Twenty years ago, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) was created to provide funding for the tools--the labs, facilities and equipment--that Canadian researchers need to move ideas, discoveries and inventions forward for the benefit of society and the world around us.
Jordan Myslik can trace his interest in physics back to grade three, when he became enamoured with the idea of UFOs. Myslik receives his doctorate this month, and recently started work as a postdoctoral fellow in neutrino physics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. "But my fixation on UFOs led me to an interest in astronomy, which in turn compelled me to learn more about physics."
The UVic-led Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) at TRIUMF, Canada鈥檚 national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, received $8.7 million from the BC Knowledge Development Fund in October. ARIEL expansion will lead to advances in medical imaging for diseases such as cancer, new technologies and materials for industry, and fresh insights into the fundamental nature of matter.
The BC government has invested $8.7 million in a UVic-led, national initiative to bolster Canada鈥檚 world-class rare isotope capabilities. The contribution from the BC Knowledge Development Fund supports TRIUMF鈥檚 Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory, a two-phase multidisciplinary research facility that will advance our fundamental understanding of the world in which we live.
Randall Sobie is leading a project to build a cloud computing system for the ATLAS experiment at CERN鈥攑roviding storage and analysis tools for the billion gigabytes of data produced at the Large Hadron Collider. The new system will significantly advance global investigations into the fundamental structure of the universe.
UVic physicist Randall Sobie is leading a project to build a data and cloud computing system for the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva Switzerland. The new system will significantly advance global investigations into the fundamental structure of the universe.
A team of engineering researchers from UVic and the University of Rochester has developed a way to detect single molecules using a light-based technology inspired by the 鈥渨hispering gallery鈥� effect, first discovered in London鈥檚 iconic St. Paul鈥檚 Cathedral.
Two 番茄社区-based researchers are part of an international team of astronomers who have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.
An international team of astronomers including UVic researchers have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.
An ocean explorer striving to preserve fragile marine ecosystems. A physicist unlocking the secrets of the universe. An oceanographer who makes science open and accessible to everyone. A writer who helps us interpret the trials and tribulations of modern life. And two engineers and an entrepreneur who came up with a brilliant idea and ran with it.
A team of UVic researchers shared in one of the world鈥檚 most lucrative science awards this November. The $3 million 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to five international experiments, including more than 1,300 individual scientists, 鈥渇or the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics.鈥� Eight current and former Victoria Subatomic Physics and Accelerator Research Centre (VISPA) members are among the laureates. 聽 聽聽
UVic's leadership and participation in several national and international big science projects been given a huge shot in the arm with the injection of $14.8 million in new funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
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The 番茄社区鈥檚 leadership and participation in several national and international big science projects has got a huge shot in the arm with the injection of $14.8 million in new funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
CERN Director General Dr. Rolf Heuer to give inaugural Alan Astbury Public Lecture on April 27. The world鈥檚 most powerful particle accelerator came back online this month after a two-year hiatus. Already credited with the discovery of the Higgs boson (or 鈥淕od particle鈥�), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the CERN facility at Geneva, Switzerland, holds the key to discovering the origin of mass, the nature of dark matter, and much more. As excitement is re-ignited about the LHC, UVic welcomes Dr. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN, to the campus for a public talk on the collider鈥檚 potential.
Creating cutting-edge technology isn鈥檛 that different from learning to play a musical instrument, building a car from scratch or even writing a sports slogan鈥攜ou just do it.
