> Canadian ATLAS players meet at SFU
Canadian ATLAS players meet at SFU
Contact:
- Michel Vetterli, 604.291.5488, michel_vetterli@sfu.ca
- Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 604.291.4323; cell (on Monday) 604.209.5770
April 27, 2007
Researchers from 10 Canadian universities and Vancouver’s TRIUMF facility —all involved in a revolutionary global project set to explore the basic forces shaping the universe — will be at SFU’s Burnaby campus on April 30.
The ATLAS Experiment is an international collaboration of more than 2,000 physicists and engineers from 35 countries, based at the Centre for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
Their goal is to discover the mechanism by which subatomic particles attain mass. The ATLAS spectrometer will be capable of detecting particles emerging from collisions of protons at a higher energy than ever achieved in the laboratory.
The ATLAS-Canada Data Analysis Centre, housed at the Vancouver-based TRIUMF facility, is one of the crucial Canadian contributions to what is billed as the biggest physics experiment ever undertaken.
It will be one of only 10 such facilities world-wide which, functioning together as the world’s largest computer grid, will analyse the vast amounts of data flowing from the ATLAS experiment.
SFU/TRIUMF physicist Michel Vetterli is leading the consortium that is building the ATLAS Data Centre, a high-performance computing facility, at TRIUMF.
“We are proud to lead the consortium of Canadian universities participating in the ATLAS project,” says Mario Pinto, SFU vice-president, research. “ATLAS is a high-profile international project that now has Canadian scientific input. It is an honour for Canada to have been invited to host one of the ATLAS data analysis centres.”
Funding for the Canadian project comes from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Exceptional Opportunities Fund and the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund.
Representatives from the CFI, BCKDF, National Research Council, Ministry of Advanced Education and collaborating institutes (including Vetterli) will attend a lunch at SFU’s Diamond Alumni Centre, Burnaby campus at 11:45 a.m. Media are welcome to observe the speeches; advance notice is recommended.
The event precedes the official opening of SFU’s new science and technology building, the Technology and Sciences Complex 2 (TASC2), at 2 p.m.
The ATLAS Experiment is an international collaboration of more than 2,000 physicists and engineers from 35 countries, based at the Centre for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
Their goal is to discover the mechanism by which subatomic particles attain mass. The ATLAS spectrometer will be capable of detecting particles emerging from collisions of protons at a higher energy than ever achieved in the laboratory.
The ATLAS-Canada Data Analysis Centre, housed at the Vancouver-based TRIUMF facility, is one of the crucial Canadian contributions to what is billed as the biggest physics experiment ever undertaken.
It will be one of only 10 such facilities world-wide which, functioning together as the world’s largest computer grid, will analyse the vast amounts of data flowing from the ATLAS experiment.
SFU/TRIUMF physicist Michel Vetterli is leading the consortium that is building the ATLAS Data Centre, a high-performance computing facility, at TRIUMF.
“We are proud to lead the consortium of Canadian universities participating in the ATLAS project,” says Mario Pinto, SFU vice-president, research. “ATLAS is a high-profile international project that now has Canadian scientific input. It is an honour for Canada to have been invited to host one of the ATLAS data analysis centres.”
Funding for the Canadian project comes from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Exceptional Opportunities Fund and the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund.
Representatives from the CFI, BCKDF, National Research Council, Ministry of Advanced Education and collaborating institutes (including Vetterli) will attend a lunch at SFU’s Diamond Alumni Centre, Burnaby campus at 11:45 a.m. Media are welcome to observe the speeches; advance notice is recommended.
The event precedes the official opening of SFU’s new science and technology building, the Technology and Sciences Complex 2 (TASC2), at 2 p.m.