PhD Physics Degrees Awarded in Canadian Universities* Doctorats

DOCTORATS DÉCERNÉS
PHD PHYSICS DEGREES AWARDED IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES*
DOCTORATS EN PHYSIQUE DÉCERNÉS PAR LES UNIVERSITÉS CANADIENNES*
DECEMBER 2013
TO DECEMBER
BROCK UNIVERSITY
MARQUARDT, D., “a-Tocopherol’s Antioxidant
Role: A Biophysical Perspective”, (T.A.
Harroun), October 2014, now pursuing a Post
Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Graz,
Austria.
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
TAYARI, V., “Quantum Charge Transport in
10-Nanometer Scale Suspended Graphene
Transistors”, (A. Champagne), January 2014,
now a Post-Doctoral Fellow at McGill
University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
ANEZ, D., “New low momentum-transfer measurements of the p(e,e’p)p8 cross section to access
the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude of the
D(1232) resonance”, (R. Dunlap), October 2014,
now unemployed.
MCDOWELL, M., “A study of the semiconductor
and thermoelectric properties of sputtered
mixed metal-oxide thin films”, (I. Hill), October 2014, now a Systems Architect at Hortonworks, Palo Alto, California, United States.
MITOVSKI, T., “Interactions between Convection
and the Background Atmosphere during High
Rain Events: Observations and Comparisons
with Models”, (I. Folkins), October 2014, now
a Weather Forecaster at the Meteorological
Service of Canada.
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE
MONTRÉAL
DE
KAJAL, M., “Design and Implementation of Novel
Nonlinear Processes in Bulk and Waveguide
Periodic Structures”, (R. Kashyap), March
2014, now an R & D Researcher at IFT Optical
Technologies, St-Laurent Quebec, Canada.
MAISONNEUVE, M., “Analyse polarimétrique de
transductions optiques de surface pour applications en biodétection”, (M. Meunier), June
2014, now a “Scientifique des systèmes” at
ABB Canada, Québec, Québec, Canada.
MUFTUOGLU, A., “Experimental Study of
Choking Flow of Water at Supercritical Conditions”, (A. Teyssedou), September 2014, now
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2014 / DÉCEMBRE 2013 À
pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the
Engineering Physics Department at École
Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec,
Canada.
NATEGHI, S.N., “The Structural and Magnetic
Properties of MNP Films and Nanocrystal”,
(D. Ménard and R.A. Masut), September 2014,
now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the
Engineering Physics Department at the École
Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec,
Canada.
QU, H., “All Photonic Bandgap Bragg Fiber
Refractometers”, (M. korobogatiy), February
2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship
in the Physics Engineering Department at
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal
Quebec, Canada.
SALOUX, E., “Optimisation structurelle des systèmes énergétiques”, (A. Teyssedou and
M. Sorin), September 2014, now pursuing a
Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Engineering
Physics Department at the École Polytechnique
Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
MONETTE, G., “Effets magnéto-plasmoniques
dans les milieux effectifs composés de
métaux ferromagnétiques”, (D. Ménard and
S. Francoeur), April 2014, now works
at Pyrophotonics/ESI, Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Québec, Canada.
VIRALLY, S., “Conception de sources non-classiques
dans les fibres optiques”, (N. Godbout and
S. Lacroix), September 2014, now pursuing a
Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Engineering
Physics Department at the École Polytechnique
Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
WUENSCHE, J., “Eumelanin Films for Organic
Bioelectronics: Growth, Charge Transport, and
Interaction with Metal Electrodes”, (C. Santato
and F. Rosei), September 2014, now searching
for employment in Dresden, Germany.
LAVAL UNIVERSITY
ALLARD, A., “Percolation sur graphes aléatoires:
Modélisation et description analytique”,
(L.J. Dubé), April 2014, now pursuing a
Doctoral Fellowship at the Universitat de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
FORTIN, V., “Développement de lasers à fibre
basés sur la conversion Raman émettant entre 2
et 4 micro-meter”, (R. Vallée), October 2014,
now pursuing a Doctoral Fellowship at
Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
GOULET, M., “Application of tomography techniques to plastic scintillation dosimetry”,
(L. Beaulieu, L. Gingras, L. Archambault),
February 2014.
HÉBERT-DUFRESNE, L., “On the growth and
structure of social systems following preferential attachment”, (L.J. Dubé), October 2014,
LA PHYSIQUE
AU
DÉCEMBRE
2014
now pursuing a Doctoral Fellowship at Santa
Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
HÉLIE, D., “Développement de procédés de microusinage de matériaux optiques au laser
femtoseconde”, (R. Vallée), November 2014.
LARIVIÈRE BASTIEN, M., “Amélioration des
performances des systèmes d’imagerie panoramiques et Panomorphes”, (S. Thibault), October
2014.
MARCEAU, C., “Génération, caractérisation et
applications d’impulsions lasers intenses de
quelques cycles optiques du visible jusqu’à
l’infrarouge moyen”, (B. Witzel), June 2014.
PAINCHAUD-APRIL, G., “Cavités diélectriques
Formalisme de diffusion et applications”,
(L.J. Dubé), January 2014, now a NDT
Specialist at Olympus NDT Canada, Québec,
Québec, Canada.
ROBITAILLE, J.-F., “Analyse multi-échelles
de l’émission de la poussière dans le
plan de la Galaxie”, (G. Joncas, and
M.-A. Miville-Deschênes), July 2014.
SAHLI, S., “Détection robuste et automatique
de véhicules dans les images aériennes”,
(Y. Sheng), December 2013.
ST-HILAIRE, J., “Planification multimodale et
optimisation de la dose pour la radiothérapie
externe du cancer du poumon”, (L. Beaulieu,
and D. Tremblay), December 2013.
YUAN, S., “Filamenation induced nonlinear
optics”, (S.L. Chin), September 2014.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
ABRAAO YORK, M., “Non-perturbative resummation in three dimensional Yang-Mills theory”, (G. Moore), October 2014, now a postdoc
at IBM (International Business Machine),
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
ARCHIBALD, A., “The end of accretion: the x-ray
binary 1 millisecond pulsar transition object
PSR J1 023 0038”, (V. Kaspi), February
2014.
BATES, J., “Fabrication and characterization
of permalloy nanostructures”, (P. Grutter),
February 2014.
CHAPLEAU, B., “Search for top-antitop quark
resonances with the ATLAS detector at the
Large hadron collider”, (B. Vachon), May
2014, now a data scientist at MindGeek,
Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
CHATELAIN, R., “Radio-frequency pulse compression for high brightness ultrafast electron
diffraction: Design, characterization and
application”, (B. Siwick), October 2014.
CONNELL, T., “The feasibility and accuracy of
Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy delivery and the design of novel scattering foils”,
(M. Hobson), October 2014.
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DEGREES AWARDED
COOPER, D., “Spectroscopy of luminescent nanoparticles and interactions with organic molecules for imaging and therapy”, (J. Nadeau),
October 2014.
FALOON, A., “Investigating the structure, star
formation and stellar mass of the z 0.9
supercluster RCS 2319 00”, (T. Webb),
February 2014.
GUILLEMETTE, J., “Electronic transport in
hydrogenated grapheme”, (T. Skojpek and
G. Gervais), May 2014.
GUILLOT, S., “Neutron Stars and the determination of the dense matter equation of state”,
(B. Rutledge), October 2014, now pursuing
a Post Doc at McGill University, Montréal,
Quebec, Canada.
LAROCHE, D., “Coulomb drag in verticallyintegrated one-dimensional quantum wires”,
(G. Gervais), February 2014.
LEPAGE-JUTIER, A., “Black Holes and Toy
Cosmologies in higher spin gravity”,
(A. Maloney), October 2014.
MACLEOD, A., “Development of a comptonscatter gamma-ray imager”, (D. Hanna),
February 2014, now a research associate at
National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
MORRISON, V., “Structural dynamics of the
metal-insulator transition in VO2: an ultrafast
electron diffraction study with radio-frequency
compressed electron pulses”, (B. Siwick),
October 2014.
NOBLE, A., “Dusty star-forming galaxies within
high-redshift galaxy clusters”, (T. Webb), May
2014.
OLAUSEN, S., “The x-ray emission and population
of highly magnetized neutron stars”, (V. Kaspi),
October 2014.
POITRAS, V., “Dynamical dark Energy”, (J. Cline),
October 2014.
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
DESCHNER, A., “Valence-Bond Calculations for
Quantum Spin-Chains: From Impurity Entanglement and Incommensurate Behaviour to
Quantum Monte Carlo”, (E. Sorensen), March
2014, now searching for employment.
GHAMARI, M.S., “Renormalization Group
Approach to two Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Models”, (C. Kallin), September
2014, now a Research Assistant at McMaster
University, Hamilton ON, Canada.
MAXWELL, A., “Stars, Star formation and Dark
Matter Cores in Dwarf Galaxies”, (J. Wadsley
and H. Couchman), November 2014, now
searching for employment.
PETERS, R., “Nonequilibrium dynamics of symmetric diblock copolymers: films and bridges”,
(K. Dalnoki-Veress), September 2014, now a
Capital Markets Project Consultant for SunGard Financial Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada.
THESBERG, M., “Numerical Studies of Frustrated
Quantum Phase Transitions in Two and One
Dimensions”, (E. Sorensen), August 2014, now
a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of
Vienna, Austria.
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PHYSICS
IN
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY
ALMUDALLAL, A., “Computer Simulations of
Core-Softened Attractive Disks: Phase Behaviour and Inverse Melting”, (I. Saika-Voivod),
May 2014, now a Research Assistant at the
Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL,
Canada.
HAUSER, T., “Probabilistic Uncertainty Quantification and Simulation for Climate Modelling”,
(L. Tarasov), May 2014, now a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Climate Systems Analysis Group
of the Department of Environmental and
Geographical Sciences at the University of
Cape Town, South Africa.
GRUBERBAUER, M., “Bayesian Asterseismology”,
(D. Guenther), June 2013, now a Meteorology
Research Scientist at Ubimet, Vienna, Austria.
WILLIAMSON, D., “The origin and evolution of
cold gaseous structures in galaxies and galactic
outflows”, (R. Thacker), January 2013, now
pursing a Postdoctral Fellowship at Laval
University.
WURSTER, J., “Feedback from Active Galactic
Nuclei: A Study of its Impact and Numerical
Implementations”, (R. Thacker), August 2013,
now pursing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at
Monash University in Australia.
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY
ANDERSON, M., “Optical Properties of Individual
and
Bundled
Single-Walled
Carbon
Nanotubes”, (J.M. Fraser), November 2014,
now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Geneva, Switzerland.
BULUT, S., “Charge Density Wave and Electronic
Nematicity in the three Band Model of
Cuprate Semiconductors”, (W.A. Atkinson
and R.J. Gooding), November 2014, now a
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for
Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg,
Germany.
CARLE, P., “Polarimeter for an Accelerated
Spheromak”, (J.E. Morelli), May 2014, now a
Physicist at General Fusion, Burnaby, British
Columbia, Canada.
DEG, N., “The Methodology of Modelling the
Mikly Way with Stellar Streams”,
(L.M. Widrow), November 2014, now a
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Cape
Town, Cape Town, South Arifca.
O’SULLIVAN, E., “The Development of the
SNO Experiment: Scintillator Timing, Pulse
Shape Discrimnation, and Sterile Neutrinos”,
(M.C. Chen), May 2014, now a Postdoctoral
Researcher at Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, USA.
XIAO, Y., “Excition Relaxation Dynamics in OneDimentional Semiconductor”, (J.M. Fraser),
May 2014, now an Optical Engineer at Stream
Technologies, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE
OF CANADA
PERRON, P., “Contribution of Ion Temperature
Anisotropy and Velocity Shears in the Direct
Generation of Small-Scale Irregularities in the
High-Latitude F-Region”, (J.-M. Noel), June
2014, now a Military faculty member at the
Royal Military College of Canada.
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
STROHM, E., “Characterization of single cells
using high frequency photoacoustics”,
(Michael C. Kolios), December 2013, now a
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
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UNIVERSITÉ
DE
MONTRÉAL
BELAND, L.K., “Étude de la formation et de
l’évolution de nanostructures par méthodes
Monte Carlo”, (N. Mousseau), Mars 2014,
maintenant travail à Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Tennessee, USA.
BERUBE, N., “Calculs ab initio de structures
électroniques pour un meilleur design de
polymères photovoltaı̈ques”, (M. Côté), Mai
2014, maintenant un Coordonnateur à la
recherche universitaire à la FAECUM, Montréal
(Québec), Canada.
BLACKBURN, S., “Analyse des propriétés électroniques de supraconducteurs à l’aide de la
théorie de la fonctionnelle de la densité”,
(M. Côté), Avril 2014, maintenant un Consultant
associé à Alma Consulting Group, Montréal
(Québec), Canada.
BOUILLY, D., “Transport électrique dans les
nanotubes de carbone et leurs dérivés
fonctionnalisés”, (R. Martel), Mars 2014,
maintenant une boursière postdoctorale à
Columbia University, New York, USA.
DAVIES, M., “The search for new resonances in
strong symmetry breaking scenarios with the
ATLAS detector”, (G. Azuelos), Avril 2014,
maintenant un boursier postdoctoral à Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
de DENUS-BAILLARGEON, M.-M., “Rapport
M/L de disques de galaxies issus de modèles
CSPE et contrôle des contraintes mécaniques
dans la conception de revêtements optiques”,
(C. Carignan et L. Martinu), Mai 2014, maintenant Spécialiste en photonique à Optech
Montréal, LaSalle (Québec), Canada.
de la CHEVROTIÈRE, A., “Recherche de champs
magnétiques chez les étoiles Wolf-Rayet
par l’analyse d’observations spectropolarimétriques”, (N. St-Louis et A.F.J. Moffat),
Avril 2014, maintenant NPD à Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
LAFLAMME JANSSEN, J., “Méthode de calcul à
N-corps basée sur la GoWo: étude du couplage
électron-phonon dans le C60 et développement
d’une approche accélérée pour matériaux
organiques”, (M. Côté), Avril 2014, maintenant
une boursier postdoctoral à l’Université
catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgique.
LATOUR, M., “Modèles d’atmosphères hors-ETL
avec métaux: applications aux étoiles sousnaines chaudes”, (G. Fontaine), Septembre
2014, maintenant une Boursière postdoctorale
à Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory, University
DOCTORATS DÉCERNÉS
of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bamberg Bayern,
Germany.
PROVENCHER, F., “Dynamique de séparation de
charges à l’hétérojonction de semi-conducteurs
organiques”, (C. Silva), Avril 2014, maintenant
une Boursière postdoctorale à École de technologie supérieure, Montréal (Québec), Canada.
SASSEVILLE, L., “Étude structure/fonction des
cotransporteurs Na /glucose”, (J.-Y. Lapointe),
Mars 2014, maintenant un R&D Project
Manager à Cintech agroalimentaire, SaintHyacinthe (Québec), Canada.
THIBAULT, K., “Modélisation de l’évolution du
réseau magnétique au cours du cycle solaire”,
(P. Charbonneau), Septembre 2014, maintenant
une Boursière postdoctorale à l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal (Québec),
Canada.
UNIVERSITY
OF
ALBERTA
AL ZAHRANI, A., “Escape of Charged Particles
Moving Around Weakly Magnetized Black
Holes”, (V. Frolov), June 2014.
ALAGOZ, H. “Magneto-Resistive Anisotropy of
Electronically Phase Separated La0:7xPrxCa0:3MnO3 Manganite Thin Films”,
(J. Jung, K. Chow), November 2014.
ANAGAW, A., “Full Waveform Inversion Using
Simultaneous Encoded Sources Based on Firstand Second-Order Optimization Methods”,
(M. Sacchi), November 2014.
ELSAYED, M., “Effects of Disorder on Magnetotransport Properties of Sm_{1-x}Sr_{x}
MnO_{3} Perovskite Manganites”, (J. Jung,
K. Chow), June 2014.
HAN, J., “Empirical Mode Decomposition for
Seismic Applications”, (M. van der Baan),
November 2014.
HEIKAL, A., “Biochemical Imaging of Gliomas
Using MR Spectroscopic Imaging for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning”, (B. Fallone and
K. Wachiwicz), June 2014.
IMTIAZ, N., “Numerical Study of Ionospheric
Response to Perturbations and Interaction
with Spacecraft Instruments”, (R. Marchand),
June 2014.
LIANG, Y., “Study of Leptonic Systems and Loop
Calculation Techniques”, (A. Prus-Czarnecki),
November 2014.
LOSBY, J., “Nanomechanical Torque Magnetometry and AC Susceptometry of Mesoscopic
Magnetic Structures”, (M. Freeman), June
2014.
MELENDEZ MARTINEZ, J., “Elastic Properties
of Sedimentary Rocks”, (D. Schmitt), June
2014.
MURPHY, K., “Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling During Substorms”, (I. Mann), June
2014.
REHMAN, S., “Simulation of Space Environment
Effects on Particle Sensors”, (R. Marchand),
November 2014.
RITTER, B., “Characterizing Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata”, (K. Beach), November 2014.
SADDIQUE, A., “Search for Microscopic Black
Holes in Multijet Final States with the ATLAS
Detector Using 8 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions
at the Large Hadron Collider”, (D. Gingrich),
November 2014.
SCHIJNS, H., “Experimental Investigation of Seismic Velocity Dispersion in Cracked Crystalline
Rock”, (D. Schmitt), November 2014.
SOLANKI, A., “Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy of Alpha-Synuclein”, (M. Woodside),
November 2014.
ZHI, Y., “Whispering Gallery Modes in Layered
Microspheres: Mode Structure, Thermal Response, and Reactive Sensing”, (A. Meldrum),
November 2014.
UNIVERSITY
COLUMBIA
OF
BRITISH
BAGLO, J., “A detailed doping survey of the lowenergy electrodynamics of YBa2Cu3O6 x”,
(Walter Hardy), August, 2014.
CHI, S., “Scanning tunneling microscopy study of
superconducting pairing symmetry: application
to LiFeAs”, (Douglas Bonn), October 2014.
HOU, X., “Cyclotron-Based Production of Radioisotopes for Medical Imaging Studies”,
(Anna Celler), October 2014.
JETHA, N., “Advances in nanopore sensing for DNA
and protein analysis, Marziali”, (April Andre),
2014.
KARIMI, H., “Structure factors of s 1/2 spin
chains and magnetism at the edges of graphene
ribbons”, (Ian Affleck), September 2014.
KING, S., “A search for super symmetry and
universal extra dimensions in final states
with three leptons and missing transverse
momentum in 20.7 inverse femtobarns of
8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”,
(Colin Gay and Anadi Canepa), April 2014.
KOSZTYLA, R., “18F-FDOPA positron emission
tomography and diffusion tensor imaging
for radiation therapy of high-grade gliomas
with dose painting”, (Vitali Moiseenko and
Stefan Reinsberg), March 2014.
LEWIS, R., “Molecular beam epitaxy growth
technology and properties of GaAsBi alloys”,
(Thomas Tiedje), April 2014.
MAHMOUDZADEH VAZIFEH, M., “Exotic
phenomena in topological states of matter”,
(Marcel Franz), October 2014.
MASHAYEKHI, M., “Nature of Bose Gases Near
Feshbach Resonance: The Interplay between
Few-Body and Many-Body Physics” (Fei Zhou),
February 2014.
MCDERMOTT, M., “Momentum-space entanglement and the gravity of entanglement in
AdS/CFT”, (Mark Van Raamsdonk and
Gordon Semenoff), September 2014.
MICHAN, J.M., “Implementation of a coherent
Lyman-alpha source for laser cooling
and
spectroscopy
of
antihydrogen”,
(Momose Takamasa and Andrea Damascelli),
April 2014.
NOGUEIRA, F., “The AdS/CFT correspondence:
bulk to boundary map and applications”,
(Mark Van Raamsdonk and Joanna Karczmarek),
August 2014.
SITWELL, M., “Models and probes of the early and
dark Universe: inflation and 21-cm radiation in
cosmology” (Kris Sigurdson), November 2014.
LA PHYSIQUE
AU
STANG, J., “Baryons, branes and (striped) black
holes: Applications of the gauge/gravity duality to quantum chromodynamics and condensed
matter physics”, (Mark Van Raamsdonk),
August 2014.
TOPPING, G., “Manganese imaging with positron
emission tomography, autoradiography, and
magnetic resonance”, (Vesna Sossi), February
2014.
van DONGEN, J., “Study of background gas
collisions in atomic traps” (Kirk Madison),
July 2014.
VIEL, S., “Search for new neutral high-mass
resonances decaying into muon pairs with the
ATLAS detector”, (Oliver Stelzer-Chilton and
Colin Gay), August 2014.
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALGARY
FRIESEN, T., “Probing Trapped Antihydrogen: In
Situ Diagnostics and Observations of Quantum
Transitions”, (R.I. Thompson), June 2014.
JIN, J., “Entanglement for Quantum Networks”,
(W. Tittel), November 2014, now following a
Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of
Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada.
KOSTKA, M., “Investigating astrophysical
r-process sites: code (r-Java 2.0) and model
(dual-shock quark nova) development”,
(R. Ouyed), June 2014, now a Software Engineer
at SIACharts.com, Calgary AB, Canada.
LUCIO MARTINEZ, I., “Real world quantum
cryptography”, (W. Tittel), November 2014.
MASTERSON, A., “Evolution and Regularisation
of Vacuum Brill Gravitational Waves in
Spherical Polar Coordinates”, (D. Hobill),
November 2014, now an Information Technology Manager at NuVista Energy Ltd., Calgary
AB, Canada.
REZEI, M., “High-Resolution Pulsed Slit Jet
Spectrometer with QCL and OPO probes for
Infrared Spectroscopy on van der Waals
Clusters”, (N. Moazzen Ahmadi), November
2014.
SHATERZADEH Y.Z., “Coherence of Coupled
Dangling-Bond Pairs on the Silicon Surface”,
(B. Sanders), June 2014.
UNIVERSITY
OF
GUELPH
HEIRWEGH, M., “Studies of Light Element X-Ray
Fundamental Parameters Used in PIXE
Analysis”, (J.L. Campbell), April 2014.
LU, S., “Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements
of Type IV Pilli and the Nanomechanical
Response of Bacteria to Cationic Antimicrobial
Peptide”, (J.R. Dutcher), January 2014.
MACKAY, I., “Self-Consistent Field Theory for
Smectic Ordering of Semiflexible Homo-polymers”, (R. Sullivan/R. Wickham), May 2014.
NATEGHOLESLAM, M., “A non-equilibrium
work study of antimicrobial peptide-membraneinteractions”, (C. Gray), December 2013.
PASIEKA, A., “Adaptive Rank Quantum State
Estimation”, (D.W. Kribs), June 2014.
SPENCER, R., “Diblock copolymer micelle structure and dynamics near the order-disorder
transition”, (R. Wickham), April 2014.
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DEGREES AWARDED
UNIVERSITY
OF
LETHBRIDGE
MAKIW, A.G., “A Study of the Physics of the
Interstellar Medium using the Herschel-SPIRE
Instrument”, (D. Naylor), May 2014, Pursuing
a Post Doctoral Fellowship for SPIRE Data
Analysis at the University of Lethbridge,
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
NASSAR, A., “Strings on Complex Multiplicaton
Tori and Rational Conformal Field Theory with
Matrix Level”, (M. Walton and D. Saurya),
May 2014, Pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship
at CFT Zewail City of Science and Technology,
Giza, Egypt.
POVEY, C., “High Resolution Spectroscopy and
Applications”, (A. Predoi-Cross), May 2014,
now an Instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
UNIVERSITY
OF
MANITOBA
LEE, E. J. S., “Ultrasound Propagation Through
Complex Media with Strong Scattering Resonances”, (J.H. Page), October 2014, now
pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the
University of Manitoba, (Winnipeg), MB,
Canada.
UNIVERSITY
OF
OTTAWA
BASET, F., “Micro/noano-scale manipulation of
material properties”, (R. Bhardwaj), Oct 2014.
BIGAOUETTE, N., “Clusters of atoms: towards
understanding the laser-matter interaction in
solids and nanoparticles by modelisation and
simulation”, (L. Ramunno), March 2014, now a
Research Scientist at the Chemical Computing
Group, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
CHARLEBOIS, D., “Computational investigations
of noise-mediated dynamics in cell populations”, (M. Kaern), March 2014, now following an NSERC postdoctoral Fellowship at
Stony Brook University, Laufer Center for
Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony
Brook, NY, USA.
JUN, J., “Memory-guided sensory sampling during
self-guided exploration in pulse-bype electric
fish”, (A. Longtin and L. Maler), October
2014, now following a Postdoctoral Fellowship
at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn,
Virginia, USA.
RIORDON, J., “Developing microfluidic volume
sensors for cell sorting and cell growth monitoring”, (M. Godin), May 2014, now following
a Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
SHENDRUK, T.N., “Theoretical and computational studies of hydrodynamic-based separation of particles and polymers in microfluidic
channels”, (G. Slater), March 2014, now
following an EMBO Fellowship at the Rudolf
Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics,
University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
WAN, F., “Biomimetic surface coatings from
modular amphiphilic proteins”, (J. Harden),
October 2014, now following a Postdoctoral
Fellowship at the University of Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada.
WILLIAMS, D., “Theoretical investigation of stimulated brillouin scattering in optical fibers
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and their applications”, (X. Bao and L. Chen),
October 2014, now a Part-time math lecturer in
Algonquin college, as well as a law school
student at the University of Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
WONG, M., “High harmonic spectroscopy of
complex molecules”, (R. Bhardwaj), October
2014, now a Teaching Technician at the
University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
UNIVERSITY OF
SASKATCHEWAN
ELGRIW GAMUDI, S, “Effects of Resonant
Magnetic Perturbations on the STOR-M Tokamak Discharges”, (C. Xiao), March 2014, now
a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of
Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON,
Canada.
HUNT, A., “The many mysteries of Graphene
Oxide”, (A. Moewes), December 2013, now a
Post Doctoral Fellow at North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
SIAHAAN, H, “Holography for rotating black
holes”, (M. Ghezelbash), July 2014, now a
Lecturer at the Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung Area, West Java, Indonesia.
YANG, J., “Structure and Atomic Dynamics in
Condensed matter under pressure and LI-Ion
Battery Materials”, (J. Tse), February 2014,
now an Assistant Research Officer at NRC
laboratory, British Columbia, Canada.
UNIVERSITY
OF
TORONTO
BARDON, A.B., “Dynamics of a Unitary Fermi
Gas”, (J.H. Thywissen), November 2014, now
a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sunnybrook
Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
BURGESS, B.H., “The Applicability of
Kraichnan-Leith-Batchelor Similarity Theory
to Inverse Cascades in Generalized Twodimensional Turbulence”, (T.G. Shepherd),
November 2014.
CHEN, A.S., “Experiments on the Growth and
Form of Icicles”, (S.W. Morris), March 2014,
now a Physics and Math Educator, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.
DELFAN, A., “Planar Resonant Structures for
Biosensing Applications”, June 2014, now a
Quantitative Researcher, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
DE PERIO, P., “Joint Three-Flavour Oscillation
Analysis of nm Disappearance and ne Appearance in the T2K Neutrino Bean”, (J.F. Martin),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at Columbia University, New York,
New York, USA.
DUQUE GOMEZ, F., “The Response of Particles
in Periodic Potentials to External Forces: New
Perspectives”, (J.E. Sipe), November 2014,
now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
GAO, M., “Mapping Organic Molecular Motions
with RF Compressed Femtosecond Electron
Diffraction”, (R.J.D. Miller), November 2014,
now a Data Mining Engineer, San Francisco
Bay area, California, USA.
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HALPIN, H.A., “Two-dimensional Spectroscopy
of Molecular Excitons in a Model Dimer
System”, (R.J.D. Miller), June 2014, now a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at AMOLF,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
HELWIG, W.H., “Multipartite Entanglement:
Transformations, Quantum Secret Sharing,
Quantum Error Correction”, (H.-K. Lo), March
2014.
HERON, P.J., “Mantle Dynamics Following
Supercontinent Formation”, (J.P. Lowman),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
JEAN-RUEL, H., “Femtosecond Electron Diffraction and Spectroscopic Studies of a Solid State
Organic Chemical Reaction”, (R.J.D. Miller),
June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at Carleton University & Spartan
Bioscience, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
JERVIS, D.M., “A Fermi Gas Microscope Apparatus”, (J.H. Thywissen), November 2014,
now a Research Scientist at Aerodyne
Research, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
KELLER, M., “Mitigating Model Errors in CO
Emission Estimation”, (D.B.A. Jones),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
LAU, H.-K., “Practicality of Quantum Information
Processing”, (H.-K. Lo and D.F.V. James),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
MARIANI, Z., “Infrared Emission Measurements
of Radiation and Trace Gas Variability in the
High Arctic”, (K. Strong), November 2014,
now a Data Operations Coordinator at Teranet
Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PERNICA, P., “Implications of Periodic Weak
Thermal Stratification in the Epilimnion of
Lake Opeongo”, (M.G. Wells), June 2014,
now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada.
PLUMB, K., “Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies
of Novel Magnets”, (Y.-J. Kim), November
2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland,
USA.
PRENT, N., “Characterization of Muscle Contraction with Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy”, (V. Barzda), November 2014, now
a Physics Instructor at Camosun College,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
RAU, J., “Unconventional Symmetry Breaking in
Strongly Correlated Systems”, (H.-Y. Kee),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow
at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada.
REIJNDERS, A., “Optical Spectroscopy of Novel
Materials”, (K.S. Burch), November 2014,
now an Optical and Cryogenic Physicist/
Engineer at Montana Instruments, Bozeman,
Montana.
ROZEMA, L., “Experimental Quantum Measurement with a Few Photons”, (A.M. Steinberg),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at
the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
DOCTORATS DÉCERNÉS
SANDILANDS, L., “Optical Spectroscopy of TwoDimensional Electronic Materials”, (K.S. Burch),
November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Institute for Basic Science, Seoul, Korea.
WALKER, T.W., “Applications of Adjoint
Modelling in Chemical Composition: Studies
of Tropospheric Ozone at Middle and High
Northern Latitudes”, (D.B.A. Jones), June
2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
WHALEY, C., “Improvements to Our Understanding
of Toronto-Area Atmospheric Composition”,
(K. Strong), November 2014, now works at
Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
WESTERN UNIVERSITY
AKBARI-SHARBAF, A., “Defect-Related Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Graphene”,
(M. Cottam and G. Fanchini), September 2014,
now searching for Post Doctoral Fellowship.
DEDYULIN, S., “Accurate 50-200 keV proton
stopping cross sections in solids” and “Lateral
growth of Si wires on Si (100) substrate”,
(L. Goncharova), February 2014, now a
Post Doctoral Fellow with 3M and The
University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario, Canada.
RACKNOR, C.D.C., “Quantum Optics of Polaritonic Nanocomposites”, (M. Singh), April
2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at the
Lawson Research Centre, Upper Hand and
Limb Clinic, St. Joseph’s Hospital, London,
Ontario, Canada.
RUDKO, D.A.D., “Quantitative Susceptibility
Imaging of Tissue Microstructure Using UltraHigh Field MRI”, (R. Menon), March 2014,
now a Post Doctoral Research Scientist at
Montréal Neurological Institute joint with the
Robarts Research Institute at the University of
Western Ontario, Canada.
SILBER, E.A., “Observational and Theoretical
Investigation of Cylindrical Line Source Blast
Theory Using Meteors”, (P. Brown), June
2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at the
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada.
LA PHYSIQUE
AU
YORK UNIVERSITY
COMEAU, D., “Atrap Buffer-Gas Positron Accumulator”, (E. Hessels), October 2014, now a
Regional Sales Manager at CCR Process
Products, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
JIAN, B., “Double-Loop Microtrap Array for
Ultracold Atoms”, (W. van Wijngaarden),
June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at
NRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
KOHLI, I., “Topological Dynamical Systems
Methods in Early-Universe Cosmologies”,
(M. Haslam), October 2014, now searching
for employment.
MARSH, K., “Spectrum of Gluelumps Containing
Various QCD Colour-Multiplet Particles”,
(R. Lewis), June 2014, now currently
unemployed.
TSEDNEE, T., “Ionization of the Hydrogen Molecular Ion by Strong Infrared Laser Fields”,
(M. Horbatsch), October 2014, now a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Texas
A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
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