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The Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (http://cupc.ca), the largest undergraduate non-profit physics conference in North America, will be hosted this year by McMaster University during October 17-20. The conference consists of student talks and poster sessions, plenary lectures by distinguished physicists, lab tours, a graduate fair, and multiple social events. Students involved in research, as well… Read more »

This conference is aimed at young women in all areas of physics, primarily undergraduate and graduate students, as well as early career physicists and postdocs. It will provide an opportunity for the participants to present their research and network with other women physicists. This three-day conference will feature seven invited speakers from a wide range… Read more »

The CAP’s Director of Science Policy would like to draw your attention to an article published on February 27, 2013, in The Ottawa Citizen that covers recent testimony of the National Research Council President about the purpose of the changes at the NRCC. We welcome your comments at cap@uottawa.ca. The article is available in PDF… Read more »

(Note: Community News items are posted in the language of submission.) The European and African Physical Societies, on behalf of a global partnership of over 40 scientific societies, academies and other institutions, in collaboration with the UNESCO International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP), have announced that the UNESCO Executive Board has enthusiastically supported the proposal to… Read more »

(Note: The Community News items are posted in the language of submission.) Margaret Wente published an article in the Globe and Mail article entitled “Gender parity trumps excellence in science?“ There has been a long-standing concern amongst policymakers, economists, and trade unions that female academics face subtle biases in hiring and promotion. The creation of… Read more »

(Note: The Community News items are posted in the language of submission.) The report released by the Council of Canadian Academies builds upon the previous report released in 2006. It was prepared for the Government of Canada in response to a request from the Minister of Industry. The report was prepared by a panel of… Read more »

The American Physical Society has announced that the 2012 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science has been given to Andreas Mandelis for “seminal contributions to the development of new experimental techniques based on photothermal science, and the application of these techniques to a variety of real-world problems.” Dr. Mandelis holds multiple appointments… Read more »

Michel Gingras, Canada Research Chair in Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Mechanics at the University of Waterloo, is one of seven outstanding scholars who have just been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship.  Dr. Gingras will work on “Emerging Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics Effects in Magnetic Pyrochlore Oxides”.  He was awarded the CAP Herzberg Medal in… Read more »

Canada’s top researchers in the natural sciences and engineering have been honoured on February 27th at an awards ceremony hosted by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.  Among them is renowned climate scientist and CAP member Richard Peltier of the University of Toronto, winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal… Read more »

Professor Ian Affleck (Department of Physics, University of British Columbia) has been awarded the 2012 Lars Onsager prize from the American Physical Society, for “developing and applying the ideas and methods of conformal field theory to important problems in statistical and condensed matter physics …”  Ian graduated from Trent University in 1975, and obtained his… Read more »