Name: NuSec Annual Technical Workshop 2023
Start: 2023-10-09T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-10-09T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Mary Ward House Conference and Exhibition Centre

NuSec Annual Technical Workshop 2023

Monday, October 9, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Monday, October 9, 2023

9:00 AM Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Introduction and Welcome - Paul Sellin

9:40 AM Water-based quantum dots liquid scintillator for radiation detection - James Cole (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
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM SIGMA Data Challenge Journey So Far - Philip Martin (AWE)

11:40 AM Poisson-FOCuS on SIGMA data - Kes Ward

12:00 PM Enhancing Nuclear Security: Leveraging Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for High Sensitivity Threat Detection with Small Volume Gamma Detectors - Sam Fearn (University of Bristol)

12:20 PM Spectroscopic Anomaly Detection and Isotope Identification using Non-negative Matrix Factorization and Application to AWE SIGMA Data - Stefan Faaland (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:40 PM AWE in-house algorithm development - Philip Martin (AWE)
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Passive Radiological Inspection of Shipping Containers using a UAV-Mounted Scintillator Detector - Euan Connolly

1:15 PM New method of thermal neutrons imaging using a fast optical camera - Tian-Qi Gao (University of Manchester)

1:30 PM Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Preamplifier/Shaping Amplifier System For Boron-Coated-Straw Neutron Detectors - Krisztian Erdodi (Lancaster University)

1:30 PM The Simulation and Optimisation of Position-Sensitive LaBr3 Detectors for Compton Imaging - Emily Richardson

1:30 PM Applying Matrix Factorisation methods to improve specificity of fast anomaly detection algorithms - Luke McGarry (NNL) Caroline Pyke (NNL)

1:45 PM An Investigation Into the Susceptibility of Memory Cards to Neutron Damage - Raghuram Sridhar Stephen Croft (Lancaster University)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Regional analysis of neutron/gamma figure-of-merit in scintillator volumes using a multi-anode photomultiplier tube - Patrick Collins-Price (Lancaster University)

2:20 PM A variational autoencoder with physical latent space for source term estimation - Abdullah Abdulaziz (Heriot-Watt University)

2:40 PM A Raspberry Pi based multi-channel data acquisition system - Lubos Vozdecky (University of London (GB))

3:00 PM Low Power, Compact, Dual Mode Detectors for Nuclear Security Applications - David Bennett (University of Glasgow)

3:20 PM Neutron-Gamma Detectors for Borehole Formation Evaluation Applications - James Greer

3:40 PM Closing Remarks - Paul Sellin
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM