[News-releases] TRIUMF adds Canadian Voices to Global Physics Blog
Tim Meyer
tmeyer at triumf.ca
Thu Apr 2 14:40:24 PDT 2009
For Immediate Release Thursday 02 April 2009
TRIUMF ADDS CANADIAN VOICES TO GLOBAL PHYSICS BLOG
(Vancouver, B.C.) - Members of the InterAction Collaboration today
announced the launch of the new Quantum Diaries, a web site that follows
physicists from around the world as they experience life at the energy,
intensity, and cosmic frontiers of particle and nuclear physics. Through
their blogs, the diarists offer a personal look at the daily lives of
physicists with stories, videos, photos, and biographies. The site can be
found at http://www.quantumdiaries.org.
The original Quantum Diaries chronicled the lives of scientists as they
experienced the World Year of Physics, 2005. Over the course of a year,
thousands of readers followed the highs and lows for some 25 particle
physicists--discoveries, new jobs, new babies, funding cuts, loss of old
friends, and public discussions of science.
Today Quantum Diaries returns with a new set of diarists representing a
vibrant cross-section of working physicists. Writing in multiple languages,
scientists and students from universities and laboratories in North America,
Asia and Europe have volunteered to blog about life as a physicist, sharing
their challenges at the lab as well as at home. Every few months, new
diarists will join the site to share even more stories about life in the
laboratory and beyond.
Two Canadian voices join the initial team of 10 diarists: Chris Ruiz and
Anadi Canepa, both from TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle
and nuclear physics. Ruiz is a nuclear physicist working as the group
leader for the DRAGON experiment which explores the astrophysical origins of
the chemical elements. Ruiz said, "[This project] allows me to share my
passion for the work that I do, and to try to reach out to those people out
there who are deeply interested in physics but sometimes can't get past our
veil of technical jargon and mathematics." He added, "Blogging is not only
about the actual science that we do, but also the other, more mundane parts
of our lives that give people a chance to see that physicists are not all
wild-haired, white-coated mad scientists, but share the same life
experiences and day-to-day problems, joys, thoughts and experiences as
everyone else." For instance, Ruiz's recent blog post contrasted his
musical and scientific tastes.
Anadi Canepa is a TRIUMF particle physicist, presently stationed at the
ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. She is enthusiastic about
sharing her experiences there. She introduces the Large Hadron Collider in
her first blog post, providing a friendly description of the particle
accelerator and encouraging her readers to learn more about it. She
observed that, "[This] is an opportunity for me to share my every day
experiences as a TRIUMF scientist based at CERN. Exciting times are ahead
of us in the field of particle physics. By exposing young physicists to the
fascination of our research, [the blog site] can also play a role in
expanding our field."
MEDIA CONTACTS
Quantum Diaries Project
Elizabeth Clements
Senior Science Communicator
InterAction Collaboration
Phone: + 1 630 840 2326
E-mail: lizzie at fnal.gov
TRIUMF
Timothy I. Meyer
Head, Strategic Planning & Communications
TRIUMF
Phone: + 1 604 222 7674
E-mail: tmeyer at triumf.ca
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Timothy I. Meyer, Ph.D.
Head, Strategic Planning and Communications
TRIUMF
4004 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3
Tel: 604-222-7674
E-mail: tmeyer at triumf.ca
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