Student Public Presentations

CURRENT (since April 2017)

Graduate Student - MSc and PhD - Public Lectures

Date/Time Student Speaker Title

Our Student Public Lectures are presented—unless otherwise noted—in PAB Seminar Room 100 (Main Floor [south side] of the Physics & Astronomy Building).

 UPCOMING TALKS:

Tuesday
6 April 2021
9:30 a.m.
via ZOOM 
Arpan DAS
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisors: S. Basu / A. Buchel

Formation of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Day & Date TBA
Time TBA
via ZOOM 
Mark BAKER
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisors: S. Kuzmin / D.G. McKeon

TBA

 PREVIOUS TALKS:

Wednesday
3 Feb 2021
2:00 p.m.
via ZOOM 
Farnoush ATTARZADEH
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: W. K. Hocking

Studies of the tilts of atmospheric scatterers by windprofiler radars

Thursday
14 Jan 2021
1:30 p.m.
via ZOOM 
Nazban DARUKHANAWALLA
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisors: L. Goncharova / P. J. Simpson

Fundamental transport properties in silicon quantum structures

Friday
30 Oct 2020
9:00 a.m.
via Zoom 
Collin KNIGHT
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: E. Peeters

Mid-infrared studies of galactic sources: Probing the relationship between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their physical environment

Monday
24 Aug 2020
9:30 a.m.
via Zoom 
Thalia MAGYAR
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: J. R. de Bruyn / T. Poepping

Yield-Stress Fluids in Confined Geometries

Monday
10 Feb 2020
9:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
James GAUDET
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: P. J. Simpson

Si nanocrystal synthesis via double implantation and variable implantation

Tuesday
17 Dec 2019
9:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Himasha WIJESEKARA
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: J. Hutter

Effects of impurities on calcium oxalate crystallization as measured by atomic force microscopy

Tuesday
3 Dec 2019
9:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Jeff VANKERKHOVE
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: R. J. Sica

Raman-scatter lidar measurements of water vapour determined using an integrated microwave radiometer-lidar retrieval

Tuesday
3 Dec 2019
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Ryan HOPKINS
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: G. Osinski

Numerical simulations of complex crater formation in layered and mixed targets

Wednesday
28 Aug 2019
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Christopher BROWN
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: B. Chronik

The effect of spatial averaging on dB/dt exposure values for implanted medical devices

Monday
19 Aug 2019
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Sivayini KANDEEPAN
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisors: A. Soddu / S. Valluri

Studying resting state and stimulus induced BOLD activity using the generalized Ising model and independent component graph analysis (GraphICA)

Monday
12 Aug 2019
2:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Sheldon VAN MIDDELKOOP
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: G. Fanchini

Porous membranes from 2D materials and their integration into chemiresistive sensors for in-line detection of cadmium in water filtration devices

Wednesday
31 July 2019
9:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Shannon HICKS-JALALI
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisors: R. J. Sica / A. Haefele

A Raman water vapour lidar tropospheric climatology and trends analysis over Payerne, Switzerland

Tuesday
30 July 2019
9:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Shayamila MAHAGAMMULLA GAMAGE
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisors: R. J. Sica / A. Haefele

Development of a new optimal estimation method retrieval for temperature and relative humidity using rotational Raman lidar back-scatter measurements to study ice supersaturation layers

Thursday
18 April 2019
9:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Pubuditha ABEYASINGHE
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: A. Soddu

Calculating the dimensionality of the brain, and other applications of an optimized generalized Ising model in predicting the brain’s spontaneous functions

Friday
14 Dec 2018
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Ali JALALI
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: R. J. Sica

Validating and highlighting the advantages of the Optimal Estimation Method for Rayleigh lidar middle atmospheric temperature retrievals

Wednesday
12 Dec 2018
2:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Amanda DICARLO
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: T. Poepping / D. Holdsworth

Investigation of flow disturbances and multi-directional wall shear stress in the stenosed carotid artery bifurcation using particle image velocimetry

Friday
7 Dec 2018
12:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Robin ARNASON
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: P. Barmby

Investigations of the X-ray Binary Population in 3 Local Group Galaxies

Tuesday
4 Dec 2018
9:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Carolyn CADOGAN
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: L. Goncharova / P. Simpson

Properties of Silicon quantum dots

Friday
23 Nov 2018
1:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Ghazal FARHANI
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: R. J. Sica

Improved techniques for atmospheric ozone retrievals from lidar measurements using the Optimal Estimation Method and Machine Learning

Tuesday
16 Oct 2018
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Jaewoo PARK
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: G. Fanchini

Copper-nanoparticle decorated graphene thin films: Applications in metal-assisted etching and synthesis of next-generation graphene-based nanomaterials

Thursday
4 Oct 2018
9:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Mitchell BROCKLEBANK
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: L. Goncharova

High Resolution Ion Beam Investigations of the Mechanism of Titanium Anodization

Wednesday
12 Sept 2018
12:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Sebastian BRUZZONE
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: S. Metchev

Mapping debris disk at extreme contrast: Near-IR Differential Polarimetric Imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager

Monday
20 Aug 2018
1:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Cameron HOPKINS
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: J. de Bruyn

Vibrating-wire Rheometry

Monday
30 July 2018
9:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100
Jiwen GUAN
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: Y. Song

Effects of high pressure on photochemical reactivity of organic molecular materials probed by vibrational spectroscopy

Tuesday
10 July 2018
10:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Sayantan AUDDY
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: S. Basu

From large-scale molecular clouds to filaments and cores: Unveiling the role of the magnetic fields in star formation

Wednesday
13 June 2018
1:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Angela EZUGWU
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: G. Fanchini

Defect-related magnetic properties of nanostructured nickel oxide thin films for solar cell applications

Tuesday
6 Feb 2018
1:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Daniel MARTIRE
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: B. Chronik

Optimization of Design Procedures for DreMR

Tuesday
6 Feb 2018
10:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Sina KHAJEHABDOLLAHI
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: A. Soddu

Phase transitions of Integrated Information in the Generalized Ising Model of the Brain

Wednesday
13 Dec 2017
1:30 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Yang LIU
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: J. de Bruyn

Three Experiments on Complex Fluids

Tuesday
21 Nov 2017
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Dilini SUBASINGHE
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: M. Campbell-Brown

Physical properties of faint meteors through high-resolution observations

Tuesday
19 Aug 2017
10:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Sina KAZEMIAN
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: G. Fanchini

Modelling the thermal conductivity of layered materials from photothermal measurements

Thursday
13 July 2017
10:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Kendra KELLOGG
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: S. Metchev

Investigating the Effects of Gravity, Cloud Structure and Metallicity on Brown Dwarf Atmospheres

Friday
21 April 2017
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Bushra HUSSAIN
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: T. Poepping / J. Lacefield

Methods for Improved Estimation of Low Blood Velocities using Vector Doppler Ultrasound

Thursday
20 April 2017
9:00 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Kieffer DAVIEAU
MSc Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: M. Singh / J. Carson

The study of plasmonics in
nanohole metallic metamaterials

Wednesday
19 April 2017
1:00 p.m.
PAB Room 100 
Zahra HAGHSHENASFARD
PhD Candidate - Physics Program
Supervisor: M. Cottam

Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics of Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Nanowires

Wednesday
19 April 2017
9:30 a.m.
PAB Room 100 
Maryam TABESHIAN
PhD Candidate - Astronomy Program
Supervisor: P. Wiegert

Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets through Planet-Disk Dynamical Interactions

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