Student Research Topics in ATLAS Canada

This list has been put together from several sources and may not always be up-to-date. If you are an ATLAS-Canada student, please feel free to obtain a wiki account and update your own entry. Similarly, if you are a faculty member and wish to have an updated list from your institute here, please directly edit the page (or email a new list to the ATLAS-Canada physics coordinator).

If a student has completed an ATLAS thesis in Canada, please add it to the list of CompletedAtlasTheses!

Name	Institute	Degree	Thesis topic or Current Interest
Kevin Chan	Alberta	PhD	EF jet algorithms; remote monitoring; physics (SUSY).
Asif Saddique	Alberta	PhD	LUCID operations expert tasks, long lived particles.
JP Archambault	Carleton	PhD	FCAL Simu and SUSY studies
Louise Heelan	Carleton(Oakham)	PhD	ttbar cross-section with first data and calibration of FCAL
Kate Whalen	Carleton	PhD	W boson physics, Higgs searches
Thomas McCarthy	Carleton	PhD	FCal Position Analysis
Rick Ueno	Carleton	PhD	Electron performance and W observation; 2-lepton SUSY
Adam Robichaud	Carleton		Tracker upgrade
Marc-Andre Dufour	McGill	PhD	Trigger menus & rates; Trigger effect in jet cross-section measurements
Gustavo Kertzscher	McGill	PhD	Charged Higgs
Miika Klemetti	McGill	PhD	Charged Higgs, HLT trigger menu development
Pete Watson	McGill	MSc	Jet performance studies
Bertrand Chapleau	McGill(Vachon)	PhD	High pT top physics, HLT commissioning
Katie Woods	McGill	MSc	Jet trigger performance studies
Roger Mantifel	McGill	MSc	Jet performance studies
W. Ernst	McGill	MSc	Jet performance studies.
Mathieu Benoit	Montreal	PhD
Jihène Bouchami	Montreal	PhD	MPX data taking & analysis
Merlin Davies	Montreal	PhD	pile-up studies
John Idarraga	Montreal	PhD	Vector boson scattering and the MPXAtlas project.
Jonathan Ferland	Montreal	PhD	Technicolour (technipi, technirho) & HLT jet slice
Andrea Gutierrez	Montreal	MSc	MPX data taking & analysis
J. MacAna	Montreal	MSc	pile-up studies & MPX
Eduardo Orthega	Regina	PhD	Search for new physics in di-tau channel
Y. Suli	Regina
Doug Schouten	SFU	PhD	Jet Calibration, single top
Jennifer Godfrey	SFU	MSc	Tau validation and signatures in early data
Rogayeh Dastranj	SFU	MSc	Jet algorithms
Michel Trottier-McDonald	SFU	MSc	Tau Reconstruction
Noel Dawe	SFU	MSc	Tau-ID using BDTs
Sarah Kerhoff	SFU		Jet studies
S. Ali	SFU
Travis Bain	Toronto	PhD	Jet + ETmiss, SUSY, instrumental effects on ETmiss
Bin Guo	Toronto	PhD	ttbarH associated production with H->bbbar decay
Nikolina Ilic	Toronto	MSc	Jet + ETmiss, SUSY, instrumental effects on ETmiss
Dominique Tardif	Toronto	PhD	Beam conditions monitor, single top
Gabriel Rosenbaum	Toronto	PhD	Jet + ETmiss, SUSY, instrumental effects on ETmiss
Peter Thompson	Toronto	PhD	FCAL G4 Simu and VBF H->tautau
Trisha Farooque	Toronto	PhD	Top quark physics
Pier-Olivier Deviveiros	Toronto	MSc	Multijets and ETmiss (SUSY)
Saminder Dhaliwal	Toronto	PhD	Electron ID, Higgs VBF
Sing-Leung Cheung	Toronto	PhD	Search for dijet resonances
Reyhaneh Rezvani	Toronto	PhD	Searches for Large Extra Dimensions with mono-jet signature , Jet/MET Data Quality expert
Behi Fatholahzadeh	Toronto		FCAL Operation, Missing Et monitoring, Standard Model Electroweak
Pawan Sandhu	Toronto
P.Joannis	Toronto
Bill Mills	UBC	PhD	NLSP signatures in GMSB
Stephen Swedish	UBC	PhD	(also finishing MSc at U.Alberta on Increasing the Sensitivity of ATLAS to Neutralino Decay in GMSB)
Chang-Wei Loh	UBC	PhD	Displaced vertex signatures
Simon Viel	UBC	MSc
Frank Berghaus	Victoria	PhD	Quark Contact Interactions, Jet energy scale calibration, LAr Commissioning and DQ
Jean-Raphael Lessard	Victoria(Lefebvre)	PhD	Top anti-top invariant mass spectrum (MttSpectrum)
Lorraine Courneyea	Victoria	PhD	Characterization of missing ET using direct photons, SUSY searches
Ryan Taylor	Victoria	MSc	High Level Trigger / missing ET
Xander Baker	Victoria	MSc	High Level Trigger
Mike Jarrett	Victoria	MSc	Higgs Analysis
Allan Stewart	Victoria	MSc	di-lepton final states
Ewan Hill	Victoria	MSc	cosmic ray rates in minimum bias events
Eric Ouellette	Victoria	MSc