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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF Photo Wins Global Physics Photowalk |
14 December 2015 |
Vancouver photographer wins Global Physics Photowalk 2015 competition by capturing her childhood memories in TRIUMF photo. |
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Current Events |
Canada and Japan Strengthen Partnership |
07 December 2015 |
On Friday, December 4, the heads of Canada’s TRIUMF and Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK, signed a new partnership agreement to significantly enhance research collaborations between the two centres. |
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Awards & Honours |
John D’Auria – A Rebel With A Cause |
03 December 2015 |
For his excellence in science, John D’Auria has been invited to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the world’s largest association of physicists. |
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Current Events |
Michael K. Craddock (1936 – 2015) |
16 November 2015 |
Dr. Michael K. Craddock, a University of British Columbia Professor Emeritus and TRIUMF Research Scientist, passed away on November 11, 2015 at St. John’s Hospice at UBC following a brief illness. |
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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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