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2024 Graduates – in progress
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Megan Cvitan
- January 25, 2024
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Thesis: Simulating barium ion motion in liquid xenon for a future barium tagging upgrade of nEXO
- Supervisro(s): Alan Chen and Annika Lennarz
Sami Ullah Khan Bangash
- February 26, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Designing and Evaluating a 109 Cd based XRF System For Skin Iron Measurements: A Validation Study in Normal and Iron Overload Conditions
- Supervisor(s): Michael Farquharson and Fiona McNeill
Jiaming Wang
- June 18, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D
- Thesis: Local Physics of Disordered Quantum Spin Liquid Systems Individuated by NMR and Inverse Laplace Transform 1=T1 Analysis
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
Celine Greis
- July 3, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Ram Pressure Stripping of Molecular Gas
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Anton Borissov
- July 26, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Low-Energy Effective Field Theories for the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Metal with Z2, O(2) and O(3) Spin Symmetries
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Desiree Rehel
- July 26, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Sensitivity of Block Co-polymer Self-Assembly to the Modification of a Single Monomer
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Hamza Khattak
- July 31, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Driven Motion in Droplets
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Laura Bickley
- August 1, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Studies to improve the in-vivo measurement of strontium by X-ray fluorescence
- Supervisor(s): Fiona McNeill
Lauren Foster
- August 6, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Measuring the Effect of Ram Pressure on Star Formation in Infalling Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Nicole Mulyk
- August 7, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Creating Effective Training Sets for Machine Learning Package ALED with Dragonfly Telephoto Array Images to Identify Historic Supernova Light Echoes around Supernova 1054 (Crab)
- Supervisor(s): Doug Welch
Afshin Besharat
- September 17, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Effective Field Theory of Dissipative Dynamics On Lie Group
- Supervisor(s): Sergey Sibiryakov
Sriram Sundaram
- September 18, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Effective field theory based on the quantum inverted harmonic oscillator and the inverse square potential with applications to Schwinger pair creation
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Hayley Agler
- September 20, 2024
- Degree: Sc.
- Thesis: Preparation of Free-Standing Elastomer Films & Observations of Oscillatory Cracking Patterns
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Emmett McFarlane
- September 20, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Neural Modelling of Astrophysical Gas
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Johnathan Hoggarth
- September 24, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Cohesive Oil Droplets As An Idealized Model Granular System
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Osvald Klimi
- October 18, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Star Formation in Extreme Environments
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Blake Ledger
- October 21, 2024
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Using the Cyanide Radical to Trace Dense Molecular Gas in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Chak Hei Lau
- October 29, 2024
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Real-Space Renormalization Group Study of the Anderson Impurity Model
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
2023 Graduates
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Addison Richards
- Degree: M. Sc.
- March 30, 2023
- Thesis: Realistic Electronic Structure Calculations for Quantum Materials
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Bobby Tang
- Degree: M. Sc.
- May 24, 2023
- Thesis: X-ray fluorescence measurements of skin iron using an I-125-based system
- Supervisor(s): Michael Farquharson
Sarah Costa
- Degree: M. Sc.
- June 20, 2023
- Thesis: Time Resolved Flourescence and Diffuse Reflectance Measurements for Lung Squamous Carcinoma Tumor Margins
- Supervisor(s): Michael Farquharson
Sudarshan Sharma
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June 29, 2023
- Thesis: Study of unconventional superconductors and breathing pyrochlore magnets
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Yu Li
- Degree: M. Sc.
- July 13, 2023
- Thesis: Density functional theory of interacting hard spheres: The formation of complex Frank-Kasper phases
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Peixiao (Karl) Zhou
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 2, 2023
- Thesis: Development of a technique to localize and quantify volumetric low-level waste from CANDU plants
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Michelle Nguyen
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 11, 2023
- Thesis: Binary-ejected enrichment for multiple populations in globular clusters
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Sebastien Avakian
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 31, 2023
- Thesis: On the Phase Diagram of the Heisenberg Gamma Ladder
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Mackenzie Tigwell
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 7, 2023
- Thesis: Factors Contributing to Degradation of Holmium-166 Poly-L- Lactic Acid Microspheres
- Supervisor(s): Andrea Armstrong
Connor Gresham
- September 13, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: An investigation of various intrinsic and external factors that influence in vitro cell survival outcomes during radiation-induced bystander effect experiments
- Supervisor(s): Carmel Mothersill
Evan Smith
- September 22, 2023
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: The Dipole-Octupole Quantum Spin Ice Candidate Ce2Zr2O7
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Jonah Gautreau
- September 22, 2023
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Thesis: Muon Spectroscopy Investigation of the Kagome Lattice
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Andrew Kovachik
- October 13, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Slowly Moving Black Holes In Khrono-Metric Model
- Supervisor(s): Sergey Sibiryakov
Yijia Zi
- November 13, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: In Search of the Kitaev Interactions in Low-Dimensional Yttrium-Doped Calcium Iridates: Ca(5-x)Y(x)Ir3O12
- Supervisor(s): Pat Clancy
Megan Oxland
- November 24, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Satellite Quenching and Morphological Transformation of Galaxies in Groups and Clusters
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Hao He
- November 28, 2023
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in nearby Starburst Galaxy Mergers
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Jennifer Laing
- November 29, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Evidence for Increased Star Formation in Barred Galaxy Centres
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Shayenthiran Sreetharan
- December 4, 2023
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Ionizing Radiation Exposure During Development and Growth Restriction in Mammals
- Supervisor(s): Fiona McNeill
Jiayu Xie
- December 14, 2023
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Thesis: Phase Behaviours of Polymeric Blends Containing Block Copolymers
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Dylan Lazarus
- December 18, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Rejuvenating & Quenching: Gas Properties of Transitional Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Padraic Odesse
- December 15, 2023
- Degree: M. Sc.
- Thesis: Molecular Hydrogen In Galaxy Simulations
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
2022 Graduates
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Wyatt Kirkby
- Degree: Ph. D.
- February 4, 2022
- Thesis: Caustics and Flags of Chaos in Quantum Many-Body Systems
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Nathan Brunetti
- Degree: Ph. D.
- February 28, 2022
- Thesis: Cloud-scale molecular gas properties in nearby merging galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Qianli Ma
- Degree: Ph. D.
- February 14, 2022
- Thesis: Neutron Scattering Study on High Temperature Superconducting Material La1.6-x Nd0.4SrxCuO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Gregory Kaplanek
- Degree: Ph. D.
- March 30th, 2022
- Thesis: Some Applications of Open Effective Field Theories to Gravitating Quantum Systems
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Chi To Lai
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 21, 2022
- Thesis: Theory of Disperse Diblock Copolymers
- Supervisor(s): An-Ching Shi
Yannick Castonguay-Page
- Degree: M. Sc.
- April 28, 2022
- Thesis: String-Order in Multileg Kitaev-Heisenberg Ladders
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Richard Garnett
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June 21, 2022
- Thesis: The Application of Machine Learning to Event Classification in Radiation Detectors
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Carmen Lee
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Monday, August 8th, 2022
- Thesis: Driven flow of droplets and bubbles
- Supervisor(s): Dalnoki-Veress
Jonathon Riddell
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Wednesday, August 31, 2022
- Thesis: Statistical Mechanics From Unitary Dynamics
- Supervisor(s): Sorensen
Josef Rucska
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Friday, September 9, 2022
- Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Planetesimal Formation
- Supervisor(s): Wadsley
Felipe Rivera-Madrinan
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Friday, August 26th, 2022
- Thesis: Replication of Genes in Rolling Circles
- Supervisor(s): Higgs
Hong Yi (Alex) Lu
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Friday, August 26th, 2022
- Thesis: The Formation Mechanisms of Galaxy Tails: A Statistical and Case Study
- Supervisor(s): Parker/Wadsley
Tianyi Ren
- Degree: M.S.c
- Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
- Thesis: Solving the Extremely High Dead Time During Ultra-High-rate Gamma-ray Spectrometry Using a LaBr3 Detector
- Supervisor(s): Byun
Brendan Sheehan
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Wednesday, September 21, 2022
- Thesis: The effects of bone turnover on bone lead measurements of young women through x-ray fluorescence
- Supervisor(s): McNeill
Erica Dao
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Thursday, November 3, 2022
- Thesis: X-Ray and Optical Techniques for Classification and Characterization of Tissue for Applications in Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Farquharson
Xin Wang
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Friday, November 18, 2022
- Thesis: Theoretical studies of unconventional superconductivity in SR2RUO4 and related systems
- Supervisor(s): Kallin
James Lambert
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Friday, December 16, 2022
- Thesis: State Space Geometry of Low Dimensional Quantum Magnets
- Supervisor(s): Sorensen
Waqaas Zia
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Monday, November 21, 2022
- Thesis: Dosimetric Comparison of three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for distal esophageal cancer treated with external radiation
- Supervisor(s): Farrell
Rachel Pillsworth
- Degree: M.Sc
- Monday, December 5, 2022
- Thesis: Bridging the gap: fragmentation, filamentary feeding and cluster formation in the ISM
- Supervisor(s): Pudritz
2021 Graduates
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Devin Burke
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 9, 2021
- Thesis: Development of an advanced gaseous neutron imaging system based on thick gas electron multipliers with 2d delay line readout
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Ben Pearce
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 6, 2021
- Thesis: The Origin of RNA on Biogenic Worlds
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Jean-Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 21, 2021
- Thesis: Droplets as model systems for investigating 2D crystals, glasses and the growth dynamics of granular aggregates
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Ryan Chown
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 24, 2021
- Thesis: Multi-wavelength Studies of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson, Laura Parker
Annum Dawood
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 12, 2021
- Thesis: Immune System Modulation by Low Dose Radiation
- Supervisor(s): Carmel Mothersill
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 17, 2021
- Thesis: Dynamical Modification of a Primordial Population of Binaries in Simulations of Star Cluster Formation
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills, William Harris
Matthew Nugent
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 20, 2021
- Thesis: A uSR Study of Current-Induced Destruction of Order in 1% Ti Doped Ca2Ru04
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sebastian Himbert
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 30, 2021
- Thesis: Biophysics Of Blood Membranes
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Megan Rutherford
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 12, 2021
- Thesis: Dy2ScNb07: the magnetism of a mixed B-site Pyrochlore
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Liam Farrell
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 26, 2021
- Thesis: Analogue Hawking Radiation as a Logarithmic Quantum Castastrophe
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Moesha Emberru
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 20, 2021
- Thesis: Assessment of Treatment Planning Protocol for the Reduction of Dosimetry Calculation Errors in Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer Patients with Dental Implants
- Supervisor(s): Orest Ostapiak
Roy Sun
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 9, 2021
- Thesis: Optimization and Characterization of Bi-Detector Coincidence Beta-Ray Spectrometer
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
James Beare
- Degree: Ph. D.
- November 19, 2021
- Thesis: muSR and AC Susceptibility as a Probe of Frustrated Pyrochlore Magnets and Type-1 Superconductivity
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sarah Dawson
- Degree: Ph. D.
- December 13, 2021
- Thesis: Ginzburg-Ladau theory of complex spherical packing phases in soft condensed matter
- Supervisor(s): An-Ching Shi
Adam Fortais
- Degree: Ph. D.
- December 14, 2021
- Thesis: Elastic Deformations and Instabilities in Thin Fibers and Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Lili Zhang
- Degree: Ph. D.
- December 14, 2021
- Thesis: Concentration and dynamics of two early fly embryo morphogens, Bicoid and Capicua, explored by FCS
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Jeremy Karam
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 3, 2021
- Thesis: Modelling Young Massive Cluster Formation: Mergers
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Veronika Dornan
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 3, 2021
- Thesis: Investigating the MGSC-Mh Relation in High Mass Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): William Harris
Lauren Dutcher
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 16, 2021
- Thesis: Capillary leveling of a liquid step on a floating solid film
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Chad Turner
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 6, 2021
- Thesis: Quantification of Respiratory Motion in Positron Emission Tomography For Precise Radiation Treatment of Lung Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Roxana Vlad
Kaitlin Cerrillo
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 20, 2021
- Thesis: On The Habitability Of An Impacted Young Earth: The effects of a post-impact, reducing atmosphere on Hadean Earth’s habitability
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
2020 Graduates
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John Niven
- Degree: Ph. D.
- January 24, 2020
- Thesis: Mechanical and Fluid Instabilities in Thin Polymer Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Dalini Maharaj
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 14, 2020
- Thesis: Neutron Studies on Rare-Earth and Double Perovskite Magnetic Oxides with Frustrated Tetrahedral Architectures
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Daniel Ruiz
- Degree: M. Sc.
- April 27, 2020
- Thesis: Investigation of Point-Particle Effective Field Theory for the Inverse-Square Model
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Ian Roberts
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 31, 2020
- Thesis: Galaxy Clusters and Their Role in Galaxy Evolution
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Dusan Vukmirovic
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 15, 2020
- Thesis: Natural Consumer Products in Dietary Radioprotection
- Supervisor(s): Carmel Mothersill
Athanasios Psaltis
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 14, 2020
- Thesis: Radiative Alpha Capture on 7Be with DRAGON at vp-process Nucleosynthesis Energies
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Sachin Kotecha
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 10, 2020
- Thesis: The Effect of Cosmic Web Filaments on Quenching in Galaxy Clusters
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Charlotte Welker
Hamza Khattak
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 19, 2020
- Thesis: Direct Force Measurement of Microscopic Droplets Pulled Along Soft Surfaces
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Matthew Alessi
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 1, 2020
- Thesis: Connecting the Observed Properties of Exoplanet Populations to Their Formation
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Dennis Gallant
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 21, 2020
- Thesis: Supperbubble Feedback in RAMSES
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Markus Rose
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 21, 2020
- Thesis: Single molecule fluorescence microscopy image analysis for the study of the 2D motion of cellulases and Bcl-2 family proteins
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin and Jose Moran-Mirabal
Laszlo Zalavari
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 28, 2020
- Thesis: Size Matters: Reduction of Nuclear-Size Related Uncertainties in Atomic Spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Rachna Singh
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 22, 2020
- Thesis: Dose Prediction for Advanced Stage Lung Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Marcin Wierzbicki
Johnson Liang
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 23, 2020
- Thesis: Spectroscopic studies on 39-Ca for classical nova endpoint nucleosynthesis
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Melodie Cyr
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 25, 2020
- Thesis: Detection of Gadolinium in Liver and Kidney Phantoms Using X-Ray Fluorescence
- Supervisor(s): David Chettle and Fiona McNeill
Jacqueline Wightman
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October 2, 2020
- Thesis: Environmental Dependence of H-alpha disks in Nearby Star-forming galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Xingzhi (Steven) Cheng
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October 16, 2020
- Thesis: Development of a Transmission-type Ultra-thin ScCVD Diamond ?E Detector for Alpha Particles
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Ashley Bemis
- Degree: Ph. D.
- October 19, 2020
- Thesis: Variations in Dense Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Peter Hayman
- Degree: Ph. D.
- November 11, 2020
- Thesis: Point-Particle Effective Field Theory and the Helium Ion
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Armin Hodaei
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 23, 2020
- Thesis: Evolutions of Dimeric Protein Interfaces after Gene Duplication
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Zachary Cronkwright
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 19, 2020
- Thesis: Materials Preparation and Characterization of the Quasi-Two Dimensional Triangular Rare-Earth Magnets Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 and ErMgGaO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Johnathan Hoggarth
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 18, 2020
- Thesis: Spreading of a two-dimensional granular analogue of a liquid puddle: Predicting structure through a “granular capillary length”
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Hector Robinson
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 15, 2020
- Thesis: Realistic Galaxy Simulations: Feedback, Magnetic Fields and the ISM
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Mohammad Ahmad Mahmood
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 16, 2020
- Thesis: Characterizing a Single Plane Illumination Microscope for Imaging Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
2019 Graduates
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Yiping Cai
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June 25, 2019
- Thesis: Frustrated Magnetism Studies in NaCaNi2F7, Er3Ga5O12 and ErMgGaO4
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Andres Schlief
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 22, 2019
- Thesis: The Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Metal: A nonperturbative approach
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Michael Radica
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 19, 2019
- Thesis: A Search for Supernova Light Echoes in NGC 6946
- Supervisor(s): Doug Welch
Nathan Armstrong
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 22, 2019
- Thesis: The Electrodynamics of Quantum Materials: Quasicrystals, Semimetals, and Poor Metals
- Supervisor(s): Tom Timusk
Ryan Plestid
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 26, 2019
- Thesis: Quantum Effects in the Hamiltonian Mean Field Model
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Sriram Sundaram
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 27, 2019
- Thesis: Schwinger Pair Production and Fall to the Center
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Duncan McClenagan
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 14, 2019
- Thesis: Landau Theory of Complex Ordered Phases
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Jonathon Riddell
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 29, 2019
- Thesis: Quantum Information Dynamics: A Perspective From Free Fermion Models
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Hank Chen
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 29, 2019
- Thesis: Topological Weyl Superconductivity
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Vismay Shah
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 28, 2019
- Thesis: Comparing Protocell and Surface-based Models of RNA Replicator Systems and Determining Favourable Conditions for Linkage of Functional Strands
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Matthew Richards
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 4, 2019
- Thesis: Dynamic Fidelity Susceptibility and its Applications to Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics in Driven Quantum Systems
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Hao He
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 1, 2019
- Thesis: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Early Merger Arp 240
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Jiaming Wang
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 21, 2019
- Thesis: High Field NMR Investigation of Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate Cu2IrO3
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
2018 Graduates
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Wyatt Kirkby
- Degree: Ph. D.
- February 4, 2022
- Thesis: Caustics and Flags of Chaos in Quantum Many-Body Systems
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Nathan Brunetti
- Degree: Ph. D.
- February 28, 2022
- Thesis: Cloud-scale molecular gas properties in nearby merging galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Qianli Ma
- Degree: Ph. D.
- February 14, 2022
- Thesis: Neutron Scattering Study on High Temperature Superconducting Material La1.6-x Nd0.4SrxCuO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Gregory Kaplanek
- Degree: Ph. D.
- March 30th, 2022
- Thesis: Some Applications of Open Effective Field Theories to Gravitating Quantum Systems
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Chi To Lai
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 21, 2022
- Thesis: Theory of Disperse Diblock Copolymers
- Supervisor(s): An-Ching Shi
Yannick Castonguay-Page
- Degree: M. Sc.
- April 28, 2022
- Thesis: String-Order in Multileg Kitaev-Heisenberg Ladders
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Richard Garnett
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June 21, 2022
- Thesis: The Application of Machine Learning to Event Classification in Radiation Detectors
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Carmen Lee
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Monday, August 8th, 2022
- Thesis: Driven flow of droplets and bubbles
- Supervisor(s): Dalnoki-Veress
Jonathon Riddell
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Wednesday, August 31, 2022
- Thesis: Statistical Mechanics From Unitary Dynamics
- Supervisor(s): Sorensen
Josef Rucska
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Friday, September 9, 2022
- Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Planetesimal Formation
- Supervisor(s): Wadsley
Felipe Rivera-Madrinan
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Friday, August 26th, 2022
- Thesis: Replication of Genes in Rolling Circles
- Supervisor(s): Higgs
Hong Yi (Alex) Lu
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Friday, August 26th, 2022
- Thesis: The Formation Mechanisms of Galaxy Tails: A Statistical and Case Study
- Supervisor(s): Parker/Wadsley
Tianyi Ren
- Degree: M.S.c
- Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
- Thesis: Solving the Extremely High Dead Time During Ultra-High-rate Gamma-ray Spectrometry Using a LaBr3 Detector
- Supervisor(s): Byun
Brendan Sheehan
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Wednesday, September 21, 2022
- Thesis: The effects of bone turnover on bone lead measurements of young women through x-ray fluorescence
- Supervisor(s): McNeill
Erica Dao
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Thursday, November 3, 2022
- Thesis: X-Ray and Optical Techniques for Classification and Characterization of Tissue for Applications in Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Farquharson
Xin Wang
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Friday, November 18, 2022
- Thesis: Theoretical studies of unconventional superconductivity in SR2RUO4 and related systems
- Supervisor(s): Kallin
James Lambert
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Friday, December 16, 2022
- Thesis: State Space Geometry of Low Dimensional Quantum Magnets
- Supervisor(s): Sorensen
Waqaas Zia
- Degree: M.Sc.
- Monday, November 21, 2022
- Thesis: Dosimetric Comparison of three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for distal esophageal cancer treated with external radiation
- Supervisor(s): Farrell
Rachel Pillsworth
- Degree: M.Sc
- Monday, December 5, 2022
- Thesis: Coming Soon
- Supervisor(s): Pudritz
2021 Graduates
Devin Burke
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 9, 2021
- Thesis: Development of an advanced gaseous neutron imaging system based on thick gas electron multipliers with 2d delay line readout
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Ben Pearce
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 6, 2021
- Thesis: The Origin of RNA on Biogenic Worlds
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Jean-Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 21, 2021
- Thesis: Droplets as model systems for investigating 2D crystals, glasses and the growth dynamics of granular aggregates
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Ryan Chown
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 24, 2021
- Thesis: Multi-wavelength Studies of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson, Laura Parker
Annum Dawood
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 12, 2021
- Thesis: Immune System Modulation by Low Dose Radiation
- Supervisor(s): Carmel Mothersill
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 17, 2021
- Thesis: Dynamical Modification of a Primordial Population of Binaries in Simulations of Star Cluster Formation
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills, William Harris
Matthew Nugent
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 20, 2021
- Thesis: A uSR Study of Current-Induced Destruction of Order in 1% Ti Doped Ca2Ru04
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sebastian Himbert
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 30, 2021
- Thesis: Biophysics Of Blood Membranes
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Megan Rutherford
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 12, 2021
- Thesis: Dy2ScNb07: the magnetism of a mixed B-site Pyrochlore
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Liam Farrell
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 26, 2021
- Thesis: Analogue Hawking Radiation as a Logarithmic Quantum Castastrophe
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Moesha Emberru
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 20, 2021
- Thesis: Assessment of Treatment Planning Protocol for the Reduction of Dosimetry Calculation Errors in Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer Patients with Dental Implants
- Supervisor(s): Orest Ostapiak
Roy Sun
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 9, 2021
- Thesis: Optimization and Characterization of Bi-Detector Coincidence Beta-Ray Spectrometer
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
James Beare
- Degree: Ph. D.
- November 19, 2021
- Thesis: muSR and AC Susceptibility as a Probe of Frustrated Pyrochlore Magnets and Type-1 Superconductivity
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sarah Dawson
- Degree: Ph. D.
- December 13, 2021
- Thesis: Ginzburg-Ladau theory of complex spherical packing phases in soft condensed matter
- Supervisor(s): An-Ching Shi
Adam Fortais
- Degree: Ph. D.
- December 14, 2021
- Thesis: Elastic Deformations and Instabilities in Thin Fibers and Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Lili Zhang
- Degree: Ph. D.
- December 14, 2021
- Thesis: Concentration and dynamics of two early fly embryo morphogens, Bicoid and Capicua, explored by FCS
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Jeremy Karam
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 3, 2021
- Thesis: Modelling Young Massive Cluster Formation: Mergers
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Veronika Dornan
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 3, 2021
- Thesis: Investigating the MGSC-Mh Relation in High Mass Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): William Harris
Lauren Dutcher
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 16, 2021
- Thesis: Capillary leveling of a liquid step on a floating solid film
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Chad Turner
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 6, 2021
- Thesis: Quantification of Respiratory Motion in Positron Emission Tomography For Precise Radiation Treatment of Lung Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Roxana Vlad
Kaitlin Cerrillo
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 20, 2021
- Thesis: On The Habitability Of An Impacted Young Earth: The effects of a post-impact, reducing atmosphere on Hadean Earth’s habitability
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
2020 Graduates
John Niven
- Degree: Ph. D.
- January 24, 2020
- Thesis: Mechanical and Fluid Instabilities in Thin Polymer Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Dalini Maharaj
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 14, 2020
- Thesis: Neutron Studies on Rare-Earth and Double Perovskite Magnetic Oxides with Frustrated Tetrahedral Architectures
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Daniel Ruiz
- Degree: M. Sc.
- April 27, 2020
- Thesis: Investigation of Point-Particle Effective Field Theory for the Inverse-Square Model
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Ian Roberts
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 31, 2020
- Thesis: Galaxy Clusters and Their Role in Galaxy Evolution
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Dusan Vukmirovic
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 15, 2020
- Thesis: Natural Consumer Products in Dietary Radioprotection
- Supervisor(s): Carmel Mothersill
Athanasios Psaltis
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 14, 2020
- Thesis: Radiative Alpha Capture on 7Be with DRAGON at vp-process Nucleosynthesis Energies
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Sachin Kotecha
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 10, 2020
- Thesis: The Effect of Cosmic Web Filaments on Quenching in Galaxy Clusters
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Charlotte Welker
Hamza Khattak
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 19, 2020
- Thesis: Direct Force Measurement of Microscopic Droplets Pulled Along Soft Surfaces
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Matthew Alessi
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 1, 2020
- Thesis: Connecting the Observed Properties of Exoplanet Populations to Their Formation
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Dennis Gallant
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 21, 2020
- Thesis: Supperbubble Feedback in RAMSES
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Markus Rose
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 21, 2020
- Thesis: Single molecule fluorescence microscopy image analysis for the study of the 2D motion of cellulases and Bcl-2 family proteins
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin and Jose Moran-Mirabal
Laszlo Zalavari
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 28, 2020
- Thesis: Size Matters: Reduction of Nuclear-Size Related Uncertainties in Atomic Spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Rachna Singh
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 22, 2020
- Thesis: Dose Prediction for Advanced Stage Lung Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Marcin Wierzbicki
Johnson Liang
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 23, 2020
- Thesis: Spectroscopic studies on 39-Ca for classical nova endpoint nucleosynthesis
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Melodie Cyr
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 25, 2020
- Thesis: Detection of Gadolinium in Liver and Kidney Phantoms Using X-Ray Fluorescence
- Supervisor(s): David Chettle and Fiona McNeill
Jacqueline Wightman
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October 2, 2020
- Thesis: Environmental Dependence of H-alpha disks in Nearby Star-forming galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Xingzhi (Steven) Cheng
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October 16, 2020
- Thesis: Development of a Transmission-type Ultra-thin ScCVD Diamond ?E Detector for Alpha Particles
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Ashley Bemis
- Degree: Ph. D.
- October 19, 2020
- Thesis: Variations in Dense Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Peter Hayman
- Degree: Ph. D.
- November 11, 2020
- Thesis: Point-Particle Effective Field Theory and the Helium Ion
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Armin Hodaei
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 23, 2020
- Thesis: Evolutions of Dimeric Protein Interfaces after Gene Duplication
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Zachary Cronkwright
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 19, 2020
- Thesis: Materials Preparation and Characterization of the Quasi-Two Dimensional Triangular Rare-Earth Magnets Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 and ErMgGaO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Johnathan Hoggarth
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 18, 2020
- Thesis: Spreading of a two-dimensional granular analogue of a liquid puddle: Predicting structure through a “granular capillary length”
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Hector Robinson
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 15, 2020
- Thesis: Realistic Galaxy Simulations: Feedback, Magnetic Fields and the ISM
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Mohammad Ahmad Mahmood
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 16, 2020
- Thesis: Characterizing a Single Plane Illumination Microscope for Imaging Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
2019
Yiping Cai
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June 25, 2019
- Thesis: Frustrated Magnetism Studies in NaCaNi2F7, Er3Ga5O12 and ErMgGaO4
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Andres Schlief
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 22, 2019
- Thesis: The Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Metal: A nonperturbative approach
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Michael Radica
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 19, 2019
- Thesis: A Search for Supernova Light Echoes in NGC 6946
- Supervisor(s): Doug Welch
Nathan Armstrong
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 22, 2019
- Thesis: The Electrodynamics of Quantum Materials: Quasicrystals, Semimetals, and Poor Metals
- Supervisor(s): Tom Timusk
Ryan Plestid
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 26, 2019
- Thesis: Quantum Effects in the Hamiltonian Mean Field Model
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Sriram Sundaram
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 27, 2019
- Thesis: Schwinger Pair Production and Fall to the Center
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Duncan McClenagan
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 14, 2019
- Thesis: Landau Theory of Complex Ordered Phases
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Jonathon Riddell
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 29, 2019
- Thesis: Quantum Information Dynamics: A Perspective From Free Fermion Models
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Hank Chen
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 29, 2019
- Thesis: Topological Weyl Superconductivity
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Vismay Shah
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 28, 2019
- Thesis: Comparing Protocell and Surface-based Models of RNA Replicator Systems and Determining Favourable Conditions for Linkage of Functional Strands
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Matthew Richards
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 4, 2019
- Thesis: Dynamic Fidelity Susceptibility and its Applications to Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics in Driven Quantum Systems
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Hao He
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 1, 2019
- Thesis: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Early Merger Arp 240
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Jiaming Wang
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 21, 2019
- Thesis: High Field NMR Investigation of Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate Cu2IrO3
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
2018 Graduates
Rafael Schulman
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 9, 2018
- Thesis: Elastocapillary interactions between liquids and thin solid films under tension
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Jonathan Gaudet
- Degree: Ph. D.
- March 28, 2018
- Thesis: Fragile magnetism in XY rare earth pyrochlores
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Murray Wilson
- Degree: Ph. D.
- January 8, 2018
- Thesis: Muon Spin Rotation Studies of URU2SI2 and Dichalcogenide Superconductors
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Gabriel Magill
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 8, 2018
- Thesis: Intensity and High Energy Probes of New Physics
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Samantha Benincasa
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 18, 2018
- Thesis: Star Formation in the Galactic Context: A Quantitative Study
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Hugh Couchman
Clementine Fournier
- Degree: M. Sc.
- July 30, 2018
- Thesis: Droplet migration on conical glass fibers
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Jasper Grond
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 21, 2018
- Thesis: TREVR: A New Approach to Radiative Transfer in Astrophysic Simulation
- Supervisor(s): Hugh Couchman and James Wadsley
Lucas Le Nagard
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 17, 2018
- Thesis: Formation and posititoning of the magnetosome chain in magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Carmen Lee
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 17, 2018
- Thesis: Capillary levelling of immiscible bilayer films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Verss
Gregory Kaplanek
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 15, 2018
- Thesis: Pertubatie Failure Near Horizons: The Rindler Example
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Alexandre Arsenault
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 23, 2018
- Thesis: 193La NMR Change Order Study of La2-xSrxCu04
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
Anton Borissov
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 15, 2018
- Thesis: Spin Structor Factor Calculations using MPS
- Supervisor(s): Eric Sorensen
Melanie Demers
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 14, 2018
- Thesis: Truncated Stellar Discs in X-ray Rich Environments
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Eric Turner
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 30, 2018
- Thesis: Template Directed Ligation of RNA Oligomers
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Josef Rucska
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 21, 2018
- Thesis: Numerical investigations of the early stages of planet formation
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
2017 Graduates
Qianli Ma
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 20, 2017
- Thesis: Crystal Growth and Neutron Scattering Study on High Tc Superconductors La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Nathan Brunetti
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October, 23, 2017
- Thesis: An ALMA Archival Survey of the Clump Mass Function in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Fraser Evans
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September, 21, 2017
- Thesis: Red Misfits in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Properties of Star-Forming Red Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Gandhali Joshi
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 19, 2017
- Thesis: Mass Loss and Preprocessing of Galaxies Traversing Group Environments
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker and James Wadsley
Ivy Wang
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September, 19, 2017
- Thesis: Spontaneous edge current in chiral superconductor with high chirality
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Ben Davis-Purcell
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September, 18, 2017
- Thesis: Snakes and Labyrinths: Adhesion-induced Fingering Instabilities in Thin Elastic Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Richard Alsop
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September, 1, 2017
- Thesis: Pharmaceuticals and Physics: Studies of Drug-Membrane Interactions using Advanced X-Ray and Neutron Scattering Techniques
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Wyatt Kirkby
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 23, 2017
- Thesis: Singularities in Many-Body Quantum Dynamics
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Peter Lunts
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 21, 2017
- Thesis: Low Energy Behaviour of the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Metal
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Alex Cridland
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: Connecting the Chemical Composition of Planetary Atmospheres with Planet Formation
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Sean Takahashi
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: High Field NMR Investigation of Yb2Pb2O7
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
Alannah Hallas
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: Application of chemical pressure to magnetically frustrated pyrochlores
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sarah McKenzie-Picot
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: On Modelling the Atmospheres of Potentially Habitable Super-Earths
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Corey Howard
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: The Effects of Radiative Feedback on Star Cluster Formation and the Galactic Interstellar Medium
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz and Bill Harris
Angus Mok
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July, 31, 2017
- Thesis: The Effects of Environment on the Atomic and Molecular Gas Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Ben Pearce
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 21, 2017
- Thesis: The Emergence of the RNA World on the Early Earth
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Tom Lai
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 21, 2017
- Thesis: Theory of Binary Mixtures of Diblock Copolymers: A New Route to the Bicontinuous Double-Diamond & Plumber’s Nightmare Phases
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Timothy Munsie
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June, 16, 2017
- Thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of Constrained Magnetism in Niobates
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Jesse Mumford
- Degree: Ph. D.
- May, 2017
- Thesis: Singularities in a BEC in a double well potential
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Gwen Eadie
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July, 18, 2017
- Thesis: Lights in Dark Places: Inferring the Milky Way Mass Profile using Galactic Satellites and Hierarchical Bayes
- Supervisor(s): Bill Harris
Ben Keller
- Degree: Ph.D.
- January, 18, 2017
- Thesis: Superbubble Feedback in Galaxy Evolution
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Connor Buhariwalla
- Degree: M.Sc.
- January, 20, 2017
- Thesis: Anomalous magnetism in ferromagnetic pyrochlores as revealed by neutron scattering
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
2016 Graduates
Nick Miladinovic
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December, 01, 2016
- Thesis: The Abraham-Minkowski Controversy and the He-McKellar-Wilkens Phase
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Devin Burke
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September, 23, 2016
- Thesis: Development of a Hybrid Ionization Chamber/Double-Sided-Silicon-Strip Detector to be Installed at the DRAGON Laboratory at TRIUMF
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Ashkan Dehghan-Kooshkghazi
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 08, 2016
- Thesis: Theoretical Study of Inhomogeneous Polymeric Systems
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Matthew Alessi
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September, 02, 2016
- Thesis: Linking Super Earth Composition to Planet Formation History
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Darryl MacBeath
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 29, 2016
- Thesis: The Pearcey Function and the Cusp Catastrophe
- Supervisor(s): Donald Sprung
Peter Hayman
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2016
- Thesis: Rocking the Inflationary Boat: Looking at the Sensitivity to initial Conditions of Solutions to Novel Inflationary Scenarios
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Jared Enns
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2016
- Thesis: A Systematic Scaling Solution in Six-Dimension Inflation
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Meghan Miholics
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 29, 2016
- Thesis: The Dynamical Evolution of Accreted Star Clusters in the Milky Way
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Adam Fortais
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 04, 2016
- Thesis: Elasto-capillary deformations of films and rods
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Wen Huang
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August, 02, 2016
- Thesis: Theoretical Studies of Unconventional Superconductivity in SR2RuO4
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Ian Roberts
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 19, 2016
- Thesis: Galaxy Properties Across Diverse Halo Environments
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Michael Birch
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 15, 2016
- Thesis: Theory of Self-Assembled Bilayers Near a Cylindrical Hydrophobic Insertion
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
2017 Graduates
Information Box Group
Qianli Ma
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 20, 2017
- Thesis: Crystal Growth and Neutron Scattering Study on High Tc Superconductors La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Nathan Brunetti
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October, 23, 2017
- Thesis: An ALMA Archival Survey of the Clump Mass Function in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Fraser Evans
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September, 21, 2017
- Thesis: Red Misfits in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Properties of Star-Forming Red Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Gandhali Joshi
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 19, 2017
- Thesis: Mass Loss and Preprocessing of Galaxies Traversing Group Environments
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker and James Wadsley
Ivy Wang
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September, 19, 2017
- Thesis: Spontaneous edge current in chiral superconductor with high chirality
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Ben Davis-Purcell
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September, 18, 2017
- Thesis: Snakes and Labyrinths: Adhesion-induced Fingering Instabilities in Thin Elastic Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Richard Alsop
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September, 1, 2017
- Thesis: Pharmaceuticals and Physics: Studies of Drug-Membrane Interactions using Advanced X-Ray and Neutron Scattering Techniques
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Wyatt Kirkby
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 23, 2017
- Thesis: Singularities in Many-Body Quantum Dynamics
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Peter Lunts
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 21, 2017
- Thesis: Low Energy Behaviour of the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Metal
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Alex Cridland
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: Connecting the Chemical Composition of Planetary Atmospheres with Planet Formation
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Sean Takahashi
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: High Field NMR Investigation of Yb2Pb2O7
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
Alannah Hallas
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: Application of chemical pressure to magnetically frustrated pyrochlores
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sarah McKenzie-Picot
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: On Modelling the Atmospheres of Potentially Habitable Super-Earths
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Corey Howard
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August, 17, 2017
- Thesis: The Effects of Radiative Feedback on Star Cluster Formation and the Galactic Interstellar Medium
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz and Bill Harris
Angus Mok
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July, 31, 2017
- Thesis: The Effects of Environment on the Atomic and Molecular Gas Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Ben Pearce
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 21, 2017
- Thesis: The Emergence of the RNA World on the Early Earth
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Tom Lai
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 21, 2017
- Thesis: Theory of Binary Mixtures of Diblock Copolymers: A New Route to the Bicontinuous Double-Diamond & Plumber’s Nightmare Phases
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Timothy Munsie
- Degree: Ph. D.
- June, 16, 2017
- Thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of Constrained Magnetism in Niobates
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Jesse Mumford
- Degree: Ph. D.
- May, 2017
- Thesis: Singularities in a BEC in a double well potential
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Gwen Eadie
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July, 18, 2017
- Thesis: Lights in Dark Places: Inferring the Milky Way Mass Profile using Galactic Satellites and Hierarchical Bayes
- Supervisor(s): Bill Harris
Ben Keller
- Degree: Ph.D.
- January, 18, 2017
- Thesis: Superbubble Feedback in Galaxy Evolution
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Connor Buhariwalla
- Degree: M.Sc.
- January, 20, 2017
- Thesis: Anomalous magnetism in ferromagnetic pyrochlores as revealed by neutron scattering
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
2016 Graduates
Information Box Group
Nick Miladinovic
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December, 01, 2016
- Thesis: The Abraham-Minkowski Controversy and the He-McKellar-Wilkens Phase
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Devin Burke
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September, 23, 2016
- Thesis: Development of a Hybrid Ionization Chamber/Double-Sided-Silicon-Strip Detector to be Installed at the DRAGON Laboratory at TRIUMF
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Ashkan Dehghan-Kooshkghazi
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 08, 2016
- Thesis: Theoretical Study of Inhomogeneous Polymeric Systems
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Matthew Alessi
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September, 02, 2016
- Thesis: Linking Super Earth Composition to Planet Formation History
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Darryl MacBeath
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 29, 2016
- Thesis: The Pearcey Function and the Cusp Catastrophe
- Supervisor(s): Donald Sprung
Peter Hayman
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2016
- Thesis: Rocking the Inflationary Boat: Looking at the Sensitivity to initial Conditions of Solutions to Novel Inflationary Scenarios
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Jared Enns
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 17, 2016
- Thesis: A Systematic Scaling Solution in Six-Dimension Inflation
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Meghan Miholics
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 29, 2016
- Thesis: The Dynamical Evolution of Accreted Star Clusters in the Milky Way
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Adam Fortais
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August, 04, 2016
- Thesis: Elasto-capillary deformations of films and rods
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Wen Huang
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August, 02, 2016
- Thesis: Theoretical Studies of Unconventional Superconductivity in SR2RuO4
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Ian Roberts
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 19, 2016
- Thesis: Galaxy Properties Across Diverse Halo Environments
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Michael Birch
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July, 15, 2016
- Thesis: Theory of Self-Assembled Bilayers Near a Cylindrical Hydrophobic Insertion
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
2015 Graduates
Information Box Group
Mark Ilton
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December 04, 2015
- Thesis: Flow in Thin Polymer Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Mingxuan Fu
- Degree: Ph.D.
- October 16, 2015
- Thesis: Revealing the Ground State Properties of the S=1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnet: 170 Single-Crystal NMR Investigations of ZnCu3(OH)6C12
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
Jesse Hall
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 14, 2015
- Thesis: Hybridization, hidden order, and antiferromagnetism in URu2Si2:electrodynamics studied by infrared spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Tom Timusk
Solomon Barkley
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 14, 2015
- Thesis: Production and manipulation of 2D droplet aggregates
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Rory Woods
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 10, 2015
- Thesis: A New Approach to Radiative Transfer in Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Hugh Couchman and James Wadsley
Laura Toppozini
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 04, 2015
- Thesis: Effects of various molecules on the structure and dynamics of lipid membranes
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Ben Jackel
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 02, 2015
- Thesis: Magnetic dynamos: How do they even work?
- Supervisor(s): Ethan Vishniac
Max Schirm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 02, 2015
- Thesis: Molecular Gas in Nearby Merging and Interacting Galaxies: the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/39)
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Jerod Wagman
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 13, 2015
- Thesis: Neutron Scattering Studies of Strong Dynamic Correlations in High Temperature Superconductors
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Jessica McCloskey
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 06, 2015
- Thesis: Modelling Young Star Clusters with AMUSE
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Shouvik Sur
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 05, 2015
- Thesis: Low Energy Effective Field Theories for Metallic Quantum Critical Points
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Rachel Ward
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 29, 2015
- Thesis: The Structure and Evolution of Unbound Star-forming Molecular Clouds
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills/James Wadsley
Kaz Sliwa
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 27, 2015
- Thesis: Molecular Gas Properties of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Matilda Backholm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 27, 2015
- Thesis: Biomechanics of C. elegans as probed by micropipette deflection
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Ryan Plestid
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July 21, 2015
- Thesis: The Implications of Gauging Lepton Flavour Symmetries for Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter
- Supervisor(s): Itay Yavin
Jeremy Webb
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 17, 2015
- Thesis: The Scale Size and Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters in Tidal Fields
- Supervisor(s): Bill Harris/Alison Sills
Aisha Mahmoud-Perez
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July 16, 2015
- Thesis: Photometric Study of the Globular Cluster System of M49
- Supervisor(s): Bill Harris
Ray Ng
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 08, 2015
- Thesis: Non-equilibrium real time dynamics of quantum spin systems and the quantum critical dynamics of ‘dirty’ bosons
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Seyed Zamani Dahaj
- Degree: M.Sc.
- January 29, 2015
- Thesis: A Phylogenetic Model to Predict the Patterns of Presence and Absence of Genes
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
2014 Graduates
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Seyed Zamani Dahaj
- Degree: M.Sc.
- December 21, 2014
- Thesis: A phylogenetic model to predict the patterns of presence and absence of genes
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Arash Ahmadi
- Degree: M.Sc.
- December 20, 2014
- Thesis: Factors Involved in the Codon Usage Bias Among Different Genes in a Genome, and Among Different Sites within a Gene
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Aaron Maxwell
- Degree: Ph.D.
- November 28, 2014
- Thesis: Stars, Star Formation and Dark Matter Cores in Dwarf Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Hugh Couchman
Samantha Benincasa
- Degree: M.Sc.
- October 01, 2014
- Thesis: On the Relationship between star formation and the ISM
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Hugh Couchman
Rob Peters
- Degree: Ph.D.
- October 01, 2014
- Thesis: Nonequilibrium dynamics of symmetric diblock copolymers: films & bridges
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Jonathan Newton
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 24, 2014
- Thesis: Dust and Gas in NGC3627
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Teresa Medina
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 24, 2014
- Thesis: Magnetic Characterization of Y2-xBixIr2O7: A Muon Spin Rotation/Relaxation and Susceptibility Study
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Fei-Chi Yang
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 19, 2014
- Thesis: X-ray scattering of Biomaterials
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Carley Miki
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 19, 2014
- Thesis: Growth and Characterization of CdTe/ZnTe Thin Films and Heterostructures
- Supervisor(s): John Preston
Kelly Cathcart
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 19, 2014
- Thesis: The effect of cholesterol on a five component mitochondrial-like membrane
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Mahsa Rahimi Movassagh
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 19, 2014
- Thesis: Resistivity measurements of Fermi liquid compounds
- Supervisor(s): Tom Timusk
Sedigh Ghamari
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 19, 2014
- Thesis: Renormalization Group Approach to two Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Models
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Raffi Schulman
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 15, 2014
- Thesis: Micropipette Deflection Experiments on the Nematode C. elegans
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Adam Royle
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 12, 2014
- Thesis: The properties of galaxies in x-ray bright and faint groups
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Marie-Pier Neault
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 09, 2014
- Thesis: The centres of galaxy group dark matter halos
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Damien Robertson
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 08, 2014
- Thesis: Prestellar Cores in Perseus
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Paul Fowler
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 08, 2014
- Thesis: The effects of surface tension and entanglements in polymer films: Capillary driven flows, the Marangoni effect and crazing
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Mischa Thesberg
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 02, 2014
- Thesis: Numerical Studies of Frustrated Quantum Phase Transitions in Two and One Dimensions
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Gengming He
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 28, 2014
- Thesis: Magnetic susceptibility observation of thickness driven spin-reorientation in ultra-thin Fe/Ni(III)/W(110) films
- Supervisor(s): David Venus
Kevin Mortimer
- Degree: M.Sc.
- June 17, 2014
- Thesis: Growth and Characterization of Sr2RuO4 and Sr2RhO4
- Supervisor(s): Tom Timusk
Grigory Bednik
- Degree: M.Sc.
- May 12, 2014
- Thesis: Construction of holographic duals for quantum field theories with global symmetries from quantum renormalization group
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Nehad Hirmiz
- Degree: M.Sc.
- April 02, 2014
- Thesis: Single Particle TIRF Detection of Bid Molecular Complexes Embedded in Mitochondria-like Supported Bilayers
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Andreas Deschner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- March 24, 2014
- Thesis: Valence-Bond Calculations for Quantum Spin-Chains: From Impurity Entanglement and Incommensurate Behaviour to Quantum Monte Carlo
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Kevin Sooley
- Degree: M.Sc.
- January 14, 2014
- Thesis: What you see it what you get: synthetic photometry of hydrodynamic simulations of binary star systems
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
2013 Graduates
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Matthew McCreadie
- Degree: M.Sc.
- December 04, 2013
- Thesis: Capture of Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter in the Sun
- Supervisor(s): Itay Yavin
Katharina Fritsch
- Degree: Ph.D.
- October 16, 2013
- Thesis: Neutron Scattering Studies of New Magnetic Oxides Based on Triangular Motifs
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Alex Cridland
- Degree: M.Sc.
- October 04, 2013
- Thesis: Simulations of Magnetic Helicity Conserving Astrophysical Dynamos: The Search for the Electromotive Force
- Supervisor(s): Ethan Vishniac
Travis Williams
- Degree: Ph.D.
- October 04, 2013
- Thesis: Measurements of the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Superconducting Ba(Fe,Co)2As2 and ‘Hidden Order’ URu2Si2
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
David Bazak
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 18, 2013
- Thesis: Explorations of a Pi-striped d-wave superconductor
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Corey Howard
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 18, 2013
- Thesis: Simulating Cluster Formation and Radiative Feedback in Giant Molecular Clouds
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz and Bill Harris
Youhai Sun
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 17, 2013
- Thesis: Theory of the phase behaviour of weakly charge polyelectrolytes
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Spencer Manwell
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 13, 2013
- Thesis: Verification of an activity-method approach to determine the alpha-partial width of the 4.03 MeV state in 19Ne
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Alyssa Cobb
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 13, 2013
- Thesis: Amino Acid Synthesis in Meteoritic Parent Bodies of Carbonaceous Chondrites
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Tara Parkin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 12, 2013
- Thesis: Unlocking the properties of the interstellar medium of Centaurus A and M51
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Prasanna Balasubramanian
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 10, 2013
- Thesis: Bloch Oscillations of Ultracold Atoms in a Cavity
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Phillip Ashby
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 06, 2013
- Thesis: Physics at the Dirac point–The optical conductivity of Dirac materials
- Supervisor(s): Jules Carbotte
Akbar Safari
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 29, 2013
- Thesis: Recent Developments in WKB Quantisation Condition
- Supervisor(s): Donald Sprung
Annie Hou
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 21, 2013
- Thesis: The role of group dynamics and pre-processing in galaxy evolution
- Supervisor(s): Bill Harris and Laura Parker
Matthew Williams
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 07, 2013
- Thesis: Accidental Supersymmetry and the Naturalness of Codimension-2 Branes
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Jimin Zhang
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July 29, 2013
- Thesis: Neutron scattering studies of the frustrated antiferromagnetic pyrochlore system Tb2Sn2-xTixO7
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Kyle Pastor
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July 26, 2013
- Thesis: Elastic properties and line tension of self-assembled bilayer membranes
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Robert D'Ortenzio
- Degree: M.Sc.
- June 26, 2013
- Thesis: Ground State of the Quantum Spin Ice Yb2Ti2O7
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Brendan Sinnott
- Degree: Ph.D.
- June 04, 2013
- Thesis: Spectroscopy and Photometry of Scattered Light Echoes from Supernovae
- Supervisor(s): Doug Welch and Peter Sutherland
Tara Power
- Degree: M.Sc.
- May 17, 2013
- Thesis: Structural Disjoining Potential of Grain Boundary Premelting in Aluminum-Magnesium via Monte Carlo Simulations
- Supervisor(s): Jeffrey Hoyt
Clare Armstrong
- Degree: Ph.D.
- April 17, 2013
- Thesis: Diffusion and Domains: Membrane Structure and Dynamics Studied by Neutron Scattering
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstädter
Amit Patel
- Degree: M.Sc.
- January 21, 2013
- Thesis: The Effect of Cholesterol on the Structure of Mitochondrial Like Lipid Bilayers: An X-Ray Study
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Charmaine Tressler
- Degree: M.Sc.
- January 18, 2013
- Thesis: Characterization and Alignment of the STED doughnut-using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
2012 Graduates
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Andrew Bartlett
- Degree: M.Sc.
- December 13, 2012
- Thesis: In-Plane Anisotropy of Ultrathin Co/W(110) Films and the Néel Transition in Bilayer Ultrathin CoO/Co/W(110) Films
- Supervisor(s): David Venus
Josh McGraw
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December 12, 2012
- Thesis: Non-equilibrium topographies: Surface tension driven flows reveal polymer properties at the nanoscale
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Robin Tunley
- Degree: M.Sc.
- December 10, 2012
- Thesis: Leptonic Dipole Transitions: A New Signature for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
- Supervisor(s): Itay Yavin
Chris Gatopolous
- Degree: M.Sc.
- October 26, 2012
- Thesis: Stellar Feedback in a Vertically Stratified Ism
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley/Hugh Couchman
Tim Munsie
- Degree: M.Sc.
- October 25, 2012
- Thesis: Studies of the Low Temperature Behaviour of CoNb2O6
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Allan Bayntun
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 20, 2012
- Thesis: Physics of Strings and Extra Dimensions: From Cosmology to Condensed Matter
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Jesse Mumford
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 19, 2012
- Thesis: Steady State and Dynamical Properties of an Impurity in a BEC in a Double well Potential
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
Yasuhiro Hasegawa
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 18, 2012
- Thesis: Planet Traps in Protoplanetary Disks and the formation and evolution of planetary systems
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Pak Lam (Philip) Lee
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 13, 2012
- Thesis: Using the totally asymmetric exclusion process as a model for protein translation
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Ashkan Dehghan
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 11, 2012
- Thesis: Modeling hydrogen-bonding in diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Marlon Rodney
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 07, 2012
- Thesis: The entanglement entropy near Lifshitz quantum phase transitions & the emergent statistics of fractionalized excitations
- Supervisor(s): Sung-Sik Lee
Brittany McDonald
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 07, 2012
- Thesis: The Search For Supernova Light Echoes From The Core-Collapse Supernovae Of A.D. 1054(CRAB) and A.D. 1181
- Supervisor(s): Doug Welch
Dennis Duffin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 07, 2012
- Thesis: Star formation in low mass magnetized cores: the formation of disks and outflows
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Kathryn Ross
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 06, 2012
- Thesis: Neutron Scattering Studies of Yb2Ti2O7, a Quantum Spin Ice Material
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Robert Cockcroft
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 04, 2012
- Thesis: Astro-Archaeology in the Triangulum Galaxy: Studying Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Globular Clusters and Stellar Halo in M33
- Supervisor(s): Bill Harris
David Torchetti
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 31, 2012
- Thesis: NMR Study of the Potassium Iron Selenide High-Temperature Superconductor
- Supervisor(s): Takashi Imai
Meng Wu
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 28, 2012
- Thesis: Origin of Autocatalytic Sets of Biopolymers
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Mirsaeed Zelli
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 07, 2012
- Thesis: The Mixed State of a p-striped Superconductor
- Supervisor(s): Catherine Kallin
Patrick Rogers
- Degree: Ph.D.
- August 03, 2012
- Thesis: Shedding Light on the Formation of Stars and Planets: Numerical Simulations With Radiative Transfer
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Sara Cormier
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 02, 2012
- Thesis: Polymer droplets levelling on thin films of identical polymer
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Alex Chan
- Degree: M.Sc.
- July 06, 2012
- Thesis: A Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Quantum Spin Models with Ring Exchange
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Michael Horbatsch
- Degree: Ph.D.
- June 29, 2012
- Thesis: Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Gravity
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Matthew Barrett
- Degree: M.Sc.
- June 22, 2012
- Thesis: Structure And Dynamics Of Model Systems: From Ferrofluids To Brain Membranes
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Daniel Irvine
- Degree: M.Sc.
- February 21, 2012
- Thesis: A Study of Astrophysically Important States of 31S via the 32S(d,t)31S Reaction
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
2011 Graduates
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Leo Van Nierop
- Degree: Ph.D.
- November 10, 2011
- Thesis: Phenomenology Of Codimension-2 Brane Worlds: The Importance Of Back-Reaction
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Maximilien Schirm
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 23, 2011
- Thesis: Molecular Gas in Nearby Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Blair Cardigan-Smith
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 15, 2011
- Thesis: The dark matter haloes of galaxies in groups
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Mikhail Klassen
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 13, 2011
- Thesis:Simulating Protostellar Evolution and Radiative Feedback in the Cluster Environment
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Kiana Setoodehnia
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 12, 2011
- Thesis: Level Structure of 30S and the 29P(p,gamma)30S Reaction Rate
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Rachel Ward
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 09, 2011
- Thesis: Connecting the Dots: Comparing SPH Simulations and Synthetic Observations of Star-Forming Clumps in Molecular Clouds
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills and James Wadsley
Kaz Sliwa
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 29, 2011
- Thesis: SMA Observations of the Local Galaxy Merger Arp 299
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Martin Kaye
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 25, 2011
- Thesis: Studies of Lipid Bilayer Structure and Dynamics
- Supervisor(s): Maikel Rheinstadter
Rory Woods
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 22, 2011
- Thesis: Cold Flows and Galaxy Formation
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Hugh Couchman
Mark Healey
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 05, 2011
- Thesis: Friction Properties of Polymer Systems as Measured Using Micropipettes
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Nathan Leigh
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 18, 2011
- Thesis: The Physics of Mergers: Theoretical and Statistical Techniques Applied to Stellar Mergers in Dense Star Clusters
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Nick Miladinovic
- Degree: M.Sc.
- May 27, 2011
- Thesis: Adiabatic Transfer Of Light In A Double Cavity
- Supervisor(s): Duncan O’Dell
2010 Graduates
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Jessica Carvalho
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December 03, 2010
- Thesis: Studies of molecular weight blends and interface effects on polymer crystallisation & block copolymer ordering
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Pat Clancy
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December 03, 2010
- Thesis: X-ray and Neutron Scattering Studies of Unconventional Spin-Peierls Systems
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Jiajia Zhou
- Degree: Ph.D.
- December 03, 2010
- Thesis: Phase Behaviour of Diblock Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Ben Jackel
- Degree: M.Sc.
- October 26, 2010
- Thesis: Transport of Magnetic Helicity in Accretion Disks
- Supervisor(s): Ethan Vishniac
Jerod Wagman
- Degree: M.Sc.
- October 22, 2010
- Thesis: Neutron Studies Of Underdoped Single Crystal La2-xBaxCuO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Adam Aczel
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 25, 2010
- Thesis: Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Magnetic Insulators
- Supervisor(s): Graeme Luke
Sijing Shen
- Degree: Ph.D.
- September 17, 2010
- Thesis:The Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium
- Supervisor(s): Supervisor: Prof. James Wadsley
Sarah Purdy
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 03, 2010
- Thesis: Optical Spectroscopy Of Uru_2si_2: A Search For New Features
- Supervisor(s): Tom Timusk
Andrew Louca
- Degree: M.Sc.
- September 01, 2010
- Thesis: Codimension two branes in supergravity
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Ray Ng
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 26, 2010
- Thesis: Exact Quantum Dynamics of Spin Systems
- Supervisor(s): Erik Sorensen
Rob Peters
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 25, 2010
- Thesis: Confining individual DNA molecules in a nano-scale cone
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress.
Sarah Nickerson
- Degree: M.Sc.
- August 23, 2010
- Thesis: Shedding Light on Dark Satellites
- Supervisor(s): Hugh Couchman
Wenqi Ran
- Degree: Ph.D.
- July 16, 2010
- Thesis: Codon Usage Bias, Trna Modification And Translational Selection In Bacteria
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Jacob Ruff
- Degree: Ph.D.
- April 23, 2010
- Thesis: Competing interactions in rare-earth pyrochlore magnets: Insights from x-rays and neutrons
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Felix Wong
- Degree: Ph.D.
- March 10, 2010
- Thesis: pH & Temperature Measurements in Biological Systems Utilizing the Environmental Sensitivity of Proton Transfer in Fluorophores
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
Issei Nakamura
- Degree: Ph.D.
- March 09, 2010
- Thesis: Statistical Mechanics of Macromolecular Complexation
- Supervisor(s): An-Chang Shi
Charles-Philippe Lajoie
- Degree: Ph.D.
- February 12, 2010
- Thesis: Mass Transfer in Binary Systems Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
- Supervisor(s): Alison Sills
Sara Haravifard
- Degree: Ph.D.
- January 25, 2010
- Thesis: Neutron Scattering Studies of Low Dimensional Quantum Magnets
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Marie-Josee Colbert
- Degree: Ph.D.
- January 15, 2010
- Thesis: Mechanics of lipid vesicles and living cells
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin and Kari Dalnoki-Veress