2015 CREATE Research Symposium

Toronto, Ontario, 11- 12 May 2015

Our fourth CREATE Research Symposium was held at the Yorkdale Holiday Inn in Toronto, Ontario, 11- 12 May concurrent with the PAHA/CANDAC Workshop. Talks were given by 17 students and 5 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 three of the CREATE and PAHA PDFs were asked to judge the presentations. The four judges were, Jai Chaubey (Universite de Sherbrooke),  Zhenua Li (University of Saskatoon), Sophie Tran (University of Toronto), and Stephanie Conway (University of Toronto). The two presentation winners were Jonathan Franklin (PhD, Dalhousie) for “The Community Solar Tracker -- development of an open-design tracker" and Jeff Langille (PhD, UNB) for “Imaging mesospheric winds with the Michelson Interferometer for Airglow Dynamics Imaging”  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 2015 joint PAHA/CANDAC Workshop and CREATE Research Symposium