CAP Medal and Award Winners
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and its medal partners are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 CAP medals.
The 2023 medalists have been invited to give a plenary lecture as part of the 2023 CAP Conference program, and to receive their medals at the Medalists' Recognition Dinner in Fredericton, NB on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Please refer to the
Congress-at-a-glance for the schedule of plenary lectures by the CAP medal winners. If any of the medalists are unable to attend the conference, their medal will be presented at another mutually agreed upon time or sent to them separately after the conference.
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Joseph Maciejko , University of Alberta ,
in recognition of his leadership role and ground-breaking research on topological phases of matter.
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Herzberg
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Daryl Haggard , McGill University ,
in recognition of her leadership role in the development of multimessenger astronomy, and the ground-breaking discovery of the electromagnetic signal accompanying gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars.
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Simon Caron-Huot , McGill University ,
in recognition of to recognize his creation and development of nonperturbative techniques in conformal field theory, thereby opening the way to broad-ranging applications from particle physics to condensed matter physics.
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Ebrahim Karimi , University of Ottawa ,
in recognition of for his innovative leadership in developing structured quantum waves for applications to quantum communication and computation, microscopy and materials science.
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Paul Barclay , University of Calgary ,
in recognition of for his demonstrated leadership in nanophotonics and optomechanical devices that is building new bridges between pure and applied quantum science.
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Alison Lister , University of British Columbia ,
in recognition of for her many leadership roles in the ATLAS Collaboration and for the breadth of her contributions in particle physics, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, precision measurements of the top quark, new limits on physics beyond the Standard Model, and innovative efforts in using machine learning in experimental particle physics.
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Paul François , McGill University ,
in recognition of for his seminal research in theoretical biophysics, particularly the use of methods from statistical and computational physics to model cellular processes as non-linear dynamical systems.
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Roger Melko , University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute ,
in recognition of for his contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics, particularly large scale computer simulations which elucidate timely issues in the physics of strongly correlated electronic systems.
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François Légaré , INRS-EMT ,
in recognition of for ultrafast molecular imaging, development of high peak power infrared lasers for high harmonic generation and tissue imaging with nonlinear optical microscopy techniques.
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Matt Dobbs , McGill University ,
in recognition of for his leadership in project design, detector/readout development and data analysis which underpins a new generation of cosmology telescopes of unprecedented reach and precision.".
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Federico Rosei , INRS-EMT, Université du Québec ,
in recognition of for his innovative and interdisciplinary studies of a wide range of nanostructured materials and for exceptional outreach activities.
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Freddy Cachazo , Perimeter Institute ,
in recognition of for deep new insights into the structure of quantum field theory, and the development of elegant mathematical techniques to simplify the analysis of high-energy particle scattering experiments.
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Alexandre Blais , Université de Sherbrooke ,
in recognition of for his outstanding contributions to the field of quantum information processing particularly the concept of superconducting qubits based on circuit quantum electrodynamics.
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Carlos Silva , Université de Montréal ,
in recognition of for his internationally recognized seminal contributions to the understanding of optical and electronic processes in molecular and polymeric semiconductors, and for elucidating the complex relationships between microstructure and semiconductor properties in this important new class of materials.
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Guy Moore , McGill University ,
in recognition of for the broad impact of his contributions to theoretical particle physics, such as the bulk and collective behaviour of quantum chromodynamics under extreme conditions of temperature and density.
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Carl Svensson , University of Guelph ,
in recognition of for his strong leadership and major accomplishments in experimental nuclear physics, including measurements that improve significantly the understanding of high angular momentum states in medium weight nuclei and fundamental physics measurements using radioactive beams.
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