STATEMENT OF SID SENADHEERA ABOUT HIS ILLEGITIMATE REMOVAL FROM RYERSON UNIVERSITY

This is a description of my personal experience to illustrate what I believe is an injustice. Events led to the nonrenewal of my research scholarship [1] in a nanotechnology group at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. The reasons were, unjust and arbitrary. In addition, I believe they were, as charged by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, discriminatory. Discriminatory on the grounds that Ryerson university did not offer me reasonable accommodation [2] as an individual afflicted with bipolar illness [3]. I requested change of work hours from 12pm to 8pm instead of 9am to 5pm, which was denied by my supervisor. Just after the firing, to cover up many of the impulsive judgments made by the Dean and my supervisors at Ryerson, they organized emergency evacuation drills to make me appear violent and dangerous. They wanted to show that I will come in like the psychotic student at the Virginia Tech and use fire arms to retaliate. This was absolutely ludicrous to me as an individual that strongly followed Gandhi and Thoreaus non-violent philosophy in activism. Before coming to Ryerson, I have been working in academic research for more than six years. In 2006 I became a successful researcher at Caltech (California Institute of Technology) and worked as a Staff Scientist [4] for their astrophysics group. Once, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Richard Feynman [at JPL] were members of this same elite research group that has the highest number of Physics Nobel Laureates per capita. In 2008, to join my wife to be (from Singapore), the quickest practical approach was to sponsor her for permanent residency in Canada since I am a Canadian citizen [5]. While looking for a job in Canada, I met an Electrical Engineering Professor and he directed me to a Nanotechnology Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Ryerson University. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis [6], finished all coursework [7] and wrote closer to ten manuscripts as the first author [8]. That is in 1.5 years, before completing the residency period of two years. Only one of them was published. Then my supervisor asked me to remove the Quantum Mechanics from the papers and the Ph.D. dissertation because he did not understand it and my co-supervisor did not understand it. My supervisor wanted a classical analysis, since he is a Mechanical Engineer who had not studied Quantum Mechanics deeply enough to understand my work. I perceived this situation as blatant injustice against me by my supervisors Dr. Krishnan Venkatakrishnan and his wife Dr. Bo Tan. I sent several email messages to convince the department that in a physical problem that arises through quantum mechanical phenomena (such as LS coupling, quantum tunneling etc.) there are no parallel explanations given by classical physics [9]. This Professor prohibited me from introducing my progressive thinking to anybody in his research group. When students came to me for help, I was criticized for giving it. A postdoctoral scholar in the group once said it is impossible to move a brick in Nanotechnology without quantum mechanics. I had a full Scholarship from Ryerson University. I noticed in Fall 2009 it has not been renewed. On 26th of Sept. 2009 two police officers came to my home. They were very courteous. They said I was fired from the Ryerson research program. I asked why? They told me that the Dean said I "falsified (by omitting) information" on my application. Following month the Dean, Professor Maurice Yeates and the Registrar of Graduate Studies, Ms. Cathy Faye accused me of academic misconduct for not mentioning I had studied astrophysics in the Ryerson application. I have studied Fine Arts as well at a well known private Institute in Chicago, which I did not mention in the application. I studied astrophysics [10] from 2000 2002, while my application to Ryerson began from 2003. Still it had no relation at all to the Nanotechnology program to which I was applying similar to the Fine Arts education.

I asked, how I could be fired for being modest about my qualifications? I could understand being fired for exaggerating my qualifications. The Dean and my Supervisor knew I was in astrophysics by May/2008 since I told them when it was appropriate. Why did I get fired all of a sudden in Sept./2009? Some of the facts underlying this firing had a lot to do with Quantum Mechanics as well. It is impossible to carry out an indepth study of nanotechnology without quantum mechanics, which is one of the most essential theoretical tools. I put my supervisors in a very uneasy situation by exposing a weakness. The same theoretical work that made much controversy with my supervisor and enabled him to justify my firing in Chapters 7 and 8 of the PhD thesis [6] are being published in a book - "Perspectives of Engineering Physics" by ACME learning Publishers, New Delhi, India by two Physics Professors. The Toronto Police took me handcuffed for questioning. The first thing the Detective asked me during the interrogation process was, "Your Dean said you tried to brainwash thousands of students. How do you respond to that?" They issued a court order saying I could not go anywhere near Ryerson University and could not talk to any students or Faculty. This case is now being addressed by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario with Ryerson University named as the respondent.

Sid Senadheera
WEBSITES : Research (formal website): http://sidath.senadheera.net/papers.html sid.senadheera@gmail.com

References
[1] Ph.D. Program admissibility and Scholoarship [2] Legal definition of reasonable accommodation [3] [ introduction] [ social impact ] [ Bipolar II-Illness which I have ]. [4] This is a position renewable every three years under a NAFTA employee visa and funded by a NSF grant (NSF- National Science Foundation in the US). [5] Naturalized Canadian citizen [6] Ph.D. Thesis (in the draft form) : Nanotechnology and quantized fields specialized within Mechanical Engineering.... http://sidath.senadheera.net/thesis.pdf [7] All coursework and grades (Unofficial Transcript) [8] The first paper with classical physics arguments was published, while the rest remained as manuscripts. Sid Senadheera, Bo Tan, and Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Critical Time to Nucleation: Graphite and Silicon Nanoparticle Generation by Laser Ablation, Journal of Nanotechnology, vol. 2009, Article ID 590763, 6 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/590763 Following manuscripts have been written by me as the first author along with my supervisors names : Sid Senadheera1, Bo Tan 2 (co-supervisor), Krishnan Venketakrishnan1 (supervisor) Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada

1- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2- Department of Aerospace Engineering [9] Classical mechanics vs. quantum mechanics- (excerpt from text) (ISBN-13: 9780521829526 | ISBN-10: 0521829526), Cambridge University Press Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics: For Solid State Electronics and Optics C. L. Tang [10] *Astrophysics research (in-VLBI) at University of Toronto and at Caltech * Astrophysics research : In radio astrophysics (Using VLA)

RESEARCH AT RYERSON UNIVERSITY IN NANOTECHNOLOGY written as manuscripts Research website : http://sidath.senadheera.net/papers.html *From the directory of open access journals : http://pluto.lub.lu.se/doaj?func=abstract&id=458934&recNo=2&toc=1 *A very modest analysis of an optoelectronics project on MZI switches : http://sidath.senadheera.net/mzi.pdf * Magnetic Field Controlled Nanofiber Generation for Nanoelectronic Applications http://sidath.senadheera.net/Magnetization-paper.pdf * "Analysis of quantization in nanoparticles induced by fields produced by femtosecond laser ablation." http://sidath.senadheera.net/physics.problem2.pdf Parts of the above manuscript (Ch 8 of th PhD thesis) are being published in a book "Perspectives of Engineering Physics" by ACME learning Publishers, New Delhi, India. *"Critical time" to nucleation after phase transition: Graphite and Silicon Nanoparticle Generation by Laser Ablation http://sidath.senadheera.net/RZ-theory..pdf *Shielding nano-electronic devices from unwanted electromagnetic radiation by using 3D nanofiber structure http://sidath.senadheera.net/EMI.pdf * From a talk (linked) : A four-Nanoparticle system that can emulate any circuit, with 1/1000000000 the original size and increase it's speed by 1000X to 100,000X .....http://sidath.senadheera.net/4-NP-loopb.pdf * Analysis of transmission current by Quantum Tunelling (Part_1) http://sidath.senadheera.net/3D-Tunneling.pdf * Ananlysis of transmission current by Quantum Tunelling (Part_2) http://sidath.senadheera.net/Transmission-of-current.pdf *Emission-enhancement of Al and Si nanofibers using dual pulses with varying wavelengths http://sidath.senadheera.net/double-pulse-opexstyle_.pdf "increasing nanowire growth using double pulses" * Electro-mechanical properties and cutting edge devices from Carbon Nanotubes - REVIEW PAPER [40pages] http://sidath.senadheera.net/CNT.pdf First Experimental Proof of RaizerZeldovich Theorem (or RZ-Theory) -- by Sid Senadheera * Slides from a talk from the above paper