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BROCK UNIVERSITY MARQUARDT, D., “a-Tocopherol’s Antioxidant Role: A Biophysical Perspective”, (T.A. Harroun), October 2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Graz, Austria.

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TAYARI, V., “Quantum Charge Transport in 10-Nanometer Scale Suspended Graphene Transistors”, (A. Champagne), January 2014, now a Post-Doctoral Fellow at McGill University, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada.

DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ANEZ, D., “New low momentum-transfer measurements of the p(e,e’p)p8 cross section to access the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude of the D(1232) resonance”, (R. Dunlap), October 2014, now unemployed. MCDOWELL, M., “A study of the semiconductor and thermoelectric properties of sputtered mixed metal-oxide thin films”, (I. Hill), October 2014, now a Systems Architect at Hortonworks, Palo Alto, California, United States. MITOVSKI, T., “Interactions between Convection and the Background Atmosphere during High Rain Events: Observations and Comparisons with Models”, (I. Folkins), October 2014, now a Weather Forecaster at the Meteorological Service of Canada.

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KAJAL, M., “Design and Implementation of Novel Nonlinear Processes in Bulk and Waveguide Periodic Structures”, (R. Kashyap), March 2014, now an R & D Researcher at IFT Optical Technologies, St-Laurent Quebec, Canada. MAISONNEUVE, M., “Analyse polarime´trique de transductions optiques de surface pour applications en biode´tection”, (M. Meunier), June 2014, now a “Scientifique des syste`mes” at ABB Canada, Que´bec, Que´bec, Canada. MUFTUOGLU, A., “Experimental Study of Choking Flow of Water at Supercritical Conditions”, (A. Teyssedou), September 2014, now +

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pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Engineering Physics Department at E´cole Polytechnique de Montre´al, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada. NATEGHI, S.N., “The Structural and Magnetic Properties of MNP Films and Nanocrystal”, (D. Me´nard and R.A. Masut), September 2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Engineering Physics Department at the E´cole Polytechnique de Montre´al, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada. QU, H., “All Photonic Bandgap Bragg Fiber Refractometers”, (M. korobogatiy), February 2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Physics Engineering Department at E´cole Polytechnique de Montre´al, Montre´al Quebec, Canada. SALOUX, E., “Optimisation structurelle des syste`mes e´nerge´tiques”, (A. Teyssedou and M. Sorin), September 2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Engineering Physics Department at the E´cole Polytechnique Montre´al, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada. MONETTE, G., “Effets magne´to-plasmoniques dans les milieux effectifs compose´s de me´taux ferromagne´tiques”, (D. Me´nard and S. Francoeur), April 2014, now works at Pyrophotonics/ESI, Dollard-des-Ormeaux Que´bec, Canada. VIRALLY, S., “Conception de sources non-classiques dans les fibres optiques”, (N. Godbout and S. Lacroix), September 2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Engineering Physics Department at the E´cole Polytechnique Montre´al, Montre´al, Que´bec, Canada. WUENSCHE, J., “Eumelanin Films for Organic Bioelectronics: Growth, Charge Transport, and Interaction with Metal Electrodes”, (C. Santato and F. Rosei), September 2014, now searching for employment in Dresden, Germany.

LAVAL UNIVERSITY ALLARD, A., “Percolation sur graphes ale´atoires: Mode´lisation et description analytique”, (L.J. Dube´), April 2014, now pursuing a Doctoral Fellowship at the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. FORTIN, V., “De´veloppement de lasers a` fibre base´s sur la conversion Raman e´mettant entre 2 et 4 micro-meter”, (R. Valle´e), October 2014, now pursuing a Doctoral Fellowship at Universite´ Laval, Que´bec, Que´bec, Canada. GOULET, M., “Application of tomography techniques to plastic scintillation dosimetry”, (L. Beaulieu, L. Gingras, L. Archambault), February 2014. HE´BERT-DUFRESNE, L., “On the growth and structure of social systems following preferential attachment”, (L.J. Dube´), October 2014,

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now pursuing a Doctoral Fellowship at Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. HE´LIE, D., “De´veloppement de proce´de´s de microusinage de mate´riaux optiques au laser femtoseconde”, (R. Valle´e), November 2014. LARIVIE`RE BASTIEN, M., “Ame´lioration des performances des syste`mes d’imagerie panoramiques et Panomorphes”, (S. Thibault), October 2014. MARCEAU, C., “Ge´ne´ration, caracte´risation et applications d’impulsions lasers intenses de quelques cycles optiques du visible jusqu’a` l’infrarouge moyen”, (B. Witzel), June 2014. PAINCHAUD-APRIL, G., “Cavite´s die´lectriques Formalisme de diffusion et applications”, (L.J. Dube´), January 2014, now a NDT Specialist at Olympus NDT Canada, Que´bec, Que´bec, Canada. ROBITAILLE, J.-F., “Analyse multi-e´chelles de l’e´mission de la poussie`re dans le plan de la Galaxie”, (G. Joncas, and M.-A. Miville-Descheˆnes), July 2014. SAHLI, S., “De´tection robuste et automatique de ve´hicules dans les images ae´riennes”, (Y. Sheng), December 2013. ST-HILAIRE, J., “Planification multimodale et optimisation de la dose pour la radiothe´rapie externe du cancer du poumon”, (L. Beaulieu, and D. Tremblay), December 2013. YUAN, S., “Filamenation induced nonlinear optics”, (S.L. Chin), September 2014.

MCGILL UNIVERSITY ABRAAO YORK, M., “Non-perturbative resummation in three dimensional Yang-Mills theory”, (G. Moore), October 2014, now a postdoc at IBM (International Business Machine), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. ARCHIBALD, A., “The end of accretion: the x-ray binary 1 millisecond pulsar transition object PSR J1 023 0038”, (V. Kaspi), February 2014. BATES, J., “Fabrication and characterization of permalloy nanostructures”, (P. Grutter), February 2014. CHAPLEAU, B., “Search for top-antitop quark resonances with the ATLAS detector at the Large hadron collider”, (B. Vachon), May 2014, now a data scientist at MindGeek, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada. CHATELAIN, R., “Radio-frequency pulse compression for high brightness ultrafast electron diffraction: Design, characterization and application”, (B. Siwick), October 2014. CONNELL, T., “The feasibility and accuracy of Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy delivery and the design of novel scattering foils”, (M. Hobson), October 2014.

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COOPER, D., “Spectroscopy of luminescent nanoparticles and interactions with organic molecules for imaging and therapy”, (J. Nadeau), October 2014. FALOON, A., “Investigating the structure, star formation and stellar mass of the z 0.9 supercluster RCS 2319 00”, (T. Webb), February 2014. GUILLEMETTE, J., “Electronic transport in hydrogenated grapheme”, (T. Skojpek and G. Gervais), May 2014. GUILLOT, S., “Neutron Stars and the determination of the dense matter equation of state”, (B. Rutledge), October 2014, now pursuing a Post Doc at McGill University, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada. LAROCHE, D., “Coulomb drag in verticallyintegrated one-dimensional quantum wires”, (G. Gervais), February 2014. LEPAGE-JUTIER, A., “Black Holes and Toy Cosmologies in higher spin gravity”, (A. Maloney), October 2014. MACLEOD, A., “Development of a comptonscatter gamma-ray imager”, (D. Hanna), February 2014, now a research associate at National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. MORRISON, V., “Structural dynamics of the metal-insulator transition in VO2: an ultrafast electron diffraction study with radio-frequency compressed electron pulses”, (B. Siwick), October 2014. NOBLE, A., “Dusty star-forming galaxies within high-redshift galaxy clusters”, (T. Webb), May 2014. OLAUSEN, S., “The x-ray emission and population of highly magnetized neutron stars”, (V. Kaspi), October 2014. POITRAS, V., “Dynamical dark Energy”, (J. Cline), October 2014.

MCMASTER UNIVERSITY DESCHNER, A., “Valence-Bond Calculations for Quantum Spin-Chains: From Impurity Entanglement and Incommensurate Behaviour to Quantum Monte Carlo”, (E. Sorensen), March 2014, now searching for employment. GHAMARI, M.S., “Renormalization Group Approach to two Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Models”, (C. Kallin), September 2014, now a Research Assistant at McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. MAXWELL, A., “Stars, Star formation and Dark Matter Cores in Dwarf Galaxies”, (J. Wadsley and H. Couchman), November 2014, now searching for employment. PETERS, R., “Nonequilibrium dynamics of symmetric diblock copolymers: films and bridges”, (K. Dalnoki-Veress), September 2014, now a Capital Markets Project Consultant for SunGard Financial Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada. THESBERG, M., “Numerical Studies of Frustrated Quantum Phase Transitions in Two and One Dimensions”, (E. Sorensen), August 2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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ALMUDALLAL, A., “Computer Simulations of Core-Softened Attractive Disks: Phase Behaviour and Inverse Melting”, (I. Saika-Voivod), May 2014, now a Research Assistant at the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada. HAUSER, T., “Probabilistic Uncertainty Quantification and Simulation for Climate Modelling”, (L. Tarasov), May 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Climate Systems Analysis Group of the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

GRUBERBAUER, M., “Bayesian Asterseismology”, (D. Guenther), June 2013, now a Meteorology Research Scientist at Ubimet, Vienna, Austria. WILLIAMSON, D., “The origin and evolution of cold gaseous structures in galaxies and galactic outflows”, (R. Thacker), January 2013, now pursing a Postdoctral Fellowship at Laval University. WURSTER, J., “Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei: A Study of its Impact and Numerical Implementations”, (R. Thacker), August 2013, now pursing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Monash University in Australia.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY ANDERSON, M., “Optical Properties of Individual and Bundled Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, (J.M. Fraser), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne (EPFL) Geneva, Switzerland. BULUT, S., “Charge Density Wave and Electronic Nematicity in the three Band Model of Cuprate Semiconductors”, (W.A. Atkinson and R.J. Gooding), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. CARLE, P., “Polarimeter for an Accelerated Spheromak”, (J.E. Morelli), May 2014, now a Physicist at General Fusion, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. DEG, N., “The Methodology of Modelling the Mikly Way with Stellar Streams”, (L.M. Widrow), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Arifca. O’SULLIVAN, E., “The Development of the SNO Experiment: Scintillator Timing, Pulse Shape Discrimnation, and Sterile Neutrinos”, (M.C. Chen), May 2014, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. XIAO, Y., “Excition Relaxation Dynamics in OneDimentional Semiconductor”, (J.M. Fraser), May 2014, now an Optical Engineer at Stream Technologies, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA PERRON, P., “Contribution of Ion Temperature Anisotropy and Velocity Shears in the Direct Generation of Small-Scale Irregularities in the High-Latitude F-Region”, (J.-M. Noel), June 2014, now a Military faculty member at the Royal Military College of Canada.

RYERSON UNIVERSITY STROHM, E., “Characterization of single cells using high frequency photoacoustics”, (Michael C. Kolios), December 2013, now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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BELAND, L.K., “E´tude de la formation et de l’e´volution de nanostructures par me´thodes Monte Carlo”, (N. Mousseau), Mars 2014, maintenant travail a` Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA. BERUBE, N., “Calculs ab initio de structures e´lectroniques pour un meilleur design de polyme`res photovoltaı¨ques”, (M. Coˆte´), Mai 2014, maintenant un Coordonnateur a` la recherche universitaire a` la FAECUM, Montre´al (Que´bec), Canada. BLACKBURN, S., “Analyse des proprie´te´s e´lectroniques de supraconducteurs a` l’aide de la the´orie de la fonctionnelle de la densite´”, (M. Coˆte´), Avril 2014, maintenant un Consultant associe´ a` Alma Consulting Group, Montre´al (Que´bec), Canada. BOUILLY, D., “Transport e´lectrique dans les nanotubes de carbone et leurs de´rive´s fonctionnalise´s”, (R. Martel), Mars 2014, maintenant une boursie`re postdoctorale a` Columbia University, New York, USA. DAVIES, M., “The search for new resonances in strong symmetry breaking scenarios with the ATLAS detector”, (G. Azuelos), Avril 2014, maintenant un boursier postdoctoral a` Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. de DENUS-BAILLARGEON, M.-M., “Rapport M/L de disques de galaxies issus de mode`les CSPE et controˆle des contraintes me´caniques dans la conception de reveˆtements optiques”, (C. Carignan et L. Martinu), Mai 2014, maintenant Spe´cialiste en photonique a` Optech Montre´al, LaSalle (Que´bec), Canada. de la CHEVROTIE`RE, A., “Recherche de champs magne´tiques chez les e´toiles Wolf-Rayet par l’analyse d’observations spectropolarime´triques”, (N. St-Louis et A.F.J. Moffat), Avril 2014, maintenant NPD a` Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. LAFLAMME JANSSEN, J., “Me´thode de calcul a` N-corps base´e sur la GoWo: e´tude du couplage e´lectron-phonon dans le C60 et de´veloppement d’une approche acce´le´re´e pour mate´riaux organiques”, (M. Coˆte´), Avril 2014, maintenant une boursier postdoctoral a` l’Universite´ catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique. LATOUR, M., “Mode`les d’atmosphe`res hors-ETL avec me´taux: applications aux e´toiles sousnaines chaudes”, (G. Fontaine), Septembre 2014, maintenant une Boursie`re postdoctorale a` Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory, University

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of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bamberg Bayern, Germany. PROVENCHER, F., “Dynamique de se´paration de charges a` l’he´te´rojonction de semi-conducteurs organiques”, (C. Silva), Avril 2014, maintenant une Boursie`re postdoctorale a` E´cole de technologie supe´rieure, Montre´al (Que´bec), Canada. SASSEVILLE, L., “E´tude structure/fonction des cotransporteurs Na /glucose”, (J.-Y. Lapointe), Mars 2014, maintenant un R&D Project Manager a` Cintech agroalimentaire, SaintHyacinthe (Que´bec), Canada. THIBAULT, K., “Mode´lisation de l’e´volution du re´seau magne´tique au cours du cycle solaire”, (P. Charbonneau), Septembre 2014, maintenant une Boursie`re postdoctorale a` l’E´cole Polytechnique de Montre´al, Montre´al (Que´bec), Canada.

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AL ZAHRANI, A., “Escape of Charged Particles Moving Around Weakly Magnetized Black Holes”, (V. Frolov), June 2014. ALAGOZ, H. “Magneto-Resistive Anisotropy of Electronically Phase Separated La0:7xPrxCa0:3MnO3 Manganite Thin Films”, (J. Jung, K. Chow), November 2014. ANAGAW, A., “Full Waveform Inversion Using Simultaneous Encoded Sources Based on Firstand Second-Order Optimization Methods”, (M. Sacchi), November 2014. ELSAYED, M., “Effects of Disorder on Magnetotransport Properties of Sm_{1-x}Sr_{x} MnO_{3} Perovskite Manganites”, (J. Jung, K. Chow), June 2014. HAN, J., “Empirical Mode Decomposition for Seismic Applications”, (M. van der Baan), November 2014. HEIKAL, A., “Biochemical Imaging of Gliomas Using MR Spectroscopic Imaging for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning”, (B. Fallone and K. Wachiwicz), June 2014. IMTIAZ, N., “Numerical Study of Ionospheric Response to Perturbations and Interaction with Spacecraft Instruments”, (R. Marchand), June 2014. LIANG, Y., “Study of Leptonic Systems and Loop Calculation Techniques”, (A. Prus-Czarnecki), November 2014. LOSBY, J., “Nanomechanical Torque Magnetometry and AC Susceptometry of Mesoscopic Magnetic Structures”, (M. Freeman), June 2014. MELENDEZ MARTINEZ, J., “Elastic Properties of Sedimentary Rocks”, (D. Schmitt), June 2014. MURPHY, K., “Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling During Substorms”, (I. Mann), June 2014. REHMAN, S., “Simulation of Space Environment Effects on Particle Sensors”, (R. Marchand), November 2014. RITTER, B., “Characterizing Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata”, (K. Beach), November 2014. SADDIQUE, A., “Search for Microscopic Black Holes in Multijet Final States with the ATLAS Detector Using 8 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions

at the Large Hadron Collider”, (D. Gingrich), November 2014. SCHIJNS, H., “Experimental Investigation of Seismic Velocity Dispersion in Cracked Crystalline Rock”, (D. Schmitt), November 2014. SOLANKI, A., “Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy of Alpha-Synuclein”, (M. Woodside), November 2014. ZHI, Y., “Whispering Gallery Modes in Layered Microspheres: Mode Structure, Thermal Response, and Reactive Sensing”, (A. Meldrum), November 2014.

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BAGLO, J., “A detailed doping survey of the lowenergy electrodynamics of YBa2Cu3O6 x”, (Walter Hardy), August, 2014. CHI, S., “Scanning tunneling microscopy study of superconducting pairing symmetry: application to LiFeAs”, (Douglas Bonn), October 2014. HOU, X., “Cyclotron-Based Production of Radioisotopes for Medical Imaging Studies”, (Anna Celler), October 2014. JETHA, N., “Advances in nanopore sensing for DNA and protein analysis, Marziali”, (April Andre), 2014. KARIMI, H., “Structure factors of s 1/2 spin chains and magnetism at the edges of graphene ribbons”, (Ian Affleck), September 2014. KING, S., “A search for super symmetry and universal extra dimensions in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in 20.7 inverse femtobarns of 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”, (Colin Gay and Anadi Canepa), April 2014. KOSZTYLA, R., “18F-FDOPA positron emission tomography and diffusion tensor imaging for radiation therapy of high-grade gliomas with dose painting”, (Vitali Moiseenko and Stefan Reinsberg), March 2014. LEWIS, R., “Molecular beam epitaxy growth technology and properties of GaAsBi alloys”, (Thomas Tiedje), April 2014. MAHMOUDZADEH VAZIFEH, M., “Exotic phenomena in topological states of matter”, (Marcel Franz), October 2014. MASHAYEKHI, M., “Nature of Bose Gases Near Feshbach Resonance: The Interplay between Few-Body and Many-Body Physics” (Fei Zhou), February 2014. MCDERMOTT, M., “Momentum-space entanglement and the gravity of entanglement in AdS/CFT”, (Mark Van Raamsdonk and Gordon Semenoff), September 2014. MICHAN, J.M., “Implementation of a coherent Lyman-alpha source for laser cooling and spectroscopy of antihydrogen”, (Momose Takamasa and Andrea Damascelli), April 2014. NOGUEIRA, F., “The AdS/CFT correspondence: bulk to boundary map and applications”, (Mark Van Raamsdonk and Joanna Karczmarek), August 2014. SITWELL, M., “Models and probes of the early and dark Universe: inflation and 21-cm radiation in cosmology” (Kris Sigurdson), November 2014.

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STANG, J., “Baryons, branes and (striped) black holes: Applications of the gauge/gravity duality to quantum chromodynamics and condensed matter physics”, (Mark Van Raamsdonk), August 2014. TOPPING, G., “Manganese imaging with positron emission tomography, autoradiography, and magnetic resonance”, (Vesna Sossi), February 2014. van DONGEN, J., “Study of background gas collisions in atomic traps” (Kirk Madison), July 2014. VIEL, S., “Search for new neutral high-mass resonances decaying into muon pairs with the ATLAS detector”, (Oliver Stelzer-Chilton and Colin Gay), August 2014.

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FRIESEN, T., “Probing Trapped Antihydrogen: In Situ Diagnostics and Observations of Quantum Transitions”, (R.I. Thompson), June 2014. JIN, J., “Entanglement for Quantum Networks”, (W. Tittel), November 2014, now following a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada. KOSTKA, M., “Investigating astrophysical r-process sites: code (r-Java 2.0) and model (dual-shock quark nova) development”, (R. Ouyed), June 2014, now a Software Engineer at SIACharts.com, Calgary AB, Canada. LUCIO MARTINEZ, I., “Real world quantum cryptography”, (W. Tittel), November 2014. MASTERSON, A., “Evolution and Regularisation of Vacuum Brill Gravitational Waves in Spherical Polar Coordinates”, (D. Hobill), November 2014, now an Information Technology Manager at NuVista Energy Ltd., Calgary AB, Canada. REZEI, M., “High-Resolution Pulsed Slit Jet Spectrometer with QCL and OPO probes for Infrared Spectroscopy on van der Waals Clusters”, (N. Moazzen Ahmadi), November 2014. SHATERZADEH Y.Z., “Coherence of Coupled Dangling-Bond Pairs on the Silicon Surface”, (B. Sanders), June 2014.

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HEIRWEGH, M., “Studies of Light Element X-Ray Fundamental Parameters Used in PIXE Analysis”, (J.L. Campbell), April 2014. LU, S., “Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements of Type IV Pilli and the Nanomechanical Response of Bacteria to Cationic Antimicrobial Peptide”, (J.R. Dutcher), January 2014. MACKAY, I., “Self-Consistent Field Theory for Smectic Ordering of Semiflexible Homo-polymers”, (R. Sullivan/R. Wickham), May 2014. NATEGHOLESLAM, M., “A non-equilibrium work study of antimicrobial peptide-membraneinteractions”, (C. Gray), December 2013. PASIEKA, A., “Adaptive Rank Quantum State Estimation”, (D.W. Kribs), June 2014. SPENCER, R., “Diblock copolymer micelle structure and dynamics near the order-disorder transition”, (R. Wickham), April 2014.

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MAKIW, A.G., “A Study of the Physics of the Interstellar Medium using the Herschel-SPIRE Instrument”, (D. Naylor), May 2014, Pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship for SPIRE Data Analysis at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. NASSAR, A., “Strings on Complex Multiplicaton Tori and Rational Conformal Field Theory with Matrix Level”, (M. Walton and D. Saurya), May 2014, Pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship at CFT Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt. POVEY, C., “High Resolution Spectroscopy and Applications”, (A. Predoi-Cross), May 2014, now an Instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

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LEE, E. J. S., “Ultrasound Propagation Through Complex Media with Strong Scattering Resonances”, (J.H. Page), October 2014, now pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba, (Winnipeg), MB, Canada.

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BASET, F., “Micro/noano-scale manipulation of material properties”, (R. Bhardwaj), Oct 2014. BIGAOUETTE, N., “Clusters of atoms: towards understanding the laser-matter interaction in solids and nanoparticles by modelisation and simulation”, (L. Ramunno), March 2014, now a Research Scientist at the Chemical Computing Group, Montre´al, Quebec, Canada. CHARLEBOIS, D., “Computational investigations of noise-mediated dynamics in cell populations”, (M. Kaern), March 2014, now following an NSERC postdoctoral Fellowship at Stony Brook University, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook, NY, USA. JUN, J., “Memory-guided sensory sampling during self-guided exploration in pulse-bype electric fish”, (A. Longtin and L. Maler), October 2014, now following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA. RIORDON, J., “Developing microfluidic volume sensors for cell sorting and cell growth monitoring”, (M. Godin), May 2014, now following a Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SHENDRUK, T.N., “Theoretical and computational studies of hydrodynamic-based separation of particles and polymers in microfluidic channels”, (G. Slater), March 2014, now following an EMBO Fellowship at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. WAN, F., “Biomimetic surface coatings from modular amphiphilic proteins”, (J. Harden), October 2014, now following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. WILLIAMS, D., “Theoretical investigation of stimulated brillouin scattering in optical fibers

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and their applications”, (X. Bao and L. Chen), October 2014, now a Part-time math lecturer in Algonquin college, as well as a law school student at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. WONG, M., “High harmonic spectroscopy of complex molecules”, (R. Bhardwaj), October 2014, now a Teaching Technician at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN ELGRIW GAMUDI, S, “Effects of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations on the STOR-M Tokamak Discharges”, (C. Xiao), March 2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada. HUNT, A., “The many mysteries of Graphene Oxide”, (A. Moewes), December 2013, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. SIAHAAN, H, “Holography for rotating black holes”, (M. Ghezelbash), July 2014, now a Lecturer at the Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung Area, West Java, Indonesia. YANG, J., “Structure and Atomic Dynamics in Condensed matter under pressure and LI-Ion Battery Materials”, (J. Tse), February 2014, now an Assistant Research Officer at NRC laboratory, British Columbia, Canada.

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BARDON, A.B., “Dynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas”, (J.H. Thywissen), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. BURGESS, B.H., “The Applicability of Kraichnan-Leith-Batchelor Similarity Theory to Inverse Cascades in Generalized Twodimensional Turbulence”, (T.G. Shepherd), November 2014. CHEN, A.S., “Experiments on the Growth and Form of Icicles”, (S.W. Morris), March 2014, now a Physics and Math Educator, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. DELFAN, A., “Planar Resonant Structures for Biosensing Applications”, June 2014, now a Quantitative Researcher, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. DE PERIO, P., “Joint Three-Flavour Oscillation Analysis of nm Disappearance and ne Appearance in the T2K Neutrino Bean”, (J.F. Martin), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. DUQUE GOMEZ, F., “The Response of Particles in Periodic Potentials to External Forces: New Perspectives”, (J.E. Sipe), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. GAO, M., “Mapping Organic Molecular Motions with RF Compressed Femtosecond Electron Diffraction”, (R.J.D. Miller), November 2014, now a Data Mining Engineer, San Francisco Bay area, California, USA.

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HALPIN, H.A., “Two-dimensional Spectroscopy of Molecular Excitons in a Model Dimer System”, (R.J.D. Miller), June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands. HELWIG, W.H., “Multipartite Entanglement: Transformations, Quantum Secret Sharing, Quantum Error Correction”, (H.-K. Lo), March 2014. HERON, P.J., “Mantle Dynamics Following Supercontinent Formation”, (J.P. Lowman), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JEAN-RUEL, H., “Femtosecond Electron Diffraction and Spectroscopic Studies of a Solid State Organic Chemical Reaction”, (R.J.D. Miller), June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carleton University & Spartan Bioscience, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. JERVIS, D.M., “A Fermi Gas Microscope Apparatus”, (J.H. Thywissen), November 2014, now a Research Scientist at Aerodyne Research, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. KELLER, M., “Mitigating Model Errors in CO Emission Estimation”, (D.B.A. Jones), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. LAU, H.-K., “Practicality of Quantum Information Processing”, (H.-K. Lo and D.F.V. James), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. MARIANI, Z., “Infrared Emission Measurements of Radiation and Trace Gas Variability in the High Arctic”, (K. Strong), November 2014, now a Data Operations Coordinator at Teranet Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. PERNICA, P., “Implications of Periodic Weak Thermal Stratification in the Epilimnion of Lake Opeongo”, (M.G. Wells), June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. PLUMB, K., “Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies of Novel Magnets”, (Y.-J. Kim), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. PRENT, N., “Characterization of Muscle Contraction with Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy”, (V. Barzda), November 2014, now a Physics Instructor at Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. RAU, J., “Unconventional Symmetry Breaking in Strongly Correlated Systems”, (H.-Y. Kee), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. REIJNDERS, A., “Optical Spectroscopy of Novel Materials”, (K.S. Burch), November 2014, now an Optical and Cryogenic Physicist/ Engineer at Montana Instruments, Bozeman, Montana. ROZEMA, L., “Experimental Quantum Measurement with a Few Photons”, (A.M. Steinberg), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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SANDILANDS, L., “Optical Spectroscopy of TwoDimensional Electronic Materials”, (K.S. Burch), November 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Basic Science, Seoul, Korea. WALKER, T.W., “Applications of Adjoint Modelling in Chemical Composition: Studies of Tropospheric Ozone at Middle and High Northern Latitudes”, (D.B.A. Jones), June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. WHALEY, C., “Improvements to Our Understanding of Toronto-Area Atmospheric Composition”, (K. Strong), November 2014, now works at Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

WESTERN UNIVERSITY AKBARI-SHARBAF, A., “Defect-Related Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Graphene”, (M. Cottam and G. Fanchini), September 2014, now searching for Post Doctoral Fellowship. DEDYULIN, S., “Accurate 50-200 keV proton stopping cross sections in solids” and “Lateral

growth of Si wires on Si (100) substrate”, (L. Goncharova), February 2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow with 3M and The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. RACKNOR, C.D.C., “Quantum Optics of Polaritonic Nanocomposites”, (M. Singh), April 2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Lawson Research Centre, Upper Hand and Limb Clinic, St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada. RUDKO, D.A.D., “Quantitative Susceptibility Imaging of Tissue Microstructure Using UltraHigh Field MRI”, (R. Menon), March 2014, now a Post Doctoral Research Scientist at Montre´al Neurological Institute joint with the Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. SILBER, E.A., “Observational and Theoretical Investigation of Cylindrical Line Source Blast Theory Using Meteors”, (P. Brown), June 2014, now a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

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YORK UNIVERSITY COMEAU, D., “Atrap Buffer-Gas Positron Accumulator”, (E. Hessels), October 2014, now a Regional Sales Manager at CCR Process Products, Ottawa, ON, Canada. JIAN, B., “Double-Loop Microtrap Array for Ultracold Atoms”, (W. van Wijngaarden), June 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow at NRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada. KOHLI, I., “Topological Dynamical Systems Methods in Early-Universe Cosmologies”, (M. Haslam), October 2014, now searching for employment. MARSH, K., “Spectrum of Gluelumps Containing Various QCD Colour-Multiplet Particles”, (R. Lewis), June 2014, now currently unemployed. TSEDNEE, T., “Ionization of the Hydrogen Molecular Ion by Strong Infrared Laser Fields”, (M. Horbatsch), October 2014, now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

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