Physics & Astronomy professor Bruce Gaulin has been elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society as a recognition by his peers of his outstanding contributions to physics. He is being cited “For leadership in the application of scattering techniques to problems in phase transitions and magnetism”, and the election will be published in March 2006.
Physics and Astronomy graduate student Michael Massa and Assistant Professor Kari Dalnoki-Veress were praised in the journal Nature by professor of physical chemistry at the University of Sheffield, Anthony Ryan, for their “elegantly simple” technique to study nucleation, the beginnings of crystallization. Ryan was commenting on their work published in Physical Review Letters (92, 255509; 2004).
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University Avenue was officially renamed today to ‘Brockhouse Way’ in honour of Bertram Brockhouse, the 1994 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Phyics.
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The inaugural winners of the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering, Sajeev John and Geoffrey Ozin, will discuss their work on photonics at the Brockhouse Canada Prize Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 12. The prize was formed as a tribute to the co-winner of the 1994 Nobel prize in Physics by Bertram Brockhouse, professor of physics at McMaster from 1962 to 1984.
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The first annual Jim Waddington Prize in Physics & Astronomy was awarded to Emma Mazurek by Jim Waddington at a gathering of undergraduates and Professors in the Department. Emma, who achieved the highest standing in Physics 1BA3, is currently in Level 2, Honours Physics.
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All 153 members of the department were congratulated by way of a free lunch at the University Club for the best participation on campus for the Commuter Challenge, a week-long event that takes place across the country to encourage people to find other ways of getting to work other than by driving alone. Lecturer Ken Sills and senior physics student Christian Veenstra were commended and presented with gifts for their successful organizational work.
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Effective July 1, 2005, David Venus takes over the reins from John Berlinsky as the chair of the department of Physics & Astronomy. Stepping in as associate chair is Kari Dalnoki-Veresswho replaces Graeme Luke.
Physics & Astronomy professor Peter G. Sutherland will end his term as Dean of Science at the end of the month handing over those duties to John Capone.
Joseph Ian Jeyaseelan, a student in grade 12 at St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton has won the Department of Physics & Astronomy Entrance Award Draw for 2005.
Congratulations are in order for our grad students returning with end-of-meeting prizes from the annual meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society which just wound up in Montreal.
From the national astronomy grad student association, one of the two prizes for Best Poster Presentation by a student went to Sijing Shen (McMaster), and for Best Oral Presentation to Steve Bickerton (McMaster).
From the CASCA Board of Directors, the prize for best oral presentation went to Soko Matsumura (McMaster) with an honourable mention to Steve Bickerton.
Cliff Burgess, a high-energy particle theorist, has accepted the offer of a position as Professor at McMaster. Recently awarded a Killam Research Fellowship, he will continue to divide his time between McMaster and the Perimeter Institute.