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Lighting the way for future physicists
November 12, 2025
Congratulations to Dio Hsieh, the first recipient of the Lee Chan Chiou Entrance Scholarship in Physics, the largest donor-funded undergraduate scholarship in Science at Waterloo.
Graduate impact series: Catching atoms and chasing curiosity
November 11, 2025
PhD student Kent Ueno and his team are doing something that sounds like science fiction: trapping individual rubidium-87 atoms in space and manipulating them with lasers.
Charting the Quantum Unknown
October 27, 2025
PhD student Sijia Wang explores the intersection of gravity, quantum mechanics, and information theory to illuminate the mysteries of quantum gravity.
Co-op student advances exoplanet research
October 7, 2025
Waterloo co-op student joins Caltech’s Exoplanet Technology Laboratory through a prestigious summer research program.
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Prof. Sara Seager
From Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Professor Sara Seager
MIT
Thursday, December 4, 2025
4:00 p.m.
In-person: PHY 150
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Measuring dark energy with DESI with Will Percival
Measuring dark energy with DESI
Will Percival
Professor and Distinguished Research Chair in Astrophysics
University of Waterloo
Thursday, November 27, 2025
4:00 p.m.
In-person: PHY 145