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13th Astro Night

Apr 2013: About 80 people attend 13th public Astro Night

On April 18th, around 80 people attended Yashar Hezaveh's talk Looking through the Largest Telescopes of the Universe. (...)»
Saverio Biunno

Apr 2013: Saverio Biunno awarded the Faculty of Science Excellence Award

Saverio Biunno will be awarded this year's Faculty of Science Excellence Award. (...)»
Peter Grütter

Apr 2013: Peter Grütter will be the new Chair of the Department

Starting June 1st, 2013, Peter Grütter will serve as Chair of the Department of Physics. (...)»
Gravitational Lense

Mar 2013: ALMA rewrites history of the Universe's stellar baby boom

ALMA, a revolutionary radio telescope, has opened its eyes and McGill physicists, as a part of the South Pole Telescope collaboration, (...)»
Gabriel Denicol

Mar 2013: Gabriel Denicol wins a Banting Fellowship

Dr. Gabriel Denicol has been awarded a 2013 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. (...)»
Victoria Kaspi

Mar 2013: Victoria Kaspi to be awarded the 2013 Peter G. Martin Award

Victoria Kaspi will be awarded the Peter G. Martin Award at the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) Annual General Meeting (...)»
11th Astro Night

Feb 2013: Record attendance of 140 for the 11th public Astro Night

On Feb 21st, 140 people attended the great lecture given by Physics Prof. Robert Brandenberger: What was before the Big Bang?. (...)»
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Feb 2013: Shaun Lovejoy's book to launch in March

The weather and Climate: Emergent laws and multifractal cascades, written by Shaun Lovejoy and Daniel Schertzer, will be launched by Cambridge University Press on March 11, 2013. (...)»
Jack Sankey

Feb 2013: Jack Sankey awarded a Sloan fellowship

Jack Sankey has been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (...)»
Alex Maloney

Jan 2013: Alex Maloney awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics

Alex Maloney has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. (...)»
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Jan 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Julien Pinel

Julien Pinel has successfully defended his PhD thesis (The anisotropic space-time scaling of the atmosphere: turbulence and waves). (...)»
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Jan 2013: Victoria Kaspi to be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Victoria Kaspi will be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, administered by the Office of the Governor General, (...)»
Guo, Jeon, Kaspi and Provatas

Jan 2013: Four Physics professors get 34.7 M cpu-hours from Compute Canada

In this year's allocation, Compute Canada has awarded Hong Guo, Sangyong Jeon, Victoria Kaspi and Nikolas Provatas close to 34.7 million processor-hours (...)»
Guy Moore and Paul Wiseman

Jan 2013: Guy Moore and Paul Wiseman recommended for full professorships

Guy Moore and Paul Wiseman have been recommended for promotion to Full Professorships in Physics (Guy) and in Chemistry and Physics - joint - (Paul) (...)»
10th Astro Night

Jan 2013: Seventy people attended the 10th public Astro Night

Despite the bitter cold, 70 people attended Michel Burelle's lecture The Space Race: Venturing out of the cradle, on the Wings of Apollo (...)»
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Dec 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Alexander van Engelen

Alexander van Engelen has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Large-Scale Structure). (...)»
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Dec 2012: ATLAS, CMS and Babar among Physics World's 2012 Top 10 Breakthroughs.

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have won the Physics World Breakthough of the Year award for "the joint discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the LHC". Four McGill Physics faculty are part of the ATLAS collaboration: (...)»
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Dec 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Sara Najem

Sara Najem has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Generalized Model for Chemotactic and Chemotropic Effects Coupled to Actin Dynamics: A Phase Field Approach). (...)»
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Nov 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Dudley

Jonathan Dudley has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Cosmological parameter estimation using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy cluster abundances). (...)»
9th Astro Night

Nov 2012: Seventy people attended the 9th public Astro Night

On Nov. 15th, for the 9th public astro night, 70 people attended the lecture on supernova explosions by Stephen Ng, (...)»
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Oct 2012: Three McGill Physics winners at the 2012 CUPC

At the 2012 Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference held at UBC, 3 McGill Physics students were among the winners: (...)»
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Oct 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Fang Chen

Fang Chen has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Three Topics in Gauge/Gravity Duality). (...)»
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Oct 2012: Congratulations to Dr. François Aubin

François Aubin has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Detector readout electronics for EBEX: a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarimeter). (...)»
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Oct 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Paul Franche

Paul Franche has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Towards New Classes of Flux Compactifications). (...)»
Alex Maloney

Oct 2012: McGill researchers explore big questions about universe

A research team led by Alex Maloney is among the winners of the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology International Grant and Essay Competition (...)»
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Sep 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Alisha Wissanji

Alisha Wissanji has successfully defended her PhD thesis (F-theory and M-theory perspectives on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions). (...)»
Guy Moore

Sep 2012: Guy Moore wins the 2012 RSC's Rutherford Medal

Guy Moore has been awarded the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics by the Royal Society of Canada (...)»
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Sep 2012: McGill ranked 18th worldwide

In the 2012 QS university rankings, McGill University ranked 18th worldwide (...)»