The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”, with one half to Arthur Ashkin (US) and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (U.Waterloo, Canada). Dr. Ashkin is recognized for his… Read more »
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2018 Best Student Presentation
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 28 February 2018, midnight UTC The CAP is hosting The Best Student Paper Oral and The Best Student Poster competitions at the 2018 CAP Congress. There will be cash prizes awarded by the CAP for the top three overall oral presentations by a student and for the top three overall poster… Read more »
CAP Best Student Poster Presentation Competition 2017 – GUIDELINES
Students who submit an abstract with a poster preference may opt to participate in the best student poster competition which will be judged on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, with judges’ previewing during the afternoon and interacting with presenters during the evening poster session. Eligibility, selection procedure, and selection criteria are as follows: the student must be a… Read more »
GUIDELINES for Best Student Paper Competition
Students who submit an abstract with an oral preference may opt to participate in the Best Student Paper competition. The competition itself will be conducted in two stages: (1) the student will first present a talk in a division technical session; and (2) the finalists will present their talks a second time in the final… Read more »
2017 Best Student Presentation Competition
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 28 February 2017, midnight UTC The CAP is hosting The Best Student Paper Oral and The Best Student Poster competitions at the 2017 CAP Congress. There will be cash prizes awarded by the CAP for the top three overall oral presentations by a student and for the top three overall poster… Read more »
Stoicheff Scholarship – Winners
2020 The 2020 CAP-Optica Foundation Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Matthew Robbins of the University of Waterloo by the Optica Foundation. 2019 The 2019 CAP-Optica Foundation Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship was awarded to An Pan, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), China by the Optica Foundation. 2018 The 2018… Read more »
DTP Prizes and Awards
In April each year, the Division of Theoretical Physics (DTP) and the Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics (WITP) will award one DTP/WITP P.R. Wallace Thesis Prize to a student receiving a PhD degree in Physics from a Canadian University. The thesis must be in theoretical physics and completed (final version) less than 2 years before… Read more »
DCMMP Prizes and Awards
2020 DCMMP PhD Thesis Award Competition Deadline for entry: February 28, 2020 The Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (DCMMP) of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics PhD Thesis award competition. This award competition, which will be held as part of the CAP Annual… Read more »
DAMOPC Prizes and Awards
The Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Canada (DAMOPC) Doctoral Thesis Prize CAP Outstanding Student Paper Award in AMO Physics Best Student Presentation Doctoral Thesis Prize The Division awards a biennial PhD thesis prize in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Nominations are accepted until the application deadline of 31 January of even years (next… Read more »
The CAP salutes winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prizes
2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics The 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to Joseph Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara); Andrew Strominger (Harvard University; Perimeter Institute Distinguished Visiting Research Chair); and Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University) “for transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity” at a Gala Ceremony in… Read more »