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

As of September 6, 2010, after years of working alongside TRIUMF experts, the British Columbia Cancer Agency is undertaking the task of producing medical isotopes on its own.

Come on Kesler - we're rooting for 1 goal for each of our member universities tonight - 17!  Go Canucks Go!

TRIUMF now has a bright, shiny, and new main injection line. The line is used to transport hydrogen ions from the ion source to the centre of the cyclotron. Watch the stop-motion video of the last section being lowered.

Lab Business magazine featured TRIUMF on the cover of its Spring 2008 issue this year.

"We are at the end of the beginning. Now begins the middle," said Professor John Wood about the future of nuclear structure physics and his work at TRIUMF. 

This year, Simon Viel is one of Canada's Vanier Scholarship winners for his research with the ATLAS detector.

Apart from helping keep TRIUMF safe, the Manager of the QA & Training division, Phil Jones, is working to develop guidelines for nuclear facilities across Canada.

The principal support for TRIUMF's operations is through a contribution via National Research Council Canada (NRC).

On May 15, 2009, Sony Pictures will release Angels & Demons, a major motion picture based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel.

The Society of Italian Researchers and Professionals in Western Canada held their inaugural event featuring Olivia Fermi, beginning their mission to build connections across Canada and with Italy.

The issuance and standing of TRIUMF's operating license is determined by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). As a natural part of this process TRIUMF undergoes inspections of many of its activities. For instance, CNSC regularly sends a team of specialists to TRIUMF to inspect the laboratory's Quality Management System and evaluate its effectiveness. The inspection process takes about a week and completes with a debriefing and written report.

The BC Health Minister, George Abbott, and the BC Minister of Technology, Trade and Economic Development, Ida Chong, visited TRIUMF on July 23, 2008.

"Science is the construction of parsimonious, internally consistent models that reliably predict future observations" says Byron K. Jennings, TRIUMF's Deputy Division Head of Science. 

To accelerate electrons through the e-linac, an electron "gun" is used to generate and initially steer the electrons. The TRIUMF team has achieved success at 100 keV and 10 mA, a key milestone on the way to ARIEL.

Stephan Ettenauer, a UBC graduate student working with TRIUMF researcher and adjunct professor Jens Dilling, is among the elite hundred or so graduate students across Canada that have been selected to receive the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, an award valued at $50,000 per year for up three years.

Vanessa Simon, a Ph.D. Student working at TRIUMF, was awarded 3rd prize for Best Student Presentation at the 2011 WNPPC Conference in Alberta.

In a special event at the British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre on Tuesday, provincial and scientific leaders gathered to announce the naming of François Bénard as the province's Leadership Chair in Functional Cancer Imaging.

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, visited TRIUMF on Friday morning, January 16. After announcing a $3.5 million investment for 31 research projects at UBC from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Gary made TRIUMF his next stop.

gridToday, October 3, TRIUMF hosted one of several Grid Fest celebrations occurring simultaneously around the world.

A former member of TRIUMF has won the 2008 Nishina Memorial Prize, Japan’s most prestigious annual physics award. Ryu Hayano will receive the award on December 5, celebrating a remarkable career that he began as one of the first PhD students at TRIUMF in the 1970s.

With National Science and Technology Week in full swing across Canada, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inauguration ceremony occurring at CERN, TRIUMF held its own celebratory event on October 21. The day was called Science on the World Stage in recognition of the international scope of the LHC as well as the global impact of science itself. The event was aimed primarily at high school students.

The International Peer Review (IPR) took place this week at TRIUMF between September 24 and 26.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator and will be the highest energy collider ever built.  Anticipating the exciting turn-on of the LHC this fall, the Theory Groups at TRIUMF and Carleton University organized a three day workshop to discuss the physics that could be discovered in the first year of LHC operation.   The workshop took place April 27-30 at TRIUMF.

As described in an article advertised on the front page of the Vancouver Courier, Lia Merminga has enjoyed her first 10 days at TRIUMF.

On Friday, April 17th, TRIUMF welcomed the Honourable Marc Garneau, a Canadian astronaut, engineer and politician. Currently serving as a Member of Parliament for Westmount-Ville-Marie, he serves as science critic for Parliament. The MP visited TRIUMF as part of a larger tour he is conducting of large science centres in Canada (he arrived in Vancouver straight from Saskstaoon and its Canadian Light Source).

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 was awarded on October 7 to three scientists working on two separate projects. Congratulations to Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa.

Gerald Oakham, a TRIUMF research scientist, was recently selected as one of the “Top 50 People in the Capital,” an annual feature produced by Ottawa Life magazine.

On Friday, March 20, the University of Manitoba became a full member of TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics. "The University of Manitoba is excited to be joining this facility," said Dr. Digvir Jayas, Acting Vice-President (Research) at the University of Manitoba.

As a joint project with the BC Association of Physics Teachers (BCAPT) and BC Science Teachers' Association (BCScTA), TRIUMF hosted “Out of This World Science” for the 4th Professional Development Day for Teachers. Secondary school science teachers spent October 24 participating in hands-on activities and listening to speakers in sessions that make physics relevant and accessible as a high school subject.

Some 34 members of the Qweak collaboration from all over North America, including Canadian members from TRIUMF, the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, met at TRIUMF from July 23rd to the 25th.

TRIUMF and UBC's Department of Physics and Astronomy are proud to present the 2008-09 Saturday morning lecture series on Quantum Physics and Chemistry.

On Saturday, October 25, Patrick Bruskiewich and Chris Waltham delivered lectures to a packed auditorium in which every seat was occupied by the 115 students and community members in attendance. The turnout signals an excellent beginning for the 2008-2009 Saturday Morning Lecture Series put on jointly by TRIUMF and the University of British Columbia.

The Task Force on Alternatives for Medical-Isotope Production today released its final report in prepublication form at URL http://admin.triumf.ca/facility/5yp/comm/Report-vPREPUB.pdf. Task Force was convened by TRIUMF, the University of British Columbia, and Advanced Applied Physics Solution, Inc., with support from Natural Resources Canada.

Richard Stanek, the International Linear Collider (ILC) and superconducting radio frequency (SRF) Resource Manager at Fermilab, visited TRIUMF from December 2-4 to offer talks on project management for interested members of TRIUMF.

Six hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment from TRIUMF was recently shipped on a vessel from Vancouver and bound for Tokai, Japan.

The Optical Transition Radiation (OTR) detector for the T2K experiment is the most downstream monitor in the proton beam line at J-PARC. It was developed over the past two years by a collaboration from York University, the University of Toronto, and TRIUMF, and was successfully deployed in September and October this year.

Graduate students and young researchers gathered to engage in learning about current topics in nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics at the 20th annual TRIUMF Summer Institute (TSI).

“This is a great moment for our two countries, Canada and India,” said Nigel Lockyer, Director of TRIUMF.

In a world fascinated by particle accelerators, one movie is being sponsored by TRIUMF at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

Over 200 TRIUMF staff members and guests put in an appearance at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre on the evening of Saturday, December 6, for the annual TRIUMF Christmas party. The 2008 Christmas party marked an excellent occasion to celebrate the year as it comes to an end at TRIUMF.

Joyce Murray, the twice-elected Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra, paid TRIUMF a visit on April 14, 2009.  Murray was greeted by Director Nigel Lockyer and then met several TRIUMF scientists for a discussion of TRIUMF's recent accomplishments and vision for the future.  Murray is the Liberal Caucus Intergovernmental Affairs Liaison for B.C., and the Vice-Chair of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Health.

The Annual Meeting of the NW section of APS will be taking place at UBC from May 14 to 16. TRIUMF will be a venue for various meetings and a poster session Friday afternoon.

A conference in Europe examines energy efficiency, conservation, and management at large accelerator laboratories.  TRIUMF and UBC participate to discuss an option for using TRIUMF's cooling water as a heat source for UBC campus.

A small energy company using NRC IRAP funds is recognized as an innovation leader.  TRIUMF comments on this success as an indicator of Canada's growing knowledge economy.

A TRIUMF team made precision measurements of low-level radioactivity concentrations in local  milk, rainwater, and bottled water.  Results confirmed that there are no health risks.

AAPS, Inc. has achieved milestone in the muon-geotomography project with the successful design & construction of the first full-scale prototype detector.

Another milestone in ARIEL construction was reached this past Friday: the refurbished Electron Hall was linked directly to the ARIEL beam tunnel.  Workers broke through the six-foot concrete wall separating the two.

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.

At its recent meeting, TRIUMF's Board of Management approved McGill University as an associate member of the consortium of universities that owns and operates Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.

BC Deputy Minister for Innovation and Technology Cairine MacDonald visited TRIUMF on Tuesday morning and learned about the broad research and innovation program.

Canada's contribution to and participation in the Higgs breakthrough shouldn't be taken for granted. Governments, scientists, and the public had to work together.

Canada's Minister of Natural Resources and Minister of Health announced the Government's plan to establish an Expert Review Panel for Long-Term Isotope Supply Solutions.  TRIUMF supports these steps and looks forward to contributing to the process.

Carleton University physics professor and TRIUMF senior scientist David Sinclair will receive the inaugural CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics.

CFI announced its support for a technology upgrade of the ATLAS Canada Tier-1 Data Centre, a particle-physics data storage and analysis facility at TRIUMF led by SFU's Michel Vetterli.

CFI today announced its support for an advanced isotope project led by Saint Mary's professor and regular TRIUMF visiting scientist Ritu Kanungo. The project, CANREB, will be based at TRIUMF.

Dr. Dan Melconian of Texas A&M University received the Early Career Research Award. He was a past graduate student at TRIUMF.

Dr. Michael J. Adam has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences. 

For his outstanding research in nuclear structures, Aaron Gallant was awarded the 2013 Dr. Carl H. Wescott Memorial Fellowship.

Henry Chen officially became TRIUMF's new Chief Financial Officer on April 1, 2011; he brings enthusiasm, excellence, and energy to the job.

His Excellency Werner Wnendt, Abassador of Germany to Canada, visited TRIUMF this past Tuesday to learn about the laboratory's global connections and look for opportunities to expand international partnerships.

In an unexpected turn of events related to the release of the Government of Canada's Budget 2012 this past Thursday evening, TRIUMF will be changing its name.

Jean-Michel Poutissou, and his wife Renee, fully retired from TRIUMF at the beginning of April. Over the years, they have contributed to nearly every success of the lab. 

Last week, physicists and scientists convened to discuss past and current events at the TRIUMF User's Group's Annual General Meeting.

Laura Suen, a TRIUMF Research Assistant, placed second in the CBC's "Canada's Smartest Person" challenge.

Local publication Vancouver Magazine has featured TRIUMF and Director Nigel Lockyer in its December issue, “Vancouver Power 50”. The article, titled, “The Time Machine”, summarizes the highlights of TRIUMF’s work over the past few months and combines them with a biography of Dr. Lockyer.

On Canada Day, TRIUMF celebrated a triumph with the addition of three leading research universities as full members to the consortium which owns and operates the laboratory for the benefit of all of Canada. The University of Guelph, Queen's University, and York University all became full members.

On Feb 21-22, 2013, TRIUMF hosted an international summit for particle physics.  Directors of the world's leading laboratories assembled to discuss progress and plans as well as to look at opportunities for collaboration and partnership.

On March 28, 2011, a ceremonial groundbreaking took place to commemorate the start of formal construction of the new Stores Building.

On Septem-ber 29^th, 2010, the Scientific Attaché from Italy, Dr. Emanuele Fiore, made a visit to TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.

One engineer's research at TRIUMF on the effect of muons on electronic systems has earned him the award for Top Student Paper!

Particle physics enters the mainstream with ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti grabbing Runner-Up for TIME Magazine's 2012 Person of the Year. Congrats to Fabiola, the ATLAS team, and ATLAS-Canada!

Physicians and patients around the world are increasingly anxious about the shortage of nuclear isotopes used for medical imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, brain disease and cardiac problems. The Union of Concerned Scientists issued a call to improve supplies earlier this month...

Senior staff from Industry Canada paid TRIUMF a friendly visit on Wednesday and learned about the lab's international and industrial partnerships.

Starting this weekend, a collection of art created by Emily Carr University students through TRIUMF's Artists in Residence program will be displayed at Science World. 

The Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) and TRIUMF are releasing new web sites this week.  These sites aim to reach a broader audience of stakeholders, better serve members of the Canadian subatomic physics community and inform the general public about ongoing projects and experiments...

The international editorial board of Nuclear Physics News met at TRIUMF for their biannual editorial board meeting to map out topics for future issues, tour TRIUMF and better understand its rare-isotope beam programs. 

The TRIUMF summer BBQ had beautiful weather, some "egg-cellent" events, and an inaugural elevator ride!

The winners of the 12th annual Summer Student Symposium have been announced.

The International Nuclear Target Develop- ment Society held its 25^th world conference from September 12^th -17^th at TRIUMF, in Vancouver, Canada.

Today, Natural Resources Canada announced funding decisions for the next wave of development and deployment of TRIUMF technology for production of the key medical isotope Tc-99m using existing cyclotrons.

Tom Ruth, who launched the nuclear-medicine program at TRIUMF nearly three decades ago, fully retired from TRIUMF in late June.

TRIUMF and AAPS released a joint report today that examines the deployment of PET-based imaging technology for the clinical care of cancer across Canada, province by province.

TRIUMF and Air Liquide Advanced Technologies have just signed a multi-million dollar agreement for the detailed engineering, construction, and installation of cyrogenic systems for ARIEL.

TRIUMF outdid itself in community involvement this September.  In two community festivals the fantastic people at TRIUMF have engaged these communities with who we are and what we do.

TRIUMF recently named the three graduating high school students that have been awarded the 2012 TRIUMF High School Fellowship.

TRIUMF was proud to play host to the world's leading physics-based computer experts as the HEPiX conference took place downtown.

TRIUMF's ARIEL project received the first 300 kW klystron today that will power the first phase of the e-linac.

TRIUMF's Board of Management have announced that Nigel Lockyer will continue as the lab's director for a second success-filled term.

TRIUMF's engineering talent is recognized by professional peers; Aurelia Laxdal achieves P.Eng. credential and joins almost 20 other Professional Engineers at TRIUMF.

TRIUMF's leadership team paid a visit to China's Institute for Atomic Energy and signed a new framework for collaboration that includes isotope production, acceleration, and research.

TRIUMF’s own Tim Meyer, Head of Strategic Planning and Communications, has been recognized as one of the Top 40 Under 40 by Business in Vancouver.

While TRIUMF does not have a nuclear reactor, the laboratory has identified some useful online resources for following the Fukushima crisis.

Zoomer Magazine released its third annual list of Canada's Top 45 Over 45: TRIUMF's Lockyer & UVic's McPherson share spot #17!

What would you do with $10,000? After receiving the Carl Westcott Fellowship for his exceptional work on TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN) project, Maxime Brodeur is still thinking about what he will do with his award.

The principal support for TRIUMF's operations is through a contribution via National Research Council Canada (NRC). NRC funding is awarded in five-year increments to the laboratory which dictates the schedule for preparing the Five-Year Plan (5YP).

MLA of Richmond-Steveston, John Yap visited TRIUMF March 16, 2009. He was welcomed by Director of TRIUMF, Nigel Lockyer, and several TRIUMF researchers.  Lockyer gave a brief presentation on some of the work done at the lab and outlined it's proposal for moving forward.

Physicist Richard E. Taylor recently joined 41 other outstanding Canadians in the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, a program of the Canadian Science and Technology Museum

Congratulations to Sen Mei, from Penticton Secondary School, and Darien Niamir, from Collingwood High School in West Vancouver, for being selected as the recipients of this year’s BC Innovation Council (BCIC) / TRIUMF High School Fellowship award.

More than 50 experts from around the world gathered at TRIUMF on March 27-28, 2008, to assess current progress in--and future directions for--research in understanding halo nuclei.

On Friday, April 4, 2008, the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) announced the recipients of the 2008 medals. Two leaders of the experimental program at TRIUMF were honoured by their peers with these prestigious awards: Jess Brewer and Carl Svensson.

Over forty years ago, a group of UBC Business School and Grad Studies students formed an elite club to follow their passion. To this day, the group still meets every Monday and Wednesday and, in true Canadian fashion, plays hockey!

A celebration will be held Sunday, May 4, 2008, to honour a man of many talents -- Professor Erich Vogt. One of Canada’s Who’s Who, Professor Vogt is perhaps best known as a founder and one of the prime proponents of TRIUMF and in serving as its director from 1981 until 1994.

Carl E. Svensson, an associate professor of physics at the University of Guelph and a leader of a pivotal new experiment at TRIUMF, has been awarded the prestigious NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.

As part of the TRIUMF planning process, the Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (PPAC) will be discussing a list of potential future activities for TRIUMF’s 2010-2015 Five-Year Plan (5YP).

Thanks to the contribution by TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics located in Vancouver, BC, Canadians can celebrate their role in placing the final piece of equipment in a mammoth machine begun over nine years ago: The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

UBC Professor Carl Wieman, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics, held his audience in rapt attention during the February 8th Saturday Morning Lecture.

The 2011 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recognized for his work on quasicrystals, a phenomenon long thought to be erroneous.

TRIUMF is owned and operated as a joint venture by a consortium of seven Canadian universities together with six associate members. To assist TRIUMF in identifying the most promising directions for pursuit, the Board of Management has created a Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (PPAC).

Eight students from the Science Journalism program at the UBC School of Journalism visited TRIUMF on January 21, 2008.

The global, perhaps even stellar, significance of TRIUMF’s nuclear astrophysics program was featured on MSNBC.com’s Cosmic Log on January 4, 2008, in an article by renowned science journalist Alan Boyle.

“It is not just the prevalence of university graduates in a city that has a defining impact on the growth in employment, but their mix as well,” says the new StatsCan cities and growth report: Scientists and Engineers and Urban Growth (January 8, 2008).

Canadian expertise in nuclear science and technology is in high demand when it comes to producing radioisotopes for medical purposes. As the recent events in Chalk River have shown, the world depends upon Canada for these capabilities.

On October 29, 2007, in Ottawa, Dr. Suzanne Fortier, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), honoured seven partnerships involving some of Canada’s leading companies and university researchers with the NSERC Synergy Awards for Innovation.

he TeV-nu workshop, an inspiration of TRIUMF's John Ng, brought together phenomenologists with neutrino specialists -- both underground and long-baseline, collider enthusiasts, and partisans of low-energy electroweak precision measurements

In August 2007, TRIUMF welcomed David Lunney who is here on a sabbatical leave. Having worked exclusively at ISOLDE, David was curious to experience a different ISOL facility and chose TRIUMF for its quality and long-term potential.

The CHEP Conference provided an international forum for delegates to exchange information on their computing experiences and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities for their community.

TRIUMF and PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) — the Swiss research institute for natural and engineering sciences — share a long history of collaboration for the design, construction and exploitation of their large high intensity cyclotrons.

President Toope, a lawyer by profession, is interested in the sciences and in strengthening the ties between TRIUMF and UBC.

The T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) experiment will further explore the oscillation properties of neutrinos by using a high energy particle accelerator now under construction at Tokai, on the east coast of Japan, to produce an intense, nearly monoenergetic beam of man-made neutrinos.

The TRIUMF Users’ recent town hall meeting (August 1st to the 3rd) discussed major new initiatives for the 2010-2015 period.

On Thursday, July 29th, TRIUMF staff gathered in the courtyard to celebrate Mark Stenning’s contributions to TRIUMF over the past 29 years.

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.

Some 34 members of the Qweak collaboration from all over North America, including Canadian members from TRIUMF, the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, met at TRIUMF from July 23rd to the 25th.

At the December 1, 2006 meeting of the TRIUMF Board of Management the Board voted unanimously to admit L'Université de Montréal as a Full Member of the TRIUMF Joint Venture.

Following the December 1st meeting of the TRIUMF Board of Management, Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur, Board Chair, made the following announcement:

Congratulations to Dr. Erich Vogt on receiving the Order of British Columbia at a ceremony at Government House on June 22, 2006.

Reka Moldovan of Kelowna, B.C., was this year's winner of TRIUMF's High School Fellowship.

Explosions lighting up the entire universe, stars ripping themselves apart, and hydrogen bombs which make the military green with envy: all that has created life. More than 250 scientists will be assembling in Vancouver to discuss their latest results about stars and the creation of the elements at Nuclei in the Cosmos VIII.

Canadian physicists captured three of the top spots in Physics World's annual ranking of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year.  The T2K neutrino experiment in Japan directly involves TRIUMF and won 7th.

TRIUMF is very pleased to have joined the InterActions Collaboration. InterActions' members represent the world's particle physics laboratories in a joint effort to support global particle physics communication, to provide centralized, consistent dissemination of particle physics information via the WWW, and to promote education and public outreach.

When ISAC-II comes on line in 2005, it will be supplying beam to, among others, the TRIUMF ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape-Suppressed Spectrometer (TIGRESS).

TRIUMF is building on its successful undergraduate and graduate student programs by launching TOP, the TRIUMF Outreach Project.

After a year of construction, parking problems and excited anticipation, TRIUMF has taken possession of the new ISAC-II building.

Last Wednesday, Erich Vogt, one of the founders and former director of TRIUMF gave an exceptional talk at the Fairmont Lounge in St.John's College at UBC. Titled "The Evolution of Stars and the Creation of Elements" Vogt explored the great developments of astrophysics in the 20^th century and explained the innovative field TRIUMF is entering with a new 100 Million dollar radioactive beam..

The proposed UCN source at TRIUMF, which recently received funding approval from JSPS, would provide the highest density of UCN in the world

The five promising Canadian students who received TRIUMF's 2009 Summer Research Awards have arrived at the laboratory for a unique and exciting research experience.

The parking lot at TRIUMF was unusally full for a Saturday as visitors and supporters of the neighbouring UBC Farm came out for a book signing and presentation by award-winning author Michael Pollan.

Week 33 set the record for cyclotron and beam delivery performance at TRIUMF. In total, the time off was only 2.45 hours, leaving beam on in Beam Line 1A for a record 165.55 hours.

As a pilot for TRIUMF's emerging Aboriginal youth research initiative, 17-year old Dylon Martin will spend 6 weeks immersing himself in the workings of the lab & sharing his weekly reflections on the web.

After months of testing, the newest addition to the OLIS family, the Supernanogan ECR ion source, has now successfully sent beam to three scheduled experiments in the TRIUMF ISAC facility.

More than 40 students from around the world gathered at TRIUMF from July 20 - 31 for the 21st Annual TRIUMF Summer Institute where they engaged with world-class experts on LHC Collider physics.

This year, 16 bright young summer students took part in the 9th Annual TRIUMF Summer Student Symposium where each gave presentations on the research they conducted at the lab this summer.

Earlier this week, the LHC Optical Private Network met at TRIUMF to discuss the operation, monitoring, and performance of the 10G network between CERN and the Tier 1 Data Centres.

TRIUMF volunteers wowed the weekend crowds at the UNA's Annual Barn Raising with engaging science displays and hands-on games that demonstrated the work done at the laboratory.

This week, TRIUMF submitted two proposals on medical isotope alternatives to the CIHR in a bid to obtain operating grants for the development of alternative radio-pharmaceuticals for medical imaging.

Last month, D-Pace was recognized as a Canadian Innovation Leader for its role in linking scientific research to commercialization, jobs, and economic growth within the commercial accelerator industry.

Eminent nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha has been awarded the prestigious Dr. Homi J. Bhabha Chair Professorship at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

On Saturday, November 14, over 135 students and community members came out to listen to this month's presentations at the TRIUMF, UBC, SFU Saturday Morning Lecture Series.

Nine students from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism visited TRIUMF last week for a tour of the facility and an exercise in science journalism - finding and developing a worthy science news pitch.

Two members of the senior management team of Japan's RIKEN laboratory visited TRIUMF on Thursday, October 29, 2009, to share operating models and discuss opportunities for partnership.

Dr. Michel Gingras, who spent some of his formative years at TRIUMF as a research associate in the Theory Group, has been awarded the 2009 Canadian Association of Physicists Brockhouse Medal.

Health care workers, patients and experts have their say on video about the ongoing medical-isotope shortage and its impact on Canadians and the world.

In three days, the world's largest particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, passed two major milestones, successful restart and circulation & collision of two beams.

Two of TRIUMF's accelerator physicists, Robert E. Laxdal and Richard A. Baartman, and a leading nuclear-physics collaborator from the University of Manitoba, Shelley Page, have been elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society.

Past employees and associates of TRIUMF gathered this past Sunday for the inauguration of the TRIUMF Alumni and Retirees Association.  People trekked through falling snow to recollect --- and reflect.

After 45 years of teaching first year Physics at the UBC, Dr. Erich Vogt delivered his final lecture to his last class of Physics 107 students. Many of his colleagues and past students were also in attendance.

Last week, members of the PSE Caucus toured TRIUMF to learn more about the lab and the research and training opportunities it provides Canadian graduate and undergraduate students.

TRIUMF researcher Ritesh Kshetri attended the International Symposium on Nuclear Physics in India where he was awarded the C.V.K. Baba Prize from the Indian Physics Association.

The Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference (WNPPC) met February 12 to 14 at the Banff Centre, with a special focus on providing a forum for junior researchers.

Tao Kong, Ph.D. candidate at UBC, was awarded the Dr. Carl W. Wescott Memorial Fellowship for 2009/2010 for his research at TRIUMF.

Students from SFU's Spatial Presentation: Installation Art class visit TRIUMF this week in the latest Artist in Residence initiative, capturing inspiration from the top of the world's largest cyclotron!

The Association of Korean-Canadian Scientists and Engineers held its first annual research competition at UBC last Friday. Researcher Dr. Ewart Blackmore was invited as an expert judge.

Dr. Art McDonald was among five recipients of the 2010 Killam Prize, one of Canada's most prestigious awards for outstanding career achievements.  TRIUMF works with Dr. McDonald on the SNO project.

The Government of Canada released its "Response to the Report of the Expert Review Panel on Medical-Isotope Production."  TRIUMF is positioned to play a major role with cyclotrons and linear accelerators.

Phil Freeman, teacher at Richmond Secondary School, is awarded the first ever CAP High School Physics Teacher Award for the BC region for his contributions to physics education. Congratulations!

Dr. Mathew Farrer is the UBC inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in neurogenetics and translational neuroscience---areas of research driven forward by TRIUMF's supply of innovative imaging agents using medical isotopes.

On May 28- 30, UBC is inviting alumni, friends, and family to join the festivities to celebrate Alumni Weekend — including a tour of the physics powerhouse on south campus, TRIUMF.

A $30.7-million provincial investment in TRIUMF is expected to help lead the way in alleviating future medical isotope shortages, while keeping B.C. and Canada at the forefront of particle and nuclear physics, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today.

Picture this: For the first time, amateur photo-graphers around the world will  collide with the past, present, and future of particle physics.

And the jury has spoken! TRIUMF's first ever science photo walk is now being exhibited in the ISAC-II Atrium. The photographs will be displayed until August 10th, 2010.

IEEE has recognized the extraction of the first high-energy proton beams from the TRIUMF main cyclotron on December 15, 1974 as an historic engineering milestone.

A federal investment of ~$1M to support innovative medical and pharmaceutical research at TRIUMF was announced today by the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification Canada.

On Sept. 2, 2010, the Consul General of Japan for Vancouver visited TRIUMF. Mr Hideki Ito met with leading researchers from Japan and Canada and learned about the history of strong partnerships with TRIUMF.

TRIUMF and our partners, the UBC Brain Research Centre, and MDS Nordion, are proud to showcase nuclear-medicine research through support and involvement in Science World's newest exhibition—BODY WORLDS & The Brain.

On September 17, 2010, a group of Austrian policy makers, business leaders, and university administrators visited TRIUMF and AAPS, Inc., to better understand science, technology, and innovation in Canada.

Canada's private and public sectors should move quickly to implement reforms that would strengthen the country’s innovation capacity a coalition of business leaders said today.

On Friday, October 22, 2010, 60 British Columbia high school math and science teachers visited TRIUMF for the district-wide Professional Development Day.

A special ceremony on Thursday, December 16, 2010, celebrated the recognition of first beams from TRIUMF’s main cyclotron in 1974 as an engineering milestone for Canada.

TRIUMF's team of Succession Planners won the Society of Research Administrators 'Best North American Poster' award at the annual meeting, for their poster on TRIUMF's approach to succession planning.

Happy New Year!  2010 was a special year for TRIUMF... and the precursor to a fantastic 2011.  Congratulations to everyone in the TRIUMF community and a special thanks to our supporters and champions.

At its recent Board of Management meeting, TRIUMF approved the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) as an associate member of the consortium that owns and operates Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.

Rick Baartman, a TRIUMF employee, was recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) Physics for his hard work in editing manuscripts for publication.

Each year, the UBC Arts Co-op Program recognizes an undergrad co-op student for outstanding achievement. This year the award recognized Meghan Magee for her work term at TRIUMF.

On February 1, 2011, Reiner Krücken joined TRIUMF's senior leadership team as the new Head of the Science Division.  Completing his success-laden career at TRIUMF, Gordon Ball is embarking on an active retirement phase that features time for research. 

At the end of March, visitors from the SFU chemistry department toured TRIUMF's main cyclotron and target hall to see how and where the isotopes they use for research are developed and produced.

Just over 20 partcipants came together to learn and practice techniques in Coulomb excitation with radioactive beams.

TRIUMF's Tom Ruth and Tom Morley are hoping to help increase the production of Tc-99m through accelerator-based technologies.

“I failed to be a hippie,” Paul Schmor stated at his retirement party on July 8, 2008. “Now, I have a goal to fulfill since I went straight from school to work.” After 35 years at TRIUMF as Head of the Accelerator Division, Paul plans to use this time to trek through the Himalaya Mountains.