The TRIUMF-led team announced today at the AAAS meeting that they have successfully produced commercial quantities of the critical medical isotope technetium-99m on existing cyclotrons in two provinces.
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, visited TRIUMF on Thursday afternoon. It was a special moment; thanks to everyone at TRIUMF for making it perfect!
Recent measurements with TRIUMF's TITAN facility, combined with theoretical modeling from TRIUMF's theory group, push back the frontiers of understanding nuclei--starting with the helium family of isotopes.
SFU/TRIUMF physicist Mike Vetterli has been selected to head up the influential ATLAS publications committee; he will be deputy in 2012 and chair in 2013.
At a news conference held at the Vancouver Aquarium and MC'd by TRIUMF's Tim Meyer, enthusiasm and anticipation kicked off for the upcoming AAAS conference (Feb 16-20 in Vancouver) that will attract upwards of 8,000 top scientists.
Results from the TITAN team's precision studies of the rubidium-74 nucleus were published in Physical Review Letters and selected as an Editor's Choice.The team developed high charge states of the ions to achieve the record results.
Good-bye to 2011 and welcome to a brand new year on the calendar: 2012. A year destined for greatness in scientific accomplishments, technological prowess, and making a difference all around the world.
TRIUMF and Air Liquide Advanced Technologies have just signed a multi-million dollar agreement for the detailed engineering, construction, and installation of cyrogenic systems for ARIEL.
Working with students from Emily Carr, TRIUMF's Artists in Residence piloted a project that started with a physics lecture, went through four artistic transformations, and then returned to inspire physicists.