[News-releases] TRIUMF Hosts Prestigious Global Conference for 800 Nuclear Scientists

[Tim Meyer]

Media Advisory | For Immediate Release | June 29, 2010

TRIUMF HOSTS PRESTIGIOUS GLOBAL CONFERENCE FOR 800 NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS
Public and media invited to join Sunday public lecture with internationally
recognized Dr. Lawrence Krauss

(Vancouver, BC) - Every three years, the International Nuclear Physics
Conference (INPC) brings together the international community of nuclear
scientists to explore the most compelling questions of modern research
ranging from how nature really works to where the medical isotopes of the
future will come from. Hosted by TRIUMF, the 24th INPC will be held July
4-9, 2010, at the UBC campus.  The public and media are invited to a special
public lecture on Sunday, July 4, featuring U.S. Professor Lawrence Krauss
and BC Minister Dr. Moira Stilwell. 

Dr. Lawrence Krauss, an internationally recognized leader in cosmology and
astrophysics has been invited to ignite the conference on Sunday afternoon
at the Chan Centre with a captivating and engaging public lecture, An Atom
>From Vancouver, which traces the story of a single atom - from the beginning
of the Universe, before atoms themselves existed, until the end, as we
currently envisage it. Author of over 250 scientific papers, several
popular-science books, including the international bestseller The Physics of
Star Trek, Dr. Krauss is a regular essayist for the New York Times, the LA
Times, the Wall St. Journal, and Scientific American.

Special efforts have been made to include and encourage young scientists and
students.  High-school student winners of regional science fairs will share
their prize-winning work with the arriving delegates and will have front-row
seats at the public lecture. 

** Public Science Lecture: Sunday, July 4, 2010, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at the UBC
Chan Centre **

Contact TRIUMF or visit http://inpc2010.triumf.ca for more details.


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Timothy I. Meyer, Ph.D.
Head, Strategic Planning & Communications
TRIUMF
4004 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC  V6T 2A3  CANADA
Tel: 604-222-7674
Fax: 604-222-3791
Cell: 650-464-8955
E-mail: tmeyer at triumf.ca
WWW: http://www.triumf.ca
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