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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Who said Astronomer’s weren’t funny? #westernu
Introducing the Cosmo MCMC Hammer!
Welcome to Yves Rambour in his new glassblowing shop
The Department of Physics and Astronomy welcomes Yves Rambour to his new home in the Faculty of Science glassblowing shop.
This new facility is located in Physics and Astronomy PAB 7.
Yves has been at Western for 10 years, and previously worked at the University of Waterloo. He has 35 years of glassblowing experience and is a member of the American Scientific Glassblowers Association.
Peter Wright has a new job!
Congratulations to Peter Wright, who will be starting a new job with State of the Art Acoustik in Ottawa at the beginning of January! Peter has been working as a research assistant with John de Bruyn for the last six months. He did his undergrad work here at Western, then got an M.Sc. from the University of Ottawa before returning to John’s group in July. Here Peter has been working on ultra-violet light scattering. In his new job, he’ll be modeling and designing room acoustics.
Creating steam with water, sunlight, and nano particles
I heard this on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks today. Scientists at Rice University have been able to create steam by putting gold or carbon covered silicon dioxide nano particles in water and shining sunlight on it. They say that 80% of the sunlight’s energy goes into the production of steam, while 20% heats the water independently.
Congratulations, Masha!
M.Sc. student Masha Goiko’s poster on “Cellular Mechanisms of Force Generation in Antibody Mediated Phagocytosis” won first prize at the 2012 Infection and Immunity Research Forum which was held at Western last week. Masha’s research is co-supervised by John de Bruyn from Physics and Astronomy and Bryan Heit from Western’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Faculty of Science Awards luncheon
The Faculty of Science Awards luncheon was held on Thursday Dec. 6.
Physics and Astronomy had many award winners including Phin Perquin, Els Peeters, Jan Cami, Peter Frank, Richard Holt, and Patrick Whippey.
New faculty included two Earth Scientists who are also members of the Planetary Sciences group, Livio Tornebenne and Phil McCausland.
Shown in the photo above, Phin Perquin receives the Dean’s Special Award of Merit from Dean Charmaine Dean.
A special surprise award was given to Shailesh Nene for best Bollywood impersonation of actor John Wayne.
PhD Public Lecture – Next MONDAY, 10 Dec. – ROBERT WERYK
Department of Physics and Astronomy
PhD Public Lecture
Robert Weryk
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brown
“Simultaneous radar and video meteors”
DATE: MONDAY, 10th December 2012
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
PLACE: P&A Seminar Room PAB 100
All are welcome to attend.
MSc Public Lecture – Next TUESDAY, 11 Dec. – ROBIN WING
Department of Physics and Astronomy
MSc Public Lecture
Robin Wing
Supervisor: Dr. Robert J. Sica
“Multi-sensor Calibration and Validation of the UWO-PCL NDACC Water Vapour Raman Lidar”
DATE: TUESDAY, 11th December 2012
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: P&A Seminar Room PAB 100
All are welcome to attend.
MSc Public Lecture – Next WEDNESDAY, 12 Dec. – SABASTINE EZUGWU
Department of Physics and Astronomy
MSc Public Lecture
Sabastine Ezugwu
Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Fanchini
“Synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles and copper-polymer nanocomposites for plasmonic photovoltaic applications”
DATE: WEDNESDAY, 12th December 2012
TIME: 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: P&A Seminar Room PAB 100
All are welcome to attend.