Research Initiatives
Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector
The Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector, currently in the planning stages, will be built at the Canadian Light Source. The sector will support a diverse, active and successful community of Canadian and international scientists spanning the dissimilar disciplines of physics, chemistry, geology, environmental science, biology and engineering. The instrumentation will meet the researchers' diverse needs by providing excellent performance over a broad x-ray energy range from 5 to 100 keV. To achieve this, three beamlines will be sourced by two complimentary insertion devices: a Small Gap Undulator (SGU) and a Superconducting Wiggler (SCW).
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Facilities
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Centre
The University of Guelph NMR Centre is equipped with six modern NMR spectrometers capable of a diverse array of solution and solid applications. The facility provides service to all academic communities on campus and is also available to industry at very reasonable cost and with guaranteed rapid throughput. It brings together extensive expertise in materials research spanning nineteen different research groups that address a wide range of research into the structure-function relationships on different scales of foods, polymers and biopolymers, and biological membranes.
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SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic and Research Computing Network)
SHARCNET is a consortium of Canadian academic institutions who share a network of high performance computers. The University of Guelph is a founding institution within SHARCNET, and hosts part of the consortium's cluster infrastructure. SHARCNET supports computational research in several areas of the Physics department, including gravitation, biophysics, and materials physics.
X-ray Diffraction and Scattering Group
The X-ray Diffraction and Scattering Group of the University of Guelph develops novel x-ray techniques for the structural characterization of bulk and nanomaterials. For this purpose we use in-house and synchrotron radiation in a number of different diffraction and scattering techniques, i.e.: powder, single crystal and multiple beam diffraction, SAXS, reflectivity measurements and PDF analysis.
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Partnerships
Canadian Light Source
Canadian Light Source Inc. (CLSI) operates the Canadian Light Source, Canada's national synchrotron research facility. Located at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, the CLS is a world-class, state-of-the-art facility that is advancing Canadian science, enhancing the competitiveness of Canadian industry and contributing to the quality of life of people around the world.
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Perimeter Institute
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, founded in 1999, is a major centre for theoretical physics research located in Waterloo, Ontario. It has grown to include over 60 resident researchers involved in day-to-day operations, and hosts hundreds of international researchers each year for collaborations and workshops. Current areas of cross-disciplinary research include cosmology, particle physics, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, quantum information theory, and superstring theory. The University of Guelph is one of 30 Canadian universities and institutions that have signed Memoranda of Understanding with the Perimeter Institute.
TRIUMF
Located on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, TRIUMF is one of the world's leading subatomic physics laboratories. It brings together dedicated physicists and interdisciplinary talent, sophisticated technical resources, and commercial partners in a way that has established the laboratory as a global model of success. Its large user community is composed of international teams of scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students. In July 2009, the University of Guelph became one of eight full members in the TRIUMF collaboration.
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