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 28 June 2018 (08:30) to Wednesday 4 July 2018 (20:00)

Monday 25 June 2018
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Thursday 28 June 2018
08:40 Opening Function
Opening Function
08:40 - 09:40
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

08:40 Director of Ceremony

08:50 Welcoming Address - Vice Chancelor (NUST)

09:00 Guest Honor Address - Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation

09:20 Acknowledgments - Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
09:40
09:40 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

09:40 Standard Model and Higgs physics - Dave Charlton (University of Birmingham (GB))

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

11:00 Status of Astronomy in Namibia - Michael Backes (University of Namibia)
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

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

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

12:20 Studying hadrons with electron beams - Mark Dalton (JLab)
13:00 LUNCH / POSTER SESSION / REGISTRATIONS
LUNCH / POSTER SESSION / REGISTRATIONS
13:00 - 14:10
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
14:10
14:10 - 15:10
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

14:10 Theoretical studies of two dimensional systems - Nithaya Chetty (Universty of Pretoria)

14:40 Auto-stabilzed Electron - Munawar Karim (St. Johan Fisher College, USA)
15:10 POSTER SESSION
POSTER SESSION
15:10 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
16:30
16:30 - 18:10
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

16:30 An Astrophysics Journey from the Kalahari to the Edge of the Universe - Lerothodi Leeuw (UNISA)

17:05 Physics and Psychology – an interdisciplinarity journey - Kitty Dumont (UNISA)
Friday 29 June 2018
08:55
08:55 - 10:25
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

08:55 Graphene: The Wonder 2D-material of the 21st century - Chandra Ray Sekhar (UNISA)

09:20 Ultrasmall Angle Xray Scattering (USAXS) and WideAngle Xray Scattering (WAXS) Studies on the Complex Metal Hydride NaAlH4 - Tabbetha Dobbins (Rowan University)

09:45 Chalcogenide Glasses-New advances - Stephen Sathiaraj
10:30 BREAK and POSTER SESSION
BREAK and POSTER SESSION
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
11:00 Existing Facility and Future Concepts for Accelerators for Africa
Existing Facility and Future Concepts for Accelerators for Africa
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

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

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

12:00 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 LUNCH and POSTER SESSION
LUNCH and POSTER SESSION
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

14:00 Future of astronomy at SALT and SAAO - Petri Vaisanen (South African Astronomical Observatory)

14:30 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)
15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

15:00 Overview of results from heavy-ions collisions at ultra-relativistic energies - Edith Zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))
15:30 BREAK and POSTER SESSION
BREAK and POSTER SESSION
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

16:00 Probing the Reionization epoch with the SIMONS Observatory - Margaret Ikape (Dunlap institute for Astronomy and AStrophysics, University of Toronto)

16:20 The African Millimetre Telescope - Rhodri Evans (UNAM)

16:40 Modelling the high energy gamma-ray component of the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A - Isak Delberth Davids (UNAM)
17:15
17:15 - 17:55
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Contributions

17:15 Catalysts for African Development and Advancement [CADA] - Omololu Akin-Ojo (ICTP East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR))

17:40 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 30 June 2018

09:00

09:00 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street
Sunday 1 July 2018

09:00

09:00 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium 1, Brahms Street

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