On behalf of the CAP, we would like to thank you for your support in 2020 and to wish you the very best in 2021. In this news bulletin, you can find updates on the following: President’s Message The CAP celebrates 70 Years since incorporation 2021 CAP Lecture Tour 2021 CAP Congress 2021 CAP Medals,… Read more »
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2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Award Recipients Announced (thank you to our sponsors)
13 November 2020 The CAP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards The Canadian Association of Physicists and our award partners highlighted below join members of our physics and high school/cégep teaching communities in congratulating the winners of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards. We are very proud of… Read more »
The CAP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards
The Canadian Association of Physicists and our award partners highlighted below join members of our physics and high school/cégep teaching communities in congratulating the winners of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards. We are very proud of these exemplary recipients. 2020 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (Ontario) is awarded to Shawn… Read more »
The CAP and its medal partners present the recipients of the 2020 CAP medals
The Canadian Association of Physicists joins members of our community in congratulating the winners of the 2020 CAP medals. We are very proud of these exemplary recipients and look forward to their medal talk presentations in the near future. Details will follow as soon as the schedule has been finalized. 2020 CAP Medal for Excellence in… Read more »
Invitation to participate in the first annual CAP EDI survey
We invite you to share this survey invitation with anyone who either (1) has a physics degree and is working/residing in Canada; or (2) is a student pursuing a physics degree at a Canadian institution. Click here to download a file of CAP_Survey_SocialMedia images (English and French) EXTENDED DEADLINE — (Survey closes 23h59 EST on… Read more »
The 2020 Inaugural Allan Carswell Physics Educator Scholarships
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the inaugural Allan Carswell Physics Educator Scholarships are being awarded to two outstanding aspiring physics educators. With the help of the Allan Carswell Physics Educator Scholarship, valued at up to $5000 each, the winners will pursue a career in physics education at the secondary school… Read more »
Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship Congratulations Matthew Robbins! The CAP is pleased to announce that the 2020 Stoicheff Scholarship is awarded to Matthew Robbins, University of Waterloo, for leadership in developing the theory of Bose-Einstein condensates as a novel detector of gravitational waves that would open a new window on the universe for astronomical… Read more »
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded with one half to Roger Penrose of the Univ. of Oxford (UK), for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel,… Read more »
Dr. Robert Mann, University of Waterloo, appointed Editor-in-Chief for Canadian Journal of Physics
As of August 2024, Dr. Robert Mann has been appointed as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP). CSP is now accepting applications for the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the CJP. More info here. The CAP would like to officially congratulate former CAP President, Dr. Robert Mann, on his appointment as Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal… Read more »
Survey: 2021 CAP Virtual Congress
28 August 2020 Dear CAP members, Given the difficult circumstances we are all working under at the moment the CAP Board has decided to hold the 2021 annual CAP congress as a virtual conference. Following our traditional timing, we are looking at holding the conference in the week starting June 7. The organizing… Read more »