News from RQMP
• Extension of FQRNT's competition for international internships (December 2009)
• Results of FQRNT's competition for international interships (December 2009)
• Results of the 2009 competition for RQMP's scholarships for co-supervised projects (December 2009)
• New resource for materials analysis and microfabrication (August 2009)
• Archives
Other News
Please consult the following links:
• Le Fonds de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT)
• NanoQuebec
• Portail-Québec
• École Polytechnique
• Université de Montréal (IForum)
• Université de Sherbrooke (Liaison)
• McGill Univerity (Reporter and Newswire)
Details:
Extension of FQRNT's competition for international internships
FQRNT is announcing the prolongation of the international internship program, meant to support students who are members of its Regroupements strategiques.
http://www.fqrnt.gouv.qc.ca/subventions/regles/stage_international_Ang.htm
Here are the important modifications:
1) Maximum: There is no more limit to the number of proposals that are submitted
2) Citizenship: The requirements for citizenship must now be met at the beginning of the internship and not at the time of filing the application.
3) Eligible Countries: The list of countries remains unchanged (Germany, Brazil, Catalonia, China, United States, Flanders, France, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Wallonia-Brussels). HOWEVER, we will accept internships in any other country where a multilateral project already exists. So if you have international collaborations in a given project, a student working in connection with this project could do his internship in a country that is not part of the list mentioned above.
4) Filing of applications and period of internship: Applications should be sent to FQRNT by RQMP via the online form before March 31, 2010. Internships can begin after March 31, 2010 but they still have to start before March 2011.
Any student who is interested is invited to contact Elise Saint-Jacques as soon as possible.
December 2009
Results of FQRNT's competition for international interships
Following the competition held in the fall of 2009, RQMP recommended two candidates to FQRNT: Aleks Labuda (McGill University) will go to Japan for a two month internship in the lab of Prof. Hirofumi Yamada of Kyoto University and Francis Paquin (Université de Montréal) will spend six month in the lab prof. Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, at the Imperial College of London .
Students who are members of FQRNT's Regroupements stratégiques have until March 31 2010 to apply for these scholarships. Inquire as soon as possible to : Elise Saint-Jacques
December 2009
Results of the 2009 competition for RQMP's scholarships for co-supervised projects
Two 15 000 $ scholarships were awarded to student who undertake new project under the supervision of professors from different universities. These scholarships are valid for a period of one year.
Yi-Lu Chang, PhD candidate with Zetian Mi (Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill), will undertake a joint project with profs. Mi and Carlos Silva (Physique, U. Montréal): "Molecular beam epitaxial growth and optical characterization of InGaN/GaN dot-in-a-wire nanoscale heterostructures on Si".
Yannick Lévesque, PhD candidate with Serge Jandl (Physique, U. Sherbrooke), will undertake a joint project with profs. Jandl and Richard Leonelli (Physique, U. Montréal): "Étude de l'émission coopérative et de la bistabilité optique dans les matériaux laser dopés à l'ytterbium".
December 2009
New resource for materials analysis and microfabrication
The Thin Film Research Lab (GCM) is proud to make available to researchers a brand new website full of information on materials analysis and microfabrication (www.gcmlab.ca). Experimenters will find all the technical specifications of the GCM equipment for microfabrication and materials analysis, as well as the microfabrication processes most used. For instance, the website provides useful information on advanced thin film deposition methods, surface analysis (XPS, TOF-SIMS, AFM, etc) and mechanical tests on the surface of materials. “We built this website with the intent of providing a precise and concise information on our members and to rapidly inform our academic and industrial customers on the services available. We are convinced that our users will appreciate its user-friendliness” said Olivier Grenier, director of the central facilities of the GCM.
This website is the preferred tool to know everything about the GCM members and their research activities. “The new www.gcmlab.ca reflects the dynamism of the GCM activities and shows the commitment of the central facilities to offer high quality services to its academic and industrial users” added Olivier Grenier.
About the GCM
The GCM is a unique research center devoted to the study of advanced materials. It boasts Canada’s largest pool of equipment for the fabrication, modification and characterization of a wide range of materials and complex systems. The GCM is also a materials analysis laboratory serving the academic and industrial communities.
