Institutes & Centres
The Department of Physics & Astronomy is affiliated with several institutes and research facilities on campus and in the community:

The William J. McCallion Planetarium was the first planetarium in Ontario which offered shows to the public....

The BIMR mandate is to develop, support and co-ordinate all materials research-related activities...

The Origins Institute has embarked on a mission to explore the most fundamental topics in science...

The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) was the first university-based research reactor in the British Commonwealth. ...

SHARCNET is the largest high performance computing consortium in Canada...

A leading centre for scientific research, training and educational outreach in foundational theoretical physics....