Experimental Result |
A First in Canada: TRIUMF & Local Firm Produce Superconducting Cavity |
14 April 2008 |
A team of B.C. scientists and engineers drawn from the TRIUMF laboratory and PAVAC Industries, Inc., announced today they have entered into an elite league of groups worldwide able to manufacture ultra-sophisticated superconducting accelerator technology. |
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Current Events |
Sloan Fellow photographs TRIUMF |
10 April 2008 |
Recently TRIUMF played host to professional photographer, and a Sloan-Foundation grant recipient, Stanley Greenberg of Brooklyn, New York. |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF Experiment Leaders are Awarded Canadian Association of Physicists Medals |
09 April 2008 |
On Friday, April 4, 2008, the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) announced the recipients of the 2008 medals. Two leaders of the experimental program at TRIUMF were honoured by their peers with these prestigious awards: Jess Brewer and Carl Svensson. |
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Current Events |
Fear not! Science Fiction Remains...Science Fiction |
07 April 2008 |
Not to worry! The hypothesis proposed by Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho that the Earth will be gobbled up by black holes is impossible. |
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Current Events |
Keeping the Mind as Sharp as the Blade...Hockey Blade, that is |
04 April 2008 |
Over forty years ago, a group of UBC Business School and Grad Studies students formed an elite club to follow their passion. To this day, the group still meets every Monday and Wednesday and, in true Canadian fashion, plays hockey! |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Antihydrogen Team Meets at TRIUMF |
03 April 2008 |
Some 30 scientists of the world-wide ALPHA Antihydrogen Collaboration will meet at TRIUMF from April 4 to April 7, 2008, in conjunction with a review of TRIUMF/Canadian involvement in the overseas project. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Honouring Erich Vogt |
01 April 2008 |
A celebration will be held Sunday, May 4, 2008, to honour a man of many talents -- Professor Erich Vogt. One of Canada’s Who’s Who, Professor Vogt is perhaps best known as a founder and one of the prime proponents of TRIUMF and in serving as its director from 1981 until 1994. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF "Gets Connected" Online |
28 March 2008 |
Working with MSN, tech guru Dave Chalk and creative sidekick Bradley Shende regularly produce multimedia content for their "Connected Life" series. |
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Awards & Honours |
Leader of TRIUMF Experiment Recognized with Prestigious NSERC Award |
21 March 2008 |
Carl E. Svensson, an associate professor of physics at the University of Guelph and a leader of a pivotal new experiment at TRIUMF, has been awarded the prestigious NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF and UBC Honoured at CECR Celebrations |
17 March 2008 |
In a series of events this past week, TRIUMF and the University of British Columbia (UBC) were honoured multiple times for their success in the national competition for the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) Program. |
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