- Student Oral and Poster Presentations are essential to the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference, as science communication is a fundamental skill for students seeking careers or opportunities in STEM. These presentations provide an opportunity for students to practice science communication, through sharing information on topics of interest, or on research done during co-ops and other internships.
- For students interested in doing an Oral or Poster Presentation at CUPC 2024, please fill out the abstract submission form. The form will have a soft deadline at September 1st, 2024, after which further abstracts will only be accepted on a first come first serve basis. Abstract review period will take place after the soft deadline, and the finalized list of presenters’ names will be posted soon after. The CUPC 2024 organizing committee will prioritize at least one presentation for every applicant, and only then accommodate a second presentation by the same applicant. Three prizes of $100 each will be awarded for outstanding presentations.
- Abstracts will be reviewed by a team of UBC Physics professors and graduate students to ensure fair assessment for all applicants. Please note that abstracts submitted before the soft deadline will be judged on quality, not on the timing of submission, so take your time writing and perfecting your abstract!
- Good luck to all applicants! We look forward to seeing all your abstracts, and we will be in touch with more information regarding presentation guidelines closer to the end of the summer.
- If you have any questions or need extra guidance writing your abstract, feel free to contact us.
2024 Presentation Winners
The winners and honorable mentions from this years Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference are (in no particular order):
Poster awards
Winners
Joshua Lerner
Izzy Kim
Simon Ghyselincks
Honourable mentions
Alyssa Atkinson
Sahib Singh
Ashwanti Sanjay
Douglas Florizone
Isaac Mercier
Oral presentations
Winners
Diego Araujo Nájera
Ariel Broderick
Caden Drover
Honourable mentions
Willem Farmilo
Chantal Hemmann
Josephine Brewster
Taiki Shickele
Joseph Cuzzupoli
Accepted Presentations
The following presentations have been accepted and the speakers have been notified via email. This list is not complete and will be updated regularly. We are still accepting abstracts on a rolling basis.
If your presentation has been accepted and you are no longer able to attend the conference, please let us know ASAP via email cupc@phas.ubc.ca.
If you have been accepted for a presentation and you have not yet registered for the conference, please remember to do so by October 1st to ensure that you will receive a complete merchandise package.
Talks
| Speaker | Title |
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| Aiden Magor | On the Hopf Fibration and its applications |
| Airene Ahuja | Adapting GSpyNetTree from LIGO to Virgo: Evaluating and improving glitch classification for gravitational wave detection |
| Alex Hayes | Luminescence Testing of Materials in the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment |
| Alexis Hilts | Using single-molecule and bulk techniques to explore the biophysics of secondary structure formation in supercoiled DNA plasmids |
| Angela Sabzevari Gonzalez | Electron Beam Optics in the e-Linac for DarkLight |
| Annika Kienast | Fabrication of Quantum Emitters Using Strained Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers |
| Aran Karagonlar | Finding Pluto from Pixels |
| Ariel Broderick | Truncated Star Formation and Ram Pressure Stripping in the Coma Cluster |
| Arnav Khandelwal | Tensors in Physics |
| Arsam Najafian |
Quantum Decoherence and Entanglement
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| Aryan Tiwari |
Skyrmionic structures in models of chiral magnetic materials
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| Ashvini Muralitharan | Broken to Pieces: The Way Thin Films Crack |
| Belen Llaguno | Development of a Modulation-Free Laser Source for Atomic Physics Experiments* |
| Benjamin Scully | Standard Model Mixology: Exploring Up-Down Quark Mixing through Ab-Initio Nuclear Theory |
| Bentley Turner | Two Coupled Modes in a Trenchcoat: Demystifying Non-Hermitian Absorption and Transmission Spectra |
| Bryce Friesen | Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions |
| Caden Drover | Zero-bias anomaly in double quantum dots: A study of the effect of lead coupling |
| Carson Harvey | Avalanches in a Granular System |
| Carson Leslie | Characterizing sources of noise in a mobile magnetic brain imaging system |
| Cecilia Soroco | Cognitive Flocks: Information Propagation And Threat-Induced Dynamics |
| Chantal Hemmann | Eyes on the Skies with Thunderbird South: First Insights into Exoplanetary Observations and Space Sustainability |
| Dao Thai Uyen Pham | A Database of Transit Timing and Duration Variations Induced by Systemic Proper Motion |
| David Drobner | Alpha-induced Proton Recoils in the SNO+ Neutrino Experiment |
| Denaisha Kraft | Non-Prompt and Fake Lepton Background Analysis for Doubly Charged Higgs Boson Searches |
| Diego Arturo Araujo Najera | Total Muon Capture Rates from Ab-Initio No-Core Shell Model |
| Dinel Anthony | Resparking the Neutron Lifetime Debate with PENeLOPE |
| Élyse D’Aoust | Alpha Emission Monitoring for Nuclear-Spin Polarization and Collinear Laser Spectroscopy |
| Emery Pattison | Pushing the Limits of Dark Matter Search Experimentation With PICO-500 |
| Emma Greenall | PICO-500 Muon Veto System |
| Evelyne Hluszok | Impact of Acceptance Angle on Image Quality for Fourier Rebinned Monte Carlo-Generated PET Data |
| Fangzheng Qu | Study of electron transport in 2D semiconductors using pump probe differential reflection techniques |
| Gabriel Gorbet | The IRIS Facility with Solid H2/D2 Targets at TRIUMF for Reaction Studies of Rare Isotopes |
| Gabrielle Barsky-Giles | Studies on the temperature dependent drift velocity for the HELIX Drift Chamber Tracker |
| Gannon Munro | Using a laser floating zone furnace to grow single crystals of the Rost rocksalt high-entropy oxide |
| Helena Cardoso Nunez | High Entropy Cuprates: Syntheis and Superconductivity |
| Ian Baker | Analysis of Precision Object Tracking for Determining Particle Properties in Optical Trapping |
| Jack Myra | Characterization of Epitaxial Mn3Ge Thin Films Using Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| Jacob Atkinson | Development of a Treatment Planning Software for a Kilovoltage Radiotherapy System |
| Jacob Smit | Validating a Rectal Surface Mapping Method for Improved Dose Accumulation Accuracy in Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy |
| Jasmine Ouellette | X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Nail Clippings to Determine Zinc Levels in Children of India |
| Jenny Zhu | Improving Prompt Gamma Imaging with Compton Cameras for Range Verification in Proton Therapy by Adding a Filter Step |
| Jessica de Kort | Automatically segmenting catheter tips in prostate brachytherapy ultrasound images using a deep learning and feature extraction pipeline |
| Jordan Kurtzweg | Radon Trapping and Laser Spectroscopy Systems for the NEWS-G Dark Matter Experiment |
| Joseph Cuzzupoli | Feedback System for Laser Intensity Stabilization |
| Josephine Brewster | Top Quark Pair and QCD Multijet Backgrounds in the hh → bbbb Boosted Analysis with ATLAS |
| Joshua Himmens | JetPointnet: A Machine Learning Approach to Cell-to-Track Attribution in the ATLAS Experiment |
| Karalee Reimer | Antiproton Interactions at Belle II |
| Keely Ralf | Pump-Probe Analysis of a Phase Transition: A Case Study Using the Ising Model |
| Keiran Nicholson | Exploring the Directionality of Particle-Induced Events for the NEWS-G Dark Matter Detector |
| Laura Hubbert | The Compton Slope Parameter and the Compton and Two Photon Spectrometer |
| Liam Morrison | Experimental adjudication between causal accounts of Bell-inequality violations via statistical model selection |
| Matthew Marzano | Building an Optical Model for the Super-Kamiokande 20-Inch Photomultiplier Tube |
| Meghan Naar | Machine Learning for Enhanced Energy Analysis of Point Contact Ge Detectors |
| Modeste Katotoka | Shim coils and their importance in measuring the electric dipole moment |
| Myles B T. Osenton | Infrared free electron laser split-pump and two-colour experiments in ultracold helium nanodroplets |
| Nicholas Zaparniuk | Low-Metallicity Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Tracing the Early Conditions of Star Formation |
| Parvin Aliyeva | Probing Electron Self-Energy in the Kagome Superconductor CsV3Sb5 Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) |
| Paul Richter | Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics for Astrophysics |
| Perran Trentalange | Point retrieval of liquid water fraction using artificial neural networks |
| Pranav Advani | From WWII to NASA: The Lost Art of Making Super Sensitive Permalloy Based Fluxgate Magnetometers |
| Rafael Rezende Freire | Asteroseismic Models of Eclipsing Binary Star μ Eridani |
| Ravleen Kaur | Resolving PSOs in image from ground-based telescope |
| Sam Lakerdas-Gayle | A Three-Humped Camel: Assessing a Peculiar Supernova |
| Sidney Shapiro | Development of Alpha Spectrometry for Diagnostics of TAT on Cancer Cells in Vitro. |
| Simon Ghyselincks | Structural Geology Meets Deep Learning |
| Sophie Gans | Storage of Optical Pulses in Cold Atoms |
| Sushrut Tadwalkar | Extending the solution to self assembly |
| Taiki Shickele | Ab initio Combined Neutrino Mass Limits from Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
| Tashi Wangchuk | Inductive Losses in Conductive Samples |
| Tavleen Kainth | High Precision Photomultiplier Tube Non-Linearity Tests for the MOLLER Experiment |
| Thomas Benjamin Lacroix | X-ray and Neutron Reflectometry of a Thin Film Helimagnet |
| Tighe McAsey | Solving Self Assembly |
| Una Rajnis | Implementing Pulse Compression Techniques for Four-Wave Mixing |
| Vanessa Smith | Microcavity effect simulation in thin-film materials for applications in perovskite solar cells |
| Willem Farmilo | Spectral signatures of thermal fluctuations in inhomogeneous superconductors |
| William Chow | PIONEER: A Next-Generation Experiment for Rare Pion Decay Precision Measurement |
| Zachary Saunders | Investigating Nuclear Shell Evolution at the Proton Drip-Line through the 20Mg(d,p)21Mg Reaction at IRIS |
| Zeest Fatima | Investigating the ionizing effects of a high energy proton beam on thermocouples, and potential applications of this effect including thermocouple-based beam-position monitors |
Posters
| Speaker | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdullah Bajaber & Emily Lau | “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s (probably) a baloney sandwich!”: identifying space trash in the night sky | ||
| Aidan Mikael Mohammed | The Effects of a Heavy Jupiter-like Planet on Earth’s Orbit | ||
| Akshay Prasad Ramasubramanian | Mapping HOD parameters to linear galaxy bias using galaxy-galaxy lensing | ||
| Alexander Katrusiak | Automated Beam Tuning Methods at TRIUMF | ||
| Alhasan Shnoot (and Ana Torres Bejarano) | Optimizing a Cyclotron’s Chamber Geometry: A Study of Cyclotron Particle Dynamics and Radiation in Weak-Focusing Magnetic Environments | ||
| Alyssa Atkinson | Very Long Baseline Interferometry Timing for Localizing Fast Radio Bursts | ||
| Ann Drakes | Development of a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensor for the Detection of Trace Concentrations of Small Molecules | ||
| Ashwati Sanjay | Optimising cryogenic vibration isolation for a superfluid dark matter detector | ||
| Bennett Winnicky-Lewis | Position Calibration for the MATHUSLA Test Stand | ||
| Cameron Bass | Monte-Carlo Event Misreconstruction in SNO+ | ||
| Chaitanya Mandar Luktuke | Experimental Measurement of Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in 37K Beta Decay | ||
| Daphene Wen | Next Generation Precision Mass Measurements with Radioactive Ions | ||
| Douglas Florizone | Feasibility of Angular Multiplexed Light Storage in Cold Rb-87 Ensemble | ||
| Ellen Brisley | Identity Crisis: Distinguishing Between Isomers & Ground States With TITAN’s Time Of Flight Analyzer | ||
| Ellitot Andew & Emma Trotta | Exploratory Investigation of Microplastic Detection in Municipal Organic Waste | ||
| Hamish Johnson | Fibre Polarization Compensation and Control for Confocal Microscopy and Beyond | ||
| Ian Lu | Calo4pQVAE: A Quantum-assisted 4 Partite VAE Surrogate for Particle-Calorimeter Interactions | ||
| Isaac Mercier | Probing Defects in Cross-Linked Polyethylene Pipe Using Infrared Imaging | ||
| Izzy Kim | Improved Diagnostics for TRINAT Spin Polarization | ||
| Joshua Lerner | Comparing Model Representations of Diffusive Mixing in the Arctic Ocean | ||
| Kathleen Nicole Dunn Tamura | Permanent Magnets and Magnetic Field Reconstruction for Stability in Qutrit Analysis | ||
| Kye Emond | Testing a New Method of Constraining Standard Model Effective Field Theory with Physics-Based Machine Learning | ||
| Leyla Saraj | Quantum fluid meets Nanotechnology: Behaviour of Superfluid Helium-3 in Confined Geometries | ||
| Maggie Berube | A Compton Suppression Spectrometer for nuclear safeguards and security applications | ||
| Mark Choi | The AdS/CFT Correspondence: From Spacetime Geometry to Quantum Field Theories. | ||
| Marlyn Mwita | Varieties of The Schelling Model | ||
| Marusia Shevchuk | Towards a transfer learning strategy for ultrasound-based automatic segmentation of organs-at-risk in gynecologic brachytherapy | ||
| Mateus Kaiber Buse | Probing the Cosmos with 21cm: The Spectral Imprints of Ionization Cavities | ||
| Mattia Altomare | Designing an Algorithm for the Control of an Inverted Pendulum | ||
| Michael Baker | Modelling GaN and InGaN Nanowires with Non-Uniform Dopant Concentrations | ||
| Michaela Hishon | The Importance of Physics Outreach in Attracting More Students to Physics | ||
| Michelle Denny | Counting Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe with JWST | ||
| Parvin Aliyeva | Probing Electron Self-Energy in the Kagome Superconductor CsV3Sb5 Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) | ||
| Paul Graham | Optimizing Crab Cavities with Higher Order Mode Dampers for the Electron-Ion Collider | ||
| Peter Simpson | Measuring the System Temperature of the BVEX Radio Telescope | ||
| Randon Hall | Tagging Emerging Jets with a Graph Neural Network | ||
| Sahib Singh | Review of the time-dependent Majorana mean-field theory | ||
| Sanjit Patil | Effects of Irradiation-Induced Disorder on High Tc Superconductors | ||
| Savero Lukianto Chandra | High-Performance Seismometers based on Parallel Dipole Line Magnetic Trap | ||
| Shuoyang Wang | Quadratically Convergent Self-Consistent Field (QC-SCF) Orbital Optimization | ||
| Siddhartha Bhattacharjee | Impure Relationalism in Cosmology | ||
| Simon Ghyselincks | Structural Geology Meets Deep Learning | ||
| Sujit Patil | Feature extraction of helical-shaped magnetotactic bacteria using convolutional neural networks. | ||
| Taiki Shickele | Ab initio Combined Neutrino Mass Limits from Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay | ||
| Zeest Fatima | Investigating Time-to-Digital Converters for General Fusion’s Time-of-Flight Neutron Spectrometer | ||
| Zoe Kartsonas | Determination of the Superfluid Density in the Vortex State of Sr2RuO4 by μSR | ||