| Name | Institution | Talk Title | Division(s) |
| Allison Gonsalves | McGill University | Understanding identity and social networks among women in graduate physics education | CEWIP/DPE |
| Jean-Francois Pratte | Université de Sherbrooke | Introduction to 3D Digital SiPM and Latest Results for Particle Physics | DAPI |
| Allison MacDonald | D-Wave | Quantum computing with the D-Wave processor | DAPI |
| Ebrahim Karimi | University of Ottawa | Quantum Optics and Ion Traps | DAMOPC |
| K. Rajibul Islam | IQC, University of Waterloo | Quantum simulation of 2D and 3D spin systems in a linear chain of trapped ions | DAMOPC |
| Tim Friesen | University of Calgary | Tests of fundamental physics with trapped antihydrogen | DAMOPC |
| TJ Hammond | University of Windsor | Strong fields for spectroscopy | DAMOPC |
| Emil Hallin | University of Saskatchewan | Laser Wakefield Driven X‐ray Sources in Canada: Future perspectives for non-destructive imaging and Global Food Security | DAMOPC |
| Eric A. Hessels | York University | A measurement of the Lamb shift in atomic hydrogen and its implication for the proton size puzzle | DAMOPC |
| Nisha Rani Agarwal | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Light-Matter Interaction and Spectroscopy | DAMOPC |
| Thomas J. Hammond | University of Windsor | Light-Matter Interaction and Spectroscopy | DAMOPC |
| Kirk W. Madison | University of British Columbia | New discoveries and observations of universal physics in collisions | DAMOPC/DCMMP |
| Christoph Simon | University of Calgary | Quantum optics approaches for quantum networks and other applications | DAMOPC/DTP |
| Michael Thewalt | Simon Fraser University | Investigation of radiation damage centers in highly isotopically enriched silicon-28 as potential single spin qubits accessible via spin/photon coupling | DAMOPC/DTP |
| Valery Milner | University British Columbia | “Engaging undergraduates in science using advanced in-class demonstration technology” | DAMOPC/DPE |
| Marina Milner-Bolotin | University of British Columbia | “To Flip or not to Flip: Video Experiments in Physics Teacher Education” | DAMOPC/DPE |
| Kenji Kojima | University of British Columbia /TRIUMF / Japanese Physical Society | Muon as a unique probe in condensed matter physics | DCMMP |
| James Analytis | University of California at Berkley | Connecting Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality with the High-Field Hall Effect in a Strange Metal | DCMMP |
| Tom Timusk | McMaster University | Hydride Superconductors, a path to room temperature superconductivity | DCMMP |
| Iain McKenzie | TRIUMF | $\beta$-NMR Studies of the Temperature and Depth Dependence of Dynamics in Polystyrene Thin Films | DCMMP |
| David Sénéchal | Université de Sherbrooke | Strongly-coupled superconductivity from quantum cluster approaches | DCMMP |
| Jeehoon Kim | Pohang University of Science and Technology | Violation of Ohm’s law in a Weyl metal | DCMMP |
| Ke Zou | University of British Columbia | Emergent electronic states in chalcogenide/oxide heterostructures | DCMMP |
| Kartiek Agarwal | McGill University | Symmetry protected Luttinger liquids on the surface of Quantum Hall Nematics. | DCMMP |
| Ziliang Ye | University of British Columbia | Optical control of valley pseudospin in 2D semiconductors | DCMMP |
| Tyler Cocker | Michigan State University | Ultrafast terahertz microscopy: from near fields to single atoms | DCMMP |
| John Frostad | University of British Columbia | Direct Measurement of the Dynamic Modulus of Gellan Gum Micro-Capsules | DCMMP |
| Sebastian Loth | Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart | Atomic-scale dynamics of collective charge and spin excitations | DCMMP |
| Jonathan Gaudet | McMaster University | Anti-chiral order and damped spin waves in the topological semi-metal Mn3Ge | DCMMP |
| Alannah Hallas | Department of Physics and Astronomy and SBQMI, University of British Columbia | From Quantum Spin Ice to Ordered Spin Ice in the Pyrochlore Tb2Ge2O7 | DCMMP |
| Kimberley Hall | Dalhousie University | Influence of Rashba effect on carrier kinetics in hybrid perovskites | DCMMP |
| Edwin Huang | Stanford University | Strange metallic transport in the doped Hubbard model | DCMMP |
| Mona Berciu | University of British Columbia | The magnon-mediated attraction between two holes doped in a CuO2 layer | DCMMP |
| Colin Denniston | University of Western Ontario | Polymer dynamics in confined flows | DCMMP |
| Emanuele Orgiu | Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), EMT Centre | When Molecules Met 2D Materials: Hybrid van der Waals Heterostructures | DCMMP |
| Paul Corkum | University of Ottawa | Vector beams, high harmonic generation and sub-focal spot coherent control | DCMMP (Optical Science) |
| François Légaré | Institute national de la recherche scientifique | Tracking the Phase Transition in VO2 using High Harmonic Spectroscopy | DCMMP (Optical Science) |
| David Jones | University of British Columbia | Harnessing amplified ultrafast laser pulses for studying and controlling quantum materials | DCMMP (Optical Science) |
| Lindsay LeBlanc | University of Alberta | Spin-dependent superfluidity in ultracold BECs | DCMMP (Optical Science) |
| Donna Strickland | University of Waterloo | Investigation of Multi-frequency Raman Generated Spectra | DCMMP (Optical Science) |
| Duncan O’Dell | McMaster University | Light-cones and quantum caustics in quenched spin chains | DCMMP (Optical Science) |
| Joseph Thywissen | University of Toronto | Conductivity of a perfect crystal | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Marcel Franz | University of British Columbia | “Black holes, wormholes and solid state realizations of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models” | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Anton Burkov | University of Waterloo | Magnetotransport in topological metals | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Young-June Kim | University of Toronto | Quantum magnetism in honeycomb lattice materials | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Thomas Timusk | McMaster University | Hydride Superconductors, a path to room temperature superconductivity | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Kemp Plumb | Brown University | Magnetic Excitation Spectrum of a Coulomb Spin Liquid | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Richard Harris | D-Wave Systems | Quantum magnetism on a chip | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| David Broun | Simon Fraser University | From Mott to not: phenomenology of overdoped cuprates | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud | Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke | Exploring the pseudogap critical point of cuprate superconductors | DCMMP (Quantum Materials) |
| David Axen | University of British Columbia Emeritus | “Early Days of the TRIUMF Cyclotron” | DHP |
| Jess Brewer | University of British Columbia Emeritus | “The History of muSR at TRIUMF” | DHP |
| Mike Rowe | NIST Center for Neutron Research | “Bertram N. Brockhouse” | DHP |
| John Root | Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation | “The Canadian Neutron Beam Centre at Chalk River” | DHP |
| Jamieson Blair | University of Winnipeg | Progress on ultracold neutrons at TRIUMF | DNP |
| Leigh Graham | TRIUMF | Electron beam ion source (EBIS) for charge breeding for post acceleration | DNP |
| Jacques Farine | Laurentian University | Latest results from EXO-200 and status of nEXO | DNP |
| Mohammad Ahmady | Mount Allison University | Dynamical spin effects in the pion light-front wavefunction | DNP |
| Matt Williams | TRIUMF / York University . (UK) | Commissioning and initial operation of the EMMA recoil mass spectrometer | DNP |
| Zisis Papandreou | University of Regina | The GlueX Experiment: A Search for Exotic Matter | DNP |
| Rodney Orford | Lawrence Berkeley Lab | Modern-day precision mass measurements and the astrophysical r process | DNP |
| Tomofumi Nagae | Kyoto University | Recent progress on Strangeness Nuclear Physics at J-PARC | DNP |
| Erich Leistenschneider | University of British Columbia / TRIUMF | High Precision Mass Spectrometry for Fundamental Tests of the Weak Interaction | DNP |
| Mukut Kalita | TRIUMF | Towards measuring atomic parity violation effects in fancium | DNP |
| Anna McCoy | TRIUMF | Ab initio exploration of 12C | DNP |
| Aleksandra Bialek | SNOLAB | Status of the SNO+ experiment | DNP |
| Ryan Dunlop | University of Guelph | Decay studies using the GRIFFIN Spectrometer at TRIUMF-ISAC | DNP |
| Richard Casten | Yale University | John D’Auria and his legacy | DNP (John D’Auria) |
| Peter Kunz | TRIUMF | Rare Isotope Production at ISAC/TRIUMF | DNP (John D’Auria) |
| Caterina Ramogida | Simon Fraser University | Production and purification of radium-225 and actinium-225 at TRIUMF’s Isotope Separation On-line (ISOL) facility and subsequent radiolabeling studies with alpha-emitter actinium-225 | DNP (John D’Auria) |
| Thomas Ruth | TRIUMF | Life with a Scientific Cyclone: Personal reflections on my collaborations with John D’Auria | DNP (John D’Auria) |
| Christopher Wrede | Michigan State University | Methods to constrain thermonuclear rates (by and for John D’Auria) | DNP (John D’Auria) |
| Vesna Sossi | University of British Columbia | Positron emission tomography (PET) contributions to a better understanding of brain function | DNP (John D’Auria) |
| Jared Stang & Joss Ives | University of British Columbia | “Four-way high-fives during exams: Adding a group phase to provide immediate feedback and increase enjoyment.” | DPE |
| Sandra Eix | “Director of STEM Learning” at ScienceWorld. | “Ignite wonder, empower dreams, explode soda” | DPE |
| Mats Selen | University of Illinois | Reforming Intro Physics Labs to Focus on Innovation, Creativity, and Scientific Skills | DPE |
| Gina Passante | Cal State Fullerton | “Improving Conceptual Understanding Through Visual Reasoning: An Example from Quantum Mechanics” | DPE |
| Joanne O’Meara | University of Guelph | Physics Students as Museum Curators – the incredible success story of STEM Week 2018 | DPE |
| Ryan Martin | Queen’s University | On developing an open access first year physics textbook and other free things | DPE |
| Paul Fam & Tia Nguyen | Nelson | An Integrative, Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Today’s Physics and Astronomy Students | DPE |
| Marina Milner-Bolotin & Robert Hawkes | University of British Columbia (Milner-Bolotin)
Mount Allison University (Hawkes) |
Implementing Innovation in Physics Teaching and Learning | DPE |
| Dr. Cornelia Hoehr | TRIUMF | Cyclotrons for Medicine | DPMB |
| Prof. Zev Bryant | Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University | Engineering Biomolecular Motors | DPMB |
| Prof. Dan Xiao | Department of Physics, University of Windsor | Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging | DPMB |
| Dr. Tony Popescu | Department of Medical Physics, BC Cancer Agency | Modern Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations in External Beam Radiotherapy | DPMB |
| Prof. Anna Celler | Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia | The role of physics in Nuclear Medicine | DPMB |
| Prof. Na Ji | Department of Physics, UC Berkeley | Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution | DPMB |
| Dr. Ian V. Ross | Nikon Instruments Inc. | Applications of Modern Optical Microscopy in Biology | DPMB |
| Dr. Nancy Ford | Department Oral Biological & Medical Sciences, University of British Columbia | Optimization of dental cone beam tomography for planning dental implant treatments | DPMB |
| Devika Chithrani | University of Victoria | Road-map to use of gold nanoparticles in cancer radiotherapy | DPMB |
| Michelle Hilts | BC Cancer / University of British Columbia | Breast radiotherapy in a single day: innovation advancing clinical care | DPMB |
| Dr. Sattar Taheri-Araghi | California State University | Dying Escherichia coli cells absorb antimicrobial peptides, enhancing the survivability cell culture | DPMB/DCMMP/BSC |
| Prof. Ozzy Mermut | Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University | Biophotonics Techniques Enabling Smart Aging | DPMB/DAMOPC |
| Prof. Michèle Desjardins | Département de physique, de génie physique et d’optique, Université Laval (Québec, QC); Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec – Université Laval (Québec, QC) Axe Oncologie | Studying the brain across scales using imaging and physics | DPMB/DAMOPC |
| Dror Warshawski | Université du Québec à Montréal | Proteins drilling holes in lipid membranes: The influence of the membrane physical parameters | DPMB/DCMMP/BSC |
| Cecile Fradin | Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University | In-Vivo Solid-State NMR for the Study of Biological Membranes | DPMB/DCMMP/BSC |
| Peter Tieleman | Department of Biochemistry, University of Calgary | Computer simulations of biological membrane models: lateral structure and lipid-protein interactions | DPMB/DCMMP/BSC |
| Prof. Ali Hatef | Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Nipissing University | Analysis of Plasmonic and Plasma Assisted Photoacoustic Response from Metallic Nanostructures Irradiated by Fast and Ultrafast Laser | DPMB/DAMOPC |
| Prof. Evgeny Pavlov | Department of Basic Sciences, New York Universtiy | Molecular composition of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore | DPMB/DCMMP/BSC |
| Jennifer Noble | Université Aix Marseille | UV spectroscopy of cold aromatic molecular systems as a diagnostic of size, functional group, and charge effects. | DPP |
| Gilles Cartry | Université Aix Marseille | Negative-ion surface production in hydrogen low-pressure plasmas | DPP |
| Jason Myatt | University of Alberta | Ultra-broad bandwidth lasers opening up an easier path to laser fusion | DPP (Plasma Physics Symposium) |
| Michael Delage | General Fusion | Developments in Compression of Magnetized Plasmas | DPP (Plasma Physics Symposium) |
| Michel Laberge | General Fusion | General Fusion’s Approach to Magnetized Target Fusion | DPP (Plasma Physics Symposium) |
| Ding Li | Chinese Academy of Sciences | The effect of hyper-resistivity on nonlinear resistive tearing modes | DPP (Plasma Physics Symposium) |
| Phillip Evans | University of British Columbia | Plasma Treatment of Wood Surfaces | DPP (Plasma Physics Symposium) |
| Eric Poisson | University of Guelph | Coulombic contribution to angular momentum flux in general relativity | DTP |
| James Sully | University of British Columbia | Boundary conditions, zero modes, and spacetime entropy | DTP |
| Mark van Rammsdonk | University of British Columbia | Spacetime from bits and cosmology from black holes | DTP |
| Hari Kunduri | Memorial University of Newfoundland | New thermodynamic identities for five-dimensional black holes | DTP |
| Mark Walton | University of Lethbridge | DTP | |
| Joanna Karczmarek | University of British Columbia | Entanglement entropy on the noncommutative sphere | DTP |
| Gabor Kunstatter | University of Winnipeg | Lost horizons: modelling the formation and evaporation of non-singular black holes | DTP |
| Daniel Stolarski | Carleton University | New Physics In Higgs Decays to Leptons | DTP |
| Tom Steele | University of Saskatchewan | Asymptotic Safety in the Conformal Hidden Sector | DTP |
| Richard Shaw | University of British Columbia | Probing Dark Energy with CHIME | DTP |
| Heather Logan | Carleton University | Limits on exotic contributions to electroweak symmetry breaking | DTP |
| Olivia Di Matteo | TRIUMF | Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography | DTP |
| Gordon Semenoff | University of British Columbia | Entanglement and the Infrared | DTP |
| Adam Ritz | University of Victoria | EDMs and Dark Sectors | DTP |
| Ghazal Geshnizjani | University of Waterloo | Cuscuton Bounce | DTP |
| Richard Mackenzie | Université de Montréal |
Qubits as edge state detectors: illustration using the SSH model |
DTP |
| Dagoberto Contreras | York University |
A critical analysis of the CMB: constraining CMB physics with peaks, valleys, and saddles |
DTP |
| Fabrice Retiere | TRIUMF |
Applications – Single photo-detector landscape in Canada |
PPD |
| Fabrice Retiere | TRIUMF |
Development – Hybrid photo-detectors |
PPD |
| Jean-Francois Pratte | Université de Sherbrooke |
Development – 3DdSiPM |
PPD |
| Thomas McElroy | McGill University |
Applications – nEXO, LoLX and liquid Xenon |
PPD |
| Giacomo Gallina | TRIUMF |
Development – development of VUV light detection solutions |
PPD |
| P. Giampa | TRIUMF |
Applications – liquid Argon |
PPD |
| K. Clark | Queen’s University |
Applications – Bubble chamber |
PPD |
| A. Konaka | TRIUMF |
Water Cerenkov for long baseline neutrino oscillation |
PPD |
| T. Linder | TRIUMF |
Development – mPMT |
PPD |
| F. Edalatfar | TRIUMF |
Commercial opportunities |
PPD |
| Bernd Stelzer | Simon Fraser University |
Run-2 physics results from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
PPD |
| Jesse Alan Heilman | Carleton University |
Upgrades to the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider |
PPD |
| Mark Hartz | TRIUMF / Kavli IPMU (University of Tokyo) |
Neutrino Oscillations at T2K and Hyper-K |
PPD |
| Racha Cheaib | University of British Columbia |
Status of the Belle II experiment and overview of early semi-leptonic and leptonic results |
PPD |
| David McKeen | TRIUMF |
Dark matter in a dark sector |
PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Alison Lister | University of British Columbia |
Dark Sector Searches on ATLAS |
PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Christopher Hearty | University of British Columbia | Dark sector, dark matter, and related searches at Belle II | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Miriam Diamond | SLAC National Laboratory | Searches for Dark Sectors in Fixed-Target Experiments | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Aaron Vincent | Queen’s University | Indirect searches for dark matter: annihilation, decay and collider production | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Joseph Bramante | Queen’s University | Overview of Dark Matter Direct Detection | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Simon Viel | Carleton University | Dark matter search results from DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Silvia Scorza | SNOLAB | SuperCDMS SNOLAB: the search for low-mass dark matter particles | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Marie-Cécile Piro | University of Alberta | Search for Dark Matter with NEWS-G experiment | PPD (Dark Matter) |
| Chrisopher Ryan Anelli | University of Victoria |
Overview of Dark Matter Searches by the ATLAS Experiment |
PPD (Dark Matter) |
| John Bechhoefer | Simon Fraser University | Maxwell’s demon in the real world: Experiments on control, information, and thermodynamics. | Soft Matter |
| Kari Dalnoki-Verress | McMaster University | Droplets as model systems for investigating 2D crystals, glasses, and the growth dynamics of granular aggregates | Soft Matter |
| Hendrick W. de Haan | Ontario Institute of Technology | Machine Learning as a Tool to Study Soft Matter in Confinement | Soft Matter |
| An-Chang Shi | McMaster University | The Packing of Soft Spheres | Soft Matter |
| Anton Zilman | University of Toronto | Self-regulating mechanisms of bi-directional transport through the Nuclear Pore Complex | Soft Matter |
| Cécile Fradin | McMaster University | Anomalous, caged and obstructed diffusion as seen through the lens of inverted variable-lengthscale fluorescence correlation spectroscopy | Soft Matter |
| Carl Michal | University of British Columbia | Finding Myelin: Quantum mechanics in cow brains? | Soft Matter |
| Gertjan Hofman | Honeywell | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Payam Mousavi | MDA / MAXAR | Panalist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Andrew Feltham | Broadcom | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Mark Johnson | D-Wave | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Shun Chi | MDA / MAXAR | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Ian D’Souza | Honeywell | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Daniel Cluff | CanMind | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Jens Dilling | Insight Data | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Sanjeev Seahra | University of New Brunswick | Industrial Problem Solving Workshops | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
| Kathryn Hayashi | President & CEO, TRIUMF Innovations | Panelist | Working as an Industrial, Professional, or Applied Physicist |
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