Students perform research in mainstream areas of physics and astronomy, or are offered the unique opportunity to undertake interdisciplinary projects through collaboration in a number of research centres.

You'll benefit from excellent facilities, a high-calibre of professors — including six Canada Research Chairs — and close connections to interdisciplinary centres at York in fields such as Atmospheric Chemistry, Earth & Space Science, Mass Spectrometry and Vision Research.

The program is recognized for offering students invaluable research opportunities through its affiliation with important international endeavours including: the space-borne Gravity Probe B mission developed by NASA and Stanford University; the ATLAS detector in the LHC accelerator ring at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland; the international ATRAP collaboration, centred in Harvard and in CERN, which is exploring the physics of antimatter through its work with cold anti-hydrogen atoms. The Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) developed at York University was flown on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) from 1991 to 2003, measuring winds in the high armosphere.