Interdisciplinary Seminars and Panel Discussions

May 14 - 18, 2018, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 210

Description

This activity is organized under auspices of this Focus Program and the Centre for Mathematical Medicine at the Fields Institute, jointly with a representative of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. In addition to interdisciplinary seminars in all areas of nanoscale systems and coupled phenomena, it will contain several panel discussions on “Multiscale Modelling for Biological Systems” and “Theory and Applications of Nanoscale Systems”.

Registration Instruction:

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Schedule

Monday, May 14th, 2018
09:30 to 10:30	Phytoplankton functional type modelling: Running before we can walk? A critical evaluation of the current state of knowledge George Arhonditsis, University of Toronto
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 to 12:00	Mathematical models of hydrodynamically triggered zooplankton swimming: drivers and consequences Marek Stastna, University of Waterloo
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:30	Simple Models of Planktonic Ecosystems Francis Poulin, University of Waterloo
14:30 to 15:00	Mass transfer to benthic and pelagic grazers: Hydrodynamic interactions with plankton Josef Ackerman, University of Guelph
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 to 16:30	Deploying Harmonic Analysis in Quantum and Nano Engineering Artur Sowa, University of Saskatchewan
16:30 to 17:00	Cloud based quantum computing experiments Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University
17:00 to 17:30	Phonon Transport in Nanocomposite Material (joint with Mahi Singh) Jiaohan Guo, Western University

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
09:30 to 10:00	Overview - Problems and Challenges Siv Sivaloganathan, University of Waterloo Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
10:00 to 11:00	Mathematical modelling of life science problems Messoud Efendiev, Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 to 12:00	Solvability of some integro-differential equations with anomalous diffusion in two dimensions Vitali Vougalter, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:30	Infectious Disease Modelling: A Multi-Scale Problem Jane Heffernan, York University Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
14:30 to 15:00	Modeling Cerebral Microaneurysms using a Non-local Constitutive Law of Blood Corina Drapaca, The Pennsylvania State University Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 to 16:30	Panel Discussion - Emerging Challenges in Multi-Scale Modelling in the Life Sciences Panelists: Messoud Efendiev, Corina Drapaca, Jane Heffernan, Todd Parsons, Tianyu Zhang, Moderator: Siv Sivaloganathan Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
16:30 to 17:00	Developing tunable nanomaterials for biosensing Leyla Soleymani, McMaster University Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
17:00 to 17:30	Embryonic wound repair: cellular and molecular dynamics at the leading edge Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
09:30 to 10:30	Multiscale modeling of Cu Migration in CdTe Solar cells Dragica Vasileska, Arizona State University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 to 12:00	Light-matter interaction in plasmonic hybrid nanomaterials Mahi Singh, Western University
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Designing nanowire structures for optoelectronics Harry Ruda, University of Toronto
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 to 16:00	Vessalago lens focusing in strained graphene p-n junctions (joint with Alex Kovalev) Sanjay Prabhakar, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
16:00 to 16:30	Plasmon Excitation and Transition Radiation in Graphene Kamran Akbari, University of Waterloo
16:30 to 17:30	Environmental fate of arsenic: insights from infrared spectroscopy, mathematical modeling and computational chemistry Hind Al-Abadleh, Wilfrid Laurier University

Thursday, May 17th, 2018
09:30 to 10:30	Applications of Field-Theoretic Models for Nanoscale Polymeric Foams Russell Thompson, University of Waterloo
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 to 12:00	Interaction of Graphene with External Charged Particles Zoran Miskovic, University of Waterloo
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:30 to 15:00	Modeling self-heating effects in nano-scale devices Dragica Vasileska, Arizona State University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 to 16:00	Atomistic Simulations of Solution-Processed Materials for Solar Cells and Optoelectronics Oleksandr Voznyy, University of Toronto
16:00 to 16:30	Spin control in semiconductor quantum dots and graphene with applications (joint with Roderick Melnik) Sanjay Prabhakar, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
16:30 to 17:30	Panel Discussion – Modelling & Experiment for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Key Challenges Panelists: Harry Ruda, Russel Thomson, Dragica Vasileska, Olexandr Voznyy, Yaroslava Yingling, Hind Al-Abadleh, Moderator: Zoran Miskovic

Friday, May 18th, 2018
09:30 to 10:30	Design of nanomaterials for gene delivery using multiscale molecular modeling Yaroslava Yingling, North Carolina State University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 to 12:00	Challenges of delivering nanotechnologies to solid tumours Warren Chan, University of Toronto
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:30	Towards the Modelling of the Oligomerization of Protein Nanotubes from a Monomeric Precursor Gerald Audette, York University
14:30 to 15:00	“Star”- shaped droplets: simulations and theoretical analysis of their origin and shape Styliani (Stella) Consta, Western University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 to 16:00	Decrease in viscosity of a polymer solution on addition of nanoparticles (jointly with Ruiping Ge, Jun Yang, and John R. de Bruyn) Max Paliy, Western University
16:00 to 16:30	Universal massively parallel numerical solvers for time-dependant problems with application to simulation of nanoscale phenomena Dmytro Sytnyk, Wilfrid Laurier University