Cowan Prize and Commitee

Dr Greg Siemens – Department of Civil Engineering

Dr Jill Scott, RMC Principal and Dr Malardier-Jugroot, VP Research would like to take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to Dr Greg Siemens public lecture – the winner of the 2024 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. The title of Dr Siemens lecture will be “ Climate Geotechnics: Learning from the past for a resilient future.”

November 28th 2024, SSM, 1900 hrs.

Webinar ID: 971 0005 9695 https://zoom.us/j/97100059695

Dr Holly Ann Garnett – Department of Political Science and Economics

The Interim Principal, Dr. Phil Bates and the VP Research, Dr. Malardier-Jugroot, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given by Dr. Holly Ann Garnett – the winner of the 2023 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. The title of Dr. Garnett’s talk will be “Can Money Buy Elections? Campaign Finance in Canadian Elections”. The support of the RMC Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Dr Kristine Spekkens – Department of Physics and Space Science

The Interim Principal, Dr. Phil Bates and the VP Research, Dr. Malardier-Jugroot, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given by Dr. Kristine Spekkens – the winner of the 2022 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. The title of Dr. Spekkens’ talk will be “Galaxies, Cosmology and the Radio Telescope Revolution” The support of the RMC Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Zoom Meeting ID: 864 9401 8848

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Aboelmagd Noureldin – Electrical and Computer Engineering

On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 07:00 PM, Dr. Aboelmagd Noureldin will present through zoom the public lecture for the Cowan Prize for excellence in Research, entitled: Position, Location and Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: Research, Innovation and Future Vision. The Principal and the Vice-Principal Research would like to invite all members of the RMC community to join Dr. Aboelmagd Noureldin in this celebration of his achievements. The support of the RMC Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Zoom Meeting ID: 992 9172 0982 / Passcode: 776185 

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Paul Chan – Chemistry And Chemical Engineering

The Principal, Dr. Kowal and the VP Research, Dr. Malardier-Jugroot, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given by Dr. Paul Chan – the winner of the 2020 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. The title of Dr. Chan’s talk will be “CANDU Fuel: Center of the Universe.” The support of the RMC Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Gregg Wade – Physics

The Principal, Dr. Kowal, the VP Research, Dr. Heffernan, and the AVP Research Dr. Hennessey, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, 25 November 2019 in Currie Hall by Dr. Gregg A. Wade – the winner of the 2019 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. The title of Dr. Wade’s talk will be “Serendipity, Souls, and The Scientific Enterprise.” All are welcome. The support of the RMC Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Barbara Zeeb – Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

The Principal, Dr. Kowal, and the VP Research, Dr. Heffernan, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, 19 November 2018 in Currie Hall by Dr. Barbara Zeeb – the winner of the 2018 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research.  The title of Dr. Zeeb’s talk will be “The Phyte Club: Using Plants to assist with the Remediation of Contaminated Sites.”  All are welcome.  The support of the RMC Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

Christian Leuprecht – Political Science

Wednesday, October 11

Public lecture by the recipient for 2017 of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research
Dr. Christian Leuprecht

Demographics of Defence: Why Canada needs its military colleges

6:30 for 7:00
at the Senior Staff Mess of the Royal Military College

With support of the RMC Foundation
In concert with the reception for the CDAI Graduate Student Symposium, 11-12 Oct 

 Download 2017 poster (6.18 Mb)

Richard John Bathurst – Civil Engineering and Claude Tardif – Mathematics and Computer Science

Tuesday 8 November 2016

7:00 p.m. in Currie Hall

The Principal, Dr. Kowal, and the VP Research, Dr. Heffernan, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 November 2016 in Currie Hall by Drs. Richard Bathurst and Claude Tardif – the winners of the 2016 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. The title of Dr. Tardif’s talk will be “Mathematics and Electoral Reform” and the title of Dr. Bathurst’s talk will be “Adventures with Ziggurats, Plastic walls, Earthquakes, Polar bears and Tsunamis.”

Please see the attached poster and forward to all your friends. Parking on the parade square is approved for this event.

The prize was awarded jointly this year to Dr. Richard Bathurst and to Dr. Claude Tardif, who will each give a lecture that evening.
There will be refreshments to follow.
With support of the RMC Foundation.

Yahia Antar - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tuesday, 5 April 2016 - The Principal, Dr. Kowal, and the VP Research, Dr. Heffernan, take great pleasure in inviting all faculty, staff, students and friends of RMC to a public lecture to be given at 1900 hrs on Tuesday, 5 April 2016  in Currie Hall by Dr. Yahia Antar of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – the winner of the 2015 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research.  The title of the talk will be “Waves Toward the Future – How Antennas are Changing Our Lives.”

Dr. Yahia Antar
Canada Research Chair in Electromagnetic Engineering

Contact: John de Boer/Assistant Professor
(613) 541-6000 ext. 6463
e-mail: John.deBoer@rmc-cmr.ca

 Download 2015 poster (.pdf 376 Kb)