The 41th edition of Soup and Science will be held at the Thomson House's Ballroom from February 2nd to 6th, 2026. Students and community members are invited to hear outstanding McGill professors and student speakers across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions.
Given the issues with the "no-shows", there will be no registration this time. First come, first served until we reach capacity.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
11:45 AM -12:45 PM
Prof. Michael Sullivan
Department of Psychology
It’s Not Fair: How Perceptions of Injustice Actually Interfere with Recovery Following Trauma
Prof. Christian Genest
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Assessing the risk of heavy rain in the middle of nowhere
Antoine Laroque & Alice Lee
Department of Geography
Too much nitrogen: A recipe for peat collapse
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Félix St-Amour
Department of Physics
Poles on the Pole: Using Physics to Assess Climate Change
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Kini Chen
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Tracking Cognition with Deep Learning: Predicting Task Presence from Dynamic Brain Connectivity
Thursday, February 5, 2026
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Prof. Russell Steele
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Causal effects in dynamic systems: when is a change not really a change?
Prof. Bärbel Knäuper
Department of Psychology
Building a Self-Guided App for Mental Health Exercises
Hadrien Padilla
School of Computer Science
Learning to value: Investigating reward representation mechanisms in the hippocampus
Friday, February 6, 2026
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Hoping to spend a semester abroad?
McGill's Field Study Semesters are a chance to swap lecture halls for real-world adventure. Applications for the McGill Barbados, Panama and East Africa are now Open!
Come meet the Field Study & Internship Team and ask questions about academic content, program fees and available funding.
Dr. Leighton King
Department of Biology
Using paleolimnology to reconstruct past levels of (potentially) toxic elements in salmon nursery lakes across British Columbia, Canada
Prof. Anna Weinberg
Department of Psychology
How does stress get "under the skin" to result in depression? Evidence from the brain's response to rewards
Prof. Ashok Kakkar
Department of Chemistry
Precision Nanomedicine, Are we there yet? From getting therapeutics to the right place To intelligent and engaging nanoformulations
Louise Mussard
Departments of Chemistry & Physics
Investigating the self-assembly of a virus protein
Previous Editions
Visit the pages below for information on previous editions of Soup and Science.
- 40th edition: September 2025
- 39th edition: February 2025
- 38th edition: September 2024
- 37th edition: February 2024
- 36th edition: September 2023
- Snacks and Science: July 2023
- 35th edition: March 2023
- 34th edition: September 2022
- 33rd edition: January 2022
- 32nd edition: Fall 2021
- Sun and Science: July 2021
- 31st edition: February 2021
- 30th edition: September 2020
- Sun and Science: May - August 2020
- 29th edition: January 2020
- 28th edition: September 2019
- 27th edition: January 2019
- 26th edition: September 2018
- 25th edition: January 2018