2026 TRIUMF-KEK Symposium

America/Vancouver
    • 9:00 a.m. 9:20 a.m.
      Pick up from TRIUMF House 20m

      There will be two shuttles at 9:00 am departing TRIUMF House.
      If needed, will return to pick up additional participants at 9:15 am.

    • 9:30 a.m. 10:15 a.m.
      Welcome
      • 9:30 a.m.
        Symposium Opening 10m
      • 9:40 a.m.
        TRIUMF Update 15m
        Speaker: Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)
      • 9:55 a.m.
        KEK Update 15m
    • 10:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m.
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 10:30 a.m. 10:50 a.m.
      New TRIUMF Facilty: ARIEL
      • 10:30 a.m.
        ARIEL 20m
        Speaker: Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)
    • 10:50 a.m. 12:10 p.m.
      Hyper Kamiokande
      • 10:50 a.m.
        HK Project Status and Near Site Activities 20m
        Speaker: Takashi Kobayashi (KEK)
      • 11:10 a.m.
        IWCD Overview, Status and TRIUMF/Canadian Contributions 20m
        Speaker: Mark Hartz (TRIUMF)
      • 11:30 a.m.
        IWCD Design and Construction Status 20m
        Speaker: Ryosuke Akutsu (KEK)
      • 11:50 a.m.
        KEK/TRIUMF Collaboration for Hyper-K Construction and Operation 20m
        Speaker: Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)
    • 12:20 p.m. 1:30 p.m.
      Lunch (invite only) 1h 10m
    • 1:30 p.m. 2:10 p.m.
      Accelerator Developments
      • 1:30 p.m.
        Status of ILC Technology Network 20m
        Speaker: Hiroshi Sakai (KEK)
      • 1:50 p.m.
        High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets 20m
        Speaker: Thomas Planche (TRIUMF)
    • 2:10 p.m. 3:10 p.m.
      Quantum
      • 2:10 p.m.
        QUP: the hub of KEK’s quantum strategy 20m
        Speaker: Toshiyuki Azuma (QUP)
      • 2:30 p.m.
        Makoto Fujiwara 20m
        Speaker: Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)
      • 2:50 p.m.
        Yu Oishi 20m
        Speaker: Yu Oishi (KEK)
    • 3:10 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 3:30 p.m. 4:10 p.m.
      Ultra-Cold Neutrons: UCN
      • 3:30 p.m.
        Towards a Measurement of the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment with TUCAN 20m
        Speaker: Noah Yazdandoost (TRIUMF)
      • 3:50 p.m.
        The TUCAN Source Commissioning and First Results 20m
        Speaker: Shinsuke Kawasaki (KEK)
    • 4:10 p.m. 4:50 p.m.
      Belle-II
      • 4:10 p.m.
        Status and upgrade plan of SuperKEKB/Belle II 20m
        Speaker: Kodai Matsuoka (KEK)
      • 4:30 p.m.
        Tom Blake 20m
        Speaker: Thomas Blake (University of Victoria)
    • 4:50 p.m. 5:10 p.m.
      KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS)
      • 4:50 p.m.
        Nuclear Spectroscopy at KISS/KISS-1.5 20m
        Speaker: Yoshikazu Hirayama (KEK)
    • 5:10 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
      Material Science
      • 5:10 p.m.
        CMMS activities, focused on muon imaging and muonic X-ray analysis 20m
        Speaker: Kenji Kojima (TRUIMF)
    • 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
      Dinner

      Invitation only

    • 8:30 a.m. 8:50 a.m.
      Pick up from TRIUMF House 20m

      There will be two shuttles at 8:30 am departing TRIUMF House.
      If needed, will return to pick up additional participants at 8:45 am.

    • 9:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
      Tour

      Cyclotron Vault
      E-Linac
      ARIEL

    • 11:15 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
      Strategic Session

      Invitation only

    • 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.
      Lunch (invite only) 1h
    • 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
      EPECR Talks
      • 1:30 p.m.
        Ultracold neutron handling and storage, test at J-PARC and world leading experiment at TRIUMF. 15m
        Speaker: Alexis Brossard (TRIUMF)
      • 1:45 p.m.
        Muon-beam validation for pion measurements in WCTE 15m
        Speaker: Ryotaro Tsuchii (Institute of Science Tokyo)
      • 2:00 p.m.
        Study in EPECR about the heating test of superfluid helium, gradient measurement 15m
        Speaker: Kaito Abe (Nagoya University)
      • 2:15 p.m.
        SRF Plasma Processing: How Research Got Me to Japan 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Hedji (University of Victoria)
    • 2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
      Closing Remarks