Contact your MP! – increased support for students is needed CAP Submits brief to Finance Committee re 2023 Federal Budget Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System – input accepted until December 1st Contact your MP! – increased support for students is needed You have probably noticed a significant initiative, led by the… Read more »
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CAP Submission to HoC Finance Committee re 2023 Federal Budget
As every year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has invited Canadians to participate in the planning of the 2023 Federal Budget. CAP’s Science Policy Committee prepared a strong submission stating that the financial status of HQC trainees be reviewed with a view to ensuring adequate Government investment in this important resource. It… Read more »
Meet the first CAP Fellows (FCAP)
First CAP Fellowships Awarded Congratulations to our inaugural Fellows The Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Physicists has initiated a process to establish a Fellowship Program. The CAP Fellowship Program will recognize CAP members who have made important contributions in physics research, in physics teaching, in the advancement of technology, or in service to… Read more »
CAP Statement on the Ukraine Situation
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 »
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 »