Department of Physics

External Award: ATLAS-PhD-GRANT-2013 June 12, 2013
CERN is looking for young and high-caliber doctoral students in particle physics research including computing for physics, to receive world class exposure, supervision and training within the ATLAS collaboration through this special PhD Grant.

External Award: CERN Postdoc Fellowship June 02, 2013
CERN is now accepting applications to its Non-Member State Postdoc Fellowship Programme in Theoretical Physics.

External Awards: M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship January 08, 2013
APS Physics has opened applications for funding for the M. Hildred Blewett fellowship for women who want to return to physics research careers.

Job Postings: Internships in Germany November 14, 2012
Would you like to do an internship in Germany?

Michael Steger Receives PhD and Dean's Convocation Medal June 13, 2012
During his time at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Michael Steger worked on novel research in the field of semiconductor spectroscopy and quantum computing.

Convocation Medal Winners 2012 June 04, 2012
Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners! They will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 12–15, 2012.

Dance Your PhD Contest April 20, 2012
The Dance Your PhD contest is back for 2012!

Mitacs Accelerate Internships, April 2012 April 02, 2012
The Mitacs Accelerate Program supports graduate research projects in all disciplines with industry partners.

AAAS Award Winners to Appear in Science March 30, 2012
Congratulations to SFU graduate students Laleh Samii (physics) and Benjamin Sandkam and Corey Watson (biology), whose winning posters will be highlighted in the prestigious Science journal.

Mitacs Internships March 09, 2012
Mitacs has just listed two new internship positions for graduate students in mathematics, computing and engineering.

Mitacs Internships February 01, 2012
Mitacs has just listed three new internship positions for graduate students in engineering, computing and physics.

Conference: American Association for the Advancement of Science January 24, 2012
The BCIC is giving away 200 memberships to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and attendance to the annual conference in Vancouver, February 16–20.

Job Postings: Internships in Germany November 24, 2011
Would you like to do an internship in Germany?

The Language of Science October 20, 2011
There's a fascinating dialogue about the language of science taking place in the science blogs this week.

GSS Professional Development Award Recipients September 04, 2011
The Graduate Student Society has announced the recipients in its first round of Professional Development Grants.

Research Profile: Michael Steger July 25, 2011
Michael Steger, a PhD student in Mike Thewalt’s Semiconductor Spectroscopy Lab in SFU’s Department of Physics, has had a great year using optical spectroscopy to study the fundamental properties of semiconductors.

Research Profile: Michel Trottier-McDonald July 08, 2011
Congratulations to Michel Trottier-McDonald, who has received an Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship (NSERC) for $105,000 to support his PhD program in high energy physics at SFU’s Department of Physics.

IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics June 15, 2011
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is holding a symposium in Vancouver this July 24–27: The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, jointly held with the International Symposium on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy & Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials.

SFU Physicists participate in antimatter breakthrough June 06, 2011
SFU physics PhD student Mohammad Dehghani Ashkezari (front right) and his supervisor professor Mike Hayden (back right) are part of an international team of scientists that has managed to capture and hold onto some atomic antimatter for over 16 minutes.

Convocation Medal Winners 2011 May 26, 2011
Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners who will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 14–17, 2011.

Women in Physics student conference April 20, 2011
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Institute for Quantum Computing will be hosting the Women in Physics Canada conference in Waterloo, Ontario, from July 19-21, 2011.

SFU contributes to quantum computing January 20, 2011
SFU physics professor Mike Thewalt and his lab are in the news this week for their contribution to the field of quantum computing, as published in Nature.