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Thanks to all students who participated in our annual PhsPhest event. It was a great day!

Best Ph.D. Talk

• Hurmiz Shamana, "Unusual Polysaccharide Rheology of Aqueous Dispersions of Soft Phytoglycogen Nanoparticles"

Best M.Sc. Talks

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 6th with 10 students presenting their research to the department in a series of short (~ 10 - 12 minute) talks. The best speakers were selected by the general audience.

The top speakers for 2017 are:

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:

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).

Congratulations to Evan Rand and Andrew MacLean who were awarded the 1st place and 2nd place prizes, respectively, in the Division of Nuclear Physics best student presentation competition at the annual Canadian Association of Physicists Congress held in Edmonton Alberta, June 15-19.

PhysPhest 2014 was held on the September 3rd. The top three speakers were selected by the general audience, the results are as follows:

• First place --- John Malcolm
• Second place --- Jonah Miller
• Third place --- Erin Shelton

The Department of Physics is extremely proud of your presentations!

PhysPhest 2013 was held on September 4th. The results are as follows:

• First prize --- Philippe Landry
• Second prize (shared) --- Joel Klassen & Matthew O'Halloran
• Third prize (shared) --- John (Ryan) Westernacher-Schneider & Jihae Baek

The Department of Physics is extremely proud of your presentations!

• Russell Spencer placed first in the Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics.
• Robert Moscaritolo tied for first in the Division of Medical and Biological Physics and went on to win first prize overall for Best Student Talk in the Friday competition.
• Calvin Tabert placed third in the Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics.