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Faculty of Science

2014 Graduates

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