The 34th edition of Soup and Science was a hybrid event with both in-person and online sessions.ÌýStudents and community members heard from 18 outstanding McGill professors and 7 student speakers across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions. Click on the date for the online sessions to view theÌý video recording of the presentation.Ìý
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Monday September 19
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (In-person)
Prof. Genevieve Ali
Earth & Planetary Sciences; Geography
Watersheds as complex ecohydrological systems
Prof. Keita Christophe
Department of Psychology
Understanding risk, resilience, and cultural factors in racial/ethnic minority youth and families
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Prof. Grant McKenzie
Department of Geography
Location sharing and geoprivacy preservation
Prof. Reza Sharif Naeini
Department of Physiology
Neurophysiology
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Amaris Huang (Student Speaker)
Department of Psychology
Unsupervised detection of bots in likert type survey
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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Online)
Mathematics & Statistics
Statistical and machine learning methods for primarily network data
Prof. Nicolas Moitessier
Department of Chemistry
Chemical biology; Synthesis/Catalysis
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Prof. Pia Wintermark
Department of Pediatrics
Neonatal neurocritical care research
Yuyan Chen (Student Speaker)
Computer Science
Modelling Calcium Dynamics with PDE and Computer Vision
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Ruth Wang (Student Speaker)
Department of Physics
Relativistic-Moving Mirror
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Wednesday September 21
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (In-person)
Department of Physiology
Cardiovascular physiology and instrumentation
Department of Chemistry
Advanced battery materials design
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Prof. Maurice Chacron
Department of Physiology
Understanding how large neural populations give rise to behavior
Prof. Jackie Vogel
Department of Biology
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
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Sophia Howard (Student Speaker)
Mathematics & Statistics
Monte Carlo Integration
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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Online)
Department of Psychology
Clinical psychology and developmental science
Department of Geography
Land use and food systems
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Department of Geography
I heat only one room in the house
Lisa Papara (Student Speaker)
Department of Physiology
From bone marrow to microchannel: migratory behaviour of innate immune cells
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Kaiyuan Wang (Student Speaker)
Department of Geography and Earth & Planetary Sciences
Glaciologic response to climate change
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Friday September 23
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (In-person)
Department of Physics
Observing the Cosmos from the Ends of the Earth
Department of Psychology; MNI
Seeing seeing – live observation of visual circuit form and function
Department of Chemistry
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Unravelling the Molecular Secrets of Bacterial Pathogenicity by Hybrid Approaches
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Simone Têtu (Student Speaker)
Department of Physics
Comparing novel highly granular detectors for particle physics
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Acknowledgements
A special thank you to the Office of Science Education for partnering with the Research Office for the Fall 2022 Soup and Science.
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