The Entangler | Spring 2019

Can you solve it? The Sir Isaac Newton Exam, as we all know and love it, continues to offer challenging problems to high school students around the world. Flex your Physics brains with this problem from the 2013 Sir Isaac Newton Exam!

2018 was a memorable year for the department. 2019 is shaping up to be another memorable year. This edition of The Entangler will update you on some of the exciting research developments and remarkable accomplishments by our students, faculty, alumni, and staff. Waterloo is a wonderful place to explore and to learn about the cosmos on all scales. I hope these articles will inspire you as much as they have inspired me.

George Pinho entered UWaterloo as a Physics Undergraduate und left as accomplished PhD. Now he is a successful business leader.

CarolAnne started her career as undergrad student in Physics, now she writes stories about the ocean.

During his PhD  studies in Waterloo Sattar Taheri Araghi studied antimicrobial peptides, now he is a faculty member at CSUN.

From manufacturing and industry, robotics, healthcare and more, eleven of Waterloo’s alumni and former students have earned spots on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Among the group is Kartik Talwar, an alumnus of our department.

Waterloo physicist Raymond Laflamme has been invested as an Officer to the Order of Canada for his significant scientific and leadership contributions to the country. 

When we think of universities, we think of rules and regulations, budgets and buildings. But at their heart, universities are really groups of people. Whether things work, how things seem, how well we do; it all comes down to the people. In June 2019, Judy McDonnell, our graduate coordinator, will be retiring. She has been an integral part of the department and her warm smile and welcoming personality will be missed.

The University of Waterloo's newly created Chair in Quantum Information, Prof. Raymond Laflamme, has been the shaping the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.

Rather than battle it out to obsolescence, new research shows how quantum and classical systems can evolve together.

The first ever image of a black hole has been obtained, and our faculty member Avery Broderick took a decisive part in it.

Andrew Cameron investigates spatially structure light for quantum information purposes. Last fall, he was awarded a prestigious Vanier scholarship.

Anna Golubeva, PhD student in theoretical condensed matter physics at U. of Waterloo, works in the group of Prof. Roger Melko who was recently awarded a prestigious Vanier fellowship.

Beyond a rewarding career as a physics teacher, John Caranci (BSc ’72) makes his mark through creative writing.

The combination of curiosity and rigorous inquiry will lead to our next great invention.