PhD Physics Degrees Awarded in Canadian Universities* Doctorats
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PhD Physics Degrees Awarded in Canadian Universities* Doctorats
DEGREES AWARDED PHD PHYSICS DEGREES AWARDED IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES* DOCTORATS EN PHYSIQUE DÉCERNÉS PAR LES UNIVERSITÉS CANADIENNES* DECEMBER 2011 TO CARLETON UNIVERSITY ALI, E., “Accurate unfolding of clinical photon spectra from transmission measurements”, (D. Rogers), October 2012, now a Medical Physics Resident at the Ottawa Hospital. BELEC, J., “Monte Carlo calculation of volumetric modulated arc therapy and helical tomotherapy dose distributions for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy lung treatments”, (B. Clark), October 2012, now a Medical Physicist at The Ottawa Hospital. CHERPAK, V., “Dose and Position Measurements Using a Novel 4D In Vivo Dosimetry System”, (J. Cygler), February 2012, now a Medical Physics Resident at The Ottawa Hospital. DROUIN, P.-L., “Three-Phase Extraction of the Electron Neutrino Survival Probability at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory”, (A. Bellerive), February 2012. DUMOUCHEL, T., “Partial Volume Correction of Cardiac Mouse Positron Emission Tomography Images”, (R. deKemp), February 2012, now a Project Analyst at International Safety Research. FRUGIUELE, C. “New definitions of old symmetries in Little Higgs and Supersymmetric models”, (T. Gregoire), October 2012, now a Postdoctoral Associate at Fermilab. MARTIN, T., “Examining Extra Neutral Gauge Bosons in Non-Universal Models and Exploring the Phenomenology of the Bestest Little Higgs Model at the LHC”, (S. Godfrey), October 2012, now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at TRIUMF. MOATS, K., “Phenomenology of Little Higgs Models at the Large Hadron Collider”, (S. Godfrey), October 2012, now a Research Associate, Carleton University. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ALSAWAFTA, M., “Optical Properties of Metallic Nanoparticles and Metallic Nanocomposite Materials”, (T. Vo-Van), November 2012, now a Research Assistant at Concordia University, Montreal. HAYRETER, A., “Production and Decay of WR Gauge Boson in Left-Right Symmetric Models at the Tevatron and the LHC”, (M. Frank), June 2012, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, Iowa State University. + this list includes all information submitted to the CAP office by 2013 January 18. La liste comprend l’information reçue au bureau de l’ACP jusqu au 18 janvier 2013. 120 + PHYSICS IN NOVEMBER 2012 / DÉCEMBRE 2011 À HUANG, X., “Changing the Way Students Learn in Physics Gateway Courses”, (C. Kalman), June 2012, now a Teacher at Marianopolis College, Montreal. KORUTLU, B., “Higgs and Radio Phenomenology beyond the Standard Model”, (M. Frank), November 2012, now TUBITAK postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH). DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY KLAGES, P., “In Situ Real-time Visualization and Corrosion Testing of Stainless Steel 316LVM with Emphasis on Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy”, (H. Rotermund), October 2012, now a Postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. RIOUX, J., “Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cellular Density with TurboSPI”, (C. Bowen & K. Hewitt), October 2012. ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL DE BALOUKAS, B., “Thin Film-Based Optically Variable Security Devices: From Passive to Active”, (L. Martinu), 2012 octobre, maintenant boursier postdoctoral au Département de génie physique, Polytechnique, Montréal, P.Q. BEAUSOLEIL, A., “Étude de phénomènes cinétiques à longue portée lors de la croissance épitaxiale à l’aide de la méthode Monte Carlo cinétique”, (A. Rochefort/P. Desjardins), 2012 octobre, maintenant professeur au Collège Édouard-Montpetit, Longueuil, P.Q. BOYER, P., “Propriétés structurelles et magnétiques d’alliages de nanoparticules fabriquées par procédés lasers pour des applications biomédicales”, (M. Meunier/D. Ménard), 2012 octobre, maintenant professeur en Physique-Géologie au Collège Montmorency, Laval, P.Q. CARDIN ST-ANTOINE, B., “Effets photothermoélectriques dans les films de nanotubes de carbone”, (D. Ménard/R. Martel), 2013 janvier, maintenant boursier postdoctoral C2MI, Bromont, P.Q. CARIGNAN, L.-P., “Modélisation, développement et caractérisation de matériaux magnétiques à base de nanofils ferromagnétiques pour les technologies hyperfréquences”, (D. Ménard/C. Caloz), 2012 octobre, maintenant Ingénieur chez Appolo Microwaves, Dorval, P.Q. DUFAY, B., “Optimisation d’un magnétomètre à haute sensibilité à base de Magnéto-Impédance Géante (MIG)”, (D. Ménard/C. Dolabdjian), 2012 mars, maintenant Ingénieur R&D chez BodyCap-Medical, Paris, FR. CANADA / VOL. 69, NO. 2 ( 2013 ) NOVEMBRE 2012 HALA, M., “Characterization of High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering Discharges”, (L. Martinu/J. Sapieha), 2012 février, maintenant boursier postdoctoral au Département de génie physique, Polytecnique, Montréal, P.Q. LAMBERT-MILOT, S., “Synthèse et caractérisation structurale d’épicouches hétérogènes semiconductrices/ferromagnétiques: le cas d’agrégats de MNP encastrés dans une matrice de gap”, (P. Desjardins/R. Masut), 2012 juin, maintenant Coordonnateur de contenu - Tests et évaluations Les Éditions Protégez-Vous, Montréal, P.Q. MAILLARD, A., “Étude ab-initio des propriétés électroniques et optiques d’un système donneur-accepteur organique utilisé dans les cellules photovoltaı̈ques”, (A. Rochefort), 2012 octobre, maintenant Medical Physics Master’s student chez McGill University, Montréal, P.Q. MAZHOROVA, A., “Fabrication and Characterization of the Optical Components for Application in Guiding, Sensing and Molding of the THz and Mid-IR Radiation”, (M. Skorobogatiy), 2012 décembre, maintenant boursière postdoctorale chez INRS-EMT, Varennes, P.Q. UNG, B., “Emerging microstructured fibers for linear and nonlinear optical applications in the mid-infrared and terahertz spectrum”, (M. Skorobogatiy), 2012 septembre, maintenant boursier postdoctoral chez Centre d’optique, photonique et laser, Université Laval, Québec, P.Q. MCGILL UNIVERSITY ALEXANDER, A., “Monte Carlo treatment planning with modulated electron radiotherapy: framework development and application”, (J. Seuntjens, F. Deblois), February 2012. AUBIN, F., “Detector readout electronics for EBEX: a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarimeter”, (M. Dobbs), October 2012. CHEN, F., “Three topics in gauge/gravity duality”, (J. Cline, K. Dasgupta), October 2012. DUFOUR, M.-A., “Determination of the strong coupling constant from multi-jet production with the ATLAS detector”, (B. Vachon), March 2012. FENG, Z., “SymGF: a symbolic tool for quantum transport theory”, (H. Guo), March 2012. FRANCHE, P., “Towards new classes of flux compactifications”, (K. Dasgupta), October 2012. KAROUBY, J., “Topics in early universe cosmology”, (R. Brandenberger), July 2012. LABUDA, A., “Adventures in atomic force microscopy towards the study of the solid-liquid interface”, (P. Grutter), August 2012. DOCTORATS LASHKARI, N., “Three-dimensional gravity, holography and black holes”, (A. Maloney, P. Hayden), March 2012. LI, G., “Electron-neutrino angular correlation measurement in the decay of lithium-8”, (F. Buchinger, J. Crawford), June 2012. LINDEMAN, D., “The search for rare non-hadronic B-meson decays with final-state Neutrinos using the BaBar detector”, (S. Robertson), August 2012. MAASEEN, J., “First principles simulations of nanoelectronic devices”, (H. Guo), December 2011. MCMASTER UNIVERSITY BAYNTUN, A., “Physics of Strings and Extra Dimensions: From Cosmology to Condensed Matter”, (C. Burgess), September 2012, now a Research Assistant at York University, Ontario, Canada. COCKCROFT, R., “Astra-Archaeology in the Triangulum Galaxy: Studying Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Globular Clusters and Stellar Halo in M33”, (W. Harris), September 2012, now a Post-Doc with McMaster University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Ontario, Canada. DUFFIN, D., “Star Formation in Low Mass Magnetized Cores: The Formation of disks and outflows”, (R. Pudritz), September 2012. HASEGAWA, Y., “Planet Traps in Protoplanetary Disks and the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems”, (R. Pudritz), September 2012, now a Post-Doc with the Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. HORBATSCH, M., “Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Gravity”, (C. Burgess), June 2012, now a Post-Doc at the University of Mississippi, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Mississippi, USA. ROGERS, P., “Shedding Light on the Formation of Stars and Planets: Numerical Simulations with Radiative Transfer’, (J. Wadsley), August 2012. ROSS, K., “Neutron Scattering Studies of Yb2Ti207, a Quantum Spin Ice Material”, (B. Gaulin), September 2012, now a Post-Doc with John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA. WU, M., “The origin of life by means of autocatalytic sets of biopolymers”, (P. Higgs), August 2012. ZELLI, M., “The Mixed State of a pi-striped Superconductor", (C. Kallin), August 2012, now a Grad Student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. QUEENS UNIVERSITY GRUNHUT, J. “A Detailed Observational Analysis of Magnetism in Three B and O Stars Observed within the Context of the MiMeS Project”, (G.A. Wade/D.A. Hanes), October 2012, now employed as an ESO Postdoctoral fellow in Garching, Germany. PHILIPPSON, J. N. “Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Highly-Excited Diatomic Molecules at a Wide Range of Internuclear Distances”, (R.C.Shiell), May 2012, now Technology Consultant with PA Consulting Group, Cambridge, UK. POLLMANN, T. “Alpha Backgrounds in the DEAP Dark Matter Search Experiment”, (M.G. Boulay), October 2012, now Postdoctoral Fellow at Laurentian University/SNOLAB. VAN VLACK, C. “Dyadic Green Functions and Their Applications in Classical and Quantum Nanophotonics”, (S. Hughes), May 2012, now a Research Scientist at Laser Depth Dynamics in Kingston, ON. YANG, J. “Optically Active Chiral Mediums Fabricated with Glancing Angle Deposition”, (K. Robbie), October 2012, now a Technology Development Engineer, at Globalfoundries Inc. in Malta, NY. SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY BUDNIK, P., “Structural Characterization of Fe/Pd/ Fe/GaAs (001) Thin Films by X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy”, (E.D. Crozier), September 2012. CHEUNG, K., “Bound-State Energies and Phase Transitions in Graphene-Like Structures”, (I. Herbut), September 2012, now a Physics Instructor with Alexander College, Vancouver, BC. CHEUNG, T., “Applications & Analysis Strategies of Magnetoencephalography Imaging”, (K. Kavanagh), May 2012, now a Research Associate with Centre for Speech, Language, and the Brain, University of Cambridge, UK. HOJJATI, A., “Observational Tests of Cosmic Acceleration”, (L. Pogosian), September 2012, now Postdoctoral Research Associate with Institute for the Early Universe, Seoul, South Korea. KAVEH MARYAN, K., “Chiral Symmetry Breaking in High-Temperature Superconductors and Birefringent Cold Atoms, Helicity Modulus in Layered Bosons and Phase Diagram of Superconductor-Insulator Transition”, (I. Herbut), September 2012, now a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. LACKNER, D., “InAsSb/InAS Strain Balanced Superlattices for Photodetector Applications”, (S. Watkins / P. Mooney), January 2012, now a Research Scientist with Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany. SADEGHI, S., “Monte Carlo Studies of the Mechanical Properties of Biopolymers”, (E. Emberly / M. Zuckermann), January 2012, now a Computational Biologist with Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre, Vancouver, BC. SMITH, P., “Studies of Selected Modulated TwoDimensional Fermionic Systems”, (M. Kennett), September 2012, now a Lecturer with Fraser International College, Burnaby, BC. STEGER, M., “Photoluminescence of Deep Defects Involving Transition Metals in Silicon New Insights from Highly Enriched 28Si”, (M. Thewalt), January 2012, now a System Engineer with Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH, Jena, Germany. YANG, S. “Modelling the DNA Replication Program in Eukaryotes”, (J. Bechhoefer), May 2012, now a Research Associate with Depart- LA PHYSIQUE AU DÉCERNÉS ment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL FAHED, R., “Étude observationnelle de la collision des vents dans les systèmes Wolf-Rayet 0”, (A.F.J. Moffat), 2012 février, maintenant ingénieur d’étude en informatique scientifique chez InckA, Paris, France. LONGPRE, J.-P., “Étude fonctionnelle du cotransporteur Na/glucose (hSGLT1): courant de fuite, vitesse de cotransport et modélisation cinétique”, (J.-Y. Lapointe), 2012 mai. MORIN DUCHESNE, A., “La structure de Jordan des matrices de transfert des modèles de boucles et la relation avec les hamiltoniens XXZ”, (Y. Saint-Aubin), 2012 octobre, maintenant boursier postdoctoral à University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australie. NASICA-LABOUZE, J. “Étude numérique des premières étapes d’agrégation du peptide amyloı̈de GNNQQNY, impliqué dans une maladie à prion”, (N. Mousseau), 2012 novembre, maintenant boursière postdoctorale à SISSA (ISAS) International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italie. PIRO, M.-C., “Nouvelles Limites sur la Détection Directe de la Matière Sombre avec l’expérience PICASSO”, (V. Zacek), 2012 octobre, maintenant boursière postdoctorale au Centre CEA, Saclay, France. UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE BOISSONNAULT M., “Mesure et rétroaction sur un qubit multi-niveaux en électrodynamique quantique en circuit non linéaire” (Alexandre Blais), décembre 2011, maintenant analyste en calcul scientifique pour Calcul Québec, Université Laval. BOURASSA J., “Non-linéarité et couplages lumière-matière en électrodynamique en circuit” (Alexandre Blais), juin 2012, provisoirement chercheur postdoctoral à l’Université de Sherbrooke. UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC TROIS-RIVIÈRES À BHOURI, M. H., “Optimisation des transferts de chaleur dans un système de stockage d’hydrogène à base d’alanate de sodium”, (J. Goyette), 2012 mai, maintenant stagiaire postdoctorale à l’Institut de recherche sur l’hydrogène, UQTR. UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL APRIL, A., “Impulsions laser ultrabrèves et fortement focalisées dans le vide”, (M. Piché), septembre 2012, maintenant Professeur de physique à CÉGEP F.-X. Garneau. ARSHARPOUR, H., “L’utilisation des méthodes monte carlo pour la caractérisation des hétérogénéités et de leurs conséquences radiobiologiques en curiethérapie”, (L. Beaulieu), juillet 2012, maintenenant Physicien médical à Centre hospitalier Charles-Lemoyne. CANADA / Vol. 69, No. 2 ( 2013 ) + 121 DEGREES AWARDED DAIGLE, J., “Filamentation dans l’air: évolution, contrôle et applications”, (S.L. Chin/G. Roy), février 2012, RDDC Valcartier. FRASER, A., “Développement et étude d’un laser à fibre à rétroaction distribuée à émission contrôlée et polarisée”, (R. Vallée), mai 2012, Laserax Inc. GAUTHIER, J., “Ratio isotopiques de fragments légers et opération du multidédecteur héraclès à l’accélérateur isac-ii”, (R. Roy), avril 2012. LABRECQUE, F., “Développement de sources d’ionisation plasma résistantes aux radiations pour la production de faisceaux d’isotopes rares”, (R. Roy/P. Bricault), juillet 2012, maintenant Assistant de recherche à Best Cyclotron Systems, Inc. PARENT, J., “Système d’imagerie à agrandissement variable localement par contrôle actif de la distorsion”, (S. Thibault), janvier 2012, maintenant Concepteur optique à Immervision inc. TREMBLAY, G., “Applications de résonateurs fabry-pérot pour l’imagerie par super-lentilles et pour les réseaux de bragg à sauts de phase divisés”, (Y. Sheng), juillet 2012. UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA BARAKAT, K., “Computational high throughput screening targeting DNA repair proteins to improve cancer therapy”, (J. Tuszynski), 2012 June. COCKER, T., “Exploring Conductivity in Nanomaterials with Terhertz Pulses”, (F. Hegmann), 2012 November. CRADDOCK, T., “The Physical Basis for a Nanoneuroscience of Memory” (J. Tuszynski), 2012 June. DOWLING, M., “High order corrections to fundamental constants”, (A.Czarnecki), 2012 November. GAGNON, K., “Cyclotron Production of Technetium-99m”, (D.Robinson, S. McQuarrie), 2012 June. LI, Z., “Numerical Study of the Crossover from Free Electrons to Small Polarons”, (F. Marsiglio), 2012 November. MUTUS, J., “Low-energy electron point source microscopy and electron holography”, (R. Wolkow), 2012 June NEDIE, A., “ULF Waves in the Magnetosphere and their Association with Magnetopause Instabilities and Oscillations”, (R. Rankin, F. Fenrich), 2012 November. RIPPE, D., “Magnetotelluric Constraints on the Role of Fluids in Convergent Plate Boundaries”, (M. Unsworth), 2012 November. TADIC, T., “Magnet Design and Optimization for an Integrated Linac-MRI System”, (B. G. Fallone), 2012 June. VERA RODRIGUEZ, I., “Near real-time estimation of the seismic source parameters in a compressed domain”, (M. Sacchi, J. Gu), 2012. November WANG, X., “Transmission electron tomography: Imaging nanostructures in 3D”, (M. Malac, A. Meldrum), 2012 November. 122 + PHYSICS IN YAGHOOBPOUR TARI, S., “Large Black Holes in the Randall-Sundrum II Model”, (D. Page), 2012 November. UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY CUMMINGS, M., “Simulation of Ions Confined by Quadrupole Electric Field”, (R.I. Thompson), November 2012. KOUZNETSOV, A., “Solar Energetic Proton Propagation in the Geomagnetic Field” (D. Knudsen), June 2012. SKOTINIOTIS, M., “Alignment Rate and Communication Using Quantum Systems in the Absence of Shared Reference Frames”, (G. Gour), June 2012 UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH FINLAY, P., “High-precision half-life and branching-ration measurements for the superallowed b emitter 26Alm”, (C. Svensson), April 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. LEBLANC, J., “The Effects of Electronic Doping on Quantum Materials: Cuprates and Graphene”, (E. Nicol), April 2012, now a Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. SCHROEDER, C., “Rheo-NMR studies of viscoelastic secondary flows in ducts of non-circular cross-section”, (K. Jeffrey), April 2012. TERSIGNI, A., “Structural Characterization of Tetracene Films by Lateral Force Microscopy and Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Diffraction”, (X. Qin), April 2012. UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE ALI, A.F, “Aspects of Quantum Gravity”, (Saurya Das), May 2012, now an Assistant Professor at Benha University, Egypt. UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ALPUCHE AVILES, J., “The Development and Validation of a First Generation X-Ray Scatter Computed Tomography Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Electron Density Breast Images Using Monte Carlo Simulation” (S. Pistorius), February 2012. PAN, J., “Towards a Precision Measurement of Parity - Violating e-p Elastic Scattering at Low Momentum Transfer” (J. Martin), October 2012. PRAZNIK-CHYTYK K., “Dosimetri Vertication of Radiation Therapy Including Intensity Modulated Treatments, Using an Amorphous-Silicon Electronic Portal Imaging Device” (B. McCurdy), May 2012. ROGERS, A., "Gravitational Lens Modeling with Iterative Source Deconvolution and Global Optimization of Lens Density Parameters”, (J. Fiege), May 2012. THIESSEN J. “Development and Application of Quantitative MRI Methods for Assessing White Matter Integrity in the Mouse Brain”, (M. Martin) October 2012. CANADA / VOL. 69, NO. 2 ( 2013 ) VENUGOPAL, N., “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging for Improved treatment Planning of Prostate Cancer”, (B. McCurdy), February 2012. UNIVERSITY BRUNSWICK NEW OF MUSHINI S., “Characteristics of a Scintillating GPS Signal at High Latitudes during Solar Minima”, (P.T. Jayachandran), October 2012, now a Research Engineer (Marie Curie Fellow) at IEEA, Paris, France. UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN BOOTS, M., “Designing and Optimizing Gratings for Soft-Xray Diffraction Efficiency”, (Alex Moewes), September 2012, now employed by Engineers without Borders, Ghana FIORI, R., “Application of Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis to Plasma Convection Mapping at High Latitudes”, (S Koustov & D. Boteler (NRCAN), December 2011, now employed by NRCAN, Ottawa, ON, Canada. GILLIES, D., “Global-scale observations of changes in ionospheric echo occurrence and convection during periods of increased solar wind activity and increased geomagnetic activity”, (JP St-Maurice & K McWilliams), April 2012, now a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, JANZEN, D., “A Solution to the Cosmological Problem of Relativity Theory”, (Rainer Dick), March 2012, currently unemployed. ORAJI, R., “M-Theory Solutions and Intersecting D-Brane Systems”, (M. Ghezelbash), December 2011. REGIER, T., “Limitations and Advancements of Soft-Xray Spectroscopy” ((John Tse, DeTong Jiang), Sept 2012, currently employed by Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. WIENSZ, T., “Optical properties of subvisual cirrus clouds measured by the OSIRIS instrument”, (Doug Degenstein), July 2012, now a Postdoctoral fellow at SRON, Netherlands, Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands. UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA BEAUDOIN-BERTRAND, J., “Watching a Chemical Reaction Using Homodyne HighHarmonic Spectroscopy”, (P. Corkum), October 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik. Munich, Germany. BERTRAND, M., “Déformations de matières molles sous diverses contraintes”, (B. Joós), March 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. HICKEY, O., “Modulation of electro-osmotic flow with polymer coatings“, (G. Slater), March 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. DOCTORATS HSIEH, C.-Y., “Electron spin based qubits”, (P. Hawrylak), March 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. WANG, X., “Characterization of fiber taper for fiber devices and sensors”, (X. Bao), October 2012, now an assistant-professor at the Xiamen University (China). UNIVERSITY OF REGINA LICCIARDI C., “Measurement of Single Positive Pion Production in Neutrino Neutral Current Interactions in the ND280 Detector and Particle Identification with the Fine Grained Detector at T2K”, (Mauricio Barbi, Dr. Ted Mathie), October 2012, now doing a Postdoctoral Fellow with Carleton University, Ottawa. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ADAMS, C.L.F., “Measurements of Atmospheric Ozone, NO2, OClO, and BrO at 808N using UV-Visible Spectroscopy”, (K. Strong), November 2012, now a Researcher, Environmental Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. BAIN, T., “A Search for Supersymmetry with New Kinematic Variables in Proton-Proton Collisions at âs 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider”, (R. Teuscher), November 2012, now a Science Fellow at the Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A. CHEUNG, M.Y., “Jet Definitions in Effective Field Theory and Decaying Dark Matter”, (M.E. Luke), November 2012, now a Teaching Consultant at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. CISEK, R.O., “Structural Investigation of Biological and Semiconductor Nanostructures with Multicontrast Microscopy”, (V. Barzda), November 2012, now looking for a position. FATHOLAHZADEH, B., “Search for Universal Extra Dimensions in the Two Photon and Missing Transverse Energy Final State with the ATLAS Detector”, (R.S. Orr), November 2012, now a teacher at Marianopolis College, Montreal, QC. HAY, C., “The Interaction of Ice Sheets with the Ocean and Atmosphere”, (J.X. Mitrovica), November 2012, now a PDF at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., U.S.A. HITCHCOCK, A.P., “The Arctic Polar-night Jet Oscillation”, (T.G. Shepherd), June 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, U.K. LINDENMAIER, R., “Studies of Arctic Middle Atmosphere Chemistry Using Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy”, (K. Strong), June 2012, now a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A. MA, X., “Strong-Coupling Quantum Dynamics in a Structured Photonic Band-Gap: Enabling On-Chip All-Optical Computing”, (S. John), November 2012, MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY BARHOUM, S., “NMR Studies of Multi-Component Macromolecular Solutions”, (A. Yethiraj), October 2012, now a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Radiology and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. LU, P., “Microstructured Optical Fibres: Fabrication, Properties, and Devices”, (Q. Chen), October 2012, now a Vision 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics, University of Ottawa. McDONALD, M., “Orientation and Dynamics of Membrane Associated Peptides via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance”, (M. Morrow), June 2012, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University and a Sessional Lecturer with the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University. RASHEED, M. A., “Synthesis, Electrical and Gas Sensing Properties of Polycrystalline ZnO Films”, (K. Poduska), June 2012, now an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan. SALCEDO CASTRO, J., “Modeling the Estuarine Circulation and Fine Sediment Transport Associated with Subglacial Buoyant Jets in Glacial Fjords”, (D. Bourgault), June 2012, now a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO AKHLAGH MOAYED, A., “In Vivo Imaging of Light Induced Intrinsic Optical Signals in the Chicken Retina with a Combined Ultra-High Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography and Electroretinography System”, (K. Bizheva), September 2012, now a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. BENSON, J., “A Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Smectic 8CB Under Mesoscale Confinement Using the Surface Forces Apparatus”, (S. Idziak), July 2012, current status unavailable. CARAVELLI, F., “Quantum Pre-geometry Models for Quantum Gravity”, (L. Smolin), June 2012, ERVEN, C., “On Experimental Quantum Communication and Cryptography”, (R. Laflamme and G. Weihs), March 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ESCOBEDO, J., “Integrability in AdS/CFT: Exact Results for Correlation Functions”, (R. Myers and P. Vieira), May 2012, now a Chief Scientist at Canopy Labs Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA CHOI, H., “Search for CP violation in [Tau] decays at BaBar,” (R. Sobie), May 2012, now a Medical Physicist with Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, China LA PHYSIQUE AU DÉCERNÉS GLASS, L., “The Central regions of early-type galaxies in nearby clusters,” (L. Ferrarese / J. Willis), November 2012, currently a student, Canada LEAMAN, R., “Constraints on environmental and secular effects on the chemodynamical evolution of dwarf galaxies”, (K. Venn), November 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto de Astrofı́sica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain LESSARD, J.-R., “Searches for top-antitop resonances in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, (M. Lefebvre), May 2012, now a Risk Manager at Polar Securities, Toronto, Ontario, Canada LEWSZUK, M., “Study of High Multiplicity 3 Prong Tau Decays at BaBar”, (R. Sobie), May 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. MATTHEWS, Q., “Single-cell Raman spectroscopy of irradiated tumour cells”, (A. Jirasek), May 2012, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Deeley Research Centre (Vancouver Island Centre of the BC Cancer Agency), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada UNIVERSITY ONTARIO OF WESTERN AHMED, M., “Electronic and magnetic excitations in graphene and magnetic nano-ribbons”, (M. Cottam), currently a Tutor in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. 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