Name: First Biennial African Conference on Fundamental Physics and Applications
Start: 2018-06-28T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2018-07-04T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Namibia University of Science and Technology

First Biennial African Conference on Fundamental Physics and Applications

from Thursday, June 28, 2018 (8:30 AM) to Wednesday, July 4, 2018 (8:00 PM)

Monday, June 25, 2018
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018
8:40 AM Opening Function
Opening Function
8:40 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

8:40 AM Director of Ceremony

8:50 AM Welcoming Address - Vice Chancelor (NUST)

9:00 AM Guest Honor Address - Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation

9:20 AM Acknowledgments - Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
9:40 AM
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

9:40 AM Standard Model and Higgs physics - Dave Charlton (University of Birmingham (GB))

10:05 AM Searches for Physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC - Jory Sonneveld (Hamburg University (DE))
10:40 AM REGISTRATIONS
REGISTRATIONS
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

11:00 AM Status of Astronomy in Namibia - Michael Backes (University of Namibia)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

11:30 AM Physics with radioactive ion beams - Joakim Cederkall (Lund University (SE))

11:55 AM Neutrino Physics - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))

12:20 PM Studying hadrons with electron beams - Mark Dalton (JLab)
1:00 PM LUNCH / POSTER SESSION / REGISTRATIONS
LUNCH / POSTER SESSION / REGISTRATIONS
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

2:10 PM Theoretical studies of two dimensional systems - Nithaya Chetty (Universty of Pretoria)

2:40 PM Auto-stabilzed Electron - Munawar Karim (St. Johan Fisher College, USA)
3:10 PM POSTER SESSION
POSTER SESSION
3:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

4:30 PM An Astrophysics Journey from the Kalahari to the Edge of the Universe - Lerothodi Leeuw (UNISA)

5:05 PM Physics and Psychology – an interdisciplinarity journey - Kitty Dumont (UNISA)
Friday, June 29, 2018
8:55 AM
8:55 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

8:55 AM Graphene: The Wonder 2D-material of the 21st century - Chandra Ray Sekhar (UNISA)

9:20 AM Ultrasmall Angle Xray Scattering (USAXS) and WideAngle Xray Scattering (WAXS) Studies on the Complex Metal Hydride NaAlH4 - Tabbetha Dobbins (Rowan University)

9:45 AM Chalcogenide Glasses-New advances - Stephen Sathiaraj
10:30 AM BREAK and POSTER SESSION
BREAK and POSTER SESSION
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
11:00 AM Existing Facility and Future Concepts for Accelerators for Africa
Existing Facility and Future Concepts for Accelerators for Africa
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

11:00 AM Plasma Accelerators / Compact Accelerators - Ralph Wolfgang Assmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

11:30 AM Research at iThemba LABS and Long Range Plan - Kobus Lawrie (iThemba LABS)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

12:00 PM A Study of the Front-End Electronics of the Compact High Energy Camera prototype for the Gamma-Ray Cherenkov Telescope Project of the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Sana Nekwaya (UNAM)
12:30 PM LUNCH and POSTER SESSION
LUNCH and POSTER SESSION
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

2:00 PM Future of astronomy at SALT and SAAO - Petri Vaisanen (South African Astronomical Observatory)

2:30 PM From Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions to Neutron Star Mergers - the Equation of State of Dense Matter as signalled by Gravitational Waves - Azwindini Muronga (Nelson Mandela University)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

3:00 PM Overview of results from heavy-ions collisions at ultra-relativistic energies - Edith Zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))
3:30 PM BREAK and POSTER SESSION
BREAK and POSTER SESSION
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

4:00 PM Probing the Reionization epoch with the SIMONS Observatory - Margaret Ikape (Dunlap institute for Astronomy and AStrophysics, University of Toronto)

4:20 PM The African Millimetre Telescope - Rhodri Evans (UNAM)

4:40 PM Modelling the high energy gamma-ray component of the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A - Isak Delberth Davids (UNAM)
5:15 PM
5:15 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

5:15 PM Catalysts for African Development and Advancement [CADA] - Omololu Akin-Ojo (ICTP East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR))

5:40 PM DETERMINATION OF THE NATURAL RADIONUCLIDE CONTENT AND ASSOCIATED RADIATION HAZARDS IN SOIL SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM THE OHORONGO CEMENT PLANT NEAR OTAVI, NAMIBIA - Monica Nambinga (University of Namibia)
Saturday, June 30, 2018

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Sunday, July 1, 2018

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street

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