Grouping: CAP News

The following is a brief analysis of science-related highlights from the proposed 2016 Federal Budget, entitled “Growing the Middle Class”. Throughout the year, CAP will continue to monitor government policy that could affect physics in Canada. This brief is intended to capture those highlights most relevant to members of CAP, and does not include all… Read more »

The CAP is delighted to report that CAP member Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (a CAP Institutional member), and Founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences has been named the 2016 recipient of the prestigious John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics from the American Institute of Physics… Read more »

The NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is awarded annually for both the sustained excellence and overall influence of research work conducted in Canada in the natural sciences or engineering. On 2016 February 16, the NSERC Herzberg Medal was awarded to Dr. Victoria M. Kaspi from the Department of Physics at McGill… Read more »

Today, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer collaborations announced that they have detected gravitational waves for the first time. Among other implications, it confirms the prediction of such waves by Albert Einstein exactly 100 years ago and caps a multi-decade search for this elusive phenomenon. Dr. Adam Sarty, CAP president,… Read more »

The CAP congratulates the newly-appointed Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan, and Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains.  We look forward to working with them during their mandates.   Other key appointments of note that impact on science/research and post-secondary education include: William Francis Morneau (ON) – Finance Minister Scott Brison (NS) –… Read more »

** The CAP’s Public Release is attached below. ** 2015 October 6 The CAP gives its wholehearted congratulations to SNOLAB/Queen’s University’s Professor Arthur B. McDonald, who shares the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics with Professor Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” McDonald… Read more »

The registration for the 7th Canadian Science Policy Conference, CSPC 2015, is now open. Click here to visit the registration page. REGISTER NOW to September 7th to get up to 30% off with the SUPERSAVER discount! After four years, CSPC is returning to the Nation’s Capital and features an exciting array of programs. CSPC 2015… Read more »

Effective 2015 July 13, the Canadian Association of Physicists will be moving to the following new location on campus at the University of Ottawa : 555 King Edward Avenue 3rd Floor OTTAWA ON  K1N 7N5 Our phone, fax, and e-mail addresses remain unchanged. The office will, therefore, be closed on Friday, July 10, Monday, July… Read more »

Physics departments across Canada were recently asked to vote on whether they are interested in having the CAP explore the possibility of developing a system for accreditation of Canadian physics programs. The CAP Board specified that a majority of departments offering BSc programs in Physics was required to vote in favour in order to justify… Read more »

In March each year, the Division of Theoretical Physics (DTP) and the Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics (WITP) will award one DTP/WITP thesis prize to a student receiving a PhD degree in Physics with a thesis in theoretical physics in the current or prior calendar year from a Canadian University. To be eligible, both the… Read more »