Grouping: Community News

CUPC 2021 is officially happening November 4-7! Read more below about how to register or volunteer, abstract submissions and the Science Competition & Pre-Conference Networking Night As you may know, the 57th Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC 2021) will be running from November 4th to 7th, 2021. This year, the conference will take place virtually over… Read more »

The call for applications to the 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program is now open. The program supports exceptional early-career researchers with an interdisciplinary, global network, mentorship, leadership development, and $100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support. New members are recruited annually, for a two-year term. Successful candidates will join a community of international researchers addressing… Read more »

Don’t miss Physics Trivia Night on Aug 26! Join the CUWiP Student Advisory Council for their Physics Trivia Night on August 26! The fun-filled evening will feature questions on physics fun facts, sci-fi pop culture, & your favorite physicists! There will be gift card prizes & APS swag bags for our winners. All students are welcome! When:… Read more »

On Friday, April 30th, join us at the ‘rally on wheels’ in your city or participate online to protest the decimation of Laurentian University, the chronic underfunding of post-secondary education, and the political interference by Premier Ford and his government, which has failed to provide emergency funding to Laurentian or to stop the CCAA process—once… Read more »

The CAP would like to congratulate Alberta’s École McTavish High School student, Maryam Tsegaye, for winning the 2020 Breakthrough Junior Challenge for her video about Quantum Tunneling. In June 2020, Maryam uploaded her submission video to Youtube. The video uses the topic of a video game cheat code that allowed her brother to walk through… Read more »

Organized by blackinphysics.org.  Distributed at the request of the Chair of the CAP’s EDI Committee. Black in Physics Week :  a week of professional and social events taking place from  October 25 to 31. The week starts with an Open Mic Night on October 25th and ends with a Virtual Murder Mystery Halloween Party on October… Read more »

David J. Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, passed away from a brief and sudden illness on May 8th (unrelated to the current pandemic).  Professor Rowe pioneered (with his then graduate student George Rosensteel) the symplectic shell model, based on the Lie algebra sp(6,R), which anchors the microscopic description of collective rotational bands in nuclei. … Read more »

October is Dark Matter Month! Physics institutions and organizations around the world have been sharing their science and showing folks that there’s no need to be afraid of the dark. An initiative of the Interactions Collaboration, Dark Matter Month is an opportunity to share the science behind one of the universe’s biggest unanswered questions. It… Read more »

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 »