Name: 2022 AfLS, AfPS Conference
Start: 2022-11-14T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-11-18T23:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 14 November 2022
09:30 African Physical Society
African Physical Society
09:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Compatibility of Transformer Insulating Paper (Kraft paper) with Nanofluid prepared from Neem Oil Ester - SAMSON OKIKIOLA Oparanti (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555, boulevard de l'Université, Saguenay, Quebec, G7H 2B1)

10:30 (2+1)D Graphene in a magnetic field in Non-Commutative Space - LAKHDAR SEK (University of Biskra-Algeria)

11:00 Simulation of X-ray tubes using Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit - Abdelghani Idrissi (ERSN, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.)

11:30 Ferrimagnetic mixed Ising spin (7/2, 1/2) system: by Mean Field Theory, Exact Recursion Relations and Monte Carlo method - G. Dimitri NGANTSO (Groupe de Simulations numériques en Magnétisme et Catalyse (GSMC), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, P.O. Box 69, Université Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville, Congo.)
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Contributions

14:00 Opening - Philip Oluseyi Oladijo (Botswana International University of Science and Technology)

14:05 AfLS Welcome Address - Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

14:10 AfPS Welcome Address - Ahmadou Wague (African Physical; Society)

14:15 BIUST Welcome Address
14:30
14:30 - 15:00
Contributions

14:30 Bio/chemo-inspired electronic oscillators and their use in commanding/modulating optoelectronic and microelectromechanical systems - Paul Woafo (University of Yaounde I)
15:00 AfLS-Contribution
AfLS-Contribution
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 How the characterization of cement-based materials by beamline techniques can boost sustainable development in Africa - Luca Valentini (University of Padua)

15:30 XAFS studies at Photon Factory, KEK, and a faculty and student team visit - Hitoshi Abe (Photon Factory (PF), Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))
Partner - Contribution
Partner - Contribution
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 The cosmology of changing 'constants' - Amare Abebe (North-West University)

15:15 Production of a Higgs boson in association with a pair of fermions in the presence of a circularly polarized laser field - Moha OUALI (Recherche Laboratory in Physics and Engineering Sciences, Team of Modern and Applied Physics, FPBM, USMS, Morocco) Moha OUALI (Recherche Laboratory in Physics and Engineering Sciences, Team of Modern and Applied Physics, FPBM, USMS, Morocco.)

15:30 Thermodynamics of Non-linear magnetic-charged AdS black hole surrounded by quintessence, in the background of perfect fluid dark matter - Ragil Ndongmo (University of Yaoundé 1)

15:45 Induced neutrino charge in a magnetized medium - Ankur Chaubey
16:00

16:00 - 16:15
16:15 Plenary
Plenary
16:15 - 17:15
Contributions

16:15 A Centre of Excellence in Planetary Space Science and Technology in Africa - Fulvio Franchi (BIUST)

16:45 A Synchrotron as Accelerator of Science Development in Central America and the Caribbean - Galileo Viollini
17:15

17:15 - 17:30

17:30 Ministers Forum
Ministers Forum
17:30 - 19:00
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
10:00 African Physical Society
African Physical Society
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 NCO and OCN adsorption and decomposition study on the Ag(110) surface - Cedric Clarfeler Boungou

10:30 Edge detection of lithological structures Using Analytical Signal Technique on gravity data; a case of Gombe arm of Benue Trough - Michael Ohakwere-Eze Alhassan Ahmad (Federal University of Kashere)

11:00 Shape evolution of even-A {112-124}^Sn isotopes within RHB - Mohamed El Adri (Cadi Ayyad University, FSSM)

11:30 Topological phases of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger alternating ladders - Anas Abdelwahab (Leibniz University Hannover)
14:00 Plenary
Plenary
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 The European XFEL Facility - Robert Fiedenhasl (European XFEL)

14:30 The Compact XFEL Project - William Graves (Arizona State University)

15:00 A report on the LAAAMP FA-ST team visit to the ESRF - Gideon Chinamatira (University of the Witwatersrand)
15:30

15:30 - 15:45
15:45
15:45 - 17:15
Contributions

15:45 Serial Femto Second Crystallography - Henry Chapman (DESY)

16:15 Ultra fast atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis: a new chapter in the goal of atomic movies - Simon Billinge (Columbia University)

16:45 In vivo crystallization of protein targets for African Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosoma brucei) Therapeutics - Lars Redeke (Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Biochemie)
17:15

17:15 - 17:30
17:30 IMA
IMA
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Application of Synchrotron Radiation to High Pressure Mineral Physics of Earth’s Core - Eiji Ohtani (Tohoku University)

18:00 The effect of water on the elasticity of minerals - Tiziana Boffa Ballaran (University of bayreuth) Tiziana Boffa Ballaran (University of Bayreuth)

18:15 How the synchrotron light can prove planetological knowledge: the case of icy planetary bodies - paola comodi

18:30 Synchrotron radiation study of a 200 year-old Gaylussite (Na2Ca(CO3)2·5H2O) specimen from Lagunillas-Mérida, Venezuela, and comparison with a specimen from Lake Magadi, Kenya. - Analio Dugarte-Dugarte (Laboratorio de Cristalografía-LNDRX, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela) Andrew Fitch (ESRF) Catherine Dejoie (ESRF) Graciela Diaz de Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes) José Miguel Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes)
17:30 - 19:15
Contributions

17:30 Environmental and human health risks assessment of potentially toxic elements content in soils of a prospective phosphate mining area in Hinda district, Republic of Congo - Russel Rolphe Caroll MOUBAKOU DIAHOU (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences Exactes et Naturelles (IRSEN))

17:45 Major, minor and trace element concentrations in leaves of Lavandula stoechas collected from Senhaja Srair region (North of morocco) by INAA and ICP-MS. - EL Mahjoub CHAKIR (Laboratory of materials physics and subatomic, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra,) Hamid Bounouira (CNESTEN)

18:00 AUTOMOBILE BATTERY MONITORING SYSTEM USING ARDUINO UNO R3 MICROCONTROLLER BOARD - Ignatius Barasa (University of Nairobi)

18:15 Development of Networks of Low-Cost Air Quality Monitors in African Cities - Bertrand TCHANCHE (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey)

18:30 ULTRASONIC BASED RADAR MAPPING SYSTEM USING MATLAB - Rodgers Mutugi Gichuru (Maasai Mara University)
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
10:00 African Physical Society
African Physical Society
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 FABRICATION OF SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY SUBSTRATES USING SILVER NANOPARTICLES PRODUCED BY LASER ABLATION IN LIQUIDS - Annah Ondieki (University of Nairobi)

10:30 Transition probability and oscillator strength determination in Os4+ by means of semi-empirical HFR+CPOL and ab initio MCDHF-RCI - Saturnin Enzonga Yoca (Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Marien Ngouabi University)

11:00 Fuel burnup calculations for current LEU fuel and converted HEU fuel for the Nigerian Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1) using the WIMS-ANL computer code - DENNIS SOLOMON BALAMI (UNIVERSITY OF ,MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE NIGERIA)

11:30 Numerical Modeling and Optimization of CaZrS3 chalcogenide Perovskite Solar Cell by Using SCAPS-1D with theoretical efficiency approaching 20% - Najwa Chawki
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 African Light Source + CDR Focus - Sekazi Mtingwa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Brookhaven National Laboratory& African Laser Centre)

14:30 Dark Field X-ray Microscopy: A Synchrotron-based Rock'n Roll Imaging - Can Yildirim (ESRF)

15:00 Quantitative and chemical nanoimaging of heterogeneous materials by 3D X-ray ptychography - Julio Cesar da Silva (Institute Neel CNRS and ESRF)
15:30

15:30 - 15:45
15:45
15:45 - 16:15
Contributions

15:45 A versatile and multi-disciplinary electron microscopy facility at the tip of Africa - Robert Knutsen (University of Cape Town)
16:15
16:15 - 17:15
Contributions

16:15 SESAME - Highlights and Africa - Andrea Lausi (SESAME)

16:45 SESAME - SR-based XAFS/XRF techniques and applications - Messaoud Harfouche (SESAME)
17:15

17:15 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 19:30
Contributions

17:30 SESAME - IR Beamline: an oasis of multidisciplinary scientific domains - Gihan Kamel (SESAME Light Source)

18:00 SESAME - X-ray diffraction research opportunities at SESAME Materials Science beamline - Mahmoud Abdellatief (SESAME synchrotron)

18:30 SESAME - HESEB: the first soft x-ray beamline at SESAME and the research opportunities it brought - Mustafa Genisel (SESAME)

19:00 SESAME - Updates from BEATS, the BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME - Gianluca Iori (SESAME)
Thursday, 17 November 2022
10:00 African Physical Society
African Physical Society
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Optimized RbGeI3 based perovskite solar cell with efficiency exceeding 29% - Mohamed Alla (Mohammed V University , Rabat, Morocco.)

10:30 Adsorption of Br2 molecule on the Fe/W(110) substrate: Energetics, electronic and magnetic properties - Aubin Lauril LOMANGA OKANA (Marien NGOUABI University)

11:00 The atomic and electronic structure stability of 3C-SiC/SiC interface superstructures: A DFT calculation - Eric Abavare (KNUST)

11:30 Advances in Materials Characterization and Analysis using the Powder Diffraction File - Soorya Kabekkodu (ICDD)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Middle East and Pacific (LAAAMP) - Michele Zema (International Union of Crystallography)

14:30 The current impact and the bright future of X-ray imaging for palaeontology and evolutionary biology - Kathleen Dollman (ESRF)
15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 How synchrotron scanning changed the evolutionary history of sense organs in mammals and their ancestors - Julien Benoit (Evolutionary Studies Institute, WITS, Johannesburg)

15:30 Elettra SYRMEP (SYnchrotron Radiation for MEdical Physics) beamline - Franco Zanini (Elettra)
16:00

16:00 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 17:15
Contributions

16:15 Study of multicomponent materials at the BAMline, a multipurpose synchrotron beamline - Kirill Yusenko (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM))

16:45 Tribological and Synchrotron Characterization of sputtered WC-Co thin films - Resego Phiri (BIUST)
17:15

17:15 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:30 XTech Lab - Science and Progress - Thierry d'Almeida (CEA)

18:00 NSLS-II Highlights and Africa - Qun Shen (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
18:30
18:30 - 19:00
Contributions

18:30 Biomedical Research and Biosciences at NSLS-II - Sean McSweeney (BNL)

18:45 Catalysis and Chemical Sciences at NSLS-II - Ira Waluyo (BNL)
Friday, 18 November 2022
10:00 African Physical Society
African Physical Society
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Identification of waste plastics Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy - Brian Osoro (Maasai Mara University)

10:30 Development of Smartphone-based malaria detection system - Alphonce Opiyo (Maasai Mara University, Narok)

11:00 Frist-Principles Study of Magnetic Susceptibility and Field-Dependent Magneto-Optics in Antiferromagnetic Materials - Kisung Kang (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

11:30 Salt Tolerance in Glaberrima rice: Mechanism and approach using micro-proton induced x- ray emission techniques - Alassane TRAORE (Universite Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar)
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Current status and future plans of BL04B1/SPring-8 - Yuji Higo (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute)

13:30 Synchrotron for Neuroscience – an Asia Pacific Strategic Enterprise” (SYNAPSE) - SYNAPSE Consortium (SYNAPSE)

14:00 The beamlines XAFS and XRF at Elettra: scientific highlights and opportunities - Giuliana Aquilanti

14:30 Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS) - Martin Dierolf ( Technical University of Munich)
15:00

15:00 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 17:45
Contributions

15:15 ESRF-EBS Highlights and Africa - Michael Krisch (ESRF)

15:45 LNLS - Highlights and Africa - Harry Westfahl (LNLS)

16:15 Diamond - Highlights and Africa - Sam Horrell (Diamond Light Source)

16:45 SESAME Director - Khaled Toukan (Chairman of Jordan Atomic Energy Commission)

17:15 AfCA - Science and Progress for Africa
17:45

17:45 - 18:00
18:00
18:00 - 18:30
Contributions

18:00 3 Wise Sages

18:15 BIUST Executive Closing

18:25 Thank you and Closing Ceremony - Philip Oluseyi Oladijo (Botswana International University of Science and Technology)