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Mr /X d'-' :% /*» *aŒ Serving th e Canadian physics com m u nity since 1945 / Au service Wom en in Physics de la communauté canadienne de physique G e n d e r a n d D i v e r s i t y a t W o r k depuis 1945 Les f e m m e s e n p h y s iq u e w) Canadian Association of G e n r e e t d i v e r s i t é a u t r a v a il Physicists / Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes www.cap.ca Join the Fun Joignez l’amusement Art of Physics Concours l’Art Competition de la physique You are invited to enter the competition (open Vous êtes invités (es) à participer (aux catégories ouverte or high school categories) by capturing in a ou école secondaire) en photographiant un phénomène photograph a beautiful or unusual physics physique magnifique, ou particulier, et en rédigeant un phenomenon and explaining it in less than court texte explicatif de moins de 200 mots, en termes 200 words in terms that everyone can understand. simples et à la portée de tous. The emphasis of this contest L’accent de ce concours est de is not so much on having a pouvoir expliquer le principe high level of physics général de la photo soumise comprehension as it is on plutôt que de démontrer un being able to explain the niveau élevé de compréhension general principle behind the de la physique. L’échéance pour photograph submitted. les inscriptions individuelles Individual (open and high ouvert et école secondaire) school) and high school class et scolaires (voir formulaire entries are invited up until d’inscription/règlements à April 15 each year (see http://www.cap.ca/fr/activites/ http://www.cap.ca/ lart-de-physique) est fixée au en/activities/art-physics 15 avril chaque année. for entry form and rules). Notez bien que toutes les Please note that all entries inscriptions doivent être des must be original artwork oeuvres originales du produced by the participant. participant ou de la participante. Winning entries will form part of Reflection in Glass Les soumissions gagnantes feront our Art of Physics exhibition which partie de notre exposition L’Art de may be on display at the Canada 2nd Place (IYL2015 Category) la physique au Musée des sciences Science and Technology Museum, - 2015 competition et de la technologie du Canada et and may appear as a cover on our auront une chance de paraître sur la publication, Physics in Canada. by Jonathan Lew, couverture d’un numéro de La Physique They will also be posted on our Burnaby, British Columbia au Canada. Elles seront également Art of Physics website at (see http://www.cap.ca/aop/aop/Reflection2015.html) affichées sous la rubrique L’Art de la http://www.cap.ca. physique du site web de l’ACP à l’adresse suivante: http://www.cap.ca. We hope you will take advantage of Nous espérons que vous profiterez de this opportunity to explore the art cette occasion d’explorer l’art de la of physics by submitting entries for physique en soumettant une oeuvre the next competition. pour la prochaine compétition. Physics in Canada Canadian Association of Physicists La Physique au Canada Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes Volume 71 No. 2 (2015) www.cap.ca 63 Foreword - Women in Physics: Gender and Diversity at Work, by Adriana Predoi-Cross, Gillian Butcher, and Shohini Ghose, Guest Editors 64 Preface - Les femmes en physique : genre et diversite au travail, par Adriana Predoi-Cross, Gillian Butcher, et Shohini Ghose, Redactrices honoraires 66 International Conferences on Women in Physics (ICWIP), by Gillian Butcher, Adriana Predoi-Cross, and Shohini Ghose 69 Is There a Land of Equality for Physicists? 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