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The Three-Body Problem, and the Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn

We propose to produce a self-contained analysis and reduction of the equations of motion of the much-studied three body problem, making application to the Great Inequality (GI) of Jupiter and Saturn. The GI is a result of the mutual gravitational attraction between these two planets. Their orbits are very nearly in resonance (integer ratio of periods), which greatly amplifies the effect of the perturbation away from two independent (elliptic) Keplerian orbits. We propose to present the self-contained analysis using modern mathematical notation and physical concepts, which will serve to make the topic more accessible to modern audiences, including for undergraduate lectures. The problem also readily presents itself to asymptotic techniques, and we intend to complete a multiple-scales analysis which will elucidate how the GI arises. Certain terms in the asymptotic expansions have a low frequency (related to the near-integer ratio of periods), and this gives rise to a small denominator which corresponds to the large displacements that Jupiter and Saturn exhibit away from their mean motions. This discrepancy puzzled astronomers and mathematicians for much of the 18th century.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Coley

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Aerospace; Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Automated Open World Gameplay Exploration with Curiosity-driven Reinforcement Learning

Computer games are one of the main use cases for AMD graphics cards. To ensure the highest performance and quality possible, AMD has to test its graphics hardware and software on dozens of game titles and hundreds of system configurations. While some game titles provide built-in automated benchmarks, the majority of gameplay testing is manual and results in significant effort expended.
Open world games, in which players have the freedom to explore a large and expansive map in a non-linear fashion, have seen a growth in prominence in the gaming industry in recent years. Maximizing exploration in these worlds is beneficial for testing due to the wide diversity of gameplay scenes and scenarios the player may encounter. Accomplishing this through manual game-testing is a difficult and time-consuming process, so an automated solution to maximize exploration is ideal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

AMD Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

DNA Vaccine Development Platform

The recent covid pandemic has demonstrated the need to develop new rapid vaccine technology. Even the newest mRNA technology has limitations, including short duration of immunity, poor stability, and is relatively expensive.
Pegasus Biotech is in the process of developing a new class of DNA plasmids that are optimally designed for vaccine use, are low-cost, and highly stable. This proposal is for a project to complete the required research to benchmark Pegasus’ BPE rapid DNA vaccine plasmid technology against commercially available plasmid backbones.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jessica Livingston

Student:

Partner:

Pegasus Biotech Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Holland College

Program:

Accelerate

Study of new structural insulated panels from the structural and building envelope performance

To evaluate the overall performance of the newly developed Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) in flexure, including deflections, stiffness and ultimate capacity, an experimental program has recently been launched. The program includes transverse bending tests of a total of 18 full-sized SIPs with various configurations using a vacuum chamber. Pressure and deflections are measured during the tests and are used to determine the flexural responses of the panels. For the comprehensive test matrix, the experimental results will be analysed systematically. The significance of individual panel configuration parameter will be rigorously evaluated. The overall objective of the proposed research is to use the test results to support new panel product development and optimize the design of the new SIPs for higher strength, lower cost, ease of fabrication and lower embodied carbon.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Min Sun

Student:

Partner:

Nexii Building Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

The identity of PiS in relation to the European Union and integration

The purpose of this research project is to analyze and understand the relationship between the European Union and the Polish political party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwo??, PiS) in both the party’s present and past, with an emphasis on how the party has formed an identity in opposition to “European values” and creating a narrative of Polish history beneficial to its ideological arguments and beliefs, rubbing against a counter pan-European identity and integration. The expected outcome of this research is that PiS, throughout its history as a political organization, has connected itself with various national signifiers of Polish identity, such as the Catholic Church, as a way to enforce conformity in the Polish public and political sphere, leading to concerns over a weakness in Polish democracy. This, in turn, has led to a public conflict between PiS, who upholds its right to national sovereignty, and the European Union at large, which considers itself a defender against what it views as a member state slipping into authoritarianism.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ruben Zaiotti

Student:

Partner:

Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Modification des habitudes de consommation culturelle pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 : regard sur les publics des arts de la scène

Cette étude vise à mieux comprendre dans quelle mesure la fermeture prolongée des salles de spectacle pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 a eu des effets sur les habitudes de consommation culturelle des publics des arts de la scène. Alors que la reprise se fait tranquillement dans ces milieux, comment la période que nous venons de traverser a-t-elle modifiée les pratiques culturelles ? Il s’agit d’une seconde phase d’une recherche amorcée par le partenaire dès les premiers mois de la pandémie. Nous interrogerons donc des spectateurs réguliers des salles de spectacle montréalaises pour savoir dans quelle mesure la pandémie a changé à long terme la manière dont ils consomment la culture. Ainsi, les organismes culturels, par l’entremise de notre partenaire, seront en mesure de mieux adapter leurs stratégies pour la reprise des activités culturelles en salle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guillaume Sirois

Student:

Partner:

Synapse C

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Allergen Dispersion System Development in an Exposure Room

Patients can be exposed to airborne allergens in specially designed and controlled rooms for clinical studies. This research aims at improving the spatial homogeneity and temporal stability of airborne pollen concentration in a new exposure room over a period from 2 to 6 hours. Initially, the flow dynamics and particle dispersion will be also investigated using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) numerical techniques. Pollen (ragweed, birch, and grass) will be characterized experimentally using SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and particle settling-velocity measurements. Pollen size distribution and concentration in time and space will be measured when the new testing room is completed. The results will be used to develop better monitoring and controlling of allergen levels, so that consistent and stable concentrations may be maintained within a specified range during tests. This will allow better controlled exposure during allergy studies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edgar Matida

Student:

Partner:

Red Maple Trials

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Standardization of machine vision system communication on boom sprayer to enable spot application of farm input

In order to enable spot application of farm inputs such as pesticide and fertilizers using general purpose boom sprayers, the sensors that detect variation of the field (mainly machine vision systems) should be integrated to the boom sprayer using its standardized ISOBUS communication protocol. During this internship, a single board computer designed by the intern to read machine vision detection results and translate them to the ISOBUS communication protocol to control nozzles individually will be evaluated. One issue in ISOBUS protocol is that the bandwidth of data transfer is limited to 250kbps. Machine vision has the tendency to process big amount of data available in images, and the objective is to evaluate the ability of the algorithm designed and embedded in the single board computer to reduce the amount of data transferred so that no loss of information will occur when sending commands to open the nozzles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmad Al-Mallahi

Student:

Partner:

Hochschule Geisenheim University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Past and current Bitcoin adopters in Canada

The popularity of cryptocurrency has continued to increase over the past years and has raised serious policy concerns among Central Banks. Given the Bank of Canada’s role in maintaining financial stability, its 2019 Financial System Review identified the evolution of the cryptoasset market as one of six financial vulnerabilities that need to be monitored closely. Currently, in Canada Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are in the early stages of adoption, and the size of this market is not big enough to pose significant risks to the financial system. However, this may change quickly, and it is, therefore, essential to understanding better consumer adoption and usage of Bitcoin and its siblings over time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joann Jasiak;Henry M. Kim

Student:

Partner:

Bank of Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Manufacturing; Public administration

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Feature and Subgraph based Graph Neural Network (GNN) Explanations

This project will develop a graph neural network model that generates a prediction (e.g. detects anomalies) together with a set of explanations as to what the model based its prediction on. The model applies to dynamic graphs (such as wireless communication networks), and the explanations generated are either based on the properties of the graph nodes (e.g. parameters of network cells, such as traffic or power consumption) or the connectivity structure of the node (e.g. the state of the neighboring cells). Such explanations are crucial in identifying the source of anomalous behavior in complex systems with time-varying components. The development of these tools will greatly enhance human understanding of neural network behavior and make these AI models more trustworthy and reliable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guillaume Rabusseau

Student:

Partner:

Samsung Electronics Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Custom NLP pipeline for information extraction in a clinical setting

State-of-the-art natural language processing tools are rapidly improving in being able to identify real-world objects in texts (e.g. person, location, organization). However, the vocabularies and document structures used in a medical setting can vary from general language corpus from which the NLP models were trained; resulting in poor performance.
This project will fine-tune existing NLP models to perform highly on medical text documents in order to recognise and extract pertinent information about a patient (e.g. diseases, medical findings) in a structured format. Domain-specific guidelines will be developed, using subject matter experts, to annotate training corpora to aid the training of clinical language NLP models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Panayiotis Pappas;Vered Shwartz

Student:

Partner:

iClinic Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University; The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

ParticipACTION’s physical activity promotion standards: Enhancing inclusion and accessibility among equity-deserving groups

ParticipACTION is Canada’s leading physical activity promotion brand with a mission to support all Canadians to be more active. The goal of this research is to enhance the organization’s physical activity promotion practices for individuals who experience health inequities by identifying inclusive physical activity promotion strategies that currently exist, evaluating perceptions of ParticipACTION as a brand, and developing standards that can be used within physical activity promotion organizations to improve their inclusion and accessibility. This case study will primarily focus on enhancing the inclusion and accessibility of physical activity promotion practices for people with disabilities, and it will guide future work to support physical activity participation among ParticipACTION’s target equity-deserving groups including women and girls, as well as newcomers. Findings will contribute to ParticipACTION’s goal for all Canadians to feel they are reflected in the organization’s work, ultimately fostering greater physical activity participation, health, and wellbeing among the population.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca L. Bassett-Gunter

Student:

Partner:

ParticipACTION

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration)

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

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