The Honourable Amrik Virk, Minister
of Advanced Education, and the Honourable Andrew Wilkinson, Minister of
Technology, Innovation, and Citizens’ Services, visited TRIUMF last week and learned about
the progress underway at ARIEL.
TRIUMF welcomes the Federal Government's commitment to science and technology in Budget 2014. We look forward to working together on an enhanced program of operating
support as well as new opportunities.
For its role in creating, trapping, and studying atoms of antihydrogen, the ALPHA Canada team led by TRIUMF's Makoto Fujiwara has received the NSERC John C. Polanyi Prize.
TRIUMF graduate student Simon Viel is the recipient of one of the most prestigious fellowships in particle physics, the Chamberlain Fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
As TRIUMF's cyclotron celebrates its 40th year in operation, we look back at the history of cyclotron development in Canada, beginning with McGill's 100 MeV synchrocyclotron.
Several members of TRIUMF's Theory Group attended the Vancouver-area Cosmology Meeting on Friday January 17, 2014 to share ideas and discuss new research developments.
On
January 8, 2014, the Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science
and Technology toured TRIUMF to see examples of basic research,
technology, and applications to industry and health care.
UBC's Professor Colin Gay has been named as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy for a 5.5 year term; Colin chairs TRIUMF's PPAC committee.
A team of researchers from Cisco Systems, Inc. visited TRIUMF
to conduct tests at the newly upgraded beam line of the proton and
neutron irradiation facility. Cisco made investments with coordination through AAPS Inc.
