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For their outstanding teamwork in realizing a solution for safe and reliable isotope production for hospitals in Canada, interdisciplinary research team CycloMed99 will be receiving a prestigious national award at a ceremony in Ottawa today. The Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will present the NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science… Read more »

The 2014 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry have been awarded, one for the ubiquitous LED light, and the other for the invention of a new way of seeing microscopic processes in action. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of the Nagoya University in Japan and Japanese-born U.S. citizen Shuji Nakamura, of the University of California,… Read more »

A Celebration of Life in honour of Alan Astbury,  former Director of  IPP (1991-1995) and TRIUMF (1994-2001), will be held from 2:00-4:00pm on Saturday, October 25th 2014 at the University Club of Victoria (http://club.uvic.ca) on the University of Victoria campus.

The contest is open to anyone not employed by SPIE with prizes totaling $US 4,500 – and winning photographs will be published on the cover of SPIE Professional magazine. Images must be received by 30 September 2014 and should show how light and light-based technologies play a vital role in our everyday lives. See the… Read more »

Dr. Alan Astbury, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Victoria, died on July 21 following a brief illness.  Alan, a leading figure in Canadian science, served as Director of TRIUMF from 1994-2001. His distinguished career began in the U.K.  Born in Crewe, he obtained his Ph.D. at Liverpool and, following postdoctoral work at… Read more »

You are invited to submit an abstract at Theory Canada 9, June 12th-15th Wilfrid Laurier University, a satellite conference of CAP.  The Theory Canada conference was initiated in 2005 as a satellite conference for the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) congress.  The conference provides theorists from all over Canada the opportunity to discuss physics and… Read more »

Shohini Ghose of Wilfrid Laurier University is the featured physicist for April, as selected by the APS’ Committee for the Status of Women in Physics. For more information on her recognition, see:  http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/womanmonth/2014.cfm Do you know female physicists worthy of recognition? Nominate them! Find more info online.

(Vancouver, BC) – After a seven month, highly competitive, international search for TRIUMF’s next director, the laboratory’s Board of Management announced today that Dr. Jonathan Bagger, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Vice Provost, and former Interim Provost at the Johns Hopkins University, will join TRIUMF this summer as the laboratory’s next director.   TRIUMF is Canada’s national laboratory… Read more »

The NSERC John C. Polanyi Award honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering. The ALPHA-Canada team is the winner of the 2013 Polyani Award for their work with the ALPHA team at CERN in understanding antimatter. The full list of ALPHA-Canada… Read more »

Following an extensive international search, Australian scientist Robert Lamb has been selected to lead the CLS effective August 1, 2014. The appointment was jointly announced this week by the Chair of the CLS Board of Directors, Walter Davidson, and University of Saskatchewan President, Ilene Busch-Vishniac. Read more on Robert Lamb in the CLS news release: http://www.lightsource.ca/news/details/new_executive_director_appointed_at_the_canadian_light_source.html