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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

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'

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.

The poster session, featuring the work of undergraduate summer research assistants in the Department of Physics, was held on August 17.

The quality of each poster and the associated research at this second annual event continued to impress all those in attendance. The unenviable task of choosing amongst the competitors fell to the judging team of graduate students Kyle Leach, John Russell and Corey Kelly, who selected the top three.

Congratulations to Paul Finlay, who was awarded first place (and 1000 Euro) for the best talk by a graduate student, and Evan Rand, who was awarded second place in the graduate student poster competition, at the International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC) held in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 4-10.  The INPC, which was attended by approximately 800 delegates from around the world, is held every three years and is the largest international research conference covering all areas of nuclear physics.  Paul Finlay's award-winning talk presented An Ultra-High Precis

Congratulations to this year's poster award winners at the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute (GWPI) poster session.

The winners from Guelph were:

• Taylor Binnington and Adam Pound (joint poster The physics of relativistic binaries)
• James LeBlanc (Specific heat of underdoped curpates: RVB versus Fermi arcs)
• Isdin Oke (Preparation, deposition, and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals)

At the Annual Users' Meeting of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) held at Saskatoon SK last week (June 17th-18th), Kevin Miller (MSc student) from our department entered the competition for the best student poster sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Synchrotron Radiation (CISR) and won the first prize ($500) with a poster titled \"XAFS of Nickel Silicide Thin Films\".