The 35th edition of Soup and Science was held on campus from Monday March 6-10. Students and community members heard from outstanding McGill professors and student speakers across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions.
Monday March 6
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Prof. Audrey Moores
Department of Chemistry
Sustainable Nanomaterials
Prof. Courtney Paquette
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
High-dimensional optimization with applications to machine learning
Prof. Tami Pereg Barnea
Department of Physics
Majorna fermions in condensed matter
Prof. Darius Scott
Department of Geography
Conceptualizing health at the intersection of stigma and racism
Sally Yao (Student Speaker)
Department of Chemistry
Improving nuclease resistance of nucleic acid strands with small molecule supramolecular assembly
Tuesday March 7
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Prof. Ivy Tan
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Clouds in a changing climate
Prof. Alex Maloney
Department of Physics
Quantum mechanics of black holes
Prof. Brendan Johns
Department of Psychology
Large-scale computational models of cognition
Sloane Sirota (Student Speaker)
Department of Physics
Observation of strange particles at the large hadron collider
Wednesday March 8
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Prof. Nagissa Mahmoudi
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
What are microbes eating and why
Prof. William Minarik
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Everything everywhere all the time: environmental monitoring and undergraduate science
Prof. Sarah Moser
Department of Geography
New cities lab
Sascha Woolcott (Student Speaker)
Department of Chemistry
The potential of quatsomes as disinfectants with improved anti-biofilm activity
Thursday March 9
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Prof. Peter Douglas
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Using isotopes to understand methane emissions: from thawing permafrost to the oil sands
Prof. Brent Pym
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Interactions between geometry, statistics, and quantum theory
Prof. Brian Robinson
Department of Geography
Livelihoods, environment, and development
Prof. Youla Tsantrizos
Department of Chemistry
Following the prenylome in cancer - what have we learned and where are we going?
Sativa Kawakami (Student Speaker)
Department of Biology
Learning as we go: adaptive methodology for a bio-cultural survey along portage paths of Kitcisakik
Friday March 10
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, McConnell Engineering Room 304
Prof. Linan Chen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Randomness in infinite dimensions
Prof. Yue Li
School of Computer Science
Machine learning for genomics and healthcare
Prof. Alvin Shrier
Department of Physiology
Cardiac Ionics and dynamics
Prof. John White
Department of Physiology
Links between vitamin D and autoimmunity: the smoking gun
Antoine Moitessier (Student Speaker)
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Evaluating aptamers as DNA repair inhibitors
Previous Editions
Visit the pages below for information on previous editions of Soup and Science.
- 34th edition: September 2022
- 33rd edition: January 2022
- 32nd edition: Fall 2021
- Sun and Science: July 2021
- 31st edition: February 2021
- 30th edition: September 2020
- Sun and Science: May - August 2020
- 29th edition: January 2020
- 28th edition: September 2019
- 27th edition: January 2019
- 26th edition: September 2018
- 25th edition: January 2018