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Friday
Symposia
Quantum Sensors: Toward the Ultimate Limits
Friday, February 15: 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Martin Laforest, University of Waterloo, Organizer;
Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo, Moderator;>
David G. Cory, University of Waterloo, Speaker
“Reinventing Neutron Interferometry Using Quantum Information Theory”
Getting to Global Ecological Sustainability: Climate and Small-Planet Ethics
Friday, February 15: 8:30 am - 11:30 am
Room 300 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Paige Olmsted, University of British Columbia, Co-Organizer and Moderator;
Kai Ming A. Chan, University of British Columbia, Co-Organizer and Speaker
“Toward Integrative Science-Inspired Solution-Structures for Sustainability: e.g., C3”
Promoting Collaborative, Policy-Relevant Science: Learning from Fulbright
Friday, February 15: 8:30 am -11:30 am
Room 310 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Patrick Feng, University of Calgary, Co-Organizer and Moderator
Monitoring and Assuring the Quality of Essential Medicines
Friday, February 15: 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Amir Attaran, University of Ottawa, Speaker
“Trade in Fake Medicines Is Impossible to Stop Without Globalized Laws and Governance”
Stroke Research: New Concepts and Innovative Solutions
Friday, February 15: 3:00 pm -4:30 pm
Room 208 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto, Speaker
“Engineering Meets Medicine: Innovative Strategies to Overcome Stroke”
Seminars
The Language Organ: The Bases of Human Language in Human Biology
Friday, February 15: 8:30 am - 11:30 am
Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Janet F. Werker, University of British Columbia, Speaker
“Infant Speech Perception: Biological Beginnings and Experiential Influences”
Clinics
Presentation Rx: A Drop-In Clinic for Speakers, Day One
Friday, February 15: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Room 307 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Andy Torr, The University of British Columbia
Exhibitor-Sponsored Workshops
Introduction to Canadian Research Excellence: Evidence & Examples
Friday, February 15: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Room 205 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Tim Meyer, TRIUMF; Chad Gaffield, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Eliot Phillipson, University of Toronto
Saturday
Symposia
From Promise to Proof: How Ecosystem Service Science Is Transforming Real Decisions
Saturday, February 16: 8:30 am -11:30 am
Room 309 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Elena Bennett, McGill University, Speaker
“Reconnecting People to Nature: Planning for Multi-Functional Agricultural Landscapes”
Computation, Computational Efficiency, and Cognitive Science
Saturday, February 16: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Anna Maria Di Sciullo, University of Quebec, Co-Organizer and Speaker
“Computational Efficiency in Naming Big Numbers”
How Symbiosis, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Virolution Call for an Extended Synthesis
Saturday, February 16: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 308 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Frédéric Bouchard, University of Montreal, Speaker
“How Research on Symbiosis Should Transform Our Understanding of Adaption”
Water Purification and Monitoring Under Minimal Resource Setting
Saturday, February 16: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 313 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Sushanta Mitra, University of Alberta, Co-Organizer;
Thomas Thundat, University of Alberta, Co-Organizer;
Greg Goss, University of Alberta Water Initiative, Speaker
“Meeting the Challenges of Clean Water Delivery to Small and Remote Communities”
Seminars
Old Dogs, New Tricks: How Plastic Is the Adult Human Brain?
Saturday, February 16: 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Daphne Maurer, McMaster University, Co-Organizer and Speaker
“Improving Vision After the Critical Period”
Career Development Workshops
Secrets of a Science Communicator II: Finding Your Story
Saturday, February 16: 1:00 pm -2:00 pm
Room 209 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Andy Torr, The University of British Columbia ; Brian Lin, The University of British Columbia
Sunday
Symposia
Attosecond Science in Chemical, Molecular Imaging, Spintronics, and Energy Science
Sunday, February 17: 8:30 am -11:30 am
Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Andre D. Bandrauk, University of Sherbrooke, Co-Organizer;
Paul B. Corkum, University of Ottawa, Speaker
“Attosecond Pulse Technology: Generation and Characterization”
Writing About Science for the Public
Sunday, February 17: 8:30 am -11:30 am
Room 208 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Daniel Levitin, McGill University, Organizer and Speaker
“Music and the Brain: A Launching Pad for an Overall Public Awareness of Neuroscience”
Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples
Sunday, February 17: 10:00 am -11:30 am
Room 207 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Danièle St-Jean, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Organizer;
Nancy Edwards, Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health, Moderator;
Malcolm King, Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Aging, Speaker
“CIHR's Signature Roadmap Initiative Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples”
Unreasonable Usefulness of Test-Ban Verification for Disaster Warning and Science
Sunday, February 17: 10:00 am -11:30 am
Room 204 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: David W. Strangway, Quest University, Speaker
“Test-Ban Verification at the Intersection of Basic and Applied Science and Innovation”
Predicting Major Events and Planning for Hazards: An Art or Science?
Sunday, February 17: 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Room 208 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Kelin Wang, Geological Survey of Canada, Speaker
“Operational Earthquake Prediction: Castles in the Air”
The Invisible Revealing the Dangerously Beautiful
Sunday, February 17: 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Room 207 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Filip van Petegem, University of British Columbia, Speaker
“How X-Rays Are Shedding Light on Our Understanding of Heart Function”
Evidence from Music, Fiction, and Visual Arts: Transfer of Learning from the Arts?
Sunday, February 17: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Ballroom A (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Daniel Levitin, McGill University, Speaker
“Defining the Musical Phenotype: A Precursor to the Study of Cognitive Transfer” ;
E. Glenn Schellenberg, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Speaker
“Transfer from Music: A Critical Examination of the Evidence”;
Keith Oatley, University of Toronto, Speaker
“Effects of Literature: Understanding Others, Transforming Oneself”
How Microbes Can Help Feed the World
Sunday, February 17: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 206 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Bernard Glick, University of Waterloo, Speaker
“Bacteria That Alleviate Plant Stress in High-Salt and Metal-Contaminated Soil”
Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology
Sunday, February 17: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University, Speaker
“DNA Cages and Nanotubes: Simple, DNA Minimal Synthesis and Biological Properties”
The Mirror World of Antiatoms and Antimolecules
Sunday, February 17: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 309 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Eric A. Hessels, York University, Speaker
“Trapped Antihydrogen in Its Ground State”
Weaving the Future Ocean Web Through Collaboration: the Nereus Program
Sunday, February 17: 1:30 pm -4:30 pm
Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Yoshitaka Ota, University of British Columbia, Co-Organizer; Villy Christensen, University of British Columbia, Co-Organizer
Monday
Confluence of Streams of Knowledge: Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
Monday, February 18: 9:45 am -12:45 pm
Room 300 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speakers: Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, Speaker
“The Process and Practice of Interdisciplinary Research”;
Elicia M.A. Maine, Simon Fraser University, Co-Organizer and Speaker
“Global Bio-Nano Firms: Exploiting the Confluence of Technologies”
Understanding Memory: The Legacy of Case H.M.
Monday, February 18: 9:45 am -12:45 pm
Room 208 (Hynes Convention Center)
Canadian Speaker: Brenda Milner, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Speaker
“Background to H.M”