December 2011:
Dr. Tapash Chakraborty, Canada Research Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for "understanding of the spin structure of the fractional quantum Hall effect and the electronic properties of quantum dots".
November 2011:
Cody Friesen (left) and Scott McKay (right), physics undergraduates, are members of the University of Manitoba's T-Sat project team, competing to put a student-designed satellite into space. Read more on page 4 of the Nov 24 Bulletin
October 2011:
Read the story of Scott McEwan, a PhD student in subatomic physics working on the Qweak experiment at Jefferson National Laboratory in Virginia.
August 2011:
Recent research published in ACS Nano by Ryan Desautels, Johan van Lierop and colleagues in Europe demonstrates that biohybrid magnetoferritin particles can be assembled into macroscopic crystals and then disassembled by a short optical stimulus destroying the attractive interactions between the magnetoferritin particles. The ability to tune the magnetic properties of nanoparticles by assembly/disassembly is foreseen to facilitate development of new practical applications.
See also this Perspective article in ACS Nano.
August 2011:
Honours Thesis research of physics undergraduate student is published as an Editors' Suggestion
Michael Harder’s 12-paged paper based on his Honours Thesis is selected by the Physical Review B as an Editors' Suggestion, which is deemed to be “of particular interest, importance or clarity”. The Department encourages motivated undergraduate students to participate in our diverse research programs via the special Honours Thesis Courses (PHYS4676/4678).
August 2011:
Former Physics & Astronomy undergraduate student wins prestigious Vanier scholarship
Nicole Lovat is currently a pharmacology and therapeutics graduate student, examining the naturally occurring pre-diabetic state experienced during pregnancy. See the UoM press release for more details.
May 2011:
Search for the Stellar Smoking Gun: A forensic space scientist at the
University of Manitoba is attempting to solve a stellar mystery.
Prof. Safi-Harb uncovers the clues that might unlock the mysteries of why and when a supernova blows up,
how massive it was, how it manifests itself once exploded and how fast the explosive cloud of material is
expanding and energizing its surroundings.
Read the full story here,
and hear about her groundbreaking supernova research in an interview for Radio Canada International's
The Link.
April 2011:
Congratulations to the following Physics & Astronomy students!
Governor-General Medals:
Gold Medal - Wanjun Jiang, PhD, Condensed Matter Physics
Silver Medal - Lauren Elizabeth Hayward (4th year Honours, Computer Science/Physics)
U of M Gold Medals: Science - Lauren Elizabeth Hayward
U of M Faculty of Science Poster Competition:
Best Overall Entry: W. Kurt Hildebrand
Best in Physics: Jonas Lippuner
Manitoba Materials Conference Poster Competition:
Elizabeth Skoropata
Mar. 16, 2011:
Hot water vs. Cold air: An investigation
Prof. Sharma examines what happens when you throw hot water into Winnipeg winter air.
Here's the full interview with the Winnipeg Free Press.
Jan. 24, 2011:
Winnipeg-Sized Magnet Bursting Inside Supernova Remnant:
Prof. Safi-Harb and her PhD student Harsha Kumar have observed with the SWIFT
satellite a sudden and brief burst of high-energy emission coming from a supernova
remnant named Kes73. They believe this burst of energy is from an unusual pulsar
hiding inside the supernova remnant and confirm it is a magnetar.
Here's the full story.
Dec. 3, 2010:
Congratulations to Michael Harder, who won 1st place in the Natural Sciences category of the UofM Undergraduate Poster Competition
for his work "Seeing the Invisible: A New Method for Microwave Imaging".
Read the article in the Bulletin and
here's a copy of the winning poster.
Congratulations to Jonas Lippuner for winning 2nd place in the oral presentation category of the Canadian Undergraduate
Physics Conference and an ACEnet Computational Award.
Here's a copy of the winning poster.
Nov. 24, 2010:
Qweak researchers Profs. M. Gericke (left), S. Page (centre) and J. Birchall (right) are busy "Pushing the Envelope" at
JLab on a new experiment that may shed light on the most fundamental structure of matter.
Here's the complete story.
Nov. 18, 2010:
It was with great sadness that his colleagues in Winnipeg learned of the death of Francis Konopasek on 28th October 2010.
A Professor of Physics at the University of Manitoba until his retirement in 1989, Francis played a fundamental and
specialized role in the upgrading and development of the negative ion cyclotron facility here in the late seventies and eighties.
Here is the complete obituary.
Nov. 12, 2010:
Congratulations to Professors Kenneth Standing and Werner Ens who have won the Manning Innovation Award.
They are the first University of Manitoba professors to win the Encana Principal Award, the highest honour bestowed
by the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation, which has been recognizing and encouraging innovation in Canada since 1982.
Here's the complete story.
Sept. 3, 2010:
In Memoriam: Allan Henry Morrish
Allan Henry Morrish was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Here is the full eulogy.
Sept. 1, 2010:
Congratulations to Dr. Henry Kunkel, who was given the Service Award at the 2010 U of M Awards of Excellence
reception on May 20th.
Congratulations to Trevor Rempel, Faculty of Science Undergraduate (Honours Math/Physics) who received two
Convocation Student Awards, a Silver in the Governor General's Medals, awarded for
outstanding achievement at the undergraduate level, and a University Gold Medal, awarded
for highest standing in an undergraduate faculty or school.
June 15, 2010:
CAP Manitoba High School Examination Winners
Congratulations to Joshua Jung (1st) from River East Collegiate, Jonathan Berrington (2nd) from St. John's-Ravenscourt
and Mackenzie Cook (3rd) from Vincent Massy Collegiate.
See the winners at the Departmental reception here!
June 14, 2010:
Congratulations to the Department of Physics and Astronomy's new Manitoba Health Research Council award winners!
Ganiyu Asuni, Heather Champion, Jing Li, Saravanan Nandagopal, Fazal Ur-Rehman and Peng (Troy) Teo
June 3, 2010:
Congratulations to the Department of Physics and Astronomy's new NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship winners!
Heather Champion (CGSM)
Todd Sierens (CGSM)
Elizabeth Skoropata (CGSM)
William (Kurt) Hildebrand (CGSD)
May. 31, 2010:
Congratulations to Dr. van Lierop, 2009 Rh Award Recipient in the Natural Sciences, for his research into the magnetism of
nanoparticles, thin-films, and low dimensional magnets (nanomagnetism). His expertise in understanding how magnetism
is altered through dimensional confinement applies directly to a wide range of technologies that are based on nanoscale
magnetic materials. A pioneering materials scientist, van Lierop studies technologically important
phenomena that are fundamental to all modern magnetic sensors, including those found in computer hard drives.
He is also researching the magnetic properties of nanoparticles for their potential medical applications.
Read the story
here.
Apr. 20, 2010:
If galaxies formed near the beginning of time why are there galaxies with
spectacularly peculiar shapes? Why are there distorted galaxies like those in this colour image
released by NASA Feb 18, 2010? The bright, twisted object at middle, left, is
actually two colliding dwarf galaxies in this composite image, which uses data from 3
space-based telescopes, created by U. of M. associate professor
Jayanne English. Prof. English participated in a research project on this group
of 4 galaxies, called Hickson Compact Group 31. Read the Sky & Telescopy news
here.
Apr. 5, 2010:
Physics & Astronomy graduate student Laura Cobus wins the
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement.
Congratulations to Laura and Dr. J.H. Page's Ultrasonics Research Laboratory!
Read the UofM story here.
Mar. 15, 2010:
Congratulations to Dr. Shelley Page who was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
APS Fellowships are a distinct honour given after extensive review, and receiving a Fellowship
reflects the honour and approbation of one's professional peers.
Page is being recognized "for her leading role in a series of sequential hadronic parity violation experiments designed to
elucidate the interplay of the weak and strong interactions in hadronic systems."
Feb. 2, 2010:
The Manitoban interviews Dr. Byron Southern on the product of basic
research in quantum mechanics: Quantum computing. Read the article here.
Jan. 28, 2010:
Dr. Sharma was featured on the CBC Weekend Morning Show.
Some of the most beautiful winter photographs are of sundogs. But what makes them appear - and why are they so elusive?
Professor Kumar Sharma explains the physics behind them. Listen to a rebroadcast here.
Jan. 11, 2010:
Dr. Francis Lin of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was featured
in the Winnipeg Free Press for his contribution to the development of a portable,
low-cost device that may quickly detect for H1N1. The article may be viewed
here.
Dec. 7, 2009:
Congratulations to Elizabeth Skoropata in Physics & Astronomy for her first place win in the natural sciences category for her research
"Surface moment pinning in iron oxide-copper core-shell nanoparticles" in the Fourth Annual Student Poster Competition. Read the news
here.
Oct. 6, 2009:
Five Undergraduate Students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy will be
attending this year's Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) at the
University of Alberta, Oct. 1-5.
We wish the students good luck with their presentations!
For more information on CUPC 2009, click here.
For a look at who is presenting, click here.
Sept. 30,2009:
Congratulations!
Dr. Ken Standing has been selected to receive the
2009 Sir John William Dawson Medal.
The Medal is awarded for important and sustained contributions in two domains of interest to the Royal Society of Canada or in interdisciplinary research.
Sept. 10,2009:
2009 Annual Meeting of the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in 405 Allen Building
All members of the department are encouraged to attend including
faculty, adjuncts, senior scholars, postdocs, research associates, grad students,
support staff, and OPUS members.
COFFEE AND DONUTS WILL BE PROVIDED FOLLOWING THE ANNUAL MEETING
Sept. 4, 2009:
Dr. K. S. Sharma spoke today with CBC Information Radio, City TV, CBC News @ Six, and
CBC/Radio-Canada, on the science of lightning.
View the story from CBC Information Radio here.
Aug. 13, 2009:
Congratulations to Medical Physics grad students who have won awards recently at the Young investigators Symposia (YIS) of the 55th Canadian
Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Annual Meeting and the 51st American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting.
- N. Venugopal placed 3rd in the AAPM YIS: "Shape Matters: Utilization of a Conformal Voxel Technique to Acquire Robust in Vivo
Prostate MRSI at Short Echo Times".
- J. Alpuche placed 1st in the COMP YIS: "Monte Carlo simulation of a first generation scatter enhanced CT system for in vivo breast imaging".
July 27, 2009:
A quest for the most frightening potholes in Winnipeg.
Dr. Sharma hunts for the worst potholes in Winnipeg with the CBC Pothole Safa
ri.
Here'
s the story and the results of the study.
July 27, 2009:
CAP High School Physics Prize Exams
Everyone is invited to attend a reception this afternoon (June 5, 2009) at 2:30
pm in the Allen Building Foyer. Join us in congratulating and celebrating the
achievements of the top ten Manitoba students who wrote the CAP High School
Physics Prize Examination.
See the winners at the Departmental reception here!
Apr. 20, 2009:
Congratulations to Dr. Candice Viddal on being selected as one of this year's University of Manitoba Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients!
The Distinguished Dissertation awardees are doctoral graduands who are recognized to have made groundbreaking novel contributions to their discipline.
Apr. 14, 2009:
Dr. Jack Allen, a graduate of the University of Manitoba's Physics Department, bequests $970,000 to the University.
Read the story here.
Feb. 3, 2009:
Sound trap!
Dr. John Page's research group reports the first unambiguous demonstration of Anderson localization of classical waves in a 3D system.
Read about this achievement here, and
in the Research Highlights of Nature here!
Oct. 23, 2008:
Congratulations to Erica Franzmann (supervisor: Dr. Safi-Harb) and Nicole Storen (supervisor: Dr. Southern) for winning first and second place, respectively,
in the Physical Sciences division of the NSERC Student Poster Competition!
Aug. 12, 2008:
Why does hot water sound different from cold water when poured from one vessel to another?
Dr. John Page gives the answer! Hear the CBC broadcast here.
Congratulations to the CAP Manitoba High School Exam Prize Winners!
Awards Reception: June 19, 2008
Pictures of the CAP awards ceremony.
June 20,2008:
Congratulations to Dr. Fiege on winning the 2007 Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Scholarship and Research in the Natural Sciences category!
Dr. Safi-Harb's group finds the the first evidence of a Crab-like pulsar behaving as a magnetar.
Read the news here.
Feb. 28, 2008:
2003 Nobel Laureate Sir A. J. Leggett will give the Knight Lecture
Why can't time run backwards?, Feb. 28, 8:00pm @ 224 Education Bldg.
Feb. 13, 2008:
Prof. G. Gwinner leads an international team of physicists who have made the most accurate measurements of time dilation: 1 part in 10-7.
Read the news here.
Nov. 12, 2007:
Congratulations to UofM Physics & Astronomy prize winners A. Yamchuk (1st), T. Shendruk (2nd), and E. Skoropata (3rd)
in the CUPC07 poster competition at S.F.U.
Oct. 25, 2007:
Congratulations to Dr. Safi-Harb who was awarded a
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Supernova Astrophysics!
Here is the news.
Sept. 11, 2007:
2007 Annual Meeting of the Department
Thursday, September 6, 2007
10:00 a.m.
401 Allen Building
Sept. 11, 2007:
What do Mount Merapi and a glass of beer have in common?
Read all about it (and more!) in Dr. Page's
"Multiple scattering in evolving media"
by Roel Snieder and John Page,
©Physics Today, May 2007, pp. 49-55.
Sept. 05, 2007:
Congratulations to the CAP high school prize exam winners!
See the winners at the Departmental reception here!
May 4, 2007:
Congratulations to Drs. Standing and Ens!
Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering winners!
See Prize-Winning Team Unlocks Secrets of Viruses and Other Biomolecules.
Jan. 31, 2006:
Dr. Southern leads UofM High Performace Computing users in largest National CFI award:
$88 million federal investment across Canada.
Read the Winnipeg Free Press story
and the Research News & Events story.
Dec. 12, 2006:
Congratulations to Dr. English, who won first prize in the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory's image making competition!
See the winners here.
Oct. 6, 2006:
Congratulations to Lee Ferchoff who placed 3rd in the Physical Sciences
category at the NSERC Undergraduate Poster Competition, with his poster entitled "A Genetic Algorithm
Powered Polarization Modeling Code" (Supervisor: J. Fiege)!
Sept. 1, 2006:
The Annual Department Meeting will be held Wednesday, Sept. 6, 10:00 am in 401 Allen.
All members of the department including students are welcome and encouraged to attend.
July, 2006:
Prof. Loly's "Counting Ben Franklin's magic squares" featured in the AMS's
Math in the Media
June 5, 2006:
Congratulations to the CAP Manitoba High School Exam Prize Winners!
Awards Reception: June 5, 2006
Pictures of the CAP awards ceremony.
June 6-9, 2006:
Conference on Charge Migration in DNA: Physics, Chemistry & Biology Perspectives
June 26, 2006:
Congratulations to Dr. G. Gwinner for winning the 2005 Rh Award in the area of Natural Sciences!
Read about the outstanding achievement here.
June 5, 2006:
Prof. P. Loly has shown that puzzles by inventor Ben Franklin appear like early intricate versions of
today's wildly popular Sudoku puzzles. Here is the
Free Press article, the
interview on CBC's As It Happens,
and the journal paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
Mar. 24, 2006:
Dr. J. Svenne's Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering methods unravel the mysterious elastic scattering of 14O
ions. Read the two Phys. Rev. Lett.'s here
& here.
Mar. 2, 2006:
'Cosmic slinky':
Observations of a dense, filamentary star-forming molecular cloud confirms a theory proposed by astrophysicist Dr. J. Fiege.
Read the article here.
Feb. 2, 2006:
Dr. S. Page cooks up an answer to the explosive question:
Why can't you put metal in the microwave?
Here's her interview on
Jan. 19, 2006:
Gas Clouds in Space:
Prof. Jayanne English on CBCs Quirks & Quarks.
Here's an MP3 of the interview
Prof. Werner Ens's Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry group works to unlock the
Secrets of Beer Foam!
See the interview on Global news.
Nov. 28, 2005:
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEW:
Spintronics, magnetars and proving relativity.
Physics and Astronomy in The Manitoban:
Physics & Astronomy undergraduate student Lee Ferchoff wins 2nd place in student talks at 2005 CUPC.
Congratulations Lee!
Nov. 15, 2005:
Celebrating the 100th birthday of the Theory of Relativity
Free Public Lecture
Was Einstein Right?
Dr. Clifford Will, Monday, Nov. 14, 7 pm
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Click here for details
Nov. 1, 2005:
Tony award winning play "Copenhagen" about Heisenberg and Bohr's mysterious WWII meeting showing at
the Prairie Theatre Exchange Oct. 13 - 30.
Oct. 17, 2005:
Physics & Astronomy graduate student Alexei Sukhovich wins R.W.B. Stephens Prize at World Congress on Ultrasonics.
Congratulations to Alexei and Dr. J.H. Page's Ultrasonics Research Laboratory!
Oct. 12, 2005:
"Einstein's Big Idea" PBS: Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 5, 2005:
Physics and Astronomy undergraduate Michael Smadella is the recipient of the TRIUMF Award
for the Prairie Provinces. This scholarship is awarded to physics students who have achieved outstanding results in
their program. Congratulations Michael!
Oct. 3, 2005:
September 27, 2005: 100th anniversary of E=mc2!
See the manuscript in its original published form and
translated.
Sept. 26, 2005:
Prof. Emeritus Jasper McKee launches his new book -
"60 Years A-Growing: A History of the Canadian Association of Physics [1945-2005]" at McNally Robinson.
Sept. 20, 2005:
Putting a new spin on spintronics.
Dr. Chakraborty's theoretical Nanoscale Physics research group does
groundbreaking work that could bring the futuristic world of spin electronics one step closer to reality.
Read the paper.
Sept. 20, 2005:
Former Physics & Astronomy graduate, R. Holmes (now at Princeton University) wins prestigious Newport Corp. Award for
Research Excellence in Photonics.
Sept. 12, 2005:
Physicists Explore Strange Behaviour!
UofM Subatomic Physics Group research contribution to G0 experiment
garners attention in a new
Physical Review Letters and
The Economist
August, 31, 2005:
Department of Physics and Astronomy Regulations for the
M.Sc. and
Ph.D. Programs
Supplementary to the regulations of the
Faculty of Graduate Studies
June, 21, 2005:
G-Zero Finds that Ghostly Strange Quarks Influence Proton Structure
Drs. J. Birchall, S.A. Page, W. Falk and W.T.H. van Oers are part of an international
team that has demonstrated that strange quarks contribute to the electromagnetic structure of nucleons.
Read the press: UofM
&
JLab
June,2005:
Astronomy group wins
NSERC PromoScience grant for Ewen Remote
Observing Site outreach program.
June 2, 2005:
The Canadian Physics Olympiad Training Camp
&
Canadian Physics National Olympiad Finals
at the Physics Department!
May 29 - June 5, 2005
See the 2005 CAP High School Prize Examination
Provincial Ranking
&
National Ranking
Pictures from the CAP awards ceremony
Winnipeg Free Press coverage! - read it here
April 19, 2005:
Cosmic Shell-Seekers Find a Beauty!
Prof. Safi-Harb and H. Matheson have discovered a distinctive shell of hot gas around
the site of a distant supernova explosion. This discovery is a significant step forward
in solving a decades-old puzzle as to why some stellar explosions display shells and
others do not.
Read the press:
UofM &
Chandra x-ray observatory
April 1, 2005:
Pothole-detective Prof. Werner Ens finds the six worst streets in Winnipeg for CBC Manitoba!
- listen to the CBC Radio interview
Ewen Remote Observing Site
Teacher's Workshop April 29, 2005
March, 14, 2005:
Nobel Laureate Dr. Klaus von Klitzing meeting with Physics & Astronomy students.
Prof. Samar Safi-Harb interviewed for CBC's Quirks & Quarks:
"Would you be able to fire a gun in space, and if so, would you be able to hear it?"
- listen to the CBC Radio inverview
Physics Professor John Page bends sound waves.
Focusing of Sound in a 3D Phononic Crystal
Suxia Yang, J. H. Page, Zhengyou Liu, M. L. Cowan, C. T. Chan, and Ping Sheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 024301
89th Dept. Council:
March 7, 2005
New site launched
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