To pursue graduate studies successfully, students need guidance from dedicated faculty as well as a
supportive community that will help them focus on their research and navigate their way to academic success. Nipissing offers both: our professors regularly win external grants and recognition, and our campus has cultivated a reputation for being friendly and accessible.
Workshops and conferences, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics on an annual basis, feature presentations by leading researchers from Canada and abroad, and are attended by graduate students from other universities. Throughout the year, the Department runs a research seminar where talks are often given by visiting scholars. Thus our graduate students have a unique opportunity to discuss research projects with speakers and their peers, and establish valuable international contacts.
At Nipissing, our high faculty-to-student ratio means more individual attention for graduate students and their research. Students are carefully matched with professors with compatible interests, and encouraged to pursue their passions in their research. Our annual Graduate Research Conference offers students to share their research with peers, and paid positions as research and teaching assistants allow them to gain experience in the academic world.
Students and visitors alike often comment on how fortunate Nipissing students are to study surrounded by such a beautiful natural landscape. For graduate students, such an environment is not only inspiring but offers fewer distractions than you might find in a larger centre—a fact that lends itself to finding the focus you need to achieve your research goals.
Nipissing Computational Physics Laboratory (NCPL)
The general focus of the NCPL is to develop, implement and apply advanced numerical algorithms and computational methodologies for the solution of problems arising from nanophotonics for nanotechnology and nanomedicine applications. The NCPL is an advanced physics lab intended for junior and senior level students in science and engineering. We are primarily engaged with the design of algorithms for nanoscale and multiphysics problems described by 3D fully coupled partial differential equations. Our lab is equipped with high performance computational server and several workstations with multiple operating system environments, and running a number of computational and simulation programs including COMSOL Multiphysics, MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, Numerical Recipes, the Electronic Workbench, and others. Click here for more information about the NCPL.
Graduate Student Centre - R229
Nipissing University graduate students have access to an interdisciplinary office facility designed to be a central place for graduate students to study and interact with each other. In addition, the Graduate Student Centre is equipped with a telephone, wireless and hardwired internet, and access to shared printing.
All graduate students are eligible for access to the Graduate Student Centre.
There are 30 individual study carrels along the perimeter of the room that are assigned to individual students, or two who request to share. Assignments of designated spaces will be on a first come first serve basis. Contact the Graduate Studies Office at gradstudies.office@nipissingu.ca or in A205 to request a study carrel and key. Students are required to pay a $25.00 deposit for a key in the Finance office prior to receiving their key.
