History

The Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference was first held in 1965 as a join project between McGill University and the University of Toronto. Initially a form of a student exchange between the two universities, CUPC has now grown into a major annual symposium that hosted students from across the country and has changed its venue from university to university each year. CUPC has not only been an opportunity for the undergraduate students to gather and present their research to their peers in the form of a talk or a poster, but also for the networking of professionals, graduate students, and professors.

With no overseeing body for it, CUPC has always been put together by volunteering students from each hosting institution. Simon Fraser University, 33 years after last hosting the CUPC in 1974, is pleased to be hosting again this year. The events currently planned include (but are not limited to): student presentations, tours of local physics facilities as well as the University's own lab space, and a series of lectures by world-renowned physicists. This year will be the first time we also invite students from the United States, to encourage them to also begin a nation-wide undergraduate conference of physics.

List of previous CUPC hosts

• 2006 University of New Brunswick
• 2005 University of Western Ontario
• 2004 University of Victoria
• 2003 McGill University
• 2002 Dalhousie University
• 2001 University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg
• 2000 Université de Laval
• 1999 University of Alberta
• 1998 Queens University
• 1997 University of British Columbia
• 1996 University of Guelph
• 1995 University of Calgary
• 1994 McMaster University
• 1993 University of Saskatchewan
• 1992 University of Ottawa
• 1991 University of Alberta
• 1990 Université de Laval
• 1989 University of Waterloo
• 1988 Dalhousie University
• 1987 University of Calgary
• 1986 McGill University
• 1985 University of Manitoba
• 1984 University of New Brunswick
• 1983 University of Toronto
• 1982 University of Victoria and Royal Roads Military College
• 1981 Queens University and Royal Military College
• 1980 University of British Columbia
• 1979 University of Alberta
• 1978 Dalhousie University
• 1977 University of Toronto
• 1976 Carleton University
• 1975 Université de Laval
• 1974 Simon Fraser University
• 1973 University of Western Ontario
• 1972 McMaster University
• 1971 University of British Columbia
• 1970 University of Alberta
• 1969 University of Waterloo
• 1968 University of Manitoba
• 1967 McMaster University
• 1966 University of Toronto (?)
• 1965 McGill University with University of Toronto (?)