Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition

from Monday, 23 August 2021 (10:45) to Tuesday, 24 August 2021 (19:50)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021
AM
10:45 Opening Remarks - Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)   ()
11:00
Session 1 - Ana Sofia Inacio (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partícul) Leon Pickard (until 12:30) ()
11:00 K40 Backgrounds in the SNO+ Neutrino Detector - Parmesh Ravi (University of Waterloo)   ()
11:15 Dark matter search and calibration of detectors at Université de Montréal - Audréanne Matte-Landry (Université de Montreal)   ()
11:30 Lab Weather Station - Felix Belair (McGill University)   ()
11:45 Cherenkov Light Simulations with Chroma for nEXO’s Muon Veto - Emma Klemets (McGill University, UBC)   ()
12:00 Hunting Unicorns: Model-Free Detection of Time Series Anomalies in GW Detector Data - Mr Julian Ding (University of British Columbia)   ()
12:15 --- Break ---
PM
12:30
Session 2 - Leon Pickard Ana Sofia Inacio (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partícul) (until 14:00) ()
12:30 Ab Initio Correlation between Double Gamow-Teller Transitions and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Izzy Ginnett (TRIUMF)   ()
12:45 Evaluation C14 background in the SNO+ detector - keegan paleshi (Snolab)   ()
13:00 Machine Learning for Top Quark Pair Kinematic Reconstruction - Maggie Wang (University of Toronto)   ()
13:15 Measurements of Radon Concentration in SNOLAB air - Matt Stollman (SNOLAB)   ()
13:30 Using Machine Learning to Denoise Acoustic Pulses - Charlotte Reed   ()
13:45 --- Break ---
14:00
Session 3 - Matthew Stukel (Queen's University) Leon Pickard (until 15:30) ()
14:00 An Analysis of C14 for SNO+ - Victoria Howard (SNOLAB)   ()
14:15 Analyzing Neck Events in the SNO+ Experiment - Mr Kai Soini (SNO+ - Queen's University)   ()
14:30 NEWS-G3 Muon Background Simulation - Clara Mitchinson (Queen's University)   ()
14:45 Feature Recognition and labelling for Photogrammetry Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector - Tapendra B C   ()
15:00 PICO 500 Muon Veto Optical Calibration System - Laurie Amen (Queen's University)   ()
15:15 --- Break ---
15:30
Session 4 - Leon Pickard Matthew Stukel (Queen's University) (until 17:00) ()
15:45 Improving Gravity Spy's Classification Accuracy of Real Gravitational Wave Events and Excess Noise Artifacts - Seraphim HSIEH JAROV (University of British Columbia)   ()
16:00 URM Pressure Equalizing System - Ashley McCambley   ()
16:15 Finding Functional Approximations of the Absolute Counting Efficiencies for radon 222 and radon 220 for ESC’s under certain Pressures and High Voltages - Drake Wickman (nEXO)   ()
16:30 Particle Discrimination Using Machine Learning Techniques - Megan McArthur (SNOLAB)   ()
17:00
Session 5 - Leon Pickard Matthew Stukel (Queen's University) (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Analysis of Alpha Particle Quenching in SNO+ Scintillator Using Internal Polonium Backgrounds - Anthony Allega (Queen's University)   ()
17:15 Simulating Gamma Ray Interactions to Determine Dead Layer of Germanium - Erin Bolger   ()
17:30 Recent development of the radiopurity.org materials database - Vicente Garrido (SNOLAB)   ()
17:45 Radon Measurements and the Lucas Cell System - Julia Azzi   ()
18:00 Characterization of ion plumes in laser ablation ion sources - Joseph Torsiello   ()
18:15 The Evolution of Fundamental Galaxy Scaling Relations - Katherine Frazer   ()
12:30
Session 6 - Leon Pickard Matthew Stukel (Queen's University) (until 14:00) ()
12:45 Using Machine/Deep Learning to Analyze Acoustic Data and Probe the Physical Development of Bubble Nucleation - Mr Kyle Yeates (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)   ()
13:00 Geometries and PMT Configurations for nEXO Outer Detector Simulations - Liam Retty (Laurentian University)   ()
13:15 Measuring the Mass of the Milky Way: Converting a 350 PHYS Project into a 250 Lab - Madelynn Mast (Queen's University)   ()
13:30 Logical Muon Generation for Monte Carlo Simulations (Underground) - Regan Ross   ()
13:45 --- Break ---
14:00
Session 7 - Matthew Stukel (Queen's University) Leon Pickard (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Identification of a Directional Cherenkov Signal in Tl208 Decays in the SNO+ Detector - Maeve Cockshutt (SNO+)   ()
14:15 Improving Background Simulation Efficiency with Flux Surfaces - Alexander Pleava (McMaster University)   ()
14:30 NEWS-G Sensor Characterization - Irina Babayan (Queen's University)   ()
14:45 In-gas laser ablation source (IGLAS) for nEXO's Ba-tagging group at McGill - Laura Gonzalez Escudero (McGill University)   ()
15:00 Building a Public Database for Transient High-Energy Event Analyses - Tai Withers (Queen's University)   ()
15:30
Session 8 - Amanda Bacon (University of Pennsylvania) Leon Pickard (until 17:00) ()
15:45 Simulations of PMT and Track Reconstruction in Magnetic Field - Kishankumar Patel (The University of Winnipeg)   ()
16:00 Black hole quasinormal mode spectroscopy - Ashley Chraya (IISER Mohali)   ()
16:15 In-Gas Laser Ablation Source (IGLAS) Development at McGill University - Minya Bai   ()
16:30 Distinguishing signal from background for a direct measurement of antihydrogen’s Lamb shift - Abbygale Grace Swadling (University of Calgary Dep. of Phys. and Astronomy (CA))   ()
17:00
Session 9 - Amanda Bacon (University of Pennsylvania) Leon Pickard (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Tellurium Plants and Tellurium Purification in SNO+ - Julia Patterson (SNOLAB)   ()
17:15 A comparative study of various Deep Learning techniques for spatio-temporal Super-Resolution reconstruction of forced isotropic turbulent flows - T.S.Sachin Venkatesh (Delhi Technological University)   ()
17:30 Simulation of backgrounds for the Ar2D2 detector. - Maria Ortiz   ()
17:45 Cascade Reconstruction in Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) - Mr Kaustav Dutta (University of Alberta)   ()
18:00 Right Time, Right Place: a Comparative Analysis of DEAP-3600’s Position Reconstruction Algorithms - Raveen Sidhu (DEAP-3600)   ()
18:30 --- Deliberation Period ---
19:30 Prize Announcement and Closing Remarks - Christine Kraus (Laurentian University)   ()