF METHANE IN THE 2.3 MICRONS RANGE - Adriana Predoi-Cross (University of Lethbridge)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

08:45 Geometrization of N-Extended 1-Dimensional Supersymmetry Algebras - Charles Doran (University of Alberta)

09:15 Some discrete-flavoured approaches to Dyson-Schwinger equations - Karen Yeats (Simon Fraser University)

09:45 Novel Charges in CFT's - Pablo Diaz Benito (University of Lethbridge)

10:00 Yang-Mills Flow in the Abelian Higgs Model - Paul Mikula (University of Manitoba)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

08:45 Natural and unnatural SUSY - Thomas Gregoire (Carleton University)

09:15 Hunt for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector at LHC - Zoltan Gecse (University of British Columbia (CA))

09:45 A search for heavy gluon and vector-like quark in the 4b final state in pp collisions at 8 TeV - Frederick Dallaire (Universite de Montreal (CA))

10:00 Electroweak Baryogenesis and the LHC - David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

08:45 New results from Planck - Douglas Scott (UBC)

09:15 **WITHDRAWN** Planck, gravity waves, and cosmology in the 21st century - Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

09:45 The CHIME Dark Energy Project - David Hanna (McGill University)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

08:45 Light Exotic Nuclei Studied via Resonance Scattering - Grigory Rogachev (Texas A&M University)

09:15 Low-energy, precision experiments with ion traps: mass measurements and decay spectroscopy - Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)

09:45 Electric Monopole Transition Strengths in $^{62}$Ni - Lee J. Evitts (TRIUMF)

10:00 **WITHDRAWN** Fast-timing mesurements in neutron-rich $^{65}$Co - Bruno Olaizola Mampaso (Nuclear Physics Group - University of Guelph)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

08:45 Overview of the Recent J-TEXT Results - Ge Zhuang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

09:15 Magnetic Fluctuations Measurements in Magnetized Confinement Plasmas - Weixing Ding (UCLA)

09:45 Plasma Ion Implantation for Photonic and Electronic Device Applications - Michael Bradley (Physics & Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

08:45 **WITHDRAWN** Electrical and optical properties of electrochromic Tungsten trioxide (WO3) thin films at temperature range 300 to 500K - Bassel Abdel Samad (Moncton University)

09:00 Characterization of the 2D percolation transition in ultrathin Fe/W(110) films using the magnetic susceptibility - Randy Belanger (McMaster University)

09:15 You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone: ambient surface degradation of ZnO powders - Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

09:30 **WITHDRAWN** Density Functional Theory Study of Hydrogen on Metal Oxide and Insulator Surfaces - Abdulwahab Sallabi (Physics Department, Misurata University, Misurata , Libya)
09:00

09:00 - 10:30
Room: CCIS 4-285
10:15
10:15 - 10:45
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

10:15 Generating Ideas for Active and Experiential Learning in Physics - Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)
10:45

10:45 - 11:15
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

11:00 Quantum superposition and the uncertainty principle in the class room; a hands-on experience, Martin laforest, Senior manager, Scientific Outreach, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
11:15

11:15 - 11:45
Room: CCIS 1-430

11:45

11:45 - 12:15
Room: CCIS 1-430

12:15

12:15 - 12:30
Room: CCIS 1-430

12:30

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS 2-122

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L2-200

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CAB 239

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L1-140

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L2-190

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L1-029

12:30 - 13:45

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS 4-285
13:00
13:00 - 18:00
Room: CCIS L2 Teaching Labs
Contributions

13:00 Afternoon workshops:
13:45
13:45 - 15:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

13:45 Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy and its Nanoplasmonic Applications - Aycan Yurtsever (INRS-EMT)

14:15 Means of mitigating the limits to characterization of radiation sensitive samples in an electron microscope. - Marek Malac

14:45 Terahertz Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Ultrahigh Vacuum - Vedran Jelic (University of Alberta)

15:00 Identifying differences in long-range structural disorder in solids using mid-infrared spectroscopy - Ben Xu (Memorial University)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

13:45 Project ALPHA: Applying AMO Physics to Antimatter and Using Antimatter to Study AMO Physics - Robert Thompson (University of Calgary)

14:15 Evaporative Cooling in Electromagnetic Radio Frequency Ion Traps - Lohrasp Seify (University of Calgary)

14:30 Demonstration of a Microtrap Array and manipulation of Array Elements - Bin Jian (National Research Council)

14:45 Engineered spin-orbit coupling in ultracold quantum gases - Lindsay LeBlanc (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

13:45 Modification of graphene films in the flowing afterglow of microwave plasmas at reduced-pressure - Luc Stafford (U.Montréal)

14:15 Pump-probe Studies of Warm Dense Matter - Ying Tsui (University of Alberta)

14:45 Deposition of functional coatings on glass substrates using a recently-developed atmospheric-pressure microwave plasma jet - Antoine Durocher-Jean (U. Montreal)

15:00 Measurements of Ionization States in Warm Dense Aluminum with Femtosecond Betatron Radiation from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator - Mianzhen Mo (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 235
Contributions

13:45 Many-body localization and potential realizations in cold atomic gases - Jesko Sirker (U Manitoba)

14:15 Light-Trapping Architecture for Room Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation of Exciton-Polaritons near Telecommunication Frequencies - Pranai Vasudev (University of Toronto)

14:30 Molecular-dynamics simulations of two-dimensional Si nanostructures - Ralf Meyer (Laurentian University)

14:45 Inverse melting in a simple 2D liquid - Ahmad Almudallal (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

15:00 Cellular Automaton with nonlinear Viscoelastic Stress Transfer to Model Earthquake Dynamics - Xiaoming Zhang (University of Western Ontario)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

13:45 New View of Aurora from Space using the e-POP Fast Auroral Imager - Leroy Cogger (University of Calgary)

14:15 CASSIOPE e-POP and coordinated ground-based studies of polar ion outflow, auroral dynamics, wave-particle interactions, and radio propagation - Andrew Yau (University of Calgary)

14:30 The nature of GPS receiver bias variabilities: An examination in the Polar Cap region and comparison to Incoherent Scatter Radar - David Themens (University of New Brunswick)

14:45 Transmission of Waves from a High-Frequency Ionospheric Heater to the Topside Ionosphere - Gordon James (University of Calgary)

15:00 Dawn-dusk asymmetry in the intensity of polar cap flows as seen by SuperDARN - Alexandre Koustov (U)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

13:45 Scale and Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory - Jean-Francois Fortin (Laval University)

14:15 Dynamics of Gravitational Collapse in AdS Space-Time - Andrew Frey (University of Winnipeg)

14:45 Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of a Holographic Quantum Hall System - Joel Hutchinson (University of Alberta)

15:00 Constraints and Bulk Physics in the AdS/MERA Correspondence - ChunJun Cao (Caltech)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

13:45 Single particle structure in neutron-rich Sr isotopes approaching $N=60$ - Peter Bender (TRIUMF)

14:15 Doppler shift lifetime measurements using the TIGRESS Integrated Plunger - Aaron Chester (Simon Fraser University Department of Chemistry)

14:30 Isomeric decay spectroscopy of 96Cd - Jason Park (University of British Columbia/TRIUMF)

14:45 The Electromagnetic Mass Analyser EMMA - Barry Davids (TRIUMF)

15:00 New decay modes of the high-spin isomer of $^{124}$Cs - Allison Radich (University of Guelph)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 239
Contributions

13:45 Accelerator-Based Medical Isotope Production at TRIUMF - Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)

14:15 Producing Medical Isotopes with Electron Linacs - Mark de Jong (Canadian Light Source Inc.)

14:45 Calculation of isotope yields for radioactive beam production - Fatima Garcia (Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF)

15:00 Coincidence Measurements using the SensL MatrixSM-9 Silicon-photomultiplier Array - Jamie Sanchez-Fortun Stoker (University of Regina)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

13:45 Searches for Exotic Physics at ATLAS - Wendy Taylor (York University (CA))

14:15 A Search for Magnetic Monopoles and Exotic Long-lived Particles with Large Electric Charge at ATLAS - Gabriel David Palacino Caviedes (York University (CA))

14:30 The MoEDAL Experiment at the LHC - a New Light on the High Energy Frontier - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

13:45 Status of the PICASSO and PICO experiments - Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)

14:15 DEAP-3600 trigger - the needle in the haystack - Ben Smith (TRIUMF)

14:30 Early studies of detector optical calibrations for DEAP-3600 - Berta Beltran (Univeristy of Alberta)

14:45 Single photon counting for the DEAP dark matter detector - Thomas McElroy (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

13:45 Model-Based Reasoning in Upper-division Lab Courses - Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado)

14:15 Fabulous Physicists from Around the World: The tale of ICWIP 2014 - Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)

14:45 Gender gaps in a first-year physics lab - James Day (University of British Columbia)
15:15

15:15 - 15:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
15:45
15:45 - 17:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

15:45 A pump-probe technique to measure the Curie temperature distribution of exchange-decoupled nanoscale ferromagnet ensembles - Simone Pisana (York University)

16:15 Optical properties and Fermiology near field-tuned quantum critical points - David Broun (Simon Fraser University)

16:45 Protein Biosensing with Fluorescent-Core Microcapillaries - Stephen Lane (University of Alberta)

17:00 Ultrafast modulation of photoluminescence in semiconductors by intense terahertz pulses - David Purschke (University of Alberta)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

15:45 From Plasma to Complex Plasma - Osamu Ishihara (Chubu University/Yokohama National University)

16:15 Fluctuations and Transport in Hall devices with ExB drift - Andrei Smolyakov (University of Saakatchewan)

16:45 Adaptive Matrix Transpose Algorithms for Distributed Multicore Processors - John Bowman (University of Alberta)

17:00 Dense Plasma Focus for Short-Lived Isotope Activation - R. A. Behbahani (University of Saskatchewan)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

15:45 Improving Physical Models of Qubit Decoherence and Readout - Bill Coish (McGill University)

16:15 NanoQEY Quantum Key Distribution Satellite - Christopher Pugh (University of Waterloo)

16:30 Towards a Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement for Photonic Qubits - Chetan Deshmukh (University of Calgary)

16:45 Evanescent Waveguide Microscopies for Bio-Application - Silvia Mittler (University of Western Ontario)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

15:45 Anisotropic ion temperatures and ion flows adjacent to auroral precipitating electrons - William Archer (University of Calgary)

16:15 Generation, dynamics, and decay of a polar cap patch - Thayyil Jayachandran (University of New Brunswick)

16:30 Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Poynting Flux Measured with Swarm - Matthew Patrick (University of Calgary)

16:45 Small Scale Structuring in Electron Precipitation as seen by the ePOP Suprathermal Electron Imager - Taylor Cameron (University of Calgary)

17:00 Cusp Ion Upflows Observed by e-POP SEI and RISR-N: Initial Results - Yangyang Shen (University of Calgary)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

15:45 Status of the SuperCDMS and European Cryogenic Dark Matter experiments - Gilles Gerbier (Queens University)

16:15 New Pulse Processing Algorithm for SuperCDMS - Ryan Underwood (Queens University)

16:30 Alpha particle backgrounds from the neck of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector - James Bueno (University of Alberta)

16:45 Optimizing the wavelength-shifter thickness for alpha suppression in the DEAP-3600 detector - Derek Cranshaw (Queen's University)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CAB 235
Contributions

15:45 Status of Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Nicholas Hastings (University of Regina)

16:15 Electron Neutrino Cross Section Measurements at the T2K Off-Axis Near Detector - Fady Shaker (university of winnipeg)

16:30 Constraining Oscillation Analysis Inputs at the T2K Near Detector - Christine Nielsen (University of British Columbia)

16:45 Deep Core and PINGU - Studying Neutrinos in the Ice - Ken Clark (University of Toronto)

17:00 Experimental test of the unitarity of the leptonic mixing (PMNS) matrix - Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

15:45 Beta-decay from $^{47}$K to $^{47}$Ca with GRIFFIN - Jenna Smith (TRIUMF)

16:00 Investigating the Structure of $^{46}$Ca through the $\beta^{-}$ Decay of $^{46}$K Utilizing the New GRIFFIN Spectrometer - Jennifer Pore (Simon Fraser University)

16:15 The first GRIFFIN Experiment: An investigation of the $s$-process yields for $^{116}$Cd - Ryan Dunlop (University of Guelph)

16:30 Gamma-Gamma Angular Correlation Measurements With GRIFFIN - Andrew MacLean (University of Guelph)

16:45 High-Precision Half-Life Measurements for the Superallowed $\beta^+$ emitter $^{10}$C - Michelle Dunlop (University of Guelph)

17:00 The First Radioactive Beam at GRIFFIN: $^{26}$Na for Decay Spectroscopy - Nikita Bernier (TRIUMF)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

15:45 Panel Discussion on Women in Physics
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

15:45 Advanced Instrumentation at TRIUMF - Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF)

16:15 Development and simulations of the CANREB RFQ buncher and cooler at the TRIUMF facility - Jeff Bale (TRIUMF)

16:30 Photodetection with SiPM in particle physics and materials science - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

16:45 The Electrodynamometer of the McPherson Collection of Scientific Instruments - Jean Barrette (McGill University)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CAB 239
Contributions

15:45 Watching proteins fold: capturing the conformational diffusion of single molecules during structural self-assembly - Michael Woodside (University of Alberta)

16:15 Coarse-Grained computer simulations of Alzheimer’s beta-amyloid peptides, using the Mercedes-Benz Hydrogen Bond Potential - Apichart Linhananta (Lakehead University)

16:30 The Formation of Alzheimer's Plaques in Synthetic Membranes - Jennifer Tang (McMaster University)

16:45 Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Beta(25-35): An Oligomeric Aggregation Simulation From Monomers to Ordered Filaments - Robert Girardin (Lakehead University)

17:00 Kinetics of Chain Motions within the disordered eIF4E-BP2 protein - Zhenfu Zhang (University of Toronto)
17:00

17:00 - 19:00
Room: Athabaska Hall, Heritage Room (#227)

19:00

19:00 - 21:30
19:00 - 19:50
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

19:00 The 2018 Shutdown of the NRU reactor - John Root (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)

19:10 How physicists can have a stronger voice in Ottawa - Ted Hsu (MP, Kingston and the Islands)
19:50

19:50 - 19:55
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
19:55
19:55 - 21:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

19:55 Inelastic Collisions Outside Academe: Alternate Careers for Physicists - Gary Albach (Former President and CEO, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures)

20:30 Intro: 2 other stories of where physics training led (and how)

20:50 Panel / Round-Table Discussion
21:15

21:15 - 22:00
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
Wednesday 17 June 2015

07:30

07:30 - 08:45
Room: CCIS 4-285

08:45

08:45 - 15:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
08:45 - 10:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

08:45 Chiral symmetry breaking and the quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene - Malcolm Kennett (Simon Fraser University)

09:15 Interfacing organic and carbon-based nanomaterials towards their applications in sustainable energy - Giovanni Fanchini (The University of Western Ontario)

09:45 Third Harmonic Terahertz Response Optimization of Doped Monolayer Graphene - Marc Dignam (Queen's University)

10:00 Investigation of the interaction between the single walled carbon nanotube and conjugated oligomers using various dispersion correction DFT methods - Mohammad Zahidul Hossain Khan (Memorial University)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

08:45 High-fidelity single-shot Toffoli gate via quantum control - Barry Sanders (University of Calgary)

09:15 Cavity-induced spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensation: A new approach for exploring cold atoms - Farokh Mivehvar (University of Calgary)

09:30 The effect of off-resonant excitation on intensity-intensity correlation spectra in three-level, lambda systems - Christopher DiLoreto (University of Windsor)

09:45 Entangled photon triplets: a new quantum light source and a test of nonlocality - Kevin Resch (University of Waterloo)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

08:45 Optimal control of microscopic nonequilibrium systems - David Sivak (Simon Fraser University)

09:15 OMCVD AuNP Grown on Polymer Substrates: An approach Towards Mass Fabrication of Biosensors - Silvia Mittler (University of Western Ontario)

09:30 In vivo manipulations of single cells using an all-optical platform - Raphael Turcotte (Advanced Microscopy Program, Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA)

09:45 The oligomeric composition of the M2 muscarinic receptor and the G protein signalling complex: a single molecule study - Dennis D. Fernandes (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

10:00 Effect of lipid composition on peptide-induced coalescence in bicellar mixtures - Chris Miranda (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

08:45 Up, out, and away: Probing the initial stages of ion outflow with Swarm - Johnathan Burchill (University of Calgary)

09:15 Kinetic modelling of Solar Orbiter space environment - Richard Marchand (University of Alberta)

09:30 PLASMA TECHNOLOGY: ITS CURRENT and FUTURE IMPACT ON VARIOUS INDUSTRIES - Andranik Sarkissian (PLASMIONIQUE Inc)

10:00 ZnO Thin Film Samples Produced by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Ultrafast Laser High Harmonics Generation Studies - Zachary Tchir (University of Alberta)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CAB 235
Contributions

08:45 Black hole chemistry: thermodynamics with Lambda - David Kubiznak (Perimeter Institute)

09:15 Restricted Weyl Invariance in Four-Dimensional Curved Spacetime - Ariel Edery (Bishop's)

09:30 Revisiting the Solar System and Beyond - Réjean Plamondon (École Polytechnique de Montréal)

09:45 Linear perturbations of type IIB SUGRA in flux compactifications - Bradley Cownden (University of Manitoba)

10:00 Gravitational-wave searches for Binary Black Holes: waveform models - Prayush Kumar (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

08:45 Summary of ATLAS-Canada Upgrades - William Axel Leight (Carleton University (CA))

09:15 Test beam performance measurements of novel Thin Gap Detectors for the ATLAS experiment upgrade. - Sebastien Rettie (University of British Columbia (CA))

09:30 Performance of the first Canadian-made muon chamber prototype for the ATLAS experiment upgrade. - Benoit Lefebvre (McGill University (CA))

09:45 Status of the Future Linear Collider - Dean Karlen (University of Victoria (CA))
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

08:45 Optical measurement of spin-orbital torque in magnetic bilayers - John Q Xiao (University of Delaware)

09:15 Nonlinear Optomechanics for Quantum Nondemolition Measurements - Bradley Hauer (University of Alberta)

09:30 Optomechanics in a dilution refrigerator - Allison MacDonald (University of Alberta)

09:45 Silicon Nitride microdisk resonators as refractometric sensors in water - Callum Doolin (University of Alberta)

10:00 Three-dimensional scanning near field optical microscopy imaging of random arrays of copper nanoparticles and their use for plasmonic solar cell enhancement - Sabastine Ezugwu (The University of Western Ontario)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

08:45 The EXO Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Kevin graham

09:15 Modeling the Leaching of 222Rn Daughters into the SNO+ Detector - Pouya Khaghani

09:30 Using 60Co as a high precision calibration device for the SNO+ detector - Logan Sibley (University of Alberta)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

08:45 Learning from our neighbours about “Building a Thriving Undergraduate Physics Program” - Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)

09:00 Building Thriving Undergraduate Physics Programs - Theodore Hodapp (American Physical Society)

09:30 Panel
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

08:45 Advanced Instrumentation Techniques developed for SNOLAB science programmes. - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)

09:15 Ultra-Low Background Counting and Assay Studies At SNOLAB - Ian Lawson (SNOLAB)

09:30 Maintaining Clean Rooms at the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory - Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)
10:15

10:15 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
10:45
10:45 - 11:30
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

10:45 Neutrino Physics: On Earth and in the Heavens - Wick Haxton (University of Washington / University of California)
11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

11:30 Exploring wave phenomena in complex, strongly scattering materials using ultrasound - John Page (University of Manitoba)
12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

12:00 QCD under extreme conditions: Hot, shiny fluids and sticky business - Charles Gale (McGill University)
12:30

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L1-029

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CAB 243

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CAB 235

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L1-160

12:30 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 15:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

13:45 Spin Currents in Magnetic Insulator/Normal Metal Heterostructures - Sebastian Goennenwein (Walther-Meissner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Garching, Germany)

14:15 Controlling magnetization dynamics with artificial pinning sites in thin magnetic disks - Fatemeh Fani Sani (UofA)

14:30 Spin pumping in electrodynamically coupled magnon-photon systems - Lihui Bai (University of Manitoba)

14:45 Towards Microwave-Frequency Spin Mechanics - Dylan Grandmont (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G7)

15:00 Explosive molecule detection by nanomechanical resonator and photothermal spectroscopy - Tushar Biswas (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

13:45 SPIN-ROTATION HYPERFINE SPLITTINGS AT MODERATE TO HIGH J VALUES IN METHANOL - Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick)

14:00 Atomic Recoil Processes following He-6 Beta Decay - Gordon Drake (University of Windsor)

14:15 The spectrum of 15NH3 in the 66-2000 cm-1 region - Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick) Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)

14:30 Generalized Waveguide Theory including Electromagnetic Duality - 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)

14:45 **WITHDRAWN** Observing the effects of Time Ordering in Single Photon Frequency Conversion - Nicolas Quesada (University of Toronto)

15:00 Accurate and Precise Characterization of Linear Optical Interferometers - Ish Dhand (University of Calgary)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 235
Contributions

13:45 Measuring flow and yielding with coherent x-rays - Michael Rogers (University of Ottawa)

14:15 Structure Determination from Single-Particle X-ray Imaging - Ahmad Hosseinizadeh (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)

14:30 Investigating the correlation between molecular structure and mechanical properties of collagen using optical tweezers - Marjan Shayegan (Postdoctoral Researcher)

14:45 Interferometric second harmonic generation imaging of biological tissues - François Légaré (INRS-EMT)

15:00 MR Imaging with Radiofrequency Phase Gradients - Jonathan Sharp (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 239
Contributions

13:45 Wigner function negativity and contextuality in quantum computation on rebits - Robert Raussendorf (UBC)

14:15 Orbital Interference Effects in Nanowire Josephson Junctions for Exploring Majorana Physics - Jonathan Baugh (University of Waterloo)

14:45 Multiqubit entangled channels for quantum communication in networks - Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

13:45 Gravitational Waves Probes of Extreme Gravity Physics - Nicolas Yunes (Montana State University)

14:15 Searching for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars - Ingrid Stairs (UBC)

14:45 Searching for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences with Advanced LIGO - Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

13:45 Casting Light on Antimatter: Fundamental Physics with the ALPHA Antihydrogen Trap - Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)

14:15 High Precision Weak Charge Measurements using Parity Violating Electron Scattering: Looking for Signatures of New Physics at the Precision Frontier - Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)

14:45 Muon g-2/edm at J-PARC - Glen Marshall (TRIUMF)

15:00 Investigation of the E2 and E3 matrix elements in $^{200}$Hg using direct nuclear reactions - Evan Rand (University of Guelph)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

13:45 Measurement of Mesospheric Ozone Using Meteor Decay Times - Wayne Hocking (University of Western Ontario)

14:15 Wind and Gravity Wave Observations with ERWIN-II - Samuel Kristoffersen (University of New Brunswick)

14:30 Imaging mesospheric winds using the Michelson Interferometer for Airglow Dynamics Imaging (MIADI) - Jeffery Langille (UNB)

14:45 CAFTON and PEARL: Using Ground-based FTIR Spectroscopy to Probe Atmospheric Composition over Canada - Kimberly Strong (University of Toronto)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CAB 243
Contributions

13:45 Solenoid-free Plasma Start-up in NSTX using Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) - Roger Raman (University of Washington)

14:15 Impacts of STOR tokamaks on fusion research - Osamu Mitarai (Tokai University)

14:45 Compact Torus Injection for Fuelling - Chijin Xiao (Univ. of Saskatchewan)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

13:45 Recent Results from IceCube - Claudio Kopper (University of Alberta)

14:15 Long-Term Stability of Backgrounds in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Benedikt Riedel (University of Alberta)

14:30 Direct reconstruction - a new event reconstruction algorithm for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Sarah Nowicki (University of Alberta)

14:45 Long-Term Supernova Monitoring with HALO - Colin Bruulsema (Laurentian University)

15:00 Atmospheric Neutrino Measurement with IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Tania Wood (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

13:45 A New format for Reporting in a First Year Physics Laboratory - Marzena Kastyak-Ibrahim (University of Manitoba)

14:00 Paperless physics laboratory course using the Blackboard resources. - Natalia Krasnopolskaia (University of Toronto)

14:15 **WITHDRAWN** Upper Level Undergraduate Physics Laboratories Competencies - Tetyana Antimirova (Ryerson University)

14:30 The University of Calgary Instructor of Record mentorship program: helping graduate students make the transition to becoming effective instructors - Michael Wieser (University of Calgary)

14:45 Making Comparisons - A Strategy for Teaching Scientific Reasoning in a First Year Lab - D.A. Bonn (University of British Columbia)

15:00 Off with the training wheels: Student centered approach to lab work. - Benoit Blanchet (Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

13:45 A review of imaging methods in analysis of works of art. Thermographic imaging method in art analysis. - Dmitry Gavrilov (University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada)

14:15 Making and using atomically defined nanotips - Radovan Urban (University of Alberta)

14:30 Performance Assessment of a Silicon-Based Piezoresistive MEMS Strain Sensor - Ronald Delos Reyes (University of Alberta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)

14:45 The Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences: Developing a multi-use cyclotron facility - Sara Ho (Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences)
15:15

15:15 - 15:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
15:45
15:45 - 16:15
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

15:45 A new strategy to build ultrafast lasers; Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification - Francois Legare (INRS-EMT)
16:15
16:15 - 16:45
Room: CCIS 1-430
Contributions

16:15 From Quarks to Neutrinos, Adventures in Particle Physics - John Martin (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
16:45

16:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-430

17:15

17:15 - 19:00
Room: CCIS 1-430

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Room: CCIS L1-047
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Two-dimensional accelerating beams along arbitrary trajectories and enhancement of their peak intensities - Luca La Volpe (INRS)

19:02 Pulsed Laser Spectroscopy of Xe129 for a Co-magnetometer in the TRIUMF Neutron Electron Dipole Moment Experiment - Eric R Miller (The University of British Columbia)

19:04 Ultracold gas coupled to a nanomechanical resonator via Zeeman interaction - Andrei Tretiakov (University of Alberta)

19:06 Application Of An Optical Parametric Oscillator For Infrared Spectroscopy Of Jet-Cooled Molecules And Complexes. - Luis Carlos Welbanks Camarena (University of Calgary)

19:08 Using radio frequency radiation to discover new effects in ultracold gases - Taras Hrushevskyi (University of Alberta)

19:10 Development of a High Intensity Yb:YAG Pumped Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification Laser System - Mohammed Eltahlawy (University of Alberta)

19:12 Proposal of creating spin cat states in Bose-Einstein condensates - Hon Wai Lau (IQST, Univeristy of Calgary)

19:16 **WITHDRAWN** Particle vs. Mode Entanglement in Quantum Enhanced Optical Metrology - Nicolas Quesada (University of Toronto)

19:18 RECENT LINE-SHAPE STUDIES INVOLVING TRANSITIONS OF ACETYLENE BROADENED BY CARBON DIOXIDE - Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick) Ronald Lees (University of New Brunswick)

19:20 Detection of Trace Gases using Fiber Laser Technology- Part 2 - Jonas Valiunas (Lakehead University)

19:22 Numerical Analysis of Er-doped DFB Fiber Laser: Er ion Concentration and Output Power Optimization - Jalal Norooz Oliaee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Changes in Global Precipitation from 1850 to the Present - Atifa Syed (Physics Department, York University)

19:02 Possibility of determining predominant SO2 oxidation pathways by isotope fractionation or source apportionment - Neda Amiri (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary)

19:04 Characterization of Ionospheric Scintillation at High Latitude - Hichem Mezaoui (University of New Brunswick)

19:06 Comparison of IGS Network GPS Receiver DCBs Provided by CODE and a Single Station Estimation Method - Anthony McCaffrey (University of New Brunswick)

19:08 Ionospheric Sounding Opportunities Using Signal Data From Pre-existing Amateur Radio And Operational Networks - Alex Cushley

19:10 Determining the equatorial dayside plasma density using travel-time magnetoseismology - Robert Ridgway (University of Calgary)

19:12 A Statistical Study of Drifts of Patchy Pulsating Aurora：Observed by THEMIS All-Sky Imagers - Bing Yang (University of Calgary)

19:14 Distribution of Gravity Wave Parameters over Eureka, Nunavut using the All Sky Imager - Chris Vail (University of New Brunswick)

19:16 Motion of the Polar Cap Arcs and Associated Plasma Flows - Kateryna Yakymenko (student)

19:18 Pre-stellar Cores in the Aquila Rift - Jeremy Scott (Student at the University of Lethbridge)

19:20 Early results from the ABOVE radio instrument array - Christopher Cully (University of Calgary)

19:22 A Case Study of Energetic Electron Precipitation Using Ground-Based VLF Radio Data - Eric Davis (University of Calgary)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Optomechanics with a Twist - Paul Kim (University of Alberta)

19:02 Photonic actuation and detection of higher order modes in nanomechanical resonators - J. N. Westwood-Bachman (University of Alberta, National Institute for Nanotechnology)

19:04 Coupling THz Pulses to a Scanning Tunneling Microscope - Peter Nguyen (University of Alberta)

19:06 Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Semiconductor Nanoparticles - Jeff Krupa (University of British Columbia)

19:08 GC-MS to GC-NOMS: A step towards portable analysis - Anandram Venkatasubramanian (Post Doctoral research fellow)

19:10 Poor Q-factor? - no problem: nano-optomechanical mass sensing in ambient conditions - S. K. Roy (Department of Physics, University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), Canada.)

19:12 Modeling dome microcavities in COMSOL - Hugh Ramp (University of Alberta)

19:14 Thermophysical Properties of Heavy Water and Pertinent Calculations - Robert L. Varty (Consultant in Engineering Science)

19:16 Deuterium NMR and Rheology of Microgel Colloids at Ambient and High Pressure - Suhad SBEIH (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

19:18 Adsorption of thiophene-based molecules at passivated silicon surfaces - Renjie Liu (Lakehead University)

19:20 Dielectric spectroscopy of polyvinyl alcohol cryogels - John de Bruyn (Western University)

19:22 Granular assemblies: a sandbox of nonlinear physics phenomena - Michelle Przedborski (Brock University)

19:24 Anisotropic Bragg mirror made from one single material used for polarized laser emission from a Yb-doped YAG ceramic - Jean-François Bisson (Université de Moncton)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Water and Defect Detection Beneath Rubber Using Terahertz Reflection Tomography - Patrick Kilcullen (University of Northern British Columbia)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Focus study to measure phase effects of a bent Laue beam expander - Mercedes Martinson (University of Saskatchewan)

19:02 Development of a Vibrating Wire Rheometer - John de Bruyn (The University of Western Ontario)

19:04 Update of the imaging capabilities of the biomedical imaging and therapy facility at the Canadian Light Source - M. Adam Webb (Canadian Light Source)

19:06 The Brockhouse X-ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector at the Canadian Light Source - Ariel Gomez (Canadian Light Source)

19:08 Improving sensitivities and detection limits of fluorescence-based microcavity refractometric sensors - Rose (Deborah) Chung (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Evolution of Single Particle Structure in Exotic Strontium Isotopes - Steffen Cruz

19:02 Low-Light Photosensor Applications in Plant Imaging & Personal Radiation Detection - Jamie Sanchez-Fortun Stoker (University of Regina)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 37 Years of High School Physics Olympics Competitions at the University of British Columbia - Janis McKenna (University of British Columbia) Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Measurement of High Magnetic Fields in Laser Produced Plasmas - Fatema Liza (University fo Alberta)

19:02 Intense, double pulse irradiation of targets for MeV proton acceleration - Shaun Kerr (University of Alberta)

19:04 Interferometric characterization of preplasma density for laser created plasmas - Laila Nawsheen Manzoor (University of Alberta)

19:06 Optical Pumping Within a Laser-Induced Plasma to Enhance Trace Element Signal Intensity - Anthony Piazza (University of Windsor)

19:08 Terahertz source development for studying Warm Dense Matter and High Energy Density Plasmas - Chandra Curry (University of Alberta)

19:10 Characterization of Initial Target Conditions in High Intensity Laser Solids Interaction Experiments - Ying Tsui (University of Alberta) Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelarator Laboratory)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Algorithms for Boson Realizations of SU(n) - Ish Dhand (University of Calgary)

19:02 Quantum corrected numerical relativity - Anindita Dutta (University of Lethbridge)

19:04 Bohmian trajectories for harmonic oscillator and Coulomb potentials - Benjamin Dupuis (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

19:06 Unified Theory of Forces - Kaveh Mozafari (ExcellenSation)

19:10 Tunneling decay of false kinks - Yvan Ung (University of Montreal)

19:12 Electric quantum walks without electric field: an optical implementation scheme - Wei-Wei Zhang (IQST, University of Calgary)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Calibration of the DEAP-3600 photomultiplier tubes - Marcin Kuźniak (Queen's University) Tina Pollmann (Laurentian University)

19:02 Simulation study of the use of internal Ar-39 beta decays for energy calibration of the DEAP-3600 detector. - Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)

19:04 The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter detector - Pietro Giampa (Queen's University) Tina Pollmann (Laurentian University)

19:06 Study of neck alpha backgrounds in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector - Courtney Mielnichuk

19:08 In-situ Surface Contamination Removal With the DEAP-3600 Resurfacing Robot - Bei Cai (Queen's University)

19:10 Skyrmion configurations for Near-BPS Skyrme Models - Nicolas Giasson (Université Laval)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: CCIS Ground Floor PCL lounge
Contributions

19:00 Massively parallel genomic analysis using tunable nanoscale confinement - Marjan Shayegan

19:02 Single-Molecule Microscopy System for Tunable Nanoscale Confinement - Adriel Arsenault (McGill University)
Thursday 18 June 2015
07:30
07:30 - 08:45
Room: CCIS L1-029
Contributions

07:30 The 2018 Shutdown of the NRU reactor
08:45
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

08:45 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Torsional Optomechanics - Mark Freeman (University of Alberta)

09:15 Quantum Reservoir Engineering in Optomechanical Systems - Aashish Clerk (McGill University)

09:45 Nanophotonic Optomechanics in Diamond - Paul Barclay (University of Calgary)

10:15 High cooperativity optomechanics with wide-bandgap materials - Matthew Mitchell (University of Calgary)

10:30 Optomechanical Micro-Macro Entanglement. - Sourabh Kumar (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary T2 N 1N4, Alberta, Canada)
08:45 - 10:45
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

08:45 Molecular Theory of Solvation Based Miltiscale Modeling of Biomolecular Systems and Functions - Andriy Kovalenko (Natinal Institute for Nanotechnology, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, 11421 Saskatchewan Dr., Edmonton, AB, T6G 2M9, Canada)

09:15 Frontiers in Membrane Biophysics - Maikel Rheinstadter (McMaster University)

09:45 Bridging the gap between theoretical and experimentally inferred reorganization energy - Jonathan Johannes

10:00 Oxygen distribution in the liver lobule: Three dimensional computational Models - Vahid Rezania (MacEwan University)

10:15 Inferring compactness and asphericity of disordered protein ensembles by single molecule FRET spectroscopy and coarse grained simulations - Gregory Gomes (Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga and Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

10:30 Effects of Bacterial Specimen Preparation on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectra - Dylan Malenfant (University of Windsor)
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L1-029
Contributions

08:45 Status and Prospects for Theoretical Studies of B-meson Decays - Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (University of Montreal)

09:15 The forward-backward asymmetry in $B\to K^*\mu^+\mu^-$. - Mohammad Ahmady (Mount Allison University)

09:30 Isospin asymmetry in B→K∗μ+μ− using AdS/QCD - Ruben Sandapen (Mount Allison University & Universite de Moncton)

09:45 The Belle II Experiment at the SuperKEKB e+e- Collider - Michael Roney (University of Victoria)

10:15 Radiation Hardness of Thallium Doped Cesium Iodide Scintillation Crystals - Savino Longo (University of Victoria)
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

08:45 Before and After - Consequences of the Higgs Discovery - Travis Martin (TRIUMF)

09:15 Search for new SM Higgs decays and production mechanisms, and BSM Higgs production - Richard Polifka (University of Toronto (CA))

09:45 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 - Reyhaneh Rezvani (Universite de Montreal (CA))
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L1-047
Contributions

08:45 Low-scale gravity phenomenology - Douglas Gingrich (University of Alberta (CA))

09:15 A Correlated Worldline Theory of Quantum Gravity - Philip Stamp (UBC)

09:45 Discreteness of Space in a Weak Gravitational Field - Soumen Deb (University of Lethbridge)

10:00 Modifications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Motivated by Quantum Gravity - Matthew Robbins (University of Lethbridge)

10:15 Gravity and dust in 2+1 dimensions - Jonathan Ziprick (urn:Google)

10:30 Particle detectors in (curved) space: the equivalence principle and QFT. - Keith Ng (University of Waterloo)
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

08:45 The Hunt for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the Precision Frontier - Aleksandrs Aleksejevs (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

09:15 Initial Results from the TRIUMF PIENU Experiment - Tristan Sullivan (University of British Columbia)

09:30 Simultaneous Spin Measurement for Ultra Cold Neutrons at TRIUMF - Blair Jamieson (University of Winnipeg)

09:45 High-voltage breakdown studies with Xe-129 for an nEDM experiment at TRIUMF - Katerina Katsika (TRIUMF)

10:00 Current Status of a Measurement of Hadronic Parity Violation in the Capture of Cold Neutrons on Helium-3 - Mark McCrea (University of Manitoba)

10:15 FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH ULTRA-COLD NEUTRONS COMES TO CANADA - Rüdiger Picker (urn:Google)
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

08:45 Commissioning of the GlueX Experiment - Zisis Papandreou (Uinversity of Regina)

09:15 QCD Sum Rule Analysis of Heavy-light Hybrids for $J^{P}=1^{-}$ - Jason Ho (University of Saskatchewan)

09:30 QCD and the XYZs - Tom Steele (U of Saskatchewan)
08:45 - 10:45
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

08:45 Student Centered Active Learning Environment with Upsidedown Pedagogies - Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University)

09:15 Helping Students to get a Better Understanding of Concepts; ‘Course Dossier Method’ - Calvin Kalman (Concordia University)

09:30 Utilizing Reflective Writing in Introductory Physics Labatorials: Students Perspectives of Reflective Writing to Explore Science Textbooks - Mandana (Mandy) Sobhanzadeh (Mount Royal University)

09:45 Investigation of PeerWise Technology Implementation to Promote Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Physics Teacher-Candidates: From Theory to Practice - Marina Milner-Bolotin (The University of British Columbia)

10:00 Flipping a graduate level course on Modern Electrodynamics - Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)

10:15 Panel Discussion
10:45

10:45 - 11:15
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
11:15
11:15 - 11:45
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

11:15 The Higgs Boson, 3 years after the discovery - Pierre Savard (University of Toronto (CA))
11:45

11:45 - 13:45
Room: CCIS 4-285
11:45 - 12:30
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

11:45 IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos - Francis Halzen (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wiscons)
12:30

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L1-029

12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS L1-047

12:30 - 13:45
12:30 - 13:45
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

12:30 Status report - Jean-Francois Arguin (Universite de Montreal (CA))
13:45
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L2-200
Contributions

13:45 Optomechanics in a Millikelvin Environment: Towards QND Measurements - John Davis (University of Alberta)

14:15 Applying nano-optomechanics to mass sensing - Wayne Hiebert (National Institute for Nanotechnology)

14:45 Optically-Defined Micromechanical Sensors - Jack Sankey (McGill University)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-140
Contributions

13:45 What does localization mean in interacting systems? - Rachel Wortis (Trent University)

14:15 An emergent phase transition as an organizing principle for strongly correlated superconductors - Andre-Marie Tremblay (Universite de Sherbrooke)

14:45 Dynamic Hubbard model description os superconductivity - Frank Marsiglio (University of Alberta)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
13:45 - 15:15
Room: CCIS L1-160
Contributions

13:45 Launching the Canadian Institute of Physics Education Research (CIPhER) - Nathaniel Lasry (John Abbott College)

14:15 The design, implementation and continuous improvement of "Introduction to Graduate Studies: Research and Teaching in Physics" at SFU - Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)

14:45 The "PHAS Smart Exam" an attempt to improve the examination process of the multi-section intro physics course. - Philip Langill (University of Calgary)

15:00 Panel
15:15

15:15 - 15:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer
15:45
15:45 - 17:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

15:45 Gold Nanostructures and Their Applications - Alexandre Brolo (University of Victoria)

16:15 Superfluid $^4$He Helmoltz nanoresonator - Fabien Souris (University of Alberta)

16:30 Torque Magnetometry of an Individual Aggregate of ~350 Nanoparticles - Tayyaba Firdous (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2E1, Canada)

16:45 Interdisciplinary Applications of Optical Spectroscopy on a Laser-Induced Plasma - Steven Rehse (University of Windsor)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

15:45 Plasticity in amorphous solids - Joerg Rottler (UBC)

16:15 Getting into that "Room at the Bottom" of DNA Analysis using Tunable Nanoscale Confinement - Sabrina Leslie (McGill University)

16:45 Multiscale modeling of multifunctional, hybrid and nanomaterials: from quantum chemical and microscopic to coarse-grained level with an effective pair potential - Alexander E. Kobryn (National Institute for Nanotechnology)

17:00 Quantitative metrics for assessing positional and orientational order in colloidal crystals - Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
15:45 - 17:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

15:45 Review of the recent progress at the Advanced Laser Light Source facility and applications - Jean-Claude KIEFFER (EMT-INRS)

16:15 Advanced Instrumentation at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre - John Root (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)
17:15

17:15 - 18:45
Room: CCIS L1-047

19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Friday 19 June 2015
08:45
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-140
Contributions

08:45 Which Subfield of Physics is More Influential? - Jinshan Wu (Beijing Normal University)

09:15 Probing helium mass flow through a solid-liquid-solid double Junction - Zhigang Cheng (University of Alberta)

09:30 (tba) - Xiaosong Chen (Institute of Theoretical Physics, China Academy of Science)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: CCIS 1-160
Contributions

08:45 TRIUMF ARIEL Electron Linear Accelerator - Shane Koscielniak (TRIUMF)

09:15 ARIEL: Driving Scientific Discovery and Innovation with TRIUMF's Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory - Lia Merminga (TRIUMF)
08:45 - 10:15
Room: NINT Taylor room
Contributions

08:45 The Physics of X-ray Tomography: Not as simple as it looks - Esam Hussein (University of Regina)

09:15 Computational modeling of Plasmon coupled gold nanoparticles for biomedical applications - Carl Kumaradas (Ryerson University)

09:45 Detection of Trace Gases using Fiber Laser Technology- Part 1 - Gautam Das (Lakehead Uniersity)
10:15

10:15 - 11:15
Room: CCIS L2-190

11:15

11:15 - 11:45
Room: CCIS L2 Foyer

11:45

11:45 - 12:45
Room: CCIS L2-190
12:45
12:45 - 13:30
Room: CCIS L2-190
Contributions

12:45 Cell Stiffness and Cell Volume - David A. Weitz (SEAS Harvard)
13:30

13:30 - 14:00
Room: CCIS L2-190

14:00

14:00 - 15:30
Room: CCIS L1-047

15:30

15:30 - 17:00
Room: CCIS L1-047