The Canadian Association of Physicists decries the situation in Ukraine in the strongest terms and we wish to express our deepest solidarity with the Ukrainian people. We speak on behalf of the Physics Community in Canada and especially on behalf of Canadian physicists with family, friends and collaborators in Ukraine. We commend all institutions that… Read more »
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Season’s Greetings and Year-End CAP Program Updates
On behalf of the CAP, we would like to thank you for your support in 2021 and to wish you the very best in 2022. Please click here to read our December 2021 News Bulletin where you can find updates on the following: Greetings from the CAP President CAP Contracts a Professional Management Team 2021 CAP… Read more »
CAP is deeply saddened by the loss of Robin L. Armstrong, CAP Past President
It is with considerable sadness that we learned that Robin Armstrong, President of the CAP from 1990-91, passed away from heart failure on Friday, December 17th. Robin was born in 1935 and was raised in Hespeler (now part of Cambridge) Ontario. He enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto (U of T) in… Read more »
2021 CAP Medal Recipients Announced
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and its medal partners are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 CAP medals. Mark Your Calendars — A series of virtual plenary medal talks to honour the 2021 medal recipients will be organized on Dec. 17 and 20. Once finalized, the detailed talk schedule will be posted… Read more »
Congratulations to CAP member Sajeev John on receiving NSERC’s 2021 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
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 2021 November 17, the NSERC Herzberg Medal was awarded to Prof. Sajeev John from the Department of Physics at the University… Read more »
Call for Host Departments for 2022 CAP Lecture Tour Speakers
DEADLINE: 23h59 EST SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2021 As you are aware, due to ongoing health and safety challenges from COVID-19, the 2022 CAP Lecture Tour will be a hybrid format with each speaker giving a single talk at a host institution within one of the six CAP regions, live-streamed so students from across Canada (and… Read more »
Congratulations to Murat Yessenov, this year’s recipient of the Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship
Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship Congratulations Murat Yessenov (CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA)! Murat is a Ph.D. student in the optics program, CREOL, at the University of Central Florida. He got his B.Sc. in Physics at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, where he did undergraduate research in elementary particle physics. Currently, Murat is involved in… Read more »
Employment Opportunities / Opportunités d’emplois
For your convenience, the full list of current postings appears below. The actual employment postings with details on how to apply are available on this page of the CAP website. Do you have a position you would like to post to the CAP employment/opportunities page and have circulated to the group subscribed to the CAP… Read more »
2021 Federal Budget provides new funding for quantum technology, artificial intelligence, clean energy technologies, life sciences and student internships
This summary was prepared by: Daniel Banks, PhD, MBA President, TVB Associates Inc. Consultant for Science Policy, Strategy, and Communications Member of the CAP Science Policy Committee Jump to Related Excerpts from the 2021 Federal Budget: Launching a National Quantum Strategy Revitalizing the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre Renewing the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy Supporting… Read more »
Closure of Physics Programs at Laurentian University
A pdf of the CAP statement below can be obtained here. We encourage all CAP members, their colleagues, students, and postdocs, to participate in any or all of the following avenues of support: Use this form-letter to send a message to your MP Send a letter by e-mail to same group to whom the CAP… Read more »