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Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2012

Volume

68

Number

3

Cover description

Top: “Bonds in Focus” by Socrates Li, Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School,
Waterloo, ON -- 1st Prize (High School Individual Category), 2012 Art of Physics competition. See http://www.cap.ca/aop/art.html.

Bottom: Various images relating to the 2012 CAP Congress at the University of Calgary.

Articles (Click on the titles to open PDFs in a new tab)

Editorial

• The Changing Research Climate in Canada
  • Béla Joós, P.Phys.

Feature Articles

• Celebrating 50 Years of Connecting Science Education and Research in Atlantic Canada
  • Lois Whitehead

Student Prize Articles

• Detection of Trapped Antihydrogen in ALPHA (by 2010-11 DNP Best Thesis Prize winner)
  • Richard Hydomako

• Dissipation Mechanisms in Thermomechanically-Driven Silicon Nitride Nanostrings
  • Bradley D. Hauer, Abdul Suhel, Tushar S. Biswas, Kevin S.D. Beach, John P. Davis

• Generation of Arbitrary Quantum States from Atomic Ensembles
  • Andrew MacRae, Roshan Achal, Travis Brannan, Alexander I. Lvovsky

• Exploring the Mysteries of the Human Brain with Physics
  • Roshan Achal, Jörn Davidsen

• Design and Testing of a 4pi TPB Evaporation Source
  • Tina Pollmann (for the DEAP Collaboration)

• Quantum Phases of Dipolar Bosons in Bilayer Geometry
  • Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Sebnem G. Söyler, Guido Pupillo, Hossein R. Sadeghpour, Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone

• Brain Functional Connectivity in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, an Age- Related Cerebrovascular Disease
  • Stefano Peca, Cheryl R. McCreary, Eric E. Smith, Bradley G. Goodyear

CAP News

• Departmental, Sustaining, Corporate and Institutional Members

• Science Policy Corner

Education Corner

• Profile of a Living Physicist: A Class Project to Learn about Working as a Physicist
  • Magdalen Normandeau

CAP Awards

• 2012 Student Competition Winners

• 2012 Student Prize Winners

Conference Reports

• Report on Canada's Participation in the 43rd International Physics Olympiad, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Jean-François Caron, Dr Andrzej Kotlicki

CAP Office

• Meet Your 2012-2013 CAP Executive

• Call for Nominations

CAP Foundation

• 2012 High School Teaching Award Winners

CAP Medals Awarded

• 2012 CAP Medals and Awards

Book Reviews (BRMS)(External)

• A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms with Applications in Physics and Engineering

• Introduction to Experimental Biophysics: Biological Methods for Physical Scientists