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, 12 February 2026 (16:00) to Sunday, 15 February 2026 (22:00)

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

16:00 Registration
Registration
16:00 - 17:00

17:30 Dinner
Dinner
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 Introduction
Introduction
18:30 - 18:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
18:45 Nuclear structure 1
Nuclear structure 1
18:45 - 20:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

18:45 Fundamental Physics with Ultracold Neutrons at TRIUMF - Noah Yazdandoost (TRIUMF)

19:15 Beta-Delayed Charged-Particle Emmission From 20Mg - Sydney Plante (University of Regina)

19:30 A Coincidence Algebra Bundle for Decay Quivers: An Algebraic Approach to Gamma-ray Spectroscopy. - Liam Schmidt (University of Guelph)

19:45 DLC-coated guides for the TUCAN EDM experiment - Abeer Zahra (University of Manitoba)

20:00 Investigating Space-Charge Effects in TITAN's Multi-Reflection Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer - Alec Cannon (University of Victoria)

20:15 Determination of matter radii and neutron skin thickness of neutron-rich isotopes ${}^{51,52}$Ca - Divyang Prajapati (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada)
20:30 Welcome reception and poster session
Welcome reception and poster session
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room 305
Friday, 13 February 2026
08:30 Electroweak Physics
Electroweak Physics
08:30 - 09:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

08:30 HEP for AI and AI for HEP - Yonatan Kahn (University of Toronto)

09:00 Semileptonic B meson Tagging with Missing Energy: Performance of Full Event Interpretation Algorithm at Belle II - Pranav Prasad (University of Victoria)

09:15 The MOLLER Experiment: Probing Electroweak Dynamics via Parity-Violating Electron Scattering - Brynne Blaikie (University of Manitoba)

09:30 Radiation Shielding Design for the MOLLER Spectrometer Coils at Jefferson Lab - Nazanin Roshanshah
09:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:45 - 10:15
10:15 EDI and Neutrino Physics
EDI and Neutrino Physics
10:15 - 11:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

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

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

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

11:15 Creating accurate optical module models in IceTray for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment - Bennett Winnicky-Lewis (University of Victoria)
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 12:30
17:30 Electroweak Physics
Electroweak Physics
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

17:30 Forward Correction for Real-Time Processing of ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Signals - Eli Cohen (McGill University, (CA))

17:45 Enhanced Background Modelling and Signal Extraction for Electroweak Zjj Measurements with ATLAS - Ishan Vyas (Carleton University)

18:00 Mass Sensitivity Study of Boosted b-jet Reconstruction with Muon-in-Jet Corrections and Regressed Models - Talia Saarinen (University of British Columbia (CA))

18:15 Background Systematics in $HH\rightarrow b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ gluon-gluon fusion - Alex Bunka (University of British Columbia)
18:30 Dinner
Dinner
18:30 - 19:30
19:30 Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Physics
19:30 - 20:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

19:30 How nuclear physics experiments shape our understanding of supernova γ-ray signatures - Thanassis Psaltis (Saint Mary's University)

20:00 Status update on the next-generation Penning-trap mass spectrometry at TITAN - Amelia Greathouse (TRIUMF, McGill)

20:15 Toward APNC measurements in Fr: recent progress and ongoing developments at TRIUMF - I. Halilovic (University of Manitoba & TRIUMF)

20:30 Lifetime of a muon bound to a light nucleus - Artem Davydov (University of Alberta)
20:45 Coffee break & posters
Coffee break & posters
20:45 - 21:15
21:15 Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure
21:15 - 22:00
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

21:15 Determination of point proton radii of neutron-rich nitrogen isotopes - ARITRA ROY (SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)

21:30 Study of Multiple Shape Coexistence in 110Cd - Samantha Lange (University of Guelph)

21:45 Evidence for shape coexistence in $^{120}$Sn from the first $0^+_3$ lifetime measurement - Frank (Tongan) Wu (Simon Fraser University)
Saturday, 14 February 2026
08:15 QCD
QCD
08:15 - 09:45
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

08:15 GPD Factorization in Pion Electroproduction: PionLT Luminosity Studies - nathan heinrich (Univeristy of Regina)

08:30 A New Angle into the Proton: u-Channel Meson Electroproduction - Alicia Postuma

08:45 Investigation of the Eta1 exotic meson at GlueX - Harsimran Singh (University of Regina)

09:00 Investigating scattering rates in Thermal Field Theory beyond the leading log - Lukas Opitz

09:15 Probing Hadron Structure with Exclusive Pion Production Reaction at Jefferson Lab - Muhammad Junaid (University of Regina)

09:30 BEAM ASYMMETRY FOR THE γp → η ∆+ REACTION AT GLUEX* - MacQuarrie Thomson (University of Regina)
09:45 Group photo
Group photo
09:45 - 10:00

10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:15
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
10:15 0νββ and antimatter
0νββ and antimatter
10:15 - 11:30
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

10:15 Towards Demonstrating Magnetic Trapping of Hydrogen in the HAICU Experiment - Filobateer Ghaly

10:30 Antihydrogen detection with the radial time projection chamber in the ALPHA-g antimatter gravity experiment - Daniel Duque

10:45 Ab Initio Nuclear Theory for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay - Alex Todd (McGill University)

11:00 Vacuum Ultraviolet Stability Measurements of Silicon Photomultipliers at Liquid Xenon Temperatures. - Riya Rai (McGill University)

11:15 Dory: An Optical Monitoring and Calibration Module for the nEXO Outer Detector - Samin Majidi (McGill University)
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 12:30
17:30
17:30 - 19:15
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

17:30 Understanding neutrinos with accelerator beams and liquid argon time-projection chambers: ICARUS and DUNE - Bruce Howard (York University/Fermilab)

18:00 Energy Calibration Studies for the Reactor Antineutrino Search at SNO+ - Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

18:15 Scintillator Phase Deployment of the ‘Laserball’ Optical Calibration Source in SNO+ - Jamie Grove (Queen's University)

18:30 Combining PYTHIA and Geant4 for High-Energy Event Simulation in Neutrino Telescopes - Karen Rodriguez (University of Alberta)

18:45 Pion Photoproduction Analysis in the Water Test Cherenkov Experiment (WCTE) - Rituparna Banerjee

19:00 βNMR Spectroscopy of Ta films for the BeEST Sterile Neutrino Search - Maisy Willett (TRIUMF)
19:15 Conference banquet
Conference banquet
19:15 - 21:15
Sunday, 15 February 2026
08:30 Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Physics
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

08:30 Neutron-rich nuclei and neutron-rich stars: a trapped ion’s perspective of the two infinities - David Lunney (CNRS)

09:00 CEDAR Conversion Electron Detection ARray - Jizhong Liu (TRIUMF/UVic)

09:15 Development of next generation ultra cold neutron detectors to measure electric dipole moment of neutrons by TUCAN - . TUSHAR (University of Manitoba)

09:30 Probing the s-process via Indirect Measurement of $^{22}Ne(\alpha, \gamma)^{26}Mg$ Reaction - Mike-Yizhu Qiu (TRIUMF)

09:45 Systematics and Calibration for the KDK+ experiment - Cameron Ingo (Queen's)

10:00 Inverse kinematics measurement of the 18O(α, γ)22Ne reaction with DRAGON - Dhruval Shah (McMaster University)
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Dark Matter
Dark Matter
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)
Contributions

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

11:00 Expanding the Reach of Argon‑Based Dark Matter Searches - Michela Lai (Queen's University)

11:30 Pushing Boundaries of WIMP Detection with DarkSide-20k - Ryan Curtis (Queen's University)

11:45 Updates on the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment - Ezri Wyman (Queen's University)

12:00 Dark Matter Search Results from DEAP-3600 - Spencer Haskins, on behalf of the DEAP collaboration (Carleton University)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:15

13:30 Awards and closing
Awards and closing
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)