The SUPA Annual Gathering 2024 took place on 22 May 2024, in the Advanced Research Centre in Glasgow University.
Schedule
9:00 - 9:30 Registration, Poster and Exhibitor set up
9:30 - 9:40 Welcome
9:40 - 10:40 Scott Doyle, Beyond Sparks: the Role of Plasmas in Shaping our Energy Future
Presented in Room 237, shared through zoom to all rooms and SUPA classrooms
10:40 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 12:10 First Theme meeting session, Presentations in parallel
12:10 - 13:50 Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Session
13:50 - 15:10 Second Theme meeting session, Presentations in parallel
15:10 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Natalia Korolkova, Quantum Technologies with Bright Light
Presented in Room 237, shared through zoom to all rooms and SUPA classrooms
Introduced by Sonja Franke-Arnold
16:30 - 16:35 Feedback Survey
16:35 - 17:00 Take Down Posters
Exhibitors
- DiveIn CDT
Institute of Physics
First Theme Meeting, Presentations, 10:50 - 12:10
Room 223: Astronomy, Aurora Sicilia Aguilar
10:50 - 10:55 - Welcome and Highlights (Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar, Dundee)
10:55 - 11:15 - What Time Can Tell Us About Space: Mapping Accretion in Intermediate-Mass YSO (Ruhee Kahar, Dundee)
11:15 - 11:35 -On the Proton Heating in Near-Earth Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (Debesh Bhattacharjee, Glasgow)
11:35 - 11:55 - Testing gravity from stellar to cosmological scales (Indranil Banik, St Andrews)
11:55 - 12:15 - Public Engagement in St Andrews (Roberta Vieliute, St Andrews)
12:15 - 12:20 - Poster presentations (Clara Brasseur, Ferdinand Hollauf, Katerina Klos, Roberta Vieliute)
Room 224: Energy and Nuclear Physics
Energy, Job Thijssen
10:50 Aveena Abee Varghese, Developing 2D halide perovskites based efficient Indoor Photovoltaics
11:10 Hrishit Banerjee, Degradation in Li-ion batteries: O hole formation controls stability in Ni-rich cathodes
Nuclear Physics, John Smith
11:30 Kayleigh Gates, Exploring Nucleon Structure with Timelike Compton Scattering
11:50 Dr Bjorn Seitz, AMBER at CERN - QCD physics beyond Colliders
Room 225: Particle Physics, Victoria Martin
10:50 Kerr Miller, Heavy Quark Physics from High-Performance Computing
11:10 Mary Richardson-Slipper, Search for rare Bd -> phi phi decays in the full Run 1 + Run 2 dataset from the LHCb experiment
11:30 Richards González, Displaced lepton jets in ATLAS: Run-2 and prospects for Run-3
11:50 Fuat Ustuner, Pixel Detector Development for Future Collider-Based Particle Physics Experiments
Room 237 A and B: Photonics, Robert Thomson
10:50 Matthias Aquilina, Event driven LiDAR with dynamic neuromorphic processing
11:10 Lewis Williamson, Spatial and Temporal Methods for Remote Focusing in Multi-Photon Microscopy
11:30 Manuel Alberto Martinez Ruiz, Enhanced high stiffness optical trapping for subwavelength particles.
11:50 Mohammad Biabanifard, ZrO2 Metasurfaces For Holographic Applications
12:10 - 12:15 Richard Mosses, Introducing the Photonics and Quantum Accelerator
Room 237 C: Quantum Technologies, Sarah Mann
10:50 Max Wells-Pestell, Optimisation of weighted graphs using neutral atom arrays
11:10 Angus Cowley-Semple, Room temperature optically detected coherent control of molecular spins
11:30 Roselyn Nmaju, Low-Depth Quantum State Preparation CANCELLED
11:50 Ashley Lyons, Two-Photon Interference based Imaging and Sensing
and an introduction to the Quantum ARC
Second Theme Meeting, Presentations, 13:50 - 15:10
Room 223: Physics Education Research, Nicolas Labrosse
13:50 Rita Tojeiro, The impact of real scientific artefacts in the professional learning of Physics teachers in Scotland
14:10 Vivienne Wild, Intervention to address imposter phenomenon in physics undergraduates
14: 30 Antje Kohnle, An interactive homework to support student learning of measurement in quantum mechanics
14:50 Bonnie Steves, Developing Researchers through Summer Schools in Physics and Astronomy
Room 224: Plasma Physics, Declan Diver
13:50 Ben Torrance, Production of Laser-Driven Carbon Ions at High Repetition Rates on SCAPA
14:10 Matthew Alderton, Progress Towards High Repetition-Rate Laser-Driven Ion Sources at SCAPA
14:30 Maia Peat, Machine learning guided optimisation of fast electron temperature in laser-solid interaction experiments
14:50 Craig Stark, Brown dwarf atmospheres: a laboratory for low-temperature dusty plasmas
Room 225: Condensed Matter, Stephen McVitie
13:50 Connor Inglis, Multicomponent antiperovskite barocalorics for future solid-state refrigeration
14:10 Robin Burton, Rotating Intruders in Dense Granular Beds CANCELLED
14:30 Harry Lane, Thermal mimicry of quantum cluster excitations: implications for phase transitions in 2d magnets
14:50 Luke Rhodes, The magic angle of Sr2RuO4: Interplay of structural distortions and superconductivity in a spin-fluctuation scenario
Room Studio 2: Physics and Life Sciences, Stuart Reid
13:50 Tomasz Plaskocinski, Photonic Metasurfaces for Biophotonics
14:10 Dr Richard Bowman, Smart microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope
14:30 Freya Whiteford, Towards a laser scanning confocal microscope for under £1000
14:50 Paolo Annibale, Spatial-temporal fluorescence spectroscopy techniques to monitor proteins organization at the subcellular level
Room 237 A and B: Photonics, Robert Thomson
13:50 Donald Risbridger, Robotic Assembly of Laser Systems
14:10 Saba Khan, When is multiple scattering advantageous in speckle metrology?
14:30 Chetna Taneja, Light-sheet microscopy with propagation invariant side-lobe suppressed Bessel-like beam (to confirm)
14:50 Pavlos Manousiadis, Quasinormal Modes of Optical Solitons
Room 237 C: Quantum Technologies, Sarah Mann
13:50 Sphinx Svensson, Spatially dependent dark states in atomic magnetometers
14:10 Grant Henderson, Ultracold Atomic Persistent Currents from Structured Light in a Driven Optical Cavity
14:30 Sonja Franke-Arnold, Atomic state interferometers in a new (vector) light
14:50 John Pantoja, Electromagnetic Security of Single-Photon Detectors
Posters
Astronomy and Space Science
1. Ferdinand Hollauf, North PHASE observation of the young cluster Tr37
2. Katerina Klos, Investigating the Role of Magnetic Fields in High-Mass Star Formation
3. Clara Brasseur, The extended corona of a young Sun: combined VLBI/spectropolarimetry observations
4. Roberta Vieliute, UV/Optical Continuum Echo Mapping of NGC 3783
5. Connie Allen, An investigation into stellar cluster IC 5070
6. Jay Anderson, Simulating Observation of Weak Planetary Signals in Microlensing Events
Condensed Matter and Material Science
Nuclear Physics
7. William O’Donnell, Using U-nets for the application of machine learning to improve acquisition times for muography
8. Andrew Cheyne, Nuclear Form factor measurements using Recoil Polarimetry at Jefferson Lab
Particle Physics
9. Rory McFeely,
10. Christiane Mayer, Taste-Testing New Colourful Particles
Physics Education Research
11. Lauren Muir, What Does It Mean to Be a Physicist? A Study of Physics Identities in an Academic Environment
12. Rosaria Lena, Categorisation of interdisciplinary problems in Physics
Plasma Physics
13. Christopher McQueen, Synthetic Diagnostics of Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration
Photonics
14. Anindita Das
15. Bhupesh Kumar, High-throughput speckle spectrometers based on multifractal scattering media
16. Saydulla Persheyev, Stimuli sensitive PNIPAM hydrogels for nanophotonic applications
17. George Okyere Dwapanyin, Raman spectroscopy using shaped laser light for through-bottle whisky detection
18. Sarah-Jane Twigg and Innes Bakkali, 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices for Biological and Optical Applications Using DLP Printing and Biocompatible Resin
19. Femy Francis, Fiber coupled on-chip CO2 sensor using Photonic Crystal waveguides
20. Farhan Ali,
21. Rebecca Meehan, Exploring Optical Properties in Skin Using Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer
22. Aakanksha J Shetty, Fluorescence spectroscopy of cell membranes under dynamic mechanical perturbation: investigating modulations to cell signalling
23. Matthias Aquilina, Event-Driven LiDAR with Dynamic Neuromorphic Processing
24. Yuhui Gan, Flexible Holographic Metasurfaces for Augmented Reality Near-Eye Display
25. William Lavery, Millimetre-wave MIMO for drone detection
Physics and Life Sciences
26. Giedre Astrauskaite, 2-photon remote focusing microscopy for structural and functional cardiac imaging
27. Katarzyna Glinka, Imaging performance of a well plate imaging system using a parabolic reflector
28. Debasmita Banik, Quantitative subcellular FRET-biosensing of second messenger kinetics in living cells using deep learning-based image analysis approaches
29. Soumyabrata Banik, Fluorescent drug analogues to study drug-target interactions in intact cells
30. Marc Bathe-Peters, Cells in space: How altered gravity affects local cellular geometry, cytoskeletal organization and drug response
31. Connor Lindsay,
32. Andrew Green, Low cost optical illumination, spectroscopy, and fluorescent lifetime systems for monitoring of photodynamic therapy
33. Syed Harris Hussain, Fabrication and characterisation of micro- and nano-structured surfaces
towards functional patterning of the intracellular environment
Quantum Technologies
34. James Peat, Mixing Classical and Quantum Oblivious Transfer Protocols
35. Richard Aguiar Maduro, Spatial Polarisation Spectroscopy in Vapour Cells
36. Callum Cook, Creating Effective Environments to Reduce Computational Demands of Open Quantum System Simulations