Physics & Astronomy at UVic
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- Congratulations to our Medical Physics PhD student, Jade Fischer, who took home 3rd place at the 2025 Western Regional 3MT Competition! 🥉👏 Watch the 3-Minute Thesis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tt5... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #UVicScience #MedicalPhysics #3MT2025 #3MinuteThesis
- Join us this summer every Wednesday from May 14th to August 27th for a night under the stars ✨ Look through our telescopes and chat with astronomy enthusiasts. Free and open to all—rain or shine! 🔭 For more info: www.uvic.ca/science/phys... #UVic #UVicObservatory #UVicAstro #Stargazing #YYJEvents
- PhD Astronomy candidate Simon Smith will speak at the Nanaimo Astronomy Club today 🌌 Proud to see UVic research reaching the stars — and the community 🚀 Read the article: www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/n... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #UVicScience #UVicResearch #Astronomy
- KOALA, a new dual-robot radiotherapy system developed by members of our department, aims to make treatment more affordable and accessible worldwide 🩻✨ #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #UvicScience #MedicalPhysics #Radiotherapy Read the article here: physicsworld.com/a/dual-robot...
- UVic Researchers are among global researchers honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their work with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN 🎉 Learn More: news.uvic.ca/media-releas... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #UVicScience #CERN #ATLAS #Physics #LargeHadronCollider
- UVic Astronomy PhD Candidate, Dori Blakely, was recently interviewed on CBC Radio's 'Quirks & Quarks' segment 👏 Title: "Watching planets form in a baby solar system" Listen to the podcast here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #Astronomy #UVicAstro #CBCRadio #CBCNews
- Congratulations to Jess Speedie, who was announced today as one of the 8 outstanding post-doctoral scientists to be honoured the '51 Pegasi b Fellow Award' for 2025 🎉👏 Learn more: www.hsfoundation.org/fellow/jess-... #51PegasibFellows #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #MIT #Astronomy
- Please join us on Wednesday, April 2nd at 3:30 p.m. PDT for an in-person colloquium by Dr. Lukasz Fidkowski, University of Washington ✨ For more information: events.uvic.ca/physics/even... #Colloquium #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #yyjevents
- Congratulations to Dr. William Thompson '23, of ARC and NRC-Herzberg, who was named as the recipient of the 2025 CASCA Plaskett Medal and the NRC Herzberg Plaskett Fellowship for Most Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Astronomy or Astrophysics 🎉 #UVic #UVicScience #CASCA #ARC #NRCHerzberg #Astronomy
- Congratulations to Dr. Alan McConnachie, of ARC and NRC-Herzberg, who was named as the recipient of the 2025 CASCA Peter G. Martin award for their Mid-Career Achievement 🎉 #UVic #UVicScience #CASCA #ARC #NRCHerzberg #Astronomy
- Please join us on Wednesday, March 26th at 3:30 p.m. PST for an in-person colloquium by Dr. Lena Koslover, UC San Diego ✨ For more information: events.uvic.ca/physics/even... #Colloquium #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #yyjevents
- Please join us on Wednesday, March 12th at 3:30 p.m. PST for an in-person colloquium by Dr. Lena Koslover, UC San Diego ✨ For more information: events.uvic.ca/physics/even... #Colloquium #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #yyjevents
- Congratulations to Maheyer Shroff for winning the 'Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award' at this year's UVic REACH Awards 🎉 Read more about it here: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf... #REACHAwards #Teaching #UVic #UniversityofVictoria
- Congratulations to Dr. Kim Venn for winning the award in 'Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and Mentorship' at this year's UVic REACH Awards 🎉 Read more about it here: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf... #REACHAwards #UVicFaculty #UVic #UniversityofVictoria
- Congratulations to Dr. Arif Babul for winning the 'David H. Turpin Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research' at this year's UVic REACH Awards 🎉 Read more about it here: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf... #REACHAwards #UVicFaculty #UVicResearch #UVic #UniversityofVictoria
- Congrats to Dr. Leopoldo Infante, a leading astrophysicist who has shaped the astronomy community in Chile ✨ As the first Chilean to lead Las Campanas Observatory, he continues to push the boundaries of space exploration 🔭 Learn More: www.uvic.ca/alumni/award... #Astrophysics #UVic #UVicAlumni
- February's Month in a Minute video is here! This is the view looking north from #UVic last month. I've also posted my little summary of the weather. It’s at victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php #VictoriaBC #Saanich
- That's a really cool idea!
- 3D animation / sim of a the antimatter sea inside a proton particle. Originally for Quanta, 2021. INFO → www.olenashmahalo.com/project/prot... #SciArt #physics #particlephysics 🧪 ⚛️ #3D #3Dart #C4D #mograph #NoAI
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View full threadThe proton was modeled with gluons (using the Y shape, not triangle (E.g. ALT)). But it's blurry; the cloudy appearance took precedence. Since this was originally for an editorial article header, it's just meant to convey the "particle sea", not ID / explain particulars as a figure/graphic would.
- That's interesting. As I said, it is a visually appealing (artistic) animation and that is a difficult thing to do for the strong force!
- Please join us on Friday, March 7th at 2:00pm PST for an in-person seminar by Dr. Christopher Charles, TRIUMF ✨ For more information scan the QR code or follow the link below: www.uvic.ca/science/phys... #Seminar #TRIUMF #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #yyjevents
- Definitely artistic in this case. Thank you!
- I would be interested to know more about your artistic inspiration. It looks a bit like the quantum representation that I saw on YouTube recently, but adding in the strong charge (colour). Did you consider including the gluons? Does your representation include sea quarks or just valence quarks?
- Was this an artistic simulation, or are you simulating the wave function derived from the Dirac equation? Visually, it looks wonderful!
- Check out this interview with UVic Astronomy and Cosmology professor, Dr. Jon Willis, where he talks about the asteroid 2024 YR4 and its risk of colliding with Earth. News Article: www.saanichnews.com/local-news/c...
- Please join us on Wednesday, March 5th at 3:30 p.m. PST for an in-person colloquium by Dr. Isabel Trigger, TRIUMF ✨ For more information: events.uvic.ca/physics/even... #Colloquium #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #yyjevents
- Did you know... Picasso and other artists were inspired by Math and Physics? The development of ideas around higher dimensions led some artists to consider what it would like to depict a 4D view of a 3D object on a 2D artistic medium. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_...
- Either way, it sucks. But at least there’s some fun physics to ponder while you’re sitting in the repair shop.
- If we are pondering physics, then neither is appropriate. A collision occurred between a rock and a windshield. All frames of reference are equally valid.
- Upcoming space events - things to look out for! highplainsobservercanadian.com/happy-starga...
- When you run into your @phys-astro-uvic.bsky.social colleague at the airport. Meet Geoff, a part-time physics professor and a part-time Westjet pilot. How cool is that?! @uvicscience.bsky.social
- A professor by day, a pilot by flight! 👨🏫👨✈️
- Please join us on Wednesday, February 26 at 3:30 p.m. PST for an in-person colloquium by Dr. Suzie Sheehy, University of Melbourne ✨ For more information: events.uvic.ca/physics/even... #Colloquium #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #yyjevents #LansdowneLecture
- Exciting news! 🌌🔭 Our Astronomy Research Centre team just used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe planet formation around PDS 70. Read about it here: www.uvic.ca/arc www.uvic.ca/science/home... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #Astronomy #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #PlanetFormation
