2008 Thesis Presentations
Wuyang Zhang
MSc Defence - December 15, 2008
Isotropic-Helicoidal Transition of Semiflexible Polymers Confined to a Spherical Surface
Dr. Jeff Chen
Daniel Glickman
MSc Defence - November 26, 2008
QCM and SPR Study of the Enzymatic Degradation of Cellulose Thin Films
Dr. John Dutcher
Theodore Hopman
PhD Defence - November 12, 2008
Characterization of Energy Dispersive Semiconductor Detectors for X-Ray Spectroscopy
Dr. Iain Campbell
Vladimir Paserin
PhD Defence - November 7, 2008
High Rate, Large Area Laser-assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition of
Nickel from Nickel Carbonyl
Dr. Walt Duley
Colm Ryan
PhD Defence - October 16, 2008
Characterization and Control in Large Hilbert Spaces
Dr. Raymond Laflamme
Jonathan Teichroeb
PhD Defence - October 15, 2008
Selected Experiments with Proteins at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Dr. James Forrest and Dr. Lyndon Jones
Timothy K. Hasiuk
MSc Defence - September 29, 2008
An Investigation into the Lithium Ion Dynamics of Lithium Lanthanum Titanate Using Solid State NMR
Dr. Ken Jeffrey and Dr. Vladimir Ladizhansky
Martin LaForest
PhD Defence - September 9, 2008
Error Characterization and Quantum Control Benchmarking in Liquid State NMR Using Quantum Information Processing Techniques
Dr. Raymond Laflamme
David Ostapchuk
MSc Defence - September 8, 2008
Entanglement in Non-inertial Frames
Dr. Robert Mann
Monika Michalek
MSc Defence - September 4, 2008
Analysis of the Spincoating of Thickness Gradient Polymer Films
Dr. John Dutcher
Michael Hillier
MSc Defence - September 3, 2008
Modeling Water Emission from Intermediate Mass Star Formation Regions
Dr. Michael Fich
Jean Paul O. Brichta
PhD Defence - August 28, 2008
Laser-Initiated Coulomb Explosion Imaging of Small Molecules
Dr. Joseph Sanderson
Simon Comeau
MSc Defence - August 26, 2008
On the Tidal Heating of Black Holes in Kerr Space-Time
Dr. Eric Poisson
Stephanne Taylor
MSc Defence - August 25, 2008
Effect of a Post-Newtonian Tidal Environment on a Non Rotating Black Hole
Dr. Eric Poisson
Roland Haas
PhD Defence - August 21, 2008
Self-force on point particles in orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole
Dr. Eric Poisson
James LeBlanc
MSc Defence - August 20, 2008
Signatures of Gap Inhomogeneities in Optical Properties of Superconductors
Dr. Elisabeth Nicol
Emilia Illes
MSc Defence - August 19, 2008
Optical Properties of Underdoped Hight Tc Superconductors from a Phenomonological Model
Dr. Elisabeth Nicol
Lauren Persaud
MSc Defence - August 15, 2008
Aluminium-Palladium Transition Edge Sensors
Dr. Jan Kycia
Joel Vroom
MSc Coursework MSc Completion - August 11, 2008
Installation of an Ultra-High B/T Cryomagnetic System
Dr. Robert Hill
Kyle Leach
MSc Defence - August 8, 2008
High Precision Measurement of the Superallowed Beta-Decay Branching Ratio of 38mK"
Dr. Carl Svensson
Tabei, Seyed Mohiaddeen Ali
PhD Defence - July 28, 2008
Interplay of Disorder and Transverse-Field Induced Quantum Fluctuations in the LiHoxY1-x Ising Magnetic Material
Dr. Michel Gingras
Marcus Silva
PhD Defence - July 17, 2008
Suppression and Characterization of Decoherrence in Practical Quantum Information Processing Devices
Dr. Raymond Laflamme and Dr. Frank Wilhelm-Mauch
Mohammad H. Ansari
PhD Defence - June 27, 2008
The Statistical Footprints of Quantum Gravity
Dr. Lee Smolin and Dr. Robert Mann
Ryan J. Kerner
PhD Defence - June 23, 2008
Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Tunnelling Method for Particle Emission
Dr. Robert Mann
James Wong
MSc Defence - April 21, 2008
DESIGN STUDY OF DESCANT - Deuterated Scintillator Array for Neutron Tagging
Dr. Paul Garrett
Mark Chanachowicz
PhD Defence - April 16, 2008
On the Classification of the R-separable Webs for the Laplace Equation in E3
Dr. Ray McLenaghan and Dr. Robert Mann
Anming Hu
PhD Defence - March 17, 2008
Interaction of Nanosecond and Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Carbon:
Deposition of Carbon Films having Novel Compositions
Dr. Walt Duley and Dr. Qing-Bin Lu
Sarah E. Guthrie
PhD Defence - January 21, 2008
Physics Properties of Shear Oriented Cocoa Butter
Dr. Stefan Idziak
Adam Hubbard
MSc Defence - January 18, 2008
On Magic State Distillation using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Dr. Raymond Laflamme
