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Current Events |
L‘Université de Montréal Joins the TRIUMF Joint Venture |
18 May 2007 |
At the December 1, 2006 meeting of the TRIUMF Board of Management the Board voted unanimously to admit L'Université de Montréal as a Full Member of the TRIUMF Joint Venture. |
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Current Events |
New TRIUMF Director profiled in his Alma Mater newspaper |
12 April 2007 |
Nigel Lockyer (BSc '75) enjoyed his summer job at Ontario's ministry of industry and tourism when he was a student in York's Faculty of Science and Engineering - in fact, he was targeted by his bosses for a career as a senior provincial bureaucrat and considered pursuing an MBA after he graduated. |
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Research Highlights |
ISAC-II Delivers its first Radioactive Beam to an Experiment. |
10 January 2007 |
A major milestone at TRIUMF was passed Friday January 5, 2007 at 7:09pm when the first radioactive beam, 11Li was delivered from the ISAC-II accelerator by TRIUMF scientist Robert Laxdal, who has led the ISAC-II development from its inception. |
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Current Events |
Next Director of TRIUMF Announced |
04 December 2006 |
Following the December 1st meeting of the TRIUMF Board of Management, Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur, Board Chair, made the following announcement: |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Celebrate Receipt of John C. Polanyi Prize |
15 November 2006 |
The winners of the inaugural $250,000 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award are the Canadian scientists of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) collaboration, who are being honoured for their groundbreaking research on neutrinos which solved a 30-year-old scientific puzzle. |
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Awards & Honours |
Erich Vogt Receives Order of British Columbia |
20 July 2006 |
Congratulations to Dr. Erich Vogt on receiving the Order of British Columbia at a ceremony at Government House on June 22, 2006. |
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Research Highlights |
TRIUMF Develops World's Highest-Powered Source of Short-Lived Atoms - Opens Up New Vistas into the Most Exotic Atoms in the Universe |
13 June 2006 |
At the 61st annual Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, scientists announced a major breakthrough in the production of exotic short-lived atoms at TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, located in Vancouver. |
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Research Highlights |
TRIUMF Successfully Commissions Canada's First Superconducting Linear Particle Accelerator |
17 May 2006 |
The TRIUMF national laboratory has achieved a new milestone by successfully commissioning a superconducting linear accelerator (linac) at its subatomic physics complex situated on the UBC campus in Vancouver. |
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Research Highlights |
TRIUMF Researchers Team Up with Successful Gigabyte-per-Second Network Computing Challenge |
17 February 2006 |
At the international Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 conference (CHEP06) in Mumbai, India, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid collaboration (WLCG) officially announced the successful completion of a data network speed challenge. |
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Experimental Result |
TRIUMF Kicker Group Accepts Short Pulse Challenge of ILC |
09 February 2006 |
The Internal Linear Collider proposal is a massive new undertaking of the world's particle physics community. The ILC plans to be the world's largest particle accelerator with two facing linear accelerators, each 20km long, colliding beams of electrons and positrons at the highest energies ever. |
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