2019 Schedule at a Glance

Poster Session & Photography Contest [5C East Hallway] April 3-15

1st Annual Photography Contest: Perspectives outside of the lab — science in the everyday. 

Often hidden or unnoticed, science permeates our daily lives in so many ways. As part of the 5th annual ScienceFest conference, and inspired by the S.P.A.C.E. theme of Perspective(S), students in all programs have been invited to participate in a photography contest that captures this notion and reveals the presence of science in the everyday.

Scheduled Talks and Demos

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Upper Atrium: Wed, April 3 - 13:00-14:30

  • Opening remarks
    Joel Trudeau
  • Demos
    • M.E.N.A.C.E. (Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine)
      David Alexander, Elizabeth Barnes, Rui Cong Su, Andy Hoang-Cao, Zachary Vernec
    • Arduino Micro Robots
      Engineering Physics project overseen by Jean Francois Brière, Hélène Nadeau, Joel Trudeau

3F.43 CoLab: Wed, April 3 - 14:30-15:00

  • Tempestry Project
    Elizabeth Barnes, Morgane Brouillard-Galipeau,Yu Lu Liu

3F.43 CoLab: Wed, April 3 - 15:00-16:00

  • Ghosts and tachyons in transparent branes
    Simon Lapointe, Manuel Toharia, Aidan Zentner
  • Particle physics
    AnQi Xu, Manuel Toharia
  • Flavour and the CKM matrix
    Andrew Salem, Manuel Toharia
  • Automated Discovery of Partial Differential Equations
    Zachary Vernec, Andy Hoang-Cao, Joel Trudeau

3F.43 CoLab: Wed, April 3 - 16:30-18:00

  • Hackathon 101
    Doria Bouzerar, Justin Petrilli, Eric Shen
  •  Accelerating Arduino
    Lyon Belyansky
  •  Arduino Research Work-in-progress
    Jason Alvarez-Luna, Lyon Belyansky, Amia Chowdhury, Carlos-Hidalgo Montesino, Joel Trudeau
  • Programming with Arduino: An Innovative Way to Projects
    Yu Shi Wang, Yu Qi Zhou
  • Marvin: AI and the Science of Art Production
    Joel Trudeau
  • Magenta: Machine Learning
    Owen Rodgers
  • M.E.N.A.C.E.
    David Alexander
  • How To Win a Hackathon
    Ding Yi Zhang
  • Dyson Swarm: An Approach to a Type 2 Civilization
    Ian Langleben, Chloé Mersereau, Maya Tatarelli, Aidan Zentner

Thursday, April 4, 2019

3F.43 CoLab: Thurs, April 4 - 10:00-11:30

Students participating in the organ lab have constructed human organs or interactive presentations:

  • Brain Model – Pouya Jafarian
  • Action Potential – Amélie Mainville-Berthiaume, Bintia Diallo
  • Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye – Liang Zeng, Stefania Luisa Lozici
  • The Spleen – Olivia Di Domenico, Tyler Baum
  • Diaphragm/lung display – Timothy Wong
  • Model of a Uterus – Catherine Makarewicz, Rafael Intrevado
  • Lung Physiology – Sarah Sikder
  • Inner Ear Equilibrium – Yeekyung Kim
  • Anatomy and Physiology of the Uterus – Fan Xie, Inderpreet Grewal.
  • Human Anatomy: Kidney Function – Mark Nikiforov
  • The Beauty of a Kidney – Teodora Stanciu
  • The Function of the Ear on Balance – Chrysanthi Giotsalitis
  • Arm Model – Evan Dimentberg
  • Teeth – Michael Ferrante, Genna Cianci
  • Skeletal muscles of the upper arm – Catarina Campanella, Chaimaa Ouizzane
  • Small Intestine Demo – Tiziana Arcuri
  • Articulatory Phonetics – Daphney Noseworthy
  • Organ System for intestinal parasites – Gabriel Malka

3F.43 CoLab: Thurs, April 4 - 11:30-13:00

  • Demystifying CRISPR
    Omar Kanaa Alhalabi
  • The Silent Killer
    Victoria Mazur, Lara Da Ponte
  • Using Advanced Diffusion-Weighted Imaging to Study White-Matter Pathologies Associated with Working Memory Deficits After Concussions
    Kenza El Ghomari, Matthew Williams and Guido Guberman
  • The Key to Randomness
    Celeste Groux
  • Sustainable Agriculture in Costa Rica
    Catriona Daley
  • Impact of Chlorinated Water on Species Biodiversity in Dawson College’s Rooftop Garden Pond
    Grace McDougall-Vick, Olivia Ienaro, Matthew Zeitouni

3F.43 CoLab: Thurs, April 4 - 13:00-14:30

  • Astrophysics Presentations:
    • Black Holes – Alex Truong
    • Europa  – Zachary Forgues
    • Nebula  – Christine Gianfelice
    • The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – Elfelsoufi Mohamed Amine
    • Magnetars – David Koranteng
    • Gravitational Waves – Hugo Choquette
    • String Theory – Hilla Toledano
    • Gravitational Lensing – Abdullah Al-Sayyed
  • The Search for Exoplanets – Nadim Boukhira
  • Lighting Up the Brain
    Shaan Baig

Friday, April 5, 2019

3F.34: Friday, April 5 - 10:30-11:30

  • Ecology & Culture in Costa Rica
    Mia Edger-Lacoursière, Jonathan Chelini, Clara Bajraktari, Catriona Daley, Miranda Brassard

3F.34: Friday, April 5 - 12:00-13:00

  • Ecology & Culture in Costa Rica Gloria Mutombo, Zoe Rabinovitch, Ashley Spanier-Levasseur, Dylan Kaufman, Lara Herscovici, Morgane Brouillard-Galipeau, Sophia Vlasov, Jessica Canaj
  • McGurk Effect
    Angely Te and Shania Marie Que

5B.16: Friday, April 5 - 13:00-16:00


Science on Tourne!

The 2019 edition of Science, on Tourne! challenges students to build an autonomous, mobile machine that races on a circular track using only the force of gravity for its propulsion.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

3F.43 CoLab: Wed, April 10 - 16:00-18:00

Students of Anatomy and Physiology have put together presentations on various topics:

  • Leading Causes of Blindness – Juliette Dery
  • Self-Consciousness – Jonathan Rieck
  • Stress and Immunity: A More Direct Relationship Than What We Believe? – Ruchika Sharma
  • Bone Growth – Amrita Gosaine
  • Adaptive Immune Response – Evan Puligandla, Dean Bizogias, Zack Dahan
  • Stem Cells: The Next Step in Modern Medicine – Brendan Flores
  • Therapeutic Role of Melatonin in lschemia Recovery – Maria Kametani
  • More dopamine please – Ruben Yamin
  • In Vitro Fertilization: A Chance at Conception – Lia Loebenberg
  • Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation – Sarah Mailhot
  • Schizophrenia and Substance Abuse – Abigail Wajszilber
  • The Evolution of the Human Eye – Shai Edery, Zoey Nicely, Haim Bouhadan
  • C. diff – Fecal Bacteria Therapy – Cristina Brown

Awards Banquet [3F.43 CoLab] Friday, April 5 – 16:00-17:30

Awards presentations, refreshments and discussion.

  • Closing remarks
    Nadim Boukhira, Brian Mader, Joel Trudeau

Dawson Hackathon [5B.16] April 12-13



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