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 »
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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 »
EDI Survey Team Releases Preliminary Survey Participant Demographics
Canadian Physics Counts – Preliminary Survey Participant Demographics Released In November 2020, the CAP EDI Survey Team launched the largest-ever survey of the Canadian physics community. The bilingual survey received over three-thousand responses, giving the team the statistical power to investigate research questions that have never been studied before. The survey’s primary objective was to… Read more »
EDI Survey Team Releases Preliminary Survey Participant Demographics
Canadian Physics Counts – Preliminary Survey Participant Demographics Released In November 2020, the CAP EDI Survey Team launched the largest-ever survey of the Canadian physics community. The bilingual survey received over three-thousand responses, giving the team the statistical power to investigate research questions that have never been studied before. The survey’s primary objective was… Read more »
2021 CAP Lecture Series – First talk is this Mon, Feb 8!
2021 CAP Lecture Series starts February 8th! The 2021 CAP Lecture Series is an influential and energizing event for undergraduate students in physics departments across Canada. The series features presentations that span a wide range of current topics in physics. Due to the current pandemic, this year’s tour will be held in a virtual format, delivered over… Read more »