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SAIP 2011 Tuesday 12 July 2011 - Friday 15 July 2011 Saint George Hotel Book of Abstracts ii Contents Defects and Reconstructions in Electron Beam Irradiated Graphene Sheets . 1 Simulating chorus generation via Particle-in-cell simulations ................ 1 Numerical Field Analysis of the Magnets for a proposed Ionisation Beam Profile Monitor for High Current Synchrotron and Cooler Rings. .................... 2 PLASMON: Data Assimilation of the Earth’s Plasmasphere ................. 3 Testing the Cosmic Ray-Lightning Connection Hypothesis ................. 4 Trajectories of electrons in a realistic model of the Earth’s magnetic field . 4 Enhancing the understanding of entropy through computation ............... 5 On the orbital rehybridization in tetrahedral amorphous carbon .............. 5 Studies of thermodynamic, structural and electronic properties of substitutional defects in models of single-walled carbon and boron nitride nanotubes .............. 6 Lightning induced whistler waves as a cause of electron precipitation ........... 7 The synthesis and characterization of tin oxide SnO2 nanorods ............... 7 Synthesis & Characterization of Porphyrin Nanotubes/Rods for Solar Radiation Harvesting and Solar Cells ....................................... 8 Antimatter production in pp and in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies . 9 Metal-Semiconductor Ohmic Contacts: An ab initio Density Functional Theory Study of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Metal-Diamond (111)-(1x1) Interfaces. 9 The Physics of Exceptional Points ............................... 10 Lightning – Scientific knowledge versus mythological beliefs . 10 National Curriculum Statement achievement levels – Can they serve as a measure of science students’ preparedness for university study? ....................... 11 Pt –Al203 nanocoatings for high temprature concentrated solar thermal power applications ................................................ 12 Clay/sawdust porous pots for water treatment ........................ 12 iii Density-matrix renormalization group study of the electro-absorption in conjugated poly- mers ............................................. 13 Algebraic density functionals ................................. 13 Synthesis and characterization of Water soluble Covellite Copper Sulphide Quantum Dots 14 Genetic algorithms in astronomy and astrophysics ..................... 15 Finite Element Calculations for Molecules with multiple Coulomb Centers . 15 Mirror symmetry for nuclei near or beyond the proton drip line . 16 Properties of the Interstellar medium in nearby galaxies . 16 Evaluation of WC-9Co-4Cr laser surface alloyed coatings on stainless steel . 17 A Diagnostic ’tool’ to prevent the consequences of material failure . 18 Successes and Failures of Numerical Solutions to the 1-Dimentional Marchenko Integral Equation for Quantum Inverse Scattering ......................... 18 Vanadium Dioxide Nanoplatelets Based nanocomposites for IR Solar Radiation Modulation ................................................ 19 Optimised Hyperchaotic Modes of a Triple Pendulum .................... 20 Influence of solvent effects on Qy transitions in chlorophyll . 20 Modeling X-ray Emission and the SED of the Binary Radio Pulsar AE Aquarii . 21 ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large Survey Project for Radio Transients . 22 Campaign for Vicarious Calibration of SumbandilaSat in Argentina . 22 Simple Pendulum: A first year students’ dilemma. ...................... 23 The Infrared Plasma Resonance of P inSiC .......................... 23 NON-SPECIALIST: The Recommissioning of SALT ..................... 24 Germanium-Carbide Formation on Crystal Germanium Substrate . 24 KIC Rumple, the binary system with eclipses and δ Scuti pulsations . 25 Investigation of broken symmetry of Sb/Cu(111) surface alloys by VT- STM . 26 Optical study of the Southern high mass star forming region RCW 34 . 27 The decoration of vicinal copper polycrystalline surfaces by Antimony . 27 Multi-instrument observations of spread F irregularities over South Africa . 28 The study of the distortion of F- and Ba- sublattices in superionic BaF2 at elevated temper- atures using positron annihilation technique. ...................... 29 Predicting human epidermal melanin concentrations for different skin tones . 29 iv Evaluation of satellites LAGEOS I and II; general relativistic accelerations in the Schwarzschild field of Earth ......................................... 30 Optical Coherence Tomography as a diagnostic tool (Biophysics) . 31 Statistical Analysis of Outer Electron Radiation Belt Dropouts: Geosynchronous and Low Earth Orbit Responses During Stream Interfaces ..................... 31 Study of rare modes of ”collinear cluster tri-partition” of 252Cf(sf) . 32 Resin phantoms as skin simulating layers ........................... 33 Enhancement of hydrogen production using biomass gasification process . 33 Non-resonant microwave absorption in FeSi thin films ................... 34 Magnetic vector charges in the realization of nonzero magnetic work . 34 Nanoscale manipulataion of lamellar copolymers using electric fields. 35 Theoretical derivation of an equation for planetary distances from thesun . 35 Solution-processed CuSe Quantum Dots Photovoltaics ................... 36 A synthetic diamond probe for both low-energy mammography X-rays and high-energy electron therapy beams ................................... 37 Photoluminescence Surface Mapping as a Probe for Quantum Well Disorder . 37 Dependence of Aspect Ratio of InSb Self-Assembled Quantum Dots on Thickness and In- dium Mole Fractions of Spacer Layers ........................... 38 The unusual Seyfert Markarian 926 - a link to the LINERs? . 39 Eclipsing Contact Binary Stars – Period Analysis using SuperWASP data . 39 Development of a laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping experiment for Rubidium 87 atoms ............................................. 40 Daytime modeling of VLF radio waves over land and sea, comparison to DEMETER satellite data. ............................................. 40 Bilinear expansion of the photon quantum field and the emergence of classical mechanics from quantum field theory ................................. 41 Numerical modelling of stellar winds for supernova progenitors . 42 Photometric solutions of eclipsing binary stars ........................ 42 Training Senior student to be ”IIL” competent Physics lecturers . 43 Orbital Environment Risk Assessment for SumbandilaSAT . 43 Ab-initio study of structural stability and electronic structure of monoclinic and cubic ZrO<sub>2-x</sub>S<sub>x</sub>x for 0 ≤ X < 2 .................... 44 South African e-Infrastructure for physics applications ................... 45 v Effect of carbon modification on the electrical, structural and optical properties ofTiO2 electrodes and their performance in lab-scale dye sensitized solar cells . 46 Heat treatment of glassy carbon implanted with strontium at room and high temperatures ................................................ 46 Identification of compounds in materials using tomography imaging, a possibility atthe SANRAD facility ...................................... 47 Emittance measurements of ion beams extracted from a prototype microwave ion source using the Slit-Grid technique ................................ 48 Reactive DC magnetron sputter deposition and characterization of ZrN thin films . 48 XPS analysis and luminescence properties of commercially Gd2O2S:Tb powder phosphor 49 Towards Scientific Establishment and Validation of Quality Standards for Digital Thermal Neutron Imaging ...................................... 49 The extent of the chorus observed at Marion Island ..................... 50 Modification of the bandoffset in boronitrene ........................ 51 Computational study of some Carbon modification ..................... 51 Black Cr/α-Cr2O3 Nanoparticles Based Solar Absorbers: Growth Kinetic . 52 B3-B1 phase transition in GaAs: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study . 53 Assessment of glassy carbon as a high-level nuclear waste containment material . 53 Atmospheric turbidity over Gauteng ............................. 54 Intermediate valence and antiferromagnetic Kondo lattice behaviour in Ce(Au<sub>1-x</sub>Ni<sub>x</sub>)<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>. ................................................ 55 Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for monitoring heavy metals in soils . 55 Theoretical study on possible structures for crystalline silicon dicarbide . 56 Magnetic behavior of the Cr-Al alloys system round the triple point concentration . 57 Effect of pH on the morphology and orientation of Fe2O3 nanostructures grown using aqueous chemical growth ................................. 57 Effect of growth rate and ZnO buffer layer on the structural and optical properties of MOCVD-grown MgxZn1-xO thin films .......................... 58 Learners’ Understanding of Ammeter and Voltmeter in a DC Schematic Circuit . 58 Determining optical performance and current generation of a CPV due to intensity distri- bution ............................................ 59 Laser Irradiation: A Complementary Treatment for Wounds? . 60 Micromachining of optical fibers with a Nd:YAG laser at 532 nm using a spatial filter . 60 vi DRS, XRD and SEM studies of the effects of metal dopants (Pt, Au and Pd) on the structural and optical properties of TiO2. ............................... 61 Ferromagnetism in nuclear matter ............................... 62 Ferromagnetic neutron stars .................................
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