Awards & Research Highlights

Returning to the new normal, our post-lockdown research and teaching efforts have been booming! Get caught up on what our faculty members and research groups have been up to.

Urja Nandivada

Pioneering Physics Education Research at UW

Sometimes we write about innovations in research or awards for research. Other times we write about innovations in teaching or teaching awards. It’s not that often that we get to talk about innovations in research about teaching. That’s because while it’s a very important and interesting topic, UW physics has not yet made much of a splash in that area- until now. We caught up to graduate student Lalitasri Nandivada (Urja) to talk about how she ended up working in that area.

Canada's Quantum Future

Dr. Raymond Laflamme will lead the advisory council for Canada's National Quantum Strategy

Dr. Raymond Laflamme to take up position as co-chair of the National Quantum Strategy. Their aim is to amplify Canada’s existing global leadership in quantum research and grow Canada’s quantum technologies, companies and talent.

News on Nobel

Interview with Kevin Resch

This years’s Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. This year’s prize has a few special connections with UW. Alain Aspect received an honorary doctorate from the faculty of Science in 2014. In addition a number of our own faculty within IQC have worked in the Zeilinger group. One of those faculty is Waterloo’s own Kevin Resch. We caught up with Kevin to ask him about his perspective on this year’s prize.