News Stories 2016-2017

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Carleton University Partners with Queen’s University-led Particle Astrophysics Research Centre supported by Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Queen’s University announced today that it will partner with Carleton University and six other Canadian universities and five organizations to create the Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre (CPARC) supported by an investment of $63.7 million from the Government of Canada’s Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

CLOSED: TA Positions available for Winter 2017

Teaching Assistant Opportunities
Carleton University, Department of Physics

Applications are invited from students at Carleton University and other interested persons to work as a
Teaching Assistant in a first year Physics and/or BIT courses during the 2017 Winter term.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Carleton University to host CUPC in 2017

On October 13, 2016, a team of five Carleton undergraduate physics students represented Carleton University at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference 2016 (CUPC-2016) at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS). Three students, Austin de Ste. Croix, Matt Hemsley and Andrew Zwaniga, presented the research work they did in the past summer here at Carleton. 
Monday, October 24, 2016

The Physics Show

October 29, 2016. This is an open public show with hands-on activities. Free admission but registration is required. Limited spots so register now!
Monday, January 9, 2017

Undergraduate Student Research Awards in Physics - apply by Janunary 20

The Physics Department invites undergraduate students to apply for summer research positions within the NSERC USRA program.  Students who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents, are currently in their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th years of an honours physics program, and who have a cumulative average of at least A- are eligible. 

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

**NEW** Undergraduate Stream - B.Sc. Astrophysics

New stream starting Fall 2017:   B.Sc. Honours in Physics (Astrophysics).

While sharing the same core physics courses with the Theory and Experimental streams, Astrophysics stream also includes specialized courses in astronomy and astrophysics.

More informaiton will be provided in the Undergraduate Calendar in April 2017.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Grad Research: The ATLAS Experiment

Graham Cree, who hopes to complete his PhD in Particle Physics in April, and is part of the Carleton ATLAS Group. The group may be best known for its part in the discovery of the Higgs boson particle – a particle that is believed to be responsible for giving mass to all the particles in the universe.

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