Name: 2026 TRIUMF-KEK Symposium
Start: 2026-09-28T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-09-29T18:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

2026 TRIUMF-KEK Symposium

from Monday, September 28, 2026 (8:00 a.m.) to Tuesday, September 29, 2026 (6:00 p.m.)

Monday, September 28, 2026

9:00 a.m. Pick up from TRIUMF House
Pick up from TRIUMF House
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
9:30 a.m. Welcome
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Contributions

9:30 a.m. Symposium Opening - Nigel Smith

9:40 a.m. TRIUMF Update - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

9:55 a.m. KEK Update - Shoji Asai (KEK)
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. New TRIUMF Facilty: ARIEL
ARIEL
10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Contributions

10:30 a.m. ARIEL - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)
10:50 a.m. Hyper Kamiokande
10:50 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Contributions

10:50 a.m. HK Project Status and Near Site Activities - Takashi Kobayashi (KEK)

11:10 a.m. IWCD Overview, Status and TRIUMF/Canadian Contributions - Mark Hartz (TRIUMF)

11:30 a.m. IWCD Design and Construction Status - Ryosuke Akutsu (KEK)

11:50 a.m. KEK/TRIUMF Collaboration for Hyper-K Construction and Operation - Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)
12:20 p.m. Lunch (invite only)
Lunch (invite only)
12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. Accelerator Developments
1:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Contributions

1:30 p.m. Status of ILC Technology Network - Hiroshi Sakai (KEK)

1:50 p.m. High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets - Thomas Planche (TRIUMF)
2:10 p.m. Quantum
2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Contributions

2:10 p.m. QUP: The Hub of KEK’s Quantum Strategy - Toshiyuki Azuma (QUP)

2:30 p.m. Probing Antimatter Gravity with Quantum Sensing Techniques: ALPHA, HAICU and QUP - Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)

2:50 p.m. Enabling Quantum Sensing with Advanced VUV Laser Systems - Yu Oishi (KEK)
3:10 p.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. Ultra-Cold Neutrons: UCN
UCN
3:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Contributions

3:30 p.m. Towards a Measurement of the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment with TUCAN - Noah Yazdandoost (TRIUMF)

3:50 p.m. The TUCAN Source Commissioning and First Results - Shinsuke Kawasaki (KEK)
4:10 p.m. Belle-II
4:10 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Contributions

4:10 p.m. Status and Upgrade Plan of SuperKEKB/Belle II - Kodai Matsuoka (KEK)

4:30 p.m. Canadian Belle II upgrade activities - Thomas Blake (University of Victoria)
4:50 p.m. KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS)
4:50 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
Contributions

4:50 p.m. Nuclear Spectroscopy at KISS/KISS-1.5 - Yoshikazu Hirayama (KEK)
5:10 p.m. Material Science
5:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Contributions

5:10 p.m. CMMS Activities, Focused on Muon Imaging and Muonic X-Ray Analysis - Kenji Kojima (TRUIMF)
6:00 p.m. Dinner

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

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

9:00 a.m. Tour

9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

11:15 a.m. Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. Strategic Session

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

12:30 p.m. Lunch (invite only)
Lunch (invite only)
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. EPECR Talks
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Contributions

1:30 p.m. Ultracold Neutron Handling and Storage, Test at J-PARC and World Leading Experiment at TRIUMF - Alexis Brossard (TRIUMF)

1:45 p.m. Muon-beam Validation for Pion Measurements in WCTE - Ryotaro Tsuchii (Institute of Science Tokyo)

2:00 p.m. Study in EPECR about the Heating Test of Superfluid Helium, Gradient Measurement - Kaito Abe (Nagoya University)

2:15 p.m. SRF Plasma Processing: How Research Got Me to Japan - Daniel Hedji (University of Victoria)
2:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.