> Canadian ATLAS researchers meet at SFU
Canadian ATLAS researchers meet at SFU
Contact:
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Michel Vetterli, 604.291.5488, michel_vetterli@sfu.ca
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Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 604.291.4323; cell 604.209.5770
April 30, 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.
SFU/TRIUMF physicist Michel Vetterli is leading the consortium that is building the ATLAS Data Centre, a high-performance computing facility, at TRIUMF.
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.
Representatives from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, BCKnowledge Development Fund, 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 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.
SFU/TRIUMF physicist Michel Vetterli is leading the consortium that is building the ATLAS Data Centre, a high-performance computing facility, at TRIUMF.
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.
Representatives from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, BCKnowledge Development Fund, 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.