PLENARY
PLENARY 1: 9:15 – 12:15, Monday 17 October
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K1 – Professor David Parry (Unravelling the workings of the animal body: A biophysical
approach):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/915-k1-d-parry
K2 – Dr Mikkel Anderson (Manipulating and observing individual atoms):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1045-k2-m-andersen
K3 – Dr Hamish Campbell (On edge):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1130-k3-h-campbell
PLENARY 2: 9:00 – 12:00, Tuesday 17 October
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K4 – Dr Elizabeth Swinbank (Teaching Physics in Context):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/900-k4-e-swinbank
K5 – Professor Denis Sullivan (Free floating planets):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1030-k5-d-sullivan
K6 – Dr Stephane Coen (Temporal cavity solitons in nonlinear optical passive resonators):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1115-k6-s-coen
PLENARY 3: 10:45 – 12:00, Wednesday 17 October
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K7 – Dr John Campbell (The making of the Rutherford documentary):
n/a
K8 – Professor John Lekner (Electrostatics of two conducting spheres):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1130-k8-j-lekner
PHYSICS RESEARCH
PHYSICS RESEARCH 1: 13:30 – 15:00, Monday 17 October
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O1.1 – Professor Matt Visser (Horava gravity):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1330-o1-m-visser
O1.2 – Dr Chris Sutton (Progress on the measurement of the Planck constant at MSL):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1400-o1-c-sutton
O1.3 – Michael Miller (Discovering Extrasolar Planets via Gravitational Microlensing):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1420-o1-m-miller
O1.4 – Dr Ishwaree Neupane (Strings, Extra Dimensions and Cosmology):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1440-o1-i-neupane
PHYSICS RESEARCH 2: 13:30 – 15:00, Monday 17 October
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O2.1 – Dr Vladimir Bubanja (Metrology with single electrons):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1330-o2-v-bubanja
O2.2 – Dr Miriam Simpson (Lasers at the Interface between Chemistry and Physics):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1400-o2-m-simpson
O2.3 – Dr John Clare (Equivalence of published GLS solutions to comparison analysis):
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http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1420-o2-j-clare
O2.4 – Dr Philip Allfrey (Heavy-Ion Physics with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron
Collider):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1440-o2-p-allfrey
PHYSICS RESEARCH 3: 15:30 – 17:00, Monday 17 October
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O3.1 – Dr Claude Aguergaray (New self-similar linearly chirped pulses: The Hyper-Gaussian
pulses):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o4-c-aguergaray
O3.2 – Walter Sommerville (A simple method for finding recurrence relations in physical
theories: application to electromagnetic scattering):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1600-o4-w-somerville
O3.3 – Jessienta Anthony (Terahertz pulses propagation in microstructured photonic crystal
fibres):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1620-04-j-anthony
O3.4 – Stefaan Janssens (Nanocrystals for optical amplification):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1640-o4-s-janssens
PHYSICS RESEARCH 4: 15:30 – 17:00, Monday 17 October
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O4.1 – Professor Alan Kaiser (Electrons in Flatland: Unusual Behaviour in Different Forms of
Graphene):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o5-a-kaiser
O4.2 – Krista Steenbergen (First-principles simulated melting of small Al and Ga clusters with
molecular dynamics):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1600-o5-k-steenbergen
O4.3 – Jerome Leveneur (Correlating magnetic properties with the structural changes during
the ion beam synthesis of metallic nanoclusters at the surface of silica):
n/a
O4.4 – Peter Murmu (Investigation of Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic properties of
Gadolinium doped Zinc Oxide):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1640-o5-p-murmu
PHYSICS RESEARCH 5: 13:00 – 15:00, Tuesday 17 October
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O7.1 – Dr Jenni Adams (The High-Energy Universe):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1300-o7-j-adams
O7.2 – Dr Bill Trompetter (An application of physics: sampling and analysing air
particulate matter):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1330-o7-b-trompetter
O7.3 – Dr Inga Smith (Antarctic sea ice: how quickly does it grow?):
n/a
O7.4 – Professor Roger Davies (Radiative-Convective modelling of the Earth's climate:
the effect of observed changes in cloud amounts):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1420-o7-r-davies
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O7.5 – Professor Denis Sullivan (The Physics of White Dwarf Stars):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1440-o7-d-sullivan
PHYSICS RESEARCH 6: 13:00 – 15:00, Tuesday 17 October
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O8.1 – Dr Grant Williams (The effect of electronic doping on the magnetic and
superconducting properties of FeSr2YCu2O6+x and FeSr2Y2-xCexCu2O8+x):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1300-o8-g-williams
O8.2 – Dr Franck Natali (Rare-Earth Nitrides, Intrinsic Ferromagnetic Semiconductors):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1330-o8-f-natali
O8.3 – Jibu Stephen (The effect of electronic and isoelectronic doping on the high
temperature magnetisation and thermopower properties of Ba2FeMoO6):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1400-o8-j-stephen
O8.4 – Cristin Gaedtke (Development and characterisation of a new fibre optic dosimeter):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1420-o8-c-gaedtke
O8.5 – Dr Stuart Wimbush (A new understanding of flux pinning in defect-engineered
superconductors):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1440-o8-s-wimbush-10162463
PHYSICS RESEARCH 7: 15:30 – 17:00, Tuesday 17 October
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O10.1 – Professor Peter Cottrell (Globular Clusters: testing stellar evolution and
nucleosynthesis theories):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o10-p-cottrell
O10.2 – Hamish Silverwood (Supersymmetric Dark Matter in IceCube):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1600-o10-h-silverwood
O10.3 – Paul Chote (Time Series Photometry of Pulsating White Dwarf Stars):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1620-o10-p-chote
O10.4 – Dr David Wiltshire (Observational Tests of the Timescape Cosmology):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1640-o10-d-wiltshire
PHYSICS RESEARCH 8: 15:30 – 17:00, Tuesday 17 October
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O11.1 – Dr Mike Reid (Excitons and traps in rare-earth materials probed by a free-electron
laser):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o11-m-reid
O11.2 – Shrividya Ravi (Temperature effects on the Raman lineshape of cupric oxide thin
films and nanowires):
n/a
O11.3 – Ben Mallett (External vs. internal pressure effect on two-magnon scattering in the
high temperature superconducting cuprates):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1620-o11-b-mallett
O11.4 – Dr Evgeny Talantsev (In-Field Performance and Microstructure of High-Temperature
Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x Films Doped with BaZrO3):
n/a
PHYSICS RESEARCH 14: 13:00 – 15:00, Tuesday 17 October
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O14.1 – Professor Shaun Hendy (Models and simulations of the growth of carbon nanotubes):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1245-o14-s-hendy
O14.2 – Maher Elbohouty (Measuring Electrical Conductivity of Brain Tissue):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1315-o142-m-elbohouty
O14.3 – Alicia Cavan (Initial investigation of digital holographic interferometry as a pseudocalorimetric dosimetry method for microbeam radiotherapy (MRT)):
n/a
O14.4 – Professor Rick Millane (Diffraction imaging of the myosin superlattice of vertebrate
muscle):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1404-o14-r-millane
O14.5 – Islah-u-din Islah (Implanting Alkali Metal Atoms in Nanosized Cavities of OrganicInorganic Hybrids):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1425-o14-i-islah-udin
PHYSICS RESEARCH 15: 13:00 – 15:00, Tuesday 17 October
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O15.1 – Dr Murray Bartle (Combined Fast Neutron and Dual Energy Gamma Ray
Transmission (NEUDEG) Measurements to Non-invasively Assess Materials):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1245-o15-m-bartle
O15.2 – Yasar Kutuvantavida (Characterization of organic compounds for THz applications by
far-infrared and Raman spectroscopy):
n/a
O15.3 – Nicola Winch (X-ray imaging using a consumer grade digital SLR camera):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1345-o15-n-winch
O15.4 – Dr Geoff Willmott (Dynamics at Nano- and Microfluidic Interfaces):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1405-o15-g-willmott
O15.5 – Dr Bridget Ingham (A synchrotron EXAFS and XRD study of nickel carbon materials
for fuel cell catalysis):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1425-o15-b-ingham
PHYSIKOS
PHYSIKOS 1: 13:30 – 15:00, Monday 17 October
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O3.1 – Terry Devere (School OASIS: facilitating the transition to university study):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1330-o31-t-devere
O3.2 – Neil Riley (The best of both worlds):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1400-o32-n-riley
PHYSIKOS 2: 15:30 – 17:00, Monday 17 October
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O6.1 – Steve Chrystall (Rockets and Cycling Aerodynamics: new materials for physics
teachers on the Science Learning Hub):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o61-s-chrystall-10111927;
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o61-s-chrystall
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O6.2 – David Lillis (Statistical Modelling for Improvement of Secondary and Tertiary Physics
Assessments ):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1600-o62-d-lillis
O6.3 – Mike Savage (Weather Stations and Ice Cores: Scientific Field Work in Antarctica and
Greenland):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1630-o63-m-savage
O6.4 – John Hannah (Discussion on implementing physics teacher refresher courses):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1650-o64-j-hannah
PHYSIKOS 3: 13:00 – 15:00, Tuesday 18 October
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O9.1 – Terry Scott (The Concept of Force and the Mechanics Curriculum):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1300-o9-t-scott
O9.2 – Dennis Burchill (Learning Physics Using Analysis-Based Problem Solving):
n/a
O9.3 – Les Black (Data logging with Vernier):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1400-o93-l-black
PHYSIKOS 4: 15:30 – 17:00, Tuesday 18 October
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O12.1 – Catherine Low and Francis Bryden (Three ideas for teaching physics):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o121-c-low-and-f-bryden;
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o121-c-low-and-f-bryden-applications;
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1530-o121-c-low-and-f-bryden-emf
O12.2 – Tony “Haggis” Henderson (Give Your Science Lessons A Kick In The Arts):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1550-o122-t-henderson
O12.3 – John Wright & Paul Cliffe (Is NCEA a suitable assessment system for secondary
physics teaching?):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1620-o123-j-wright-and-p-cliffe
PHYSIKOS 5: 9:00 – 10:00, Wednesday 19 October
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O13.1 – Dave Thrasher (Physics new-matrix NCEA Internal Experiments a sharing session):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/900-o131-d-thrasher
O13.2 – Kent Hogan (Free Software for Teaching Physics):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/920-o132-k-hogan;
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/920-o132-k-hogan-10112389
O13.3 – Kerry Parker and Elizabeth Swinbank ("Physics" - what is it, what should students
know by the time they leave school ):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/940-o133-k-parker-and-e-swinbank
PHYSIKOS 6: 12:45 – 14:50, Wednesday 19 October
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O16.1 – Dennis Burchill (The Noisy Reef Teaching Sound in a Different Context With New
Equipment):
n/a
O16.2 – Laurie Christian and Annette Koo (www.irl.school.nz – we need your help!):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1315-o16-l-christian-a-koo
O16.3 – Les Black (Data logging with Vernier):
http://www.slideshare.net/NZIP/1400-o93-l-black