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Feb. 12, 2026 / Awards and Honours, Our Faculty, Research
John Moffat honoured for lifelong pursuit of physics
Throughout his career, John Moffat has challenged the mainstream in pursuit of bold new ideas.
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Feb. 5, 2026 / Awards and Honours, Our Faculty
Congratulations to Prof. Miriam Diamond on winning a 2025 Dorothy Shoichet Award
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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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Upcoming Events

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Feb
CQIQC Seminars, QO/AMO Seminars
Tirthak Patel
Deriving Utility From Today’s Quantum Computers: Practical Strategies for Reliable Near-Term Quantum Computing
13
Feb
Brewer-Wilson Seminar Series
Luke Fraser-Leach
A Clean Comparison: Two Aerosol Schemes in CanESM5.1
17
Feb
Atmospheric Physics Seminars, Noble Seminar Series
Jeffery Langille
Enabling Next-Generation UTLS Water Vapour Observations with the HAWC Satellite Mission
20
Feb
CQIQC Seminars, QO/AMO Seminars
Frederic Bouchard
Programmable Ultrafast Photonic Quantum Circuits
23
Feb
Graduate Research Seminars
Sophia Simon
Final PhD Oral Exam - Sophia Simon
23
Feb
THEP Events
Arash Ardehali
THEP Seminar on 23 Feb. 2026
24
Feb
Departmental Events, The Tuzo Wilson Lecture
Prof. Dylan Jones
From the Globe to Plants: Measuring Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from Space
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Feb
CQIQC Seminars, QO/AMO Seminars
Eddy Keming Chen
Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable
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