Faculty Members
The following faculty members participate in this program:
Iakov Afanassiev - experimental oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics; numerical modelling of geophysical flows (Ph.D. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Acad.)
Jahrul Alam - turbulent flows in the atmosphere, oceans and porous media (Ph.D. McMaster)
Aleksandrs Aleksejevs – precision tests of the standard model, properties of hadrons in effective field theories (Ph.D. Manitoba)
Svetlana Barkanova – nucleon structure, low-energy tests of the standard model, physics beyond the standard model, fundamental symmetries, radon measurement and mitigation, effective teaching methods, women in science (Ph.D. Manitoba)
Ivan Booth - general relativity; black hole physics (Ph.D. Waterloo)
Stephanie Curnoe - electronic, magnetic and structural properties of solid state materials, including unconventional superconductivity, magnetic and non-magnetic ordering, and structural phase transitions (Ph.D. British Columbia)
Margarita Kondratieva - asymptotical methods in quantum mechanics; optimization in discrete structures (Ph.D. Tomsk State)
Hari Kunduri - general relativity, black holes, Riemannian geometry (Ph.D. Cambridge)
Marco Merkli - mathematical physics, quantum dynamical systems (Ph.D. Toronto)
Ivan Saika-Voivod - thermodynamics and dynamics of supercooled liquids, focussing on aspects of crystal nucleation and the glass transition. Systems studied include silica, attractive colloids, Lennard-Jones liquid and nanoclusters(Ph.D. Western Ontario)