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, July 31, 2023 (7:55 a.m.) to Friday, August 4, 2023 (6:00 p.m.)

Monday, July 31, 2023
8:30 a.m. Welcome session
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Welcome & Introduction from TRIUMF Executive Director & CEO, Nigel Smith - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

9:15 a.m. Science week organizational information - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF) Stephanie Diana Rädel (TRIUMF)
9:30 a.m. Accelerator Science
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Contributions

9:30 a.m. The Feasibility of Future Colliders - Thomas Roser (BNL)

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

10:25 a.m. Beam Physics at TRIUMF - Hui Wen (TRIUMF)
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
11:15 a.m. Life Sciences
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Contributions

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

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

11:55 a.m. Radiochemistry & preclinical work - Hua Yang (TRIUMF)
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
1:15 p.m. Nuclear Physics
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Contributions

1:15 p.m. Making the heaviest elements in astrophysics - Nicole Vassh (TRIUMF)

1:50 p.m. Recent results from the mass spectrometer EMMA at TRIUMF - Louis Wagner (TRIUMF)

2:10 p.m. MR-TOF-MS for yield and mass measurements during the p2n target commissioning - Ali Mollaebrahimi (University of Giessen and TRIUMF)
2:30 p.m. Quantum Materials / Molecular and Materials Science
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Contributions

2:30 p.m. Muon-spin rotation/relaxation under hydrostatic pressure: outlook and perspectives - Rustem Khasanov (PSI)

3:00 p.m. Elemental analysis with muonic x-rays and μ±SR for a Li-ion battery - Izumi Umegaki (KEK)
3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m. Welcome Reception

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
8:30 a.m. Particle Physics
8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Contributions

8:30 a.m. The Status and Future of Particle Physics - Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)

9:15 a.m. ALPHA-g and HAICU: Antimatter Science at TRIUMF - Chukman So (TRIUMF)

9:35 a.m. Status of the Hyper-Kamiokande Project - Xiaoyue Li

9:55 a.m. ATLAS experiment - status and overview - Marco Valente (TRIUMF)
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

10:45 a.m. EDI workshop

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Scientific Computing
1:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Contributions

1:00 p.m. Machine learning and nuclear physics, challenges and opportunities - Morten Hjorth-Jensen (MSU)

1:30 p.m. Quantum-Assisted Machine Learning for ATLAS - Tiago Vale (SFU)

1:50 p.m. Machine learning for beam tuning - Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF)
2:10 p.m. Science & Technology
2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Contributions

2:10 p.m. Department overview - Nigel Hessey (TRIUMF)

2:40 p.m. LGADs for Particle Physics - Simone Michele Mazza (UC Santa Cruz)
3:10 p.m. Coffee Break

3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
3:40 p.m. Student competition
3:40 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Contributions

3:45 p.m. The Regina Cube for Multiple Particles (RCMP) - Cameron Shenton

3:50 p.m. Cracking the Calcium Conundrum: Exploring Discrepancies between Observations and Computational Models of Novae - Mallory Loria

3:55 p.m. CTCTCTCTM (Ciaran and Tobias' Cryogenic Tests for Characterizing Tenacious Charge Trapping and More) - Ciaran McDonald-Jensen Tobias Faehndrich

4:00 p.m. Electron-Gamma Separation in Water Cherenkov Detectors - Igal Press

4:05 p.m. Can temperature-dependent radioactive clocks tell us where the solar system came from? - Guy Leckenby

4:10 p.m. Water Monitoring System for Water Cherenkov Detectors - Sahar Taghayor

4:15 p.m. No need to wait for years anymore: there is a new (MM-D)GP in town - Antoine Belley

4:20 p.m. Surrogate Reactions to Constrain Neutron Capture Cross Sections - Daniel Yates

4:25 p.m. ML-Driven Tuning of Beamlines using Bayesian Optimization - Defne Tanyer

4:30 p.m. Collinear Laser Spectroscopy performed in a 30 keV MR-ToF device - Louis Croquette
6:00 p.m. TRIUMF soccer tournament

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
8:30 a.m. 5-year plan
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Contributions

8:30 a.m. 5-y planning status & process - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF) Sean Lee

9:30 a.m. Q&A
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. 5-y planning - Updates from Divisions
10:30 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.
Contributions

10:30 a.m. Accelerator Science - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

11:00 a.m. Physical Sciences - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)

11:30 a.m. Life Sciences - Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)

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

12:10 p.m. Discussion
12:40 p.m. Lunch Break

12:40 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
1:40 p.m. "Reducing our environmental impact" - Panel discussion
1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Contributions

1:40 p.m. Introduction - Kathryn Hayashi (TRIUMF Innovations)

1:45 p.m. Sustainable Accelerator Operations - Thomas Roser (BNL)

1:55 p.m. Enabling a Green & Sustainable Particle Collider at the Energy Frontier - Marlene Turner

2:05 p.m. UBC as a Sustainble Campus - John Madden

2:15 p.m. Sustainable Operations of TRIUMF Accelerator Facilities - Thomas Planche (TRIUMF)

2:25 p.m. Q&A - Kathryn Hayashi (TRIUMF Innovations)
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. Collaborating with Indigenous Communities for Water Quality Monitoring
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Contributions

3:30 p.m. Introduction and Welcome - Andrew Ikeman

3:35 p.m. Presentation - Ira Aisaican (Councillor, Cowessess First Nations)

3:45 p.m. Linking Science and Indigenous Knowldege - Arzu Sardarli (First Nations University of Canada)

3:55 p.m. Presentation - Jana Sasakamoose (First Nations University of Canada and University of Regina)

4:05 p.m. Water Monitoring Project - Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)

4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
4:45 p.m. Break

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. Poster Session
5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Contributions

5:00 p.m. Status of TITAN's Penning Trap Upgrades - Annabelle Czihaly (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

5:02 p.m. ML-Driven Tuning of Beamlines: Using Bayesian Optimization - Alexander Katrusiak (TRIUMF and Queens University) Defne Tanyer (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

5:04 p.m. Rydberg atom field ionizer for low-intensity radioactive isotope beams - Aryan Prasad (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

5:06 p.m. Event Reconstruction of an Aerogel Ring-Imaging Cherenkov Detector for the EMPHATIC Hadron Production Experiment - Max Fatouros (TRIUMF and University of Manitoba)

5:08 p.m. Segmenting Particle Showers in the ATLAS Detector with PointNet - Jessica Bohm (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

5:10 p.m. Flux Trapping in Coaxial Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities - Ruth Gregory (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

5:12 p.m. Anomalous electrical transport in frustrated intermetallic YbCuAs2: the role of spin - Mae Abedi (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)

5:14 p.m. GNNs on FPGAs for Real-time Particle Reconstruction at the ATLAS Hardware Trigger - Joshua Lerner (TRIUMF and UBC)

5:16 p.m. Jet Reconstruction for Future Muon Collider - Khurshid Usmanov (TRIUMF and University of Waterloo)

5:18 p.m. A New Event Analysis Framework for Future Higgs Factories - Josephine Brewster (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

5:20 p.m. Development of Diagnostic Procedures for the Investigation of Radiopharmaceuticals In Vitro - Madison Daignault (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University) Meghan Kostashuk (TRIUMF and McMaster University)

5:22 p.m. Performance of ATLAS Hadronic End-Cap Calorimeter Electronics Chain Configurations - Denaisha Kraft (TRIUMF and University of Victoria)

5:24 p.m. Dark Matter from Dark Confinement - Ricky Mizuta (TRIUMF and UBC)

5:26 p.m. Development of Muon Spin Imaging Spectroscopy - Takato Sugisaki (TRIUMF and Osaka University and Open-it and KEK)

5:28 p.m. Highly charged ion production and their use in nuclear spectroscopy and mass precision measurements - Fernando Alejandro Maldonado Millan (TRIUMF)

5:30 p.m. Barium Tagging at TRIUMF as an Upgrade to nEXO - Iroise Casandjian (TRIUMF and McMaster University) Lucas Backes (TRIUMF and McGill University)

5:32 p.m. Simulating the CANREB radiofrequency quadrupole cooler-buncher - Paige Harford (TRIUMF)
Thursday, August 3, 2023
8:30 a.m. ARIEL Status & facilities overview
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Contributions

8:30 a.m. ARIEL overview talk - Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF)

9:15 a.m. The Early Science Program of ARIEL - Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. Science with ARIEL
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Contributions

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

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

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

11:35 a.m. Gamma-ray spectroscopy for nuclear spectroscopy; beta-decay studies in the ARIEL era - Paul Garrett
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Science with ARIEL
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Contributions

1:00 p.m. The BeEST - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

1:20 p.m. beta-NMR - Andrew McFarlane (TRIUMF)

1:40 p.m. Perspectives of collinear laser spectroscopy - Kristian Koenig (ECR)

2:05 p.m. FrAg for Fundamental Physics - Alan Jamison (University of Waterloo)

2:25 p.m. Discussion
2:45 p.m. Coffee Break

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m. Early Career Networking Event
3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Contributions

3:15 p.m. Panel: Careers in Industry with a Physics Background

4:00 p.m. Small Group Networking with Mentors
5:00 p.m. Break

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

5:30 p.m. BBQ / summer festival at UBC farms

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Friday, August 4, 2023
8:30 a.m. TRIUMF User's Group AGM
8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Contributions

8:30 a.m. Welcome - Christian Diget (University of York)

8:40 a.m. TRIUMF User's office update - Marcello Pavan (TRIUMF)

9:00 a.m. GAPS update - Daniel Yates (TRIUMF) Felix Cormier

9:15 a.m. Beam Delivery Update - Carla Babcock (TRIUMF)

9:35 a.m. Student Competitions - Winner announcements - Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)

9:45 a.m. Q&A and Concluding Remarks - Christian Diget (University of York)
10:15 a.m. Concluding remarks

10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

11:15 a.m. Early Career Researchers Workshop

11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

1:30 p.m. TRIUMF/ARIEL Tour (optional)

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

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