McGill Physics: Talks and Events

PhD defenses

Wednesday, November 27th, 2024, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Hydrodynamic transport and viscous flow in ultra-high mobility Corbino rings; Sujatha Vijayakrishnan; (Supervisor: Guillaume Gervais)
Wednesday, December 11th, 2024, 09:30 (Boardroom - room 105): Constraining Nuclear Structure: Using Physical Models of Heavy-Ion Collisions to infer fluctuations in the Shapes of Atomic Nuclei; Nicolas Fortier; (Supervisor: Sangyong Jeon)
Friday, December 13th, 2024, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Room - room 103): 2D Materials for Electronics: Optoelectronic Characterization of Violet Phosphorus and Suspended Graphene Devices by Adhesion Lithography; Eli Martel; (Supervisor: Thomas Szkopek)

Past PhD defenses

Thursday, November 21st, 2024, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Temperature Independent Anomalous Hall Effect in Thin Bismuth; Oulin Yu; (Supervisors: Guillaume Gervais and Thomas Szkopek)
Friday, November 8th, 2024, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Convection and Outflows from Accreting Neutron Stars during Thermonuclear Flashes; Simon Guichandut; (Supervisor: Andrew Cumming)
Thursday, October 31st, 2024, 09:00 (MUHC, Glen Site, Cedars Cancer Centre, D-02.1312): Dosimetry in intraoperative radiotherapy for glioblastoma using the INTRABEAM; David Santiago Ayala Alvarez; (Supervisors: Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger and Jan Seuntjens)
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Advances in ultra-high dose rate radiation therapy; Julien Bancheri; (Supervisors: Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger and Jan Seuntjens)
Thursday, October 17th 2024, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Testing silicon photomultipliers with vacuum-ultraviolet light for nEXO; Lucas Darroch; (Supervisor: Thomas Brunner)
Wednesday, September 4th 2024, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Star formation efficiency in bulges: an observational investigation of eight nearby galaxies with rich molecular gas but low star formation rate; Anan Lu; (Supervisor: Daryl Haggard)
Tuesday, July 23rd 2024, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): On the formation of planets in the Milky Way's thick disk; Tim Hallatt; (Supervisor: Eve Lee)
Tuesday, July 16th 2024, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): First observation of the simultaneous production of a W boson and two photons in proton-proton collisions; Alessandro Ambler; (Supervisor: Brigitte Vachon)
Thursday, May 30th 2024, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Low-dimensional models of immune sensing and signaling; François Bourassa; (Supervisors: Paul François and Nikolas Provatas)
Friday, May 24th 2024, 09:30 (Online): Measurement of the Branching Fraction of Charmless Semileptonic B Meson Decays and the Quark-Mixing Matrix Element |Vub| with the Belle II Experiment; Andrea Fodor; (Supervisor: Andreas Warburton)
Tuesday, April 30th 2024, 13:00 (MUHC / D-block / Royal Victoria Hospital, room D-02.1312): Towards a clinical implementation of mixed electron-photon radiation therapy; Veng Jean Hen; (Supervisors: John Kildea & Jan Seuntjens)
Tuesday, April 2nd 2024, 13:00 (>R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Precision mass measurements of neutron-deficient strontium and commissioning of an HPGe array for in-trap decay spectroscopy at the TITAN EBIT; Zachary Hockenbery; (Supervisor: Thomas Brunner)
Monday, March 25th 2024, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Extracting Physical Feature of Submicron Sized Condensates Using Single Molecule Microscopy; Baljyot Parmar; (Supervisor: Stephanie Weber)
Tuesday, March 12th 2024, 12:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A systematic study of phonon dynamics at the 2D limit and beyond: an ab-initio view of ultrafast diffuse scattering; Tristan Britt; (Supervisor: Brad Siwick)
Thursday, March 19th 2020, 10:30 (McIntyre Building, room 1101): Radiation therapy outcome prediction using statistical correlations & deep learning; André Diamant Boustead; (Supervisors: Jan Seuntjens and Issam El Naqa)
Friday, February 28th 2020, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Tools for Measuring the Material Parameters of Neurites; Maddy Anthonisen; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Friday, February 21st 2020, 09:00 (Boadroom - room 105): Modeling electronic transport in disordered mesoscopic systems; Chenyi Zhou; (Supervisor: Hong Guo)
Thursday, February 20th 2020, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Measurement of the Bethe-Heitler Cross Section in the TeV Regime and Search for Lorentz Invariance Violation with VERITAS; Tony Tsen-Yuan Lin; (Supervisor: Ken Ragan)
Monday, December 9th 2019, 14:00 (MUHC, Room DS1 1427): Reference dosimetry of static, nonstandard radiation therapy fields: application to biology-guided radiotherapy and cranial radiosurgery generators; Lalageh Mirzakhanian; (Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens)
Thursday, December 5th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Magnetic topological insulator surface physics; Kunal Landon Tiwari; (Supervisors: Tami Pereg-Barnea and Bill Coish)
Monday, November 11th 2019, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Atomistic modeling of random impurity eﬀects in nano devices; Qing Shi; (Supervisor: Hong Guo)
Wednesday, October 30th 2019, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The many forms of the conformal bootstrap; Yan Gobeil; (Supervisor: Alex Maloney)
Friday, October 25th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Holographic aspects of black holes in chiral conformal field theories; Laure-Anne Douxchamps; (Supervisor: Alex Maloney)
Friday, October 18th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Characterization of rapid neurite manipulation for building an artificial neural network with neurons; Matthew Rigby; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Monday, September 9th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Advancements in electron pulse compression technology applied to ultrafast electron scattering; Martin Otto; (Supervisor: Brad Siwick)
Friday, September 6th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Modeling the effect of elasticity in motile cells; Yony Bressler; (Supervisor: Martin Grant)
Friday, August 30th 2019, 10:00 (>R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Signatures of Cosmic Strings on the Dark Matter Distribution; Disrael Camargo Neves Da Cunha; (Supervisor: Robert Brandenberger)
Thursday, August 29th 2019, 14:00(R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Towards a T-dual Cosmology; Guilherme Franzmann; (Supervisor: Robert Brandenberger)
Tuesday, July 30th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Search for the rare decay of a B meson into a Lambda baryon, proton and neutrino-antineutrino pair at the BABAR and Belle II experiments; Robert Seddon; (Supervisor: Steve Robertson)
Friday, July 26th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Specific heat in the fractional quantum Hall regime; Benjamin Schmidt; (Supervisor: Guillaume Gervais)
Friday, June 14th 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A Fabry-Pé Microcavity for Quantum Optics with Atomic Defects in Diamond; Erika Janitz; (Supervisor: Lily Childress)
Thursday, June 6th 2019, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Topics in pre-big bang cosmology; Jerome Quintin; (Supervisor: Robert Brandenberger)
Friday, May 31st 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Scattering effects in atomistic quantum transport simulations; Mohammed Harb; (Supervisor: Hong Guo)
Thursday, March 28th 2019, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Self-Interacting Dark Matter; Jeremie Choquette; (Supervisor: Jim Cline)
Wednesday, March 27th 2019, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Quasi-one-dimensional superfluidity; Pierre-François Duc; (Supervisor: Guillaume Gervais)
Monday, March 25th 2019, 13:30 (.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): All-optical THz pulse shaping in a dynamic waveguide; Lauren Gingras; (Supervisor: David Cooke)
Wednesday, March 20th 2019, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Mixed electron-photon radiation therapy treatment planning and delivery; Marc-André Renaud; (Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens)
Friday, March 1st 2019, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Time resolved electrostatic force microscopy measurements of ionic transport; Aaron Mascaro; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Wednesday, February 27th 2019, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): An approach towards organic thin film conductivity measurements under ultra-high vacuum conditions; Andreas Spielhofer; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Monday, December 17th 2018, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Dosimetry of a miniature x-ray source used in intraoperative radiation therapy; Peter Watson; (Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens)
Friday, December 14th 2018, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Imaging and manipulation of single nucleic acids with Convex Lens-induced Confinement; >D. Berard>; (Supervisor: Sabrina Leslie)
Thursday, November 8th 2018, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Visualizing supercoil-induced DNA interactions with single-molecule CLiC microscopy; Shane Scott; (Supervisor: Sabrina Leslie)
Friday, November 2nd 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Ultrafast electron diffuse scattering and its application to 2D materials; Mark Stern; (Supervisor: Brad Siwick)
Friday, November 2nd 2018, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): NOPAIN: a method for efficient evaluation of quantum Nonlocal operators with applications to solids; Ying-Chin Chen; (Supervisor: Hong Guo)
Friday, October 19th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Exploring the collective behaviour of small collision systems; Igor Kozlov; (Supervisor: Charles Gale)
Friday, October 19th 2018, 10:00 (>R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A phase-imaging technique for precision mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei with the Canadian Penning Trap mass spectrometer; Rodney Orford; (Supervisor: Fritz Buchinger)
Friday, October 5th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Characterization studies of small-strip thin gap chambers for the ATLAS upgrade; Benoit Lefebvre; (Supervisor: Brigitte Vachon)
Thursday, October 4th 2018, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A search for Fermi LAT pulsars in archival VERITAS data; Jonathan Tyler; (Supervisor: Ken Ragan)
Monday, September 24th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Parametric driving as a route to topological states and quantum devices; Martin Houde; (Supervisor: Tami Pereg-Barnea)
Thursday, August 23rd 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Correlator and calibration for the Canadian hydrogen intensity mapping experiment; Juan Mena; (Supervisor: Matt Dobbs)
Monday, August 20th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): First measurement of the associated production of a photon and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions; Sébastien Prince; (Supervisor: Brigitte Vachon)
Wednesday, June 20th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Knot formation on nanochannel-confined DNA and flow-assisted disentanglement; Susan Amin; (Supervisor: Walter Reisner)
Tuesday, June 5th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Demonstration of x-ray acoustic computed tomography as a radiotherapy dosimetry tool; Susannah Hickling; ((Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens and Issam El Naqa)
Tuesday, May 29th 2018, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Single Diffraction Studies with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider; Annabelle Chuinard; (Supervisor: François Corriveau)
Monday, May 28th 2018, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Improvements to phase field crystal theory using thermodynamical considerations; Gabriel Kocher; (Supervisor: Nikolas Provatas)
Thursday, February 8th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Josephson tunneling in unconventional and topological superconductors; Rosa Rodriguez Mota; (Supervisor: Tami Pereg-Barnea)
Tuesday, December 5th 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): RESCU: extending the realm of Kohn-Sham density functional theory; Vincent Michaud-Rioux; (Supervisor: Hong Guo)
Monday, December 4th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The influence of environment on high-redshift cluster galaxies; Anna Delahaye; (Supervisor: Tracy Webb)
Thursday, November 23rd 2017, 14:00(R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Measurement of the production cross section of the photon + charm final state in 8-TeV proton-proton collision using the ATLAS detector at the LHC; Robert Keyes; (Supervisor: Andreas Warburton)
Friday, November 17th 2017, 09:45 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Nonlinear Terahertz Interactions in Two Dimensional Systems; Sayyed Hadi Razavipour; (Supervisor: David Cooke)
Thursday, November 16th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Toward optically defined mechanical geometry; Abeer Barasheed; (Supervisor: Jack Sankey)
Monday, November 13th 2017, 14:45 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Transient multi-THz spectroscopy of hybrid organometallic perovskites; David Valverde; (Supervisor: David Cooke)
Friday, October 27th 2017 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Constraining cosmological parameters with gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background; Gabrielle Simard; (Supervisors: Matt Dobbs and Gil Holder)
Thursday, October 26th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Ultralow-noise silicon trampoline resonators for sensing and optomechanics; Christoph Reinhardt; (Supervisor: Jack Sankey)
Wednesday, October 25th 2017, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A 2500 square-degree cosmic microwave background lensing map from combined South Pole telescope and planck temperature data, and cross-correlation with large-scale structure; Yuuki Omori; (Supervisors: Matt Dobbs and Gil Holder)
Thursday, October 12th 2017, 10:00 (FDA 232): Nonequilibrium physics of nanochannel confined DNA; Ahmed Khorsid; (Supervisor: Walter Reisner)
Thursday, October 5th 2017, 10:00 (FDA 232): Study of multi-point interactions in PFC models for complex structural transformations; Matthew Seymour; (Supervisor: Nikolas Provatas)
Friday, September 22nd 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Pattern formation in 2D continuum and discrete chemically reactive media; Hossein Azizi; (Supervisor: Nikolas Provatas)
Friday, September 15th 2017, 10:00 (Boardroom - room 105): Exponential Networks and Representations of Quivers; Sam Selmani; (Supervisor: Alex Maloney and Johannes Walcher
Tuesday, September 5th 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Radiomics: enabling factors towards precision medicine; Martin Carrier-Vallières; (Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens and Issam El Naqa)
Tuesday, August 8th 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Characterizing the nanohertz gravitational wave background produced by a cosmological population of binary; Elinore Roebber; (Supervisor: Victoria Kaspi and Gil Holder)
Thursday, July 13th 2017, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): X-ray timing of young pulsars; Robert Archibald; (Supervisor: Victoria Kaspi)
Tuesday, June 27th 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Nanofluidic Coupled Membrane Devices for Single Molecule Sensing and Imaging; Yuning Zhang; (Supervisor: Walter Reisner)
Monday, June 26th 2017, 14:00 (M.H. Wong Building, room 103): A multiwavelength exploration of unexpected star formation activity in SpARCS brightest cluster galaxies; Nina Bonaventura; (Supervisor: Tracy Webb)
Monday, June 19th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. BEll Conference Room - room 103): Optimization of real-world qubit measurements; Benjamin D'Anjou; (Supervisor: Bill Coish)
Friday, June 9th 2017, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Breakdown of the quantum hall effect in InGaAs/InP quantum wells; Victor Yu; (Supervisors: Michael Hilke and Guy Austing)
Wednesday, May 31st 2017, 10:00(R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Ab initio study of disordered nanoelectronic devices: copper interconnects and group-III nitrides; Mathieu César; (Supervisor: Hong Guo)
Friday, May 26th 2017, 10:00 (Bell Conference Room - room 103): Early universe cosmology and dark energy: from the Big Bang to the late expansion of the universe; Elisa Ferreira; (Supervisor: Robert Brandenberger)
Tuesday, May 23rd 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Reheating in early universe cosmology; Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam; (Supervisor: Robert Brandenberger)
Friday, April 28th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): High Energy Physics and the Early Universe; Evan McDonough; (Supervisors: Robert Brandenberger and Keshav Dasgupta)
Friday, March 17th 2017, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Measurement of the production cross section of jets in association with a Z boson in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector; Rodger Mantifel; (Supervisor: François Corriveau)
Monday, February 13th 2017, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103): Gradient echo-based quantitative myelin water imaging; Eva Alonso Ortiz; (Supervisor: Bruce Pike & Ives Levesque)
Friday, December 16th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): On the development of absorbed dose calorimeter systems for absolute clinical dosimetry; James Renaud; (Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens and Arman Sarfehnia)
Monday, December 5th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Model-dependant collider signatures of particle dark matter; Grace Dupuis; (Supervisor: Jim Cline)
Tuesday, November 1st 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Single-electron charging using atomic force microscopy; Antoine Roy-Gobeil; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Monday, October 31st 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Observations of magnetars: from outburst to quiescence; Paul Scholz; (Supervisor: Victoria Kaspi)
Wednesday, October 19th 2016, 14:15 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Numerical Models for radiation-induced DNA damage; Piotr Pater; (Supervisor: Issam El Naqa and Jan Seuntjens)
Monday, October 3rd 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Entanglement and disorder in gapped and gapless topological states; Jan Borchmann; (Supervisor: Tami Pereg-Barnea)
Monday, October 3rd 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Collinear laser spectroscopy on exotic isotopes of rubidium and gallium; Walaa Al Tamimi; (Supervisor: Fritz Buchinger and John Crawford)
Friday, August 12th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Physical aspects of morphogenesis; Mathias Beaupeux; (Supervisor: Paul François)
Wednesday, August 10th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Integrated description of heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC; Sangwook Ryu; (Supervisor: Sangyong Jeon)
Tuesday, July 19th 2016, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Time-domain Kelvin probe force microscopy for local ultra-fast decay time measurements; Zeno Schumacher; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Wednesday, June 29th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from primordial black holes with veritas; Simon Archambault; (Supervisor: David Hanna)
Monday, June 6th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Using external fields to control topological insulators and topological superconductors; Aaron Farrell; (Supervisor: Tami Pereg-Barnea)
Monday, May 30th 2016, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Potential-driven surface stress of a cantilever-based sensor; Ann-Lauriene Haag; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Thursday, May 26th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): System radiobiology modelling of radiation induced lung disease; SangKyu Lee; (Supervisors: Issam El Naqa & Jan Seuntjens)
Wednesday, May 11th 2016 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Understanding and supressing dephasing noise in semiconductor qubits; Félix Beaudoin; (Supervisor: Bill Coish)
Tuesday, March 29th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Nonlinear information processing in early vestibular pathways; Adam Schneider; (Supervisor: Brigitte Vachon)
Monday, February 8th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): On the detector response and the reconstruction of the source intensity distribution in small photon fields; Paul Papaconstadopoulos; (Supervisor: Jan Seuntjens)
Thursday, January 14th 2016, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A search for the decay of a B meson into a kaon and a tau lepton pair at the BaBar experiment; Racha Cheaib; (Supervisor: Steve Robertson)
Monday, December 21st 2015, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross-section in the proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector; Michael Stoebe; (Supervisor: Brigitte Vachon)
Tuesday, November 10th 2015, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The VERITAS Bright Moonlight Program; Sean Griffin; (Supervisor: David Hanna)
Thursday, November 5th 2015, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Exploring the dynamics of strongly interacting media with dilepton tomography; Gojko Vujanovic; (Supervisor: Charles Gale)
Friday, September 4th 2015, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Characterizing the non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma with photons and hadrons; Jean-François Paquet; (Supervisor: C. Gale)
Friday, August 21st 2015, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): DNA Polymer Physics in Complex Nanofluidic Environments; Alexander Klotz; (Supervisor: W. Reisner)
Friday, May 22nd 2015, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Search for physics beyond the standard model in multi-jet events recorded with the ATLAS detector in p-p collisions at center of mass energy = 8 TeV using large hadron collider; Kuhan Wang; (Supervisor: A. Warburton)
Friday, March 20th 2015, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Using Coherent Xrays to measure velocity profiles; Julien Lhermitte; (Supervisor: M. Sutton)
Thursday, March 19th 2015, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The phase structure of entanglement measures and their role in holography and quantum gravity; Alexandre Belin; (Supervisor: A. Maloney)
Thursday, February 12th 2015, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Mass Transport in single Nanopores; René Michel Savard; (Supervisor: G. Gervais)
Wednesday, January 28th 2015, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Essays in late time cosmology; Nicholas Park; (Supervisor: R. Brandenberger)
Monday, December 1st 2014, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Thermalization of a QCD System via Kinetic Approach; Egang Lu; (Supervisor: Guy Moore)
Friday, October 24th 2014, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Probing neutron star interiors with type I x-ray bursts; Michael Zamfir; (Supervisor: Andrew Cumming)
Monday, October 20th 2014, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Local mechanical stimulation based approaches for the study of cells; Monserrat Lopez; (Supervisor: Peter Grütter)
Friday, October 10th 2014, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Instrumentation and Analysis for Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from Galaxy Clusters with the APEX-SZ Experiment; James Kennedy; (Supervisor: Matt Dobbs)
Monday, September 22nd 2014, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Flexible polyelectrolytes: like-charged attraction, linear stability, and long-term structure; Adriano Ferrari; (Supervisor: Martin Grant)
Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 13:00 (room 326): Cosmological constraints from the South Pole telescope galaxy cluster survey; Tijmen de Haan; (Supervisor: Matt Dobbs)
Monday, September 22nd 2008, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Mechanics of liquid-crystal networks; Simiso Mkhonta; (Supervisor: Martin Grant)
Friday, September 26th 2008, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211): Penetrating probes in relativistic heavy ions; Guang-You Qin; (Supervisor: Charles Gale)
Monday, October 27th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The use of computed tomography images in Monte Carlo treatment planning; Magdalena Bazalova; (Supervisor: Frank Verhaegen)
Monday, November 3rd 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Supersymmetric large extra dimensions; Doug Hoover; (Supervisor: Cliff Burgess)
Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211): VERITAS, 1ES 1218 + 30.4 and the extragalactic background light; Luis Valcarcel; (Supervisor: David Hanna)
Thursday, November 6th 2008, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211): Building foundations for molecular electronics: growth of organic molecules on alkali halides as prototypical insulating substrates; Sarah Burke; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Direct imaging of single particle dynamics in attractive colloidal systems approaching gelation via the volume fraction route; Yongxiang Gao; (Supervisor: M. Kilfoil)
Wednesday, November 19th 2008, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211): Gold nanodot and nanowire fabrication by atomic force microscopy; Manuel Pumarol; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Friday, November 28th 2008, 12:30 (Room 305B): Nonperturbative regulators for supersymmetric theories in 3 and 4 dimensions; Joshua Elliott; (Supervisor: Guy Moore)
Monday, December 8th 2008, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Crossover in directional solidification and C60 island morphology; Quanyong Wang; (Supervisor: M. Grant)
Wednesday, February 4th 2009, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Development of a fast Monte Carlo code for dose calculation in a treatment planning and feasibility study of high contrast portal imaging; Keivan Jabbari Najafabadi
Wednesday, February 11th 2009, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A study of the Fractional Quantum Hall Energy Gap at Half Filling; Cory Dean; (Supervisor: G. Gervais)
Friday, February 13th 2009, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Radio pulsars in binary systems; René Breton; (Supervisor: V. Kaspi)
Friday, April 24th 2009, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): Nanometer-scale studies of friction, dissipation and plasticity; Tobin Filleter; (Supervisors: P. Grütter and R. Bennewitz)
Tuesday, April 28th 2009, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): Applications of many-body physics to relativistic heavy ion collisions; François Fillion; (Supervisor: S. Jeon)
Monday, August 24th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Diffusion and flow in growing pollen tubes; Jens Kröger; (Supervisor: M. Grant)
Tuesday, August 25th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of magnetization transfer and T2 relaxation in human white matter pathology; Ives Levesque; (Supervisor: Bruce Pike)
Thursday, August 27th 2009, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211): Long-term monitoring of 5 anomalous X-ray pulsars; Rim Dib; (Supervisor: V. Kaspi)
Friday, September 11th 2009, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): String theory in the early universe; Rhiannon Gwyn; (Supervisor: K. Dasgupta)
Monday, September 28th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Hard Probes of the quark-gluon plasma; Simon Caron-Huot; (Supervisor: G. Moore)
Wednesday, November 11th 2009, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211): Phase retrieval from x-ray intensity measurements; David Montiel; (Supervisor: M. Grant)
Tuesday, November 24th 2009, 14:00 (room 305): Can we understand, control and use blinking of quantum dots in biological surroundings?; Nela Durisic; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Monday, March 29th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Inflation and the primordial power spectrum; Loison Hoi; (Supervisor: J. Cline)
Monday, May 10th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Models of binary fluid phase separation in the inertial regime; Dominique Pouliot; (Supervisor: M. Grant)
Friday, May 14th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Water calorimetry-based radiation dosimetry in iridium-192 brachytherapy and proton therapy; Arman Sarfehnia; (Supervisor: J. Seuntjens)
Wednesday, June 23rd 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Image guided radiation therapy applications for head and neck, prostate, and breast cancers using 3D ultrasound imaging and Monte Carlo dose calculations; Danielle Fraser; (Supervisor: F. Verhaegen)
Monday, August 2nd 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): VERITAS observations of galactic compact objects; Roxanne Guenette; (Supervisor: K. Ragan)
Thursday, September 2nd 2010, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Timing young pulsars: Challenges to standard pulsar spin-down models; Margaret Livingstone; (Supervisor: V. Kaspi)
Friday, September 17th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Ultra high vacuum fabrication of metallic contacts for molecular devices on an insulating surface; Shawn Fostner; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Monday, September 27th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Charge and momentum in quantum electromechanical systems; Steven Bennett; (Supervisor: A. Clerk)
Thursday, September 30th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Atomic force microscopy studies on the electrostatic environment and energy levels of self-assembled quantum dots; Lynda Cockins; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Wednesday, October 13th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy in molecular electronic devices from first-principles; Tao Ji; (Supervisor: H. Guo)
Friday, November 5th 2010, 11:30 (Piano Room - room 211): Inclusive K0S K0S resonance production in electron-proton collisions at HERA; Changyi Zhou; (Supervisor: F. Corriveau)
Friday, November 12th 2010, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Deciphering synaptic receptor distributions, clustering and stoichiometry using Spatial Intensity Distribution Analysis (SpIDA); Antoine Godin; (Supervisor: P. Wiseman)
Thursday, November 18th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Measurement of oligomerization states of membrane proteins via spatial fluorescence intensity fluctuation analysis.; Mikhail Sergeev; (Supervisor: P. Wiseman)
Monday, November 22nd 2010, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Mesoscopic Models of Block Copolymer Rheology; Xusheng Zhang; (Supervisors: J. Viñals & M. Grant)
Wednesday, November 24th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Atomic contacts characterized by force and current; Till Hagedorn; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Friday, November 26th 2010, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): Transport in weakly coupled vertical double quantum dots: Single-particle energy level spectroscopy and hyperfine interaction effects; Christopher Payette; (Supervisor: M. Hilke)
Tuesday, November 30th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): From string theory to N QCD; Mohammed Mia; (Supervisor: C. Gale)
Wednesday, December 8th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): Atomic Force Microscopy Investigations of Cellular response to environmental and local chemo-mechanical stimulus; Fernando Suarez Sanchez; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Friday, December 10th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): Nanometre scale indentation: Effect of very sharp indenters on adhesion, plasticity, and electronic transport; Mehdi El Ouali; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Monday, December 13th 2010, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): First Principles Quantitative Modeling of Molecular Devices; Zhanyu Ning; (Supervisor: H. Guo)
Monday, January 17th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Theory of Non-Equilibrium Vertex Correction; Youqi Ke; (Supervisor: H. Guo)
Monday, January 24th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Low Temperature Force Microscopy on a Deeply Embedded Two Dimensional Electron Gas; James Hedberg; (Supervisor: G. Gervais)
Wednesday, April 13th 2011, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Plasticity Experiments with Single Dislocation Resolution in Indentation and Wear; Philip Egberts; (Supervisors: P. Grütter & R. Bennewitz)
Thursday, May 26th 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): A ¹¹⁹Sn and ¹⁵⁵Gd Mössbauer spectroscopy and neutron diffraction study of R₃T₄X₄ (R=rare-earth,T=Cu,Ag, X=Sn,Ge) compounds; Christian Voyer; (Supervisor: D. Ryan)
Friday, May 27th 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Search for Higgs bosons beyond the standard model in early ATLAS; Miika Klemetti; (Supervisor: S. Robertson)
Friday, June 3rd 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Spike patterns optimize information transmission in neural populations; Oscar Avila Akerberg; (Supervisor: M. Chacron)
Tuesday, July 5th 2011, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Experimental Study of Initial State Radiative Events at HERA and a Measurement of the Proton Longitudinal Structure Function; Jason Schwartz; (Supervisor: F. Corriveau)
Thursday, July 7th 2011, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The Cooling of High-Magnetic-Field Pulsars; Weiwei Zhu; (Supervisor: V. Kaspi)
Wednesday, August 3rd 2011, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a W Boson in the Isolated-Track Charged-Lepton Channel using the Collider Detector at Fermilab; Adrian Buzatu; (Supervisor: A. Warburton)
Wednesday, September 21st 2011, 13:45 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Transport and charge sensing measurements of coupled quantum dot devices; Carolyn Young; (Supervisor: M. Hilke)
Monday, September 26th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Discovery of Emission above 100 GeV from The Crab Pulsar With VERITAS; Andrew McCann; (Supervisor: D. Hanna)
Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Liquid-solid systems out of equilibrium: phase-field crystal studies of solidification, melting, and plasticity; Joel Berry; (Supervisor: M. Grant and K. Elder)
Friday, December 2nd 2011, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): First Principles Simulations of nanoelectronic Devices; Jesse Maassen; (Supervisor: H. Guo)
Friday, December 16th 2011, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Molecular thin films: characterization, control, and collection of light; Jessica Topple; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Friday, March 30th 2012, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Three-dimensional Gravity, Holography and Black Holes; Nima Lashkari; (Supervisor: A. Maloney & P. Hayden)
Friday, June 22nd 2012, 14:00 (Keys Auditorium - room 112): Adventures in atomic force microscopy towards the study of the solid-liquid interface; Aleks Labuda; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Monday, September 30th 2013, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The X-ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038; Anne Archibald; (Supervisor: V. Kaspi)
Wednesday, October 16th 2013, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Fabrication and characterization of permalloy nanostructures.; Jeff Bates; (Supervisor: P. Grütter)
Tuesday, December 3rd 2013, 10:15 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Coulomb Drag in Vertically-Integrated One-Dimensional Quantum Wire; Dominique Laroche; (Supervisor: G. Gervais)
Tuesday, December 10th 2013, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Investigating the structure, star formation and stellar mass of the z = 0.9 supercluster RCS 2319+00; Ashley Faloon; (Supervisor: T. Webb)
Tuesday, January 14th 2014, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Electronic Transport in Hydrogenated Graphene; Jonathan Guillemette; (Supervisor: T. Szkopek / Co-supervisor: G. Gervais)
Tuesday, January 14th 2014, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Dusty star-forming galaxies within high-redshift galaxy clusters; Allison Noble; (Supervisor: T. Webb)
Monday, February 24th 2014, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Search for top-antitop quark resonances with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider; Bertrand Chapleau; (Supervisor: B. Vachon)
Friday, April 25th 2014, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Structural dynamics of the metal-insulator transition in VO2: an ultrafast electron diffraction study with radio-frequency compressed electron pulses; Vance Morrison; (Supervisor: B. Siwick)
Thursday, May 8th 2014, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): The feasibility and accuracy of Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy delivery and the design of novel scattering foils; Tanner Connell; (Supervisor: M. Hobson)
Wednesday, May 21st 2014, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Radio-frequency pulse compression for high-brightness ultrafast electron diffraction: design, characterization and application; Robert Chatelain; (Supervisor: B. Siwick)
Friday, June 6th 2014, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Development and performance of the detectors and readout of the EBEX balloon-borne CMB polarimeter; Kevin MacDermid; (Supervisor: M. Dobbs)
Thursday, June 12th 2014, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Non-perturbative resummation in three dimensional Yang-Mills theory; Mark Abraao York; (Supervisor: G. Moore)
Monday, June 16th 2014, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Neutron Stars and the determination of the dense matter equation of state; Sébastien Guillot; (Supervisor: R. Rutledge)
Friday, June 27th 2014, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Dynamical dark Energy; Vincent Poitras; (Supervisor: J. Cline)
Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Black Holes and Toy Cosmologies in higher spin gravity; Arnaud Lepage-Jutier; (Supervisor: A. Maloney)
Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103): Spectroscopy of luminescent nanoparticles and interactions with organic molecules for imaging and therapy; Daniel Cooper; (Supervisor: J. Nadeau)
Monday, August 11th 2014, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)): The x-ray emission and population of highly magnetized neutron stars; Scott Olausen; (Supervisor: V. Kaspi)