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Awards & Honours |
SFU/TRIUMF Physicist Selected for ATLAS Leadership Role |
23 January 2012 |
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. |
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Current Events |
Anticipation Builds for AAAS Meeting |
19 January 2012 |
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. |
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Experimental Result |
Short Lived, but Highly Charged |
16 January 2012 |
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. |
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Current Events |
Happy New Year! |
01 January 2012 |
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. |
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Current Events |
Air Liquide Brings World-Class Technology |
22 December 2011 |
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. |
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Current Events |
Of Transformations and Translations... |
21 December 2011 |
Working with students from Emily Carr, TRIUMF's Artists in Residence piloted a project that started with a physics lecture, went through four artistic transformations, and then returned to inspire physicists. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
ATLAS Workshop Focuses on Results |
20 December 2011 |
Particle physicists from across North America met at TRIUMF last week to discuss the latest results from the ATLAS project at CERN's LHC. In addition to tantalizing hints of the Higgs, the workshop looked at more exotic possibilities. |
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Experimental Result |
A World Record for Isotope Production |
20 December 2011 |
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. |
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Awards & Honours |
Canadian Physics Wins 3 of Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year |
16 December 2011 |
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. |
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Awards & Honours |
Tim Meyer Recognized as Top 40 Under 40 |
14 December 2011 |
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. |
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