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The Canadian Astroparticle Physics Annual Community Meeting at Carleton University will host a special social and dinner event on the evening of August 7 at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Attendees will enjoy a private reception and viewing in the museum’s artifact gallery before dinner in the museum’s banquet room.

The annual meeting, to be held Aug. 6-8, draws together faculty, fellows, technicians, engineers, and students working across the entire breadth of theoretical and experimental astroparticle physics with significant Canadian participation. The regular meeting will feature research updates on key experimental collaborations, new theory work, and updates on the McDonald Institute’s current efforts to respond to the IPP-organized subatomic physics long-range plan. The meeting also includes a one-day, Aug. 5 professional development workshop for HQP (Highly Qualified Personnel) that will feature sessions on career networking in this year’s iteration.

The Institute will provide residence room accommodations free of charge for students, technicians, and postdoctoral fellows to support their participation in any part of the workshop and meeting. Faculty and career scientists are also welcome to request residence rooms, at cost, through the registration link. Registration for both the workshop and the regular meeting is now open.

The McDonald Institute is invested in attracting HQP to participate in long-term planning and professional networking as fundamental to the success of any Big-Science discipline. For this reason, students and fellows travelling to attend this year’s meeting will be eligible for university campus lodging paid by the McDonald Institute. If your supervisor does not have discretionary budget in excess of $250 to support your travel to and from the meeting, the Institute will provide limited travel reimbursement support, which should be arranged by a supervisor’s request to edward.thomas@mcdonaldinstitute.ca. As per previous meetings, all attendees are also eligible for the Institute’s caregiver and accessibility assistance program. Reimbursement claims must be made by supervising P.I.’s no later than 30 days after the conclusion of the meeting (details to be circulated with formal registration form).

The McDonald Institute will reimburse eligible extraordinary costs incurred by meeting participants who have caregiving responsibilities for another person. A detailed schedule of eligible costs and mechanism for reimbursement are described here.