Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF and D-Pace Honoured with NSERC Synergy Award |
05 November 2007 |
On October 29, 2007, in Ottawa, Dr. Suzanne Fortier, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), honoured seven partnerships involving some of Canada’s leading companies and university researchers with the NSERC Synergy Awards for Innovation. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Workshop Focuses on National Collaboration in Radiotracer R&D |
02 November 2007 |
On October 27, 2007, TRIUMF hosted a Workshop on Radiotracer Development to establish the groundwork for a national collaborative on radiotracer research and development. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
TRIUMF Hosts Workshop on TeV-Scale Neutrino Physics |
23 October 2007 |
he TeV-nu workshop, an inspiration of TRIUMF's John Ng, brought together phenomenologists with neutrino specialists -- both underground and long-baseline, collider enthusiasts, and partisans of low-energy electroweak precision measurements |
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Current Events |
Canadian Supercomputer Ready to Probe Fundamental Structure of Matter |
22 October 2007 |
TRIUMF and IBM announced that Canada's contribution to a worldwide network of supercomputers is ready to process data from the world's largest particle accelerator. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Welcomes Expert on Traps and Masses |
03 October 2007 |
In August 2007, TRIUMF welcomed David Lunney who is here on a sabbatical leave. Having worked exclusively at ISOLDE, David was curious to experience a different ISOL facility and chose TRIUMF for its quality and long-term potential. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Makes Second Round of National Funding Competition |
01 October 2007 |
TRIUMF's Technology Transfer Division is pleased to announce that Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, Inc. has been chosen as one of the 25 finalists for the 2008 Centres for Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) Competition. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Workshop on Ultra Cold Neutrons Attracts International Experts |
21 September 2007 |
Many years after the last neutrons from the TRIUMF 4C neutron beam passed down the collimator, scientists are considering bringing back neutrons to the Proton Hall, albeit some fifteen orders of magnitude lower in energy. |
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Experimental Result |
MDA Tests Space Shuttle Components at TRIUMF |
12 September 2007 |
Electronics for the “Keep Alive Umbilical System” were recently tested by MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates) engineers Rod Dixon and Zaeem Mohammed using the TRIUMF Proton Irradiation Facility. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
CHEP Conference Attracts Close to 500 Delegates |
12 September 2007 |
The CHEP Conference provided an international forum for delegates to exchange information on their computing experiences and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities for their community. |
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Current Events |
The Feast of Fields |
11 September 2007 |
This past Sunday, September 9th, the TRIUMF parking lot was more heavily used than is normal for a weekend due to the sold-out Feast of Fields event held a short distance down the road. |
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