Grouping: CAP News

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 »

The 15 member Joint Engineering and Natural Scientists Task Force (JENSTF) which included representatives from 7 Natural Science Societies has submitted it’s report to PEO Council (attached below) and the two major recommendations have been accepted. The CAP was represented by Paul Vincett and Henry van Driel (who also served as co-chair). PEO Council unanimously… Read more »

Beginning in 2011, Canadians will no longer have free access to the NRC e-journals; however, NRC Research Press is offering a special rate to CAP members for the Canadian Journal of Physics. Canadian members – $50 CAD + tax for the e-subscription; $160 CAD + tax for print. Members residing outside of Canada – $50… Read more »

Over the past two years, CAP has been lobbying for the federal government to take steps toward construction of a new multipurpose research reactor. For example, in its brief to the House of Commons Finance Committee in August 2010, CAP called for “a formal engineering design, costing, and business analysis”. There is now concrete evidence… Read more »

It is with profound sadness that the CAP learned today of the passing of Randy Kobes on Sunday, September 19th. Dr. Kobes passed away after a recent battle with lung cancer. Dr. Kobes, Associate Dean of Science at the University of Winnipeg, has been a CAP member since 1988. He was Regional Councillor in 1992-1993… Read more »