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2:00 PM - 11:30 PM Mt John Observatory TourEarth & Sky is delighted to support the 2019 NZIP & Physikos through the

kind donation of 30 spaces on their famous Mt. John Obervatory tour. Returntransport from Christchurch will be included.

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Public Lecture 1Chair:David Wiltshire Location: C1 Lecture Theatre

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Public Lecture - Duncan SteelSpace 2.0: How Satellites are Revolutionising our World

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8:30 AM - 9:10 AM Registration Open - Monday

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM Conference OpeningWelcome David Wiltshire (President of NZIP) and Cheryl de la Rey (UC Vice

Chancellor)

9:30 AM - 9:40 AM Earth & Sky Present

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9:40 AM - 10:20 AM Keynote speaker: Gary Williams

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea + Exhibition - Monday

Academic Session 1Chair: Asta Heinesen Location:

ER140

Education Session 1Chair: Nathan Mehrtens Location:

ER319/320

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM J.J. EldridgeUnderstanding the progenitors andhost galaxies of gravitational wave

events

Jack van Heugten BreurkesGoldberg Physics - Innovative

Approaches for the DigitalClassroom

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Sergei GulyaevRydberg, Stark and the Orion

Daniel SchumayerDistractor items in Force Concept

Inventory data

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Dylan PatersonGalactic Bulge Preferred Over Dark

Matter for the Galactic CenterGamma-Ray Excess

Haggis HendersonDetermining entry into NCEA2

Physics courses

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM Chris GordonGalactic Bulge Millisecond Pulsars

Dave ThrasherDifferences in teaching physics:

urban vs rural, single gender vs co-ed, public vs private schools in NZ

and other musings

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM Sarang ShahOGLE-2017-BLG-1170 – A brown

dwarf orbiting a main sequence starin the galactic bulge

Stephen DoreyUse a Debate Format to Assess

Physics Achievement Standard 3.7

12:40 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch + Exhibition - Monday

Academic Session 2Chair: Annette Koo Location:

Location: ER140

Education Session 2Chair: Emma Trott Location:

ER319/320

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Murray BartleTransmission of radiation from a Cf-

252 source to assess materialcomposition.

Andrew TaylorChasing Rainbows: Monitoring Road

Traffic using Multispectral SatelliteImagery

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Natalie PlankCarbon nanotube network field effect

transistors as a sensing platform

Andrew KopnoffUsing a simple electrical circuit tomodel the Lorentz transformation

2:40 PM - 2:50 PM Walk to C2 Lecture Theatre

Keynote Session 2Chair: Natalie Plank Location: C2 Lecture Theatre

2:50 PM - 3:30 PM Keynote speaker: Céline Bœhm

3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Keynote speaker: Simon BrownBuilding a computer that thinks like the brain

Poster Session & Welcome FunctionChair: David Wiltshire Location: ER140/141

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4:10 PM - 6:10 PM Welcome ReceptionSpeed presentations will take place at 5pm in ER141 (1 slide per presenter in

3 minutes)

6:10 PM - 6:10 PM End of the conference programme for day 1

Public Lecture 2Chair: Chris Gordon Location: C1 Lecture Theatre

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Public Lecture: Jenni AdamsUnderstanding the High Energy Universe

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Academic Education

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Registration Open - Tuesday

Keynote Session 3Chair: Mike Reid Location: C2 Lecture Theatre

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Keynote speaker: David FrameHow physics is at the centre of climate change

9:40 AM - 10:20 AM Keynote speaker 5: Annette KooCheese, Platinum and Fundamental Constants – What is the Redefinition of

the SI Units all About?

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea + Exhibition - Tuesday

Academic Session 3Chair: Anthony Butler Location:

ER140

Education Session 3Chair: Haggis Henderson Location:

ER319/320

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Marcus WilsonModelling motor-evoked potentials

from neural field simulations oftranscranial magnetic stimulation

Cairan FinnertyInquiry and Project Based Learning

in Secondary Physics Education

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Farah KhokharDesigning, measuring and modelling

a small-scale coil and stimulationcircuit for Transcranial Magnetic

Stimulation (TMS)

Cairan Finnerty (continued)Inquiry and Project Based Learning

in Secondary Physics Education

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Sanduni MalluwawaduInvestigating action potential

initiation and death in human cortexusing a novel modelling approach

Cairan Finnerty (continued 2)Inquiry and Project Based Learning

in Secondary Physics Education

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM Shri BheesetteEvaluation of the CMS RadiationField using Medipix3RX-based

Neutron Detectors

Emily HallFight like a Physicist

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM Claire ChambersQuantifying Phosphorus and

Calcium in Fossils using MARSImaging

STEM Online NZA free and comprehensive

interactive teaching and learningresource covering NCEA external

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standards in Physics andMathematics

12:40 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch + Exhibition - Tuesday

Academic Session 4Chair: Marcus Wilson Location:

ER140

Education Session 4Chair: Brent Cummack Location:

ER319/320

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Shen Chong on behalf of GrantWilliams

Formation of Near Surface MagneticNanostructures by Low Energy Ion

Implantation

Brenda MacKechniePlay Dough Circuits – A workshop onnovel electrical circuit construction

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Vladimir BubanjaThe effect of quantum fluctuations on

critical Josephson current

Brenda MacKechnie (continued)Play Dough Circuits – A workshop onnovel electrical circuit construction

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM Marvin WeylandLimits of the photoassociation rate oftwo 85-Rb atoms in an optical dipole

trap

Brenda MacKechnie (continued 2)Play Dough Circuits – A workshop onnovel electrical circuit construction

Geoff Willmott PresentationChair: Marcus Wilson Location: ER140

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Geoff WillmottThe Story of Studio Physics at the University of Auckland (So Far)

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM Afternoon Tea + Exhibition - Tuesday

Yin Hsien Fung PresentationChair: JJ Eldridge Location: ER140

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM Yin Hsien FungThe MSL Kibble balance – an apparatus to realize the new kilogram

Academic Session 5Chair: JJ Eldridge Location: ER140

Education Session 5Chair: Brenda MacKechnie Location:

ER319/320

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM Jami ShepherdA seismic shift in the imaging of

bone

Daniel SolisMeasuring science-related

knowledge through science fluency

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM David WiltshireTowards precision tests of the

cosmological principle

Fariya Naseem & Brent CummackInclusive teaching and learning

practices for teachers

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM Asta HeinesenBaryon acoustic oscillation methods

for generic curvature

Hanie MehdinezhadConservation of momentum using

PASCO Smart

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM Marni SheppeardNon local neutrinos and the cosmic

microwave background

Hanie Mehdinezhad (continued)Conservation of momentum using

PASCO Smart

5:30 PM - 5:50 PM Richard EastherStellar Accelerations and theGalactic Gravitational Field

Hanie Mehdinezhad (continued 2)Conservation of momentum using

PASCO Smart

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5:50 PM - 5:50 PM End of the conference programme for day 2

6:30 PM - 11:30 PM Conference DinnerAfter dinner speech: "The Centennial of Rutherford Splitting the Atom" by Dr

John Campbell (author of "Rutherford Scientist Supreme")

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Keynote Session 4Chair: Chris Gordon Location: C2 Lecture Theatre

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Registration Open - Wednesday

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Keynote speaker: Duncan SteelPhysics of Nelson Wild Fire

9:40 AM - 10:20 AM Keynote speaker: Anthony ButlerMARS: X-ray colour for medicine

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea + Exhibition - Wednesday

Academic Session 6Chair: Jenni Adams Location: ER140

Education Session 6Chair: Emily Hall Location:

ER319/320

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Annette KooDragon Scales and Apples – Light

Scattering and Perception

Ashleigh FoxConnecting Stem Outreach with

Education

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Gabriel BiolettiA critical current density peak near a

proposed quantum critical point inNickel doped Ba122 superconductor

single crystals

Ashleigh Fox (continued)Connecting Stem Outreach with

Education

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM David UhrigOn the universality of the doping

phase diagram of FeSe1-xTexsuperconductors

Ashleigh Fox (continued 2)Connecting Stem Outreach with

Education

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM Nicholas JobbittA novel approach to applying

crystal-field analyses to the lowsymmetry system of samarium-

doped yttrium orthosilicate

Gary WilliamsWhat happens next?

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM Ali ShaibPreferential Growth Mechanisms of

Rare Earth Nitrides Thin Films

Gary Williams (continued)What happen's next?

12:40 PM - 1:20 PM Lunch + Exhibition Wednesday

NZIP DiscussionChair: David Wiltshire Location: ER225

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1:20 PM - 2:00 PM General discussion about NZIP - All Welcome

Academic Session 7Chair: Marvin Weyland Location:

ER140

Education Session 7Chair: Stephen Dorey Location:

ER319/320

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Sikiru AdebilejeDictionary Learning to Reduce Dose

in MARS Datasets

Emile WebsterWhy understanding measurementmatters - A workshop on teaching

sound measurement principles usingthermal imaging

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Neryda DuncanImaging of Geological Samples

using MARS Scanner

Emile Webster (continued)Why understanding measurementmatters - A workshop on teaching

sound measurement principles usingthermal imaging

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM Emmanuel MarfoMARS Dosimetry using GATE Monte

Carlo Simulation Toolkit

Emile Webster (continued 2)Why understanding measurementmatters - A workshop on teaching

sound measurement principles usingthermal imaging

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Jereena Sreedharan SheejaImproving the Accuracy of MARS

Reconstruction Algorithm

Farzana MasoulehUnderstanding the Revised SI

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM Afternoon Tea + Exhibition - Wednesday

Academic Session 8Chair: Chris Gordon Location: ER140

Education Session 8Location: ER319/320

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM Geoff Willmott - Phase Transitions inBrownian Active Matter

Gary Williams - How to run aworkshop

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM Angus JonesTerahertz whispering-gallery modes

in Silicon spheres

Gary Williams - How to run aworkshop (continued)

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM Joseph SchuytOptical dosimetry using dopedNaMgF3: Optically stimulated

luminescence, radioluminescence,and radiophotoluminescence

Gary Williams - How to run aworkshop (continued 2)

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM Conference Closing: David Wiltshire, NZIP President

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