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Developing forward curve models for power risk management

When a company has excess power generation at its disposal, a natural course of action will be to seek to market that power. However, power markets are notoriously volatile, and this makes the cash flows that result from selling the power unpredictable and hard to plan for. The aim of this project is to help develop models for power forward prices that can be used to help manage this risk.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tony Ware

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Suncor Energy Inc (Calgary, AB)

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Mining; Wholesale trade

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Bacterial P450 engineering for production of high value antibacterials

Many pharmaceutical drugs are synthesised by traditional organic routes, however this approach is limited to the scope of traditional chemical catalysts that often yield predictably similar products. Pharmaceutical synthesis is moving towards alternative synthetic routes such as biosynthesis in order to develop sustainable, cheaper routes of novel small molecule production. This is crucial for antibacterial discovery, as alternative approaches are required to tackle the antibacterial resistance crisis. P450 BM3 is often utilised due to its rapid catalysis, diverse range of biotransformations and variant promiscuity yielding valuable existing and novel metabolites. We aim to address the problem of antibacterial resistance by screening variants of BM3 developed in the Munro group against antibacterial and bacterio-modulating pantothenamide analogs developed in the Auclair group. New analogs will be screened against several bacterial strains to assess their antibacterial/bacterio-modulating activity. Utilising biosynthesis to produce novel analogs of a class of compounds that will potentially resensitize the host immune system to infectious bacteria may yield several analogs of interest with a new mode of antibacterial action.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Karine Auclair

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of Manchester

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Evaluating Haptic Feedback for Vehicle Safety in Field Robotics

This project aims to evaluate a novel device of my own design and making which is able to communicate information about a remote robot’s state to a human operator via vibrating feedback. For example, hazards such as loose terrain or a steep incline may not be well reported to the operator via a camera feed. The focus of my PhD is the design of this novel control device and its application in making robot teleoperation safer for the robotic vehicle and less prone to errors.
My proposed project in Canada will progress in two phases. The first phase will take advantage of my proposed supervisor’s unique combination of expertise in mobile robotics and human perception, to conduct experiments to determine how vibrating haptic feedback can best be used to represent or recreate hazardous situations a mobile robot might encounter in real world use. These results will then very quickly inform the parameters for a second study, using the large scale off-road and aquatic robots to complete tasks that, by design, will involve navigating certain environmental hazards such as loose terrain, obstacles, very uneven ground, strong water currents, etc.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Jenkin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Queen Mary, University of London

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Technology; Ocean Tech

Université :

York University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

The Petawawa Biofibre Harvest Trial

This project will assess the potential for using unmerchantable wood as feedstock for the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Large tracts of forests within the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest (GLSL) consist of low quality pine- mixed woods that could supply feedstock if the unmerchantable wood were recovered in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. We will conduct biomass harvesting trials at the Petawawa Research Forest to assess the sustainability and cost-effectiveness of whole-tree harvest operations in pine-mixed forests characteristic of the region. The intern will assist in monitoring the harvest operations and analyzing the data. The results will help the partners to better estimate the amount of biomass that can be harvested from pine-mixed wood forests. In addition, quantifying costs will help them modify harvest operations to incorporate biomass harvesting

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

John Caspersen

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FPInnovations (Pointe-Claire, QC);Heideman Forest Services;Ontario Natural Resources Ministry;BioFuelNet

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Environmental Science and Technology

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Characterizing modulating retroreflectors for laser comms

Laser comms is a branch of wireless communication using a laser beam which directed at a given target, allowing higher speed connections. Specifically, we consider devices called modulators, these are used to encode information into a laser beam, analogously to sending a Morse code message. The modulator allows more of less of the laser beam to pass through it creating pulses equivalent to on and off signals (binary data). These devices have been computationally designed to predict improvement on the current technology. This project will test the existing devices of the current technology and then the new designs to show the predicted improvements. The results will inspire further design of an optimized device for search & rescue applications.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jonathan Holzman

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Cardiff University

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Information and Communications Technology; Nanotechnology; Aerospace

Université :

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

New generation of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo methods

The goal of this project is to combine the respective strengths two novel, complementary approaches to solving the Quantum Many Body Problem, the name given to the problem of the equations of quantum mechanics becoming impossible to solve by conventional methods due to very large numbers of particles being involved, such as in materials. To deal with this, an abstract mathematical formalism was developed, which requires advanced numerical alorithms, implementation and large-scale calculations on a computer. We will attempt to
bring together the key advantages of two pf the most promising algorithms, the well established Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method, and the more recently discovered Algorithmic Matsubara Integration (AMI). The new technique produced will allow physicists to reliably describe and control the most challenging, and most important, phenomena of strong electron correlations in a class of problems previously out of reach for any state of the art method.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

James Leblanc

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

King's College London

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Co-op Analyst / Junior Consultant

The intern team will be dedicating half their time to strategy development for other clients and the other half supporting UWCA. This inters will provide UWCA with the resources, insight, and fresh perspective. As an intern I will support with consulting activities for Criterium Group’s private sector clients (non pro-bono), as well as UWCA (pro-bono). These private sector clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Robert Helsley

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Criterium Group

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

E-Commerce Marketing Coordinator

Identify the ecommerce partner (web design company) most suited for the role of building the site for online marketing and sales. The key responsibilities would be to ensure that the project is moving forward, and we are meeting ourdeadlines for launch of the web store. Arranging and coordinating action items in our project charter and work with the internal and external partners.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Robert Helsley

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Divine Specialty Teas

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Timing of passage through an aperture between approaching people

The ability to perceive the motion of approaching person and to make appropriate adjustments to avoid collisions is an essential component of safe locomotion through the environment. The proposed project will investigate young and older adults’ collision avoidance behaviours with an approaching young adult in order to understand the visual information used to accomplish the task. The proposed research project will have two individuals approach an open doorway from opposite sides and pass through without colliding with each other. Both individuals’ movements will be tracked as they approach and pass through the doorway. The project will determine whether individuals use optical information, such as Time-to-Contact (TTC), to determine who will pass through the doorway first and avoid colliding with the other individual. It is believed that young adults will be in-tune with this optical information and use it to guide their actions whereas older adults may not use this information. The results from this project will help provide insights into any age-related behavioural changes and whether older adults are at a greater risk of collisions with other pedestrians in natural environments.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Cinelli

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes 2

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Wilfrid Laurier University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Does Spiroplasma protect against trypanosome infection in Drosophila?

Maternally inherited bacteria are commonly found in insects. Many of these have been found to provide beneficial traits to their hosts. One particular bacterial-mediated trait which is being found to be increasingly common within insects, is protection against natural enemies. For instance, the maternally inherited bacteria of fruit flies, Spiroplasma, can protect against nematodes and parasitic wasps. The defensive properties of these bacteria are important in terms of application. Maternally inherited bacteria are now being deployed to help control the spread of vector transmitted diseases such as Dengue and Zika. Trypanosomes represent a parasite of medical and economic importance as the causal agent of several human and animal diseases such as African sleeping sickness. In this project we will determine whether the natural bacteria of fruit flies, Spiroplasma, is able to protect fruit flies against trypanosome infection. This project will further our knowledge on the generality of Spiroplasma-mediated defense within insects and more generally, a greater understanding of a relatively novel model system within the laboratory.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Steve Perlman

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of Liverpool

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Life Sciences (not health)

Université :

University of Victoria

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Understanding how amino acid handling influences protein synthesis: a new paradigm in back pain research

Back pain caused by intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a major health problem in both the UK and Canada, for which there is no successful treatment. With degeneration there is loss of IVD tissue which impairs function and causes pain. This project will initiate a collaboration to investigate an unstudied area of IVD biology: whether changes in how cells handle amino acids, the building blocks of protein, might cause or contribute to disease and whether ‘rescue’ of amino acid handling might be a potential treatment for IVD degeneration. This will be done initially in skeletal muscle where the mechanisms of amino acid handling are better understood. The project aims to determine how inhibiting transport of the essential amino acid leucine into cells affects protein production by muscle cells and whether high amounts of other amino acids can rescue any damaging effects of transporter inhibition. The findings will provide vital information on how leucine transport and protein production are controlled in muscle and allow the techniques and knowledge to be applied in IVD research.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Daniel Moore

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of Manchester

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Superhydrophilic Membrane Technology for High-Efficiency Produced Water Treatment

Brine water is often produced in mineral extracting processes. It can cause damage to soil and biota when being spilled during storage and transportation. The damage can last for decades. Even after a mineral extracting process is closed, the damage of soil structure and composition would still not be recovered. The long-lasting devastation may cause irreversible environmental impacts and huge economic losses. Therefore, it is necessary to develop low-footprint on-site remediation technologies.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gordon Huang

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Regina

Programme :

Accelerate

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