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.
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the CAP office by 2013 January 18.
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de l’ACP jusqu au 18 janvier 2013.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
FOX, M., “Hyperpolarized noble gas magnetic
resonance imaging and dynamic spectroscopy
for investigation of rat models of lung inflammation”, (G. Santyr), February 2012, now a
Postdoctoral Fellow at Thunder Bay Regional
Research Institute.
HATEF, A., “Quantum Coherence and Interference
in Metallic Photonic Crystals and Hybrid
Systems”, (M. Singh), December 2011, currently doing a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Université de Montréal.
OSMAN, M., “Ozone Measurements and Transport”, (W. Hocking), February 2012, now holds
an NSERC Fellowship at Environment Canada.
YORK UNIVERSITY
BARRETT, B., “Techniques for Measuring thee
Atomic Recoil Frequency Using a Grating
Echo Atom Interferometer”, (A. Kumarakrishnan), November 2012, now a Postdoctoral
Fellow, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux,
France.
CHIGODAEV, A., “Inter-Particle Potentials in
Non-Linear Quantum Field Theories”, (J. Darewych), November 2012, presently looking for
employment.
FINGERHUT, R., “A Survey of Dwarf Irregular
Galaxies in the Local Sheet”, (M. McCall),
June 2012, now a part-time instructor, Division
of Natural Science, York University, Toronto,
Ontario.
GALYMOV, V., “Neutrino Flux Predictions for the
T2K Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment”, (S. Bhadra), June 2012, now a
Postdoctoral Fellow, Saclay Nuclear Research
Centre, Paris, France.
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