Prof. Matt Dobbs

in Astro-particle Physics
Physics Dept.
McGill University
Montréal, Canada

Our Group & Lab

Group Members



Faculty/Postdocs

  • Prof. Matt Dobbs <Matt.Dobbs at mcgill.ca> 
    • Webpage
    • Office: Rutherford Room 340, Tel: 514-398-6500
    • Lab: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Googlevoice Tel: 518-212-7184 This will reach Matt when traveling, as it is forwarded to his computer voice client and USA cell phone.
  • Dr. Keith Vanderlinde <keith.vanderlinde at mail.mcgill.ca> (Postdoc and CIfAR Junior Fellow)
    • Office:Rutherford Room 208, Tel: 514-398-1449
    • Lab: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
  • Dr. Kevin Bandura  <kbandura at gmail.com> (Postdoc)
    • Lab: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
  • Dr. Amy Bender (Postdoc and Astrophysics Fellow)
    • arriving in Sept 2011
  • Dr. Adam Gilbert <adamjohngilbert at gmail.com> (Elec. Engineering Postdoc)
    • Lab: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838

Professional

  • Graeme Smecher (Electical engineer through his awesome consultancy company Three Speed Logic)  <gsmecher at threespeedlogic.com >
    • topic: digital multiplexer readout system firmware, software & hardware.
    • Office: (778) 847-3864 (mobile)
    • shipping address: 523 Atlantic St., Vancouver BC, V6A 2J8
  • Jean-Francois Cliche (Electical Engineer Consultant) 
    • topic: CHIME correlator

Graduate Students

  • Francois Aubin (PhD Student) <francois.aubin at mail.mcgill.ca> 
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: Readout system and integration - EBEX
  • James Kennedy (MSc/Phd Student) <james.kennedy2 at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: APEX-SZ pipeline development and data analysis. CryoElectronics development.
  • Kevin MacDermid (MSc/PhD Student) <kevin.macdermid at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: Readout system - EBEX
  • Tijmen de Haan (MSc Student) <tijm6140 at gmail.com>
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: SPT cluster searches, digital feedback bolometers
  • Nicholas Lebel-Buchanan (MSc Student) <nicholas.lebel-buchanan atmail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: Hydrogen intensity mapping with cylindrical FFT telescopes.

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Mashbat Suzuki (U1 Student Workstudy Researcher, 2011-) <mashka888 at yahoo.com> 
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: Electronics rework & devel.
  • Bena Mero (U3 Student Workstudy Researcher, 2010-) <bena.mero at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231/229, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: Quality control and characterization of readout electronics.
  • Juan Mena Parra (U3 Student Workstudy Researcher, 2010-) <juan.menaparra at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Lab/office: Rutherford Room 231/229, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Project: Fabrication of cryogenic transformers and striplines.
  • Ivan Padilla <ivan.padilla at mail.mcgill.ca>, 
    • Office: Rutherford Room 229, Tel: 514-398-4838
    • Simulations of CHIME feeds and beam patterns

Past Members

  • Max Schmitt (U3 Student Researcher, 2010-) <max.schmitt at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: quality control test software for electronics
  • Dr. Peter Hyland <phyland at austincollege.edu    or    peter.o.hyland at gmail.com> (former Postdoc) 
  • Laurent Beauregard (NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2010) <laurent.beauregard at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: CHIME Simulations
  • Alina Chen He (U1 Student Researcher, 2010) <chen.he at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: CHIME Antenna Simulations
  • Peter Dahlberg (U2 Student Researcher, 2008-) <peter.dahlberg at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: Cryoelectronics hardware commissioning
  • Anton Tikhonov (Electronics Technician, part time) <anton.g.tikhonov at gmail.com>
  • Shahjahan Warraich <shahjahan.warraich at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: testing DfMux electronics and development of fridge controller electronics.
  • Eric Bissonnette (Electical Engineer Consultant) <eric.bissonnette at physics.mcgill.ca>
  • Catherine Laflamme (U1 NSERC, 2008) <catherine.laflamme at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • Project: Simulations of SPT, EBEX, Polarbear
  • Dr. Trevor Lanting (Postdoc, 2006) <trevor.lanting at mcgill.ca> 
    • APEX-SZ operation and data analysis.
  • Mohamed Najih (NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher)
    • <mohamed.najih at mail.mcgill.ca> or <mohamed.najih at gmail.com>
    • topic: building a cryogenic sub-kelvin cold stage for test cryostat. Software and testing of EBEX readout system electronics
  • Rajat Mukherjee (Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2006) <rajat.mukherjee at mcgill.ca> 
    • topic: doing simulations of Digital fMUX timestreams. 
  • Kurt Hartung (Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2006) <kurt.hartung at mail.mcgill.ca> 
    • topic: setting up lab computing system.
  • Kareem Amin (Undergrad Work-study Student, 2007) <kareem.amin at mail.mcgill.ca>
    • topic: software and assembly for cosmology readout system.
  • Claire Cohalan (NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher , 2006 + Senior UGrad Thesis from Saint Mary's University 2006/7) <ccohalan at hotmail.com>
    • atmosphere subtraction for APEX-SZ 
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