The Vanier Graduate Scholarship is the top graduate scholarship administered by the three federal funding agencies and comes with an award of $50,000 per year, up to three years. The competition is extremely high: not only do Canadian and international students compete for this, and all academic areas are considered (Health, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, Humanities), the selection criteria specify not only academic and research excellence, but winning this scholarship also requires strong leadership skills within our society.
This year, the students in our department have been extremely successful: Out of the about 160 scholarships awarded each year nationwide over all fields, five of our students have been awarded in this funding round. These are:
Anna Golubeva, (Condensed Matter Physics, Roger Melko): Quantum Machine Learning: Mutual Enhancement Between Machine Learning and Quantum Physics will LeverageQuantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
Andrew Cameron, (Optics, Kevin Resch): Ultrafast Photon-Pair Pulse Characterization.
Florian Hopfmueller, (Theoretical Physics and Chemistry, Laurent Freidel and Robert Myers): Edge Modes and Symmetry in Quantum Gravity.
David Schmid, (Physics, Kevin Resch): Identifying quantum contextuality as a resource for quantum information processing applications.
Fiona McCarthy, (Theoretical Physics and Chemistry, Robert Mann and David Kubiznak): Holographic Black Hole Chemistry.
They join Daniel Grimmer who currently already holds a Vanier Scholarship, and the long list of previous scholarship holders in our department.
Our Graduate program - at a glance
