{"id":3267,"date":"2017-03-09T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caph-02.eproofs.ca\/herzbergf\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:52:01","slug":"herzbergf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cap.ca\/fr\/congres-de-lacp\/herzbergf\/","title":{"rendered":"Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>En 2000, le conseil de l&#8217;ACP a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de remplacer par une conf\u00e9rence publique la conf\u00e9rence pl\u00e9ni\u00e8re du dimanche, \u00e0 son congr\u00e8s annuel. On l&#8217;a appel\u00e9e \u00ab Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg \u00bb en l&#8217;honneur du Dr Gerhard Herzberg, laur\u00e9at du prix Nobel et membre de longue date de l&#8217;ACP, en reconnaissance de son d\u00e9sir avou\u00e9 de sensibiliser aux sciences le public, en particulier les jeunes, et de les leur faire appr\u00e9cier. L&#8217;aide au conf\u00e9rencier Herzberg est assur\u00e9e, en partie, par un legs du Dr Herzberg.<\/p>\n<p>La conf\u00e9rence inaugurale s&#8217;est tenue au Unicentre Auditorium de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de Victoria, le dimanche 17 juin 2001, \u00e0 compter de 19 h, sous le titre \u00ab Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe \u00bb. Le Dr Kip Thorne, de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Caltech, l&#8217;a prononc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>Veuillez trouver ci-apr\u00e8s la liste d\u00e9taill\u00e9e des conf\u00e9renciers (du plus r\u00e9cent au plus ancien), leurs notices biographiques ainsi qu&#8217;un r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de leurs propos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2025\u00a0Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>University of Saskatchewan, lundi, 9 juin, 2025, 19h45<br \/>\n(la conf\u00e9rence a \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9e en anglais seulement)<\/p>\n<h3>SHOHINI GHOSE, Wilfrid Laurier University<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Se pr\u00e9parer \u00e0 Quantum 2.0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pas d&#8217;enregistrement disponible<\/p>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Des lasers \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lectronique en passant par les horloges atomiques, la science quantique a d\u00e9j\u00e0 transform\u00e9 nos vies. Aujourd\u2019hui, les technologies \u00e9mergentes telles que les ordinateurs, les capteurs et les communications quantiques offrent la promesse d\u2019une deuxi\u00e8me r\u00e9volution quantique. Qu\u2019est-ce qui rend le traitement quantique de l\u2019information si puissant ? Comment d\u00e9passer le battage m\u00e9diatique pour \u00e9valuer honn\u00eatement son potentiel ? \u00cates-vous pr\u00eat \u00e0 participer \u00e0 Quantum 2.0 ? D\u00e9couvrez-en plus dans cette conf\u00e9rence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9renci\u00e8re<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shohini Ghose est professeure de physique, et titulaire de la Chaire du CRSNG pour les femmes en sciences et en g\u00e9nie \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Wilfrid Laurier, et Directrice de la technologie du Quantum Algorithms Institute. Ses recherches portent sur des sujets fondamentaux de la science de l\u2019information quantique ainsi que sur le d\u00e9veloppement d\u2019applications concr\u00e8tes des technologies quantiques avec des partenaires industriels. Elle est membre du Conseil consultatif quantique du Canada pour la Strat\u00e9gie nationale quantique et a si\u00e9g\u00e9 au Conseil consultatif du Programme international des sciences fondamentales de l\u2019UNESCO. Dre Ghose est la Directrice fondatrice du Laurier Centre for Women in Science, reconnu \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle nationale, et elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 Pr\u00e9sidente (2019-20) de l\u2019Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes. Elle a notamment re\u00e7u une bourse TED Senior Fellowship et a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9e au Coll\u00e8ge de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 royale du Canada, et ses conf\u00e9rences et vid\u00e9os en ligne ont \u00e9t\u00e9 visionn\u00e9es plus de 8 millions de fois. Son r\u00e9cent livre, Her Space, Her Time, a remport\u00e9 le prix du livre 2023 d\u00e9cern\u00e9 par Science Writers and Communicators of Canada. Dre Ghose a r\u00e9cemment fond\u00e9 le Centre for Responsible Quantum Innovation and Technologies (CRQIT) avec des partenaires du monde universitaire et de l\u2019industrie de tout le Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2024 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>Western University, lundi 27 mai 2024, 19h30<\/p>\n<h3>JOHN E. MOORES, Agence spatiale canadienne et Universit\u00e9 de York<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Our Celestial Rosetta Stone:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Exploring our Family of Planets to Understand Processes Across the Cosmos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pas d&#8217;enregistrement disponible<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past 30 years, telescopes in space and on the ground have discovered thousands of extrasolar planets, providing us with a representative sample of the worlds that orbit other stars in our galaxy for the first time. However, our knowledge of these planets is limited to no more than a few datapoints for each one by the vast distances that separates us. Yet, though these places live mainly in our mind\u2019s eye, we can construct remarkably accurate pictures of the processes which dominate their environments. We can do this because of our understanding of planetary processes that we have gained through 62 years of robotic solar system exploration. This hard-won experience, like a celestial Rosetta Stone, allows us to translate our sparse information about the exoplanetary realm into the language of our familiar solar family of planets. However, unlike the famous artifact, we can still write new chapters to the translation. Exoplanets tell us about the full diversity of worlds and their circumstances while robotic space exploration missions consider a single representative world from that set up close. Thus, exoplanetary astronomy and solar system exploration are disciplines in dialogue. By deeply interrogating our nearest neighbors we can expand our understanding of planets everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John E Moores is the York Research Chair in Space Exploration, the Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency and the Director of the Technologies for Exo\/Planetary Science NSERC CREATE. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and the recipient of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute\u2019s 2022 McCurdy Award. John holds a B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Planetary Science. An author on nearly 80 peer-reviewed publications in planetary science, John has also been a member of five NASA and ESA-led space mission teams and led the pre-selection development of the FROST Lyman-alpha imager manifested on the Canadian Lunar Rover currently in development, the first planetary exploration mission led by Canada. The contributions of his research group to robotic space exploration have been recognized with sixteen NASA group achievement awards. His first popular science book,\u00a0<em>Daydreaming in the Solar System<\/em>, co-authored with colleague Jesse Rogerson, will be published by the MIT Press in October.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2023 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>Universit\u00e9 du Nouveau-Brunswick, lundi 19 juin 2023, 19h30<\/p>\n<h3>MARK KASEVICH, <strong>Stanford University<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Gravitational Physics with Atom Interferometry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No recording available<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The notion of wave-particle duality is fundamental in the quantum mechanical description of matter.\u00a0 This duality asserts that matter sometimes behaves like a particle and sometimes behaves like a wave, called de Broglie waves.\u00a0 Recent advances in methods to coherently manipulate de Broglie waves of atoms have enabled a new generation of atom interferometers with unique capability to address outstanding fundamental science challenges.\u00a0\u00a0 The method has emerged as a tool capable of addressing a diverse set of questions in gravitational physics and quantum physics, and as a technology for advanced sensors for navigation and for measurement of the Earth\u2019s gravitational field.\u00a0 We will discuss an experiment consisting of a tungsten mass and atomic wave packets separated by about 25cm.\u00a0 In this experiment, the relative phase of the interfering wave packets is shown to depend on the gravitational interaction in a way which is analogous to the so-called Aharonov-Bohm effect for charged particles.\u00a0 We will describe the relevance of these results to observation of quantum superpositions of Newtonian gravitational fields.\u00a0\u00a0 Future science and technology applications will also be described, including the detection of dark matter, detection of gravitational waves at frequencies below 1 Hz and satellite geodesy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Kasevich is a Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. He received his B.A. degree (1985) in Physics from Dartmouth College, a B.A. (1987) in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and his Ph.D. (1992) in Applied Physics from Stanford University. He joined the Stanford Physics Department faculty in 1992. From 1997-2002, he was a member of the Yale Physics Department faculty. He returned to Stanford in 2002. His current research interests are centred on the development of quantum sensors of rotation and acceleration based on cold atoms, the application of these sensors to tests of General Relativity, the investigation of many-body quantum effects in Bose condensed vapours, the investigation of quantum-enhanced imaging and measurement methods, and investigation of ultra-fast laser-induced phenomena. He co-founded AOSense, Inc. (2004) and serves as the company\u2019s Consulting Chief Scientist.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2022 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2022 McMaster University, Lundi 6 juin 2022, 19 h 30 HAE<\/p>\n<h3>DONNA STRICKLAND, University of Waterloo<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Generating High-Intensity, Ultra-short Optical Pulses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aucun enregistrement disponible<\/p>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9\u00a0 (disponible en anglais seulement)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After G\u00e9rard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter. We developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions, led to the development of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9renci\u00e8re\u00a0 (disponible en anglais seulement)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018<br \/>\nfor developing chirped pulse amplification with G\u00e9rard Mourou, her Ph.D. supervisor at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland earned a B.Eng. from McMaster University and a Ph.D. in optics from the<br \/>\nThe University of Rochester. Strickland was a research associate at the National Research<br \/>\nCouncil Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member<br \/>\nof technical staff at Princeton University. In 1997, she joined the University of<br \/>\nWaterloo, where her ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for<br \/>\nnonlinear optics investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland served as the president of Optica in 2013 and is a fellow of Optica, SPIE,<br \/>\nthe Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society. She is an honorary fellow of the<br \/>\nCanadian Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Physics, an international member<br \/>\nof the US National Academy of Science and member of the Pontifical Scientific<br \/>\nAcademy. Strickland was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2021Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>Congr\u00e8s virtuel, dimanche 6 juin 2021, 18 h 00 HAE, Plate-forme virtuelle du congr\u00e8s Underline<\/p>\n<h3>FRANK WILCZEK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Quanta of the Third Kind: Anyons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021 CAP Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture: &quot;Quanta of the Third Kind: Anyons\u201d,  by Dr. Frank Wilczek\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6d9wz_97yQ?start=148&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9\u00a0 (disponible en anglais seulement)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For many years physicists divided the world of quantum particles into two kingdoms \u2013 bosons and fermions. Anyons are particles with a sort of memory, that fall outside those kingdoms. In recent decades theorists have produced an enormous literature about the possible occurrence and properties of anyons. It is only in the last few months, however, that clear experimental confirmation has appeared. I will review the theoretical background and describe the breakthrough experiments. Anyons will be central in a new and promising method of information processing: topological quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9rencier\u00a0 \u00a0(disponible en anglais seulement)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Frank has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials.\u00a0 His current theoretical research includes work on Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Each has become a major focus of research world-wide.\u00a0 In recent years Frank has become fascinated with prospects for expanding perception (especially color perception) through technology. He is developing hardware and software tools for this.\u00a0 Frank has authored several well-known books and writes a monthly &#8220;Wilczek&#8217;s Universe&#8221; feature for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, \u201cFundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality\u201d, distils the most profound and mind-expanding insights of modern science, and explores their implications for questions that are usually considered philosophical or even theological.\u00a0 Early reviews have been enthusiastic, including this from the New York Times:\u00a0 <em>\u201cWhether or not you\u2019re accustomed reading physics for pleasure, the Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek\u2019s *Fundamentals* might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year &#8230; Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable . . .\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wilczek received a B.S. at the University of Chicago in 1970, and a PhD in physics at Princeton University in 1974. Currently he is the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at the MIT; Founding Director of the T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University; and Professor at Stockholm University.<\/p>\n<p>He has been married to Betsy Devine since 1973. They have two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2020 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>Le congr\u00e8s en personne de 2020 a \u00e9t\u00e9 annul\u00e9 en mars 2020 en raison de la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19. La conf\u00e9rence publique Herzberg 2020 de Donna Strickland a \u00e9t\u00e9 report\u00e9e jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 ce que le Congr\u00e8s reprenne son format en personne. Nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 en mesure d&#8217;offrir certains autres \u00e9l\u00e9ments du programme du Congr\u00e8s 2020 de mani\u00e8re virtuelle via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2019 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2019 Simon Fraser University, lundi 3 juin 2018,\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0 19 h 30<\/p>\n<h3>MANU PRAKASH, Stanford University<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00ab\u00a0La science frugale \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re de la curiosit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2019 Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture: Frugal Science in the Age of Curiosity by Dr. Manu Prakash\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FnTI2oCm1CA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La science est confront\u00e9e au d\u00e9fi de l\u2019accessibilit\u00e9. Bien que l\u2019information et la connaissance deviennent rapidement disponibles \u00e0 tout dans le monde, l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de la science est consid\u00e9rablement limit\u00e9e. Une approche visant \u00e0 r\u00e9soudre ce d\u00e9fi est la d\u00e9mocratisation de l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des outils scientifiques. Manu Prakash\u00a0croit que cela peut \u00eatre atteint par le biais de la \u00ab\u00a0science frugale\u00a0\u00bb; une philosophie qui sous-tend \u00e0 la conception, au d\u00e9veloppement et au d\u00e9ploiement d\u2019outils scientifiques \u00e0 la fois extr\u00eamement abordables et puissants pour les masses. En utilisant des exemples provenant de son propre travail (le Foldscope\u00a0: un microscope en origami \u00e0 un dollar et le Paperfuge\u00a0: une centrifugeuse \u00e0 haute vitesse \u00e0 vingt-cinq cents), le Dr Prakash d\u00e9crira le processus d\u2019identification des d\u00e9fis, la conception de solutions et le d\u00e9ploiement de ces outils \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle mondiale afin de faire na\u00eetre la curiosit\u00e9 et des recherches scientifiques ouvertes dans les communaut\u00e9s du monde entier. En faisant le lien entre l\u2019\u00e9ducation scientifique, la sant\u00e9 mondiale et la surveillance environnementale, il explorera le r\u00f4le des outils \u00ab\u00a0simples\u00a0\u00bb pour faciliter l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 une meilleure sant\u00e9 humaine et plan\u00e9taire dans un monde aux ressources limit\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9rencier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manu Prakash\u00a0<\/strong>est professeur associ\u00e9 de bio-ing\u00e9nierie \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Stanford, \u0153uvrant dans le domaine de la biologie physique et la science frugale. Il associe sa passion pour la science fondamentale au d\u00e9veloppement de technologies abordables et accessibles pouvant \u00eatre utilis\u00e9es pour l\u2019\u00e9ducation scientifique, la recherche et la sant\u00e9 publique dans des environnements pauvres en ressources, dans le but de d\u00e9mocratiser l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux outils scientifiques. Il est surtout connu pour le d\u00e9veloppement du microscope en papier extr\u00eamement abordable, le Foldscope, ainsi que du Paperfuge, une centrifugeuse manuelle \u00e0 vingt cents faite de papier et de ficelle. En 2016, il s\u2019est vu attribuer la bourse MacArthur, une bourse du corps professoral HHMI-Gates, la distinction d\u2019Explorateur \u00e9mergent du National Geographic en 2015 ainsi que le Prix du nouvel innovateur du directeur du NIH, parmi d\u2019autres nombreuses reconnaissances.<\/p>\n<p>Manu Prakash est titulaire d\u2019un baccalaur\u00e9at en technologie de l\u2019institut indien de technologie de Kanpur (2002) ainsi que d\u2019un doctorat de l\u2019Institut de technologie du Massachusetts (MIT) (2008). Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 un jeune boursier de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des boursiers de Harvard (de 2008 \u00e0 2011) avant de rejoindre le corps enseignant de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Stanford, o\u00f9 il est actuellement professeur adjoint dans le d\u00e9partement de bio-ing\u00e9nierie, est actuellement membre du programme de biophysique de l\u2019\u00c9cole de m\u00e9decine et du Centre pour l\u2019innovation en sant\u00e9 mondiale, de m\u00eame que boursier du corps professoral de Stanford ChEM-H, et il est membre affili\u00e9 de l\u2019Institut pour l\u2019environnement Woods. Il occupe de plus le poste de boursier du corps professoral HHMI-Gates et celui d\u2019enqu\u00eateur BioHub. Titulaire de nombreux brevets, sa recherche a par ailleurs \u00e9t\u00e9 largement publi\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2018 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2018 Dalhousie University, lundi 11 juin 2018,\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0 19 h 30<\/p>\n<h3>NERGIS MAVALVALA, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)\/Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/h3>\n<p><strong>L&#8217;Univers gauchi : la qu\u00eate centenaire d&#8217;Einstein \u00e0 la d\u00e9couverte des ondes gravitationnelles<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8964\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8964\" class=\" wp-image-8964\" src=\"https:\/\/cap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MAVALVALA-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"237\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">\u00a0(Photo by Darren McCollester\/for MacArthur Foundation)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Les annonces r\u00e9centes de la toute premi\u00e8re d\u00e9tection d&#8217;ondes gravitationnelles \u00e9manant de la collision d&#8217;\u00e9toiles \u00e0 neutrons et de trous noirs ont amorc\u00e9 une nouvelle \u00e8re de l&#8217;astrophysique de ces ondes. Einstein avait pr\u00e9dit les ondes gravitationnelles il y a 100\u00a0ans. Je d\u00e9crirai l&#8217;histoire scientifique, technologique et humaine derri\u00e8re ces d\u00e9couvertes qui ouvrent de toutes nouvelles perspectives sur certains \u00e9v\u00e9nements les plus violents et tordus de l&#8217;Univers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9renci\u00e8re<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nergis Mavalvala est une physicienne dont les recherches sont ax\u00e9es sur la d\u00e9tection d&#8217;ondes gravitationnelles \u00e0 partir des \u00e9v\u00e9nements violents qui, dans le cosmos, cr\u00e9ent des vagues et des ondulations dans le tissu espace-temps. Elle \u00e9tait membre de l&#8217;\u00e9quipe scientifique qui a annonc\u00e9 la premi\u00e8re d\u00e9tection directe d&#8217;ondes gravitationnelles, n\u00e9es de la collision de trous noirs, \u00e0 l&#8217;aide des d\u00e9tecteurs du Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) en f\u00e9vrier 2016. M<sup>me<\/sup>\u00a0Mavalvala a re\u00e7u un B.A. du Wellesley College en 1990 et un doctorat de l&#8217;Institut de technologie du Massachusetts (MIT) en 1997. Elle sera chercheuse postdoctorale, puis chercheuse \u00e0 l&#8217;Institut de technologie de Californie entre 1997 et 2002. Depuis, elle est professeure de physique \u00e0 l&#8217;Institut de technologie du Massachusetts o\u00f9 elle est maintenant professeure \u00ab Marble \u00bb de physique, directrice adjointe du D\u00e9partement de physique et laur\u00e9ate d&#8217;un prix \u00ab g\u00e9nie\u00a0\u00bb MacArthur 2010. Dans ses temps libres, elle adore faire du v\u00e9lo sur de longues distances, divers sports et fr\u00e9quenter les membres de sa famille.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2017 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2017 Universit\u00e9 Queen&#8217;s, lundi 29 mai 2017, \u00e0 19 h 30, Centre Isabel Bader<\/p>\n<h3>ARTHUR B. McDONALD, Universit\u00e9 Queen&#8217;s, et le SNOLAB<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00ab Questions profondes, noires : les neutrinos et la mati\u00e8re noire \u00e0 l&#8217;ONS et \u00e0 SNOLAB \u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer - 2017 Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture: Arthur B. McDonald\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4GOPzkxiYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>En descendant \u00e0 deux kilom\u00e8tres sous terre et en cr\u00e9ant un laboratoire ultra-propre, il est possible de s&#8217;attaquer \u00e0 certaines questions tr\u00e8s fondamentales concernant notre Univers : Comment le Soleil se consume t-il?; Quelles sont les particules de mati\u00e8re noire qui composent 27 % de notre Univers?; Quelles sont les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s des neutrinos, ces particules insaisissables qui sont l&#8217;une des composantes fondamentales de la nature?<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;Observatoire de neutrinos de Sudbury (ONS) a permis d&#8217;observer, chez les neutrinos, de nouvelles propri\u00e9t\u00e9s qui d\u00e9bordent le mod\u00e8le standard des particules \u00e9l\u00e9mentaires et confirment l&#8217;exactitude pouss\u00e9e des mod\u00e8les sur la mani\u00e8re dont le Soleil se consume. Le laboratoire agrandi SNOLAB permet d&#8217;accueillir le monde dans des exp\u00e9riences en collaboration o\u00f9 l&#8217;on cherche les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s des particules de mati\u00e8re noire, en qu\u00eate d&#8217;autres propri\u00e9t\u00e9s des neutrinos et pour capter les signaux neutrino \u00e9mis par les supernovae de notre galaxie, la Terre et le Soleil. On d\u00e9crira les avantages d\u00e9coulant de l&#8217;am\u00e9nagement de l&#8217;un des laboratoires ayant la radioactivit\u00e9 la plus faible du monde et la science fondamentale qui en \u00e9mane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9rencier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arthur McDonald na\u00eet \u00e0 Sydney, Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, au Canada. Il est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en physique de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Dalhousie (B.Sc., M.Sc.) et de Caltech (doctorat), et titulaire de neuf grades honorifiques. Il est charg\u00e9 d&#8217;\u00e9tudes aux Laboratoires de l&#8217;EACL \u00e0 Chalk River de 1969 \u00e0 1982; professeur \u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Princeton de 1982 \u00e0 1989; professeur \u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Queen&#8217;s de Kingston, au Canada de 1989 \u00e0 2013, et professeur \u00e9m\u00e9rite en 2013. \u00c0 partir de 1989, il est directeur de l&#8217;Initiative de collaboration scientifique de l&#8217;Observatoire de neutrinos de Sudbury (ONS). Entre autres, il est Compagnon de l&#8217;Ordre du Canada; colaur\u00e9at du Prix Nobel de physique 2015 et de la m\u00e9daille Benjamin Franklin en physique 2007; colaur\u00e9at du prix d&#8217;innovation 2016 de physique fondamentale (Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics) et du Prix Polanyi 2006 pour la collaboration scientifique de l&#8217;ONS. Il poursuit ses travaux de recherche fondamentale sur les neutrinos et la mati\u00e8re noire au laboratoire souterrain SNOLAB. Il est membre du conseil d&#8217;administration de l&#8217;Institut P\u00e9rim\u00e8tre.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2016 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2016 University of Ottawa, Monday, June 13, 2016, 7:30 P.M., The Shaw Centre<\/p>\n<h3>VICTORIA KASPI, Department of Physics, McGill Univeristy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer - 2016 Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture: The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars by Victoria Kaspi\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/koaUf8FNgjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although they are thousands of light years away, neutron stars can act as very precise cosmic beacons &#8212; a celestial gift that sheds light on some of the most interesting problems in modern science. We will explore these strange objects, explain how astronomers are using them to study issues ranging from the origins of the Universe to the very nature of matter, and even listen to the cosmic symphony they create.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conf\u00e9renci\u00e8re<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Kaspi is a Professor of Physics at McGill University, where she holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, and a Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics. She is also Director of the newly created McGill Space Institute.<\/p>\n<p>She received a B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics from McGill University in 1989, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. From 1994-96, she held a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology. She was an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997-2000, and joined the McGill Department of Physics in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Kaspi uses techniques of radio and X-ray astronomy to study rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars. She has done significant work involving radio pulsars and magnetars. More specifically, she has contributed among other things to the study of binary pulsar dynamics, the neutron star population, as well as the study of magnetars, the most highly magnetized objects known in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Kaspi has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Killam Prize in 2015, NSERC&#8217;s John C. Polanyi Award in 2011, the Prix du Qu\u00e9bec in 2009, the Harvard University Sackler Lectureship in 2009. She is the R. Howard Webster Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2010 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2015 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2015 University of Alberta, Monday, June 15, 2015, 7:30 P.M., Myer Horowitz Theatre<\/p>\n<h3>MIGUEL ALCUBIERRE, Nuclear Sciences Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Faster than the Speed of Light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2015 Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture: Faster than the Speed of Light by Prof. Miguel Alcubierre\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zj5Jxux4uYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this talk I will give a short introduction to some of the basic concepts of Einstein&#8217;s special theory of relativity, which is at the basis of all of modern physics. In particular, I will concentrate on the concept of causality, and why causality implies that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum. I will later discuss some of the basic ideas behind Einstein&#8217;s other great theory, General Relativity, which is the modern theory of gravity and postulates that the geometry space-time is dynamic and the presence of large concentrations of mass and energy produce a \u201ccurvature\u201d in space-time. I will then talk about how the curvature of space-time can be used in several ways to travel \u201cfaster than the speed of light\u201d by distorting the geometry away from that of flat space. In particular, I will discuss the ideas behind the geometric model for a \u201cwarp drive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Miguel Alcubierre was born in Mexico City in 1964. He obtained his Physicist degree from the National University in Mexico (UNAM) in 1988, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Wales in 1994. He later worked for several years as an Adjunct Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. Since 2002 he joined the Nuclear Sciences Institute at UNAM where he is now a Full Professor, and since June 2012 the Director. His research is in the area of numerical relativity, which is concerned with the computational simulation of astrophysical systems using Einstein&#8217;s theory of general relativity. In this area he has concentrated on the study of sources of gravitational waves, and particularly black hole collisions. He is author of more than 50 publications, as well as a textbook published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2014 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2014 Laurentian University, Monday, June 16, 2014, 7:30 P.M., Rooms FA-054+5+6, A-226<\/p>\n<h3>JOHN ELLIS, King&#8217;s College, London, UK<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Higgs Boson and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2014 Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture: The Higgs Boson and Beyond by John Ellis\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8Q2Rh3K3Gw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? The discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC provides new insights into these basic questions about the Universe, marking the start of a new era in fundamental physics, and opening new vistas in astrophysics and cosmology as well as particle physics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Ellis currently holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship of Theoretical Physics at King&#8217;s College in London. After his 1971 PhD from Cambridge University, he worked at SLAC, Caltech, and CERN (Geneva), where he was Theory Division Leader for six years. His research interests focus on the phenomenological aspects of elementary particle physics and its connections with astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity. Much of his work relates directly to interpreting results of searches for new particles. He was one of the first to study how the Higgs boson could be produced and discovered. He is currently very active in efforts to understand the Higgs particle discovered recently at CERN, as well as its implications for possible new physics such as dark matter and supersymmetry. He also studies possible future particle accelerators, such as the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) and future circular colliders, is known for his relentless efforts to promote global collaboration in particle physics. John Ellis was awarded the Maxwell Medal (1982) and the Paul Dirac Prize (2005) by the Institute of Physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1985 and of the Institute of Physics in 1991, and is an Honorary Fellow of King&#8217;s College Cambridge and of King&#8217;s College London.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2013 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2013 Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Monday, May 27, 2013, 7:30 P.M., K500, Salle Ernest-Cormier, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry<\/p>\n<h3>SERGE HAROCHE, Coll\u00e8ge de France &amp; \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Juggling with Photons in a Box to Explore the Quantum World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We know since Einstein seminal paper of 1905 on the photoelectric effect that light, known since Maxwell to be an electromagnetic wave, is also made of discrete quanta, the photons. This strange wave-particle dualism has opened the way to the quantum theory and revolutionized physics. When they discussed among themselves the counter- intuitive quantum concepts, the fathers of the theory \u2013 Einstein, Bohr and Schr\u00f6dinger among them &#8211; used to describe \u00ab thought experiments \u00bb in which they imagined that they freely manipulated photons, electrons or atoms and observed their weird behaviour. At the same time, they believed that these ideal experiments would be forever impossible to turn into actual ones in the laboratory. A major difficulty to realize these experiments with photons is that they are very fragile and elusive particles, usually destroyed upon detection. Technological advances have recently changed this state of affairs and made it possible to manipulate photons in ways which were previously thought impossible. I will describe this adventure and show how we have built a \u201cphoton box\u201d in which we can count light quanta without destroying them, as we can do with marbles in a bag. We have also \u201ctailored\u201d the light trapped in the box and generated laboratory versions of the famous Schr\u00f6dinger cat which the Austrian physicist imagined to be suspended between life and death. In our case, the \u201ccat\u201d is made of photons instead of atoms and it is maintained \u201chalf-way\u201d between two states which classical physicists would consider to be incompatible. By studying this strange behaviour, we get a deeper knowledge about the quantum laws and we learn tricks that we hope to use one day for developing new technologies which could improve the precision of measurements, the secrecy of communications or the power of computer simulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Serge Haroche is professor of quantum physics at the Coll\u00e8ge de France and the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Paris. He is the recipient, with David Wineland, of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2012 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2012 University of Calgary, Monday, June 11, 2012, 7:30 P.M., Red &amp; White Club, McMahon Stadium<\/p>\n<h3>ANTON ZEILINGER, University of Vienna<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Quantum Information: From the Foundations to a New Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this presentation for the general public, Dr. Zeilinger will explain some of the fundamental issues in quantum mechanics and show how their application opens up new avenues to a completely novel future information technology. Among the fundamental concepts the randomness of individual events was rejected by Albert Einstein in his famous statement \u201cGod does not play dice\u201d. The concept of quantum superposition implies that a system can be in states which classically exclude each other like the states \u201calive\u201d and \u201cdead\u201d of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s famous cat. And the concept of entanglement implies that two or more systems can be separated over large distances and still form one unity. This was rejected by Einstein as \u201cspooky action\u201d at a distance. All these concepts lead to exciting and novel applications like quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. In the talk, Zeilinger will sketch some of the most recent results in this extremely active world-wide research program and present his personal reasons why he believes that someday in the future, we will have absolutely secure communication and ultrafast computation based on these quantum phenomena. This development confirms once more that the most interesting possibilities for novel applications arise from deep fundamental investigations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anton Zeilinger is professor of physics at the University of Vienna and director at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics have become the cornerstone of the rapidly evolving field of quantum information. His future research goals include quantum communication and quantum teleportation using satellites and ultrafast optical quantum computers. The stages of his career include M.I.T., Coll\u00e8ge de France, Technical University of Munich, and Oxford University. Among his prizes are the Inaugural Newton Medal of the U.K.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2011 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2011 Memorial University of Newfoundland, Monday, June 13, 2011, 7:30 P.M., Arts &amp; Culture Centre, St. John&#8217;s, NL<\/p>\n<h3>ROLF HEUER, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, CERN<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The search of a deeper understanding of our universe at the Large Hadron Collider: the World&#8217;s Largest Particle Accelerator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particle physics enters a new era. The LHC will provide a deeper understanding of the universe and the insights gained could change our view of the world. Dr. Heuer will explain some of the reasons for the excitement surrounding the LHC. The LHC is expected to yield insights into the origin of mass, the nature of dark matter and the existence of hidden extra dimensions. The talk will address the exciting physics prospects offered by the LHC, and present first results taken by the LHC since the start of data taking in March last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CERN, located in Geneva Switzerland, is one of the world&#8217;s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Prof. Heuer is widely recognized for his leadership in the development of experimental techniques, and the construction and running of large subatomic particle detector systems.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2010 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2010 University of Toronto, Monday, June 7, 2010, 7:30 P.M., MedSci Auditorium<\/p>\n<h3>CHARLES TOWNES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY<\/h3>\n<p><strong>50th Anniversary of the Laser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the early 1950s I thought and worked hard at trying to find a way to obtain an oscillator for frequencies higher than those available from known electronics, in order to do very high resolution spectroscopy. Finally, I suddenly had the idea to put enough excess atoms or molecules in an upper state, and provide stimulated emission. My student Jim Gordon and I made this work first in the microwave range, primarily as a test. The resulting maser (for microwave amplification by simulated emission of radiation) generated an exciting field and many people jumped into it to make microwave oscillators and amplifiers. But after a few years I pushed myself to move on to much shorter wavelengths. Arthur Schawlow and I then wrote a paper on how such stimulated emission oscillators could be produced at wavelengths as short as those of light \u2013 we called it an optical maser, but it soon was renamed the laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). After publication of our theoretical discussion, many scientists were excited and the first working system was made by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Labs, a pulsed ruby laser. The first continuously oscillation system was made by one of my former students, Ali Javan, with Wm. Bennett and Don Herriot at the Bell Telephone Labs. Industry by then recognized the importance of this field, and all the first lasers were built in industrial labs. Lasers are now a wonderful field for science and for a wide variety of technical applications &#8212; all an outgrowth of spectroscopy, a field Herzberg helped develop importantly. I presently use lasers to do infrared interferometry on stars with three separate telescopes. Lasers have helped astronomy in many ways, in particular producing a rapid growth of interferometry for measurement of stellar sizes and shapes. Our interferometer is the only one, however, which uses heterodyne detection, provided by laser local oscillators, which hence allows interferometry in very narrow bandwidths which can avoid spectral lines due to surrounding gas. This allows measurement of old and active stars quite directly, without interference from their emitted gases. I will report some of the measurements, showing the changes in size of some stars, the dust shells they have blown off and expansion of these shells, along with other details not seen until such techniques became possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles Hard Townes was born in Greenville, South Carolina and attended Furman University in Greenville, from which he received a B.Sc. in Physics and a B.A. in Modern Languages. He completed the Master of Arts degree in Physics at Duke University and then took his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. He was a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1933 to 1947. Appointed to Columbia University in 1948, he continued microwave research to study the structure of atoms, molecules and nuclei. In 1951, Dr. Townes conceived the idea of the maser and in early 1954, the first amplification and generation of electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission were obtained in ammonia. In 1958, Dr. Townes and his brother-in- law, Dr. A.L. Schawlow, showed theoretically that masers could be made to operate in the optical and infrared region. The first working laser was demonstrated (by Ted Maiman) in 1960. From 1959 to 1961, Dr. Townes served as Vice President and Director of Research of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C., advising the U.S. government. In 1961, Dr. Townes was appointed Provost and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed University Professor at the University of California in 1967, principally located at the Berkeley campus. He was co-recipient (with Drs. Basov and Prokhoroff) of the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for the maser\/laser principle. Dr. Townes has served on a number of scientific committees advising governmental agencies and has been active in professional societies. This includes being a member, and vice chairman, of the Science Advisory Committee to the President of the U.S. and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first human landing on the moon. He also served on the boards of General Motors and of the Perkins Elmer Corporations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2009 &#8211; Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2009 Universit\u00e9 de Moncton, Monday, June 8, 2009, 7:30 P.M., Theatre Capitol, Moncton, NB<\/p>\n<h3>LAURENT DRISSEN, UNIVERSITE LAVAL<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Splendours and Miseries of Massive Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most massive stars in the universe are also the most fascinating. Exceedingly rare, they nevertheless play an important role in galactic ecology and in the chemical evolution of the cosmos. They are born in gigantic molecular clouds and they light up with an enormous outpouring of ultraviolet radiation. Pressure exerted by these forms of light on heavy elements present in the stellar atmosphere results in a very powerful wind which enriches the regions between the stars and injects large amounts of energy in their surroundings. The life of massive stars is brief \u2013 a hundredth of that of ordinary, sun-like stars &#8211; and ends in a gigantic explosion detectable to distances of billions of light-years. With the help of beautiful images obtained by the largest ground-based and space telescopes, I will describe the life and death of these stars which illuminate our universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laurent Drissen grew up between Montreal and the countryside of the Eastern Townships where he spent most of his week-ends and his summer vacations. Obviously, the country sky was lit up with stars, and it is there that his passion for the Galaxy and the cosmos was born. He obtained his Ph.D. (1990) from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Moffat, one of the world experts on Wolf-Rayet stars. His first experiences as a professional astronomer were at the Mont M\u00e9gantic Observatory, then at the Canada-France- Hawaii telescope. He also observed at the AAT (Australia), the Wise Observatory (Israel), CTIO and ESO (Chile) and Mount Lemmon (Arizona). He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the early times of the Hubble Telescope (from 1990 to 1994). He came back to Qu\u00e9bec in 1995 to work with the astrophysics group at Laval University. Since 2001, he has held the Canada research chair in astrophysics (massive stars and hyperspectral imagery) at the same university. He works on massive stars and their influence on their surroundings, and he also builds, in collaboration with his fantastic students, innovative astronomical instruments such as a wide-field imaging spectrometer. He teaches classical physics, quantum mechanics, stellar structure and evolution, and he supervises four graduate students.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2008 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2008 Universit\u00e9 Laval, Sunday, June 8, 2008, 7:30 P.M., Theatre de la cite universitaire, U.Laval<\/p>\n<h3>RAYMOND LAFLAMME, INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING\/UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Harnessing the Quantum World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Information processing devices are pervasive in our society; from the 5 dollar watches to a multi-billion dollar satellite network. These devices have allowed the information revolution which is developing around us. It has transformed not only the way we communicate or entertain ourselves but also the way we do science and even the way we think. All this information is manipulated using the classical approximation to the laws of physics, but we know that there is a better approximation: the quantum mechanical laws. Would using quantum mechanics for information processing be an impediment or could it be an advantage? This is the fundamental question at the heart of quantum information processing (QIP). QIP is a young field with an incredible potential impact reaching from the way we understand fundamental physics to technological applications. I will give an introduction to quantum information by stressing recent interesting developments. I will also comment on the effort in this field at Waterloo and in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raymond Laflamme was born in Quebec city and did his undergraduate studies in Physics at Universite Laval. He then moved to Cambridge, England, where he survived Part IIIof Mathematical Tripos before doing a PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) under the direction of Stephen Hawking. He and DonPage are responsible for having changed Hawking&#8217;s mind on the reversal of the direction of time in a contracting Universe (see his book &#8220;Abrief history of time&#8221;). After his PhD,Ray became a Killam post- doctoral fellow at UBC where he met his future wife Janice Gregson. Ray moved back to Cambridge in 1990 as a Research Fellow at Peterhouse.He finally settled down for 9 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He arrived as a Director funded post-doctoral fellow, became an Oppenheimer Fellow in 1994, just afterthe birth of his son Patrick. His daughter Jocelyne was born in 1995 and he became Technical Staff in 1997. In 2001 he joined the newly founded Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics and the University of Waterloo where he and Michele Mosca have started the Institute for Quantum Computing. Raymond Laflamme holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Quantum Information.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2007 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2007 University of Saskatchewan, Sunday, June\u00a017, 2007, 7:00 P.M., TCU Place<\/p>\n<h3>CARL WIEMAN, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing how many teachers badly misinterpret what students are thinking and learning from traditional science classes and exams. However, research is also providing insights on how to do much better. The combination of this research with modern information technology is setting the stage for a new approach that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. I will discuss the failures of traditional educational practices, even as used by &#8220;very good&#8221; teachers, and the successes of some new practices and technology that characterize this more effective approach. Some applications to technical presentations will also be mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carl Wieman grew up in the forests of Oregon and was educated at MIT and Stanford. Dr. Wieman, a long- term Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, joined UBC in January 2007. He has carried out research in a variety of areas of atomic physics and laser spectroscopy, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for the creation and study of Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute vapor. His work on innovations in teaching physics to a broad range of students, on student beliefs about physics, and on problem-solving skills has been recognized by several prestigious awards.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2006 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2006 Brock University, Sunday, June 11, 2006, 7:00 P.M., Sean O&#8217;Sullivan Theatre<\/p>\n<h3>ERNEST L. MCFARLAND, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Energy: Where on Earth are We Going?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physics is important in your everyday life. There is growing concern about humankind&#8217;s ever-increasing use of energy and the associated environmental impacts such as global warming. Oil is no longer cheap, and attention is now being paid to other sources of energy. This talk will consider the consumption of fossil fuels, as well as use of wind, solar and nuclear energy, and their environmental consequences. Many aspects of basic physics, important in the utilization of energy sources, will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ernest L. McFarland is a Professor Physics, a recipient of the CAP Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and a 3M Teaching Fellowship. Prof. McFarland has co-authored a textbook: Energy, Physics and the Environment which provides a foundational quantiative account of energy and related environmental issues.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2005 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2005 University of British Columbia, Sunday, June 5, 2005, 7:00 P.M., Chan Centre<\/p>\n<h3>CLIFFORD WILL, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Was Einstein Right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How has the most celebrated scientific theory of the 20th century held up under the exacting scrutiny of planetary probes, radio telescopes, and atomic clocks? After 100 years, was Einstein right? In this lecture, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein&#8217;s &#8220;miracle year&#8221; and the World Year of Physics, we relate the story of testing relativity, from the 1919 measurements of the bending of light to the 1980s measurements of a decaying double-neutron-star system that reveal the action of gravity waves, to a 2004 space experiment to test whether spacetime &#8220;does the twist&#8221;. We will show how a revolution in astronomy and technology led to a renaissance of general relativity in the 1960s, and to a systematic program to try to verify its predictions. We will also demonstrate how relativity plays an important role in daily life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clifford Will is Professor of Physics, and member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St.Louis. Born in Hamilton, Canada in 1946, he received a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from McMaster University in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971. He was an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the University of Chicago (1972-74), and an Assistant Professor of Physics at Stanford University (1974-81), From 1975 to 1979, he was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. In 1981 he joined Washington University as Associate Professor, in 1985 became Full Professor of Physics, and from 1991 &#8211; 2002 served as Chairman of the Department. In 1986 he was selected by the American Association of Physics Teachers to be the 46th annual Richtmyer Memorial Lecturer. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. In recognition of his theoretical work related to the Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar, he was an invited guest of the Nobel Foundation at the 1993 Nobel Prize Ceremonies honoring discoverers Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse. During 1996-97, he was both a J. William Fulbright Fellow and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and in 1996, he was named Distinguished Alumnus in the Sciences by McMaster University. In 2004 he received the Fellows Award of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, and was elected President of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. He has published over 160 scientific articles or abstracts, including 13 major review articles, 23 popular or semi-popular articles, and two books: Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1981; 2nd Edition, 1993), and Was Einstein Right? (Basic Books, 1986; 2nd Edition, 1993). Was Einstein Right? was selected one of the 200 best books of 1986 by the New York Times Book Review, and won the 1987 American Institute of Physics Science-Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy. It has been translated into French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Chinese and Persian. His research interests include tests of general relativity, gravitational radiation, black holes, cosmology, and the physics of curved spacetime.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2004 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2004 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, June 13, 2004, 7:00 P.M., Delta Hotel, Ballrooms\u00a0A\/B\/C<\/p>\n<h3>P. JAMES E. PEEBLES, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A Cosmic Picture Show : Images from Astronomy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the astronomical images I will present are meant to illustrate what we know about the large-scale nature of the world around us and how we have gone about discovering it; others are chosen just because they&#8217;re pretty. Some of the images are close to what you can see with a pair of binoculars; others are numerical representations of what you would `see&#8217; if you had Superman&#8217;s X-ray eyes, or eyes sensitive to radio waves or neutrinos. I&#8217;ll show historical examples of the learning process in astronomy, both good &#8212; Hubble&#8217;s classification of the galaxies B and not so good &#8212; Lowell&#8217;s idea that he was seeing canals on Mars &#8212; and illustrations drawn from current debates about what is happening on scales ranging from black holes in the centers of galaxies to the expansion of the universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born April 25, 1935 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, naturalized U.S. citizen 1991. Married to Alison Peebles with three children, Lesley, Ellen and Marion, six grandchildren. 1958 BS University of Manitoba; 1962 Ph.D. Princeton University; 1961-1962 Instructor, Princeton; 1962-64 Research Associate, Princeton; 1964-65 Research Staff Member, Princeton; 1965-68 Assistant Professor, Princeton; 1968-72 Associate Professor, Princeton; 1972-84 Professor Princeton; 1984-2000 Albert Einstein Professor of Science , Princeton; 2000 Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, Princeton. Professional Societies: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, Royal Society; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada; Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Sciences; Member, American Astronomical Society; Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Awards: 1977, A.C. Morrison Award in National Science, NY Academy of Sciences; 1981, Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society; 1982, Heineman Prize, American Astronomical Society; 1986, Doctor of Science, University of Toronto; 1986, Doctor of Science, University of Chicago; 1989, Doctor of Science, McMaster University; 1989, Doctor of Science, University of Manitoba; 1992, Robinson Prize, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; 1992, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS; 1994, Silliman Lectureship, Yale; 1994, Feshbach Lecturer, MIT; 1995, Bruce Medal, Astronomical Society of the Pacific; 1995, Lemaitre Award, Universite catholique de Louvain; 1995, de Vaucouleurs Lectureship, University of Texas; 1996, McPherson Lecturer, McGill University, October; 1996, Doctor of Science, Universite catholique de Louvain, October; 1997, Danz Professor, University of Washington May; 1997, Klein Lecturer, University of Stockholm, June; 1997, Jansky Lectureship, NRAO; 1997, Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, December; 1998, Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, UK; 2000, Peter S. Gruber Foundation Award, September; 2001, Oort Professor, Leidon University, May; 2001, Harvey Prize Technion University, Israel; 2003, Tomalla Foundation Prize, University of Geneva, June<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2003 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2003 University of Prince Edward Island, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 7:00 P.M., Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre<\/p>\n<h3>DAVID SOUTHWOOD, DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Space Near and Far &#8211; Exploring our Universe and Our Place in It<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploration of space is more than a scientific endeavour, although science and physics, in particular, are at the root of it. Any modern technically developed society needs for its own health to look outwards and also backward to its origins. Space science does these tasks in the grandest ways, looking outwards to its limits of the ability to see and to measure, and backwards to whence our galaxy, our planet, indeed ourselves came. Such themes will be explored, using Europe&#8217;s space programme for illustration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Southwood took up post as Director of Science at the European Space Agency (ESA) on May 1, 2001. From 1997 to 2000, he was head of Earth Observation strategy at the European Space Agency where he introduced a new programme in Earth science, &#8220;The Living Planet&#8221;. After his going back to academia in April 2000, his return to ESA to lead the space science programme was announced in late 2000. David Southwood is a space physicist who spent the bulk of his career at the Blackett Laboratory, the Physics Department of Imperial College London. He went to Imperial first as a PhD student in 1966. After postdoctoral work in the USA, in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California Los Angeles, he returned to the Imperial College faculty in 1971 eventually becoming head of the Blackett Laboratory, the Physics Department of Imperial College from 1994-1997. He has retained for many years links with UCLA and returned there as a Regents Professor in 2000. He completed a thesis on ULF waves in the Earth&#8217;s magnetosphere, using both ground-based and early satellite data. Subsequent research interests ranged from the deployment of magnetometer arrays on the ground to exploring the magnetic environments of Jupiter and Saturn with spacecraft. He has worked on a variety of space missions over the past thirty-five years, working with the American and Russian programmes as well as with European partners. His most recent instrumental work was building the magnetometer on the NASA Cassini Saturn orbiter, with has now passed Jupiter and will reach Saturn in 2004. David Southwood has sat on many senior science committees in Britain and at the international level in Europe and in COSPAR. He has been chairman of the Science Programme Committee (SPC) and the Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC). He has published more than 200 publications and scientific articles.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2002 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2002 Qu\u00e9bec City Convention Centre\u00a0(2nd Level), Sunday, June 2, 2002, 7:00 P.M., Room 2000 A<\/p>\n<h3>ERIC CORNELL, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Bose-Einstein Condensation Experiments in an Ultracold Atomic Gas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At temperatures under one millionth of a degree from absolute zero, a dilute vapour of ultra-cold atoms may undergo Bose-Einstein condensation. The resulting substance is an ideal environment for a host of experiments in quantum mechanics at the interface between condensed-matter and atomic physics. I will present a representative sample of past and current work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Cornell received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1985, and his PhD from MIT in 1990. His doctoral research, with Dave Pritchard, was on precision mass spectroscopy of single trapped molecular ions. Cornell went to JILA in Boulder, Colorado in 1990. Since 1992 he has been a senior scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is a Fellow of JILA and Professor Adjoint in the Physics Department of the University of Colorado. Research interests center around various aspects of ultracold atoms, including BoseEinstein condensation and experiments on atoms guided by optical forces inside hollow glass fibers and by magnetic forces along lithographically patterned wires. Cornell received the Stratton Award from NIST in 1995, the Carl Zeiss Award in 1996, the Fritz London Prize in 1996, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1996, the 1997 I.I. Rabi Award, the 1997 King Faisal International Prize for Science, the 1995-96 AAAS Newcomb- Cleveland Prize, the 1997 Alan T. Waterman Award, the Lorentz Medal in 1998, in 1999 the R. W. Wood Prize and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, and in 2000 was elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He shares the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2001 Conf\u00e9rence publique comm\u00e9morative Herzberg<\/h2>\n<p>2001 University of Victoria, Sunday, June 17, 2001, 7:00 P.M., Unicentre Auditorium<\/p>\n<h3>KIP THORNE, CALTECH UNIVERSITY<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Gravitational Waves : A New Window Onto the Universe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gravitational waves are ripples of warpage in the fabric of spacetime, generated by the birth of the universe, by collisions of black holes, and by other cataclysmic events in the distant universe. Next year an international network of ground-based detectors (LIGO, VIRGO, GEO and TAMA) will begin a search for gravitational waves with wavelengths about the size of the Earth. In 2010, the joint US\/European LISA mission (three spacecraft 5 million kilometers apart that track each other with laser beams) will begin a search for gravitational waves with wavelengths the size of the solar system. In this lecture Thorne will describe these gravitational-wave detectors, the remarkable technology that they rely on (such as controlling the quantum mechanical behavior of 40 kilogram objects), and the revolution that they may bring in our understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kip Thorne received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965. He returned to Caltech as an Associate Professor in 1967 and become Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1970, The William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in 1981, and The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991. He was cofounder (with R. Weiss and R.W.P. Drever) of the LIGO (laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Project and is a member of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) International Science Team. Along with other numerous awards and recognition, Dr. Thorne has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Foundation Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow, and has served on the International Committee on General Relativity and Gravitation, the Committee on US-USSR Cooperation in Physics, and the National Academy of Science&#8217;s Space Science Board.<\/p>\n<p>*************************************<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: In 1999 and 2000, the CAP had public lectures at each of its conferences, but it was only in 2001 that it became known as the \u201cHerzberg Public Lecture\u201d. The list of speakers, with abstracts, appears below:<\/p>\n<p>2000 York University, Sunday, June 4, 2000, 7:00 P.M., Burton Auditorium, Fine Arts Building<\/p>\n<h3>ROBERT PARK, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Voodoo Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A best-selling health guru insists that his brand of spiritual healing is firmly grounded in quantum theory: half the population believes Earth is being visited by space aliens who have mastered faster-than-light travel, and educated people are wearing magnets in their shoes to draw energy from the Earth. Did we set the public up for this? In our eagerness to hare speculative new ideas at the frontier of science, have we conveyed the message that the universe is so strange that anything is possible? What can we tell people that will help them judge which claims are science and which are voodoo?<\/p>\n<p>1999 UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK, FREDERICTON, SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1999, 7:00 P.M., MACLAGGAN AUDITORIUM, NURSE&#8217;S BUILDING<\/p>\n<h3>ROBERT (BOB) MCDONALD, HOST OF CBC&#8217;S \u2018QUIRKS AND QUARKS&#8217; PROGRAM<\/h3>\n<p><em>Science in the Third Millennium : A Journalist&#8217;s Perspective<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All science and technology we use today, with the exception of mathematics, was developed within the last thousand years. Our knowledge grew out of the Dark Ages and reached the moon and beyond. The second millennium will be looked upon by future generations as the age of the discoveries, where we explored planet Earth, saw it in its true context, and found more invisible worlds within the microscopic universes of the cell and the atom. Now, on the verge of the third millennium we are entering a new age where the most powerful tools ever developed are changing the face of the planet and the very foundation of life itself. As a journalist, it has been my extreme pleasure to witness some of these amazing discoveries and meet the astonishing people who have brought us to the greatest enlightenment humanity has every known. It is also a time of tremendous challenge to the survival of the human species, but as I am a believer in the power of scientific knowledge and the ingenuity of human tool making, we have the ability to meet those challenges, if only common sense prevails.<\/p>\n<p>*************************************<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: From 1991 until 1998, the CAP had keynote speakers at each of its conferences. It was only in 1999 that we started to have public lectures.. The list of keynote speakers, with abstracts when available, appears below:<\/p>\n<p>1998 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1998, 7:30 P.M., THEATRE OF THE ARTS<\/p>\n<h3>STEVEN CHU, PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, STANFORD UNIVERSITY<\/h3>\n<p><em>Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms and Particles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A brief history of the laser cooling and trapping of atoms will be presented, covering some of the major techniques that have been developed over the past 15 years. The cooling and trapping technology is already being applied in numerous areas of science and engineering. Applications to be discussed include atomic clocks, atom interferometers used to measure fundamental constants and inertial sensors, and applications in polymer science and biology.<\/p>\n<p>1997 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1997, 7:30 P.M., ALBERTA ROOM<\/p>\n<h3>CAROL CHRISTIAN, DIRECTOR, PUBLIC OUTREACH, SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE<\/h3>\n<p><em>Recent Results from the Hubble Space Telescope<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No abstract was available for this talk.<\/p>\n<p>1996 UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1996, 7:30 P.M., MONTPETIT AUDITORIUM<\/p>\n<h3>SIR JOHN MADDOX, FORMER EDITOR OF \u201cNATURE\u201d MAGAZINE<\/h3>\n<p><em>Where is Science Heading?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No abstract was available for this talk.<\/p>\n<p>1995 LAVAL UNIVERSITY, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1995, 7:30 P.M., THEATRE DE LA CITE UNIVERSITAIRE<\/p>\n<h3>PROF. ARTHUR L. SCHAWLOW, STANFORD UNIVERSITY<\/h3>\n<p><em>Fifty Years of Physics and Physicists<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1945, quantum mechanics was twenty years old. Physicists were aware of it, but most engineers were not, and few of them actually used it. Nuclear physics appeared to be the most important frontier, partly because it seemed to offer the possibilities of limitless, cheap energy. Atomic physics, especially optical spectroscopy, was widely thought to be unglamorous. Most research equipment was constructed by the scientists themselves as they needed it. However, the wartime achievements of physicists attracted increasing support from governments and industry, and that stimulated the growth of an instrument industry producing increasingly sophisticated devices. Discoveries in condensed matter physics such as nuclear magnetic resonance, transistors, integrated circuits and lasers have opened up vast industries and provided powerful new tools for physics research. Huge teams have been assembled to build and attend giant machines for particle physics, nuclear fusion research and astronomy. Now faced with competitive pressures, industry has drastically reduced basic research and governments have cut back their support. Fascinating problems still confront us, even to understand the full meaning of quantum mechanics. Progress with continue, but it will be slowed in ways that we may not fully realize.<\/p>\n<p>1994 UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1994, 7:30 P.M., EDUCATION BUILDING AUDITORIUM<\/p>\n<h3>PROF. ALLAN BROMLEY, STERLING PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCES, YALE UNIVERSITY<\/h3>\n<p><em>Physics and the 21st Century<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After more than half a century of remarkable discoveries, applications and new insights on the structure of the universe and our place in it, physics and physicists, world wide, are facing a crisis of confidence. At a time when celebration would seem appropriate, instead a siege mentality is settling in. But there are reasons for optimism. Physics, at least, is becoming truly international: beyond the discoveries within our field, it is spawning an accelerating flow of new technologies and new understanding in our sister sciences \u2013 all of which improve our quality of life and our understanding of, utilization of, and accommodation to nature. As we prepare to enter the 21st century, it is essential that physicists, both young and old, regain the breadth of vision and of interest that characterized the giants of our past. There is great adventure ahead.<\/p>\n<p>1993 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1993, 7:00 P.M., IMAGES THEATRE<\/p>\n<p>[No information published in Congress program]<\/p>\n<p>1992 UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1992, 7:30 P.M., ERIE HALL, ROOM 1120<\/p>\n<h3>PROF. KENNETH WILSON, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY<\/h3>\n<p><em>Overall Issues for Educational Reform in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reform of mathematics and science education is a major concern in the U.S. Problems in Canada exist, too, but I cannot speak for them. However, reform of mathematics and science education only makes sense as part of an overall reform effort. This talk addresses key overall issues of U.S. reform. Namely :<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Should there be a single reform process that does not overwhelm teachers and schools?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How does one ensure maximum feedback to individual students practising higher order skills in a large class?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Should teachers have extensive time during their work week for collaborative study of teaching and educational change? (In the Far East, teachers spend no more than four hours in class per day, leaving time for study and professional activity.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Should students be given more responsibility for their own learning in and out of class?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There is a lot of design work in teaching, from preparation of materials and software to scheduling of students and teachers to planning of classroom organization. Can a technical assistance framework be established which offloads this design burden from individual teachers and schools but, through constant redesign, supplies teachers and students with designs maximally beneficial to them?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How does one engage broad political support for the overall reform that is needed?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What changes in research universities are needed to support reform of schools?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How does one achieve unbiased evaluation of educational programs and the overall progress of reform?<\/p>\n<p>1991 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1991, 7:00 P.M., UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA AUDITORIUM<\/p>\n<h3>RICHARD TAYLOR, STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTRE<\/h3>\n<p><em>Inside the Proton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No abstract available for this talk.<\/p>\n<p>*************************************<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: From 1946 to 1990, the CAP had an opening reception and plenary speakers (no keynote speaker) at each of its conferences. Any conference where there was an opening address given, the name of the speaker is listed below. Otherwise, we have listed only conference locations and dates. (1946-1982 will be added later)<\/p>\n<p>1990 MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND, JUNE 25-28, 1990<\/p>\n<p>1989 UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, JUNE 26-28, 1989<\/p>\n<p>1988 UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL (JOINT WITH APS), JUNE 19-22, 1988<\/p>\n<p>1987 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, JUNE 14-17, 1987<\/p>\n<p>1986 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, JUNE 22-25, 1986<\/p>\n<p>1985 UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK, JUNE 23-26, 1985<\/p>\n<p>1984 UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE, JUNE 17-20, 1984<\/p>\n<p>1983 UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (JOINT WITH CASCA), JUNE 26-30, 1983<\/p>\n<p>OPENING ADDRESS: THE HONORABLE DONALD J. 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