Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition

from Monday 15 August 2022 (09:00) to Tuesday 16 August 2022 (20:00)
Virtual/Laurentian University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022
AM
09:00
Networking Activity (until 09:45) ()
09:45
Welcome - Christine Kraus (until 10:00) ()
10:00
Session I -Mr Matt Depatie (Queen's University) (until 11:36) ()
10:00 How the Sun Shines - Maggie Oxford   ()
10:12 Neutron Beam Solid Transmission Monte Carlo Simulations - Ry Cyna   ()
10:24 The decoherence curve - measuring the lateral distribution of muons in cosmic-ray air showers - Guilherme Caumo (McGill University)   ()
10:36 Monte Carlo simulation of the muon flux in DEAP-3600 - Mr LORENZO MIRASOLA   ()
10:48 Modelling the Kinematics of an Ultra Diffuse Galaxy to Determine its Dark Matter Content - Henry White (Queen's University)   ()
11:00 Waveform fitting algorithm for LoLX pulse data - Laura Gonzalez Escudero   ()
11:12 Ar2D2 Detector Simulation - Megan Foster   ()
11:24 Lovelock Black Holes in the Five-Dimensional Spacetime - M. Nabyan Arkan (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)   ()
11:36 --- Health Break ---
11:50
Session II - Benjamin Tam (Queen's University) (until 13:14) ()
11:50 Calibrating an Ocean-Floor Observatory: Conquering Currents at the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment - Hamish Johnson (SFU, P-ONE)   ()
12:02 Regulating Thermal Control for the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment - Ezri Wyman (Queen's University)   ()
12:14 Getting Your Head in the Clouds: Construction of a Small Cloud Chamber - Michael Hetu (McGill University)   ()
12:26 Investigating Improvements to Event Selection Cuts Against Neck Alpha Backgrounds for DEAP-3600 - May Wittenberg (DEAP-3600)   ()
12:38 Probing Exotic Scalar Fields by Utilizing the GPS System - Yu Li (University of Waterloo)   ()
12:50 Fuzzy Dark Matter: Dead or Alive?!? - Boris Zupancic   ()
13:02 Studying Muon Events Within SNO+ - Victoria Howard (SNO+)   ()
08:30 SNOLAB Virtual Tour - Rachel Richardson (CERN) Blaire Flynn (SNOLAB)   ()
10:00
Session V - James Page (University of Sussex) (until 11:00) ()
10:00 K40 Backgrounds in the SNO+ Neutrino Detector - Parmesh Ravi   ()
10:12 hetDB: Tracking transient observations from the past, present, and future - Alex Galvin   ()
10:24 Commissioning a CTBT Coincidence Detector System Underground at SNOLAB - Derek Kong (SNOLAB)   ()
10:36 MATHUSLA - Rufat Ismayilov Benjamin Humer   ()
11:00 --- Health Break ---
11:15
Session VI -Dr Yi-Hsuan (Cindy) Lin (Queen's University) (until 12:27) ()
11:15 Characterization of an in-gas Laser Ablation Ion Source through SIMION Simulations - Katherine Lei (McGill University)   ()
11:27 Analyzing a novel class of background events in the SNO+ detector - Matt Marzano (Queen's University - SNO+)   ()
11:39 Building a Temperature Controlled Performance Test Setup for SiPMs - Jack Macaulay (Queen's University)   ()
11:51 Upgrading and updating the SNOLAB hpge-radiopurity.snolab.ca material database - Gwyn Armstrong   ()
12:03 Using Chroma ray-tracing software to determine the trigger conditions for nEXO’s Outer Detector - Liam Retty   ()
12:15 LiquidO: Exploring the properties of opaque liquid scintillators - Spencer Guerin (Queen's University)   ()
PM
13:14 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Career Panel - Melissa Baiocchi (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Session III - Melissa Baiocchi (until 16:00) ()
15:00 Simulations of Muon-Induced Backgrounds to nEXO - Regan Ross   ()
15:12 Quantum fluctuations masquerade as halos: Bounds on ultra-light dark matter from quadruply-imaged quasars - Alex Laroche   ()
15:24 Radon Gas Assays for the SNO+ Experiment - Juliette Deloye (Laurentian University)   ()
15:36 Axion Quark Nugget Annihilation With Baryon Gas Versus Observed Excess Diffuse Ultraviolet Radiation - Michael Sekatchev   ()
16:00 --- Health Break ---
16:15
Session IV - Mark Richardson (McDonald Institute) (until 17:15) ()
16:15 Laser-Driven Photon Emission in SiPMs with MIEL - Zachariah Charlesworth   ()
16:27 NEWS-G Detector Calibration - Irina Babayan   ()
16:39 nEXO Guide Tube Presentation - Emily Laxton   ()
16:51 Simulating Asymmetric Dark Matter in Stars - Madelynn Mast (Queen's University)   ()
17:03 Scintillating Bubble Chamber Silicon Photomultiplier Pulse Analysis - Ciaran Byles-Ho   ()
17:15
Cultural Parallax under the Night Sky: The Science behind Indigenous Stories - Christine Kraus Will Morin (until 19:00) ()
12:27 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00
Microcredentials Panel - Alexandra Pedersen (McDonald Institute) (until 14:00) ()
14:00
Session VII - Ben Nicol (Laurentian University) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Developing an In-Gas Laser Ablation Ion Source for Ba-Tagging - Minya Bai   ()
14:12 Producing the World's Cleanest Noble Gas for DEAP-3600 - Sarah Rourke   ()
14:24 Analysis of leaching on PTFE shielding through the detection of alpha particle emissions. - Pranav Sairam   ()
14:36 Non Existence of Electric Field of Point charge at very close distance - Kareem Hassaan (Unaffiliated)   ()
15:00 --- Health Break ---
15:15
Session VIII - Syed M Adil Hussain (until 16:39) ()
15:15 VERA Apparatus and Measurement of Photon Detection Efficiency - Noah Albano (Triumf)   ()
15:27 Particulate Matter Detection with Silicon Photomultipliers - Maia Henriksson-Ward (TRIUMF)   ()
15:39 Tagging efficiency of BiPo’s in SNO+ - Maria Jose Ortiz (SNOLAB)   ()
15:51 CUTE Neutron Calibration System - Sierra Jess (SNOLAB)   ()
16:03 Development of a Compton Gamma-ray Imager using Cubes of CsI(Tl) - Fadi Younes   ()
16:15 Isolating the Sound of Dark Matter: Our HELIOS Suspension - Mr Noah Baker (University of Alberta)   ()
16:27 Observational Anomalies and New Dark Force - Ami Patel   ()
16:39 --- Health Break and Judging Period ---
17:00
EDI Panel - Rachel Richardson (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
18:00 Results - Christine Kraus   ()