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TRIUMF Tours
Canada’s particle accelerator
centre is home to the world’s largest cyclotron particle accelerator and a system of high-energy rare isotope beams that enable a diversity of efforts in nuclear and particle physics, accelerator science, life science research, and more!
Tour participants get first-hand experience with many of TRIUMF’s experiments and facilities as we follow the path of the proton from its origin bound in a hydrogen atom to its destination in targets and detectors.
Tour Dates and Times
Tours take place on Thursday June 6th, and Friday June 7th at 8:30am.
Tour Schedule
8:30am – Bus leaves SFU
90 minutes Tour of TRIUMF Facility
11:30am – Bus leaves UBC TRIUMF for SFU
Location
Participants will meet at SFU’s Transportation Center/Lower Bus Loop.
Registration
Register for a TRIUMF Tour to guarantee a spot. Each tour is limited to 45 people.
Trottier Observatory Tour
Nestled within the heart of the Burnaby campus, the Trottier Observatory is the flagship facility in the Faculty of Science’s myriad outreach programs.
The observatory is located at the east end of campus near Strand Hall. It features a six-meter-diameter dome housing a 0.7-metre diameter reflector telescope that is capable of tracking distant galaxies billions of years old.
The telescope will also provide a digital feed and can be remotely accessed and deployed by community groups and schools across Canada. You can check out the latest images from the telescope here.
The viewing plaza offers a sundial, space for people to set up their own telescopes next to the dome, and an outdoor gallery featuring illuminated seasonal star charts.
Tour Dates and Times
This single tour takes place on Monday June 3rd from 21:00 to midnight.
This tour is weather dependent. In the event of rain, the tour will be cancelled.
Location
Participants will meet at SFU’s Trottier Obervatory and Science Courtyard (see SFU’s Campus Map here).
Registration
No registration necessary.
The Observatory can accommodate 200 people, participation is on a first-come-first-served basis.
Local Industry Tours
D-Wave Systems Tour
2019 CAP Congress participants are invited to tour D-Wave Systems in Burnaby, BC.
From inception, D-Wave has focused on following the fastest path to practical, real-world applications that deliver customer value. Today, we offer a full stack of systems, software, developer tools, and services to enable enterprises, governments, laboratories, and academic institutions to access the power of quantum computing.
Founded in 1999, D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing for the world. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, cyber security, fault detection and financial modeling.
D-Wave’s systems are being used by some of the world’s most advanced organizations, including Lockheed Martin, Google, NASA Ames, Volkswagen, DENSO, USRA, USC, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. D-Wave has been granted over 160 U.S. patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals.
Date and Time:
June 5th, 2019 from 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Location:
D-Wave Systems Inc. Corporate Office – 3033 Beta Ave, Burnaby, BC V5G 4M9
Transportation to D-Wave Systems is not provided by company or conference organizers, and tour participants are expected to arrange their own transportation to the tour location.
Transit Information:
Traveling by Public Transit from SFU to D-Wave will take approximately 45-55 minutes.
If traveling from SFU:
Bus #145 (or #143) > Millenium Line Skytrain > Bus #123 (or #25)> Walk 350m/ 600m
Bus #95 > Bus # 130 > Walk 600m
Registration:
Registration is required, and ends May 31st, 2019 at noon. The tour is limited to 24 participants.
Register for the D-Wave Systems Tour here!
Please note: D-wave requires all visitors to sign a waiver upon arrival before the tour commences.
General Fusion Tour
2019 CAP Congress participants are invited to tour General Fusion in Burnaby, BC. 
General Fusion was founded in 2002 with a goal to transform the world’s energy supply by developing the fastest, most practical, and cost-competitive path to commercial fusion power.
In 2006, Dr. Michel Laberge completed proof-of-principle experiments, and with the support of leading venture capital firms, General Fusion began building a team that today is recognized as a global leader in commercial fusion energy.
The company has now grown to a team of more than 70 at its world class laboratories in Burnaby, just outside Vancouver, where it is developing the key components of the world’s first fusion power plant.
General Fusion has been recognized globally for its work in clean energy technology, and is a member of the Cleantech Global 100 (2014, 2015, 2016/17) as well as the recipient of numerous Canadian and international cleantech awards. In the media, Dr. Laberge’s 2014 TED Talk about fusion energy has attracted over one million viewers, and the company has been featured in publications such as TIME Magazine, Scientific American and BBC Horizons.
Fusion energy has the potential to create a cleaner, safer world, and General Fusion is developing the technology to make it available as soon as possible.
Date and Time:
June 5th, 2019 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location:
General Fusion Corporate Office – #106 – 3680 Bonneville Pl, Burnaby, BC
Transportation to General Fusion is not provided by company or conference organizers, and tour participants are expected to arrange their own transportation to the tour location.
Transit Information:
Traveling by Public Transit from SFU to General Fusion will take approximately 25 minutes.
If traveling from SFU:
Bus #145 > Walk 800m
Registration:
Registration is required, and ends June 3rd, 2019 at noon. The tour is limited to 22 participants.
Register for the General Fusion Tour here!
SFU Lab Tours
SFU 4D Labs Tour
2019 CAP Congress participants are invited to participate in a tour of 4D Labs on SFU Burnaby Campus.
4D LABS is an applications- and science-driven research institute that offers access to multiple facilities housing state-of-the-art equipment for academic, industrial and government researchers. 4D Labs focuses on accelerating the design and development of advanced functional materials and nanotechnology products that can be successfully applied in a wide variety of fields. The ATLAS ITk Detector Upgrade Lab Tour will be a part of the 4D Labs tour.
Date and Time:
June 5th, 2019 from 10:45am – 11:45am
Location:
Access 4D Labs by the 7000 Level of TASC II Building.
Download SFU snap to view an interactive campus map.
Registration:
Registration is required. Tour is limited to 30 participants. Register for the 4D Labs Tour here!
Have to cancel?
If you are no longer able to attend the event, please cancel your spot immediately. The tour has limited space, and your fellow physicists on the waitlist will be grateful for your quick action.
SFU Research Lab Tours
Tours on Tuesday June 4th
Dr. Krzysztof Starosta, Nuclear Science
SFU Department of Chemistry
Location:
Please meet at Shrum Science Center C7076 (SCC7076)
Time of the tour:
Tuesday June 4 at 6:30pm
Research interests:
Structure of nuclei far from stability, nuclear shapes and shape coexistence, nuclear symmetries, nuclear fission, nucleosynthesis and distribution of elements, instrumentation for nuclear science experiments.
Tours on Wednesday June 5th
Dr. Erol Girt, Surface Science Lab
SFU Department of Physics
Location:
Shrum Science Center, P7409 (SCP7409)
Time of the tour:
Wednesday June 5 from 10:45am – 11:45am
Tours are approximately 15 minutes long.
Research interests:
We are interested in interface phenomena of magnetic thin films and 3D nanostructures. We use physical vapor deposition (PVD) to deposit thin film structures and surface techniques to characterize their microstructural properties. Fabrication of nanostructures is done in our lab and 4D Labs. All static
and dynamic magnetic measurements are performed in our lab.
Dr. Paul C Haljan, Ion Trapping Group
SFU Department of Physics
Wednesday’s Tour has been moved to Thursday June 6th (see below)
Tours on Thursday June 6th
Dr. Karen Kavanagh, Nanoscience/Interfaces
SFU Department of Physics
Location :
Meet at Prof. Kavanagh’s Office, Shrum Science Centre P9443 (SCP9443)
Time of the tour :
Thursday June 6, 2019 from 10:30am -11:15am
Research interests :
Electronic transport at semiconductor interfaces and contacts using particle beam probes including scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), scanning and transmission electron microscopy (STEM), electron holography, electron beam induced current (EBIC), and scanning transmission helium ion microscopy (STHIM).
Dr. Paul C Haljan, Ion Trapping Group
SFU Department of Physics
Location:
Shrum Science Center, P8422 (SCP8422)
Time of the tour:
Thursday June 6 from 10:45am – 11:30am
Tours are approximately 15 minutes long.
Research interests:
We are an experimental atomic physics group using laser-cooled trapped ions for research in quantum information technology and quantum simulations at the single-atom scale.