Our graduate-student representative Chris Pugh’s research was profiled in the Globe and Mail on Tuesday. The article “Canadians solve key puzzle for future of encryption” chronicles his recent work testing a system for long distance free space quantum communication. For the test he was buckled into a plane with no side door. Chris is a… Read more »
The CAP congratulates David Thouless of the University of Washington, Duncan Haldane of Princeton University, who is also a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute, and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University, recipients of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on exotic states of matter. Kosterlitz and Thouless were the architects… Read more »
2016 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics François Légaré Institut national de recherches scientifiques (INRS) François Légaré is internationally recognized for ultrafast molecular imaging, for the development of high-power lasers and their applications, and for tissue imaging with nonlinear optical microscopy. Among his major scientific contributions, he has developed a new laser amplification scheme called Frequency… Read more »
Last week, the Canadian Government announced investments in Canadian University research programs totaling $900 million through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). Among the 13 successful postsecondary institutions were the University of Waterloo with the Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) program and Queen’s University with the Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre (CPARC). “Today’s investment by… Read more »
The CAP congratulates CAP member Art McDonald from Queen’s University/SNOLAB who will be promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, and CAPF Board member Peter Calamai, retired science writer most notably with Southam News, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Toronto Star, who will be invested as an Order of Canada member on Friday, May… Read more »
Charles Gale, James McGill Professor in the Department of Physics at McGill University, is one of six outstanding scholars who have just been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship. Dr. Gale will work on “Nuclear Matter under Extreme conditions: Elucidating the Properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma”. Dr. Gale was awarded the CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and… Read more »
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 »