The schedule for this year’s conference has been set! We are very excited about this year’s excellent line up of speakers. The student talks will be 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. The talks will be in LSB 106, and lunch will be in LSB 107.
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Coffee, snacks, and introduction by PAGE |
| 10:10 – 11:10 | Talk 1: Hugh Podmore – Using subwavelength photonics to enhance solar cell performance Talk 2: Monika Aggarwal – Airborne lidar measurements of pollution above the oil sands region in northern Alberta Talk 3: Hermina Beica – Development of single-mode lasers for precision metrology |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Keynote Speaker: Thomas Jennewein – TBD |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Catered Lunch in LSB 107 |
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Talk 4: Jen Mehrnoush Zomederis – Photometric monitoring and period changes in BE Lyn
Talk 5: George Nikolakakos – Laboratory investigation of perchlorate and water at the surface of Mars with Raman scattering Talk 6: George Conidis – Two Galaxies to Rule Them All! |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:45 | Talk 7: Olga Andriyevska – Sourcing positrons at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor to test nature symmetries
Talk 8: Lucas Durand – Dark Matter. Space. Glory – well, not so much the latter, but in all likelihood the first two Talk 9: Laura Chajet – AGNs: Line Width Distribution of MHD Disc Winds |
| 3:45 – 3:55 | Judges Deliberation |
| 3:55 – 4:00 | Award Winner Announced |