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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt">Dear<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">TRIUMF graduate students and postdocs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">I hope you and your families are well despite the challenging circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">As you have heard during the recent Town Halls, we are preparing to ramp up some on-site research activities starting in June. Daniel Yates is acting as GAPS representative on the working group for Research
Ramp-Up to make sure your perspectives, needs and concerns are being considered in our deliberations. We will communicate more details on how this ramp up will proceed during the next week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">However, one aspect that is clear at this time is that we will start by only allowing those people to the TRIUMF site who cannot do their work remotely. We expect that this constraint will be in place
for some time. Thus, a significant portion of you will have to continue working from home for a while.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Preparations are under way to enable the research work that will be restarting on the TRIUMF site in a way that ensures everyone’s health and safety. Please look out for communications on this as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">The GAPS committee has communicated to TRIUMF the need for some graduate students and postdocs to borrow office equipment to better enable working from home.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Today, I would like to let you know that starting immediately, the divisions will at their discretion allow some computing equipment as well as office chairs to be borrowed by their graduate students
and postdocs. Desks are unfortunately not an option.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">It took us some time to work out the particulars since we have no systems in place to comprehensively track equipment leaving the site. Thank you for your patience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">The<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Physical Sciences Division will provide further instruction shortly in a separate communication identifying the contacts in the various
departments and the process to request support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Silke Bergelt-Bruckner will be the contact person for students and postdocs in the Accelerator Division.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Gloria Bothelo will be contact the person for students and postdocs the Life Sciences Division.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Please reach out to your respective contacts to inform them of your needs and to make arrangements to borrow the equipment.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">We</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black"><span> </span><span lang="EN-US">have also been made aware of the fact that some of you have already purchased some computing accessories (keyboard, mouse, etc.)
and we have set up a fund for graduate students from which a reimbursement for such computing accessories can be requested for a value of up to $100 per person. Please scan your receipts for such items together with a completed ‘<a href="https://documents.triumf.ca/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-24955/Request%20for%20Payment%20-%20Document-24955%20-%20Rel%202%20-%20fillable.pdf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline">Request
for Payment’ form</a><span> </span>and submit this to me (<a href="mailto:reinerk@triumf.ca" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline">reinerk@triumf.ca</a>) for completion of the account information and approval.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">I know these initiatives do not solve all problems but I hope that they go some way towards improving your ability to work from home for an extended period of time.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly with any questions or concerns you might have, either related to the initiatives above or about coming back to site.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black">Wishing you all the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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