Starry Nights is ON tonight! Join us at Burnaby campus 10pm to midnight to view a marshy line up of targets including the Lagoon and Swan Nebulas and Wild Duck Cluster, along with Bode's Galaxy.🔭 Thanks to @rascvancouver.bsky.social for helping us make these events happen! www.sfu.ca/science/comm...

Frontiers in Biophysics 2026 celebrating its 20th anniversary conference!! 🎉2️⃣0️⃣🗓️

Conventional computing aims to reduce the impact of noise, but what if these random fluctuations can be harnessed to do the computing itself? @sfuphysics.bsky.social professor @davidasivak.bsky.social weighs in: ⚛️🧪

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 3w ago

“I think thermodynamic computing was developed with the thought that it was piggybacking on the computation that ‘already happens out there’ in the rest of the world but [is] not explicitly labeled as such.” — David Sivak, a statistical physicist.

SFU is taking a leading role in one of the most significant international scientific efforts in history. The large Hadron Collider in Switzerland recently shut down for upgrades. And when it comes back online in 2030, it will have components made right here in BC.

We're pleased to announce that SFU Science researchers have received $10.3 million in new funding from NSERC to support research programs in a wide variety of natural sciences. www.sfu.ca/science/news...

Farewell to our delightful postdoc Simon Meynell, who is off to work with Patrice Bertet's group at CEA Paris-Saclay! It has been a pleasure working with him on T centre spectral diffusion and optical cluster states. Read Simon's paper on T centre spectral diffusion here: doi.org/10.1103/9dxr...

SFU scientists are hard at work building powerful detectors for the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. Take a look at their high-tech lab at SFU’s Burnaby campus at the link below.

Searching for the next Higgs boson: SFU team drives global effort to boost science experiment at Large Hadron Collider

Simon Fraser University researchers are driving Canada’s involvement on a major upgrade of the renowned ATLAS experiment as scientists seek to enhance our understanding of the universe. Deep within a...

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Researchers at @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @triumflab.bsky.social have been hard at work developing and fabricating the parts that will be critical to the next run of @cern.bsky.social's Large Hadron Collider. Take a peek behind the scenes with @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social: 🧪⚛️

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Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Frisken, who is the recipient of a 2026 CAP Fellowship! www.sfu.ca/physics/news...

Barbara Frisken awarded CAP Fellowship

Dr. Barbara Frisken, Professor Emerita of SFU Physics, is among the 2026 class of Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Fellows.

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Postdoc opportunity at @sfuphysics.bsky.social! Apply by May 31 for full consideration. 🧪⚛️

@davidasivak.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hiring a postdoc! Join us in heavenly Vancouver to develop nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and information theory to understand free-energy transduction in biomolecular machines, in close collaboration with experimentalists. Details: sfu.ca/physics/siva...

This recent collaboration between @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @sfubiosciences.bsky.social researchers is a great example of how interdisciplinary collaborations can lead to new insights and useful tools for understanding the natural world. 🧪⚛️ #bio

Simon Fraser University@sfu.ca · 3mo ago

What happens when the elegant logic of physics meets the messy reality of biology? Interdisciplinary research has provided new and more effective models to understand how biological communities disperse: @sfuscience.bsky.social @davidasivak.bsky.social @eric-w-jones.bsky.social

While Artemis II is taking humans further than ever before, a new $2 million endowment will support new research at @sfuphysics.bsky.social on some of the farthest galaxies visible from Earth and expand @sfu.ca's astronomy outreach programs: www.sfu.ca/science/news... 🔭

$2 million endowment takes SFU astrophysics research to galaxies far, far away

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SFU and UBC Science Outreach invite you to an evening with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donna Strickland at SFU Harbour Centre. @sfuscience.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca Detail and Registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/extreme-li...

Reminder of the upcoming Saturday Morning Lectures! Happening this Saturday, March 7 at the Surrey Library, City Centre Branch (Rm 401). Presentations by Ziliang Ye (UBC) and Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)

New PRL! We find a giant isotope effect in silicon T centres: swapping H → D massively boosts lifetime and emission efficiency. Great modelling from Mark Turiansky (NRL). Lead authors Moein Kazemi & Mehdi Keshavarz pictured in our lab at @sfuphysics.bsky.social. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

An SFU cosmologist believes his team’s new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science’s biggest questions – the Hubble tension. “This is an exciting moment for us and the wider cosmology community,” says Levon Pogosian, SFU professor. Find out more below. 💫

Hubble tension – SFU researcher potentially one step closer to answering the universe’s biggest question

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team’s new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science’s biggest questions – the Hubble tension.

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Come hear about how the "Music of the Universe" and how the Big Bang relates to biology! Happening this Saturday Feb 7 at the Surrey Library, City Centre Branch (Rm 401). Presentations by Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) and Peter Unrau (SFU)

Join @sfuphysics.bsky.social and the Faculty of Science this Monday for a dialogue led by @ucirvine.bsky.social Prof Mu-Chun Chen to explore challenges and barriers to fostering belonging in science and opportunities to cultivate inclusive excellence. www.eventbrite.ca/e/fostering-...

Fostering Belonging in the Natural Sciences

Exploring challenges, barriers and opportunities in community engagement and inclusivity in STEM, with Professor Mu-Chun Chen, UC-Irvine.

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Please join us to hear the panelists talk about their trajectories from #SFUstudent to employee. If you've been wondering what you can do with a #physics degree, this event is for you. We'll have prize draws for those who attend. #SFU #SFUPhysics @sfuscience.bsky.social www.sfu.ca/physics/news...

Please join us to hear the panelists talk about their trajectories from #SFUstudent to employee. If you've been wondering what you can do with a #physics degree, this event is for you. We'll have prize draws for those who attend. #SFU #SFUPhysics @sfuscience.bsky.social www.sfu.ca/physics/news...

@sfuphysics.bsky.social prof Levon Pogosian and his collaborators have been working for years to unravel some of the most challenging puzzles in cosmology. The answers could help us understand how quickly the universe is expanding and yield new insight into how it began. 🔭 www.sfu.ca/science/news...

Out in @physrevresearch.bsky.social: beautiful and fundamental theory from @sfuphysics.bsky.social PhD student @jrsawchuk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1103/j59j...

We’re hiring! The Department of Physics @sfuphysics.bsky.social at Simon Fraser U (in beautiful and vibrant Vancouver) seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Experimental Biophysics, encompassing all scales of life from molecules to ecosystems. @sfuscience.bsky.social

Out in @physreve.bsky.social: @sfuphysics.bsky.social MSc student Sara Iranbakhsh reveals how symmetry mismatch between the components of nanoscale rotary motors affects their performance doi.org/10.1103/k85p... @sfuscience.bsky.social

LGBTQ+ STEM Spotlight Day 7: Kelsey Leonard

Physics score big at this year's Faculty of Science Excellence Awards! We have 4 winners across various categories: Kero Lau, Gopolang Mohlabeng, Ricky Chu and Olha Farion. Congratulations to all! Read more: www.sfu.ca/physics/news...

LGBTQ+ STEM Spotlight Day 6: Gwen Grinyer

LGBTQ+ STEM Spotlight Day 5: Timnit Gebru

We are so proud to see Dr. Igor Herbut win the Dresden Physics Prize! Congratulations Igor!

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems@mpipks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Congratulations! Prof. Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University) awarded the "Physik-Preis Dresden 2025“

LGBTQ+ STEM Spotlight Day 4: Nergis Mavalvala