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Nominations are sought for the Young Scientist Prizes in Semiconductor Physics awarded by the IUPAP C8 Commission on Semiconductors. Two prizes are awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to semiconductor physics and its applications, made by early career scientists with, at the application deadline of Dec. 31, 2017, a maximum of 8 years of research experience… Read more »

The American Physics Society’s George E. Pake Award was established in 1983 to recognize and encourage outstanding work by physicists combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry. The 2018 prize was awarded this week to Richard Boudreault of Polar Knowledge Canada “for outstanding research accomplishments in electronics,… Read more »

Women in Physics Canada (WIPC) is a conference aimed primarily at (but not restricted to) graduate students in physics, astrophysics, biophysics and related fields. The conference is generally held in the summer period; the format of the conference consists of student presentations, keynote lectures, panel discussions and opportunities for networking. The WIPC steering committee is… Read more »

The International Conference of Physics Students was held August 7 – 14, 2017, in Turin, Italy.  UBC student, Jenny Yang was in attendance, representing Canada and the CAP. At the conference, Ms. Yang was awarded 3rd place for her poster: Identifying Functional Clusters of Genes from Energy Landscapes in Autoencoders for Personalized Therapy in Medicine… Read more »

2017 June 16 CAP member, David Villeneuve (NRC/UOttawa), leads team that captures the first-ever holographic images of the quantum wave function of an electron; research results published in June 16 edition of Science. A team of physicists from the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Canada, the Max-Born Institute… Read more »

From July 2016 to March 2017, CERN invited schools from around the world to submit a proposal for a scientific experiment on their beam line, with the winning teams being given the opportunity to travel to CERN to run their experiment at the CERN accelerator in September 2017. The two winning schools are from Italy… Read more »

It started with a bang… and it ended with us, having fun with the challenge of understanding it all. Thus spoke 2015 Nobel Laureate Prof. Arthur B. McDonald, who presented a sweeping account of his career addressing the deep, dark questions of our universe during the Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture at the Isabel Bader Centre… Read more »

The 2020-2025 Five-Year Plan will be shaped in part through broad community consultation. Hosted at TRIUMF, Science Week is scheduled from July 10-14, 2017 and will play a crucial role in this consultative process. Science Week 2017 will consist of topical workshops from Monday through Thursday, followed by the TRIUMF User Group (TUG) Annual General… Read more »

The CAP congratulates CAP member Louis Taillefer, Université de Sherbrooke, who was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship for his research on High-temperature Superconductivity. Killiam Fellowships were also awarded to Canadian physicists Christine Wilson, McMaster University, and Roberto Abraham, University of Toronto. Dr. Wilson was recognized for her work on Dense Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies:… Read more »