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Jan. 6, 2026 / Graduate Education, Our Students, Research
In the Media: Ph.D. student Aleksandra Elias Chereque discusses her research on snow cover observations
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Jan. 5, 2026 / Our Faculty
In the Media: Prof. Paul Kushner comments on government plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado
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Dec. 19, 2025 / Our Faculty, Research
In the Media: Prof. Aephraim Steinberg discusses advances in Quantum Computing in Canada in the Financial Post
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Dec. 10, 2025 / Graduate Education, Research
In the Media: Ph.D. student Takahiro Tow shares his team’s atomic clock breakthrough
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Nov. 26, 2025 / Awards and Honours, Graduate Education, Our Students
Kyle Thompson awarded Xanadu Award for an Outstanding Publication by a Ph.D. Student
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Upcoming Events

28
Jan
Toronto Quantum Matter Seminars
Dr. Mark Hirsbrunner
Mechanical instabilities and topological phonons in anomalous Hall crystals
29
Jan
Graduate Research Seminars
Ramina Alwarda
Departmental PhD exam - Ramina Alwarda
29
Jan
Physics Colloquium
Miles Stoudenmire
Decoding the Library of Babel: Solving High-Dimensional Problems with Tensor Networks
30
Jan
Brewer-Wilson Seminar Series
Zixuan Xiao
FootNet-PS: A Machine Learning Model Mapping the Low-Resolution Meteorology Fields to High-Resolution CO2 Footprints
02
Feb
Atmospheric Physics Seminars, Noble Seminar Series
Matthew Archer
The evolution of internal solitary waves observed by SWOT
05
Feb
Physics Colloquium
Yonatan Kahn
Physics for AI for Physics
06
Feb
CQIQC Seminars, QO/AMO Seminars
Toni Annala
CQIQC Seminar on 6 February 2026
09
Feb
THEP Events
Yannick Kluth
Asymptotic Safety: A (Non?)-perturbative route to quantum gravity
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