Nine members of the Acadia Physics Society participated in the Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference which was hosted this year by St. Francis Xavier University, on 4 – 6 February 2011.  During the NSERC awards presentation, the fact that 3 of the 5 NSERC awards were won by Acadia students was given recognition by the master of ceremonies who interjected with, “and rounding out the Dream Team from Acadia”, prior to awarding first place to Daniel Webber.

NSERC Awards

1^st -      Daniel Webber (Acadia), “Development and Characterization of a Near-IR    Cathodoluminescence Detector”

2^nd -     Benjamin Scheifele (St. Francis Xavier), “Heterogeneous Nucleation in the Ising Model”

3^rd -      Jessie Harlow (Dalhousie), “The Effect of Mo on Ni de-alloying from a Pt_o.23Ni_0.73Mo_0.02 Catalyst”

NSERC Honourable Mentions

            Matt LeBlanc (Acadia), “A New Strategy for the Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross-Section in the ATLAS Detector”

            Graham Reid (Acadia), “Equations for Phase Shift Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy”