With the first discussions on the next 5-year plan for TRIUMF underway and a new director selected, 2007 promises to be a busy year for TRIUMF users and staff. Discussions were vivid at the TRIUMF Users Group Annual General Meeting (AGM), which was held on Dec. 6, 2006, immediately following the Subatomic Physics EEC and prior to the Molecular and Materials Science EEC. As usual at the AGM, the results of the TRIUMF Users’ Executive Committee (TUEC) elections were made public.
For 2007, your TUEC membership will be:
| Chair | Uwe Greife | Colorado School of Mines |
| Chair Elect | David Kulp | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Past Chair | Paul Garrett | University of Guelph |
| Members: | Christopher Hearty | UBC/IPP |
| Robert McPherson | University of Victoria/IPP | |
| Barry Davids | TRIUMF | |
| Byron Jennings | TRIUMF | |
| Liaison Of?cer | Martin Comyn | TRIUMF |
This year’s meeting was otherwise completely dedicated to presentations from the different scientific areas represented at and by TRIUMF. Ad-hoc working groups had been formed in the previous months to discuss the dreams and needs of users grouped in: ISAC physics and infrastructure, accelerator R&D, theory, high energy physics, neutrino physics, molecular and materials science, life sciences, detector R&D, high performance computing, SNOLAB, offsite support and outreach. The reports from the individual groups conveyed the uniform feeling that all groups need more resources to perform at the optimum, but also confirmed that if given those resources significant scientific achievements could be expected. TUEC has collected the input from the working groups and will present them in May to the new director for further consideration and discussion. In order to provide a forum for individual users to interact with the new management, we have decided to continue with our fresh tradition of a summer users’ meeting. It will be held on July 8, 2007, in between the Subatomic Physics EEC and the TRIUMF Summer School. A call will soon go out to the ad-hoc working groups to suggest speakers that can highlight recent accomplishments in the context of how the future of TRIUMF may shape up.•
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To join TUG or contact TUEC members, please visit the TRIUMF Users' Group website at: http://www.triumf.ca/tug/.
