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Awards & Honours |
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics |
09 November 2015 |
This prize is awarded jointly to the Daya Bay, Kamland, SNO, Super-K, and T2K/K2K collaborations “for the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics.” |
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Awards & Honours |
Winning Photographs Revealed |
04 November 2015 |
Congratulations to the Vancouver photographers for their winning photos in TRIUMF’s photo competition, part of the Global Physics Photowalk 2015. |
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Experimental Result |
Computing the Heart of Matter |
03 November 2015 |
An international team of theoretical physicists has succeeded for the first time in calculating important properties of the Calcium-48 nucleus, using America's largest supercomputer. |
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Current Events |
The Race to Space |
03 November 2015 |
Eight university-student teams in the Canadian Satellite Design Competition return to TRIUMF to test their satellite components in a realistic simulated space setting. |
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Current Events |
HALO: Detector of Opportunity |
29 October 2015 |
The international SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) recently welcomed SNOLAB’s Helium and Lead Observatory (HALO) to its global network of neutrino detectors. |
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Awards & Honours |
Reflections on the Nobel Prize in Physics |
26 October 2015 |
News that the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo) and Art McDonald (Queen's University) sparked a day of celebration at the lab. Read on for reflections about TRIUMF's involvement in the SNO experiment. |
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Experimental Result |
Yann Seimbille's Three Big Ideas |
22 October 2015 |
TRIUMF continues to grow its team of world-class researchers with the addition of Dr. Yann Seimbille. Yann joins TRIUMF from Switzerland’s Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève and hopes to realize three goals. |
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Current Events |
Solving Problems, with Ken Buckley |
09 October 2015 |
"The highlight of my career is the project I’m currently working on, having developed another way of making Tc-99m. It’s been pretty exciting to work on something that potentially changes the way the world does business." |
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From the Director |
Introducing TRIUMF’s New Deputy Director |
30 September 2015 |
Director Dr. Jonathan Bagger implemented several changes to TRIUMF’s management structure, including naming Dr. Reiner Kruecken, former Head of the Science Division, as TRIUMF’s new Deputy Director. In this interview, we learn more about Reiner and his path to Deputy Director. |
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From the Director |
Introducing TRIUMF’s First Deputy Director |
30 September 2015 |
Director Dr. Jonathan Bagger implemented several changes to TRIUMF’s management structure, including naming Dr. Reiner Kruecken, former Head of the Science Division, as TRIUMF’s new - and first ever - Deputy Director. In this interview, we learn more about Reiner and his pth to Deputy Director. |
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