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The winners of the CPES Undergraduate Poster Session, which was held on August 4th, 2017, are:

Congratulations to John Malcolm who has been awarded the Canadian Association of Physicists Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (DCMMP) PhD thesis award for his thesis and talk on "The role of pseudospin in the optical and electronic properties of relativistic materials". The award competition was held during the 2017 CAP Congress at Queen's University, Kingston, from May 29th to June 2nd.

Congratulations to Guelph Ph.D. students Andrew MacLean and Christina Burbadge who were awarded first (U.S. $300) and second (U.S.

Congratulations to Guelph Ph.D. student Ryan Dunlop, who has been awarded the $12,100 Carl H. Westcott Memorial Fellowship for 2017.  The Westcott Fellowship is awarded each year through a national competition administered by the Centre for Particle Physics at the University of Alberta and recognizes outstanding research by a graduate student carried out at TRIUMF or on a TRIUMF-related project.

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.

PhysPhest is a celebration of the research being conducted in the Physics Department by M.Sc. and Ph.D. students who are completing their first year in the program. This year, PhysPhest was held on September 7th with 11 students presenting their research to the department in a series of short (~ 12 - 15 minute) talks. The best speakers were selected by the general audience (48 votes).

The top speakers for 2016 are: