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OCIP GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM - SYMPOSIUM DES ÉTUDIANTS DES CYCLES SUPÉRIEURS - SPRING 2026/PRINTEMPS 2026

Friday, May 1, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Richcraft Hall 2200 and Atrium for 2 min talks + posters

1

9:00

Archishna Bhattacharyya (PhD, UOttawa) (A Broadbent)

Uncloneable encryption exists

3

9:03

Christian Howard (MSc, UOttawa) (E Karimi)

Imaging walk off distortions in EPR photon pair correlations

5

9:06

James Hubble (MSc, UOttawa) (E Karimi)

Contrast-Enhanced Imaging Through Scattering Media with Entangled

Photons

7

9:09

Evan Norris (PhD, UOttawa) (L Ramunno)

Inverse Design of Plasmonic Nanostructures using Convolutional

Neural Networks

9

9:12

Mohammadreza Mohammadpour (MSc, UOttawa) (K Dolgaleva)

Enhanced SHG Microscopy by Plasmonic Metasurface

11

9:15

Athulya Thulaseedharan (PhD, UOttawa) (K Dolgaleva)

From Electrons to Light: Bonding Materials for Next-Generation

Photonic Chips

13

9:18

Farzane Farahi (PhD, UOttawa) (R Bhardwaj, T Brabec)

Transfer of orbital angular momentum of light to an ionized electron and

its influence on recollision dynamics

15

9:21

Kim Owen (PhD, UOttawa) (D Dalacu)

Coherent Excitation of Quantum Dot Nanowires using Notched

Adiabatic Rapid Passage (NARP)

17

9:24

Hannah Gallop (MSc, UOttawa) (A Stolow)

Quantum Enhanced SRS Microscopy

19

9:27

Sisira Suresh (PhD, UOttawa) (R Boyd)

Suppressing structural birefringence of plasmonic antennas using

Epsilon-Near-Zero thin layers

21

9:30

Cordell Steele (MSc, Carleton) (G Wells)

A Deep-Learning Approach to Reconstruction-Based Scatter

Compensation with Multi-pinhole SPECT

23

9:33

Dinindu Gunasekara (PhD, Carleton) (L Beaton)

Optimizing an Experimental Biodosimetry Method to Validate a Monte

Carlo Model of a Human Dermal Fibroblast

25

9:36

Meaghen Shiha (PhD, Carleton) (E Heath and E Vandervoort)

Assessing the Impact of Motion in Radiation Therapy of the Spine

27

9:39

Alex Demelo (MSc, Carleton) (E Heath, B Muir, J Renaud)

Development of an Accurate Monte Carlo Model of an Electronic Portal

Imaging Device (EPID) Towards Improved EPID Calibration

29

9:42

Prarthana Pasricha (PhD, Carleton) (R Thomson)

Tracking radiation energy deposition and cellular response- a monte

carlo perspective

31

9:45

Zichael Labomarel (MSc, Carleton) (A Berman)

Implementation of QQBOLD for Quantifying Regional Cerebral Blood

Oxygenation and Tissue Susceptibility during Resting State

Viewing of odd-numbered posters and refreshments

2

10:45

Raphaël Lafond-Mercier (PhD, UOttawa) (A Longtin)

Encoding sequences of events: How parametric heterogeneity maximizes

information content about time

4

10:48

Nicolas Rochette (MSc, UOttawa) (A Longtin)

A simplified dynamical model for the axon initial segment

6

10:51

Aidan Minto (MSc, UOttawa) (J Lefebvre, A Longtin)

Approximations to the Driven Stochastic Wilson-Cowan Model for

Neural Rhythms

8

10:54

Spencer Haskins (PhD, Carleton) (S Viel)

Dark Matter Search with the DEAP-3600 Detector Using the Profile

Likelihood Ratio Method

10

10:57

Akhil Maru (PhD, Carleton) (S Viel)

Measurement of the muon flux at SNOLAB using the DEAP-3600

experiment

12

11:00

Kevin Gracequist (MSc, Carleton) (S Viel)

Using machine learning to locate radioactive decays in liquid xenon

MSc with Data Science specialization

14

11:03

Samuel Moir (MSc, Carleton) (T Koffas)

Crystal Balls and Gradient Descent: The Future of Neural Networks in

the Search for the Higgs-to-Dimuon Decay

16

11:06

Ian Ramirez-Berend (PhD, Carleton) (K Graham)

Switched At Birth: Born Lepton Assignment of Semileptonic ttH Events

in the Search for the Higgs Decay to Dimuons

18

11:09

Ishan Vyas (PhD Carleton) (A Bellerive)

Measurement of Electroweak Z+jets Production at the LHC using

ATLAS Run 2 and Run 3 Data

20

11:12

Kimia Ghanaatpisheh (MSc Carleton) (S Ipek)

A Two-Step Phase Transition in the Early Universe

22

11:15

Jonathan Brunette (PhD, UOttawa) (A Luican-Mayer)

Controlling interfacial ferroelectricity and its interaction with the

environment

24

11:18

Xueying Li (PhD, UOttawa) (A Luican-Mayer)

Visualizing Moiré Patterns and Lattice Reconstruction in Twisted

Multilayer Graphene with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

26

11:21

Arezoo Afshar (PhD, UOttawa) (K Heshami)

Broadband Microwave Magnetometry Using Nitrogen-Vacancy n

Diamond

28

11:24

Mahdieh Chartabjabbari (PhD, UOttawa), (R Boyd)

Fast control of the transverse structure of a light beam using acoustooptic

modulators

Viewing of even-numbered posters

NB. Bold face numbers are the poster board numbers. In brackets are the names of

the supervisors.