The United Nations proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). IYQ is a global initiative that aims to strengthen national capacities in the basic sciences and science education. This initiative will highlight the contribution of quantum science to our increased knowledge and understanding of the physical universe, as well as the… Read more »
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Get ready: 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology!
For several months, members of the quantum ecosystem from across Canada have been coming together to work on a proposal for activities to celebrate the year 2025 in a fun way! Follow our webpage to find out about upcoming quantum science activities celebrating this special year! Why 2025? 2025 marks 100 years of quantum mechanics… Read more »
Congratulations to the Canadian/U.S. recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded to two scientists for discovering a way to study the world at a level previously thought impossible. The official citation reads: “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. The 2024 Nobel… Read more »
Three CAP members join the Royal Society of Canada – Class of 2024
Congratulations to CAP members Hae-Young Kee (U.Toronto) and Brigitte Vachon (McGill) for their recent appointment as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and to CAP member Juliette Mammei (U. Manitoba) for her recent appointment to the RSC College. Read the full Royal Society of Canada press release about the complete RSC Class of… Read more »
CAP Submits a brief to the Tri-Councils on the new federal Capstone funding agency
On June 17, the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry and the Minister of Health issued a statement tasking the tri-council presidents with preparing a briefing document addressing the “Modernizing the Federal Research Support System for Future Success”. This briefing document, due by the end of July, is to inform the Federal Government’s Fall Economic… Read more »
CAP Submits brief to House of Commons Finance Committee (FINA) re 2025 Federal Budget
As every year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has invited Canadians to participate in the planning of the 2025 Federal Budget. The CAP’s newly-elected Director of Science Policy and Advocacy, James Fraser, in collaboration with the CAP’s Science Policy Committee and input from our institutional partners, sister societies, and the CAP Board… Read more »
2024 Federal Budget
The CAP’s Science Policy Committee* has completed an analysis of physics-related highlights from the proposed 2024 Federal Budget, entitled “Fairness for Every Generation”. Throughout the year, the CAP will continue to monitor government policy that could affect physics in Canada. In particular, the CAP, and the Canadian physics community at large, will need to follow… Read more »
Update on CAP Advocacy plus Email MP; support 2024 federal budget asks
CAP Science Policy Update – 2 items CAP Advocacy meetings held in December 2023 Contact your MP before Jan.15/24 – support asks in CAP brief to Finance Committee re 2024 Federal Budget! CAP Team holds three advocacy-related meetings in December 2023 In early December the CAP sent letters to Prime Minster Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minster Freeland,… Read more »
The CAP receives $300,000 donation to its Foundation to expand its annual lecture tour
A $300,000 donation supports the CAP Lecture Tour to foster inclusive physics education and raise awareness of physics research and its impacts among Canada’s youth Ottawa, Ontario, 2023 November 21. The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is excited to announce that it has recently received a $300,000 donation to the CAP Foundation to support the… Read more »
CAP Statement on Nagorno-Karabakh
The Canadian Association of Physicists is deeply concerned about the people in Nagorno-Karabakh (also called Artsakh by Armenians) whose health and safety are at risk. We wish to express our deepest solidarity with physicists and researchers in the region and with Canadian physicists with family, friends and collaborators impacted by this. The CAP promotes the… Read more »