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, 19 August 2019 (07:00) to Friday, 23 August 2019 (18:00)

Monday, 19 August 2019

08:15 Welcome and IAMI introduction
Welcome and IAMI introduction
08:15 - 08:30
Room: Auditorium

08:30 Radiochemsitry 101 - Introduction to Nuclear Medicine
Radiochemsitry 101 - Introduction to Nuclear Medicine
08:30 - 09:15
Room: Auditorium

09:15 From target to tracer
From target to tracer
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium

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

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

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

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

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Radiochemistry labs

Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium

15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
Hands on Lab Session and Outreach Workshop (Students only)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Radiochemistry labs

Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
Outreach computing session - bring your own laptop
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
Tuesday, 20 August 2019

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

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium

15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: Auditorium
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
08:30 Session 1: co-chair Gordon Ball/Rick Baartman
Session 1: co-chair Gordon Ball/Rick Baartman
08:30 - 10:05
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

08:35 Introduction - Gordon Ball (TRIUMF)

08:45 ISAC RIB Production Systems and target development - Pierre Bricault

09:05 ISAC Source Development - Jens Lassen (TRIUMF)

09:25 ISAC Linear Accelerators - Robert Laxdal (TRIUMF)

09:45 Application of ISAC facility for production of medical radionuclides: past, present and future perspectives - Valery Radchenko (TRIUMF)
10:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:35
Room: Auditorium
10:35 Session 2: co-chair Kyle Leach/Alan Shotter
Session 2: co-chair Kyle Leach/Alan Shotter
10:35 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:05 Twenty+ years of ab initio nuclear theory - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
Room: Auditorium
13:45 Session 3: co-chair Corina Andreoiu/Andrew MacFarlane
Session 3: co-chair Corina Andreoiu/Andrew MacFarlane
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:45 Unmasking nuclear halo features with two decades of ISOL beams at TRIUMF - Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)

14:10 Nuclear shapes, coexistence and collective behaviors studied at ISAC - Adam Garnsworthy (TRIUMF)

14:35 Indirect studies of astrophysics around the Coulomb barrier - Barry Davids (TRIUMF)

14:55 From structural distortions to weak magnetism - exploring the capabilities of beta-NMR - Zaher Salman
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Auditorium
15:45 Session 4: co-chair Greg Hackman/Dennis Muecher
Session 4: co-chair Greg Hackman/Dennis Muecher
15:45 - 17:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:45 Pushing the limits: Towards the neutron drip line with ISAC - Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF)

16:10 The Emergence of nuclear-shell-model studies at ISAC - Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)

16:35 Francium: Uranium and hydrogen baked into one - Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)

16:55 Advances in beta-NMR @ ISAC - Sarah Dunsiger (TRIUMF)

17:15 Symposium Summary - Alan Shotter
17:45

17:45 - 20:30
Thursday, 22 August 2019
08:30 Introduction and Welcome
Introduction and Welcome
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)

08:35 Introduction - Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF)

08:45 Physical Sciences Division Report - Jens Dilling (TRIUMF)

09:10 Life Sciences Division Report - Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)

09:35 Accelerator Division Report - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

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

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

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

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

11:40 Q&A with TRIUMF Management
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 TUG AGM
TUG AGM
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 New electron gun for the TITAN-EBIT (Student Prize Talk) - Kilian Dietrich (TRIUMF)

13:45 TUG Poster Slam!
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
16:00 TUG AGM
TUG AGM
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Ab initio predictions of light nuclei - Anna McCoy

16:15 Range Verification in Proton Therapy using a Tumor Marker and Gamma Ray Spectroscopy - Dennis Muecher

16:30 Current-Induced Non-Magnetic State in Mott Insulator Ca2RuO4 - Graeme Luke

16:45 ALPHA, the Trapped Antihydrogen Experiment: Status and Prospects - Andrea Capra

17:00 TUG News and Information - Gwen Grinyer (University of Regina)

17:15 Student Prize Announcements
Friday, 23 August 2019
08:30 Hands-on Session: Machine Learning
Hands-on Session: Machine Learning
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Hands on Machine Learning session - Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
11:00 Hands-on Session: Quantum Computing
Hands-on Session: Quantum Computing
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Hands-on Session: Developing Quantum Applications in Q# - Christopher Granade (Microsoft)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Deep Learning Applications to Medical Imaging - Ghassan Hamarneh

14:00 Quantum Variational Autoencoders and their applications - Hossein Sadeghi (D-Wave)

14:30 Enhancing quantum simulators with neural networks - Giacomo Torlai (Flatiron Institute)

15:00 Quantum Algorithms for Solving Dynamic Programming Problems - Pooya Ronagh (1QBit, IQC, UW)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Projects at TRIUMF - Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF)

16:03 Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) for water Cherenkov detectors - Abhishek Kajal (TRIUMF/University of Manitoba)

16:21 Extrapolating Nuclear Many-Body Calculations with Constrained Gaussian Processes - Peter Gysbers

16:40 Expressive Structured Representations in Deep Generative Models - Andreas Lehrmann

17:05 Solving Technological Challenges with the Fujitsu Digital Annealer - Jeffrey English (Fujitsu) Tadayoshi Ozaki (Fujitsu)