Part I of II – NEW: TRIUMF, Canada`s sole laboratory for particle and nuclear physics in cIRcle
A step into TRIUMF’s main control room, where skilled operators control over 2,000 devices and monitor over 5,000 parameters. The control room monitors virtually all aspects of the cyclotron and the main injection beamline, including radiation levels. (Photo credit: Katy Mackenzie under this Creative Commons License) In Part I of this two-part blog post, […]
In The Spotlight: BIRS, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) 1 is “a joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative that seeks to bring together people from a wide range of mathematical, scientific and industry backgrounds and to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and methods between these specialists”. The future home of the newest BIRS-affiliated […]
In the Spotlight: Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914
The goal of this Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project (grant number 430-2011-006) was to ‘advance the grant holders’ knowledge of the character of film exhibition in the early part of the 20th century in Vancouver, with a specific focus on 1914 as a case study’. According to Dr. Brian McIlroy at […]
Call for Submissions: GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
Launched in 2012, the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award is a lottery-style $500 Award which showcases unique, exemplary non-thesis graduate work at UBC that is not captured anywhere else. This Award enables UBC Vancouver graduate students to expand and disseminate their research-focused, non-thesis work at UBC and beyond. The non-thesis graduate student work is vetted […]
cIRcle in the headlines: December 2015 edition
Change. While it’s just a six-letter word, it can pack in a lot and in a short amount of time too. On that note, change was certainly afoot with cIRcle in 2015! So, we hope you will enjoy reading a quick sampling of some memorable highlights and notable milestones achieved by cIRcle this past […]