News

The University of Guelph Physics and Astronomy Club have been successful in their Guinness World Record attempt for the World’s Largest Elephant’s Toothpaste! The Physics Department is now considered ‘Officially Amazing’ after receiving confirmation from Guinness World Records in London England that their record has been approved.

Phys Phest Best presentation awards

MSc

• First prize: Sylvia Luyben, Electrostatic interactions in polymeric dynamical self-consistent field theory

Beau Greaves successfully defended his MSc thesis on August 30, 2019: Investigation of High-Lying (alpha,gamma) Resonances in ²²Ne through One-Neutron Transfer in Inverse Kinematics at TIGRESS

Erin McGee successfully defended her MSc thesis on August 30, 2019: Searching for Shape Coexistence with ¹²³Te(n,γ) Thermal Neutron Capture

Jeff de Vlugt successfully defended his MSc thesis on August 29, 2019: Identifying the sugars and phospholipids tightly bound to an integral membrane protein

Congratulations to Erin Shelton on receiving the Ross F. Hallett Memorial Scholarship in Biophyiscs.

Kate Charlesworth successfully defended her MSc thesis on August 16, 2019: The Creation of a Phytoglycogen-Functionalized SPR Sensor Surface and the Binding of Concanavalin A to Phytoglycogen

On Thursday, August 8, 2019 the annual CEPS Undergraduate Poster session was held. We appreciate all of our Physics participants and congratulate our winners!