Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Gould!
2018-06-09
This news post is a bit late but for good reason!
First, let me start by congratulating Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Gould on successfully defending her PhD thesis "New Views on the Cosmological Big Bang", last September.
Beth's graduation cake, highlighting pictures from her PhD thesis (photo credit: Joel Gould)
Beth's thesis focused on innovative ways in which physics could be different as we approach big bang. Could it be that Quantum Mechanics is "out of equilibrium", or that spacetime really has one more or less dimension? Or, could it be that history literally repeats itself, as our future is the same as our past (what we call periodic time cosmology)? In fact, one of Beth's papers was even cited by the late great Stephen Hawking, in his final publication.
Beth, along with Auzaud and me, posing with the said cake! (photo credit: Joel Gould)
Beth is my 7th graduating PhD student. After a short postdoc at the University of Southampton this year, Beth will be joining the brand new Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, at Queen's University as a postdoctoral fellow, in September 2018.
And here is that last bit of good news that came out this week:
Beth's graduation cake, highlighting pictures from her PhD thesis (photo credit: Joel Gould)
Beth's thesis focused on innovative ways in which physics could be different as we approach big bang. Could it be that Quantum Mechanics is "out of equilibrium", or that spacetime really has one more or less dimension? Or, could it be that history literally repeats itself, as our future is the same as our past (what we call periodic time cosmology)? In fact, one of Beth's papers was even cited by the late great Stephen Hawking, in his final publication.
Beth, along with Auzaud and me, posing with the said cake! (photo credit: Joel Gould)
Beth is my 7th graduating PhD student. After a short postdoc at the University of Southampton this year, Beth will be joining the brand new Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, at Queen's University as a postdoctoral fellow, in September 2018.
And here is that last bit of good news that came out this week: