Name: Science Week - 2019
Start: 2019-08-19T07:00:00-07:00
End: 2019-08-23T18:00:00-07:00
Location: TRIUMF

Science Week - 2019

from Monday, August 19, 2019 (7:00 AM) to Friday, August 23, 2019 (6:00 PM)

Monday, August 19, 2019

8:15 AM Welcome and IAMI introduction
Welcome and IAMI introduction
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Auditorium

8:30 AM Radiochemsitry 101 - Introduction to Nuclear Medicine
Radiochemsitry 101 - Introduction to Nuclear Medicine
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Auditorium

9:15 AM From target to tracer
From target to tracer
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Auditorium

10:00 AM Radiotherapy - different treatments
Radiotherapy - different treatments
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Cyclotron production of Ga-68 and Zr-89 using pressed targets
Cyclotron production of Ga-68 and Zr-89 using pressed targets
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Auditorium

11:45 AM Targeted radionuclide therapy for cancer and infections
Targeted radionuclide therapy for cancer and infections
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Radiochemistry labs

Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium

3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Radiochemistry labs

Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

10:20 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Auditorium

3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Auditorium
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
8:30 AM Session 1: co-chair Gordon Ball/Rick Baartman
Session 1: co-chair Gordon Ball/Rick Baartman
8:30 AM - 10:05 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

8:35 AM Introduction - Gordon Ball (TRIUMF)

8:45 AM ISAC RIB Production Systems and target development - Pierre Bricault

9:05 AM ISAC Source Development - Jens Lassen (TRIUMF)

9:25 AM ISAC Linear Accelerators - Robert Laxdal (TRIUMF)

9:45 AM Application of ISAC facility for production of medical radionuclides: past, present and future perspectives - Valery Radchenko (TRIUMF)
10:05 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Auditorium
10:35 AM Session 2: co-chair Kyle Leach/Alan Shotter
Session 2: co-chair Kyle Leach/Alan Shotter
10:35 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:35 AM Angular correlation measurements at ISAC: using the atomic nucleus to search for BSM physics for 20 yrs - Dan Melconian

10:55 AM Superallowed Fermi Beta Decay: Two decades of fundamental research at ISAC - Gwen Grinyer (University of Regina)

11:15 AM Early Days of beta-NMR at TRIUMF - Rob Kiefl (TRIUMF and UBC)

11:35 AM ISAC’s continuing mission to explore the stars - Alison Laird (York University)

12:05 PM Twenty+ years of ab initio nuclear theory - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Auditorium
1:45 PM Session 3: co-chair Corina Andreoiu/Andrew MacFarlane
Session 3: co-chair Corina Andreoiu/Andrew MacFarlane
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

1:45 PM Unmasking nuclear halo features with two decades of ISOL beams at TRIUMF - Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)

2:10 PM Nuclear shapes, coexistence and collective behaviors studied at ISAC - Adam Garnsworthy (TRIUMF)

2:35 PM Indirect studies of astrophysics around the Coulomb barrier - Barry Davids (TRIUMF)

2:55 PM From structural distortions to weak magnetism - exploring the capabilities of beta-NMR - Zaher Salman
3:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Auditorium
3:45 PM Session 4: co-chair Greg Hackman/Dennis Muecher
Session 4: co-chair Greg Hackman/Dennis Muecher
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

3:45 PM Pushing the limits: Towards the neutron drip line with ISAC - Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF)

4:10 PM The Emergence of nuclear-shell-model studies at ISAC - Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)

4:35 PM Francium: Uranium and hydrogen baked into one - Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)

4:55 PM Advances in beta-NMR @ ISAC - Sarah Dunsiger (TRIUMF)

5:15 PM Symposium Summary - Alan Shotter
5:45 PM

5:45 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, August 22, 2019
8:30 AM Introduction and Welcome
Introduction and Welcome
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

8:35 AM Introduction - Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)

8:45 AM Physical Sciences Division Report - Jens Dilling (TRIUMF)

9:10 AM Life Sciences Division Report - Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)

9:35 AM Accelerator Division Report - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

10:00 AM Update to TRIUMF Governance - Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

10:15 AM Update to TRIUMF Org Chart - Anne Louise Aboud (TRIUMF)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM TUG AGM
TUG AGM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM TRIUMF Users Office - Marcello Pavan (TRIUMF)

11:15 AM Beam time planning for 2020 - Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF)

11:40 AM Q&A with TRIUMF Management
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM TUG AGM
TUG AGM
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM New electron gun for the TITAN-EBIT (Student Prize Talk) - Kilian Dietrich (TRIUMF)

1:45 PM TUG Poster Slam!
3:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
4:00 PM TUG AGM
TUG AGM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:00 PM Ab initio predictions of light nuclei - Anna McCoy

4:15 PM Range Verification in Proton Therapy using a Tumor Marker and Gamma Ray Spectroscopy - Dennis Muecher

4:30 PM Current-Induced Non-Magnetic State in Mott Insulator Ca2RuO4 - Graeme Luke

4:45 PM ALPHA, the Trapped Antihydrogen Experiment: Status and Prospects - Andrea Capra

5:00 PM TUG News and Information - Gwen Grinyer (University of Regina)

5:15 PM Student Prize Announcements
Friday, August 23, 2019
8:30 AM Hands-on Session: Machine Learning
Hands-on Session: Machine Learning
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Hands on Machine Learning session - Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Auditorium
11:00 AM Hands-on Session: Quantum Computing
Hands-on Session: Quantum Computing
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Hands-on Session: Developing Quantum Applications in Q# - Christopher Granade (Microsoft)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Deep Learning Applications to Medical Imaging - Ghassan Hamarneh

2:00 PM Quantum Variational Autoencoders and their applications - Hossein Sadeghi (D-Wave)

2:30 PM Enhancing quantum simulators with neural networks - Giacomo Torlai (Flatiron Institute)

3:00 PM Quantum Algorithms for Solving Dynamic Programming Problems - Pooya Ronagh (1QBit, IQC, UW)
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:00 PM Projects at TRIUMF - Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF)

4:03 PM Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) for water Cherenkov detectors - Abhishek Kajal (TRIUMF/University of Manitoba)

4:21 PM Extrapolating Nuclear Many-Body Calculations with Constrained Gaussian Processes - Peter Gysbers

4:40 PM Expressive Structured Representations in Deep Generative Models - Andreas Lehrmann

5:05 PM Solving Technological Challenges with the Fujitsu Digital Annealer - Jeffrey English (Fujitsu) Tadayoshi Ozaki (Fujitsu)