Melanie Hiles successfully defended her MSc Thesis, Friday, September 4th, 2020: Classifying Formulations and Tracking Accelerated Aging of Crosslinked Polyethylene Pipes by Applying Machine Learning Concepts to Infrared Spectra
Andrew Harris successfully defended his PhD Thesis, Thursday, September 3rd, 2020: Spectroscopic characterization of atypical ion pumping microbial rhodopsins
Kathleen (MASON) Harris, on September 3, 2020 in her 91st year, beloved wife of the late Milton C. Harris (1984). Cherished mother of Lesley P. and her partner Shawn Sturrock and Pamela A. and her late husband Scott Shepherd, all of Guelph. Loved grandma of Jeremy and Emma. Predeceased by her brother William Mason of England.
She served as the Secretary to the Chair, from (1974 to 1984), and then as the first GWPI Admin Asst from 1984 until her retirement.
Erin Shelton successfully defended her PhD Thesis, Friday, August 28, 2020: Quantifying Bacterial Motion in Twitching Colonies and the Effect of the Agar-Glass Interface on Bacterial Twitching Motility
Daniel Cureatz successfully defended his MSc Thesis, Wednesday, August 26, 2020: Refinement of the GUPIX Treatment of Multiple Ionization Satellites and Detector Non-linearity.
Sylvia Luyben's first-prize winning talk was selected by the Soft Matter Symposium to go on to represent the discipline in a student oral competition across the entire Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). This took place on June 25th.
It was just announced that Sylvia tied for third place in the "Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists Virtual Best Student Oral Competition".