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Faculty of Science

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