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Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2016

Volume

72

Number

3

Cover description

"Glass Fireworks” by Amit Rambaran, Emery Collegiate Institute, North York, ON - Honourable Mention (High School Individual Category), 2014 Art of Physics competition. See http://www.cap.ca/aop/art.html.

The Local Organizing Committee (2nd and 3rd from left) deliver a memorable experience for all Congress delegates attending the 2016 CAP Congress in Ottawa, ON.

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

Editorial

• Open access and the future of academic publishing
  • Béla Joós, P.Phys.

CAP News

• Departmental, Sustaining, Corporate and Institutional Members

• Summary of CAP Physics Department Survey - 2015
  • Donna Strickland

• Science Policy Corner
  • Aimee Gunther, Kris Poduska

• News

Feature Articles

• Algebraic Structures, Superintegrable Systems and Orthogonal Polynomials
  • Vincent X. Genest

CAP Awards

• 2016 Student Competition Winners

• 2016 Student Prize Winners

Student Prize Articles

• Coarse-grained simulations of highly driven DNA translocation from a confining nanotube
  • David Sean, Gary W. Slater

• The GIOVE Detector: High Sensitivity Germanium Spectroscopy at Shallow Depth
  • Jennifer Mauel

• Super-Critical Phasematching for Generation of Structured Light Beams
  • Rebecca Saaltink, Lambert Giner, Robert W. Boyd, Ebrahim Karimi, Jeff S. Lundeen

• Using Electron Cooling to Help Weigh Exotic Nuclei - Progress on TITAN’S Cooler PEnning Trap (CPET)
  • Brian Kootte, Corina Andreoiu, Carla Babcock, Bradley Barquest, Thomas Brunner, Usman Chowdhury, Jens Dilling, Andrew Finlay, Matthew Foster, Aaron Gallant, Gerald Gwinner, Renee Klawitter, Yang Lan, Daniel Lascar, Erich Leistenschneider, Stefan Paul, Moritz Reiter, Devin Short

• Relaxation of a Simulated Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Compressed by an AFM
  • Ben M. Barlow, Martine Bertrand, Béla Joós, P.Phys.

• A Formation Process and Growth Model for Superheated Liquid Bubble Chambers
  • Alexandre Le Blanc, Ubi Wichoski, Ian Lawson

Conference Reports

• Theory CANADA 11 Conference: Yet Another Success
  • Thomas Grégoire, Dr. Svetlana Barkanova

CAP Medals Awarded

• 2016 CAP Medals and Awards

CAP Foundation

• 2016 High School/CEGEP Teaching Award Winners

• 2015 CAP Foundation Board of Directors’ Annual Report

CAP Office

• Meet Your 2016-2017 CAP Executive

• Call for 2017 Nominations

In Memoriam

• Ursula Franklin (1921-2016)

• Marek J. Laubitz (1931-2016)

Book Reviews (BRMS)(External)

• Elements of Slow-Neutron Scattering: Basics, Techniques, and Applications

• An Introduction to Practical Laboratory Optics

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

• Qu'est-ce que le boson de Higgs mange en hiver

• Statistics and Analysis of Scientific Data