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Jan 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Julien Pinel

Julien Pinel has successfully defended his PhD thesis (The anisotropic space-time scaling of the atmosphere: turbulence and waves). (...)»
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Jan 2013: Victoria Kaspi to be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Victoria Kaspi will be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, administered by the Office of the Governor General, (...)»
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Jan 2013: Four Physics professors get 34.7 M cpu-hours from Compute Canada

In this year's allocation, Compute Canada has awarded Hong Guo, Sangyong Jeon, Victoria Kaspi and Nikolas Provatas close to 34.7 million processor-hours (...)»
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Jan 2013: Guy Moore and Paul Wiseman recommended for full professorships

Guy Moore and Paul Wiseman have been recommended for promotion to Full Professorships in Physics (Guy) and in Chemistry and Physics - joint - (Paul) (...)»
10th Astro Night

Jan 2013: Seventy people attended the 10th public Astro Night

Despite the bitter cold, 70 people attended Michel Burelle's lecture The Space Race: Venturing out of the cradle, on the Wings of Apollo (...)»
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Dec 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Alexander van Engelen

Alexander van Engelen has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Large-Scale Structure). (...)»
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Dec 2012: ATLAS, CMS and Babar among Physics World's 2012 Top 10 Breakthroughs.

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have won the Physics World Breakthough of the Year award for "the joint discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the LHC". Four McGill Physics faculty are part of the ATLAS collaboration: (...)»
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Dec 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Sara Najem

Sara Najem has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Generalized Model for Chemotactic and Chemotropic Effects Coupled to Actin Dynamics: A Phase Field Approach). (...)»
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Nov 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Dudley

Jonathan Dudley has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Cosmological parameter estimation using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy cluster abundances). (...)»
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Nov 2012: Seventy people attended the 9th public Astro Night

On Nov. 15th, for the 9th public astro night, 70 people attended the lecture on supernova explosions by Stephen Ng, (...)»
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Oct 2012: Three McGill Physics winners at the 2012 CUPC

At the 2012 Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference held at UBC, 3 McGill Physics students were among the winners: (...)»
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Oct 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Fang Chen

Fang Chen has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Three Topics in Gauge/Gravity Duality). (...)»
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Oct 2012: Congratulations to Dr. François Aubin

François Aubin has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Detector readout electronics for EBEX: a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarimeter). (...)»
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Oct 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Paul Franche

Paul Franche has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Towards New Classes of Flux Compactifications). (...)»
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Oct 2012: McGill researchers explore big questions about universe

A research team led by Alex Maloney is among the winners of the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology International Grant and Essay Competition (...)»
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Sep 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Alisha Wissanji

Alisha Wissanji has successfully defended her PhD thesis (F-theory and M-theory perspectives on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions). (...)»
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Sep 2012: Guy Moore wins the 2012 RSC's Rutherford Medal

Guy Moore has been awarded the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics by the Royal Society of Canada (...)»
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Sep 2012: McGill ranked 18th worldwide

In the 2012 QS university rankings, McGill University ranked 18th worldwide (...)»