<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">News Release | For Immediate Release | April 19, 2013</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF in Spotlight as Global Photowalk Winners
Announced</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Andy White Awarded Second Place for Photograph of TIGRESS</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">(Vancouver, BC) --- There is only one event worldwide that presents
photographers an equal opportunity to explore, capture, and create the most
stunning photos depicting particle physics laboratories. Hundreds of talented
and fearless photographers participated in the second-ever Global Particle
Physics Photowalk in September 2012. From the thousands of striking and
inspired photographs, the international panel of professional photographers has
chosen the single top three photos of the competition. TRIUMF is pleased to
announce and congratulate local contestant Andy White, a 3rd year Visual Arts
student at UBC from North Vancouver, who was awarded 2nd place in the juried
competition for his winning photo of TIGRESS.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></span></div><div><p class="TRIUMF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Each of the ten participating laboratories selected local winners from
thousands of submitted photos and advanced top photographs to the global
competition, judged by an international panel of professional photographers.
The winners are listed below.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Along with studying art and photography at school, Andy is also a
competitive Javelin thrower on the varsity track & field team. His spirited
nature served him well in this competition. “I come from quite an Arts-based
background and really don't have much involvement with science, yet I have
always been fascinated by technology so I was eager to get involved. This would
be my first time visiting TRIUMF and I had no idea what to expect,” explained
Andy.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">What he found during his visit to TRIUMF was TIGRESS, a nuclear physics
spectrometer, in the ISAC-II building. This equipment allows researchers to
study the structure of the nucleus and the forces that hold it together by
analyzing rare nuclear reactions.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“What drew me to TIGRESS was its element of fine craftsmanship, colour
and shape. I chose to photograph it symmetrically and end-on to reveal these
features as they were best presented,” said Andy.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Greg Hackman, research scientist at TRIUMF, is responsible for the
operation and maintenance of TIGRESS. “This is a gamma-ray detector designed
for nuclear structure experiments and specifically to make optimal use of ISAC,"
says Greg. "The function entirely drove the form.”</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Andy muses, “It was great connecting the arts with science, and this
photowalk offered me a unique challenge to present technology in a creative
way. What is most fascinating is our human capability to create such
instruments, and this is what I intended to bring forward in my images.”</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">To decipher the science behind TIGRESS, as displayed in Andy's photo,
Science Division Head Reiner Kruecken explains, “Instruments like TIGRESS allow
us to peak into the femto-world of the atomic nucleus and deduce what is
happening in this otherwise invisible world which is only the size of one
millionth of a millionth of a millimeter. What you see in the photo from inside
to outside are Germanium crystals and two layers of so-called BGO shield
detectors. These shield detectors look toward the center of the array where we
induce nuclear reactions and show us something about the structure and dynamics
in atomic nuclei.”</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Just as physicists are enticed by symmetries in nature as they unleash
mysteries of the universe, photographers are drawn to symmetries in their
subjects as they create alluring images to captivate their audience.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Thank you to the entire cohort of photographers who visited TRIUMF and
shared their portrayal of the laboratory with us and with the public.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">And a special thank you to the judges for their expert eye,
photographers Stanley Greenberg from the US, Roy Robertson from the UK, Andrew
Haw from Canada, and Luca Casonato from Italy.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The winners of the Juried Competition: top prize goes to Joseph Paul
Boccio's detailed photograph of the KLOE detector at INFN's Frascati National
Laboratory, second prize to Andy White's photo capturing the color and symmetry
of the TIGRESS detector at TRIUMF, and third prize to Helen Trist’s photograph
of data storage at the UK’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The winners of the People’s Choice competition, as voted on by the
public online: top prize to Nino Bruno, second prize to Enrique Diaz, and third
prize to Steve Zimic.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Participating laboratories include:</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Brookhaven National Laboratory
(New York, USA)</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Catania National Laboratory
(Catania, Italy)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Chilbolton Observatory
(Hampshire, UK)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Daresbury Laboratory
(Cheshire, UK)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(Illinois, USA)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Frascati National Laboratory
(Frascati, Italy)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gran Sasso National Laboratory
(Gran Sasso, Italy)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
(Oxfordshire, UK)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF
(Vancouver, Canada)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre
(Edinburgh, UK)</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The winning photographs will be featured in upcoming issues of the
particle physics publications the CERN Courier and symmetry and the Italian
popular science magazine Le Scienze. The participating laboratories will also
feature the global winners and their local photowalk selections in temporary
exhibits.</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The top thirty-nine photographs from the Photowalk, including the six
winners of the jury and "people's choice" competitions, are viewable
online at: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/interactions_photos/sets/72157632715630871.">http://www.flickr.com/photos/interactions_photos/sets/72157632715630871</a></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Global Physics Photowalk content taken from an <a href="http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1032818">InterActions Press Release</a></font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">###</font></span></p><p class="TRIUMF"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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also seeks to commercialize its technologies for the benefit of all
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of the University of British Columbia, TRIUMF is owned and operated as a joint
venture by a consortium of the following Canadian universities, via a
contribution from the federal government through National Research Council
Canada: University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of
Calgary, Carleton University, University of Guelph, University of Manitoba,
McMaster University, Université de Montréal, University of Northern British
Columbia, Queen’s University, University of Regina, Saint Mary’s University,
Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto, University of Victoria,
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