2011

• Another paper by James LeBlanc has just been published: "Effect of electron-phonon coupling on energy and density of states renormalizations of dynamically screened graphene", J.P.F. LeBlanc, J. P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 84, 165448 (2011).

• A paper by Adam Pound has just been published: "Effect of electron-phonon coupling on Landau levels in graphene", A. Pound, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 84, 085125 (2011).

• Congratulations to James LeBlanc who won first place in the GWPI poster session. Former student Kent Fisher and new student Lukas Stille also won prizes for their posters on work with other groups.

• We welcome Lukas Stille who has joined the group. Lukas is doing a fourth year undergraduate project on graphene.

• Another paper with former undergraduate Kent Fisher has been published in Europhysics Letters: "Electron pockets and pseudogap Dirac point in underdoped cuprate superconductors", K.A.G. Fisher, E.J. Nicol and J.P. Carbotte, EPL 95, 47008 (2011).

• Former postdoc Vlada Lukic is currently a visiting Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in the USA.

• A brief article entitled "Carbon-based superconductors", by Elisabeth Nicol has appeared in Physics in Canada 67, 78 (2011).

• Congratulations to Calvin Tabert who has been awarded an NSERC scholarship for graduate study!

• We welcome Calvin Tabert who is joining our group for graduate work. Calvin did his undergraduate degree at the University of the Fraser Valley, BC.

• Another paper by Adam Pound has been published in Europhysics Letters: "Phonon structures in the electronic density of states of graphene in magnetic field", A. Pound, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, EPL, 94, 57006 (2011).

• Congratulations to Adam Pound who has won the Governor General's Gold Medal!

• Graduate student James LeBlanc's work has been published in PRB as: "Effects of a particle-hole asymmetric pseudogap on Bogoliubov quasiparticles", J.P.F. LeBlanc, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 83, 184506 (2011).

• Postdoctoral Fellow Adam Pound has a paper published in EPJB: "Optical properties of the pseudogap state in underdoped cuprates", A. Pound, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Eur. Phys. J. B, 81, 69 (2011).

• Congratulations to Adam Pound who has won an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship!

2010

• Mei-Rong Li has been appointed a Director with the Royal Bank of Canada.

• Ken Vos is Chair of the physics department at the University of Lethbridge.

• Adrien Borne was awarded his M.Sc. in France with highest honours.

• The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Geim and Novoselov for the discovery of graphene in 2006!

• We welcome Adam Pound who has joined the group as a postdoc. He completed his PhD at Guelph in general relativity.

• Graduate student Adrien Borne's work has been published in PRB as two papers: "Signature of pseudogap formation in the density of states of underdoped cuprates", A.J.H. Borne, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 82, 024521 (2010) and "Specific heat across the superconducting dome in the cuprates", A.J.H. Borne, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 82, 094523 (2010).

• James LeBlanc, Jules Carbotte and Elisabeth Nicol recently attended the LEES 2010 conference in the Swiss alps (Les Diablerets, Switzerland). Elisabeth gave a talk on graphene and Jules and James presented posters on the high temperature cuprates.

• Congratulations to Jules Carbotte who was awarded an honorary degree from McMaster University on June 8. He has been already been awarded honorary degrees from Waterloo, Manitoba, and Sherbrooke.

• Congratulations to Aidan Brown on winning the Governor General's Silver Medal for highest cumulative graduating average in the University and for being named to the CPES Society of Excellence for high academic standing and outstanding contributions to the University community!

• Group members Adrien Borne, Kent Fisher and James LeBlanc presented posters on their research at the recent CIFAR Quantum Materials meeting in Montreal. They also attended the summer school for the meeting where Elisabeth Nicol and Jules Carbotte gave lectures.

• Former group member J.P. Archambault is now a Research Associate at the National Research Council.

• Congratulations to Kent Fisher and Aidan Brown on winning NSERC CGMS scholarships for graduate study!

• Group members Kent Fisher and James LeBlanc presented talks on their work on high temperature superconductors at the recent APS March meeting in Portland, Oregon.

• Congratulations to James LeBlanc on passing his Ph.D. oral comprehensive exam!

• Graduate student James LeBlanc's latest paper has appeared in PRB and has also been selected to be featured in the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity: "Signatures of Fermi surface reconstruction in Raman spectra of underdoped cuprates", J.P.F. LeBlanc, J.P. Carbotte, and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 81, 064504 (2010).

• A paper involving students Kent Fisher and James LeBlanc has just been published in PRB and has also been selected to be featured in the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity: "Effect of pseudogap formation on the penetration depth of underdoped high-Tc cuprates", J.P. Carbotte, K.A.G. Fisher, J.P.F. LeBlanc,and E.J. Nicol, Phys. Rev. B 81, 014522 (2010).

• Recent work on graphene has been published in: "Effect of electron-phonon interaction on spectroscopies in graphene", J.P. Carbotte, E.J. Nicol and S.G. Sharapov, Phys. Rev. B 81, 045419 (2010); and has also been selected to be featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

• Former group member Ilya Vekhter has just received promotion to Associate Professor effective Jan. 12, 2010.

• News of former group members: Belen Valenzuela was appointed as a tenured scientist in the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC in Fall 2009 and is a co-organizer for a conference in the Canary Islands in the summer of 2010. Also, last fall, Meirong Li moved to the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) to become a senior manager in risk analysis.

2009

• Graduate student James LeBlanc's paper has appeared as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B: "Specific heat of underdoped cuprates: RVB versus Fermi arcs" J.P.F. LeBlanc, E.J. Nicol and J.P. Carbotte, Phys. Rev. B 80, 060505(R) (2009).

• Congratulations to James LeBlanc for winning one of the prizes for best poster at the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute poster session.

• Elisabeth Nicol has been appointed as an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute and has also been made a faculty member of the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research at McMaster University.

• Congratulations to graduate students James LeBlanc and Emilia Illes, who have recently been awarded NSERC CGS scholarships based on their work in our group. Former group member Greg Demand also received one in the same competition.