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Awards & Honours |
Theory PhD Student Wins Poster Session |
02 September 2014 |
Mirko Miorelli, a PhD student at UBC
and member of the Theory Group at TRIUMF, won the poster competition at the 2014
Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions: from Quarks to Nuclei for
his poster "Electric Dipole Polarizability from Coupled-Cluster
Theory." Congratulations, Mirko! |
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From the Director |
Dr. Karl Erdman |
15 August 2014 |
Dr. Karl Erdman, one of the lab's founding physicists who played a major role in its construction and development in the early years, passed away last week. His booming voice and laughter will be sorely missed by all that knew him. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
TRIUMF Hosts Nuclear Structure 2014 |
15 August 2014 |
The 15th international conference on Nuclear Structure (NS2014) has been held from July 20-25 in the Life Science Building on the UBC campus. 174 attendees from 22 countries and 80 different institutions discussed the latest experimental and theoretical research, with emphasis on the properties of nuclei at the extremes of isospin, excitation energy, mass, and angular momentum. |
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Student Stories |
High School Fellowship Winners at TRIUMF |
15 August 2014 |
After six weeks of hands-on research placements at TRIUMF, three distinguished high school fellows are now preparing to enter their first year of university with a unique experience straight from the laboratory. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Japan and Canada Foster Global Cooperation |
13 August 2014 |
The 5th Open Meeting
for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project was held in Vancouver at TRIUMF and UBC. Nearly 100 scientists from across Canada,
Japan, Italy, US, UK, Brazil and other partner countries participated in the meeting to encourage global collaboration for the Hyper-K project. |
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Current Events |
Antimatter Lecture Debunks Science Fiction |
01 August 2014 |
Antimatter is used in pop culture as a means of space propulsion (Star Trek) or destruction (Angels and Demons). In the recent Unveiling
the Universe lecture, Makoto Fujiwara pointed out that antimatter is “not science fiction, it is science fact" and presented the work that trapped, studied, and understood antimatter. |
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Student Stories |
Emerging Aboriginal Scholars at TRIUMF |
31 July 2014 |
For four years, TRIUMF has been involved with the Emerging Aboriginal Scholars program. This year, TRIUMF hosted two high school students, Genevieve Capilano from North Vancouver and Liam Gamble from Prince Rupert. Read on for accounts of their experience at the lab. |
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Experimental Result |
Success: ARIEL E-Linac Accelerates First Beam |
28 July 2014 |
In the year since the ARIEL building was
constructed, teams across the lab have intensified efforts towards the commissioning of ARIEL’s e-linac. On
July 18, the e-linac completed the first acceleration of beam through the e-linac
superconducting
injector cryomodule to the 10 MeV beam dump. |
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From the Director |
Dr. Alan Astbury |
25 July 2014 |
Dr. Alan Astbury, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of
Victoria, died on July 21 following a brief illness. Alan, a leading
figure in Canadian science, served as Director of TRIUMF from 1994-2001.
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Awards & Honours |
ARIEL Wins Engineering Excellence Award |
24 July 2014 |
Congratulations
to the ARIEL team, as well our engineering consultants Stantec Consulting Ltd., Applied
Engineering Solutions Ltd. and Bush, Bohlman & Partners Ltd, recipients of the 2013
ACEC-BC’s Engineering Excellence Award of Merit. |
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