News related to Awards

Congratulations to the Physics Club for their College Royal exhibit on the weekend – they were awarded a red ribbon for their efforts!

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Congratulations to Joseph Turko who placed second for Best Student Talk for his talk on "Simulating the DESCANT Neutron Detection Array with the Geant4 Toolkit" at the 54th Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference. This year's conference took place at the Banff Centre, Banff Alberta, from February 16th to 19th, 2017.

PhysPhest is a celebration of the research being conducted in the Physics Department by M.Sc. and Ph.D. students who are completing their first year in the program. This year, PhysPhest was held on September 7th with 11 students presenting their research to the department in a series of short (~ 12 - 15 minute) talks. The best speakers were selected by the general audience (48 votes).

The top speakers for 2016 are:

The winners of the CPES Undergraduate Poster Session, which was held on August 5th, 2016, are:

Christina Burbadge was awarded first prize in the student poster competition at the Direct Reaction with Exotic Beams (DREB2016) conference held in Halifax July 11 - 15.  Her poster presentation, titled "Investigating the nature of excited 0+ states populated via the 162Er(p,t) reaction" was selected by an international panel of judges as the best poster presented by a student.  The DREB conference, held every 2 years, is the premier international conference in the field of reactions with rare isotope beams.

Calvin Tabert has been awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding achievement at the graduate level. Calvin completed his MSc and PhD in the quantum materials group of Prof. Elisabeth Nicol. The citation for his award summarizes Calvin's remarkable achievements and is given below:

Congratulations to Christina Burbadge who placed second for Best Paper Presentation Prize in the Nuclear Physics Division for her presentation of her paper titled "Investigating the nature of excited 0+ states populated via the 162Er(p,t) reaction" at the 2016 CAP Congress.   Christina is leading the analysis of data obtained from the MLL facility in Munich, Germany, by the collaboration involving Guelph, TRIUMF, the Technical University Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, and the University of Western Cape (South Africa).

Prof. Alex Gezerlis has been awarded a Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) in the latest NSERC competition.  The award, valued at $120k over 3 years, provides additional resources to promote research programs that have been highly rated in terms of their originality and innovation, and to the researcher who shows extraordinary potential to become an international leader in their field.   NSERC provides a maximum number of 125 DAS awards per year, and the University of Guelph receives 1 - 3 such awards annually.