2014 CREATE Research Symposium

Toronto, Ontario, 24-25 April, 2014

Our third CREATE Research Symposium was held at the Yorkdale Holiday Inn in Toronto, Ontario, from 24-25 April 2014 concurrent with the PAHA/CANDAC Workshop. Talks were given by 19 students and 6 postdoctoral fellows.  These included recipients of CREATE support, along with other PAHA/CANDAC trainees.

The CREATE Student Presentation Awards were announced at the close of the Research Symposium.  All student presentations were considered, and the awards were judged on the basis of content, presentation, and context and connections.  This year the CREATE and PAHA PDFs were asked to judge the presentations. The six judges were, Daphne Buiron (Dalhousie University), Jai Chaubey (Universite de Sherbrooke), Uma Das (University of New Brunswick), Gerrit Holl (University of Toronto), Zhenua Li (University of Saskatoon), and Sophie Tran (University of Toronto). The winners of the two awards were: Shayamila Gamage (MSc, University of Western Ontario) for her talk on "Water vapour retrieval using Raman lidar, Eureka, Nunavut" and Emily McCullough (PhD, University of Western Ontario) for her talk on "Calibrating the CRL for depolarization measurements." Congratulations to both!

The CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee also hosted a well-attended CREATE Social Networking Event at Milestones Restaurant on Thursday evening.

For further information:
Agenda for the 2014 joint PAHA/CANDAC Workshop and CREATE Research Symposium