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Congratulations Malcolm Stott Teaching Assistant Award winners! From left to right:Thomas Faour (Fall 2017), Prof. Stott, Alex Piliounis (Winter 2018), and Kate Fenwick(runner up for Winter 2018). For more details, please visit Malcolm Stott 2017-2018 Winners. (Photo credit: Prof. Dignam)
This past summer, the department provided some financial assistance to one of our Eng Phys undergrads, Peter Carniglia, to assist him in submitting a paper to the IEEE Sensors 2018 conference.

This picture shows Peter at his student tradeshow where he presented his project in poster format at Shirley Bay Centre in Ottawa. Peter had a great Internship experience working at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in Ottawa. (photo provided by: Peter Carniglia)
Peter Revington, an undergraduate student in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, & Astronomy at Queen's, participated in in the Ontario/Rhône-Alpes Summer Research Program in Grenoble, France, at L'Institut de Microélectronique Electromagnétisme et Photonique et le Laboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et de Caractérisation (IMEP-LaHC) during the summer of 2018.

The Department was happy to sponsor Peter in this exciting opportunity. Read more about Peter's Summer Research Program experience. (Photo credit: Peter Revington)
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.

(Image:University Communications Queen's Gazette)
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 joined the Department in July 2018 as a new Engineering Physics Faculty member. Click to read more about Dr. Shastri's featured article in the Optics and Photonics News.

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 12^th. 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).

(Photo credit:Queen's Gazette)
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.

(Photo: Queen's Gazette)
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)

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Employment: Post Doctoral Fellow in Data-science applied to Astrophysics and Particle Astrophysics

Posted: November 11, 2018
Application Deadline: Review of applications will start on January 10, 2019

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Employment: Post Doctoral Fellow with NEWS-G Experiment

Posted: November 5, 2018
Application Deadline: November 15, 2018

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Employment: Tenure-track Position in Experimental Particle Astrophysics

Posted: October 12, 2018
Application Deadline: The first review of applications will begin on January 15, 2019 and will continue thereafter until a successful candidate is found.

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Employment: Tenure-track Position in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Posted: October 12, 2018
Application Deadline: The first review of applications will begin on January 15, 2019 and will continue thereafter until a successful candidate is found.

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Engineering Undergrad Peter Carniglia's Internship Experience

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Peter Revingston's Summer Research Program experience in Grenoble

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Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow—Theory of Carrier Dynamics in Graphene

Posted On: July 11, 2018
Deadline:This position will remain opened until it is filled. Review of the applications will begin August 15, 2018.

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