TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 5
Executive Summary
Assets: Physical and Intellectual
Infrastructure
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
TRIUMF: Accelerating Science for Canada
Foreword
Preface
Executive Summary
005
010
011
012
CHAPTER 2
The Vision: Accelerating Science
for Canada, 2015–2020
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
Exploring Forefront Science
Enjoying a Track Record of Excellence
Aligning with Canada’s Priorities,
2015–2020
Realizing the Vision
Implementing the Plan
Looking a Decade Ahead
Summary
015
017
026
031
032
036
038
Partnerships: From Global
Excellence to Local Impact
Introduction
Partnership Strategy
Selected Examples
Summary
Introduction
Expert Personnel
ARIEL
Accelerator and Beam Line
Infrastructure
5.5 Experimental Facilities
and Infrastructure
5.6 Nuclear Medicine Infrastructure
5.7 Theory Toolbox
5.8 Scientific Computing
5.9 Laboratory Organization
5.10 Innovation and Industrial Partnerships
041
041
050
056
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
Building on Five-Year Plan 2010–2015
Five-Year Plan 2015–2020:
Excellence with Impact
Major Initiatives
Value for Canada
Implementation: Working
with Multiple Stakeholders
Implementation: Trade-offs in Risk,
Opportunity, and Impact
Development of
Five-Year Plan 2015–2020
Outlook
6.8
Successes: Highlights
from 2008–2012
Appendices
Introduction
Advancing Knowledge
Creating Future Leaders
Generating Societal and Economic Benefits
061
063
172
182
225
243
313
319
324
330
342
The Plan: Delivering on
the Promise 2015–2020
CHAPTER 4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
197
199
203
CHAPTER 6
6.1
6.2
CHAPTER 3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
A.1
A.2
A.3
A.4
A.5
A.6
A.7
A.8
Experimental Facilities Glossary
Logic Model
Summary Statistics
Committees Providing Advice and
Review of the Five-Year Plan
Financials
Commentary on TRIUMF
Scientific Publication Patterns
Students and Trainees
Leadership Team
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353
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428
440
449
450
453
455
456
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469
470
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Five-Year Plan 2015–2020: Realizing the Vision
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