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These are some of the links we talked about in class to get you thinking about your
own plans for school, summer co-ops, graduate work and careers. Course selection
is next week! Consider including Physics.
If you want to find out more about a topic, just Google it!
Kieran Broekhoven, HC ’13 has applied to study mechatronics at Waterloo
http://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/
He may do a summer co op at NRC HIA (National Research Council Herzberg Institute
of Astrophysics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzberg_Institute_of_Astrophysics
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/index.html
Hannah Broekhoven Regi ’05 studies debris discs
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041210.html
http://debris.astrosci.ca/
Her master’s Thesis at University of Victoria involved
studying gamma Doradus
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1450
Currently she is studying debris discs in the Auriga
constellation.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130212.html
The APOD (astronomy picture of the day from NASA) would make a great home page!
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Her undergraduate degree was at Queen’s University in SSP Astrophysics.
The department news page lists several researchers who have won NSERC Strategic
Grants and other Awards to fund their research equipment and graduate students.
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/News/index.php
https://sites.google.com/site/darklightdetectors/
Government of Canada invests in SNOLAB
2013‑ 01‑ 22
OTTAWA, ONT. — January 22, 2013 — The Government of Canada, through the
Canada Foundation for Innovation, is investing $145 million in maintenance and
operating support for Canada’s high-performing, internationally renowned research
facilities. Canada’s synchrotron research installation, a national high-performance
computing platform, and SNOLAB, a world-class underground neutrino and dark matter
physics laboratory are all receiving funding from CFI’s Major Science Initiatives fund—
enabling the best and brightest researchers to carry out internationally competitive
research that results in benefits to Canada as a whole Read more
http://www.snolab.ca/
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/People/profile.php?show=0&id=170
http://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~mchen/
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/People/profile.php?show=0&id=977
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/~fraser/research/index.html
Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/Video/Impey_Cave_Lecture_W2012.mp4
This is one of many free lectures open to the public, keep an eye on the main
physics page for upcoming events. Having a university in your home town is an
incredible resource. Use it!
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/
Also , there is a talk every month at the Queen’s Observatory
http://observatory.phy.queensu.ca/publicTours.html
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This page a list of the topics researched by HC 2013 SPH3U students. It can be used
as a resource of possible fields and schools for the future.
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Mark Bonner googled mining engineering. Ben also contributed to this conversation.
here are some related links from Ms Broekhoven:
http://talentegg.ca/incubator/2012/09/20/average-starting-salaries-grad-engineerscanada-2012-edition/
http://www.livingin-canada.com/salaries-for-mining-engineers-canada.html
http://www.mine.queensu.ca/
http://www.mcgill.ca/minmat/mining
http://www.laurentian.ca/content/program/mining-engineering/overview-0
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Timmerie Lewis Feb 19, 2013 presents:
http://www.physics.uottawa.ca/phy/professor_details.html?en/397
Andrew PELLING
Home Page:
http://www.pellinglab.net
Keywords: Experimental Biophysics
Cell and tissue mechanics, atomic force microscopy, fluorescence and laser scanning
confocal microscopy
Research Interests:
Dr. Pelling is generally interested in understanding the dynamic mechanical properties
of cellular systems across nanometer and micrometer length scales. The mechanical
response and transduction pathways of living cells are explored using genetic
manipulation and a variety of scanning probe and optical techniques. The long term
goals of his research program are to understand the genetic and architectural control
mechanisms of mechanotransduction pathways in health and disease.
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Dylan Broad’s discovery, presented Feb. 20 2013
http://www.physics.carleton.ca/people/research-associates/james-botte
http://www.physics.carleton.ca/cript
Cosmic Ray Inspection and Passive Tomography
James Botte, Carleton University, Dept. of Physics
Research Assistant
Office:
HP 2372
Email:
jbotte@physics.carleton.ca
Groups:
Cosmic Ray Inspection and Passive Tomography
FOREWARN: Predicting Extreme Space Weather
The smuggling of fissile material into or out of Canada is a concern. The
Canadian Border Services Agency has systems in place to detect low-level
gamma radiation but the efficiency of detecting well shielded nuclear
materials is very low. While the probability of smuggling a fissile device into
Canada is thankfully very low, the consequences could be devastating, so
monitoring the transport of these materials - in cargo containers for
example, warrants further investigation.
The Canadian team is working on a proof of principle project, to see if the
naturally occurring cosmic ray muon flux can be used to detect the
presence of high atomic number (high Z) materials. This method applies
high energy physics detector techniques to track the muons as they interact
with the material. The Carleton group is currently building a full-scale
prototype of the proposed detector, and have developed detector
technologies which will be used in a new project for detecting mass coronal
ejections.
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More links from Ms. Broekhoven Thursday Feb 21:
http://www.futuremorph.org/my-future-finder/health/heather-senior-medical-physicist/
One for the boys:
(Kieran was just accepted into the Waterloo mechatronics engineering program.)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151520494256908&set=a.472841976907.
286124.321586106907&type=1&theater
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield
And since Kieran likes to play guitar…
Here is the youtube video for his song that he sings LIVE from space with the
Barenaked Ladies. He did in fact write most of the song. Pretty impressive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE
And here is his FB photos from space
https://www.facebook.com/AstronautChrisHadfield/photos_stream
(These links are courtesy of Ms. Emily Marshall, another teacher candidate at HC and
her Google searches. Chris Hadfield is from her hometown of Sarnia.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbpIwT9nV3Y&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Jewel in the Night -- original music from the International Space Station
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YufsbE4-jmY
Published on Dec 24, 2012
Chris Hadfield's first recording from the International Space Station. You can
hear the slight buzz of the station's fans in the background
And one for Queen’s: Andrew
J. Feustel
Andrew J. Feustel is an American geophysicist and a NASA astronaut. His first
spaceflight in May 2009, STS-125, lasted just under 13 days. Wikipedia
Born: August 25, 1965 (age 47), Lancaster
Space missions: STS-125, STS-134
Space agency: NASA
First space flight: STS-125
Education: Queen's University, Oakland Community
College, Lake Orion High School, Purdue University
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1390635/Endeavour-astronaut-AndrewFeustel-finds-time-photos-spacewalk.html
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(When he came to Queen’s to give a speech and deliver the school banner he had
taken to space, he told me that the average age of an astronaut is in their late 30’s.)
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Ben Gagnon presents Friday Feb 22:
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=129&pg=3
Condensed Matter Physics, crystals, magnets, superconductors,
semiconductors
Co-Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device for which he won the 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics
"Know how to judge when to persevere and when to quit. If you're going
to do something, do it well. You don't have to be better than everyone
else, but you ought to do your personal best."
Willard S. Boyle
Birthdate August 19, 1924
Birthplace Amherst, Nova Scotia
Residence Wallace, Nova Scotia
Family Members
 Mother: Bernice Dewar
 Father: Ernest Boyle
 Spouse: Betty, landscape artist and community gallery founder.
 Children: Robert, Cynthia, David, Pamela
Personality Adventurous, clever, curious
Other Interests Sailing, skiing
Title Physicist; Retired former Executive Director of Research, Communications
Sciences Division, Bell Labs in New Jersey
Office Communication Sciences Division, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey
Degrees
 BSc, McGill, 1947
 MSc, McGill, 1948
 PhD (Physics), McGill, 1950
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Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame, 2005
 Nobel Prize, Physics, 2009
 Companion of the Order of Canada, 2010
Mentor
Mother who homeschooled him till grade 9 Mr. Bailey, high-school teacher who taught
confidence Lester Germer, Bell Labs supervisor for introduction to culture
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Hannah King presents:
http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/medphys/faculty/33-david-r-chettle.html
David R. Chettle
Professor, Medical Physics & Applied Radiation Sciences
Email: chettle@mcmaster.ca
Phone: 905 525 9140 ext. 27340
Office: NRB 106
Research Interests
Human body composition. Development of methods to measure elemental content in
living human subjects. Examples include lead (Pb) in bone using x-ray fluorescence,
strontium in bone using x-ray fluorescence, aluminum in bone using neutron activation,
mercury in kidney or other sites using x-ray fluorescence, manganese in bone using
neutron activation, nitrogen (protein) in whole body using prompt gamma neutron
activation, potassium (body cell mass) by whole body counting, cadmium in liver or
kidney by prompt gamma neutron activation.
Interaction of science and faith, science and religion dialogue.
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Kenya Costa- Dookhan presents Monday Feb 25, 2013:
Kenya interviewed Sam Pho, HC head girl ‘12 about McGill and their
biomedical program. Ryerson offers an undergraduate program in
biomedical physics, most other universities offer it as a graduate program.
(after you have earned your first degree.) They build prosthetic limbs and
artificial arteries. She looked at John Hopps the Canadian who designed
the first pacemaker:
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Student interview with Sam Pho:
-Currently in general engineering at McGill University
- At Mcgill, students are given the option to go into a specific discipline or general, at Queens
first year is general and at Waterloo in first year you go directly into the discipline of your choice
-Engineering involves a lot of solving problem solving as a group and individual
- 1 out of 5 people in the program are girls
- Plans to go into either chemical or biomedical engineering
- Mcgill engineering websites: http://www.mcgill.ca/engineering/
Looked further into biomedical engineering
- Average Salary 80,000
-One of the careers with the highest job growth
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_engineering
-The only UNDERGRAD program in biomedical engineering in Canada is at Ryerson:
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/undergraduate/current/bme.html
Interesting people: Dr. John Hopps (Electrical Engineer)
Built one of the earliest artificial pacemakers, which regulates heartbeat, he is known has the
father of biomedical engineering http://j_surettelemon.tripod.com/pacemaker/id3.html
Malcolm McEwen ( Radiatrion physicist)
Helps ensure that cancer patients receive just the right dose of radiation in radiotherapy.
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/education/innovations/scientists/mcewen.html
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Joleen Mayer presents Monday Feb 25, 2013:
http://oisb.ca/members/member_mads_kaern.htm
http://www.sysbiolab.uottawa.ca/
Mads Kaern
Canada Research Chair in Systems
Biology
Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology
Assistant Professor Department of Cellular &
Molecular Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, University of
Ottawa
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Faculty
of Science, University of Ottawa
Degrees
B.Sc., University of Copenhagen, 1995
Cand. Scient., University of Copenhagen, 1997
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2001
He is a core member of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, and an Assistant Professor
of Cellular & Molecular Medicine with cross-appointment in the Department of Physics at the
University of Ottawa. He launched his Dynamical Systems Biology Laboratory and
independent research program in 2005.
Dr. Kaern is a promising young scientist and
biotechnology innovator. In his short career, he has authored over 20 scientific publications
collectively cited more than 500 times and holds one biotechnology patent as a co-inventor.
He was a leading initiator behind the Canadian Society for System Biology and was elected
Founding President of this society. Ottawa Life Magazine named him among the “Top 50
People in the Capital” in 2005. With expertise in genetic engineering, dynamical systems
theory and computational modelling, Dr. Kaern focuses on complex gene regulatory
processes. This research aims at understanding fundamental properties governing cellular
signal processing and transduction to facilitate advances in biotechnology,
biopharmaceutical and biomedicine, including stem cell research and studies of multifaceted
disease. His research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; the National
Science and Engineering Research Council; the Canadian Foundation for Innovation; the
Canadian Research Chair Program; Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade;
and the University of Ottawa.
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Rajiv Tanwani presents Monday Feb 26, 2013
Raj wants to be a doctor, when his wrist hurt, he had an ultra sound scan done but because of
poor resolution, they could not find the problem. (It later found to be a cist.) Geoff Lockwood
works with ultra sound to improve 3D imaging.
Hannah: Does ultra sound have any other uses? -Great Question!
(Dr Lockwood was also Ms Broekhoven’s electromagnetism teacher Phys242)
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/People/profile.php?show=0&id=233
Geoff R. Lockwood
Department Head/Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Medical Physics
Research Interests
Medical ultrasound imaging was first introduced in the early 1950s. Since that time, it has
become one of the most important modalities for imaging soft tissues. It remains the only
imaging modality that can produce real-time tomographic images of intact tissues with sub
millimeter resolution. Research in my group is primarily concerned with the development of
new transducers and instrumentation for medical ultrasound imaging. We are current
developing scanners for high frequency imaging and real-time 3-D imaging.
High Frequency Imaging:
As the ultrasound frequency of a scanner is increased, image resolution improves and it
becomes possible to miniaturize the transducer. This permits the development of very high
resolution catheter or needle-based ultrasound imaging systems. We are working on a few
different projects in this area ranging from the design of a miniature integrated circuit
beamformer to laser machining of array structures.
Real-time 3-D Ultrasound Imaging:
We have recently developed a method for real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging. The method
combines a sparse array design with a synthetic aperture beamforming technique. Using
this technique, approximately fifty 2-D images can be collected in the time normally required
for a single image. By mechanically rocking the transducer array at 20 Hz, a 3-D data set
can be collected in real-time (20 volumes/s). We have started the construction of a
prototype imaging system based on these ideas. The system uses a pipelined network of
128 high speed digital signal processors to beam form a complete 3-D image in real-time.
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Tara McGlashan presents Franco Gaspari:
nano crystalline materials, renewable energy sources and blood spatter analysis.
Hannah: Are there any other universities that offer forensic science?
http://faculty.uoit.ca/gaspari/
Franco Gaspari, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Faculty of Science
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa,ON L1H 7L7
Tel: (905) 721-8668 ext: 2980
Fax: (905) 721-3304
E-mail: franco.gaspari@uoit.ca
I'm an assistant professor in the Faculty of Science (Computer Science) at
the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). I joined UOIT in
July 2006 from the University of Toronto, where I served as a senior
research associate at the Semiconductor and Photovoltaic Lab after my
PhD. I had previously completed my undergraduate studies at the
University of Bologna (Italy).
For more than 20 years I have been working in the field of semiconductor
physics both at the experimental and theoretical levels. I have focused on
materials and devices research and development programs in the areas of
thin film amorphous silicon and carbon and emerging nano-crystalline
materials.
The main research objectives of my work include the modeling and study of
electrical and optical properties of intrinsic and doped amorphous, microcrystalline and nano-crystalline materials, the development and
characterization of photovoltaic devices, the preparation and
characterization of diamond-like carbon, carbon nanotubes and the
investigation of the potential opto-electronic and biomedical applications of
tritiated amorphous silicon and tritiated amorphous carbon. I have also
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recently initiated a project in Forensic Physics aimed at the development of
a comprehensive program for Blood Spatter analysis. This program is
supported by the Ontario Police College.
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Christina Choi presents James E. Taylor March 4
Dark Matter 85% of the matter of the universe. Waterloo galaxy cluster- worked with Jonathon.
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~taylor/Site/Current%20Research.html
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo. Ontario Canada N2L 3G1
One of the ways we can learn about dark matter is by modelling how it
should behave using numerical simulations. With the resources of
SHARCNET, Ontario’s local supercomputing network, as well as machines
in California, Germany and Australia, I have been studying how cosmology
- the large-scale properties of the universe - affects the abundance, shape
and smoothness of dense structures like galaxy clusters.
Studying this question together with Waterloo undergraduate Anson Wong,
we have found that by measuring the shapes or concentrations of tens or
hundreds of individual clusters, we may be able to distinguish between
different cosmological models (cf. Wong & Taylor 2012). With M.Sc.
student Uzair Hussain, I am trying to determine a practical way to
implement these tests using data from gravitational lensing surveys such
as the LoCuSS survey (see below). With M.Sc. student Jonathan
Grossauer, I am looking at how the dense substructure inside dark matter
halos (in clusters this would correspond to individual galaxies in the cluster)
is stratified with age. The results of these simulations should help us
understand the distribution of galaxies seen in the Next Generation Virgo
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Cluster Survey (see below). The simulations always seem to have more
substructure than there are galaxies in clusters, particularly at the small
(`dwarf’) end of the scale. With M.Sc. student Ryan Speller I am comparing
the smallest substructure to distributions of faint companions around
nearby galaxies (more on this below).
With graduate student Farbod Kamiab, I have also tried to determine how
dark matter halos - the dense, roughly spherical structures that house
galaxies and clusters of galaxies - merge together. This is a tough
dynamical problem for which no good analytic solution exists, so we looked
at simple merger simulations to understand the problem and develop better
theory for it. The results of this work should help us understand how the
Magellanic Clouds are interacting with the Milky Way, what happens when
galaxy clusters merge together, and how smoothly dark matter is
distributed in our own Solar System.
I am an associate professor in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at
the University of Waterloo in Waterloo,
Canada. I am also an affiliate member of the
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
and a visitor at the Canadian Institute for
Theoretical Astrophysics.
We see all sorts of amazing things in the Universe — other planets, other
stars and galaxies — but the most amazing thing of all is how much we
can’t see. More than 85% of the matter in the Universe is completely
invisible to us; this is the mysterious “dark matter” you may have heard of.
I am using whatever tools I can, including numerical simulations,
astrophysical theory and observational data, to try to figure what dark
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matter is, where it is, and how it behaves. My research includes
gravitational lensing and dynamical studies of galaxy clusters, the
properties of the smallest galaxies in the local universe, and the theory
behind dark matter halos around galaxies and clusters.
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Sam Mills
Michel Godin, Professor at University of Ottawa
Finding better ways to look for cancer cells
http://www.g-sin.com/explore/researchers/Michel_Godin?_from=sitemap
Prof. Michel Godin leads a nanoscale biosensing group at the university of Ottawa. We
design micro/nano-scale devices capable of manipulating and analyzing biological
samples using microfluidics.
http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mgodin/
Michel Godin now leads a multidisciplinary research group aiming to use micro and
nanotechnologies in designing novel sensing platforms that provide real-time, quantitative
analytical capabilities for biomedical applications. His work has been highlighted in several high
impact journals including Nature, Nature Methods, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences and Analytical Chemistry.
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Carter Hoffman does a presentation on the fly
James Fraser fiber laser cutting.
Here are some additional links from me (Ms Broekhoven) since James Fraser is so awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPELVQpFIQ&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/~fraser/research/index.html
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/~fraser/research/opportunities/index.html
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/~fraser/research/team.html
http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/queens-research-teams-awarded-nserc-grants
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/News/profile.php?id=1927
James Fraser and Collaborators Win $435K NSERC
Strategic Grant
James Fraser (Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy)
James Fraser and his team have improved the precision of laser devices. They have
achieved automatic laser processing using an imaging technique that can see through
the smoke and sparks to directly measure cut depth on-the-fly, making the process fully
automatic. This will improve quality, reduce costs, and perhaps open up new
manufacturing possibilities. His project has received $435,533, the majority to be used
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for student and research and staff support that will allow his team to explore the
implications their discovery in a variety of fields. Both undergraduate and graduate
students will receive training at the intersection of advanced manufacturing and
photonics and directly contribute to both.
"This grant provides important multiyear funding which enables us to join forces with an
international team of experts to exploit our new technology to solve a variety of scientific
and industrially relevant problems,” says Dr. Fraser.
Laser Technology Earns Atherton Entrepreneurship Award
January 29, 2012
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/News/profile.php?id=1903
Story
James Fraser and PhD student Paul Webster have been announced as the winners
of this year's Atherton Entrepreneurship Award. The award is in recognition of
breakthrough optical measurement technology for laser cutting, discoveries that
will open broad new avenues for the use of high-power lasers in both the
manufacturing and eventually the medical sector.
PARTEQ Innovations, the technology transfer office of Queen's University, has
created a company, Laser Depth Dynamics Inc., around the technology to
accelerate its path to market. The Atherton Award provides seed funding of
$34,000 to help launch the company.
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/News/profile.php?id=1969
James Fraser wins the 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
James Fraser has been awarded the 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
-- the most prestigious award for teaching at Queen's...
http://queensu.ca/news/alumnireview/guide-not-gatekeeper
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Kyle Lavorato presents Alex Wright,
astro physics PHD at snow lab, his under grad was at Princeton. He used argon to look for Dark
Matter in 2009
http://www.physics.queensu.ca/~awright/
Hello! I am a Research Scientist with the Institute
of Particle Physics and an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics,
and Astronomy at Queen's University in Kingston,
Ontario. I carry out research in the area of
experimental particle astophysics, in which we
investigate the properties of the fundamental
particles that make up the Universe by studying
particles that are naturally produced, as opposed
to producing those particles in collisions at
particle colliders. Most of the particles we detect
are produced extraterrestrially, in the Sun and
beyond - hence the "astrophysics."
The processes that we observe or search for in particle astrophysics - neutrino
interactions, rare nuclear decays, and interactions due to particles that potentially make
up the galactic dark matter - occur very rarely. We therefore have to build very large
detectors, sometimes many hundreds of tonnes, in order to expect a countable number
of interactions. The processes that we are interested in are also low in energy and can
be very difficult to distinguish from cosmic ray interactions and "regular" decays of the
trace levels of radioisotopes that are found in most materials. In order to avoid these
backgrounds we build our experiments deep underground, so that the rock overhead
screens out most of the cosmic rays, and take great pains to construct the detectors
from materials with extraordinarily low levels of intrinsic radioactivity and to keep them
as clean as possible. We also try to develop detector technologies that maximize our
ability to distinguish between signal and background.
The reward for all of that effort is the opportunity to learn more about the fundamental
constituents of the Universe and the rules that govern their behavior.
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Marc Gravelle searched “nuclear science” and found
TRIUMF jointly run by Canadian Universities
http://www.triumf.ca/
Capturing Antimatter
In June 2011, the ALPHA experiment was successful in capturing antihydrogen for 16 minutes,
which is 5,000 times longer than the previous best.
Constructing a New Accelerator
Once complete in 2015, the Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) will enable TRIUMF to
expand Canada’s capabilities in producing and studying isotopes for physics and medicine.
In July 2012, the physics
community announced the
discovery of the Higgs Boson
particle. TRIUMF participates in
the ATLAS experiment, as well as
hosts a Tier-1 Data Centre on
site.
Learning about the Higgs
Creating Isotopes Without Nuclear Reactors
In February 2012, TRIUMF announced the successful production of a key medical isotope, Tc99m, in small medical cyclotrons. This development will alleviate the need for centralized
production of this isotope in nuclear reactors.
In December 2011, Physics World
announced its annual Top 10 Breakthroughs
of the Year which included one of TRIUMF’s
international collaborations: the Tokai-toKamiokande (T2K) neutrino experiment in
Japan
Breakthroughs of the Year
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/dec/16/physics-world-reveals-its-top-10breakthroughs-for-2011
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http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/dept-items/news_repository/pierre-savard201cscientist-of-the-year-2012201d-named-by-radio-canada
University of Toronto physicist Pierre Savard has been named Radio-Canada’s
2012 Scientist of the Year for his remarkable contribution, along with other
Canadian scientists on the ATLAS experiment team, to the discovery of the Higgs
boson particle in July of 2012.
Savard, a TRIUMF scientist and one of six high-energy physicists from U of T involved
in the project, played a key role in what has been described as one of the most
important scientific quests of a generation.
"This is a wonderful public recognition for Pierre and the entire ATLAS team," said
Professor Ray Jayawardhana, senior adviser on science engagement to U of T
President David Naylor.
"The Higgs discovery has captured people's imagination, as we saw at the Science
Frontiers event on campus last December, where Pierre was one of the speakers and
quite a few kids lined up to ask questions," Jayawardhana said. "This accolade from
Radio-Canada offers another opportunity to showcase the exciting work that Canadian
scientists are involved in."
The Higgs boson is a massive elementary particle that is predicted to exist by the
Standard Model of particle physics. The model, which has been the basis of particle
physics for more than 30 years, needs the Higgs boson: it is the missing ingredient that
is postulated to explain the existence of mass in the universe.
ATLAS is one of two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s
largest and highest energy particle accelerator. The U of T team – which also includes
Richard Teuscher, David Bailey, Peter Krieger, Robert Orr, Pekka
Sinervo and William Trischuk – in addition to other contributions, built an essential
component of the ATLAS detector and sifted through ATLAS data using the SciNet
computing resources at U of T to identify collisions containing Higgs boson candidates.
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Ryan Penney
Arthur McDonald director of Sudbury NO, helped on a paper on Solar Nutrinos
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/people/mcdonald.html
Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics/Professor/Director (SNO) Ph.D. (Caltech)
Dr. Art McDonald addresses group and Professor Hawking
http://www.snolab.ca/content/dr-art-mcdonald-addresses-group-andprofessor-hawking
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Dr. Arthur McDonald (Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy) also received $1.3
million to search the galaxies for dark matter and double beta decay at SNOLAB.
Research Interests
My research is centered at the SNOLAB international underground science laboratory near
Sudbury, Ontario, where an extremely low radioactivity environment has been created to enable
studies of very rare nuclear and particle reactions. I am the Director of the Sudbury Neutrino
Observatory (SNO) Collaboration that has recently completed its final paper on solar neutrinos
(arXiv:1109.0763v1) including all three phases of the project that completed data acquisition at
the end of 2006. Several shorter papers on other astrophysical and particle physics topics are
being completed for submission in the near future.
I am also participating in the SNO+ and DEAP-3600 experiments being constructed at SNOLAB
that are scheduled to begin operation in 2013. The SNO+ experiment will refill the SNO detector
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with about 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator containing over a ton of Nd to search for neutrino-less
double beta decay in the isotope 150Nd. This will be one of the most sensitive measurements of
this type in the world, with the potential to demonstrate if neutrinos are Majorana particles (their
own anti-particles) and if so, to provide a limit on the mass of the lightest neutrino. Other
measurements will be made for low energy neutrinos from the sun, the earth and nuclear
reactors.
I also am a member of the DEAP/CLEAN collaboration which is building the DEAP-3600 and
MiniCLEAN detectors at SNOLAB. I am working primarily on the DEAP-3600 experiment that
will use 3600 kg of liquid argon to make measurements of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
(WIMPS) with sensitivity up to 100 times better than present measurements. The objective is to
seek such WIMPS as possible candidates for the Dark Matter particles thought to make up the
majority of the matter in our universe.
Jan 2012 Art McDonald Named to the Order of Ontario
The Honorable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, has announced that
Queen's University's Professor Art McDonald, the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in
Particle Astrophysics, has been named to the Order of Ontario, the highest honour in the
province.
Sep 2011 Art McDonald is awarded the Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the Royal Society of
Canada
The Royal Society of Canada has just announced that Art McDonald has been awarded
the Henry Marshall Tory Medal for 2011...
May 2009 Art McDonald elected to UK Royal Society
From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-05-15 Queen's Physics professor Art McDonald is one
of three Canadians elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy
of science of the UK and the Commonwealth. As one of 44 international recipients of this
honour for 2009, Dr. McDonald joins the likes of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and
Stephen Hawking...
Apr 2008 Art McDonald Receives Order of Canada Award
Taken from the Queen's News Centre at http://qnc.queensu.ca: Physicist Art McDonald,
director of the QueenÂ’s-led Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is one of 30 Canadians
who was awarded Officer of the Order of Canada at last week's investiture ceremony in
Ottawa...
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Ben Barret presents Kevin Resch Thurs
Quantum Information Science interfromeatic super imposing waves to get information
http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/
Institute for Quantum Computing
Feb 26, 2013
IQC associate professor Kevin Resch was selected to receive
a prestigious E.W.R Steacie Fellowship from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
(NSERC).
IQC professor receives E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship
Professor Kevin Resch is an experimental physicist working in quantum
information science, in particular the development of quantum sources
of light and interferometric sensors. Technologies that harness the
capabilities of quantum systems promise to revolutionize the way we
process and share information and how we measure the world around
us. Resch is one of six winners who each receive a research grant of
$250,000 over two years.
http://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/
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Joe Mark Dr Thomas Koffas
Worked at the large hadron collider at CERN
http://www.physics.carleton.ca/people/faculty-members/thomas-koffas
Dr. Thomas Koffas
Assistant Professor, Particle Physics
My primary research interests are on experimental particle physicsas a
member of the ATLAS collaboration. ATLAS is a multi-purpose detector
operating at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Europe. It has been
designed to search for signals that will enable physicists to understand the
fundamental laws of nature and in particular the acquisition of mass
through the so-called Higgs mechanism. It is the search for the Higgs
boson the key element of this mechanism that I have been currently
focusing on.
http://people.physics.carleton.ca/~logan/talks/higgs-public.pdf
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Rebecca MacKinder Stephane Corteau
Formation structure of galaxies
Kenya’s question: Do you want to be an astrophysicist?
http://www.astro.queensu.ca/people/Stephane_Courteau/main.php
Research Interests
Formation, Structure and Evolution of Galaxies
Dark Matter, Galaxy Dynamics
Stellar Populations, Dust
Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
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Rachel Murphy
Gordon Semeoff UBC 1990 research prize medal fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Co inventor of super string theory explain all the fundamental particles
https://www.phas.ubc.ca/users/gordon-semenoff
Bachelor's Degree:
University of Alberta, 1976,
First Class Honors in Physics
Doctoral Degree:
University of Alberta, 1981,
Theoretical Physics
Employment History:
Professor, University of
British Columbia since 1990; Velux Visiting Professor, Niels Bohr Institute,
2012, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 2000 Visiting
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Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1999; Nordita Professor, Niels Bohr
Institute, Copenhagen, 1989 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 19841985 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massacusetts Institute of Technology 1982-1983
Awards:
Officer of the Order of Canada, 2012; Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
Medal, 2012; Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Assiciation of Physicists, 2012;
D.Sc. Honoris Causa, University of Lethbridge, 2011; CAP Brockhouse Medal, 2010;
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2000; CAP/CRM Medal for Mathematical
Physics 2000; MacDowell Medal 1990; Killam Research Prize 1989
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Thank you everyone for your contributions to this collection of career
pathways in physics. You may remember that I told you of the Queen’s
Observatory News and the then upcoming talk by Dr Terry Bridges:
Heavenly Errors, Misconceptions about the Universe. Here is a link from
that lecture that illustrates the difference between popular folklore about the
moon and gravity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOHRKKNNLQ
Enjoy! And good luck on all your future endeavors.
http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/queens-awarded-two-elite-researchchair-positions
http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/six-queens-professors-namedcanada-research-chairs
http://sno.phy.queensu.ca/group/faculty.html
http://observatory.phy.queensu.ca/