Richard Keeler took the reins last year as director of Canada’s Institute of Particle Physics. A nonprofit organization founded in 1971 and jointly owned by 10 Canadian universities and TRIUMF, Canada’s national particle and nuclear physics laboratory, the IPP sets the agenda for Canada’s particle physics community and coordinates the country’s participation in international particle physics experiments.
During Keeler’s five-year directorship, the itinerant IPP will make its home at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, where Keeler is on the physics faculty. As IPP director, Keeler aims to start an invited speaker program, improve outreach efforts in particle physics, and increase the number of researchers on the IPP payroll—they currently number seven, and they are free to work at any Canadian research institute.
