Name: Science Week 2023
Start: 2023-07-31T07:55:00-07:00
End: 2023-08-04T18:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

Science Week 2023

from Monday, 31 July 2023 (07:55) to Friday, 4 August 2023 (18:00)

Monday, 31 July 2023
08:30
08:30 - 09:30
Contributions

08:30 Welcome & Introduction from TRIUMF Executive Director & CEO, Nigel Smith - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

09:15 Science week organizational information - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF) Stephanie Diana Rädel (TRIUMF)
09:30
09:30 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 The Feasibility of Future Colliders - Thomas Roser (BNL)

10:05 SRF Development at TRIUMF - Phillipp Kolb (TRIUMF)

10:25 Beam Physics at TRIUMF - Hui Wen (TRIUMF)
10:45

10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:15
Contributions

11:15 Life Sciences at TRIUMF - Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)

11:35 Medical isotope production - Valery Radchenko (TRIUMF)

11:55 Radiochemistry & preclinical work - Hua Yang (TRIUMF)
12:15

12:15 - 13:15
13:15
13:15 - 14:30
Contributions

13:15 Making the heaviest elements in astrophysics - Nicole Vassh (TRIUMF)

13:50 Recent results from the mass spectrometer EMMA at TRIUMF - Louis Wagner (TRIUMF)

14:10 MR-TOF-MS for yield and mass measurements during the p2n target commissioning - Ali Mollaebrahimi (University of Giessen and TRIUMF)
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 Muon-spin rotation/relaxation under hydrostatic pressure: outlook and perspectives - Rustem Khasanov (PSI)

15:00 Elemental analysis with muonic x-rays and μ±SR for a Li-ion battery - Izumi Umegaki (KEK)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
08:30
08:30 - 10:15
Contributions

08:30 The Status and Future of Particle Physics - Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)

09:15 ALPHA-g and HAICU: Antimatter Science at TRIUMF - Chukman So (TRIUMF)

09:35 Status of the Hyper-Kamiokande Project - Xiaoyue Li

09:55 ATLAS experiment - status and overview - Marco Valente (TRIUMF)
10:15

10:15 - 10:45

10:45

10:45 - 12:00

12:00

12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 14:10
Contributions

13:00 Machine learning and nuclear physics, challenges and opportunities - Morten Hjorth-Jensen (MSU)

13:30 Quantum-Assisted Machine Learning for ATLAS - Tiago Vale (SFU)

13:50 Machine learning for beam tuning - Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF)
14:10
14:10 - 15:10
Contributions

14:10 Department overview - Nigel Hessey (TRIUMF)

14:40 LGADs for Particle Physics - Simone Michele Mazza (UC Santa Cruz)
15:10

15:10 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 16:40
Contributions

15:45 The Regina Cube for Multiple Particles (RCMP) - Cameron Shenton

15:50 Cracking the Calcium Conundrum: Exploring Discrepancies between Observations and Computational Models of Novae - Mallory Loria

15:55 CTCTCTCTM (Ciaran and Tobias' Cryogenic Tests for Characterizing Tenacious Charge Trapping and More) - Ciaran McDonald-Jensen Tobias Faehndrich

16:00 Electron-Gamma Separation in Water Cherenkov Detectors - Igal Press

16:05 Can temperature-dependent radioactive clocks tell us where the solar system came from? - Guy Leckenby

16:10 Water Monitoring System for Water Cherenkov Detectors - Sahar Taghayor

16:15 No need to wait for years anymore: there is a new (MM-D)GP in town - Antoine Belley

16:20 Surrogate Reactions to Constrain Neutron Capture Cross Sections - Daniel Yates

16:25 ML-Driven Tuning of Beamlines using Bayesian Optimization - Defne Tanyer

16:30 Collinear Laser Spectroscopy performed in a 30 keV MR-ToF device - Louis Croquette
18:00

18:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 5-y planning status & process - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF) Sean Lee

09:30 Q&A
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:40
Contributions

10:30 Accelerator Science - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

11:00 Physical Sciences - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)

11:30 Life Sciences - Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)

11:50 TRIUMF’s Role in a Canada-Wide Effort to Transform Cancer Therapy with Rare Isotopes - Caterina Ramogida (TRIUMF & Simon Fraser University)

12:10 Discussion
12:40

12:40 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 15:00
Contributions

13:40 Introduction - Kathryn Hayashi (TRIUMF Innovations)

13:45 Sustainable Accelerator Operations - Thomas Roser (BNL)

13:55 Enabling a Green & Sustainable Particle Collider at the Energy Frontier - Marlene Turner

14:05 UBC as a Sustainble Campus - John Madden

14:15 Sustainable Operations of TRIUMF Accelerator Facilities - Thomas Planche (TRIUMF)

14:25 Q&A - Kathryn Hayashi (TRIUMF Innovations)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 16:45
Contributions

15:30 Introduction and Welcome - Andrew Ikeman

15:35 Presentation - Ira Aisaican (Councillor, Cowessess First Nations)

15:45 Linking Science and Indigenous Knowldege - Arzu Sardarli (First Nations University of Canada)

15:55 Presentation - Jana Sasakamoose (First Nations University of Canada and University of Regina)

16:05 Water Monitoring Project - Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)

16:15 Panel Discussion
16:45

16:45 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 Status of TITAN's Penning Trap Upgrades - Annabelle Czihaly (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

17:02 ML-Driven Tuning of Beamlines: Using Bayesian Optimization - Alexander Katrusiak (TRIUMF and Queens University) Defne Tanyer (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

17:04 Rydberg atom field ionizer for low-intensity radioactive isotope beams - Aryan Prasad (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

17:06 Event Reconstruction of an Aerogel Ring-Imaging Cherenkov Detector for the EMPHATIC Hadron Production Experiment - Max Fatouros (TRIUMF and University of Manitoba)

17:08 Segmenting Particle Showers in the ATLAS Detector with PointNet - Jessica Bohm (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

17:10 Flux Trapping in Coaxial Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities - Ruth Gregory (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

17:12 Anomalous electrical transport in frustrated intermetallic YbCuAs2: the role of spin - Mae Abedi (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)

17:14 GNNs on FPGAs for Real-time Particle Reconstruction at the ATLAS Hardware Trigger - Joshua Lerner (TRIUMF and UBC)

17:16 Jet Reconstruction for Future Muon Collider - Khurshid Usmanov (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

17:18 A New Event Analysis Framework for Future Higgs Factories - Josephine Brewster (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

17:20 Development of Diagnostic Procedures for the Investigation of Radiopharmaceuticals In Vitro - Madison Daignault (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University) Meghan Kostashuk (TRIUMF and McMaster University)

17:22 Performance of ATLAS Hadronic End-Cap Calorimeter Electronics Chain Configurations - Denaisha Kraft (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

17:24 Dark Matter from Dark Confinement - Ricky Mizuta (TRIUMF and UBC)

17:26 Development of Muon Spin Imaging Spectroscopy - Takato Sugisaki (TRIUMF and Osaka University and Open-it and KEK)

17:28 Highly charged ion production and their use in nuclear spectroscopy and mass precision measurements - Fernando Alejandro Maldonado Millan (TRIUMF)

17:30 Barium Tagging at TRIUMF as an Upgrade to nEXO - Iroise Casandjian (TRIUMF and McMaster University) Lucas Backes (TRIUMF and McGill University)

17:32 Simulating the CANREB radiofrequency quadrupole cooler-buncher - Paige Harford (TRIUMF)
Thursday, 3 August 2023
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 ARIEL overview talk - Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF)

09:15 The Early Science Program of ARIEL - Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Science opportunities with ARIEL from the theory perspective - Ragnar Stroberg (University of Washington)

10:55 Accelerator Physics and ARIEL - Tobias Junginger (Triumf)

11:15 TRIUMF/VECC collaboration towards ARIEL/ANURIB - Arup Bandyopadhyay (VECC)

11:35 Gamma-ray spectroscopy for nuclear spectroscopy; beta-decay studies in the ARIEL era - Paul Garrett
12:00

12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 14:45
Contributions

13:00 The BeEST - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

13:20 beta-NMR - Andrew McFarlane (TRIUMF)

13:40 Perspectives of collinear laser spectroscopy - Kristian Koenig (ECR)

14:05 FrAg for Fundamental Physics - Alan Jamison (University of Waterloo)

14:25 Discussion
14:45

14:45 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 17:00
Contributions

15:15 Panel: Careers in Industry with a Physics Background

16:00 Small Group Networking with Mentors
17:00

17:00 - 17:30

17:30

17:30 - 20:30
Friday, 4 August 2023
08:30
08:30 - 10:15
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Christian Diget (University of York)

08:40 TRIUMF User's office update - Marcello Pavan (TRIUMF)

09:00 GAPS update - Daniel Yates (TRIUMF) Felix Cormier

09:15 Beam Delivery Update - Carla Babcock (TRIUMF)

09:35 Student Competitions - Winner announcements - Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)

09:45 Q&A and Concluding Remarks - Christian Diget (University of York)
10:15

10:15 - 10:45

10:45

10:45 - 11:15

11:15

11:15 - 13:15

13:30

13:30 - 14:30