ASTR 449/PHYS 449 HONOURS THESES 1999/2000

John William BUKER

Constraining a particle to a submanifold of configuration space

Supervisor: Richard Froese (Mathematics), reader: Lon Rosen (Mathematics)

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O-Yeat CHAN

Quantum Amplitudes in 2+1 dimensional simplicial gravity

Supervisor: Kristin Schleich, reader:Don Witt

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Joel Kenneth ERICKSON

Wilson Loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Supervisors: Gordon Semenoff and Konstantin Zaremba. reader: Emil Akhmedov

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David GASSON

Editing and calibration of the GB6 radio catalog of daily flux measurements

Supervisor: Phil Gregory, reader: William McCutcheon

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Pejman GHANIPOUR

Measurements of the dielectric loss tangent of MgO at 1.19 GHz and 3.4GHz, using cavity field perturbation

Supervisor: Doug Bonn, reader: Jim Carolan

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Tarek Mohamed HAMIDA

Production and constraints of topological black holes. An application of topological censorship

Supervisor:Kristin Schleich, reader: Doug Scott

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Christina JAMES

Bolometer fabrication for BAM

Supervisor: Mark Halpern, reader: Jeff Young

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Nils JOHNSON

Fusing positron emission tomography (PET) images with 3D arterial trees reconstructed from coronary angiograms.

Supervisors: K. Lance Gould and Richard Kirkeeide (University of Texas-Houston Medical School).

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Jasonjot Singh KALIRAI

CCD Photometry of stars in the open cluster NGC 2099

Supervisor: Harvey Richer. reader: Patrick Durrell

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Marty KURYLOWICZ

Coherence in a driven anharmonic chain: Biophysical implications

Supervisor: Hardy reader Birger Bergersen

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Trevor LANTING

Simulations and analysis of the Photometer performance of MOST

Supervisor: Jaymie Matthews, reader Paul Hickson

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Gaelen Anthony MARSDEN

Recognition of star patterns

Supervisor: Mark Halpern, reader: Doug Scott

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Greg OROSI

Portfolio optimization of a single risky asset.

Supervisor Joel Friedman (Mathematics), reader Ulrich Hausman (Mathematics)

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Michael PAWESKA

Investigating methods of selecting events and measuring distances for t-lepton lifetime measurements

Supervisor: Chris Hearty, reader: Tom Mattison

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Darren PEETS

Seeded melt growth of large high purity YBa2Cu3O7-d crystals

Supervisor: Doug Bonn, reader: Ruixing Liang

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Ka Fai POON

Non-linear oscillations of a neutral particle in a rotating magnetic quadrupole field.

Supervisor Vlad Shapiro (TRIUMF), reader: Birger Bergersen

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Anna SAJINA

Submm observations of FIRBACK’s 170mm detections.

Supervisor: Doug Scott, reader: Mark Halpern

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Joe SIHOTA

Real-Time bearing estimation for a hydroacoustic source

Supervisor: Rick Pawlowizs (EAOS) reader: Murray Hodgson (Mechanical Engineering)

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Brock WILSON

Computer simulation of pattern formation in granular materials

Supervisor: Matt Choptuik, reader: Carl Michal

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Mae Jiun YEE

Photometric study of open cluster NGC 1039

Supervisor: Harvey Richer, reader:Patrick Durrell

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Tina Siu YEE

Numerical Simulation of fertilization calcium waves in a circular domain

Supervisor: Yue-Xian Li (Mathematics). reader: Alexandra Chavez Ross (Mathematics)