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Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Oulin Yu

Oulin Yu has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Temperature Independent Anomalous Hall Effect in Thin Bismuth). (...)»

Nov 2024: Brad Siwick awarded a Canada Research Chair

Brad Siwick has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC), Tier 1 in Dynamics in Complex Materials (...)»

Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Simon Guichandut

Simon Guichandut has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Convection and Outflows from Accreting Neutron Stars during Thermonuclear Flashes). (...)»

Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. David Santiago Ayala Alvarez

David Santiago Ayala Alvarez has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Dosimetry in intraoperative radiotherapy for glioblastoma using the INTRABEAM). (...)»

Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Julien Bancheri

Julien Bancheri has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Advances in ultra-high dose rate radiation therapy). (...)»

Nov 2024: Congratulations to Daryl Haggard

Daryl Haggard has been awarded an NSERC 2024 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship (...)»

Oct 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Lucas Darroch

Lucas Darroch has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Testing silicon photomultipliers with vacuum-ultraviolet light for nEXO). (...)»

Oct 2024: Congratulations to Adrian Liu

Professor Adrian Liu is the winner of the 2023-2024 President's Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Assistant Professor. (...)»

Oct 2024: Congratulations to Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia

Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia is the winner of the 2023-2024 President's Award for Administrative and Support Staff (...)»

Sep 2024: Congratulations to Alessandro Ambler

Alessandro Ambler has been awarded the 2024 Yablonovitch Research Prize for his thesis "First Observation of the Simultaneous Production of a W boson and two photons in proton-proton collisions, (...)»

Sep 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Anan Lu

Anan Lu has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Star formation efficiency in bulges: an observational investigation of eight nearby galaxies with rich molecular gas but low star formation rate). (...)»

Sep 2024: Congratulations to Brigitte Vachon

Briggite Vachon has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (...)»

Aug 2024: 2024 Edith Engelberg Teaching Award

Jiao Hao and Simon Guichandut are the co-winners of the 2024 Edith Engelberg Teaching Award, (...)»

Aug 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Fodor

Andrea Fodor has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Measurement of the Branching Fraction of Charmless Semileptonic B Meson Decays and the Quark-Mixing Matrix Element |Vub| with the Belle II Experiment). (...)»

Jul 2024: Exploring the Cosmos from the Ends of the Earth

Watch Cynthia Chiang's presentation Exploring the Cosmos from the Ends of the Earth at this years' National Geographic Explorers Festival, (...)»

Jul 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Tim Hallat

Tim Hallat has successfully defended his PhD thesis (On the formation of planets in the Milky Way's thick disk). (...)»

Jul 2024: Pioneering women in nuclear and radiation sciences

Mirta Dumancic and Shirin A. Enger of the Medical Physics Unit have recently published a paper on the contributions of a selected group of pioneering women in radiation science, including McGill's Harriet Brooks, (...)»

Jul 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Alessandro Ambler

Alessandro Ambler has successfully defended his PhD thesis (First observation of the simultaneous production of a W boson and two photons in proton-proton collisions). (...)»

Jul 2024: Dr. Raynette van Tonder receives a Walter-Benjamin Fellowship

Dr. Raynette van Tonder, a postdoc with the McGill Belle II group, has received a prestigious Walter-Benjamin Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) (...)»

Jun 2024: Daryl Haggard's Canada Research Chair renewed

Daryl Haggard's Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics has been renewed for another five years. (...)»

Jun 2024: Congratulations to Adrian Liu

Adrian Liu has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in Physics with tenure (...)»

May 2024: Katelin Schutz appointed CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

Katelin Schutz is one of the ten 2024-2026 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars (...)»

May 2024: Brigitte Vachon awarded the 2023/24 John David Jackson Award

Brigitte Vachon has won the Department of Physics John David Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (...)»

May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. François Bourassa

François Bourassa has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Low-dimensional models of immune sensing and signaling). (...)»

May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Veng Jean Heng

Veng Jean Heng has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Towards a clinical implementation of mixed electron-photon radiation therapy). (...)»

May 2024: Lauren Kay awarded the Faculty of Science Excellence Award

Lauren Kay has been awarded this year's Faculty of Science Excellence Award in the Clerical category.. (...)»

Apr 2024: Congratulations to Robert Brandenberger

Robert Brandenberger is one of the recipients of the 2024 Canadian Association of Physicists Fellowships (...)»

Apr 2024: Nik Provatas awarded CAP's medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics

NiKolas Provatas has been awarded the 2024 CAP medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics. (...)»

Apr 2024: Congratulations to Soud Al Kharusi

Soud Al Kharusi has won this year's CAP Particle Physics Division (PPD) Thesis Award for his thesis Water-Cherenkov Muon Veto For The nEXO Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment (...)»

Apr 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Hockenbery

Zachary Hockenbery has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Precision mass measurements of neutron-deficient strontium and commissioning of an HPGe array for in-trap decay spectroscopy at the TITAN EBIT). (...)»

Mar 2024: Katelin Schutz awarded a Canada Research Chair

Katelin Schutz has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC), Tier 2 in Astrophysics Beyond the Standard Model, (...)»

Mar 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Tristan Britt

Tristan Britt has successfully defended his PhD thesis (A systematic study of phonon dynamics at the 2D limit and beyond: an ab-initio view of ultrafast diffuse scattering). (...)»

Feb 2024: Congratulations to Laura Gonzalez Escudero

Laura Gongalez Escudero has won this year's Best Presentation in Experimental Physics at the Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference. (...)»

Feb 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Rigel Zifkin

Rigel Zifkin has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Coupling Single Diamond Defects to Cryogenic Open Microcavities). (...)»

Feb 2024: Congratulations to Benjamin Dringoli

PhD student and co-founder of startup company TRAQC was announced the winner of the $10,000 top prize at the 14th annual SPIE Startup Challenge. (...)»

Dec 2023: Congratulations to Catherine Boisvert

PhD student Catherine Boisvert and her teammates from the Tokyo Inst. of Technology won a team competition spanning several days last week in Japan. (...)»

Nov 2023: Congratulations to Simon Caron-Huot

Simon Caron-Huot has been awarded the 2023 Larkin Junior Researcher Award from the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (...)»

Nov 2023: Congratulations to Hannah Fronenberg

Hannah Fronenberg has won the 2023 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation - Internatipnal (...)»

Nov 2023: Congratulations to Brandon Ruffolo

Brandon Ruffolo has received the 2023 Principal's Award for Administrative and Support Staff (...)»

Nov 2023: Congratulations to Martin Grant

Martin Grant has been awarded the 2023 Morty Yalovsky Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academic Leadership (...)»

Nov 2023: Congratulations to Nic Cowan

Nic Cowan has been awarded an NSERC 2023 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship (...)»

Oct 2023: Congratulations to Dr. John McGowan

John McGowan has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Measurement of the production of a photon and a W boson in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS Detector). (...)»

Oct 2023: Congratulations to Charles, Ken and Mark

Charles Gale, Ken Ragan and Mark Sutton are among the recipients of the 2023 Canadian Association of Physicists Fellowships (...)»

Sep 2023: Congratulations to Matt and Simon

Matt Dobbs has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Simon Caron-Huot has been elected member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. (...)»

Aug 2023: Congratulations to Paul Wiseman

Paul Wiseman has been awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Biophysical Society of Canada (BSC). (...)»

Aug 2023: Aaron Pearlman wins a Banting Fellowship

Dr. Aaron Pearlman has been awarded a 2022-2023 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. (...)»

Aug 2023: Congratulations to Matthew Heffernan

Matthew Heffernan has won the 2024 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics awarded by the American Physical Society for his thesis Quantification of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with statistical learning. (...)»

Jun 2023: Cynthia Chiang awarded the 2022/23 John David Jackson Award

Cynthia Chiang has won the Department of Physics John David Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (...)»

Jun 2023: 2023 Community Building Award

Alice Curtin is the winner of the 2023 Department of Physics Community Building Award, (...)»

Jun 2023: 2023 Edith Engelberg Teaching Award

Michel Adamič and Nicolas Miró Fortier are the co-winners of the 2023 Edith Engelberg Teaching Award, (...)»

May 2023: Congratulations to Cynthia Chiang

Cynthia Chiang has been granted tenure by the Board of Governors at its recent meeting. (...)»

May 2023: Congratulations to Michael Pagano

Dr. Michael Pagano has been awarded this year's D.W. Ambridge Prize for his thesis “Connecting Theory to Observations in 21cm Cosmology: Development of Theoretical Tools and Mitigation of Systematics”, (...)»

Mar 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Hossein Naseri

Hossein Naseri has successfully defended his PhD thesis (The use of radiomics and natural language processing to detect pain in the simulation-CT images of patients undergoing radiotherapy for bone metastasis). (...)»

Mar 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Félix Proulx-Giraldeau

Félix Proulx-Giraldeau has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Guided by evolution: biophysical mechanisms of homeostasis, control and adaptation in cells). (...)»

Mar 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Frick

Matthew Frick has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Improvements to the thermodynamic and kinetic consistency of the Phase Field Crystal model). (...)»

Mar 2023: Dominic Ryan selected as one of the 2022 Outstanding Reviewers by the IOP

Dominic Ryan is one the recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Awards (...)»

Mar 2023: Lily Childress named Outstanding Referee by the APS

Lily Childress is one of the 153 2023 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review journals. (...)»

Mar 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Mohit Bhardwaj

Mohit Bhardwaj has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Deciphering the Origins of FRBs Using Local Universe CHIME/FRB Discoveries). (...)»

Mar 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Wakeling

Hannah Wakeling has successfully defended her PhD thesis (A measurement of the denominators of R(D(*)) with 189 inverse femtobarns of Belle II data). (...)»

Feb 2023: Alex Maloney appointed James McGill Professor

Alex Maloney has been appointed James McGill Professor. (...)»

Feb 2023: Eve Lee awarded the 2022 Vainu Bappu Gold Medal

Eve Lee has been awarded the 2022 Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India. (...)»

Jan 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Zezhou Liu

Zezhou Liu has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Spatial organization and dynamics of multiple DNA molecules confined in a nanofluidic cavity). (...)»

Jan 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Paul Jreidini

Paul Jreidini has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Novel developments in phase-field crystal modeling for the solidification of complex materials). (...)»

Dec 2022: The 2022 CAP Herzberg Medal awarded to Daryl Haggard

Daryl Haggard has won the 2021 CAP Herzberg Medal (...)»

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