Name: Science Week 2024
Start: 2024-07-22T07:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-26T18:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

Science Week 2024

from Monday, July 22, 2024 (7:30 AM) to Friday, July 26, 2024 (6:00 PM)

Monday, July 22, 2024

7:30 AM

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

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

9:15 AM Science week organizational information - Chloé Malbrunot (TRIUMF)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Accelerator Technology for Nuclear Astrophysics - Rene Reifarth (LANL)

10:05 AM TRIUMF 520 MeV Cyclotron Developments: Past, Present and Future - Lige Zhang (TRIUMF)

10:25 AM Novel Applications of TRIUMF’s Accelerated Beams with ASPIRE - Christopher Charles (TRIUMF)
10:45 AM

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:15 AM Production of Alpha Emitting Radionuclides at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Andrew Burgoyne (ORNL)

12:00 PM Development of Ac-225 Chelator - LEE LEE LILY LI (the University of British Columbia)

12:15 PM Production of medical radionuclides with ISAC facility (focus on Ac-226) - Helena Koniar (Life Sciences Division, TRIUMF)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Studying nuclear structure with laser spectroscopy - Kara Lynch (University of Manchester)

2:20 PM The Impact of Oxygen-17 Alpha Captures on the s-Process - Cameron Angus (TRIUMF)

2:40 PM Recent achievements in developing ab initio optical potentials for nuclear reactions - Matteo Vorabbi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Searching for quantum spin liquids & ices with muons - Graeme Luke

3:30 PM muSR studies of rare candidate spin-triplet superconductors wanted for spintronics and quantum computing applications - Jeff Sonier

4:00 PM On the Use of beta-NMR in Studying van der Waals Materials - John Ticknor
4:20 PM

4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM From Vision to Seeing: Tracing the brief history of positron emission tomography in BC and Canada - Thomas Ruth (TRIUMF)
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM The Status and Future of Particle Physics - Isabel Garcia Garcia (University of Washington)

9:15 AM Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with nEXO - Thomas Brunner (McGill)

9:35 AM The SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB - Yan Liu (TRIUMF)

9:55 AM NA62 & PIONEER - Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)
10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:45 AM Overview of TRIUMF EDI landscape - Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)

10:55 AM Engendering Success and Allyship in STEM - Toni Schmader (UBC)

11:35 AM Discussions / Q&A
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:35 PM
Contributions

1:15 PM The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - present and future - Reda Tafirout (TRIUMF)

1:35 PM The Radiochemistry Lab of the Future - P.J.H Scott (U. Michigan)

2:05 PM Quantum Computing in High Energy Physics - Andrea Delgado (ORNL)
2:35 PM
2:35 PM - 3:35 PM
Contributions

2:35 PM Tackling Technological Challenges for the MATHUSLA Detector - Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto)

3:05 PM UCN Program at TRIUMF - Alexis Brossard (TRIUMF)

3:20 PM The HAICU experiment at TRIUMF - Andrea Capra (TRIUMF)
3:35 PM

3:35 PM - 4:05 PM
4:05 PM
4:05 PM - 5:05 PM
Contributions

4:05 PM How to Tell if the Bartender Watered Down Your Liquid Xenon - Pierce Comerford (TRIUMF)

4:10 PM Barium-Tagging and Geant4 - Iroise Casandjian (TRIUMF and McMaster University)

4:15 PM PMT Testing in the PIONEER Experiment - William Chow

4:20 PM Up is Down: Ab-Initio Approaches to Superallowed Beta Decay to Test for New Physics - Ben Scully

4:25 PM Accessing V_ud via nuclear theory - Michael Gennari (TRIUMF)

4:30 PM 3D Particle Flow in the ATLAS Calorimeter: How to Train Your Model - Joshua Himmens ([to update account])

4:35 PM Shining (Dark)Light on Interactions With the Dark Sector - Gabby Gelinas (TRIUMF)

4:40 PM Lending a "Hand," or Rather an Arm. The Synthetic Development of a Four armed, Bifunctional Version of Crown for Optimized Actinium-225 Chelation in Cancer Therapies - Adlih Britton ([to update account])

4:45 PM Comparing the Dose to Circulating Lymphocytes in Conventional and State-of-the-Art Radiation Therapy - Alasdair Holmes (to update account)
5:30 PM

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM 5-y plan - Process and Scenarios - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

9:20 AM Q&A
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM Accelerator Division - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

10:50 AM Life Science Division - Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)

11:10 AM Physical Science Division - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)

11:30 AM Q&A
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:15 PM Particle physics perspective - Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta) Matthias Danninger (Simon Fraser University)

1:30 PM Nuclear physics perspective - Thomas Brunner (McGill)

1:45 PM Life sciences perspective - Hua Yang (TRIUMF)

2:00 PM CMMS perspective - Jeff Sonier

2:15 PM GAPS perspective - Louis Croquette (McGill University)

2:30 PM Alignment of the 5YP with the 20 year vision - Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF)
2:45 PM

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Open mic/town hall
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM AI Meets Antimatter: Unveiling Antihydrogen Annihilation Positions - Ashley Ferreira ([to update account]) Mahip Singh (to update account)

4:31 PM Dynamics of Lithium ions implanted in alpha-quartz - Signy Spencer (to update account)

4:32 PM In-situ Plasma Processing of 1.3 GHz ARIEL Cavities - Daniel Hedji (to update account)

4:33 PM Temperature Measurement of Isotope Production Targets - Grace Dehnel (to update account)

4:34 PM Solid Hydrogen and High Vacuum – Nuclear Physics with IRIS at TRIUMF - Gabriel Gorbet (to update account)

4:35 PM Towards Radioactive Molecular Beams at CANREB - Devon Joseph (to update account)

4:36 PM Resparking the Neutron Lifetime Debate with PENeLOPE - Dinel Anthony (to update account)

4:37 PM An accelerator-driven Ba+ ion source for a future neutrinoless double beta decay search in nEXO - Megan Cvitan (to update account)

4:38 PM ARIES: The New β-Tagging Ancillary Detector at Griffin - Annabelle Grimes (to update account)

4:39 PM Let BOIS Steer the Beam: Bayesian Optimization for Ion Steering - Emma Ghelfi (to update account)

4:40 PM Removing Lensing Effects from Electrostatic Steerers on OLIS beams using BOIS - Alexander Katrusiak (TRIUMF and Queens University)

4:41 PM Tailored RI Beams for DRAGON With Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization - Omar Hassan (to update account)

4:42 PM Pioneering Quality Control in the Era of Targeted Alpha Therapy: A Microfluidic alpha sensor for pharmaceutical development and production - Tahirah DCosta (to update account)

4:43 PM Application of DeepSets Machine Learning in FPGA to Improve the ATLAS L0 Global Trigger for Run4 - Kelvin Leong (to update account)

4:44 PM Investigating TDCs for General Fusion's Time-Of-Flight Neutron Spectrometer - Zeest Fatima (to update account)

4:45 PM Simulating High Energy Particle Calorimeter Interactions Using 4-Partite Quantum-Assisted Variational Autoencoders - Hao Jia (The University of British Columbia)

4:46 PM The Haunted BetaNMR Beamline: Simulating Rogue Electron Emissions - River Tranter-Tiffin (to update account)

4:47 PM Simulation study on optimization of liquid xenon calorimeter for the PIONEER Experiment - Jesus Corral (TRIUMF)

4:48 PM Testing Silicon Photomultipliers for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments - Aileen Zhang (to update account)

4:49 PM Developing atomic manipulation techniques for (anti)hydrogen measurements in ALPHA and HAICU - Alexis Papandreou (to update account)

4:50 PM Tuning Pharmacokinetic Properties of Sulfur-Rich Macrocyclic Chelators for Complexation of Theranostic Meitner-Auger Electron Emitter Mercury-197m/g - Jordanne Burgess (to update account)

4:51 PM Comparing Secondary Cancer Rates between Proton Therapy and Photon Therapy - Peter Dasiukevich (to update account)

4:52 PM Particulate contamination in TRIUMF linear accelerators - Aveen Mahon (to update account)

4:53 PM Implementation of Optical Target Temperature Measurements into ISAC Experiment Control and Data Acquisition Systems (MIDAS and EPICS) - Lucas Backes (TRIUMF and McGill University)

4:54 PM Development of Alpha Spectrometry for Diagnostics of TAT on Cancer Cells in Vitro - Sidney Shapiro (to update account)
Thursday, July 25, 2024
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Reflections on first beam at TRIUMF and Delivering In-kind equipment to CERN - Ewart Blackmore (TRIUMF)

9:00 AM The TRIUMF/CERN collaboration - Lyn Evans

9:30 AM Early Science at TRIUMF and Emerging Themes - Jean-Michel Poutissou (triumf)
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Integrating Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Western Sciences
Integrating Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Western Sciences
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM Welcome & Introductions - Andrew Ikeman

10:40 AM Weaving Indigenous Knowledge with Mainstream Science using Canada’s Synchrotron - Dallas Pelly (Canadian Light Source)

11:25 AM TRIUMF's Indigenous Engagement Roadmap - Andrew Ikeman

11:45 AM Q&A - Andrew Ikeman Dallas Pelly (Canadian Light Source)
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:10 PM
1:10 PM
1:10 PM - 2:25 PM
Contributions

1:10 PM The Role of Policy, Business, and Technology in the Decarbonization Challenge: From the Global to the Local (Laboratory) Scale - Sara Hastings-Simon (University of Calgary)

1:55 PM Results of mobility survey and discussions - Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:30 PM Career Panel
Emerging versus System Development
Emerging versus System Development
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: MOB Conference room
Contributions

2:30 PM Early Photon Detector R&D for Particle Physics and Beyond - Harry Lewis (TRIUMF)

2:50 PM ATLAS ITk strip detector – R&D and integration - Chen Jiayi (SFU)

3:10 PM mPMT - multi-PMT integration into detection unit for Hyper-K and beyond - Mark Hartz (TRIUMF/Kavli IPMU (WPI), University of Tokyo)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Theory Room
Contributions

2:30 PM Recent BC legislative changes affecting Professional Engineering practices - Bill Richert (TRIUMF)

3:10 PM Q&A
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM
3:55 PM
3:55 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

3:55 PM Speed Mentoring
Panel discussion: Balancing Pros and Cons
Panel discussion: Balancing Pros and Cons
3:55 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: MOB Conference room
Contributions

3:55 PM Panel discussion - Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF) William Trischuk (U. Toronto) Zisis Papendreou (U. Regina)
3:55 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: Theory room
Contributions

3:55 PM Lessons learned from Project management of a novel and complex project - Christopher Gibson (TRIUMF)

4:35 PM Q&A
4:55 PM

4:55 PM - 5:10 PM

5:10 PM

5:10 PM - 9:40 PM
Friday, July 26, 2024
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Introduction - Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)

8:45 AM TRIUMF User's office update - Marcello Pavan (TRIUMF)

9:05 AM Beam delivery update - Carla Babcock (TRIUMF)

9:25 AM GAPS update - Christopher Chambers (TRIUMF)

9:40 AM Q&A with Nigel - Additional feedback to 5YP and Concluding Remarks - Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Concluding remarks from TRIUMF's director - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

10:20 AM Concluding remarks from SW LOC - Chloé Malbrunot (TRIUMF)
10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM CV / Resume Writing - Academic perspective - Maximilian Swiatlowski (TRIUMF)

11:30 AM CV / Resume Writing - Industry perspective - Alex Verdecchia

12:00 PM Personalized feedback on Resume/CVs
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

1:15 PM

1:15 PM - 4:15 PM