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November 25, 2009
‘Collisions’ begin
Protons bashed together for the first time this week at nearly the speed of light in Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider – a 27 km underground tunnel near Geneva – to the excitement of physicists around the world, including SFU.
The world’s biggest science experiment – known as the ATLAS project - will enable scientists to understand some of nature’s deepest secrets. Its launch follows a 14-month delay after a glitch was found in the giant machine. SFU physicist Michel Vetterli is the project leader for the ATLAS Canada Data Analysis Centre, one of 10 connected global centres that will compute experiment results. He can comment on the experiment’s start as well as his involvement in ATLAS over the past decade. Colleague Dugan O’Neil has been involved for a number of years as well and can offer comment on the experiment’s launch. He is currently in Paris but reachable by email.
Michel Vetterli, 778.782.5488; 604.222.7442 (TRIUMF); vetterli@sfu.ca
Dugan O’Neil, doneil@sfu.ca
Treating mental illness
Health professionals, government policy makers, mental health service users and their family will gather at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver Nov. 29-Dec. 1 to discuss a new national treatment strategy for mental health.
SFU, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Mental Health Commission (MHC) are presenting the three-day conference, Into the Light, Transforming Mental Health in Canada. The MHC will hold its first public discussion of Canada’s first national mental health treatment strategy at the conference.
SFU health scientist Elliot Goldner, a key architect of the conference and chair of the MHC’s science advisory committee, can talk about the strategy’s creation of a knowledge exchange centre. It would aim to expedite the roll out of advancements in mental health treatment and improve first responders’ and the police’s preparedness to help mentally ill people who are in a crisis.
Elliot Goldner, 778.782.5027; elliot_goldner@sfu.ca
Homeless mentally ill during the Olympics
Canada’s first, housing-first national initiative to help homeless, mentally ill people is expected to achieve a critical milestone in the midst of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. SFU health scientist Julian Somers, the leader of the Vancouver component of At Home/Chez Soi, says the program will have recruited the first 100 of the 500 participants it seeks to house during the project. Somers says these participants will be available for media interviews about whether addressing their housing needs before evaluating treatment issues has benefited them more than the conventional approach, which emphasizes the reverse. The first 100 recruits will have been off the street and in their own homes for four months when the Olympics open.
Julian Somers, 778.782.5148, 604.290.3210 (cell); jsomers@sfu.ca
Protons bashed together for the first time this week at nearly the speed of light in Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider – a 27 km underground tunnel near Geneva – to the excitement of physicists around the world, including SFU.
The world’s biggest science experiment – known as the ATLAS project - will enable scientists to understand some of nature’s deepest secrets. Its launch follows a 14-month delay after a glitch was found in the giant machine. SFU physicist Michel Vetterli is the project leader for the ATLAS Canada Data Analysis Centre, one of 10 connected global centres that will compute experiment results. He can comment on the experiment’s start as well as his involvement in ATLAS over the past decade. Colleague Dugan O’Neil has been involved for a number of years as well and can offer comment on the experiment’s launch. He is currently in Paris but reachable by email.
Michel Vetterli, 778.782.5488; 604.222.7442 (TRIUMF); vetterli@sfu.ca
Dugan O’Neil, doneil@sfu.ca
Treating mental illness
Health professionals, government policy makers, mental health service users and their family will gather at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver Nov. 29-Dec. 1 to discuss a new national treatment strategy for mental health.
SFU, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Mental Health Commission (MHC) are presenting the three-day conference, Into the Light, Transforming Mental Health in Canada. The MHC will hold its first public discussion of Canada’s first national mental health treatment strategy at the conference.
SFU health scientist Elliot Goldner, a key architect of the conference and chair of the MHC’s science advisory committee, can talk about the strategy’s creation of a knowledge exchange centre. It would aim to expedite the roll out of advancements in mental health treatment and improve first responders’ and the police’s preparedness to help mentally ill people who are in a crisis.
Elliot Goldner, 778.782.5027; elliot_goldner@sfu.ca
Homeless mentally ill during the Olympics
Canada’s first, housing-first national initiative to help homeless, mentally ill people is expected to achieve a critical milestone in the midst of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. SFU health scientist Julian Somers, the leader of the Vancouver component of At Home/Chez Soi, says the program will have recruited the first 100 of the 500 participants it seeks to house during the project. Somers says these participants will be available for media interviews about whether addressing their housing needs before evaluating treatment issues has benefited them more than the conventional approach, which emphasizes the reverse. The first 100 recruits will have been off the street and in their own homes for four months when the Olympics open.
Julian Somers, 778.782.5148, 604.290.3210 (cell); jsomers@sfu.ca