Internationally recognized expert on medical isotopes, TRIUMF's Dr. Tom Ruth is appointed Vice-Chair of a US National Academies of Sciences (NAS) committee.
TRIUMF’s Nuclear Theory Workshop is a four day long
collection of lectures, talks and colloquiums centred around the latest results
from top research institutions and universities around the world.
The legacy of Erich
Vogt was celebrated by his many friends during a scientific symposium last week. Erich exemplified a true renaissance man with a broad education,
unmatched motivation and exemplary people skills.
The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research signs an MOU with KEK on the Hyper-Kamiokande proto-collaboration. Over 100 Hyper-K researchers from 13 countries attended the signing ceremony.
For their outstanding teamwork in realizing a solution for safe and reliable medical isotope production for hospitals in Canada, the CycloMed99 team will be receiving a prestigious national award in Ottawa today.
The LHC has been offline; but it's not all relaxing on a beach and sipping mai tais for the world's most powerful particle accelerator and the thousands of physicists, engineers and students that operate it.
Gravity – the
most basic of all forces - is
still surrounded by a great deal of mystery. A recent workshop hosted at SFU aimed to discover new ways of testing theories and ideas.
With 500 SRF cavities needed for their new accelerator complex (RISP), researchers from Korea brought the first of two prototype SRF cavities to TRIUMF for testing.