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Workshops & Conferences |
A Triumph for TRIUMF and Accelerator Science |
19 May 2009 |
The 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC09), hosted by TRIUMF, came to a close on Friday, May 8th, after a highly successful week of speakers, poster sessions, exhibits, and more. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Annual Meeting: NW Section of APS |
15 May 2009 |
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. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
TRIUMF Gets Schooled in Nuclear Structure |
08 May 2009 |
"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. |
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Current Events |
Revealing the Physics Behind Angels & Demons |
06 May 2009 |
On May 15, 2009, Sony Pictures will release Angels & Demons, a major motion picture based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel. |
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Current Events |
LHC Physics Theory Workshop held at TRIUMF |
01 May 2009 |
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. |
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Awards & Honours |
UBC Graduate Student at TRIUMF Lands Prestigious Vanier Scholarship |
30 April 2009 |
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. |
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Current Events |
Joyce Murray, Federal M.P. for Vancouver Quadra, Visits TRIUMF |
30 April 2009 |
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. |
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Current Events |
Canada’s First Astronaut Visits TRIUMF |
30 April 2009 |
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). |
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Experimental Result |
Mo-99 Collaboration: MDS Nordion & TRIUMF |
28 April 2009 |
MDS Nordion and TRIUMF announced on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, that they have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of producing a viable and reliable supply of photo-fission-produced molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) used globally for diagnostic medical imaging. |
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Experimental Result |
T2K Experiment Launches with Great Success |
24 April 2009 |
T2K, also known as the Tokai-to-Kamioka long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, has taken the first step into a realm of research and discovery. Experimenters have confirmed the first production of neutrino beams by observing the muons produced by the proton beam in the neutrino facility at Japan Proton Accelerator Complex (J-PARC). |
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