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Mark Richardson

Mark Richardson of Queen's University and McDonald Institute

Mark Richardson

Term Adjunct

he/him

Term Adjuncts

Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy

McDonald Institute (MI)

Arts & Science

mark.richardson@queensu.ca

613-533-6000 ext. 77182

STI 304I

About Mark

I am the Manager for Education and Public Outreach for the McDonald Institute. I develop and implement education and outreach programs for the Queen’s and Kingston communities and beyond. I enjoy reading, puzzles, boardgames, and movies, as well as biking, rock climbing, hiking, swimming and skiing.

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Queen’s hosts Teraelectronvolt Particle Astrophysics (TeVPA) international conference

The 17th edition of the Teraelectronvolt Particle Astrophysics (TeVPA) international conference, organized by members of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy and the McDonald Institute took place at Queen's University, from August 8-12 2022. The conference attracted nearly 200 scientists from all continents to discuss the latest results in cosmic rays, gamma rays, cosmology, dark matter, galactic and extragalactic sources, gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy, neutrinos and particle physics.

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Troy Allen is a Keynote Speaker

PhD student Troy Allen was one of 4 keynote speakers at the 12th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies - LANE 2022 (taking place in Fürth, Germany). Troy's plenary talk reviewed the state of the art in laser manufacturing monitoring and, in particular, his work in Simultaneous high-speed keyhole depth and absorptance measurements in laser spot welding of dissimilar metals.

Visit 2022 LANE Conference

 

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Student News

2022 Science Rendezvous Outstanding Volunteers are named

Science Rendezvous announced the 2022 Outstanding Volunteers from across Canada recently. The 21 winners were nominated by their peers for their outstanding contribution and dedication to the annual event. Queen's University did very well and a good fraction of the honoured volunteers are from the Physics Department. Congratulations go to:

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Science Rendezvous - Physics
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The first results of the James Webb Space Telescope

Date

Friday October 28, 2022
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

CHE AUD

René Doyon Université de Montréal
Director, Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic
Director, Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanètes

Abstract

After more than two decades of development, the James Webb Space Telescope was finally launched on Christmas Day 2021 in a near-perfect trajectory to its final destination at the second Lagrange point, 1.5 million km from Earth. Its complex deployment was flawless, as was the six-month commissioning period that followed to characterize the performance of the telescope and its four science instruments. Webb is performing as expected and even better. The Early Release Observations, the first demonstration images and spectroscopic data, were spectacular and have been shown around the world last July. I will give a brief overview of the Webb mission by presenting the performance of the telescope as well as some recent results on distant galaxies and atmospheric characterization of exoplanets.

Physics Student Successes at Conferences

Congratulations to our students for their successes at these various conferences.

UofTAI (University of Toronto Artificial Intelligence)

Our students participated in the Project X competition. This year's theme was Health and our students competed in the Genetics category and won first prize! They also gave a presentation at this year's UofTAI conference held in February. Congratulations goes to Awini Altabaa, Ciaran Byles-Ho, David Huang, Hani Khatib, and Fabian Sosa.

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