M.SC. STUDENTS
HUGUES BEAUCHESNE
09/10-present
Dynamical black hole entropy and gravitational collapse
BENJAMIN CONSTANTINEAU
09/08-present
M.Sc. thesis project:
Numerical thermodynamic studies of classical gravitational collapse in 3+1 and 4+1 dimensions
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
EMILIE PELCHAT
Presently an M.Sc. Physics student in Quantum Information at Sherbrooke University; Awarded an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship to pursue her M.Sc. studies.
Honours Physics Dissertation (Sept. 2008-April 09): The gravitationally coupled magnetic monopole
Poster presentation during research week.
Thesis defence: April 30, 2009.
Talks: The soliloquy of the soliton.
Emilie was the recipient of the silver medal at Bishop's in 2009 (undergraduate student who graduates with the highest average).
ILANA MACDONALD
Presently a Ph.D. student in Astrophysics at the University of Toronto
Honours Physics Dissertation (Sept. 2007- April 08): The Casimir effect in a piston geometry
Honours thesis talk presented on April 29, 2008.
Poster presentation (during research week 2008 at Bishop’s): tied for second place.
Undergraduate research assistant: Sept. 2006- April 07
Research project: Casimir pistons.
Journal Publications
A. Edery and I. MacDonald, “Cancellation of nonrenormalizable hypersurface divergences and the d-dimensional Casimir piston”, JHEP 09 (2007) 005.
A. Edery, N. Graham and I. MacDonald, 3D scalar model as a 4D perfect conductor limit: Dimensional reduction and variational boundary conditions, Phys. Rev. D 79, 125018 (2009).
JEREMY GODIN
(presently a Ph.D. Engineering student at the University of Waterloo)
Honours Physics Dissertation (Sept. 2005-April 06): Deflection of light in the Kerr metric
Honours thesis talk presented on April, 2006.
Undergraduate research assistant: summer 2005
Research project: Gravitational lensing
Journal Publication
A. Edery and J. Godin, “Second order Kerr deflection”, Gen. Rel. Grav. 38 (2006) 1715.
DEANNA MACLENNAN
(presently an M.Sc. Physics student at Carleton University)
Undergraduate research assistant: summer 2007
Research project: Quantum corrections in BEC’s