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Learning Algorithm for Quantum Error Correction

Using quantum mechanics to improve information technology has been an interdisciplinary exercise. The challenge in implementing quantum information technology arises primarily from the fragile nature of quantum systems under various noises. We focus on the problem of correcting such errors that occur in the superconducting quantum circuits, which is a promising candidate for realizing a scalable quantum computer. Although there exist a few proposals for quantum error correction in superconducting circuits, a scalable high-fidelity implementation of these algorithms require precise control over the superconducting circuit parameters. We propose to use a learning algorithm, which is a tool from computer science, to generate fast, high-fidelity implementation of quantum error correction under realistic constraints on the superconducting control electronics. This problem will be investigated using computer simulation in order to access the feasibility of the method.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Barry Sanders

Student:

Pantita Palittapongarnpim

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Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

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University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Temperature effects on geomaterials performance

The effects of temperature on the mechanical properties of geomaterials (e.g. soils, rocks) are important for the safety and life cycle of any infrastructures. The research activities in the field suggest that there is a lack of understanding due to limited experimental data. The seasonal climate change causes the variations in temperatures which may pose construction challenges. Extensive and systematic experimental studies will be conducted by the intern to address the stated temperature related problems. In this research, local geomaterials will be collected from various construction sites of Mumbai City. Thermal conductivity and strength properties of the materials will be determined under a range of temperatures. This data will be used to develop a regression model in future collaborations between these two research groups.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sumi Siddiqua

Student:

Pierre Desjardins

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Discipline:

Engineering

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University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

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Globalink Research Award

Voids of Speculation – The uncanny ruins of failed urbanism

This research explores ghost-cities in Hanoi, Vietnam, built mostly for speculative reasons, often lingering uninhabited for a prolonged period of economic uncertainty. The dive of Vietnam in market economy in the 90’s called for a large scale restructuration of what has previously been uncontrolled rapid urbanization processes. At the beginning of the 2000s, at least 50 large satellite towns have been planned for Hanoi as a way to quench lingering housing shortages and draw real-estate profits. Bigger projects were divided in New Urban Areas projects (Khu do thi moi, KDTM). A few of these KDTM famously became ghost-cities, with owners even unable to put hands on their properties as some infrastructures remain unfinished. This research explores what happens to livability and to the urban condition when the habitat is synthesized mostly for economic efficiency, particularly in a time lapse where this performance is not even fulfilled.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Bressani

Student:

Olivier Jacques

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Discipline:

Architecture and design

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University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Faculty Attitudes towards the Internationalized Classroom in Chinese Universities

An “internationalized classroom” is a space wherein many of the tensions, possibilities and change factors inherent in the internationalization process are expressed in relationships between and among host students, international students, and instructors. The proposed research is part of a Canada/China comparative study on faculty attitudes towards the internationalized classroom. During Li Mao’s research trip in China, she will study the Chinese faculty in Beijing Normal University (BNU). Her work will focus on a number of specially designated first year classes for first-year international students offered BNU. The aim of the study is to learn, from BNU instructors’ perspectives, how international students, domestic students, and instructors are faring together in China’s “internationalized classrooms.” More specifically, the data will explicate: faculty’s understandings of internationalization, the challenges experienced by faculty in the internationalized classroom and the instructional/institutional supports that the faculty require to further the aims of the internationalized classroom.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joe Wu

Student:

Li Mao

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Discipline:

Education

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University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Vocal and visual signal divergence in a Neotropical songbird

New species may arise when related animal populations diverge in their plumage and song mating signals and no longer respond to the signals of other populations. In many tropical birds, species limits are unclear because of a lack of studies on plumage, song, morphological, and genetic variation among closely-related populations. Even fewer studies investigate whether birds from different populations respond less to mating signals which differ from their own, which would prevent these populations from interbreeding. One such example is the Rufous-capped Warbler, a tropical songbird species consisting of two groups of subspecies which differ in plumage and song, but hybridize in southern Mexico. My research will resolve taxonomic relationships among Rufous-capped Warbler subspecies by measuring plumage, song, morphological, and genetic differences across the hybrid zone in Mexico, and experimentally testing the responses of three different populations of warblers to examples of plumage and song signals from both subspecies groups.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Mennill

Student:

Alana Demko

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Discipline:

Biology

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University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Innovative Game-Based Rehabilitation Platform for children with motor and cognitive impairments due to neuro-developmental disorders and acquired brain injuries

We have developed an innovative computer-aided, game-based platform for rehabilitation. The platform includes an embedded automated assessment subsystem, which provides electronic measures of fine and gross motor skills and specific psychomotor skills. The primary objective of this research project is to evaluate the test-retest reliability and convergent validity of the standardized assessment subsystem embedded into our game-based rehabilitation platform. A second objective will be to organize and start an exploratory randomized clinical trial, which will evaluate the feasibility and benefits of the game-based rehabilitation program on manual dexterity skills in the children with cerebral palsy. We expect the research to yield a broad spectrum of validated electronic records of upper extremity function, a host of engaging, high quality exercises, and therapeutic game design principles which can be used to enhance the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs. In addition, we aim to identify specific child and environmental characteristics associated with effective use of this type of technology. We expect this initial research program to develop into a fruitful and prosperous long-term collaborative research program between our respective University departments. Importantly we hope to become competitive for major National and International (Canada-India) funding opportunities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tony Szturm

Student:

Anuprita Kanitkar

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Discipline:

Kinesiology

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University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The role of forest governance in food and livelihood security: A case study of NIRMAN, Odisha, India

This project is based on how the communities which rely on the forests of different regions within the state of Odisha, India, cope with and adapt to environmental and social challenges in relation to their daily lives and livelihoods. Using local ecological, social, and cultural knowledge, I will analyze environmental, social and policy challenges, and their impacts on the community livelihoods. I will also analyze the adaptation strategies used by the forest communities and examine the influence of other stakeholders in this area. Outcomes of the research project may assist others in understanding the environmental and social challenges and changes and their causes in the region and may contribute to crafting novel governance arrangements to deal with future challenges. This may drive the recommendation of future adaptation strategies and possible policy changes in the region as well as in other areas experiencing similar challenges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Prateep Kumar Nayak

Student:

Kaitlin Murray

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Discipline:

Environmental sciences

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University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mapping and spatial modelling of bamboo in the Brazilian Amazon

Due to anthropogenic alterations such as forest harvesting, fragmentation and forest degradation has occurred enabling the invasion of native bamboo species which are contributing to habitat degradation and reduction of tree species in the remaining forested areas of Brazil. Currently, the primary method of monitoring forests dominated by bamboos is based on field observations. However, advances in aerial and satellite imagery quality provides an opportunity to advance spatial-temporal bamboo monitoring techniques and the ability to analyze the dynamics of land use and occupation of bamboos. The main objective of the project is to identify and distinguish a spectral signature specific to bamboo and to develop methods based in remote sensing and GIS application to detect regions of vegetation that are being affected by native bamboo, for both quantification and spatio-temporal analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colin Robertson

Student:

Clara Greig

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Discipline:

Environmental sciences

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University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Envisioning an International Community: Proletarian Arts in East Asia

This project explores the relation between internationalism and leftist literature in early twentieth century China and East Asia. A study of internationalism amongst leftist movements offers important insights into technologies and strategies for building coalitions across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries. I propose that examining workers organizations and their literary and cultural links to internationalism in early twentieth century China and East Asia help us better understand the wider implications of literary practices in modern literatures and societies. My main focus will be on May Day, a festival to celebrate workers around the world; Esperanto, an artificial language used to improve communication between workers; anti-war movements, where workers unite to protest against military aggression by national governments; and the gender
and reproductive politics of medical hygiene. In order to reconstruct these international networks of exchange this project examines yet unexplored archival sources from China and East Asia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Atsuko Sakaki

Student:

Edwin Michielsen

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Discipline:

Cultural studies

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University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The Neurobiology of Anorexia Nervosa: integrating cellular mechanisms into brain circuits

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by exaggerated weight loss, fear of gaining weight, self-depreciation. It mostly affects young women and is most likely have the highest death rate of any other mental illnesses and of many diseases in general. Anorexia is notoriously treatment refractory and the main explanation is the poor understanding of the dysfunctional brain function that underlies it. Until we understand the neurobiology of Anorexia, namely, which part of the brain and which mechanisms are affected, there is little hope to develop efficient therapeutic strategies to help those afflicted young women. Here, we propose a collaborative effort to understanding the neurobiology of Anorexia. Specifically, we suspect that estrogens -a female sex hormones that also regulate feeding by acting in the brain- may contribute to Anorexia. In preliminary findings, we started understanding the mechanisms by which estrogens regulate feeding in male and female rodents and here we will expand this finding into the brain circuitry of feeding.

 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Dumont

Student:

James Gardner Gregory

Partner:

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Compromis entre efficacité énergétique et protection aux pannes dans les « Software Defined Networks ».

Les réseaux de communications, notamment l’Internet, connaissent une importante croissance ses dernières années. Cette croissance s’accompagne d’une complexité grandissante ainsi que d’une consommation énergétique de plus en plus élevée. Les technologies actuellement déployées ne sont pas adaptées pour faciliter l’économie d’énergie sur des réseaux de grandes tailles. La technologie SDN nous offre un meilleur contrôle sur les équipements de réseaux et va nous permettre de développer des modèles pour l’économie d’énergie sur ces réseaux. Grâce à cette technologie, nous pouvons facilement décider des appareils à éteindre. Mais en réduisant le nombre de dispositifs actifs sur le réseau, nous abaissons sa tolérance à la panne.
Ce projet de recherche a pour but premièrement, d’étudier les différentes solutions actuelles de tolérance à la panne des réseaux et leurs comptabilités avec l’économie d’énergie et, ensuite, de proposer des solutions offrant un bon compromis entre les deux problèmes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brigitte Jaumard

Student:

Nicolas Huin

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Facilitators and Barriers to Knowledge Translation for Diabetes Management in Mexican Health Units

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a major cause of death worldwide (“WHO | The top 10 causes of death,” 2014). In Mexico, high incidence rates of diagnosed T2D (9.2%) and obesity (34.4%) pose a burden for the health system (Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP), 2012b). A national strategy for diabetes management, the Grupos de Ayuda Mutua (GAM), has been implemented, in response to rising T2D rates. Individual GAMs consist of peer-support and education and clinical attention by a health care team. The proposed study aims to investigate the barriers and facilitators to clinical guideline adherence from the perspectives of health professionals currently involved in GAMs. Findings from the proposed study could then be used by decision makers to inform policy and improve the current GAM model which could increase effectiveness for diabetes management and prevention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lucie Lévesque

Student:

Carla Teixeira

Partner:

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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