PhysPhest 2013 was held on September 4th. The results are as follows:
The Department of Physics is extremely proud of your presentations!
Congratulations to Alejandra Diaz Varela for winning first prize in the student poster competition at the Exotic Beam Summer School held at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory July 28 - Aug. 4.
Congratulations to Ryan Plestid whose score in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the second highest score obtained at Guelph in the past six years; his score places him among the top 22% of students writing the Putnam this year North-America wide.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual contest for college students established in 1938 in memory of its namesake.
First prize was awarded to Robert Moscaritolo for his presentation MATLAB as an Analysis Tool for Quantifying “Bacterial Crowd Surfing”
Honourable Mentions went to Joseph Kuchar for his presentation Computing the Static Self Force in Exotic Spacetimes and Calvin Tabert for his presentation Dynamical Conductivity of AA-Stacked Bilayer Graphene
First Place: Alexis Wagner (Engineering) for her poster Optimization of Electrospun Poly(lactic acid)/Poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) Blend Nanofibers for Flexible Electronics
Second Place: Lukas Stille (Physics) for his poster Optical signatures of the tunable band gap in silicene
Third Place: Colin Gram (Physics) for his poster Structure Calculation of the Membrane Protein Proteorhodopsin
Eric Poisson, Chair, Department of Physics, presents the J.B. Reynolds Graduation Medal to Matthew O'Halloran
Congratulations to Matthew O'Halloran on being awarded the J.B. Reynolds Graduation Medal in Physics for the 2011-2012 academic year. This Medal is awarded to the top graduating student who has completed semester 8 of any of the majors in Physics and obtained the highest cumulative average in the required Physics courses, normally taken in semester 5-8.