TRIUMF : Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics

SFU/TRIUMF physicist Mike Vetterli has been selected to head up the influential ATLAS publications committee; he will be deputy in 2012 and chair in 2013.
At a news conference held at the Vancouver Aquarium and MC'd by TRIUMF's Tim Meyer, enthusiasm and anticipation kicked off for the upcoming AAAS conference (Feb 16-20 in Vancouver) that will attract upwards of 8,000 top scientists.
Good-bye to 2011 and welcome to a brand new year on the calendar: 2012. A year destined for greatness in scientific accomplishments, technological prowess, and making a difference all around the world.
Results from the TITAN team's precision studies of the rubidium-74 nucleus were published in Physical Review Letters and selected as an Editor's Choice. The team developed high charge states of the ions to achieve the record results.
TRIUMF has set a new world record for most intense beams directed onto a heavy, metal target for isotope production. The new record is nearly five times the previous one held by CERN's ISOLDE project.
Seminars around the world and across Canada today announced new updates on the search for the Higgs boson of the Standard Model. We have surrounded its last hiding place!