Summer Programs and Extracurricular Activities
In what follows you will find a list of some summer programs, awards and internship opportunities related to Physics in Canada and elsewhere and available to Concordia students.
Various Fields
- Volunteer or Paid positions in our Department and elsewhere at Concordia or in Montréal
How to apply: Browse webpages and contact professors
- Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Awards Program (CUSRA)
Location: Montreal, Canada
How to apply: Contact professors by email
Deadline: early February (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
Location: Canada
How to apply: Contact professors by email or meet them if they are in Montreal
Deadline: mid-February (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Supplements of the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (BPCA)
Deadline: late April (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Perimeter Institute, Summer program
Location: Waterloo, Canada
Deadline: early January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Mitacs Globalink research award
Location: Various countries
Deadline: Any time
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
Location: California, United States
Deadline: late February (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE)
Location: Germany
Deadline: mid-December (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Research internship program
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Deadline: December (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Society of Physics Students (SPS), Summer internship program
Location: United States
Deadline: mid-January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- University of Southern California, Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
Location: United States
Deadline: early March (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- University of Tokyo, Research internship program
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Deadline: early January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Kupcinet-Getz International Summer School
Location: Rehovot, Israel
Deadline: late December (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
Astrophysics
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
Location: Toronto, Canada
Deadline: late January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), Summer internship
Location: Mont-Mégantic (Canada), Hawaii (United States)
Deadline: mid-November (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- European Space Agency (ESA), Student internships
Location: Europe
Deadline: mid-October (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
Biomedical physics and biomedical engineering
- Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP)
Location: Toronto, Canada
Deadline: early March (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- University of Toronto, Department of Medical Biophysics, Summer Student Program
Location: Toronto, Canada
Deadline: late January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
Particle physics
- TRIUMF Undergraduate Student Program
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Deadlines: January, May and September (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
- CERN Summer Student Programme
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Deadline: mid-January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
Thermoelectric
- Highly Effective Applications of Thermoelectrics Research (HEATER), Summer Program
Location: Canada
Deadline: For the current deadline, please follow the link
Quantum Computing
- Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), Undergraduate Research Award
Location: Waterloo, Canada
Deadline: early January (for the current deadline, please follow the link)
Opportunities in the United States (mostly for United States citizens)
Concordia students have at their disposal many opportunities for them to develop professional skills and have hands-on experiences that will help them become competitive members of the workforce. In what follows you will find a list of communities within Concordia that have extracurricular activities.
Student led
- Space Concordia
- ConcordAI – Artificial Intelligence Concordia
- Data Innovation Playground of Concordia
Concordia led
In what follows you will find a list of organizations that actively represent and advocate for certain students groups within Concordia. They also promote social events and organize academic activities.
Undergraduate
- CUBCAPS – Concordia Undergraduate Biochemistry Chemistry and Physics Society
- CSU – Concordia Student Union
- ASFA – Arts and Science Federation of Associations
Graduate
Some annual events related to physics are listed below. Students that will present posters or papers at academic conferences can receive financial support by applying to the Student Conference Travel Support from the Faculty of Arts and Science.
- CCUWiP – Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
When: mid-January (for the current/next date, please follow the link)
- CUPC – Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference
When: early November (for the current/next date, please follow the link)
- SAPHARI – Annual Colloquium in Physics for a Future in Research and Industry
When: early March (for the current/next date, please follow the link)
- Physics Games
When: early January (for the current/next date, please follow the link)
- PLANCKS
When: early May (for the current/next date, please follow the link)