Name: 2017 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2017
Start: 2017-05-28T06:45:00-04:00
End: 2017-06-02T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Queen's University

Monday, 29 May 2017

06:45 Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
06:45 - 07:45
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

07:00 Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
07:00 - 17:30
Room: BioSciences Atrium
08:00
08:00 - 10:00
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

08:00 NSERC SAPES Chair's Report - Heather Logan (Carleton University)

08:35 News from CFI - Heidi Bandulet (Canadian Foundation for Innovation)

09:00 TRIUMF Director Report - Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

09:35 SNOLab Director Report - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)
10:15
10:15 - 11:15
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

10:15 Formal Opening - Richard MacKenzie (CAP President)

10:30 From solids with topology to black holes and back - Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia)
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

11:30 Electrical Resistivity of Molten Ni at High Pressures and Comparison with Preliminary Results on Liquid Fe - Reynold Silber (Western University)

11:45 Optical and Structural Properties of Arrays of Mn-doped ZnO Nanorods Prepared by a Low Temperature Hydrothermal Method - Amir Hassanpour (Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada AND International Research Center for Renewable Energy (IRCRE), School of Energy & Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China)

12:00 Single Photon Source from Quantum Dots Modulated by Surface Acoustic Waves - Golnaz Azodi (Queen's University)

12:15 Electrohydrodynamics-driven droplet dynamics in an oil-in-oil emulsion - Somayeh Khajehpour Tadavani (Memorial University )
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

11:30 Opening a window into the world at the tip of a laser beam: in situ monitoring laser processing. - Lora Ramunno Paul Webster

12:00 Painting without paint via laser-induced plasmonic nanostructuring - Jean-Michel Guay (University of Ottawa)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

11:30 Monitoring Beam Backgrounds at Belle II with Scintillator Detectors - Helena Pikhartova (McGill University)

11:45 Early results for the phase 1 of BEAST-II experiment at SuperKEKB - Alexandre Beaulieu (University of Victoria)

12:00 Material Studies for the Belle-II experiment - Waleed Ahmed (McGill University)

12:15 MONITORING THERMAL NEUTRON BACKGROUNDS AT SUPERKEKB WITH $^3$HE PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS - Caleb Miller (University of Victoria)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

11:30 The Inflation Phenomenology of Primordial Phonons, Gravitons, Isocons, and Dilatons with the CMB and LSS, past, present and future - Richard Bond (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

12:00 Coleman-Weinberg mechanism in a gravitational Weyl invariant theory - Ariel Edery (Bishop's University)

12:15 Black holes and wormholes subject to conformal mappings - Valerio Faraoni (Bishop's University)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterall B147
Contributions

11:30 Nova nucleosynthesis from phosphorus to the endpoint - Alan Chen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University)

12:00 Connecting Nuclear Astrophysics to Cosmological Structure Formation - Benoit Côté
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B139

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B143

Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Leonard Dining Hall
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Botterell Hall B147
Contributions

12:30 A Look Ahead: The Future of the Physics Community in Canada and the Fundamental Science Review
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

13:30 Entropic segregation of short chains to the surface of a polydisperse melt - Pendar Mahmoudi (University of Waterloo)

13:45 Elastocapillary bending of microfibers around liquid droplets - Rafael Schulman (McMaster University)

14:00 Snakes and labyrinths: instability driven pattern formation in thin elastic films. - Ben Davis-Purcell (McMaster University)

14:15 Spontaneous elastocapillary deformations driving the formation of 2D microcoils - Adam Fortais (McMaster University)

14:30 Capillary Levelling of Cylindrical Holes in Freestanding Polymer Films - John Niven (McMaster University)

14:45 Rearrangement of 2D clusters of droplets under compression: transition from crystal to glass - Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (McMaster University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

13:30 Micro/nanostructure engineering for light management in thin-film solar cells - Xihua Wang (University of Alberta)

14:00 Application of lasers in gas and chemical sensing - Gautam Das (Lakehead University)

14:30 Exploiting broadband light-matter interactions using disordered photonic crystals for enhancing solar cell collection efficiencies - Chelsea Carlson (Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy)

14:45 WITHDRAWN - Theoretical and experimental investigation on the formation of plasmonic nanostructure on a tapered optical fiber - Chetna Sharma (Lakehead University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

13:30 Dark Matter Search Results of the PICO experiment in the Effective Field Theory Context - Arthur Plante (Université de Montréal)

13:45 Final results on the search for low-mass WIMPs with the NEWS-G experiment - Quentin Arnaud

14:00 WIMP Search at Low Energy Threshold with PICO-60 C3F8 - Scott Fallows (University of Alberta)

14:15 Prospects and Challenges for the Detection of MeV-scale Dark Matter - Alan Robinson (Fermilab)

14:30 Distinguishing the Schwarzschild black hole from the RP3 geon using local measurements - Keith Ng (University of Waterloo)

14:45 Two Photon Abosorbtion - Spencer Percy (University of Windsor)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

13:30 Shedding light on the brain: multimodal imaging from two-photon microscopy to fMRI-BOLD - Michèle Desjardins (University of California, San Diego)

14:00 Generalized Ising model and the dimensionality of the Brain - Pubuditha Abeyasinghe (Western University)

14:15 Methods for improving accuracy in interaction vertex imaging - Devin Hymers (University of Guelph)

14:30 Inferring sizes of compartments using oscillating gradient spin echo magnetic resonance imaging - Melanie Martin (University of Winnipeg)

14:45 Optoacoustic Characterization of Hepatic and Renal Vasculature - Bill Whelan (University of Prince Edward Island)
15:00 Health Break / Pause santé
Health Break / Pause santé
15:00 - 15:30
Room: BioSciences Atrium

15:30

15:30 - 17:15
Room: New Medical Building 255
15:30 - 17:15
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

15:30 Anisotropic exchange interactions in pyrochlore magnets - Stephanie Curnoe (Memorial Unversity of Newfoundland)

16:00 Extended Dynamical Equations of the Period Vectors of Crystals under Constant External Stress to Many-body Interactions - Gang Liu (CAC (HPCVL), Queen's University, CANADA)

16:15 Solitary waves become localized modes in granular chains with soft grains - Michelle Przedborski (Brock University)

16:30 Optimized Third Harmonic THz Generation from Graphene in a Parallel Plate Waveguide - Parvin Navaeipour (Queen's University)

16:45 Introduction of Angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy AT CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC. - Xiaoyu Cui (Canadian Light Source)

17:00 Sideband generation in moving photonic crystals - Hang Qu (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

15:30 SELF- AND AIR-BROADENED LINE PARAMETERS OF METHANE IN THE 4100-4300 WAVENUMBERS RANGE - Md Arifuzzaman (Department of Physics and Astronomy,UniversityofLethbridge,Alberta, Canada)

15:45 **WITHDRAWN** Theory of Ejected Electron Recoil Momentum in the Beta Decay of the Halo Nucleus He-6 - Aaron Bondy (University of Windsor)

16:00 SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF CO IN THE FUNDAMENTAL BAND OVER A RANGE OF TEMPERATURES FROM 296 TO 79 K - Adriana Predoi-Cross (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, T1K 6R4 Canada)

16:30 Tune-out Wavelength for the $\mathbf{1s2s\;^3S - 1s3p\;^3P}$ Transition of helium: relativistic effects - Gordon Drake (University of Windsor)

16:45 Laser resonance ionization spectroscopy of astatine - Maryam Mostamand (University of Manitoba- TRIUMF)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

15:30 Towards an Infrared Photon Based Calibration of Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) Detectors - Muad Ghaith

15:45 Investigation of Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes for the Experimental measurement of the Electron Capture decay of 40K: KDK Project - Matthew Stukel (Queen's University)

16:00 Low-temperature studies of the scintillation of pure Cesium Iodide for cryogenic scintillator detectors - Mike Clark (Queen's University)

16:15 Sensor optimisation and gas quality analysis for spherical gas detector operation. - Alexis Brossard

16:30 Calibration schemes for Spherical Gas Detectors - Daniel Durnford (Graduate Student)

16:45 Bubble growth studies in superheated liquids for the PICO experiment - Alexandre Le Blanc (Laurentian University)

17:00 Corrections to Signal Saturation in DEAP-3600 - Joseph McLaughlin (Queen's University)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

15:30 Quasi-free Proton Knockout Reactions on the Oxygen Isotopic Chain - Leyla Atar (Technical University Darmstadt & GSI & University of Guelph)

16:00 Doppler shift lifetime measurements using the TIGRESS Integrated Plunger at ISAC-II/TRIUMF - Krzysztof Starosta (Simon Fraser University)

16:15 Implementation of the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method using TIP/TIGRESS at TRIUMF - Jonathan Williams (Simon Fraser University)

16:30 Shape Coexistence in the Proton-Unbound Nucleus $^{177}$Au - Fuad Ali (Univerity of Guelph)
17:30 (CAP Herzberg Medal Recipient / Récipiendaire de la médaille Herzberg de l'ACP)
(CAP Herzberg Medal Recipient / Récipiendaire de la médaille Herzberg de l'ACP)
17:30 - 18:00
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

17:30 Physics of cellular decision - Paul François (McGill Unversity)
18:00

18:00 - 19:15
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

19:30 Arthur B. McDonald, Queens' University / Université de Queens
Arthur B. McDonald, Queens' University / Université de Queens
19:30 - 20:30

20:30

20:30 - 21:30

21:45 Health Break / Pause santé
Health Break / Pause santé
21:45 - 22:15
Room: BioSciences Atrium
Tuesday, 30 May 2017

06:45 Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
06:45 - 07:45
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

07:00 Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
07:00 - 17:30
Room: BioSciences Atrium

07:30

07:30 - 09:00
Room: New Medical Sciences 255
08:00
08:00 - 09:10
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

08:00 The Doping Structure of a Polymer Electrochemical Cell P-N Junction: An Optical Scanning Measurement and Numerical Study - Faleh Altal (Queen's University)

08:15 Electrical and mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites - Nuwansiri Getangama (Western University )

08:30 Stabilizing Various Bicontinuous Morphologies via Polydispersity of Diblock Copolymers - Chi To Lai (McMaster University)

08:45 **RESCHEDULED** Identifying polymer states by machine learning - Jeff Z. Y. Chen (Department of Physics and Astronomy，University of Waterloo)
08:00 - 09:00
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

08:00 Probing ultrafast optical demagnetization with an HHG source - Katherine Légaré (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique)

08:15 Quantum noise in excitable laser systems - Gerasimos Angelatos (Princeton)

08:30 Dependence of spontaneous surface relief gratings formation on the incidence angle and the polarization of the pump beam - Leila Mazaheri (Graduate Students, Queen's University)

08:45 Ab Initio Calculations of Torsionally Mediated Hyperfine Splittings in E States of Acetaldehyde - Li-Hong Xu
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

08:00 Higgs boson physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University (CA))

08:30 Search for a doubly charged Higgs boson through vector boson scattering in the Georgi-Machacek model with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Jerome Claude (Universite de Montreal (CA))

08:45 Search for Higgs production in association with a top quark pair in the H->bb final state - Daniel Mori (Simon Fraser University (CA))
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

08:00 Entropy in Quantum Gravity - Arundhati Dasgupta (University of Lethbridge)

08:30 **WITHDRAWN** Time and the Hamiltonian Constraint - Alexander Smith (University of Waterloo)

08:45 **WITHDRAWN** Strong transient modulation of horizon radiation - Aida Ahmadzadegan (University of Waterloo)
08:00 - 09:00
Room: BioSci 1120

08:30

08:30 - 16:00
Room: BioSciences Atrium
09:15
09:15 - 09:45
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

09:15 Undergraduate Physics Labs: Who needs them? - Martin Williams (University of Guelph)
09:45 Health Break (with exhibitors) / Pause santé (avec exposants)
Health Break (with exhibitors) / Pause santé (avec exposants)
09:45 - 10:15
Room: BioSciences Atrium

10:15

10:15 - 11:15
Room: BioSci 1101

10:15 - 12:30
Room: Ellis 333
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

11:30 Universality of low-energy Rashba scattering - Joel Hutchinson (University of Alberta)

11:45 Analysis of thermos-diffusive cellular instabilities in continuum combustion fronts - Hossein Azizi (McGill University)

12:00 Seeing the strongly-correlated zero-bias anomaly in double quantum dot measurements - Rachel Wortis (Trent University)

12:15 String method study of heterogeneous nucleation in block copolymers - Sarah Dawson (McMaster University)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

11:30 Optical atomic clocks for gravitational wave physics - Amar Vutha (University of Toronto)

12:00 Progress towards a portable two-photon optical clock - Shira Jackson (University of Toronto)

12:15 Self-assisted complete maximally hyperentangled state analysis via the cross-Kerr nonlinearity - Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

11:30 Electroweak Precision Measurements - Jens Erler (IF-UNAM)

12:00 WITHDRAWN - Muon g-2 in an Alternative Quasi-Yukawa Unification with Low Fine-Tuned Inverse SeeSaw Mechanism - Ozer Ozdal (Concordia University)

12:15 Differentiating $ U(1)^\prime $ Supersymmetric Models With Right Sneutrino \& Neutralino Dark Matter - Jack Araz (PhD)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

11:30 Bayesian songbird flightpath recovery in the presence of errors - Hanna Jankowski (York University)

12:00 An Application of Mathematical Physiology to the Study of Heart Failure - Rachad Shoucri (Royal Military College of Canada)

12:15 Quantifying the relative contribution of transmission via free virus versus cell-to-cell to the propagation of a hepatitis C virus infection in vitro - Kenneth Blahut (Ryerson university)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

11:30 Tokamak compression experiments at General Fusion - Michel Delage (General Fusion Inc.)

12:00 High-resolution depth profiling for passive anodized TiO2 ultra-thin films - Mitchell Brocklebank (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Western University,)
12:00 Teachers' Day - Lunch / Journée des enseignnants - Dîner
Teachers' Day - Lunch / Journée des enseignnants - Dîner
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Ellis 226

12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: BioSci 1103

12:30 - 13:30
Room: BioSci 2111

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B139

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B143

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Miller Hall 105

12:30 - 13:30
Room: New Medical Bldg 255

Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

12:30 - 13:30
Room: BioSci 1120

13:00

13:00 - 16:15
Room: Ellis 333
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

13:30 Single crystal NMR investigation of S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet - Takashi Imai (McMaster University)

14:00 Thermodynamic and transport properties of single crystal YbNi4Cd - Jeonghun Lee (Simon Fraser University)

14:15 Continuous Degeneracy and Magnetization Process in the 3D FCC Kagome Lattice with the Dipole-Dipole Interaction - Andrew Way (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

14:30 Magnetic phase transitions and magnetoelastic coupling in $Ba_3CoSb_2O_9$ - Ming Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

14:45 Investigating the Potential Verwey Transition in Pb3Rh7O15 with Synchrotron X-rays - Patrick Clancy (Trent University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

14:00 Quantum Control of Hybrid Atom-Plasmonic Systems - Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)

14:30 Characterizing Surface Plasmon Polaritons Propagation at Lossy Interfaces - Nafiseh Sang-Nourpour (1: Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, 2: Photonics Group, Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz 51665-163, Iran 3 Photonics Group, Aras International Campus, University of Tabriz 51666-16471, Iran)

14:45 Squeezed hollow-core photonic Bragg fiber for surface sensing applications - Maksim Skorobogatiy (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

13:30 Fiducialziation in DEAP-3600 using machine learning algorithms with robust validation - Connor Stone (Queen's University)

13:45 Simulations of the Muon Veto for the PICO Experiment - Olivia Scallon (Laurentian University)

14:00 Effect of atmosphere on fractures as a background in scintillators - Robert Squibb

14:15 Sample Measurements from the Wavelength Shifter Deposition in DEAP-3600 - Benjamin Broerman (Queen's University)

14:30 The AmBe source for the SNO+ detector calibration - Ingrida Semenec (Laurentian University)

14:45 Water Phase Energy Calibration in SNO+ - Zachariah Barnard (Laurentian University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

13:30 Causal perturbation theory in quantum optics - Karl-Peter Marzlin (St. Francis Xavier University)

14:00 Compact formulas for the first and second order relativistic corrections to the isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator valid in any dimension - Philippe Laporte

14:15 A Quasi-local Approach to Gravitational Thermodynamics - Fil Simovic (University of Waterloo)

14:30 Weyl orbit functions and conformal field theory - Mark Walton (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge)

14:45 THE ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT OF A PHOTON PROPAGATING IN A MAGNETIC FIELD - S R Valluri (University of Western Ontario)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

13:30 Lattice QCD results for doubly heavy tetraquarks - Randy Lewis (York University)

14:00 New Perspectives on the Charged Pion Form Factor - Garth Huber (University of Regina)

14:15 First Physics Results from the GlueX Experiment - Zisis Papandreou (University of Regina)

14:30 $\pi^+$ Electroproduction at High $-t$ - Samip Basnet (University of Regina)

14:45 The Nuclear Delta Force in Quadrupole Deformed Nuclei - Anish Verma (Simon Fraser University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1120
Contributions

13:30 Learning physics using multimedia resources - Adriana Predoi-Cross (University of Lethbridge)

13:45 Earth and the composition of our world – a new and highly interdisciplinary undergraduate course - Li-Hong Xu (University of New Brunswick)

14:00 Personality Types and Student Performance in an Introductory Physics Course - Jason Harlow (University of Toronto)

14:15 Revolutions in Teaching Physics: Build a Better Teacher, Build a Better Student - Chris Meyer (Toronto District School Board, Canada)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Miller Hall 105
Contributions

13:30 Polymer translocation: some surprising physics learned from Molecular Dynamics Simulations - Gary W. Slater (Université d'Ottawa)

14:00 Curcumin Protects Lipid Membranes - Richard Alsop (McMaster University)

14:15 Non-specific side effects of the steroidal hormones found in oral contraceptives on lipid membranes - Mindy Chapman

14:30 Role of the variable domain in Drp1 protein assembly: a simulation study - Mehran Bagheri (University of Ottawa)

14:45 Membrane Cholesterol Protects Against Polymyxin B Nephrotoxicity in Renal Membrane Analogues - Adree Khondker (McMaster University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

13:30 Diversity in physics: Strengthening excellence through equity and inclusivity - Shohini Ghose
15:00 Health Break (with exhibitors) / Pause santé (avec exposants)
Health Break (with exhibitors) / Pause santé (avec exposants)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: BioSciences Atrium
15:30
15:30 - 17:15
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

15:30 Gate-tunable valley currents, non-local resistances and valley accumulation in bilayer graphene nanostructures - Mohammadhadi Azari (Simon Fraser University)

15:45 Membrane materials in superconducting electromechanical circuits - David Northeast (Queen's University)

16:00 Nonlinear response of nano-electro-mechanical graphene resonators fabricated by chemical vapour deposition - Arnab Chaudhuri (PhD Student)

16:15 Using Positron Annihilation to Observe the Evolution of a System of Interacting Silicon Quantum Dots - James Gaudet (University of Western Ontario)

16:30 First experimental measurement of the speed distribution of ballistically-evaporated atoms - Ryan Groome (Queen's University)

16:45 Nanoscale Thermal and Electronic Properties of Thin Films of Graphene and Organic Polyradicals - Sabastine Ezugwu (PhD student)

17:00 Optical and Electrical Properties of Self-Assembled Silicon Nanoclusters - Carolyn Cadogan (The University of Western Ontario)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

15:30 Laser-cooled atoms in fiber-integrated cavities - Michal Bajcsy (IQC, University of Waterloo)

16:00 Magnetic Trapping of Cold Methyl Radicals - Manish Vashishta (The University of British Columbia)

16:15 Quantum simulation with laser-cooled trapped ions - Kazi Rajibul Islam (Insitute for Quantum Computing)

16:45 Quantum coherent control of laser-kicked molecular rotors (DAMOPC Thesis Prize Winner) - Martin Bitter (University of British Columbia)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

15:30 Upgrading the ATLAS detector for a long and luminous career - Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF (CA))

16:00 ATLAS Searches (SUSY+Exotics) - Otilia Anamaria Ducu (Universite de Montreal (CA))

16:30 Operation & Performance of the ATLAS Detector - Emma Sian Kuwertz (University of Victoria (CA))

17:00 Studies of cosmic ray events in ATLAS sTGC muon chamber prototypes - Felix Leger (McGill University, (CA))
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

15:30 Foliation dependence of black hole apparent horizons in spherical symmetry - Valerio Faraoni (Bishop's University)

16:00 Physical Realizations of the Tolman-VII Solution - David Hobill

16:15 Superfluid black holes - Robie Hennigar

16:30 WITHDRAWN - Exact wormhole solutions in Einstein-Maxwell theory - Vineet Kumar (University of Saskatchewan)

16:45 On the rotation of celestial bodies: an emerging phenomenon. - Réjean Plamondon (École Polytechnique de Montréal)

17:00 Black Hole Graviton Laser TIME BOMB! - Manu Paranjape (Université de Montréal) Éric Dupuis (Université de Montréal)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

15:30 The determination of the masses of neutron-rich nuclides using the CPT mass spectrometer at CARIBU - Kumar Sharma (University of Manitoba)

16:00 Recent Results in Decay Spectroscopy with GRIFFIN - Kenneth Whitmore (Simon Fraser University)

16:30 Initial Tests of the Recoil Mass Spectrometer EMMA - Barry Davids (TRIUMF)

16:45 Decay Spectroscopy of Neutron-rich $^{129}$Cd with GRIFFIN - Yukiya Saito (The University of British Columbia / TRIUMF)

17:00 WITHDRAWN - Direct study of the $^{22}$Ne(*p,$\gamma$*)$^{23}$Na reaction in inverse kinematics using the DRAGON recoil separator - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: BioSci 1120
Contributions

15:30 "Peculiarities" in Geomagnetism and Magnetotellurics - David Thomson (Queen's University)

16:00 ACE-FTS satellite measurements of HCN in the upper troposphere to N2O in the lower thermosphere - Patrick Sheese (University of Toronto)

16:30 Ionospheric Characterization Using Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) Signals - Alex Cushley

16:45 On the Possibility of Constraining Bright Meteor Shock Wave Forming Altitudes – Theoretical Consideration of Relationship to Radar Observed Meteor Head Echo/Height Termination Heights in MLT - Reynold E. Silber (Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario)

17:00 Recent developments regarding E region irregularities - Jean-Pierre St-Maurice (University of Saskatchewan)
15:30 - 17:15
Room: Miller Hall 105
Contributions

15:30 Droplet Microfluidics for High Throughput Screening - Fundamentals and Applications - Carolyn Ren (University of Waterloo)

16:00 Glucose Vitrifies Dehydrated Lipid Membranes - Alex Dhaliwal (McMaster University)

16:15 Examining the role of bias versus swimming in superdiffusion - Boris Barron (York University)

16:30 Partitioning of Caffeine in Lipid Bilayers Reduces Membrane Fluidity and Increases Membrane Thickness - Adree Khondker (McMaster University)

16:45 A dual-docking microfluidic cell migration assay for testing neutrophil chemotaxis and the memory effect - Francis Lin (University of Manitoba)
17:15

17:15 - 17:30
Room: BioSci 1101

17:30

17:30 - 19:00
Room: BioSci 1101

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Room: BioSci 2111

19:00 - 21:00
Room: Ellis 226

19:00 - 21:00

19:00 - 21:00
Room: 255 New Medical Building

19:00 - 21:00
Room: BioSci 1120
Wednesday, 31 May 2017

06:45 Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
06:45 - 07:45
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

07:00 Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
07:00 - 17:30
Room: BioSciences Atrium

07:00 - 08:00
Room: New Medical Bldg 255
08:00
08:00 - 09:45
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

08:00 Condensed matter physics studies with muons at TRIUMF - Sonier Jeff (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University)

08:25 Resonant x-ray scattering of Quantum Materials at the Canadian Light Source - David G Hawthorn (University of Waterloo)

08:50 Time-of-Flight Neutron Scattering From Exotic Quantum Ground States - Bruce Gaulin (McMaster University)

09:15 High magnetic field measurements at central facilities: a physicist walks into a bar and says “Give me a 100 tesla shot please …” - Stephen Julian (University of Toronto)
08:00 - 09:45
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

08:00 Auroral Processes Observed by e-POP - Gordon James (University of Calgary)

08:15 Auroral Science with Swarm - David Knudsen (University of Calgary)

08:30 WITHDRAWN - Accounting for the effect of Earth's rotation in magnetotelluric inference - David Riegert (Queen's University)

08:30 Convection of plasma density features in the ionosphere - John de Boer (Royal Military College of Canada)

08:45 Detecting Solar Modes in the D-Region using a Relative Ionospheric Opacity Meter (Riometer) - François Marshall

09:00 The effect of high latitude distorted ion velocity distributions on radar and satellite observations - Lindsay Goodwin (University of Saskatchewan)

09:15 Plasma induced magnetic effects on Swarm satellites - Richard Marchand (University of Alberta)

09:30 Predicting lognormal distributions of geomagnetic field time derivatives - Brian Jackel (University of Calgary)
08:00 - 09:45
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

08:00 Workshop (TBA) - Martin Williams (University of Guelph)
08:00 - 09:45
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

08:00 Statistical Mechanics of Stem Cells - Sidhartha Goyal (Univ of Toronto)

08:15 Leveraging low dimensionality and stereotypy in the study of C. elegans behavior - William Ryu (University of Toronto)

08:45 A model for assessing ATP demands of sustained high frequency firing - Bela Joos (University of Ottawa)

09:00 Overtone focusing in Tuvan throat singing - Christopher Bergevin (York University)

09:15 Watching spherical cows die: the physics of human aging - Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie University)

09:30 Structure and Conformation of a Virus from Single-particle X-ray Diffraction - Ahmad Hosseinizadeh (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
08:00 - 09:45
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

08:00 Next-generation neutrino-less double beta decay search with LXe - Razvan Gornea (Carleton University)

08:30 SNO+ Experiment: Commissioning and Status - Ford Richard (SNOLAB)

09:00 3D digital SiPM for nEXO - Frédéric Vachon (Université de Sherbrooke)

09:15 SNO+ Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with an Organic Scintillator - Szymon Manecki (Queen's University)

09:30 $^{16}$N Source for the Calibration of SNO+ - Jie Hu (University of Alberta)
08:15

08:15 - 09:45
Room: BioSci 2111

08:30

08:30 - 16:00
Room: BioSciences Atrium

09:45 Health Break (with exhibitors) | Pause santé (avec exposants)
Health Break (with exhibitors) | Pause santé (avec exposants)
09:45 - 10:15
Room: BioSciences Atrium
10:15
10:15 - 10:45
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

10:15 Topological Phases in Quantum Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling - Yong Baek Kim (University of Toronto)
10:45
10:45 - 11:15
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

10:45 TBA - Mark Sutton (McGill University)
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

11:30 Nematic order on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator - Hennadii Yerzhakov (University of Alberta)

11:45 Spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking due to emergence of new order along [110] surfaces of nanoscale d-wave systems - K. Tanaka (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan)

12:00 Institut Quantique - Jeffrey Quilliam (Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

11:30 Dynamical Microcavity Exciton-Polariton Condensates - Na Young Kim (University of Waterloo)

12:00 Building Synthetic Quantum Systems with Atoms and Photons – From Waveguide QED with Neutral Atoms to Many-Body Physics with Rydberg-Dressed Lattice Gases - Kyung Soo Choi (University of Waterloo)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

11:30 Detecting Antineutrinos Using the SNO+ Detector - Pawel Mekarski (University of Alberta)

11:45 Neutrino Trident Production at the Intensity Frontier - Gabriel Magill (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics / McMaster University)

12:00 Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux and related key parameters at 6-180 GeV in IceCube - Tania Wood (University of Alberta)

12:15 Direct reconstruction - an advanced event reconstruction algorithm for improved low-energy neutrino analyses with the IceCube-DeepCore detector array - Sarah Nowicki
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

11:30 Out of equilibrium dynamics of gauge theories from holography - Alex Buchel (Western University and Perimeter Institute)

12:00 Non-perturbative calculations in scalar theories - Margaret Carrington (Brandon University)

12:15 Modelling The Gravitational Collapse Of Scalar Fields In Anti-de Sitter Space - Brad Cownden (University of Manitoba)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

11:30 Applied physics in the clinic: monitoring radiation doses delivered to cancer patients - Louis Archambault (Université Laval)

12:00 During eye growth, defocus reduces until optical blur is similar to the resolution of the cone photoreceptors - Mengyuan Ke (University of Waterloo)

12:15 Coarse-Grained Model of Fragments of Amyloid-Beta peptides - Apichart Linhananta (Lakehead University)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: BioSci 1102

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B147

12:30 - 13:30
Room: BioSci 1103

Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B139
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

13:30 Perhaps calling it the gender gap is missing the point! - Fraser James M. (Queen's University)

14:00 Undergrads at a Synchrotron? Innovative Approaches To Include Research Experiences In Undergraduate Courses - Tracy Walker (Canadian Light Source Inc)

14:15 A First Aid Kit for High School Teachers tasked with teaching Quantum Mechanics - Daria Ahrensmeier (Simon Fraser University)

14:30 What makes students choose a physics major, or not? - Laura Stiles-Clarke (St. Francis Xavier University)

14:45 Report on the 2017 Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) and development of APS-CAP partnership - Brigitte Vachon (McGill University (CA))
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

13:30 Quantum Communication across Calgary - Tittel Wolfgang (University of Calgary)

14:00 Thermalization by Rapid Repeated Interactions - Daniel Grimmer (University of Waterloo)

14:15 Entanglement Harvesting with Inertially Moving Detectors - Laura Henderson (University of Waterloo)

14:30 Airborne Demonstration of a Quantum Key Distribution Receiver Payload - Christopher Pugh (University of Waterloo/Institute for Quantum Computing)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

13:30 Beta decay correlations with laser-trapped 37K in the LHC era - John Behr (TRIUMF)

14:00 Fundamental Symmetry Tests using Trapped Antihydrogen - Recent Results and Future Plans of ALPHA - Scott Menary (York University)

14:15 Microwave spectroscopy of antihydrogen as a test of CPT symmetry - Justine Joyce Munich (Simon Fraser University (CA))

14:30 Cold and thermal neutron flux measurements of the cold neutron source commissioning at TRIUMF - Lori Rebenitsch (University of Winnipeg)

14:45 Magnetic Holding Field Coil R&D for the nEDM Experiment at TRIUMF - Roseanna Burrough (The University of Winnipeg)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

13:30 Physics in Radiation Therapy: How the clinic influences research and research advances the clinic - L. John Schreiner (Kingston General Hospital / Queen's University)

14:00 Intratumoral injections of low-energy photon-emitting gold nanoparticles: a microdosimetry assessment - Myriam Laprise-Pelletier (Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CR-CHU de Québec), axe Médecine Régénératrice, Québec, Canada Department of Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Université Laval, Québec, Canada Centre de recherche sur les matériaux avancés (CERMA), Université Laval, Québec, Canada)

14:15 Detection of radiation induced changes in human lens epithelial cells using Raman spectroscopy - Harry Allen (Department of Physics, Carleton University)

14:30 Validating Tc-99m Radiopharmaceuticals produced from non-conventional Mo supplies - Esmat Elhami (University of Winnipeg)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

13:30 In-Situ and Ex-Situ Observations of an Extremely Long-lived Tail in TPB Fluorescence Under Alpha Excitation in DEAP-3600 - Shawn Westerdale (Carleton University)

13:45 Veto of Signals induced by Seismicity in DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB - Colin Moore (SNOLAB)

14:00 Extreme Compression in THz Fourier Imaging - Hichem Guerboukha (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

14:15 Weak-value amplification and optimal parameter estimation in the presence of correlated noise. - Josiah Sinclair (University of Toronto)

14:30 3D Digital SiPM with High Single Photon Timing Resolution for Radiation Instrumentation and Photon Science - Frederic Nolet (Université de Sherbrooke)

14:45 Gamma-ray spectroscopy at SFU: applications in environmental monitoring and neutron activation analysis - Thomas Domingo (Simon Fraser University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1120
Contributions

13:30 Quantifying morphological differences between seemingly similar systems of self-assembled planar particles to evaluate the influence caused from varying experimental methods in order to achieve better control over producing patterns with a desired intermolecular structure and dispersion - Matt Bumstead (McMaster University)

13:45 Using a qPlus Sensor to probe a Delta-Doped System and a large Dipolar Molecule adsorbed on a 2DEG - Alastair McLean (Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L3N6.)

14:15 The self-assembly of halogenated molecules on the Si(111) √3×√3-Ag surface - Mark Gallagher (Lakehead University)

14:30 Antiferromagnetic coupling strength between Co films across NiRu, CoRu, and FeRu - Erol Girt (Simon Fraser University)

14:45 Spin transfer torque switching in nano-pillars with SAF reference layer - Erol Girt (Simon Fraser University)
15:00 Health Break (with exhibitors) | Pause santé (avec exposants)
Health Break (with exhibitors) | Pause santé (avec exposants)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: BioSciences Atrium
15:30
15:30 - 16:45
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

15:30 The role of pseudospin in the optical and electronic properties of relativistic materials - John Malcolm (University of Guelph)

15:45 Spin Orbit States of Neutron Beams - David Cory (University of Waterloo)

16:15 Introduction to the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute - Doug Bonn (University of British Columbia)
15:30 - 16:45
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

15:30 Coupling localized spin excitons to an anisotropic nanophotonic vacuum - Stephen Hughes (Queen's University)

16:00 Plasmonic nanostructure for the detection of chemicals - Joshua Trevisanutto (Lakehead University)

16:15 Nanoscale source of bright entangled photon pairs - Michael Reimer (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo)
15:30 - 16:45
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

15:30 The holographic Schrodinger Equation - Ruben Sandapen (Acadia University)

16:00 Masses of D-Hybrids from QCD Sum-Rules - Harnett Derek (University of the Fraser Valley)

16:15 LHC phenomenology of supersymmetric models with a $U (1)_R$ baryon number - Kevin Earl (Carleton University)

16:30 Dynamical spin effects in predicting pion observables - Mohammad Ahmady (Mount Allison University)
15:30 - 16:45
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

15:30 3D ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging for prostate tumour-targeted high-dose-rate brachytherapy - W. Thomas Hrinivich (Western University)

16:00 Gold Nanoparticles for advanced Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy - Marc-André Fortin (Université Laval)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

15:30 Physics in Mining, a Career Perspective. - Daniel Cluff (Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter,)

16:00 The Implications of Introducing Cryogenic Technologies to Mining Projects. - Daniel Cluff (CanMIND Associates)

16:30 Battling the Fundamental Forces of the Universe - Douglas Morrison (Ultra-Deep Mining Network)
15:30 - 16:45
Room: BioSci 1120
Contributions

15:30 Evaluation of student learning from a design activity in a physics laboratory course - Bei Cai (Queen's University)

15:45 Teaching Critical Thinking in a First Year Physics Lab - Doug Bonn (University of British Columbia, Department of Physics & Astronomy)

16:15 Physics advanced laboratory designed for engaged learning experiences - Etienne Rollin (Carleton University)

16:30 Teaching data analysis in the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory - Natalia Krasnopolskaia (University of Toronto)
17:00

17:00 - 17:30
Room: BioSci 1101
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

17:30 On the importance of diffusion in biological systems - Cécile Fradin (McMaster University)
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-1 - N(2P) Production in electron-N2 Collisions. - Jeffery Dech (University of Windsor)

18:02 POS-2 - Loading laser-cooled atoms into a cavity formed by a hollow-core fiber capped with a pair of dielectric metasurfaces - Sai Sreesh Venuturumilli (University of Waterloo)

18:04 POS-3 **WITHDRAWN**- On The Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Two Ruthenium-Bearing Molecules: RuX (X=F, Cl) - Hanif Zarringhalam (Dept. of Physics, University of New Brunswick)

18:06 POS-4 - Cross-phase modulation with laser cooled atoms confined inside a hollow-core fiber - Cameron Vickers (University of Waterloo)

18:10 POS-5 - Generating Squeezed Thermal States via Parametric Down Conversion in Lossy Cavities - Hossein Seifoory (Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada)

18:12 POS-6 - Quantum repeaters with single rare-earth ions in telecommunication wavelengths - Faezeh Kimiaee Asadi (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary)

18:14 POS-7 - Relativistic Corrections to Nonrelativistic Electric Dipole Transitions - Maha Sami (University of Windsor) Daniel Venn (University of Windsor)

18:16 POS-8 - Arduino-controlled triple-grating high-resolution spectrometer - Jiawei Qiu (IQC, University of Waterloo)

18:18 POS-9 - Polaron master equation theory of an on-demand quantum dot single-photon source through cavity-assisted stimulated adiabatic Raman passage (STIRAP) - Chris Gustin (Queen's University, )

18:20 POS-10 - Radio-frequency ion trap with an integrated optical cavity - Turner Silverthorne (IQC, University of Waterloo)

18:22 POS-11 - Metals for Induced Transmission Optical Filters - Scott Teare (New Mexico Tech)

18:24 POS-12 - Visualization of state determination via weak measurements - Igor Ivanovic (Physics Department, Carleton University)

18:26 POS-13 - Application of coupled mode theory to phase-shift and intensity measurements in optical microresonators - Jack Barnes (Queen's University, Dept. of Chemistry)

18:30 POS-14 - Nano-antenna fabrication through porous anodic alumina template - Fathi Souissi (Queen's university)
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-15 - Spatial correlation of auroral zone geomagnetic variations - Brian Jackel (University of Calgary)

18:02 POS-16 - Along-track ion flow estimates from Swarm Langmuir probes - Johnathan Burchill (University of Calgary)

18:06 POS-18 - An e-POP multi-instrument study of a stable double-arc - Gordon James (University of Calgary)
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-19 - A DFT Investigation of Conjugated Polymers/Oligomers and Fullerenes Interactions in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells - Sarah Ayoub (Memorial University) Jolanta Lagowski (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

18:02 POS-20 - Visualizing in situ Electrochemical Doping in Luminescent Conjugated Polymers - Shiyu Hu

18:04 POS-21 - The determination of GaAs phononic crystal waveguide SAW mode frequencies - Edward Muzar (Queen's University)

18:06 POS-22 - Perovskite Solar Cells Fabricated with Various Buffer Layers: Relationship Between Carrier Lifetime and Observed J-V Hysteresis - William Elcock (Graduate Student, University of Saskatchewan)

18:08 POS-23 - Spin current transport in Ta: FMR studies in py/Ta and py/Ta/py/Fe structures prepared by sputtering - Erol Girt (Simon Fraser University)

18:10 POS-24 - Periodic Squeezing in a Polariton Josephson Junction - Mitchell D. Anderson (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

18:12 POS-45 - Entanglement Structure of the One and Two-Channel Kondo Model - Erik Sorensen (McMaster University)

18:14 POS-47 - Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Designed for Nano-MRI Imaging - Razieh Annabestani (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo)

18:16 POS-51 - Light-soaking effects on Organic Semiconductor-based diodes - Sanyasi Rao Bobbara (Queen's University)
18:00 - 19:30
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-25 - Progress on Muon Tomography for nuclear security and safeguards - Andrew Erlandson (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)

18:02 POS-44 - Synthesis Strategies for Nanostructured Allotropes of Carbon - A. Sarkissian (Plasmionique Inc)
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-26 - Internal Backgrounds in Water Phase of SNO+ - Ian Lam (Queens University)
18:00 - 19:30

18:00 - 19:30
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-27 - $^2$H NMR studies of bacterial membrane perturbation by antimicrobial polypeptides - Michael R. Morrow (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

18:02 POS-28 - A “two-peak” pattern observed in the high-frequency neural oscillations of a weakly electric fish - Amina Berrada (University of Ottawa)

18:04 POS-29 - Impact of Insertion and Deletion Mutations on Protein Thermodynamics - Ryan Wilkins (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

18:06 POS-30 - Broadband Vibration Detection in Tissue Phantoms using a Fiber Fabry-Perot Cavity - SIJIA LI (Queens's University)

18:10 POS-31 - Characterization and evaluation of femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structure with different periodicities on titanium to improve osseointegration of dental and orthopedic implants - Hourieh Exir (University of Ottawa)

18:12 POS-32 - Giant Axonal Neuropathy alters the structure of keratin intermediate filaments in human hair - Asfia Soomro (McMaster University )
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Queen's Athletics & Recreation Centre (ARC)

18:00 - 19:30
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-34 - Quantum Reference Frames, 1+1 Newtonian Gravity, and Entanglement in a 3-Body System - Jack Davis (University of Waterloo)

18:02 WITHDRAWN - POS-35 - Atiyah-Hitchin in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity - Masoud Ghezelbash (University of Saskatchewan)

18:04 POS-48 - Effect of chaos on the dynamics of quantum correlations - Meenu Kumari (Graduate Student, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo)

18:06 POS-49 - Fourth order superintegrable systems separating in Polar Coordinates - Adrian Escobar (CRM, University of Montreal)

18:08 POS-50 - Revisiting the Brans solutions of scalar-tensor gravity - Shawn Belknap-Keet
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 POS-36 - Radon Assays in SNO+ - Pooja Woosaree (Laurentian University)

18:02 POS-37 - Process system bursts and cosmic ray muon events in DEAP-3600 - Andrew Erlandson (Carleton University)

18:04 POS-38 - Effect of systematics on the KDK experiment - Pierre Squillari (Queen's University)

18:06 POS-39 - Radial Fiducialization in CDMSlite - Ryan Underwood (Queen's University)

18:08 POS-40 - Position Reconstruction and Monte Carlo Tuning in DEAP-3600 - Carl Rethmeier (Carleton University)

18:10 POS-41 - A Study of Radioactive Argon Isotopes in DEAP-3600 - Matthew Dunford (Carleton University)

18:12 POS-42 - Acrylic compatibility testing for the SNO+ Experiment - Daniel Bartlett (Queen's University)

18:14 POS-43 - A review of statistical methods in the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC - Carla Francisco (Université Laval)

18:16 POS-46 - SuperCDMS SNOLAB Data Acquisition System - Matthew Wilson (University of Toronto)

18:31 POS-33 - Vibration Analysis of a Dry Dilution Refrigerator at the Queen's SuperCDMS Test Facility - Richard Germond (Queen's University)
19:30

19:30 - 21:30
Room: BioSci 2111

19:30 - 21:30
Room: BioSci 1101

19:30 - 21:30
Thursday, 1 June 2017

06:45 Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
06:45 - 07:45
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

07:00 Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
Congress Registration and Information / Inscription au congrès et information
07:00 - 14:00

07:30

07:30 - 09:00
Room: New Medical Bldg. 255
08:00
08:00 - 09:15
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

08:00 Colloidal Quantum Dots in Solar Cells and Lasers: Progress and Perspectives - Oleksandr Voznyy (University of Toronto)

08:30 Advances in Electroluminescent Devices with Barium Titanate Particles - Antoine Dumont (York University)

08:45 Influence of Ferroelectric Quantum Criticality on SrTiO$_3$ Interfaces - Bill Atkinson (Trent University)
08:00 - 09:15
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

08:00 Queen's Physics - Malcolm Stott (Queen's University)

08:30 J. D. Jackson, Physicist, Teacher, Citizen - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:00 Recent Trends in Canadian Neutron Scattering: A Comparative Bibliographic Study - Patrick Clancy (Trent University)
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

08:00 Status of the Belle II Experiment - Steven Robertson (McGill)

08:30 Status and Prospects of the T2K Experiment - Thomas Lindner (TRIUMF)

09:00 NuPRISM: Reducing neutrino interaction model dependence for oscillation experiments - John Walker (University of Winnipeg)
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

08:00 Really flipping the classroom: empowering students as teachers - James M. Fraser (Queen's University)
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

08:00 Background in the DEAP-3600 Experiment - Bjoern Lehnert (Carleton University)

08:15 Low Background Measurement Capabilities At SNOLAB - Ian Lawson (SNOLAB)

08:30 Energy response and position reconstruction at DEAP-3600 - Stefanie Langrock (Laurentian University)

08:45 Background strategy in SuperCDMS SNOLAB - Silvia Scorza (SNOLAB)
09:15
09:15 - 09:45
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

09:15 Atomic clock based on quantum matter - Jun Ye (National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado)
09:45 Health Break | Pause santé
Health Break | Pause santé
09:45 - 10:15
Room: BioSciences Atrium
10:15
10:15 - 10:45
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

10:15 TBA - Raymond Laflamme (Institute for Quantum Computing & University of Waterloo)
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Humphrey Hall 102
Contributions

10:15 Photon recycling in ultra-thin GaAs n/p junctions based on high-photovoltage vertical epitaxial heterostructure architectures with record optical to electrical conversion efficiencies. - Simon Fafard (Université de Sherbrooke and Azastra Opto Inc.)
10:45
10:45 - 11:15
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

10:45 TBA - Charles Gale (McGill University)
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B147
Contributions

11:30 Examinations of oxo-degradable polyolefin-based agricultural mulch film - Christopher Murray (Lakehead University, Orillia Campus)

11:45 FTIR Synchrotron Spectroscopy of the S-H Stretching Band of Methyl Mercaptan – An Interstellar and Biogenic Molecule - Ronald M. Lees (Physics Dept., University of New Brunswick)

12:00 Error Free Transmission of 5 Gbps Data at 140 GHz Using Difference Frequency Generation - Kathirvel Nallappan (polytechnique montreal)

12:15 High Speed Terahertz Near-field Imaging Using Spatial Wavefront Modulator - Kathirvel Nallappan (polytechnique montreal)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

11:30 3D printed hollow core terahertz Bragg waveguides with defect layers for surface sensing applications - Kathirvel Nallappan (polytechnique montreal)

11:45 Dispersion Compensation in Terahertz Communication Links Using Metallized 3D Printed Hollow Core Waveguide Bragg Gratings - Tian Ma (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

12:00 The Nonlinear Terahertz response of Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene - Marc Dignam (Queen's University)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

11:30 SuperCDMS and CUTE at SNOLAB - Wolfgang Rau (Queen's University)

12:00 Status of the KDK (40K decay) experiment - Philippe Di Stefano (Queen's University)

12:15 Cleaning Data for Dark Matter Detection - Robert Stainforth (Carleton University)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: BioSci 1103

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B139

Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Lunch in cafeteria / Dîner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Botterell B143
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1102
Contributions

13:30 Blended Introductory Physics Course for Science Programs: Instructor's Experience of NCAT Redesign - Tetyana Antimirova (Ryerson Univeristy)

13:45 Engaging reflective thinking during an exam: Slowing students down on multiple choice questions increases performance - Jared Stang (University of British Columbia) Joss Ives (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia)

14:00 Requiring a Course on Science Communication at the University of Guelph - Joanne O'Meara (University of Guelph)

14:30 WITHDRAWN - In-class worksheets for 3rd year E&M - Brian Jackel (University of Calgary)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: BioSci 1103
Contributions

13:30 Long-lived Spin/Valley Dynamics of Resident Electrons and Holes in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides - Luyi Yang (University of Toronto)

14:00 Extracting structural disorder signatures from vibrational spectra using photoacoustic detection - Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

14:15 Ultra-short double pulse laser ablation: basic mechanisms and nanoparticle formation - Georg D. Förster (Université de Montréal)

14:30 High Harmonic Generation and XUV Free Induction Decay From Electronic Wavepackets - Samuel Beaulieu (INRS-EMT, Bordeaux University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B139
Contributions

13:30 Status of NEWS-G experiment - Gilles Gerbier (Queen's University)

14:00 Searching for dark matter with the PICO bubble chambers - Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)

14:30 Quenching measurements for a spherical detector at the COMIMAC facility - Philippe Di Stefano (Queen's University)

14:45 Recent Results from IceCube - Christopher Weaver
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Botterell B143
Contributions

13:30 The new ultracold neutron facility at TRIUMF - Beatrice Franke (TRIUMF)

14:00 Construction and Commissioning of the Beamline for the UCN Source at TRIUMF - Thomas Lindner (TRIUMF)

14:15 Status of the Superfluid Helium UCN Source at TRIUMF - Ryohei Matsumiya (RCNP, Osaka University)

14:30 Implementation of “Salting” as Blinding Scheme for CDMSlite - Xiaohe Zhang (Queen's University)

14:45 Updates from the SNOLAB - Erica Caden (SNOLAB)
15:00 Health Break | Pause santé
Health Break | Pause santé
15:00 - 15:30
Room: BioSciences atrium

15:30

15:30 - 17:30
Room: BioSci 1101
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: BioSci 1101
Contributions

17:30 Perspectives and Prospects for Particle Physics - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
18:00

18:00 - 18:45
Room: BioSci 1101

18:45

18:45 - 19:15
Room: BioSciences Main Entrance

19:15

19:15 - 21:15
Friday, 2 June 2017

06:45 Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
Breakfast in cafeteria / Déjeuner à la cafeteria (ticket required / billet requis)
06:45 - 07:45
Room: Leonard Dining Hall

08:30

08:30 - 10:00
Room: New Medical Bldg. 255

10:00

10:00 - 11:30
Room: New Medical Bldg. 255

11:30

11:30 - 14:00
Room: New Medical Building

14:00

14:00 - 15:15
Room: New Medical Building