AGENDA

The agenda will follow the four objectives of the national neutron strategy. Each session will include summary presentations from the LRP Panel on its recommendations, and discussion time for participants to deliberate the recommendations.

Monday February 12, 2024

8:15am-8:45am Continental Breakfast 
8:45am-9:30am Introductory Session
9:30am-10:30am Session 1-Forging partnerships with foreign facilities
10:30am-10:45am Break
10:45am-12:15pm Session 1- Forging partnerships with foreign facilities  (continued)
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm-3:15pm Session 1- Forging partnerships with foreign facilities  (continued)
3:15pm-3:25pm Break
3:25pm-3:55pm Session 1- Forging partnerships with foreign facilities  (continued)
3:55pm-5:20pm Session 2- Building on existing domestic capabilities
5:20pm-6:30pm McMaster University Nuclear Reactor Tour- Sign Up Here
6:30pm-8:30pm Group Dinner- Sign Up Here

Tuesday Feburary 13, 2024

8:30am-9:00am Continental Breakfast 
9:00am-10:25am Session 3- Developing new neutron sources for the long term
10:25am-10:40am

Break
10:40am-12:15pm Session 3- Developing new neutron sources for the long term (continued)
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm-3:05pm Session 4a- Funding and governance
3:05pm-3:20pm Break
3:20pm-5:00pm Session 4b- Managing for societal impact
5:00pm Session Ends 

 

 

Detailed Agenda

Monday February 12, 2024

Introductory Session

  • Karin Stephenson (McMaster U.) Welcome, land acknowledgment and hosts' remarks
  • Drew Marquardt (U Windsor) Canadian and intern'l context; state of the community
  • Daniel Banks (Neutrons Canada) Overview of the LRP process, consultations

Session 1
(Strategic Objective 1: Forge partnerships with high-brightness neutron sources in other countries.)

  • Eccleston & King (ISIS) ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
  • Ron Jones (NCNR)  NIST Center for Neutron Research
  • Mark Johnson (ILL) Institut Laue Langevin
  • Jürgen Neuhaus (TUM / FRM-II) TUM | Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)
  • Stephan Förster (JCNS) Juelich Centre for Neutron Science / FRM-II
  • Jon White (SINQ)   Swiss Neutron Spallation Source (SINQ)
  • Mark Lumsden (ORNL)  Oak Ridge National Lab
  • Donald Brown (LANSCE) Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE)
  • Daniel Banks (Neutrons Canada)  LRP Panel Recommendations
  • Pat Clancy (McMaster U.) Moderator Deliberations
  • Young-June Kim (U Toronto) Moderator Deliberations

Session 2
(Strategic Objective 2: Build on existing domestic capabilities, including full exploitation of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor, a medium-brightness neutron source.)

  • John Root (Fedoruk Centre)  Building the neutron user community I
  • Terry Fonstad (U. Saskatchewan) Building the neutron user community II
  • Bruce Gaulin (McMaster U.)  Neutron beams at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor
  • Daniel Banks (Neutrons Canada)  LRP Panel Recommendations
  • Andrea Bianchi (U. Montreal.) Deliberations

Evening

  • Optional dinner & networking event

Tuesday Feburary 13, 2024

Session 3
(Strategic Objective 3: Explore and invest in developing new neutron sources for the long term.)

  • Thomas Gutberlet (JCNS)  JCNS High Brilliance Source project
  • Drew Marquardt (U Windsor)  U Windsor CANS
  • Zahra Yamani (CNL)  Nuclear drivers for a research reactor
  • Giovanna Fragneto (ESS) European Spallation Source
  • Mark Lumsden (ORNL)  SNS Second Target Station
  • Daniel Banks (Neutrons Canada)  LRP Panel Recommendations
  • James Noel (Western U.) - Moderator  Deliberations

Session 4a: funding and governance
(Strategic Objective 4: Create a new, national governance and management framework for these activities.)

  • John Root (Neutrons Canada)   Neutrons Canada - creation, purpose, plans
  • Stephan Förster (JCNS)   operating a neutron program relying on distant sources
  • Art McDonald (Queen's U.) Policy context for governance and funding of MRF
  • Daniel Banks (Neutrons Canada)  LRP Panel Recommendations
  • Johnny Kung (CIFAR) - Moderator   Deliberations

Session 4b: management

(Strategic Objective 4: Create a new, national governance and management framework for these activities.)

  • Steph Richardson (ISIS)  Science communications & outreach
  • Daniela Loock (ONC)  Indigenous engagement
  • Daniel Banks (Neutrons Canada)  LRP Panel Recommendations
  • Johnny Kung (CIFAR) - Moderator   Deliberations
  • Drew Marquardt (U Windsor)  Wrap up remarks: next steps