TRIUMF’s 7th Annual Summer Student Symposium took place on July 31, 2007. The judging panel was very impressed with the professional quality of all 17 presentations. After a difficult deliberation, the panel chose TRIUMF’s Theory Group student Evan O’Connor to present his talk, "Neutrino Interactions with Low-Density Nuclear Matter in Supernovae," at the next Western Regional Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference in Banff, Alberta, in February 2008.
Honourable Mentions went to Cecilia Leung (TITAN group), Tout Wang (Laser Spectroscopy), and Katie Gagnon (Life Sciences).
Each summer, approximately 15 TRIUMF summer, scholarship, and co-op students are invited to present their work to their peers in a symposium-like atmosphere. The event allows the students the opportunity to delve deeper into the work they did over the summer and then give 12-minute presentations in a relaxed setting. The judges give feedback to all presenters, who also take questions from the panel and the audience. The overall quality of the talks continues to impress judges and attendees year after year.