The CAP would like to thank and congratulate everyone that participated in this year’s Virtual Congress and Best Student Oral Presentation competition. Your support and participation was vital to the success of the event.
Division Oral Finalists:
The Division Student Competition was held virtually from June 8 to 15th.
| Division: | Name, Affiliation & Title: | Place: |
| DAMOPC | Aaron Bondy – University of Windsor “Double atomic electron emission following the beta decay of He-6” |
1st |
| DCMMP/DPP | Alex Inayeh – Queen’s University “Molecular-level study of N-heterocyclic carbenes for biosensing: orientation and self-assembly” |
1st |
| DNP | Lilianna Hariasz – Queen’s University “A Measurement of Zinc-65 Using Data from the KDK Experiment” |
1st |
| Rouzbeh Moderresi Yazdi – McGill University “Direct Photons From Jets in Quark Gluon Plasma” |
2nd | |
| DPMB | Claire Park – Robarts Research Institute / University of Western Ontario “A novel technique for breast lesion targeting under ultrasound-guidance and positron emission mammography localization” |
1st |
| Lucas Philipp – University of British Columbia “Kinetics of Capture and Translocation in Salt Asymmetry” |
2nd | |
| DTP | Erickson Tjoa – University of Waterloo “Relativistic Causality and Vacuum Entanglement Harvesting with a Zero Mode” |
1st |
| PPD | Daniel Durnford – University of Alberta “The NEWS-G light Dark Matter search experiment: New results from the LSM” |
1st |
| Taylor Gray – Carleton University “How was Dark Matter produced in the early universe? A Study of fermionic Dark Matter with a Z’ portal” |
2nd | |
| Michael Staelens – University of Alberta “Physics Performance Benchmarks For The New MoEDAL-MAPP Detector” |
3rd | |
| Soft Matter Canada (SMC) |
Sylvia Luyben – University of Guelph “Polyelectrolyte dynamical self-consistent field theory” |
1st |
CAP Oral Finalists:
The CAP Oral Finalists will not only receive a cash prize, but will also have the opportunity to submit an extended abstract in our upcoming Physics in Canada publication.
| Division | Name, Affiliation & Title: | Place: |
| DPMB | Claire Park – Robarts Research Institute / University of Western Ontario “A novel technique for breast lesion targeting under ultrasound-guidance and positron emission mammography localization” |
1st |
| DNP | Rouzbeh Moderresi Yazdi – McGill University “Direct Photons From Jets in Quark Gluon Plasma” |
2nd |
| DAMOPC | Aaron Bondy – University of Windsor “Double atomic electron emission following the beta decay of He-6” |
3rd (tie) |
| Soft Matter Canada (SMC) |
Sylvia Luyben – University of Guelph “Polyelectrolyte dynamical self-consistent field theory” |
3rd (tie) |