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Current Events |
LHC Ventures into the New Energy Frontier |
04 June 2015 |
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider started delivering physics data for the first time after a 27-month shutdown for upgrades yesterday morning. TRIUMF has been integral to Canada's involvement in the ATLAS experiment. |
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Funding Announcements |
CFI Research Infrastructure Grants |
01 June 2015 |
Congratulations to the successful CFI proposals led by the University of Victoria for ARIEL, Carleton University for ATLAS, the University of Calgary for ALPHA, and the University of Guelph for GRIFFIN. |
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Current Events |
Grant Minor talks pop culture at Nerd Nite |
25 May 2015 |
TRIUMF Remote Handling Group Leader and Nuclear Engineer Grant Minor turns to pop culture to answer the big questions of the universe for his talk at Nerd Nite Vancouver on May 26. |
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Awards & Honours |
PhD demonstrates the power of collaboration |
19 May 2015 |
The winning entry in TRIUMF’s Life Sciences Peer Evaluation Committee (LSPEC) Student Poster Event is just the tip of the iceberg of PhD candidate Joseph Lau’s success. |
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University Stories |
Neutrino Hunter Facilitates Brain Circulation |
08 May 2015 |
With his unique joint appointment between TRIUMF and the Kavli IPMU at the University of Tokyo, Mark facilitates the circulation of talented researchers between Japan and TRIUMF as he lends his technical expertise to R&D for Hyper-K. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Tokyo Gathering Reaffirms Case for the ILC |
29 April 2015 |
More than 300 members of the high-energy physics community, government officials, ambassadors, and press gathered in Tokyo at the ILC Symposium where the Linear Collider Collaboration issued a statement confirming the scientific justification for the International Linear Collider. |
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Student Stories |
From High School Fellow to PhD Student |
28 April 2015 |
In just five years, Anffany Chen went from being a TRIUMF high school fellow to a UBC PhD candidate studying condensed matter theory. Her rapid journey from science enthusiast to emerging physics scholar is an inspiration to students everywhere. |
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Current Events |
The Cyclotron Wakes Up! |
28 April 2015 |
Spring is in the air. Daffodils are blooming, birds are singing and the world’s largest cyclotron is once again preparing to accelerate beams of protons to incredible speeds, breaking new ground in the study of rare isotopes. |
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Current Events |
Dr. Jayas Appointed as Board Vice-Chair |
27 April 2015 |
TRIUMF's Board of Management recently appointed Dr. Digvir S. Jayas, Vice-President (Research and International) and Distinguished Professor from the University of Manitoba, to serve as Vice-Chair of the Board. |
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Experimental Result |
Baartman scores touchdown in magnet design |
23 April 2015 |
Rick Baartman has changed the shapes of magnets used to focus particle beams. |
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