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Phys Phest, a symposium of talks by M.Sc. students who are completing their first year in our program, was held on September 7th.

The audience was treated to eight excellent presentations on a diverse range of high-quality research. The presentations were judged by members of the audience.

First prize was awarded to Kyle Reiter for his presentation, "Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of the Enzymatic Degradation of Cellulose Fibers".

First Place

• James LeBlanc (Physics PhD Candidate, UofG) for his poster 'Effects of a Particle-Hole Asymmetric Pseudogap on Bogoliubov Quasiparticles'

Second Place

• Halle Revell (Physics MSc Candidate, UW) for her poster 'Design and Implementation of a Planar SQUID Magnetometer for the Study of Magnetic Monopoles in the Spin Ice Material Dy2Ti207'
• Kent Fisher (Physics QI MSc Candidate, UW) for his poster 'Optimal Realization of Single-Qubit Quantum Channels using Linear Optics'

Guelph students did very well in the best student oral presentation competition at the Canadian Association of Physics Conference held at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s Newfoundland June 12 0- 17th, 2011:

Congratulations to:

• Corey Kelly, 1st place overall (all CAP)
• Sophie Chagnon-Lessard, 2nd place overall (all CAP)
• Doug Grzetic, 2nd place, Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Congratulations to the following:

Congratulations to Adam Pound who has been awarded the 2011 Governor General's Gold Medal. The Governor General's Gold Medal is awarded each year for outstanding academic achievement at the graduate level of study. This award will be presented at the Graduate Studies convocation ceremony on Tuesday, June 15th, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Congratulations to Michael Barriault (an M.Sc. student with Luis Lehner), who won the prize for best student poster at the 2011 SHARCNET Research Day. The title of the poster was: 
Dynamical constraint enforcement in plasma environments.

2011 SHARCNET Research Day was held at Sheridan College on Friday May 19th.

Congratulations to the Physics Club and the Nanoscience Club on winning the following awards at College Royal 2011:

• Third prize for Overall Exhibit - Nanoscience Club
• First prize for Overall Display - Physics Club
• First prize for CPES Display - Physics Club

Congratulations to Adam Pound on being awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.  The Postdoctoral Fellowships Program provides support to a core of the most promising researchers at a pivotal time in their careers. The fellowships are also intended to secure a supply of highly qualified Canadians with leading edge scientific and research skills for Canadian industry, government and universities.