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David has recently joined the group to help with the mechanical design and
manufacture of equipment. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from
Queen's in 1970. After working for several years with Dow Chemical and DuPont he
changed career paths and joined the family jewelry business here in Kingston.
After retiring in 2004 he found that "Freedom 55" is not all that it is made out
to be. With us, he has helped design a few components for the
SNO calibration
system, and is currently working on equipment components for
DEAP.
Maizie is the group secretary.
Slav Florian
(contact)
Slav is a professional engineer who came to Kingston in 1970 from the
former Czechoslovakia, and with the exception of a two-year teaching post at
the SUNY he remains an enthusiastic Kingstonian (and loving it). A 1974
B.Sc. graduate of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen's, he
cut his engineering teeth designing, developing and commissioning Rapid
Transit Systems like the Vancouver Skytrain. After a successful twelve-year
struggle as an independent Design Engineering and Project Management
consultant he enjoyed working on the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell development at
Kingston's Fuel Cell Technologies. Slav's first encounter with the Queen's
Particle Astrophysics dates back to 1994, when as an engineering consultant
he designed the Calibration Tubes for SNO. To prove that you are never too
old to learn, or are to stubborn to know better, focusing on Design,
Mechanics of Solids and Manufacturing, in 2005 he graduated with M.Eng. from
Queen's. Slav currently shares his engineering time between the
DEAP 3600
and SNO+ projects.
Rob joined the SNO Group in April 2007 as a Research Technologist
after working in the metal design/fabrication and the construction sectors
of industry.
Rob is helping to design, build and maintain experiments and equipment
apparatus for the SNO group, and currently is involved with
DEAP 1 and
DEAP 3600.
Steve is an electronics design and computer systems specialist. Hailing from
Windsor he moved to Kingston in 1992 to join Queen's Physics. His father claims
to have recognized Steve's talents when, at the age of 4, he removed the hinge
pins from the garden gate to escape the backyard. What career that would be
useful in was never discussed. He has worked on the
SNO project for the last few years, and
is available as a resource for future projects.
Phil graduated with an M.Sc (Eng) from Queen's in 1987, and aside from a
2-year venture into the real world working on sonar data acquisition and
image processing systems, he has been here in the physics department since
graduation. (Perhaps he stays because of Kingston's exceptional windsurfing
conditions and the flexible work hours afforded by the group.) He is a
programmer with areas of expertise in data acquisition, image display, and web
site hosting. He was involved in all aspects of the data acquisition system for
the SNO detector, and created the
SNO
Event Display software. Currently he is the group software coordinator and
maintains this and the SNO web sites.
During Chuck's many years with SNO he
has designed and built a large number of components for the
SNO detector. Recently, Chuck has been
placed in charge of the student machine shop and neutron source, although he is
still available as a valuable resource for the Astro-Particle group.
Peter has a PhD from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and has been with
group since 1976. He writes analysis software and maintains many of the
computer systems for the group, and is always eager to engage in a lively
debate. Currently he is working on
DEAP data aquisition,
SNO+ design, and
SNO analysis and decommissioning.
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