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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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Funding Announcements |
Dark Matter (Detector) Crossing Borders |
22 July 2014 |
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is an international experiment on
the hunt for dark matter, currently based in Minnesota and with plans
to advance the project by building a more sensitive detector at
Canada’s SNOLAB. |
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Current Events |
SNOLAB Director Nigel Smith Reappointed |
21 July 2014 |
The SNOLAB Institute Board of Directors announced the re-appointment of Dr. Nigel Smith to a second term as Director of SNOLAB, following a very successful inaugural term that resulted in the first scientific results coming from SNOLAB experiments.
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Experimental Result |
DRAGON Probes Mass Limit in Novae |
10 July 2014 |
Recently, the DRAGON facility ran the highest mass
radiative-capture experiment ever performed with a radioactive beam, and in so
doing, probed the upper mass limit for nucleosynthesis in novae. |
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Current Events |
Mini-Symposium For Grad & Postdocs |
09 July 2014 |
The
Society of Graduate Students and Postdocs organized a mini-symposium on June
13, 2014, to support eight students and postdocs in the
preparation of their talks for the 2014 CAP Congress. Over 30 graduate students and postdocs gathered to hear their
peers share their work. |
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