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The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for “the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes.” The $3 million prize will be shared equally with 347 scientists co-authoring any of the six papers published by the EHT on… Read more »

The CAP congratulates CAP member Matt Dobbs, McGill University, who was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship for his research on Unveiling the Cosmos with a New Paradigm Digital Radio Telescope. The Killam research fellowships provide outstanding scholars across all disciplines with two years of release time from teaching and administrative duties so they can carry out… Read more »

A small group of Ontario researchers believe they may have solved the origins of life mystery. The results come from early experiments run in a planet simulator at McMaster University‘s new Origins of Life Laboratory, which started running this summer. The simulator — the centrepiece of the facility — is testing a theory that suggests life… Read more »

An international team of scientists, including a Canadian team led by CAP member, Dr. Darren Grant from the University of Alberta, has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. “The results released today are a true demonstration of the potential of the rapidly emerging fields of neutrino and multimessenger astronomy. The… Read more »

CAP Member and Queens University graduate student Kate Fenwick is in Paris, France representing Canada at the International Association of Physics Students delectation at the UNESCO International Day of Light Celebrations. She is joined by fellow CAP Member Prof. Chitra Rangan, University of Windsor who was the Canadian coordinator for the International Year of Light in… Read more »

A Queen’s University-based national astroparticle physics research network has been named after Nobel laureate and longtime CAP member Arthur McDonald. “The new Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute is a partnership of eight universities and five affiliated research organizations, including CIFAR. Headquartered at Queen’s University, the institute came to fruition as a result of the… Read more »

Canadian researchers played a major role in an international collaboration that has gained new insight into the most elusive of the four fundamental forces in nature, the weak force. The Q-weak experiment has revealed the strength of the weak force’s grip on the proton, by measuring the proton’s weak charge to high precision. The research… Read more »

The CAP congratulates CAP members James Pinfold, René Doyon, and Yong Baek Kim who received 2018 Killam awards, as follows: James Pinfold, University of Alberta, was awarded a 2019 Killam Prize. He is a distinguished professor and internationally renowned particle physicist who, in 1997, became the youngest ever leader of an international collider experiment. Since… Read more »

Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s leading theoretical physicist died at his home in Cambridge, England early this morning (March 14, 2018). Prof. Hawking was appointed distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Nov. 2008.  He travelled to Canada several times, including visits to SNOLAB in 1998 and 2012 and the Perimeter Institute in… Read more »

The CAP congratulates CAP members Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo/Institute for Quantum Computing and David Sinclair from Carleton University/SNOLAB, as well as Canadian physicist, Sajeev John of the University of Toronto, who were invested as Officers of the Order of Canada as well as John W. Hilborn of Deep River, ON who was invested as a… Read more »