Conveners
Science Policy: Where do you fit? / Politique scientifique : où vous situez-vous?
- Christopher Pugh (University of Waterloo)
John Root
(Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)
6/16/15, 7:00 PM
Other Sessions or Meetings / Autres séances ou réunions
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The Canadian federal government recently announced its decision to shut down the NRU reactor in 2018. The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor commenced operation in 1957, to provide neutrons for several missions simultaneously, including the production of neutron beams to support fundamental experimental research on solids and liquids. Today, the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre manages...
Ted Hsu
(MP, Kingston and the Islands)
6/16/15, 7:10 PM
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
How can physicists have a stronger voice in government? We should be regularly posing this question before government budget decisions, before funding deadlines for scientific projects or infrastructure loom.
Scientists in general, not to mention physicists, are not represented in large numbers in the country’s legislatures, nor are they commonly sighted in the halls and offices of...
