[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Thu 2005-01-13 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Anthony Faust (Defence R&D Canada, Suffield, Alberta)

Title:     Landmines to Vehicle Bombs - Canada's Effort in the Physics of Explosives Detection

Abstract: The current international focus on terrorism and threats to civilian population belies a more disturbing fact - civilians in many parts of the world have been subject to a daily terror from landmines and unexploded munitions for decades. In 2003, the UN Landmine Monitor estimated that on average 15,000 to 20,000 were being killed or injured by land mines every year, with landmine casualties reported in more than 60 countries worldwide. Since the signing of the Ottawa Treaty - the most important international legal instrument dealing with antipersonnel landmines - in December 1997, the Government of Canada has taken a lead role in the research and development of new methods for landmine detection. In this presentation I will give an overview of how Physicists in Defence R&D Canada are employing a wide range of techniques, from nuclear interrogation to thermal imaging, to help aid in the global humanitarian demining effort and how these efforts are creating new interrogation technologies applicable for public security applications.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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