NuSec Annual Technical Workshop 2023

Monday, October 9, 2023 - 9:00 AM
Mary Ward House Conference and Exhibition Centre

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 9, 2023
AM
9:00 AM --- Registration and Coffee ---
9:30 AM
Session 1: New Detector Concepts - Paul Sellin (until 11:00 AM) ()
9:30 AM Introduction and Welcome - Paul Sellin   ()
9:40 AM Water-based quantum dots liquid scintillator for radiation detection - Dr Teppei Katori (King's College London)   ()
10:00 AM CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals based Plastic Scintillator for Ionizing Radiation Detection - Joydip Ghosh (University of Surrey)   ()
10:20 AM Organic semiconductor radiation detectors for alpha and neutron detection - Aled Horner (Queen Mary, University of London)   ()
10:40 AM Organic Field Effect Transistors as radiation detectors - Zahaab Amjad (Queen Mary University of London)   ()
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Session 2 Detector Systems - Rob Moss (until 1:15 PM) ()
11:30 AM Regional analysis of neutron/gamma figure-of-merit in scintillator volumes using a multi-anode photomultiplier tube - Patrick Collins-Price (Lancaster University)   ()
11:50 AM Investigation of an end-to-end neural architecture for image-based source term estimation - Dr Abdullah Abdulaziz (Heriot-Watt University)   ()
12:10 PM A Raspberry Pi based multi-channel data acquisition system - Lubos Vozdecky (University of London (GB))   ()
12:30 PM Low Power, Compact, Dual Mode Detectors for Nuclear Security Applications - David Bennett (University of Glasgow)   ()
12:50 PM Neutron-Gamma Detectors for Borehole Formation Evaluation Applications - James Greer   ()
PM
1:15 PM
Lunch and Poster Session (until 2:15 PM) ()
1:15 PM Passive Radiological Inspection of Shipping Containers using a UAV-Mounted Scintillator Detector - Euan Connolly   ()
1:30 PM New method of thermal neutrons imaging using a fast optical camera - Tian-Qi Gao (University of Manchester)   ()
1:45 PM Applying Matrix Factorisation methods to improve specificity of fast anomaly detection algorithms - Caroline Pyke (NNL) Luke McGarry (NNL)   ()
1:45 PM Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Preamplifier/Shaping Amplifier System For Boron-Coated-Straw Neutron Detectors - Mr Krisztian Erdodi (Lancaster University)   ()
1:45 PM The Simulation and Optimisation of Position-Sensitive LaBr3 Detectors for Compton Imaging - Emily Richardson   ()
2:00 PM An Investigation Into the Susceptibility of Memory Cards to Neutron Damage - Raghuram Sridhar Prof. Stephen Croft (Lancaster University)   ()
2:00 PM Background measurements at Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station to assess the viability of on-site-antineutrino detection - Megan Whittle (University of Tennessee)   ()
2:15 PM
Session 3: Sigma Data Challenge - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary University of London (GB)) (until 4:00 PM) ()
2:15 PM SIGMA Data Challenge Journey So Far - Dr Philip Martin (AWE)   ()
2:25 PM Poisson-FOCuS on SIGMA data - Kes Ward   ()
2:45 PM Enhancing Nuclear Security: Leveraging Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for High Sensitivity Threat Detection with Small Volume Gamma Detectors - Mr Sam Fearn (University of Bristol)   ()
3:05 PM Spectroscopic Anomaly Detection and Isotope Identification using Non-negative Matrix Factorization and Application to AWE SIGMA Data - Stefan Faaland (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
3:25 PM AWE in-house algorithm development - Dr Philip Martin (AWE)   ()
3:45 PM Sigma Discussion and Closing Remarks - Paul Sellin   ()
4:00 PM
NuSec/NuFor Reception (until 6:00 PM) ()