The 2025 Local Organizing Committee is making available an exciting group of tours during the 2025 CAP Congress, as listed below. An online sign-up form for several of these tours is being developed and should be available shortly. For all other tours, sign-up forms will be available in the registration area.
- Canadian Light Source
- Fedoruk Centre (Saskatoon Cyclotron Facility)
- Observatory Tours
- Physics Demos and Artifacts
- Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre (SSSC) Tour
- STOR-M
Canadian Light Source
(click here for a detailed description of these CLS tours)
CLS Tour for Teachers (On-site sign-up)
Monday, June 9, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Max 30 guests
CLS Machine Tour
Tuesday, June 10, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Max 40 guests
CLS Beamlines Tour
Tuesday, June 10, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Max 40 guests
CLS Non-Technical Tours
Wednesday, June 11, 10:00-11:00 a.m.;
Thursday, June 12, 2:00-3:00 p.m.;
Friday, June 13, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Max 10 guests per tour
CLS Storage Ring Tour
Wednesday, June 11, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Max 10 guests
Expert-led Tour of CLS and REIXS Beamline
Thursday, June 12, 2:30-3:30 p.m. and
Friday, June 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Max 10 guests per tour
Fedoruk Centre (Saskatoon Cyclotron Facility)
Location: Saskatchewan Cyclotron Facility, 120 Maintenance Road, USask
Open dates
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The Facility is home to a 24 MeV cyclotron, used by Fedoruk Centre staff to support research and produce a wide range of isotopes. The Facility also manufactures the nuclear imaging agent fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), which is needed for PET-CT scans to diagnose cancer in patients at the Royal University Hospital (RUH) and other regional hospitals.
The Saskatchewan Cyclotron Facility is owned by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and operated by the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation.
What to Expect During Your Tour
Fedoruk Centre qualified technical staff will guide you through the facility, including the adjacent research labs and pre-clinical imaging suite. During the tour, you’ll learn about the Facility’s history, hear about research conducted by users, and have the opportunity to safely handle some of our specialized radiochemical and radioanalytical equipment.
Observatory Tours
Observatory tour time slots:
Monday, June 9th. 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Tuesday, June 10th. 8:30pm – 10:00pm
Tuesday, June 10th. 10:00pm – 11:30pm
Wednesday, June 11th. 8:30pm – 10:00pm
Wednesday, June 11th. 10:00pm-11:30pm
Observatory tour for teachers (On-site sign-up):
Monday, June 9th. 4:00pm – 5:30pm
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The observatory houses an almost 100-year-old, 3-meter-long refracting telescope with 6 inch diameter lens.
On clear nights, staff will point the telescope at seasonal objects in the sky. Planets, nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, and even comets can be viewed at the right times of the year.
On cloudy nights, staff present an educational slide show depicting objects in our solar system, galaxy, and beyond. The Observatory also features a small museum with a tour of our solar system. Exhibits also highlight the history and fundamentals of Astronomy, and there is even a display on black holes!
The day tours(tours during the daytime) are similar to the tours on cloudy nights, but there’s a chance to look at the sun using a solar scope, if the sun is overhead and visible.
Physics Demos and Artifacts
Meeting Location: Physics Building Main Lobby
Group size: 8-10
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The University of Saskatchewan Department of Physics and Engineering Physics has an impressive collection of physics demonstrations and historical artifacts. In-class physics demonstrations have been an integral part of the delivery of undergraduate physics courses at the U of S for generations and have grown into an extensive collection. Additionally, more than 300 research and teaching instruments of historical significance have been preserved and catalogued in the Physics Artifacts Collection. Many of these objects are from the early decades of the Physics Department’s history, beginning in 1910.
Come experience the wide variety of physics demonstrations used at the University of Saskatchewan and see the artifacts of the Physics Department’s rich history.
Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre (SSSC) Tour
This tour will focus on the material characterisation methods related to physics. Experts will guide you to several stations to explain the capabilities of the instruments and answer questions you may raise. The tour will take approximately 30 minutes.
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The Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre (SSSC) is a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Saskatchewan. It is a core centre that reports directly to the Vice President of Research, and therefore, there are no departmental limitations. Anyone can explore any science with state-of-the-art equipment and professional staff. Bring a problem, regardless of discipline or the nature of the material (hard or soft), and the SSSC will help you tackle it. The SSSC is equipped with approximately $18 M of scientific instruments (and growing) and is open to trained users 24/7. There are over 200 students and postdoctoral fellows and 100 PI using the SSSC in any one year. The SSSC has over 1000 alumni and over 2500 papers, presentations, and theses have been supported by the SSSC to date. Additionally, SSSC users have received over $20M in grants over the last 5 years.
Instrumentation contained within the SSSC includes:
– X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
– High-resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
– Raman Microscopy and Time-gated Raman spectroscopy
– Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy (ESR)
– Femto-second Lasers used for Fluorescence Lifetime (TCSPC), Up-Conversion,
2-photon Confocal Microscopy, Single Event Effect (SEE)
– Nanoindentation and Tribological Instrumentation
– Optical Profilometry using Coherent Scanning Interferometry (CSI)
– Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
– Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
STOR-M
First operated in 1987, the Saskatchewan TORus Modified (STOR-M) is currently the only tokamak in Canada! Developed at the University of Saskatchewan Plasma Physics Lab under the direction of Prof. Skarsgard and Prof. Hirose, STOR-M continues to contribute to humanity’s understanding of plasma physics and engineering, required to one day build nuclear fusion power plants!