Science Week 2024

22 Jul 2024, 07:55 → 26 Jul 2024, 18:00 America/Vancouver

TRIUMF Science Week is back this summer!

July 22^nd - July 26^th, 2024. 

Welcome to Science Week 2024

This year's program will feature presentations on recent achievements and highlights of TRIUMF's science program. This year's Science Week will also  be used as platform to present the different 2025-2030 5-year plan scenario and engage discussions with the community. The program will be complemented with sessions on Indigenous learning, EDI, and Sustainability as well as an anniversary session celebrating the 50 years of beam at TRIUMF and the 70th anniversary of CERN.  Parallel sessions will focus on Early Career Networking, Canadian R&D Strategy and Engineering topics. We will conclude the week with the TRIUMF Users Group Annual General meeting.  Science Week features plenty of networking opportunities and social events throughout the week including the now infamous soccer tournament and BBQ at UBC Farm!   

 

Science week is planned as in-person event, but if you want to join online, please follow the zoom links that will be send out to all participants via email.

Registration is now open! Please see the different registration options before starting registration.

 

Early registrations close on June 9th

We’re excited to see you at TRIUMF!

 

 

Monday, 22 July

08:30 → 09:30 Welcome session

08:30 Welcome & Introduction from TRIUMF Executive Director & CEO, Nigel Smith

Speaker: Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

09:15 Science week organizational information

Speakers: Chloé Malbrunot (TRIUMF), Christian Diget (University of York), David McKeen (TRIUMF), Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)

09:30 → 10:45 Accelerator Science

09:30 Keynote

10:05 Overview of TRIUMF Cyclotron

Speaker: Lige Zhang (TRIUMF)

10:25 Novel Applications of TRIUMF's Accelerated Beams

Speaker: Christopher Charles (TRIUMF)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:30 Life Sciences

Convener: Valery Radchenko (TRIUMF)

11:15 Targeted alpha therapy at US National Labs

Dr Andrew Burgoyne received his Bachelor of Science (2009) with a double major in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science Honours degree (2010) and Master of Science (2012) in Chemistry (cum laude) from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and his Ph.D. (2015) in Chemistry from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
After a stint as a postdoctoral research fellow at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, Dr Burgoyne joined the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN to develop new radiopharmaceuticals harnessing therapeutic radioisotopes. While there he established new radioisotope production capabilities and developed radiochemical processing technologies to purify reactor produced radioisotopes.
Andrew then joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory to expand his portfolio and gain more experience in actinide chemistry. He is a R&D Staff Member Radiochemist in the Medical Isotopes Development Group, within the Radioisotope Science and Technology Division of the Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate, and now manages radioisotope production efforts for the US Department of Energy Isotope Program. Dr Burgoyne is the principal investigator for the R&D and production efforts of accelerator-produced actinium-225 (cGMP) from thorum-232, also for the fabrication of radium-224/lead-212 generators from thorium-228, and for tungsten-188/rhenium-188 production.

Speaker: Dr Andrew Bourgoyne (ORNL)

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12:00 Highly Stable and Specific Chelator for Actinium for Targeted-Alpha Therapy

Speaker: Dr LEE LEE LILY LI (the University of British Columbia)

12:15 Produciton of medical radionuclides with ISAC facility (focus on Ac-226)

Speaker: Dr Helena Konair

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 → 15:00 Nuclear Physics

13:45 Studying nuclear structure with laser spectroscopy

Speaker: Kara Lynch

14:20 The Impact of Oxygen-17 Alpha Captures on the s-Process

Speaker: Cameron Angus (TRIUMF)

14:40 Recent achievements in developing ab initio optical potentials for nuclear reactions

Speaker: Matteo Vorabbi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:00 → 16:15 Quantum Materials / Molecular and Materials Science

15:00 x

15:30 x

16:15 → 18:00 Welcome Reception

18:00 → 19:30 Public lecture

18:00 Evolution of the nuclear medicine programme at TRIUMF

Speaker: Thomas Ruth (TRIUMF)

Tuesday, 23 July

08:30 → 10:15 Particle Physics

08:30 The Status and Future of Particle Physics

Speaker: Prof. Isabel Garcia Garcia (University of Washington)

09:15 nEXO

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Brunner (McGill)

09:35 SuperCDMS

Speaker: Dr Yan Liu (UBC)

09:55 NA62 & PIONEER

Speaker: Dr Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:00 EDI

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10:45 Mentorship programmes at TRIUMF and initial results of DEI interviews across the lab

Speakers: Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF), Monika Stachura (TRIUMF)

10:55 Allyship

Speaker: Toni Schmader (UBC)

11:35 Discussions / Q&A

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch Break

13:15 → 14:35 Scientific Computing

13:15 The World LHC Grid - present and future

Speaker: Reda Tafirout (TRIUMF)

13:35 AI in Radiochemistry

Speaker: P.J.H Scott (U. Michigan)

14:05 Quantum Computing in High Energy Physics

Speaker: Andrea Delgado (ORNL)

14:35 → 15:35 Science & Technology

14:35 x

15:05 UCN Program at TRIUMF

Speaker: Alexis Brossard (TRIUMF)

15:20 The HAICU experiment at TRIUMF

Speaker: Andrea Capra (TRIUMF)

15:35 → 16:05 Coffee Break

16:05 → 17:05 Student competition

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17:05 → 19:05 TRIUMF soccer tournament

Wednesday, 24 July

08:30 → 10:00 5-year plan

08:30 5-y plan

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 5-year plan

10:30 5-year plan

12:00 → 13:15 Break

13:15 → 14:45 5YP-Consultations

13:15 5YP-Consultations

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 → 16:30 5YP-Consultations

15:15 5YP-Consultations

16:30 → 19:00 Poster Session

Convener: Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)

Thursday, 25 July

08:30 → 10:00 50 years TRIUMF / 70 years of CERN

08:30 Recollections of TRIUMF first beam

Speaker: Jean-Michel poutissou (triumf)

09:00 TRIUMF contributions to CERN

Speaker: Ewart Blackmore (TRIUMF)

09:30 The TRIUMF/CERN collaboration

Speaker: Lyn Evans

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Indigenous Knowledge: Integrating Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Western Sciences

Convener: Andrew Ikeman

10:30 Welcome & Introductions

Speaker: Andrew Ikeman

10:40 Weaving Indigenous Knowledge with Mainstream Science using Canada’s Synchrotron

The Canadian Light Source (CLS), Canada’s only synchrotron, is a national facility the size of a (Canadian) football field. CLS has an education team that delivers programming for high school students and educators that connects science research and science curriculum through inquiry-based teaching and learning that includes hands-on opportunities for youth. In this presentation, Dallas Pelly, Education Coordinator- Indigenous programs, will share knowledge and tips on how to promote science inquiry in a reconciliation context. We will share insights about the Indigenous programming that has been established through the work of the CLS. We will also learn about the work that CLS is doing to change who sees themselves in science, including increasing Indigenous participation in STEM education and learning. Participants will also gain valuable insight into the many program offerings of the CLS including: Students on the Beamline, Teacher PD, seminars & workshops, and more.

Biography:
Dallas Pelly is an Indigenous educator, community builder, and social innovator. He is a proud U of S alumnus of the ITEP program (B Ed ’18). He is excited about working as an Education Coordinator- Indigenous Programs at the Canadian Light Source. Dallas is passionate about helping bridge the gap between Indigenous knowledge systems and mainstream science. In his spare time Dallas loves biking, going for long walks, and wrestling with his 3 sons, Oaklen, Emmett, and Denver. Dallas and his family currently reside on Treaty 6 territory in what is now known as Saskatoon.

Speaker: Dallas Pelly (Canadian Light Source)

11:25 TRIUMF's Indigenous Engagement Roadmap

Speaker: Andrew Ikeman

11:45 Q&A

Speakers: Andrew Ikeman, Dallas Pelly (Canadian Light Source)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:10 Sustainability session

14:10 → 15:10 Parallel 1 : Early Career Networking Event

Convener: Christopher Chambers (TRIUMF)

14:10 Career Panel

14:10 → 15:10 Parallel 2 : Canadian R&D strategy

Convener: Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

14:10 → 15:10 Parallel 3 : Technical session

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:30 Parallel 1 : Early Career Networking Event

Convener: Christopher Chambers (TRIUMF)

15:30 Speed Mentoring

15:30 → 16:30 Parallel 2 : Canadian R&D strategy

Convener: Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

15:30 → 16:30 Parallel 3 : Technical session

16:30 → 19:30 BBQ / summer festival at UBC farms

Friday, 26 July

08:30 → 10:00 TRIUMF User's Group AGM

Convener: Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)

10:00 → 10:30 Concluding remarks

Convener: Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Early Career Researchers Workshop

Convener: Gabby Gelinas

11:00 CV / Resume Writing - Academic perspective

Speaker: Maximilian Swiatlowski (TRIUMF)

11:30 CV / Resume Writing - Industry perspective

Speaker: Cameron Wilson

12:00 Personalized feedback on Resume/CVs

13:00 → 13:15 Break

13:15 → 14:45 IAMI Tour