Congratulations to CAP members Kipp Cannon (Research Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo) and Ingrid Stairs (U. British Columbia) for their recent appointment as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and to CAP members Delphine Bouilly (Université de Montréal) and Steven Rayan (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. Saskatchewan) for their appointments to the RSC College. Read the full Royal Society of Canada press release about the complete RSC Class of 2025.
Fellows
Dr. Kipp Cannon (Research Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo) has made extensive contributions to the field of observational gravitational-wave astronomy. The signal processing systems he has developed based on his theoretical work on the use of selftraining algorithms for signal detection in noisy data have made numerous discoveries of exotic astronomical phenomena. He is an advocate for open software and hardware, and advocates for repeatability and transparency in science, particularly regarding research that rests on computational results.
Dr. Ingrid Stairs (Department of Physics, University of British Columbia) is a leading expert in radio observations of pulsars, using these fast spinning compact stars to study matter at high densities and to test Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. She is a founding member of the NANOGrav collaboration, which in 2023 announced evidence for a stochastic low-frequency gravitational-wave background. She is also part of the team using the Canadian CHIME telescope to discover Fast Radio Bursts and new pulsars. For more information, please read the full University of British Columbia press release.
College Members
Dr. Delphine Bouilly (Département de physique, Université de Montréal) holds the Canada Research Chair in bionanoelectronics and is internationally recognized for her expertise on the interactions between molecules and nanomaterials in miniaturized electrical circuits. Principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), she leads an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on nanoelectronic sensors, to study biological molecules in unexplored spatial and temporal ranges and to develop biomedical sensor technologies.
Dr. Steven Rayan (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan) is a world-leading expert in algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, and quantum science. Having received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, Dr. Rayan is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan and Director of the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA). Featured in Scientific American and other high-profile venues, he uses mathematical perspectives to unlock the full potential of quantum computing and anticipate the next phase of this potentially transformative technology. For more information, please read the full University of Saskatchewan press release.