Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Joined September 2014
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NSERC has announced the launch of the Geoffrey Hinton Prizes—named for the 2024 Nobel Prize winner—for innovation in AI applications in the natural sciences and engineering.
Read more: bit.ly/3UUyvgu
ALT Geoffrey Hinton
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#UofTArtSci’s Pekka Sinervo, an experimental physicist with an impressive record of academic and administrative leadership, has been awarded the 2026 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award.
Read more: bit.ly/4mGYEcr
ALT Pekka Sinervo
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Theoretical particle physicist Yonatan Kahn brings his dark matter search and quantum research collaboration to @UofT.
Learn more: bit.ly/4rhL8xr
ALT An SQMS superconducting cavity. Photo credit: SQMS Fermilab.
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Happy #LunarNewYear from #UofT! 🧧 Wishing you health, joy and prosperity in the Year of the Horse.
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Update: Due to heavy snowfall & the impacts on public transit, the #UofT St. George campus will remain closed today (Jan. 26). All campus activities have been cancelled.
An update on campus operations will be shared on Jan. 27 by 6:30 a.m. at utoronto.ca/campus-status
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⚠️Weather Watch: Environment Canada is forecasting significant snowfall beginning Sunday. We will share updates on any impacts to #UofT campus operations through our social media channels and on the campus status page: utoronto.ca/campus-status
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⚠️ Weather Alert: Due to severe weather conditions, @UTM, @UTSC and #UofT St. George campuses are closed today. All scheduled campus activities are cancelled.
For more info, visit utoronto.ca/campus-status
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Some tweets are pure fun. I grew up with Star Trek, so was thrilled to have William Shatner contact me while I was living on the International Space Station. We’ve since gotten to know each other - the first 2 Canadian spaceship captains :)
And since then, he flew in space!
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Know your strengths and limitations, and find something you can’t exist without.
These are some words of advice from the latest Share Your Spark event, co-hosted by #UofTArtSci's Centre for Entrepreneurship and @inniscollege.
Learn more: bit.ly/48EzmoI
ALT A&S alumni Linda Schuyler and Asha Daniere sit down for a conversation on entrepreneurship in the media industry.
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Good luck to everyone on their upcoming exams and wrapping up this semester. You've got this. ❤️
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Breakthrough in atomic clock technology promises more precise timekeeping #UofT 🕙 uoft.me/b-T
ALT Lower Saxony, Brunswick: Various superstructures, which are parts of an atomic clock, are located in the time laboratory of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
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Next MScAC Talk on November 11: Machine Learning from the Perspective of Physics
Join Prof. Yonatan Kahn for a deep dive into how physics can help us understand neural networks and AI.
📍Toronto + Online
🔗Save your spot today:
mscac.utoronto.ca/mscac-talk…
ALT Yonatan Kahn smiles facing the camera.
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Show your support for the @BlueJays as they chase #WorldSeries glory! Don’t miss our game day watch parties on Front Campus to catch all the action & excitement with the #UofT community under the city skyline. #WANTITALL #UTogether
Details: uoft.me/blue-jays
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#UofT is excited to cheer on the home team in the World Series! Join us on Front Campus tonight at 8:00 p.m. for our first game-day watch party. Let’s go, Blue Jays! #WANTITALL #UTogether
For more details about the watch party, visit uoft.me/blue-jays
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🔬 New publication: Will future heatwaves be hotter, not necessarily longer?
Read the article 'Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification' by Eylon Vakrat & Paul J. Kushner, EXPECT researchers from @UofT (@uoftphysics) 👉 expect-project.eu/resource/d…
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One year ago today, we celebrated @geoffreyhinton's Nobel Prize in Physics. 🥇
The @UofTCompSci community is thrilled to celebrate University Professor Emeritus @geoffreyhinton’s @NobelPrize in Physics! 🎉
utoronto.ca/news/geoffrey-hi…
ALT Professor and Chair Eyal de Lara stands speaking into a microphone alongside Dean Melanie Woodin of the Faculty of Arts & Science
ALT Members of the Department of Computer Science community look on as celebratory remarks are delivered
ALT Nick Frosst, a former student of Geoffrey Hinton, speaks in front of a TV monitor, alongside Melanie Woodin and Eyal de Lara
ALT Five people, comprising academic leadership and former students of Geoffrey Hinton, stand side-by-side for a posed group photo, in front of a TV monitor that has three photos of Geoffrey Hinton at different stages of his life
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Two comets - easy to tell where the Sun is.
Great shot by lucperrot.fr/bio
(more info: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250929.… )
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Registration is open for #ARIA2025 — Toronto’s top tech and research showcase.
On November 13 at @MTCC_Events, explore applied R&D in AI, robotics, health tech and more.
Get a first look at the ideas shaping the future.
Register: bit.ly/ARIA25
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Jillian Escobar has always been curious about how the natural world works. So, what better way to spend the summer than doing research at the Large Hadron Collider?
Learn more about her experience with @UofT’s Summer Abroad program: bit.ly/48jQ7H7
ALT Jillian Escobar.
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In @uoftphysics we are seeking an Assistant Professor in theoretical #QuantumOptics (including AMO, applications to Quantum Information, et cetera – jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto… );