Grouping: CAP News

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 »

CAP’s response to the 2014 Industry Canada Consultation Paper “Seizing Canada’s Moment, Moving Forward in Science, Technology, and Innovation” In January, Industry Canada initiated a Science and Technology Consultation process. The consultation paper, entitled “Seizing Canada’s Moment, Moving Forward in Science, Technology, and Innovation”, can be viewed at http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/h_07416.html The first section of the consultation… Read more »

NSERC has requested comments about a draft policy that will require researchers holding NSERC grants to make work published in peer-reviewed journals available within 12 months of publication. The CAP Executive discussed the policy at its October 2013 meeting and identified several concerns. To address these concerns and prepare for a CAP response to the… Read more »

On October 24, 2013, during its 97th Annual Meeting, the OSA Foundation announced that the 2013 CAP-OSAF Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship was being awarded to Yanhui Zhao of Penn State University. Established in 2011 by the OSAF and the Canadian Association of Physicists Foundation (CAPF), this program pays tribute to Boris P. Stoicheff, an… Read more »

News Bulletin caps-response-nsercs-request-feedback-discovery-grants-program-focuses-three-areas-concern.pdf The CAP has submitted a response to NSERC’s request for feedback on the Discovery Grants program. This response is based in part on the CAP/NSERC survey that was completed by members in May 2012. It is also based on discussions amongst the members of the executive and council of the CAP. The CAP… Read more »