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Amar Vutha among U of T's 33 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs

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Amar Vutha received a renewed Canada Research Chair in Precision Atomic and Molecular Physics.

With the renewal, Vutha's work goes on. He says, "someone needs to find lab-based evidence for that weird dark stuff that astronomers claim is all over the universe; and we still don't know why everything is made of matter rather than anti-matter. My students and I want to build more precise measuring tools -- atomic clocks and molecular gyroscopes -- to check if physics works".

When asked what this renewed research chair means to him he said "it implies a reassertion of faith in my group's research program. So I am grateful to the university and the Canadian physics community for continuing to support precision measurements as a way to discover fundamental physics."

Congratulations!

Government of Canada Press Release:
https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/whats_new-quoi_de_neuf/2022/crc-2020-2-eng.aspx

Government of Canada Research Chairs webpages:
https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias/lists-listes/2022/january-janvier-eng.aspx
https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=3714

U of T News Announcement:
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/good-life-felix-cheung-who-studies-well-being-among-u-t-s-33-new-or-renewed-canada-research

Professor Amar Vutha's Webpage:
https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~vutha/