Conveners
R1-2 History of Physics (DHP) | Histoire de la physique (DHP)
- Louis Marchildon (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres)
Queen's University is celebrating its 175th year. Physics and astronomy have been taught here since the early days; an independent department was formed over a century ago; the engineering physics program was started about that time and research became a feature of the Department. We shall begin with a brief chronology and then illustrate the development of physics at Queen's by sketching a...
I will recount some vignettes from the life, work, and engagements of the late John David Jackson—Western Ontario undergraduate, McGill faculty member, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley— whose magisterial textbook Classical Electrodynamics has shaped graduate education for more than a half century.
In this talk I will discuss several recent trends in Canadian neutron scattering, as determined from a study of neutron publication data. The main goal of this study was to identify: (1) where Canadian scientists have been carrying out their neutron scattering experiments, (2) what type of techniques and instrumentation they have been utilizing, (3) which fields of science they have been...
