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Awards & Honours |
Navratil Named 2013 APS Fellow |
26 March 2014 |
Dr. Petr Navratil, leader of
the Theory Group, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical
Society in recognition of his “seminal contributions to the development of ab initio nuclear structure and reaction theory.” |
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Student Stories |
Saudi Arabian Scientist Studies at TRIUMF |
19 March 2014 |
Mohammed Abusalem, a radiochemist from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia, is spending a work term with TRIUMF's Nuclear Medicine Division. |
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From the Director |
Johns Hopkins Scientist to Lead TRIUMF |
18 March 2014 |
After a seven month, highly competitive, international search for
TRIUMF’s next director, the laboratory’s Board of Management announced today
that Dr. Jonathan Bagger, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Vice
Provost at the Johns Hopkins University, will join TRIUMF this summer as the
laboratory’s next director. |
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Current Events |
Scottish Experts Visit TRIUMF |
11 March 2014 |
Last month, a group of radioisotope and accelerator scientists from
Scotland visited TRIUMF, investigating possible avenues for
collaboration in medical isotope production and the advancement of accelerator technology. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Taken By Storm |
05 March 2014 |
Last week, TRIUMF was briefly buried under a rare, late-season snowfall. It was up to TRIUMF's Plant Group to clear the snow before temperatures warmed up again and turned the snow into dangerous ice. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Nuclear Structure Workshop at TRIUMF |
28 February 2014 |
From February 18-21, TRIUMF’s Theory Group hosted the Nuclear Structure and
Reactions: Experimental and Ab Initio Theoretical Perspectives workshop. Forty scientists gathered to share their latest results, exchange new
ideas, and establish new collaborations. |
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Awards & Honours |
Suwa Award Honours T2K Team |
25 February 2014 |
The
2013 Suwa Award was presented to the J-PARC Neutrino Beam Group last week in Japan, to celebrate the achievement of the world’s highest-intensity neutrino beam, used in the T2K experiment. |
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From the Director |
Erich W. Vogt (1929-2014) |
19 February 2014 |
A pioneer and founder of TRIUMF and an inspiration in physics and life to many, Erich W. Vogt passed away peacefully this morning at Vancouver General Hospital. |
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Experimental Result |
T2K Publishes Electron Neutrino Appearance |
13 February 2014 |
A new electron neutrino appearance result from the T2K collaboration was published this week, bringing researchers one step closer to answering one of the greatest puzzles of particle physics: why is there more matter than antimatter in our universe? |
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Current Events |
UCN Project Takes Big Step Forward |
13 February 2014 |
During this annual shutdown period, the Ultra-Cold Neutron (UCN) project kicks off construction of their state-of-the-art experimental area, "excavating" the shielding blocks in the southwestern Meson Hall for the first time since 1978. |
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