Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (11:00 am to 5:00 pm, EST) Virtual/Online Only Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the first Canadian Workshop on Accelerator Science and Technology and Applications (CWASTA-2026) will be held as a one-day virtual/online workshop, on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, from 11:00 am to 5:00… Read more »
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New Physics Faculty in Canadian Universities 2026
Welcome to New Physics Faculty Members! We are pleased to welcome the following new faculty members who have joined Canadian Physics Departments since August 2025. 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 news item. Abhijeet Alase,… Read more »
Gilles Brassard receives the 2025 Alan Turing Award
Congratulations to Prof. Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal (OC, ONQ), who has been named a recipient of the prestigious Turing Award in computer science. He shares the award with Charles Bennett, IBM Research. This award celebrates their work establishing the foundations of quantum information science. The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the… Read more »
Congratulations to Igor Herbut, winner of the 2025 Dresden Physics Prize
Dr. Igor Herbut, Professor in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University and long time CAP member, has been awarded the 2025 Dresden Physics Prize. He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to condensed matter, statistical physics, and field theory and for his work supporting young scientists. His works range from supersymmetry over… Read more »
Congratulations to Xiaoyi Bao, winner of NSERC’s Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Science and Engineering Research.
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 »
New Physics Faculty in Canadian Universities 2025
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 »