Speakers

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Topic:  A VIew of the Multiverse from the Top Down to the Bottom Up
Speaker:  Dr. Joe Bramante

Dr. Joe Bramante is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University.  After completing his PhD at the University of Hawaii, Joe held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Notre Dame and the Perimeter Institute, where he focused on the theory and phenomenology of dark matter and the early universe. His main research objective is to construct well-motivated theories that describe fundamental physics and to find new and hopefully elegant ways for humans to test those theories.

Currently most of Joe’s time is spent on identifying extensions of our standard understanding of nature, that experimental physicists and astronomers can then search for. Right now, he is in the process of demonstrating how detectors already operating at SNOLAB can be used to search for a new type of dark matter particle: multiply interacting massive particles (MIMPs).

Learn how fictitious characters are woven into real events to create an engaging narrative. Sarah, a servant orphaned by cholera in London in 1869 desperately seeks her family. Richard, the disgraced son of an eastern Ontario sawmill owner must redeem himself, then seek his own path. Their journeys are brought together by a group of Home Children.

Bio. Laurie Ness Gordon, author of Finding Home and The Medal, has worked as an educator, workshop presenter and volunteer Project Manager for a touring art exhibition. She currently supports refugees from Syria and Somalia. She enjoys making music, travelling, swimming, shoveling snow and being ‘productive’. Her favourite holiday memory is a 5-week motorcycle trip across Canada.

Speaker: A Rotarian from Gananoque.