Current Events |
Five-Year Review of TRIUMF |
20 November 2013 |
On November 13-15, the International Peer
Review Committee visited TRIUMF to assess its performance, progress, and plans
for the future. |
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Awards & Honours |
Navratil Receives Supercomputing Award |
19 November 2013 |
Theoretical
physicist Dr. Petr Navratil is part of an international team set to receive an
INCITE award, affording them crucial supercomputing resources for ab initio calculations of light nuclei
reactions. |
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Awards & Honours |
Women In Science Awards Lia Merminga |
14 November 2013 |
The Minerva Foundation for BC Women announced Lia Merminga, Head of Accelerator Division, as a recipient of the Women In Science award. Lia is recognized for her integrity, excellence, and vision. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Undergrads Awarded at CUPC |
12 November 2013 |
Chelsea, Ben and Sebastien received top honours at the annual Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference, hosted by McMaster University this October. |
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Current Events |
Proton Therapy Treats 175th Patient |
01 November 2013 |
Treating ocular melanoma since '95, the PT Facility at
TRIUMF is one of just 42 facilities worldwide capable of supplying proton beams, the technical know-how, and coordination with
local institutions to provide the best possible treatment
for this rare disease. |
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Awards & Honours |
Top 40 Under 40: Paul Schaffer |
23 October 2013 |
TRIUMF's Paul Schaffer was selected as one of Business in Vancouver's Top Forty under 40 this morning, recognizing BC professionals who've already made their mark. Congratulations! |
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Experimental Result |
A Medical Isotope First at ISAC |
21 October 2013 |
For the first time ever, Astatine-209 was successfully recovered from TRIUMF's ISAC facility for use in nuclear medicine, a breakthrough in theranostic isotope research. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
TRIUMF Research Drives Electronics |
15 October 2013 |
Electrical engineers working at TRIUMF drive progress not only in subatomic-physics research but also digital communications and signal processing. |
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Current Events |
Enhanced KEK-TRIUMF Partnership |
14 October 2013 |
Last week, TRIUMF welcomed a delegation of senior scientists from the Japanese KEK laboratory as part of the the fourth joint Symposium on Accelerator-based Science. A new five-year partnership agreement was signed. |
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From the Director |
Five-Year Plan 2015–2020 Revealed |
11 October 2013 |
Now available online, Five-Year Plan 2015–2020 represents a defining document for TRIUMF. Not
only does it recap the performance of the five years—2008–2012—it also
presents an implementation plan for the second half of the decadal
vision laid out in Five-Year Plan 2010–2015. |
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