Name: WNPPC2026 - 63rd Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference
Start: 2026-02-12T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-02-15T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Banff, Alberta

WNPPC2026 - 63rd Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference

from Thursday, February 12, 2026 (4:00 PM) to Sunday, February 15, 2026 (10:00 PM)

Monday, February 9, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Thursday, February 12, 2026

4:00 PM Registration
Registration
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Introduction
Introduction
7:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
7:15 PM Nuclear structure 1
Nuclear structure 1
7:15 PM - 8:45 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

7:15 PM Fundamental Physics with Ultracold Neutrons at TRIUMF - Noah Yazdandoost (TRIUMF)

7:45 PM Beta-Delayed Charged-Particle Emmission From 20Mg - Sydney Plante (University of Regina)

8:00 PM Lifetime of a muon bound to a light nucleus - Artem Davydov (University of Alberta)

8:15 PM DLC-coated guides for the TUCAN EDM experiment - Abeer Zahra (University of Manitoba)

8:30 PM Development of next generation ultra cold neutron detectors to measure electric dipole moment of neutrons by TUCAN - . TUSHAR (University of Manitoba)
8:45 PM Welcome reception and poster session
Welcome reception and poster session
8:45 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room 305
Friday, February 13, 2026
8:30 AM 0νββ and antimatter
0νββ and antimatter
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:30 AM Towards Demonstrating Magnetic Trapping of Hydrogen in the HAICU Experiment - Filobateer Ghaly

8:45 AM Ab Initio Nuclear Theory for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay - Alex Todd (McGill University)

9:00 AM Antihydrogen detection with the radial time projection chamber in the ALPHA-g antimatter gravity experiment - Daniel Duque

9:15 AM Vacuum Ultraviolet Stability Measurements of Silicon Photomultipliers at Liquid Xenon Temperatures. - Riya Rai (McGill University)

9:30 AM Dory: An Optical Monitoring and Calibration Module for the nEXO Outer Detector - Samin Majidi (McGill University)
9:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM EDI and Neutrino Physics
EDI and Neutrino Physics
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:15 AM EDI in Physics - Rowan Thomson (Carleton University)

10:45 AM Time-Charge HEALPix Direction Reconstruction Fitter for Supernova Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande - Nikolas Boily (University of Regina)

11:00 AM Design and construction of the first P-ONE detector line - Ben Nührenbörger (Simon Fraser University)

11:15 AM Creating accurate optical module models in IceTray for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment - Bennett Winnicky-Lewis (University of Victoria)
11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

5:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
6:30 PM Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Physics
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

6:30 PM How nuclear physics experiments shape our understanding of supernova γ-ray signatures - Thanassis Psaltis (Saint Mary's University)

7:00 PM Inverse kinematics measurement of the 18O(α, γ)22Ne reaction with DRAGON - Dhruval Shah (McMaster University)

7:15 PM Probing the s-process via Indirect Measurement of $^{22}Ne(\alpha, \gamma)^{26}Mg$ Reaction - Mike-Yizhu Qiu (TRIUMF)
7:30 PM Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

7:30 PM A Coincidence Algebra Bundle for Decay Quivers: An Algebraic Approach to Gamma-ray Spectroscopy. - Liam Schmidt (University of Guelph)

7:45 PM Study of Multiple Shape Coexistence in 110Cd - Samantha Lange (University of Guelph)

8:00 PM Evidence for shape coexistence in $^{120}$Sn from the first $0^+_3$ lifetime measurement - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)
8:15 PM Coffee break & posters
Coffee break & posters
8:15 PM - 8:45 PM
8:45 PM Electroweak Physics
Electroweak Physics
8:45 PM - 9:45 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:45 PM Forward Correction for Real-Time Processing of ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Signals - Eli Cohen (McGill University, (CA))

9:00 PM Enhanced Background Modelling and Signal Extraction for Electroweak Zjj Measurements with ATLAS - Ishan Vyas (Carleton University)

9:15 PM Mass Sensitivity Study of Boosted b-jet Reconstruction with Muon-in-Jet Corrections and Regressed Models - Talia Saarinen (University of British Columbia (CA))

9:30 PM Background Systematics in $HH\rightarrow b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ gluon-gluon fusion - Alex Bunka (University of British Columbia)
Saturday, February 14, 2026
8:15 AM QCD
QCD
8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:15 AM GPD Factorization in Pion Electroproduction: PionLT Luminosity Studies - nathan heinrich (Univeristy of Regina)

8:30 AM A New Angle into the Proton: u-Channel Meson Electroproduction - Alicia Postuma

8:45 AM Investigation of the Eta1 exotic meson at GlueX - Harsimran Singh (University of Regina)

9:00 AM Investigating scattering rates in Thermal Field Theory beyond the leading log - Lukas Opitz

9:15 AM Probing Hadron Structure with Exclusive Pion Production Reaction at Jefferson Lab - Muhammad Junaid (University of Regina)

9:30 AM BEAM ASYMMETRY FOR THE γp → η ∆+ REACTION AT GLUEX* - MacQuarrie Thomson (University of Regina)
9:45 AM Group photo
Group photo
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
10:15 AM Dark Matter
Dark Matter
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:15 AM Expanding the Reach of Argon‑Based Dark Matter Searches - Michela Lai (Queen's University)
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:45 AM Semileptonic B meson Tagging with Missing Energy: Performance of Full Event Interpretation Algorithm at Belle II - Pranav Prasad (University of Victoria)

11:00 AM The MOLLER Experiment: Probing Electroweak Dynamics via Parity-Violating Electron Scattering - Brynne Blaikie (University of Manitoba)
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

11:15 AM Determination of matter radii and neutron skin thickness of neutron-rich isotopes ${}^{51,52}$Ca - Divyang Prajapati (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada)
11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

5:30 PM Understanding neutrinos with accelerator beams and liquid argon time-projection chambers: ICARUS and DUNE - Bruce Howard (York University/Fermilab)

6:00 PM Energy Calibration Studies for the Reactor Antineutrino Search at SNO+ - Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

6:15 PM Scintillator Phase Deployment of the ‘Laserball’ Optical Calibration Source in SNO+ - Jamie Grove (Queen's University)

6:30 PM Combining PYTHIA and Geant4 for High-Energy Event Simulation in Neutrino Telescopes - Karen Rodriguez (University of Alberta)

6:45 PM Pion Photoproduction Analysis in the Water Test Cherenkov Experiment (WCTE) - Rituparna Banerjee

7:00 PM βNMR Spectroscopy of Ta films for the BeEST Sterile Neutrino Search - Maisy Willett (TRIUMF)
7:15 PM
7:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

7:15 PM Radiation Shielding Design for the MOLLER Spectrometer Coils at Jefferson Lab - Nazanin Roshanshah
7:30 PM Conference banquet
Conference banquet
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: KC101
Sunday, February 15, 2026
8:30 AM Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Physics
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

8:30 AM Neutron-rich nuclei and neutron-rich stars: a trapped ion’s perspective of the two infinities - David Lunney (CNRS)

9:00 AM Status update on the next-generation Penning-trap mass spectrometry at TITAN - Amelia Greathouse (TRIUMF, McGill)

9:15 AM Toward APNC measurements in Fr: recent progress and ongoing developments at TRIUMF - I. Halilovic (University of Manitoba & TRIUMF)

9:30 AM Investigating Space-Charge Effects in TITAN's Multi-Reflection Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer - Alec Cannon (University of Victoria)

9:45 AM CEDAR Conversion Electron Detection ARray - Jizhong Liu (TRIUMF/UVic)

10:00 AM Systematics and Calibration for the KDK+ experiment - Cameron Ingo (Queen's)
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM Dark Matter
Dark Matter
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:45 AM Nuclear Physics in Liquid Argon with DEAP-3600 - Peter Taylor (Queen's University)

11:00 AM Pushing Boundaries of WIMP Detection with DarkSide-20k - Ryan Curtis (Queen's University)

11:15 AM Updates on the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment - Ezri Wyman (Queen's University)

11:30 AM Dark Matter Search Results from DEAP-3600 - Spencer Haskins, on behalf of the DEAP collaboration (Carleton University)
11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

11:45 AM Determination of point proton radii of neutron-rich nitrogen isotopes - ARITRA ROY (SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
12:00 PM Electroweak physics
Electroweak physics
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

12:00 PM HEP for AI and AI for HEP - Yonatan Kahn (University of Toronto)
12:30 PM Awards and closing
Awards and closing
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)

1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM