Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin B. Nasmith
Moose Jaw, SK
[email protected]

Education

• PhD, Mathematics. Royal Military College of Canada. 2018-2023

  • Thesis: Tight Projective 5-Designs and Exceptional Structures

  • Supervisors: Charles Paquette and Claude Tardif

• MA, Theological Studies. Briercrest Seminary. 2010-2017.

  • Thesis: Cognitive Idolatry and the Trinity in Paul K. Moser's Philosophy

  • Supervisor: David Guretzki

• MSc, Physics. Royal Military College of Canada. 2007-2008

  • Thesis: Extending the London theory to include steady-state electric fields in superconductivity

  • Supervisor: Napoleon Gauthier

• BSc, Combined Honours in Mathematics and Physics. Royal Military College of Canada. 2003-2007

Employment

• Apr 2023 -- Present: Chief Standards Officer, 2 Canadian Forces Flight Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
• Apr 2022 -- Mar 2023: Deputy Chief Standards Officer, 2 Canadian Forces Flight Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
• Aug 2020 -- Mar 2022: Qualified Flying Instructor on the CT-156 Harvard II, 2 Canadian Forces Flight Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
• Aug 2017 -- Aug 2020: Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Space Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON.
• Aug 2016 -- Jul 2017: Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Space Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON.
• Aug 2012 -- Aug 2016: Qualified Flying Instructor on the CT-156 Harvard II, 2 Canadian Forces Flight Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
• Sep 2008 -- July 2012: Canadian Forces pilot training, including the Fighter Pilot Lead-In Training, Fighter Pilot Course, and Harvard II Flight Instructor Course.

Awards

• 2017: Graduate Excellence Award in Research, Briercrest Seminary.

• 2009: Governor General's Academic Medal -- Gold, Royal Military College of Canada.

Research Writing

• "Rational Angle Sets and Tight t-Designs." ArXiv e-print :2302.01484v1
• "Octonions and the two strictly projective tight 5-designs." Algebraic Combinatorics 5, no. 3 (2022): 401-411.
• with Paul K. Moser. "Towards a Christian Philosophy of the Cross." The Expository Times 130, no. 1 (2018): 1-12.
• "Classical Electrodynamics and Absolute Simultaneity." ArXiv e-print 1306.4897.
• with N. Gauthier. “Electric Fields in Steady-State Superconductivity according to London Theory.” American Journal of Physics 76 (9): 872-877.

Books

• Moser, Paul K., and Benjamin Nasmith, eds. Atonement and Experience: Writings of James Denney. Pickwick, 2022.
• Moser, Paul K., and Benjamin Nasmith, eds. God of Holy Love: Essays of Peter Taylor Forsyth. Pickwick, 2019.
• Moser, Paul K., and Benjamin Nasmith, eds. God in Experience: Essays of Hugh Ross Mackintosh. Pickwick, 2018.

Teaching

The following courses were taught at the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON.

• First Year Physics Laboratory (2016-2020): a practical introduction to laboratory work.
• Physics of the Space Environment (2016-2017): a senior undergraduate lecture course in space science.
• Classical Mechanics, (2017-2020), a senior undergraduate lecture course in physics.
• Battlefield Surveillance and Target Acquisition (Optics) (2017-2019): a professional development course supporting programs in the Applied Military Science department.
• Review of College Algebra (2018-2019): a preparatory course within the Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year program at RMC.
• Modern Physics (2018): a second year undergraduate lecture course.
• Quantum Mechanics (2019), a senior undergraduate lecture course in physics.
• Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2020), a senior undergraduate lecture course in physics.

Professional Certifications

• RCAF Pilot
• Instrument Check Pilot (RCAF)
• A Category Qualified Flying Instructor (CT-156)