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Congratulations to the class of 2018 Honours Physics Program!
(Photo credit: Prof. Mark Chen)
Officially opening the Visitor Centre in Stirling Hall. From left: Barbara Crow, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science; Nathalie Ouellette, Communications, Education and Outreach Officer for the McDonald Institute; Tony Noble, Scientific Director of the McDonald Institute; and Benjamin Tam, a graduate student in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy. (Photo by Bernard Clark)
Proving that research is a team effort, past and present Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) employees and their family members gather around the plinth.
For more information, visit Commemorating the Nobel Prize-winning Research.
(University Communications)Congratulations to the winners of the annual physics teaching awards at the Physics Banquet hosted at the Kingston Brew Pub.
Prof. Dignam (left) received the Geoff Lockwood Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching , Prof. Morelli received the Excellence in Instruction in the Engineering Physics Program award, and Prof. Martin Duncan, who was unable to attend, received the Excellence in Instruction in Pure Physics award.
For more pictures of the fun filled evening, please visit Physics Banquet 2018. (Photo Credit: Lucy Lu)
A huge congratulations to an impressive group of fourth year Physics Engineering Students who were all being honoured for being Dean’s Scholars every term of their academic careers at Queen's. In total there were 18 Engineering Physics students being honoured, with 7 able to attend the ceremony.
In the photo, from L to R: Prof. Dignam, Keir Darling, Erin Broatch, Fiona Burns, Dickson Ling, Sebastian Gitt, James Newell, Graeme Daly, Prof. Knobel.
Dr. Webster, who is a graduate of Queen's Engineering Physics, developed the key Laser Depth Dynamics (LDD) technology called Inline Coherent Imaging (ICI) during his PhD under the supervision of Prof. James Fraser. For more information about the purchase of LDD, please visit Inline Coherent Imaging Goes Global.
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Congratulations on your retirement Prof. Duncan!
From left to right: Prof. Duncan, Prof. Levison, wife Martha Hill Duncan, and daughter Claire Duncan at the Faculty Club retirement luncheon. For more pictures of the event please visit Prof. Duncan's retirement.Dr. Shastri will be joining the Department in July 2018 as a new Engineering Physics Faculty member.
Image credit: Optics and Photonics web site
Congratulations! The first CFI grant, lead by Prof. Noble, will be used to build a next generation detector, PICO 500L, that will search for dark matter, while the second grant, lead by Profs. Hughes and Fraser, will be used to establish the Queen’s Nanophotonics Research Centre, which will explore the behaviour of light and light-matter interactions on the nanometre scale. See full article on Queen's Gazette.
(Photo credit: Queen's Gazette)Congratulations! Prof. Kristine Spekkens (cross-appointed from the Royal Military College of Canada) is part of a research team that has secured a $10 million CFI Innovation Fund award for the development of a radio astronomy data centre. Click for more details of the story.
Image Credit: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) showing the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder
Malcolm Stott Teaching Awards were announced on Oct 12th. Congratulations to Matthew McNish (2016 Fall Term winner) and Benjamin Tam (2017 Winter Term winner). Please visit TA Award winners for more details.
(Photo credit: Prof. Marc Dignam)
Congratulations Dr. Schreiner for being elected a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine!
Please click to see the Press Release.
SNOLAB receives $28.8 million in provincial funding from Minister of Research, Innovation and Science, Reza Moridi (center).
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Fourth year Physics student, Iain MacKenzie (left) was sponsored by the Department to participate in the Hult Prize held in Dubai. To read about this year’s focus, his team’s performance and their experience, please read the Hult Prize Sponsorship story.
(Photo: provided by MacKenzie)
The PICO Collaboration, co-led by Prof. Tony Noble of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, have found new exciting results from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector which is a bubble chamber filled with 52kg of C3F8. To read the submitted paper, please visit online at arXiv. (Photo: Queen's Gazette)
Celebrating Professor James Fraser's induction to prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship. From left to right, Provost Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Director-Centre for Teaching & Learning Peter Wolf, Department Head Marc Dignam, Prof. James Fraser.
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Congratulations to professor emeritus Arthur McDonald and the entire SNO Collaboration who have been awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! The $ 3 million prize is shared with four other international experimental collaborations studying neutrino oscillations: The Superkamiokande, Kamland, T2K/K2K and Daya Bay scientific collaborations.
(Background image: Roy Kaltschmidt from LBL)
Congratulations to professor emeritus Arthur McDonald, the co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics!
(Background image: Roy Kaltschmidt from LBL)
The Department of Physics at Queen's University is one of Canada's leading teaching and research institutes in Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy. Our faculty include high-profile, world-class physicists who work on cutting edge areas of theoretical, computational, applied and experimental physics.
Our students have the opportunity to engage in international collaboration as well as inter-disciplinary research with other departments at Queen's, and work in state-of-the-art laboratories.