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Ron

Oct 2014: Congratulations to Ron!

Congratulations to Ron Belyansky from Physics on winning 1st prize in the Earth and Physical Sciences category at the 2014 Undergraduate Research Conference (...)»
Vance Morrison

Oct 2014: The Siwick group watches the hidden life of materials

Ultrafast electron diffraction experiments open a new window on the microscopic world. (...)»
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Oct 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Zamfir

Michael Zamfir has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Probing neutron star interiors with type I x-ray bursts). (...)»
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Oct 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Monserrat Lopez

Monserrat Lopez has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Local mechanical stimulation based approaches for the study of cells). (...)»
27th Astro Night

Oct 2014: 27th public Astro Night: a great success

On October 16th, over 80 people attended René Doyons's talk The quest for life outside the Solar System, (...)»
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Oct 2014: Congratulations to Dr. James Kennedy

James Kennedy has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Instrumentation and Analysis for Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from Galaxy Clusters with the APEX-SZ Experiment). (...)»
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Sep 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Adriano Ferrari

Adriano Ferrari has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Flexible polyelectrolytes: like-charged attraction, linear stability, and long-term structure). (...)»
26th Astro Night

Sep 2014: About 70 people attend the 26th public Astro Night

On September 18th, about 70 people attended Robert Ferdman's talk Discovering radio blips and blasts: from pulsars to fast radio burts. (...)»
Aashish Clerk

Sep 2014: Aashish Clerk elected member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Aashish Clerk, who has been elected a member of the newly established College of the Royal Society of Canada. (...)»
Aashish Clerk

Sep 2014: Aashish Clerk awarded the John David Jackson Award

Aashish Clerk has won the Department of Physics John David Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (...)»
Paul François

Aug 2014: Paul François awarded a Simons Investigator Award

Paul François has been awarded an inaugural Simons Investigator Award in Mathematical Modeling Of Living Systems. (...)»
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Sep 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Tijmen de Haan

Tijmen de Haan has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Cosmological constraints from the South Pole telescope galaxy cluster survey). (...)»
25th Astro Night

Jul 2014: Over 80 people attend the 25th public Astro Night

On July 17th, over 80 people attended Lyle Whyte's talk The Search for Little Green Bugs on Mars and Astrobiology. (...)»
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Jul 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Cooper

Daniel Cooper has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Spectroscopy of luminescent nanoparticles and interactions with organic molecules for imaging and therapy). (...)»
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Jul 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Arnaud Lepage-Jutier

Arnaud Lepage-Jutier has successfully defended his PhD thesis ( Black Holes and Toy Cosmologies in higher spin gravity). (...)»
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Jun 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Vincent Poitras

Vincent Poitras has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Dynamical dark Energy). (...)»
Keshav Dasgupta

Jun 2014: Keshav Dasgupta awarded a Simons Fellowship

Keshav Dasgupta has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. (...)»
24th Astro Night

Jun 2014: About 80 people attend the 24th public Astro Night

On June 19th, around 80 people attended Jean-François Rajotte's talk Gamma-ray Astronomy: The Atmosphere as a 3D Display, (...)»
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Jun 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Sébastien Guillot

Sébastien Guillot has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Neutron Stars and the determination of the dense matter equation of state). (...)»
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Jun 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Mark Abraao York

Mark Abraao York has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Non-perturbative resummation in three dimensional Yang-Mills theory). (...)»
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Jun 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Kevin MacDermid

Kevin MacDermid has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Development and performance of the detectors and readout of the EBEX balloon-borne CMB polarimeter). (...)»
24 heures de Science

May 2014: 60 people attend AstroMcGill's event for Les 24 heures de Science

For the Quebec-wide event 24h of Science, AstroMcGill organized another AstroKids Night on May 9-10th. (...)»
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May 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Robert Chatelain

Robert Chatelain has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Radio-frequency pulse compression for high-brightness ultrafast electron diffraction: design, characterization and application). (...)»
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May 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Tanner Connell

Tanner Connell has successfully defended his PhD thesis (The feasibility and accuracy of Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy delivery and the design of novel scattering foils). (...)»
23rd Astro Night

Apr 2014: Over 110 people attend 23rd public Astro Night

The 23rd Public Astro Night on April 24th was a special panel discussion with three invited speakers taking a lot of questions from the public. (...)»
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Apr 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Vance Morrison

Vance Morrison has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Structural dynamics of the metal-insulator transition in VO2: an ultrafast electron diffraction study with radio-frequency compressed electron pulses). (...)»
Matt Dobbs

Apr 2014: Matt Dobbs wins the 2014 CAP Herzberg Medal

Matt Dobbs has won the 2014 CAP Herzberg Medal (...)»
22nd Astro Night

Mar 2014: About 60 people attend 22nd public Astro Night

On March 20th, around 60 people attended Marie-Michèle Limoges's talk La Cartographie de l'Univers à Travers les Âges. (...)»
Matt Dobbs

Mar 2014: Matt Dobbs awarded the 2014 Dunlap Award

Matt Dobbs has won the inaugural Dunlap Award (...)»
Sangyong Jeon

Mar 2014: Sangyong Jeon named Outstanding Referee by the APS

Sangyong Jeon is one of the 143 2014 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals. (...)»
1st Astro Kids Night

Feb 2014: The 1st Astro Kids Night a great success

On February 27th, over 100 kids and their parents came to AstroMcGill's 1st Astro Kids Night, making it a great success. (...)»
21th Astro Night

Feb 2014: About 80 people attend 21st public Astro Night

On February 20th, around 80 people attended Gil Holder's talk Does this Dark Matter Make my Galaxy Look Fat?. (...)»
Aashish Clerk

Feb 2014: Aashish Clerk awarded a E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship

Congratulations to Aashish Clerk for winning a 2014 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, (...)»
20th Astro Night

Jan 2014: About 60 people attend 20th public Astro Night

On January 16th, around 60 people attended Matt Dobbs's talk CHIME: a new Canadian radio telescope for mapping the Universe in 3D. (...)»
Yashar Hezaveh

Jan 2014: McGill astrophysics PhD discovery a Québec Science top 10

Yashar Hezaveh's discovery that the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought is one of Québec Science top 10 discoveries of 2013. (...)»
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Dec 2013: McGill Astrophysics in Physics World's top 10 breakthroughs of 2013

The South Pole Telescope's detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background's B-mode polarization is among the top 10 breakthoughs of 2013 according to Physics World. (...)»
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Dec 2013: EG Micro qualified for the QEC 2014 finals

EG Micro, a startup biotech founded by undergraduates Peter Yao and Philip Zimny under the guidance of Prof. Walter Reisner, is among the 18 QEC 2014 finalists, (...)»
Ken Ragan

Oct 2013: Ken Ragan earns the 2013 Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Ken Ragan as been awarded the 2013 Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Full Professor. (...)»
Blair and Dan

Oct 2013: Congratulations Dan and Blair

Dan Berard and Blair Jia earned top prizes in their respective divisions at the 2013 Undergraduate Research Conference: (...)»
18th Astro Night

Sep 2013: About 80 people attend 18th public Astro Night

On September 19th, around 80 people attended Duncan Hanson's talk The afterglow of the Big Bang. (...)»
Bohemian Gravity

Sep 2013: Bohemian Gravity: a different way to introduce string theory

Tim Blais' Bohemian Gravity video may yet become the best-known introduction to string theory. (...)»
17th Astro Night

Aug 2013: About 80 people attend 17th public Astro Night

On August 15th, around 80 people attended Robert Rutledge's talk Black Holes: From A to Y. (...)»
16th Astro Night

Jul 2013: About 80 people attend 16th public Astro Night

On July 18th, around 80 people attended Ryan Lynch's talk NANOGrav: Opening a New Frontier in Astronomy. (...)»
Björn Schenke

Jun 2013: Alumnus awarded the Young Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics

Björn Schenke, alumnus of the Nuclear Theory group, has been awarded the Young Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics (...)»
15th Astro Night

Jun 2013: About 80 people attend 15th public Astro Night

On June 20th, around 80 people attended Grabrille Simard's talk Neutrinos: Les messagers invisibles du Cosmos. (...)»
Fritz Buchinger

May 2013: Fritz Buchinger awarded the John David Jackson Award

Fritz Buchinger has won the Department of Physics John David Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (...)»
Brad Siwick

May 2013: Brad Siwick promoted to Associate Professor

Brad Siwick has been promoted to the rank of Associate professor, (...)»
14th Astro Night

May 2013: About 70 people attend 14th public Astro Night

On May 23rd, around 70 people attended Andrew Cumming's talk In Search for New Worlds: the Diverse Properties of Exoplanets. (...)»
Victoria Kaspi

May 2013: Victoria Kaspi to serve as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Science

Victoria Kaspi has agreed to serve as Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Education) in the Faculty of Science. (...)»
Benjamin d'Anjou

May 2013: Congratulations to Benjamin d'Anjou

Benjamin d'Anjou, a Physics graduate, will be awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal and the McGill Alumni Association Graduate Award (...)»
Thomas Szkopek and Guillaume Gervais

May 2013: McGill in TechConnect's 2013 top 20% Innovation Awards

Thomas Szkopek (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Guillaume Gervais (Physics) are among the top 20% TechConnect 2013 National & Global Innovation Awardees (...)»
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May 2013: McGill University Joins the TRIUMF family

McGill University formally joins TRIUMF, (...)»
Lily Childress

May 2013: Lily Childress awarded a Canada Research Chair

Lily Childress has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, Tier II. (...)»
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May 2013: McGill Physics students in the top 10 in this year's CAP University Prize Exam

2 McGill undergraduate students made it to the national top 10 for the 2013 CAP University Prize Exam: Alessandro Power (3rd), and Sara Nagelberg (10th). (...)»
13th Astro Night

Apr 2013: About 80 people attend 13th public Astro Night

On April 18th, around 80 people attended Yashar Hezaveh's talk Looking through the Largest Telescopes of the Universe. (...)»
Saverio Biunno

Apr 2013: Saverio Biunno awarded the Faculty of Science Excellence Award

Saverio Biunno will be awarded this year's Faculty of Science Excellence Award. (...)»
Peter Grütter

Apr 2013: Peter Grütter will be the new Chair of the Department

Starting June 1st, 2013, Peter Grütter will serve as Chair of the Department of Physics. (...)»
Gravitational Lense

Mar 2013: ALMA rewrites history of the Universe's stellar baby boom

ALMA, a revolutionary radio telescope, has opened its eyes and McGill physicists, as a part of the South Pole Telescope collaboration, (...)»
Gabriel Denicol

Mar 2013: Gabriel Denicol wins a Banting Fellowship

Dr. Gabriel Denicol has been awarded a 2013 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. (...)»
Victoria Kaspi

Mar 2013: Victoria Kaspi to be awarded the 2013 Peter G. Martin Award

Victoria Kaspi will be awarded the Peter G. Martin Award at the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) Annual General Meeting (...)»
11th Astro Night

Feb 2013: Record attendance of 140 for the 11th public Astro Night

On Feb 21st, 140 people attended the great lecture given by Physics Prof. Robert Brandenberger: What was before the Big Bang?. (...)»
Cover

Feb 2013: Shaun Lovejoy's book to launch in March

The weather and Climate: Emergent laws and multifractal cascades, written by Shaun Lovejoy and Daniel Schertzer, will be launched by Cambridge University Press on March 11, 2013. (...)»
Jack Sankey

Feb 2013: Jack Sankey awarded a Sloan fellowship

Jack Sankey has been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (...)»
Alex Maloney

Jan 2013: Alex Maloney awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics

Alex Maloney has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. (...)»

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