News

  • 2019: invited talk at CSSTC

  • 2019: "Great supervisor" award from FGSR

  • 2018: methane sensing project funded.

  • 2018: Entrepreneurship award

  • 2018, 2017: Interdisciplinary Science Students Society teaching awards

  • 2017: invited talk at EMRS-Strasbourg

  • 2017: Graduate student mentoring award.

  • 2016: Organizer, MRS Spring meeting symposium NT8.

  • 2015: NSERC CREATE is funded (Alberta - TU-Munich collaboration).

  • 2015: Invited talk at Photonics North, Ottawa.

  • 2015: Invited talk at E-MRS Warsaw.

  • 2014: Vargo Teaching Chair awarded.

Group:

  • Welcome to all our new students in 2019.

  • Winter 2019: Congratulations to Stephen Lane on PhD completion, upcoming nuptials, and new job position.

  • Summer 2018: Congratulations to Angela on PhD completion and new job position.

  • Summer 2018: Congratulations to Ross on his new industry position.

  • May 2018: welcome to undergrads Valerie and Vira, and Neil, technical engineer from 2S.

  • Sept 2017: Hui Wang joins MSc program.

  • May 2017: welcome to undergrad researchers Jenny Pille, Amira Aissiou, and Yina Zhao.

  • Apr. 2017: Previous student Yanyan Zhi accepts faculty position offer.

  • Mar. 2017: Stephen won his second GSA teaching award!

  • Jan. 2017: welcome to Wei Lin, undergrad PHYS 499 researcher, and Simon Stobie, visiting undergrad from Australia.

  • May 2016: welcome to undergrad researcher Tristan Stark, Nathan Orlando, Lige Tan, Wanjie Wu, and Han Zhang, and to visiting researcher Zebib Yenus.

  • Mar. 2015: PhD student Stephen Lane wins University of Alberta teaching assistant award.

  • Sept. 2015: Welcome William!

  • Jan. 2015: PhD to Ross Lockwood, accepts Director, U-Alberta hackerspace.

  • Nov. 2014: PhD to Yanyan Zhi, now PDF at "China's Harvard" (Peking University).

  • Aug. 2014: Welcome Kirsty!

  • Apr. 2014: Good luck to Ross on HI-SEAS mission.

  • Sept 2013: PhD to Zhihong Zhang, new faculty position at UESTC.

  • Jun. 2012: PhD to Xiongyao Wang, PDF at Waterloo and now TEM lab manager at Alberta.

  • Dec. 2012: MSc to Shalon McFarlane, now Technology Transfer Officer at TEC Edmonton.

  • Sept. 2012: Good luck to PDF Pablo Bianucci in your new position as Assistant Professor at Concordia University.

Recent or upcoming group presentations:

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at ATUMS annual meeting, Munich, Germany, 2018.

  • Hui Wang, prize-winning poster presentation at ATUMS annual meeting, Munich, Germany, 2018.

  • Hui Wang, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Red Deer, 2018.

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Red Deer, 2018.

  • Hui Wang, oral presentation at ATUMs annual meeting, Jasper 2017.

  • Stephen Lane: oral presentation at ATUMs annual meeting, Jasper 2017.

  • Kirsty Gardner, oral presentation at ATUMs annual meeting, Jasper 2017.

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at ATUMs annual meeting, Jasper 2017.

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, 2017

  • Stephen Lane, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Calgary, 2017.

  • Angela Beltaos, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Calgary, 2017.

  • Kirsty Gardner, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Reseach Symposium, Calgary, 2017.

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Calgary, 2017.

  • Al Meldrum, invited presentation at EMRS, Strasbourg, FR, 2017.

  • Al Meldrum Plenary speaker at "Let's Talk Nanoscience" event, Edmonton, 2017.

  • Kirsty Gardner, oral presentation at ATUMS annual meeting, Raitenhaslach, Germany, 2017.

  • Stephen Lane, oral presentation at ATUMs annual meeting, Raitenhaslach, Germany, 2017.

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at ATUMs annual meeting, Raitenhaslach, Germany, 2017.

  • Al Meldrum, invited presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Edmonton, 2016.

  • Stephen Lane, oral presentation at Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Edmonton, 2016.

  • Stephen Lane, poster presentation at Alberta Quantum Nano meeting, Banff, 2016.

  • William Morrish, oral presentation at  Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Edmonton, 2016.

  • Kirsty Gardner, poster presentation at  Alberta Nano Research Symposium, Edmonton, 2016.

  • Al Meldrum oral presentation at MRS, Phoenix, 2016.

  • Angela Beltaos, oral presentation at Graphene Canada, Montreal, 2016.

  • Stephen Lane, oral presentation at Photonics West, San Francisco, 2016.

  • Stephen Lane, oral presentation at CAP congress, Edmonton, 2015.

  • Rose Chung, oral presentation at CAP congress, Edmonton, 2015.

  • Al Meldrum, invited talk at Photonics North, Ottawa, 2015.

  • Al Meldrum: general public presentation at the University of Alberta observatory, 2015.

  • University of Alberta student returns from "Mars" voyage.

  • Yanyan Zhi, poster presentation at Photonics North, Montréal, 2014.

  • Ross Lockwood, oral presentation at Photonics North, Ottawa, 2013.

  • Al Meldrum, oral presentation at Photonics North, Ottawa, 2013.

  • Ross Lockwood, oral presentation at the EMRS in Strasbourg, France, 2012.

  • Shalon McFarlane, oral presentation at the EMRS in Strasbourg, France, 2012.

  • Yanyan Zhi, poster presentation at the EMRS conference in Strasbourg, France, 2012.

  • Yanyan Zhi, oral presentation at the CAP congress, Calgary, Alberta, 2012.

  • Yanyan Zhi, poster presentation at the GPSA, Edmonton, Alberta, 2012.

 

Alberta/Technische Universität München Graduate School for Functional Hybrid Materials - ATUMS, funded partly by NSERC. New students entering this program have a chance to spend time in a collaborating lab at Munich, Germany.