Faculty Members Awarded Additional Funding

Last week, the Government of Canada announced research funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s largest and longest-standing program, the Discovery Grants. We are proud to share that several of our department members were successful in acquiring funds:

Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants – Project

• Guillaume Giroux: NEWS-G Search for Light Dark Matter with Spherical Proportional Counters – $400,000
• Nahee Park: Cosmic-Ray Isotope Measurements with the HELIX Magnetic Spectrometer – $170,000

Discovery Grants (Individual) Program

• James Fraser: Harnessing Coherence: From Advanced Manufacturing to Dark Photon Searches – $50,000
• Ivan Iorsh: Light-Matter Interaction in Low Dimensional Quantum Materials: Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Correlated Electronic States and Generation of Multiphoton Quantum Correlations – $28,000

Congratulations everyone!

You can get more details in the Gazette