Natural Resource Sciences McGill University

Overview

Additionally, we host an impressive number of postdoctoral fellows and research associates and run one of the largest and most vibrant graduate programs in North America. The graduate student enrolment is currently approximately 200.

Faculty members in the Department of Physics are recognized internationally for their excellence. Our members have received national and international prizes and fellowships including Les Prix Du Québec, Steacie Prize, Sloan Fellowships, NSERC, and many others. They are also in constant demand as reviewers and referees. Students who earn advanced degrees from the Department of Physics will not only get an excellent education, they will also receive valuable guidance and network contacts to help with subsequent career steps.

Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University offers full M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, including:

• astrophysics;

• atmospheric physics;

• bio-physics;

• condensed-matter physics;

• high-energy physics;

• laser spectroscopy;

• material physics;

• non-linear dynamics and atmospheric physics;

• nuclear physics;

• statistical physics;

• medical-radiation physics.

Although most of the teaching and research facilities are located in the Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, the Department has space and research facilities in the Wong Materials Science Centre, adjacent to the Rutherford Building. Our groups also conduct research at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), the Jewish General Hospital, the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and laboratories around the world, including Argonne, CERN, FermiLab, SLAC, TRIUMF, and KEK.

Key facts

Departmental researchers enjoy technical support in the areas of engineering, electronics, and precision machining. The Department maintains an excellent conventional machine shop as well as the McGill Nanotools-Microfab facility. Most of the scientific computing is done with an extensive in-house network of powerful workstations and several Beowulf clusters.

Remote access to supercomputing sites in Canada and the United States is also possible including the McGill HPC super-computing facility which is a part of the nationwide network of high performance computing installations in Quebec.