York University alumnus and physicist Nigel Lockyer (BSc. Spec. Hons. ’75), has been appointed the new director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, reported Nature.com, The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and others June 21. In September he will move from his post as director of TRIUMF, Canada’s national […]
A York University professor is among an international group of scientists to successfully trap antimatter atoms for more than 16 minutes – 5,000 times longer than previous efforts – according to a study published yesterday in the journal Nature Physics. “We’re a long way off from being able to actually bottle antimatter, like in the movie […]
York University has been an associate member of the TRIUMF consortium since September 2008. Located in British Columbia, it is Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics. Seven of York’s researchers in the Faculty of Science & Engineering’s Experimental High Energy Physics group are active members of the consortium and its research projects. On […]
York particle physicist Sampa Bhadra (below right) has already figured out how she intends to spend her next sabbatical leave when it comes in 2013 – she’s hoping to visit British Columbia so she can spend some quality time at a subatomic research facility that’s larger than two city blocks and houses the biggest cyclotron […]