Physics 499

Course outline

Special Projects
Experimental or reading project under the direction of a staff member.
Prerequisites: a 300-level Physics course and consent of the Department.

Current projects (Winter 2009)

Final presentations are scheduled for Thursday, April 9 from 9:00–14:50 in CEB 251. Seven students will be discussing their work, and everyone in the department is welcome.

Second- and third-year physics majors are especially encouraged to attend. This is a wonderful opportunity to see what your peers are interested in and to get a better sense of the active research areas in our Department. This may be helpful for students who are themselves thinking of undertaking a special project in the future.

Seismic travel-time refraction tomography for a buried channel
Gordon Brasnett
Supervisor: Dr. D. Schmitt
9:15–9:45

Shear wave splitting beneath the Scotia Plate region
Victoria Turley
Supervisor: Dr. C. Currie
9:45–10:15

Non-democratic brane world decays
Kevin Martell
Supervisor: Dr. D. Gingrich
10:30–11:00

Detection of primordial black holes
David Sinn
Supervisor: Dr. J. Pinfold
11:00–11:30

Magnetic resonance angiography using three contrast mechanisms
Sandra Meyers
Supervisor: Dr. A. Wilman
11:30–12:00

Effects on dosimetry of various edema models applied to permanent prostate seed implants
Mac Clements
Supervisor: Dr. R. Sloboda
13:15–13:45

Analysis of a Chandra X-ray observation of X-ray binaries in a Globular Cluster
George Coomber
Supervisor: Dr. C. Heinke
13:45–14:15

Future projects

I am more than happy to discuss possible undergraduate thesis projects with interested students. My areas of expertise lie in condensed matter, statistical physics, and computational physics. Feel free to contact me with proposals or questions.