| Biography |
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| I am a Grade 11 student at St. George's School in Vancouver, BC. Having emigrated from Argentina 6 years ago, I discovered the wonders of science fair relatively late, in my Grade 10 year. The exhilarating leap from science textbooks to solving real-life science problems is but one of the many reasons I chose to continue science fair this year (this is my first year to CWSF). Although I very much enjoy learning for the sake of learning in general, I am rather lopsided on the math and physics side, planning to major in mathematics and another quantitative science in university. To express my artistic ideas, I, a former VYSO member, like to play the violin. On a tangential note, I secretly dream of owning a Stradivarius. |
| Carlos Daniel Xu
Gravito-Meissner Effect in Neutron Star Systems
| Challenge: | Discovery | | Category: | Senior | | Region: | Greater Vancouver | | City: | Vancouver, BC | | School: | St George's School | | Abstract: | Under the framework of gravitomagnetism, in which we consider the component of gravity that behaves like magnetism, we can investigate the gravity analogy of the Meissner effect, the phenomenon by which a superconductor repels external magnetic fields, in superfluid neutron stars. Upon deriving mathematical models, we find the hypothesized repulsion of gravito-magnetic fields to be false. Instead, the gravitational Meissner effect magnifies external gravito-magnetic fields. |
| Awards | Value | The Manning Innovation Achievement Award
Sponsor: Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation | $500.00 | The Manning Innovation Achievement Award
and $4000 Manning Young Canadian Innovation Award
Sponsor: Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation | $4 000.00 | Challenge Award - Discovery
Senior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada | $1 000.00 | Excellence Award - Senior
Gold Medal
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada | $1 500.00 | Dalhousie University Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship
Senior Gold Medallist - $5000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: Dalhousie University, Faculty of Science | $5 000.00 | UBC Science (Vancouver) Entrance Award
Senior Gold Medallist - $4000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: The University of British Columbia (Vancouver) | $4 000.00 | University of Manitoba Entrance Scholarship
Senior Gold Medallist - $5000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Manitoba | $5 000.00 | University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship
Senior Gold Medallist - $4,000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Ottawa | $4 000.00 | Western University Scholarship
Gold Medallist - $4000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: Western University | $4 000.00 | | Total | $29 000.00 | |
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