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
Mary Ward House Conference and Exhibition Centre

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Oct 9, 2023

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 - 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 ---
11:30 AM	Session 2: Sigma Data Challenge (Session Chair TBC) (until 1:00 PM) ()
11:30 AM	SIGMA Data Challenge Journey So Far - Dr 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 - Mr 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 - Dr Philip Martin (AWE) ()

1:00 PM	Lunch and Poster Session (until 2:00 PM) ()
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	Applying Matrix Factorisation methods to improve specificity of fast anomaly detection algorithms - Caroline Pyke (NNL) Luke McGarry (NNL) ()
1:30 PM	Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Preamplifier/Shaping Amplifier System For Boron-Coated-Straw Neutron Detectors - Mr Krisztian Erdodi (Lancaster University) ()
1:30 PM	The Simulation and Optimisation of Position-Sensitive LaBr3 Detectors for Compton Imaging - Emily Richardson ()
1:45 PM	An Investigation Into the Susceptibility of Memory Cards to Neutron Damage - Raghuram Sridhar Prof. Stephen Croft (Lancaster University) ()
2:00 PM	Session 3 Detector Systems (Session Chair TBC) (until 4:00 PM) ()
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	Investigation of an end-to-end neural architecture for image-based source term estimation - Dr 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	NTRnet Launch Reception - Neil Gaspar (until 6:00 PM) ()