UOIT Faculty of Science hosts highly successful CTAS workshop

University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) students were well-represented as the Faculty of Science played host to the 23^rd Canadian Thermal Analysis Society (CTAS) Workshop and Exhibition May 7 and 8.

CTAS brings together a large group of universities, companies and government laboratories to exchange experiences and learn about new applications in the field of thermal analysis.

Participants included:

• C-Therm Technologies Limited
• Department of National Defence
• Mettler Toledo
• Natural Resources Canada
• NETZSCH
• SETARAM Instrumentation
• Spectra Research Corporation
• TA Instruments
• Trent University
• University of Guelph
• University of Toronto
• University of Waterloo
• UOIT’s Clean Energy Research Laboratory
• UOIT’s Faculty of Science

“It was a pleasure to have held CTAS 2013 at UOIT and it was even more of a pleasure to meet so many very talented students from the Materials Science program,” said Dr. Shanti Singh, CTAS President. “The dynamic UOIT student presence contributed greatly to the success of our workshop. I would like to fully recognize the contributions made by our CTAS Exhibits Councillor, Dr. Liliana Trevani of the UOIT Faculty of Science for her many months of work to prepare the workshop and her active participation at each and every presentation during the conference.”

UOIT students presented seven posters and made one oral presentation. In addition, Dr. Brad Easton, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, UOIT, was one of two invited speakers, The other was Dr. Vladimiros Papangelakis of the University of Toronto.

Eight graduate students from the UOIT Materials Science program participated in the event: Naser Abdo, Jesse Allan, Jennie Eastcott, Patrick Edge, Mohammadreza Ghavidel, Donald McGillivray, Chris Odetola and Simone Quaranta. UOIT undergraduate Chemistry students Tanya Fernandes, Cassandra Scott and Nick-Hugh Wisdom also took part.

Best Poster awards:

• Jennie Eastcott, PhD candidate, UOIT (Dr. Easton’s research group)
• Nick-Hugh Wisdom, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council – Undergraduate Student Research Award (NSERC-USRA) student, UOIT (Dr. Liliana Trevani’s and Dr. Janice Strap’s project) 

People’s Choice Best Overall Conference Poster/Presentation award:

• Jesse Allan, PhD candidate, UOIT (Dr. Easton’s research group)
• Geoff Rivers, University of Waterloo

Video Quiz Ballot prize:

• Mohammadreza Ghavidel, UOIT Materials Science graduate student (Dr. Easton’s research group)

Best Presentation awards:

• Michael Carlos, University of Toronto
• Latchmi Raghunanan, Trent University