Grouping: CAP News

(Note: This article is posted in the language of submission.) This bibliometric study and associated report analyses the performance of UK Physics research and provides the Institute of Physics with data that can be used for the development of policy and for discussions with stakeholders. Quoted below are a couple of findings from the report… Read more »

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The CAP is soliciting input from its members concerning the recent Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) report on Science Performance and Research Funding. This report was requested by the federal Minister of Industry on behalf of NSERC to help guide future funding reallocations for the Discovery Grant Program at NSERC. You can access the full report and the associated appendices… Read more »

(a pdf of the signed letter is available at the bottom of this page) August 10, 2012 Isabelle Blain, VP NSERC 350 Albert St. Ottawa, Ont K1A 1H5 Dear Isabelle, The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) considers the Research Tools and Instrumentation (RTI) to be a critical program that must be maintained in order to… Read more »

NOTE:  The introduction to the summary is posted below.  The full summary of the multiple choice and long answers, as well as the pdfs of the multiple choice survey responses from the English and French surveys, are attached to this message (links appear at the bottom of this page).   Introduction In May 2012, the… Read more »

To complement a series of meetings and discussions with stakeholders at campuses across Canada, NSERC is now formally consulting on the future support of the Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants Program in light of reductions in available program funding.   From June 29 to September 28, 2012, the research community is invited to provide… Read more »

On May 15, 2012, the CAP President sent the following message to CAP members: CAP Request for Physics Community Feedback on NSERC’s two-step Discovery Grant (DG) Evaluation Process plus the Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) and Major Resources Support (MRS) Programs Discovery Grant Evaluation Process: In 2009, NSERC responded to two external reviews of the… Read more »

The Canadian Association of Physicists’ Educational Trust Fund (CAP-ETF)  and the OSA Foundation (OSAF) are pleased to announce that the inaugural Stoicheff Memorial Graduate scholarship is being awarded to Wilson Brenna from the University of Waterloo who, as as an undergraduate and graduate student, has demonstrated both academic excellence as well as leadership in helping… Read more »

Opening Plenary Speaker at CAP 2012 Congress involved in physics research milestone published today (Mar. 7) in Nature In a paper published online today (Mar. 7) by the journal Nature (www.nature.com/nature/index.html ), the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, reports an important milestone on the way to measuring the properties of antimatter atoms.  In an international effort… Read more »

In an earlier newsletter we reported how, following the removal of the exemption for Natural Scientists from the 2010 Ontario Professional Engineering Act, a joint Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)-Natural Sciences Task Force was assembled and developed recommendations to establish and Overlapping Practices Committee and a national committee, working with Engineers Canada to determine the… Read more »