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Latest news:

March 27, 2025: First NPAT-sponsored physics colloquium given at TRIUMF by Dr. Nigel Orr (from the IN2P3 laboratory LPC-Caen) entitled: “Explorations Across the Neutron Dripline”

Renown pedagogue, N.A. Orr, waxing unboundedly neutronic to a rapturous audience at TRIUMF last March.

Nigel Orr (right) enjoying fruitful discussions with TRIUMF’s Science Division Director, Ritu Kanungo (middle, right) and TIGRESS physicist Greg Hackman (middle, left) while IRL Director D. Lunney (left) artfully snaps the selfie.

March 20, 2025: Former IN2P3 Director, Reynald Pain, who now directs the Centre Pierre Binétruy, a CNRS IRL at University of California at Berkeley, visited the newly created NPAT IRL in Vancouver for discussions with the TRIUMF Directorate.

(left to right): Rituparna Kanungo, Director of TRIUMF’s Science Division, Nigel Smith, TRIUMF CEO, Reynald Pain, Berkeley IRL director, David Lunney, NPAT Director