CAP member Xiaoyi Bao has been awarded the 2025 winner of NSERC’s Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Science and Engineering Research in recognition of her novel Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) technology that transforms ordinary optical fibres into ultra-sensitive “ears” that detect stress, cracks, and vibrations in infrastructure ranging from bridges and pipelines… Read more »
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New Physics Faculty in Canadian Universities
Welcome to New Physics Faculty Members! We are pleased to welcome the following new faculty members who have joined Canadian Physics Departments since August 2024. This list was compiled from data provided by physics departments. If you have been missed, please contact us at info@cap.ca and we will update the news item on the CAP… Read more »
Congratulations to four Canadian physicists appointed 2025 Fellows of the American Physical Society
Congratulations to CAP members David Sénéchal and Zong-Chao Yan, and to Canadian physicists Stephen Hughes and Christopher Wiebe, for their recent appointment as 2025 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). Visit the APS website to see the full list of 2025 APS Fellowships and the archive of previous winners. David Sénéchal Université de Sherbrooke… Read more »
Congratulations to the three U.S. recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded to three scientists for their work in quantum mechanics. The official citation reads: “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”. The 2025 Nobel prize will be shared equally by:… Read more »
Congratulations – Four CAP members join the Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to CAP members Kipp Cannon (Research Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo) and Ingrid Stairs (U. British Columbia) for their recent appointment as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and to CAP members Delphine Bouilly (Université de Montréal) and Steven Rayan (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. Saskatchewan) for their appointments to the RSC College. Read the full… Read more »
The CAP is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Raymond Laflamme
Dr. Laflamme was the founding director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a recipient of the prestigious CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. He was internationally renowned for his pioneering work on quantum error correction—foundational research that helped pave the… Read more »
2025 Breakthrough Prize in Physics Awarded to Four Experimental Collaborations at CERN
The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Physics has been awarded to thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries representing four experimental collaborations, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The citation on the website of the Breakthrough Prize reads: “For detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass… Read more »
Physicist Winners of the 2025 Killam Prizes and Dorothy Killam Fellowships
The CAP congratulates Professor René Doyon, Université de Montréal, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Experimental Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science, and Director of the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets and the Mont-Mégantic Observatory, who has been awarded the 2025 Killam Prize in Natural Sciences for his work in experimental astrophysics and the study of… Read more »
Congratulations to Paul Corkum, Winner of the 2025 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research
CAP member Paul Corkum, National Research Council and the University of Ottawa, has been announced as the winner of the 2025 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research, the largest prize awarded by the American Physical Society. The award is in recognition of “the synthesis of plasma physics, strong-field spectroscopy, and electron scattering concepts to… Read more »
New Physics Faculty in Canadian Universities
Welcome to New Physics Faculty Members! We are pleased to welcome the following new faculty members who have joined Canadian Physics Departments since August 2023. This list was compiled from data provided by physics departments. If you have been missed, please contact us at info@cap.ca and we will update this webpage. George Bepete, Concordia University;… Read more »