Future Projects Planning Workshop 2015

from Monday, 24 August 2015 (01:30) to Wednesday, 26 August 2015 (18:00)
SNOLAB

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Aug 2015
25 Aug 2015
AM
08:30 --- Coffee and Health Break ---
09:00 Welcome and Logistics - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)   ()
09:10 Overview of the SNOLAB facility and current programme evolution - Dr Fraser Duncan (SNOLAB)   (Auditorium)
10:00 SNOLAB project lifecycle and integration with funding agency requirements - Mr Brian Morissette (SNOLAB)   (Auditorium)
10:30 --- Health Break ---
11:00 Next Generation Germanium Double Beta Decay Experiment (3 talks) - Dr Matthew Green (NC State University) Dr Matthew Busch (Duke University) Dr Christopher O'Shaughnessy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)   (Auditorium)
08:30 --- Coffee and Health Break ---
09:00 Developments at other deep underground facilities - Dr Sean Paling (Bulb Underground Laboratory)   (Auditorium)
09:45 Future development and needs of low background counting and assay capabilities - Dr Richard Ford (SNOLAB)   (Auditorium)
10:30 --- Health Break ---
11:00 Fruit flies in a mine - Dr Thomas Merritt (Laurentian University)   (Auditorium)
11:20 Ultra-low radiation environments - Dr Christopher Thome (NOSM)   (Auditorium)
11:40 Development of Water-­‐based liquid Scintillators - Dr Bob Svoboda (UC Davis)   (Auditorium)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Next Generation Xenon Double Beta Decay Experiment (2 talks) - Dr William Fairbank (Colorado State University) Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)   (Auditorium)
15:00 --- Health Break ---
15:30 Status and perspectives of COBRA - Kai Zuber (Technische Universitaet Dresden)   (Auditorium)
16:00 DEAP-­‐50 Dark Matter detector - Mark Boulay (Q) Dr Mark Boulay (Carleton University)   (Auditorium)
16:45 Long-­‐term prospects for cryogenic detectors at SNOLAB - Gilles Gerbier (CEA)   (Auditorium)
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:10 Current and Future of DarkSide Dark Matter Experiment - Dr Masayuki Wada (Princeton University)   (Auditoium)
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:30 PICO Bubble Chamber Array - Dr Michael Crisler (Fermilab)   (Auditorium)
14:00 The NEWS_SNO Project - Gilles Gerbier (CEA)   (Auditoirum)
14:30 DAMIC 1kg at SNOLAB - Paolo Privitera (University of Chicago)   (Auditorium)
15:00 --- Health Break (Formal end of Workshop) ---
15:30 CFREF Planning Discussions - Tony Noble (Queen's University)   (Auditorium)