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2024 Graduates

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

Erik Gillis

November 18, 2024
Degree: M. Sc.
Thesis: Characterizing the Exoplanetary Population Around Mid-to-late M Dwarfs
Supervisor(s): Ryan Cloutier

Nicole Gromek

November 18, 2024
Degree: M. Sc.
Thesis: A Spectroscopic Framework for Deriving Elemental Abundances in M Dwarfs
Supervisor(s): Ryan Cloutier

Taavishi Jindel

November 21, 2024
Degree: M. Sc.
Thesis: Dynamical equilibrium pressure in cluster and field galaxies
Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson

Alexander Kayssi

November 21, 2024
Degree: M. Sc.
Thesis: One-point matter PDFs beyond TopHat filters
Supervisor(s): Sergey Sibiryakov

Sara Bogojevic

December 3, 2024
Degree: Ph. D.
Thesis: Magnetic Monopoles and Dyons: The Low-Energy Perspective
Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess

Monika Azmanska

December 6, 2024
Degree: Sc.
Thesis: Investigating Charge Order in Pb3Rh7O15
Supervisor(s): Pat Clancy

Cameron Burns

December 16, 2024
Degree: M. Sc.
Thesis: Coalescence of Cohesive Particle Rafts
Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Yasaman Heshmatzadeh

December 18, 2024
Degree: Ph. D.
Thesis: Collective properties of cohesive frictionless granular aggregates
Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress