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First prize was awarded to Robert Moscaritolo for his presentation MATLAB as an Analysis Tool for Quantifying “Bacterial Crowd Surfing”

Honourable Mentions went to Joseph Kuchar for his presentation Computing the Static Self Force in Exotic Spacetimes and Calvin Tabert for his presentation Dynamical Conductivity of AA-Stacked Bilayer Graphene

First Place: Alexis Wagner (Engineering) for her poster Optimization of Electrospun Poly(lactic acid)/Poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) Blend Nanofibers for Flexible Electronics

Second Place: Lukas Stille (Physics) for his poster Optical signatures of the tunable band gap in silicene

Third Place: Colin Gram (Physics) for his poster Structure Calculation of the Membrane Protein Proteorhodopsin

Eric Poisson, Chair, Department of Physics, presents  the J.B. Reynolds Graduation Medal to Matthew O'Halloran

Congratulations to Matthew O'Halloran on being awarded the J.B. Reynolds Graduation Medal in Physics for the 2011-2012 academic year. This Medal is awarded to the top graduating student who has completed semester 8 of any of the majors in Physics and obtained the highest cumulative average in the required Physics courses, normally taken in semester 5-8.

Phys Phest, a symposium of talks by M.Sc. students who are completing their first year in our program, was held on September 7th.

The audience was treated to eight excellent presentations on a diverse range of high-quality research. The presentations were judged by members of the audience.

First prize was awarded to Kyle Reiter for his presentation, "Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of the Enzymatic Degradation of Cellulose Fibers".

First Place

• James LeBlanc (Physics PhD Candidate, UofG) for his poster 'Effects of a Particle-Hole Asymmetric Pseudogap on Bogoliubov Quasiparticles'

Second Place

• Halle Revell (Physics MSc Candidate, UW) for her poster 'Design and Implementation of a Planar SQUID Magnetometer for the Study of Magnetic Monopoles in the Spin Ice Material Dy2Ti207'
• Kent Fisher (Physics QI MSc Candidate, UW) for his poster 'Optimal Realization of Single-Qubit Quantum Channels using Linear Optics'

Guelph students did very well in the best student oral presentation competition at the Canadian Association of Physics Conference held at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s Newfoundland June 12 0- 17th, 2011:

Congratulations to:

• Corey Kelly, 1st place overall (all CAP)
• Sophie Chagnon-Lessard, 2nd place overall (all CAP)
• Doug Grzetic, 2nd place, Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Congratulations to the following:

Congratulations to Adam Pound who has been awarded the 2011 Governor General's Gold Medal. The Governor General's Gold Medal is awarded each year for outstanding academic achievement at the graduate level of study. This award will be presented at the Graduate Studies convocation ceremony on Tuesday, June 15th, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.