Congratulations to Professor Robert Wickham and former Ph.D student Russell Spencer whose article "Nucleation of the BCC phase from disorder in a diblock copolymer melt: Testing approximate theories through simulation" was selected as a 2016 Editors’ Choice article by the Journal of Chemical Physics.
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.
Congratulations to Professor Alexandros Gezerlis on receiving tenure! Alexandros Gezerlis' tenure takes effect immediately and he will also be promoted to Associate Professor, effective July 1st, 2017.
Josh Mogyoros successfully defended his MSc thesis on December 6, 2016: "Flexibility of bacterial type IV pili determined using atomic force microscopy".
Congratulations to Professor John Dutcher and the rest of the Organizing Committee (Reggi Vallillee, Kiley Rider, Rachel Baker, Mike Grossutti, Hurmiz Shamana, Erin Shelton, Richard Parg, John Atkinson and Ben Baylis) on running a very successful 2016 Nano Ontario conference at the Guelph Delta Hotel on November 10 and 11. There were over 160 participants from across Ontario, Quebec and the US, with 4 keynote addresses, 9 invited talks, 85 posters and 9 exhibitors. Well done!
With the passing of Innes Mackenzie, the Physics Department mourns the man who, in a short period around 1970, laid its foundations, which proved to be deep and solid. Those of us who worked with him and those who knew him only by repute offer the MacKenzie family our deepest condolences.