The Department of Physics invites you to attend a thesis proposal presentation by Avner Fitterman entitled Batch-mode polarizer optimization.

Chris Abraham will present "In vivo Quantification of aFunctionalAntibody-labelledSuper-Paramagnetic Iron Oxide Contrast Agent Targeting ProstateCancer CellsforMagneticResonance Imaging: NudeMouseStudy". Click here for more details.

The Department of Physics invites you to attend a thesis proposal
presentation by: 

Alex Clesio Nunes Martins
^entitled
“SU(3) correspondence rules with applications to semiclassical dynamics”

^ABSTRACT: 
The Wigner function formalism in phase space represents a powerful tool to describe a quantum mechanical state (or operator) and its dynamics. The exact quantum commutator can be approximated to a classical Poisson bracket, or given exactly (for some important cases) by correspondence rules. Interesting physics occurs in systems beyond spin due to the larger classical phase space.  The objective of my research is: to develop correspondence rules in a similar way to those of SU(2) and, to apply the Wigner function formalism to explore SU(3) Hamiltonians which exhibit phase transitions.

Thursday, September  7th, 2017  
 2:30 pm
CB 4058

The Department of Physics invites you to attend a
Thesis Presentation (PHYS 4501 YA) by:

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
presents the
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS (CAP) LECTURE TOUR

Guest Speaker:
DR. ADINA LUICAN-MAYER
_{Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
 University of Ottawa}

"Exploring flatland - designer 2D materials"
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Wednesday, MARCH 29th, 2017
2:30 pm
in RC 1002

Innovative technologies have a history of capitalizing on the discovery of new physical phenomena, often at the confluence of advances in material characterization techniques and innovations in design and controlled synthesis of high-quality materials. Pioneered by the discovery of graphene, a new platform of constructing custom-made materials holds the promise for the development of next generation electronic devices for applications in the areas of energy, photonics, sensing and beyond. These materials are made by stacking atomically thin layers of different van der Waals bonded crystals, much like we build Legos, and their unique properties are a consequence of confining electrons is two dimensions. In this talk I will describe experiments that seek to uncover the novel physical phenomena in these materials by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). STM allows us to spatially resolve both the local electronic and structural properties of materials down to atomic scale. In particular, I will discuss consequences of twisting graphene layers away from the equilibrium Bernal stacking. This leads to the formation of Moiré patterns and results in a system with novel electronic properties tuned by the twist angle. We also demonstrate the discrete quantum mechanical electronic spectrum when graphene is placed in a magnetic field. 

Short bio:

Adina Luican-Mayer started as an assistant professor in the Physics Department at the University of Ottawa. She received her undergraduate degree from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany (2006) and her PhD in Physics from Rutgers University in the Unites States (2012). Previously to joining uOttawa, she was the Alexei Abrikosov postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research group focuses on uncovering the novel electronic properties of low-dimensional systems custom made by stacking atomically thin sheets of van der Waals materials using scanning probe microscopy and supporting spectroscopic techniques.

Lakehead-Ryerson Collaboration in Biomedical Physics
speaker:

DR. JAHAN TAVAKKOLI
_{Associate Professor and Assistant Chair
 Department of Physics, Ryerson Univesity, Toronto ON}

"Ultrasound-guided HIFU:  A Research Overview"

Friday, November 4, 2016
2:30 pm
CB 4058

Ultrasound is a unique energy-based modality with a number of applications in medicine and biology. Besides widespread diagnostic applications of ultrasound, its therapeutic usage has gained increasing interest in both scientific and clinical communities during past couple of decades. One of the most promising therapeutic ultrasound modalities is high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), in which intensive focused ultrasound beams are utilized to induce controlled thermal and/or mechanical lesions deep in tissue in non- or minimally-invasive fashions. This talk presents an overview of speaker’s recent research and development activities in the area of ultrasound-guided HIFU. The talk’s outline includes:

•  Introduction to Biomedical Ultrasound (Diagnostic and Therapeutic)
•  Ultrasound Monitoring and Guidance of HIFU Therapy
•  HIFU in Neurology and Neurosurgery

_{Dr. Jahan Tavakkoli obtained a BSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering, both from Sharif University of Tech., Tehran, Iran. He obtained a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Lyon-1, and laboratory of INSERM, in Lyon, France. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and an Affiliate Scientist in Keenan Research Center, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He also serves as the Assistant Chair and Undergraduate Program Director, Medical Physics Program, Dept. of Physics, Ryerson University. He is the co- founder and director of the Advanced Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy Laboratory in the Dept. of Physics, Ryerson University. His main areas of research interests and activates are in biomedical ultrasound for imaging and therapy applications. He has been holding numerous research grants from Canadian federal and provincial funding agencies including NSERC, ORF- RE, and the United States NIH. He has over 20 years of professional experience in designing, developing and commercializing of biomedical ultrasound imaging and therapy devices and technologies. Prior to joining academia, he was holding R&D positions in several leading high- tech medical device companies including Focus Surgery Inc., Indianapolis, IN; Guided Therapy Systems LLC, Mesa, AZ; and Visualsonics Inc., Toronto, Canada. He is an active member of several professional scientific societies and is in the editorial board of several scientific journals. To date, he has published more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and conferences and has supervised more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of his research expertise.}

The Department of Physics invites you to attend
thesis proposal presentations by:

 PAVLO KARASYUK
“Characterization of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) Semiconductor for Applications in Advanced Computed Tomography”

and

JOSHUA TREVISANUTTO
“Tapered Fiber Probe Coated with Gold Nanostructure”

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
8:30am – 10:30 am
CB 4058

The Department of Physics invites you to attend
Thesis Presentations (PHYS 4501 YA) by:

JORDAN LOVIS
“Monte Carlo Calculation of Radiation Dose Delivered by a Medical Linear Accelerator”
_and
DEVIN VAN ELBURG
“Solid State Radiation Survey Meter for Advanced MRI-Guided Radiotherapy”

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30^th
2:30 pm
CB 4058

 ^{Coffee and cookies provided.}

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
presents the
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS (CAP) LECTURE TOUR

Guest Speaker:
DR. DANIEL STOLARSKI
Assistant Professor, Theoretical Physics
Carleton University

"The Nature of the Higgs Boson"
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4th, 2016
3:00 p.m.
in RC 1002

With the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, we have begun to uncover the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking: how elementary particles acquire mass. I will describe the underlying theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, and how it is now completed by the Higgs. I will also explain the theoretical framework used to go from seeing a bump in certain experimental distributions to being sure this discovery is in fact a Higgs boson.
Finally, I will describe the shortcomings of the Standard Model, focusing on the hierarchy problem, and show how future measurements of the Higgs can shed light on some of the mysteries of our universe.

_{Short Bio:
Daniel Stolarski is a theoretical particle physicist who will be joining the faculty at Carleton University beginning in January 2016.  He is currently a fellow at CERN where he works on the interplay of experimental and theoretical results, developing new techniques for the experiments at the Large Hadrons Colliders. Previously, he was a joint postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, where he worked on the phenomenology of supersymmetry and extra dimensions. Daniel received his Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Yasunori Nomura on the interaction between flavour physics and supersymmetry, and also on indirect searches for dark matter using gamma ray telescopes. He received his B.Sc. at Caltech where he worked with Prof. Alan Weinstein on the CMS detector. Daniel and his wife and young daughter are excited about moving to Canada, and also looking for tips on how to deal with the cold.}