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Undergraduate Research: SFU Department of Physics
Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates refer to a variety of programmatic opportunities offered through universities, national, and international scientific organizations (USRA and MITACS). Department of Physics usually hosts around 10-15 undergraduate students working in a specific project (link to faculty project). Participants may be granted stipends. Summer research is available in all physics fields and provide high-level research experiences for undergraduates. In addition, students involved in undergraduate research have opportunities to present their research both on campus and across the country (such as at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference).
How to apply - https://www.sfu.ca/physics/undergraduate/current/research-opportunities/usra.html
USRA 2022: Chemical Physics student Joshua Yu studies graphene nanostructure using scanning transmission electron microscopy with supervisor Prof. Karen Kavanagh, in the Electron Imaging and Holography Facility at SFU (http://www.sfu.ca/eihf).
USRA 2022: Hannah Herdin received hands-on experience and equipment training as undergraduate researcher in Prof. Eundeok Mun’s Lab. Hannah and postdoctoral researcher Suyoung Kim stand in front of Magnetic Property Measurement System, discussing the specs of the equipment.
MITACS 2022: Charlotte Zehnder from Middlebury College is using results from the work she’s done to show Jeff McGuirk how to make higher quality images of ultra-cold atoms that have been cooled to near absolute zero temperature.
MITACS 2022: Jonathan Posada, a MITACS undergraduate research assistant from Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, reviews the design of a titanium-sapphire femtosecond laser with graduate student Leya Lopez and supervisor Steve Dodge. The Dodge lab uses this laser to do time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors and other quantum materials.
2022 Undergraduate Research
2022 Annual Lunchtime Seminar Series
Scheduled on Tuesday 12:00PM-1:00PM at Fishbowl.
Informal 20min ~ 30min basic research talks with discussions (mostly answering student’s questions).
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title | Research Areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/31 | Eundeok Mun | Housekeeping, photo sessions, and other business | |
| 06/07 | Daniel Higginbottom | Silicon spin-photon devices for quantum technologies (abstract link) | Quantum Information |
| 06/14 | Jens Lassen | TRIUMF | |
| 06/21 | Corina Andreoiu | Decay Spectroscopy Experiments with Radioactive Beams and Large Spectrometers at TRIUMF | Nuclear Science |
| 06/28 | Matthias Danninger | High-Energy Neutrino Physics | High Energy Physics |
| 07/05 | Bernd Stelzer | Particle Physics, the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson | High Energy Physics |
| 07/12 | Jeffrey McGuirk | Bose-Einstein condensates - The coldest stuff in the universe | Atomic Molecular Optics |
| 07/19 | Michel Vetterli | Detectors and accelerators | High Energy Physics |
| 07/26 | Karen Kavanagh | Electrically active semiconductor nanostructures | Condensed Matter Physics |
| 08/16 | |||
Research projects and poster presentations
| Student | Supervisor | Poster Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Alexia Landry | Jens Lassen | |
| Juliana Besler | Erol Girt | |
| Daniel Sloseris | Nancy Forde |
Effects of aging on molecular collagen |
| Jody Tao | Nancy Forde |
The effects of collagen hybridizing peptides on collagen fibril formation. |
| Hamish Johnson | Matthias Danninger | Calibrating an observatory at the bottom of the ocean: The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment |
| Elektra Dakogiannis | Sarah Dunsiger | |
| Zu Ying Yu | Karen Kavanagh | Improving the Transfer Method of 2D Materials |
| Elliot Wadge | Corina Andreoiu | Gamma-ray Spectroscopy of 92-Sr Using GRIFFIN |
| Elias Bircher | Michel Vetterli | Jet Calibration Check |
| Jordan Bischoff | Simon Watkins | Excited states of donor bound excitons in ZnO |
| Michael Plunkett | Bernd Stelzer | Analyzing Higgs Boson Decay with Deep Neural Networks |
| Hannah Herdin | Eundeok Mun | Anisotropic magnetic property of CeAg6In6 |
| Zamir Said | David Broun | |
| Santiago Quintero | Steve Dodge | |
| Jonathan Posada | Steve Dodge | |
| Charlotte Zehnder |
Jeffrey McGuirk | Noise Reduction for Ultracold Gas Absorption Imaging |
Guest Participant
| Student | Supervisor | Research | Poster Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey M Nonis | Graeme J Koelwyn | Geoffrey is a Biological Physics student and has been conducting research in Summer 2022 under the supervision of Graeme J Koelwyn (Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences). Geoffrey’s research focuses on “how exercise influence the redeployment of immune cells in various scenarios”. Geoffrey would love to present a poster at the Physics UG poster presentation. | The Role of Exercise to Reverse Systemic Inflammation, Hypercoagulation and Immune Suppression Following Sepsis |