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Queen’s and Simon Fraser University partner to strengthen Canada’s supercomputing capabilities
19+ hour, 14+ min ago (385+ words) A new memorandum of understanding sets a joint effort to build a system for research, industry, artificial intelligence, and other key national priorities. The collaboration is designed to strengthen Canada's digital sovereignty and ensure researchers and companies have the computing…...
Queen’s Professor Joins Panel on Canada–South Africa SKAO Partnership
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (175+ words) Dr. Kristine Spekkens, professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy at Queen's, will be a featured panelist in an upcoming webinar on Canada'South Africa collaboration in astronomy and science policy. Hosted by the Canadian Science Policy Centre,…...
Using the Pacific Ocean to detect Cherenkov radiation from neutrinos
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (98+ words) Professors Nahee Park and Ken Clark are involved in part of a global experiment that will use the Pacific Ocean to capture and study Cherenkov radiation from neutrinos. Excerpt from the Queen's Gazette article Deep-sea detector to unlock cosmic mysteries:…...
Measuring the Mass of the Solar Neighborhood of the Galaxy
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (126+ words) Queen's University uses cookies to provide the best possible online'experience. Learn about our privacy practices. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay/AURA STScI Lawrence Widrow and University of Alabama (Huntsville) collaborators Thomas Donlon and Sukanya Chakrabarti demonstrated a new method to determine the…...
The First Weapon Against Ebola: Militarism, Global Health, and Canada’s Ebola Vaccine
1+ week, 2+ day ago (358+ words) The First Weapon Against Ebola: Militarism, Global Health, and Canada's Ebola Vaccine'Queen's University - The First Weapon Against Ebola: Militarism, Global Health, and Canada's Ebola Vaccine Join us for the latest Department of Geography and Planning Seminar Series: The First Weapon…...
Room service reimagined: Commerce grad co-founds robotics startup to transform deliveries | Queen's Alumni
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (480+ words) The travel industry is booming. Worldwide, there are nearly 200,000 hotels, and it's estimated that they count more than 17 million rooms between them. That's a whole lot of towels to replace each morning, and a startup co-founded by alumnus Sajeel Purewal,…...
Celebrating the Art of Research
3+ week, 1+ day ago (386+ words) Queen's University uses cookies to provide the best possible online'experience. Learn about our privacy practices. The contest invites the Queen's community to share unique perspectives of their research. The contest will run until April 6 with eight cash prizes for winning…...
Neural Networks: When good enough is better than best
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (488+ words) A Queen's research team has developed a new way to train AI systems so they focus on the bigger picture instead of specific, optimized data. A Queen's research team led by Greg van Anders (Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy), centre,…...
Using light-based computing to tackle complex challenges
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (496+ words) New research led by Queen's researcher Bhavin Shastri is published in Nature " one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals." Bhavin Shastri, professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, centre, and PhD students Hugh Morison, left, and…...
Winter spiders hide powerful antifreeze
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (895+ words) A backyard discovery reveals how cold-tolerant spiders survive winter and help protect orchards. A Clubiona spider, part of a group of winter-active species that remain unfrozen and active in cold temperatures [Credit: Ond'ej Mich'lek, Masaryk University]. On a cold winter…...