The TIGRESS Group of TRIUMF will get together at SFU
Chemisty Department Assitant Professor Corina Andreoiu will organise The TIGRESS group meeting on SFU campus. The workshop will be held from July 10, 2010 to July 12, 2010.
TRIUMF Collaborators Receive Gen-IV Energy Technologies Program Grant
Imagine receiving $100,000 for three consecutive years to work on an idea that you've proposed. For Paul Percival , Khashayar Ghandi and Craig Stuart that dream has become a reality. In July 2008, NSERC announced a new grant program with Natural Resources Canada and AECL Ltd. under the Generation IV Energy Technologies Program. This program is meant to promote the research and development of a Supercritical-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactor. Percival (Simon Fraser University), Ghandi (Mount. Allison University), and Stuart (AECL) became the successful coapplicants for a NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant this year, valued at $100,000 per annum for three years.
The 12th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance
The Conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico in late Summer 2011, is being organized by Jeff Sonier and the Americas chapter of ISMS.
Welcome New Faculty Member Dr. Krzysztof Starosta
Dr. Krzysztof (Kris) Starosta has joined the Department of Chemistry at SFU as an associate professor. Dr. Starosta’s research specialty is in the areas of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Chemistry, with application to the study of important nuclear processes. He came from the Michigan State University where he held an assistant professor position.
SFU Professor of Chemistry Paul Percival will lead a $2.4-million project, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, to build a muon beam line at Vancouver’s TRIUMF accelerator facility.
SFU Professor of Physics Mike Hayden leads a reseach group working on the TRIUMF project named "The ALPHA".
Dan Melconian - DNP Thesis Prize
One of the Department of Physics' recent PhD graduates, Dan Melconian, has been awarded a national prize for his thesis. The 2006 DNP Thesis Prize, awarded by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the Canadian Association of Physics, has been awarded to Dan for his thesis "Measurement of the neutrino asymmetry in the beta decay of laser-cooled, polarized 37K". This work was performed at TRIUMF under the supervision of K. Peter Jackson. Dan is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
Dr. Dugan O'Neil BC-Young Innovator's Award
Sep 12, 2007
Dr. Dugan O'Neil has brought worldwide attention to British Columbia through his leadership of SFU's high-energy particle physics research group that recently detected an elusive subatomic particle which has been sought for over a decade: the single top quark. For breaking new ground in the field of particle physics, BC Innovation Council awarded Dr. O'Neil the 2007 Young Innovator Award. This award recognizes an individual the age of 35 and under who has made a significant contribution to developing innovative science or technology, and has played a main role in the development of a new innovation or research breakthrough. Watch a video describing the discovery at The Knowledge Network.
Jun 1, 2008
Two physics faculty members have been awarded 2007/08 Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Awards for their contributions to our teaching efforts. Dr. Dugan O’Neil and Dr. David Broun both joined the Department in 2003 and, since then, have earned well-deserved reputations as thoughtful, engaged teachers. In particular, both have been instrumental in the development of our new stream of first year physics, PHYS 125/126 and have been actively engaged in recruitment efforts. Both tirelessly urge us to take young students into our research groups to expose them to research, and lead by example.
Congratulations to both David and Dugan in this achievement!
Eric Thewalt, a third year student in the Department of Physics, has won this year's TRIUMF summer research award for the BC region. He has accepted the award and will be working for Toshio Numao on the PIENU Experiment as a student research assistant.
October 2009 – Carolyn Kierans , Eric Thewalt and Gwen Eadie attended the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta. They each made a presentation about research they were involved in last summer. Eric and Gwen won two of three top prizes for their talks, and Carolyn received honourable mention for her poster. Congratulations!
Carolyn’s poster, entitled “Spin Polarization Study of Short-Lived Xenon Isotopes”, was based on work she did at TRIUMF on the Radon EDM experiment. Eric’s talk, “Testing Electroweak Universality with the PiENu Experiment” was also based on work he did at TRIUMF. Gwen based her talk on a project she completed at the Particle Physics & Astronomy International Undergraduate Summer School (IUSS) in Sheffield, England. It was entitled “Resonating with the Sun: Schumann Resonance and Solar Flares”.
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