SNOLAB Meeting Week 2018

25 Sept 2018, 06:00 → 28 Sept 2018, 21:00 Canada/Eastern

Tuesday 25 September

06:00 → 14:00 STRC Meeting: Underground Tour

06:00 → 14:00 TRIUMF Innovations: Underground Tour

Kathryn Hayashi and David Asgeirsson visit to SNOLAB

19:00 → 21:00 STRC Meeting: Joint Dinner: STRC & TRIUMF Innovations - Ripe Restaurant (1788 Regent St, Sudbury, ON P3E 3Z8)

19:00 → 21:00 TRIUMF Innovations: Joint Dinner: STRC & TRIUMF Innovations - Ripe Restaurant (1788 Regent St, Sudbury, ON P3E 3Z8)

Kathryn Hayashi and David Asgeirsson visit to SNOLAB

Wednesday 26 September

08:00 → 14:30 EAC Meeting: Underground Tour

08:00 → 14:30 SNOLABI Board: Underground Tour

08:30 → 15:40 STRC Meeting: Conference Room 301 (3rd floor)

08:30 Welcome & Introductions

08:40 Review STRC Terms of Reference and Plan for Day

09:00 Overview of SNOLAB Strategic Plan (Nigel Smith)

09:20 SNOLAB Science & Infrastructure (Nigel Smith)

10:30 BREAK

10:45 SNOLAB Management & Operations (Nigel Smith, Allan Barr)

11:45 User Feedback - Q&A (Carsten Krauss)

12:10 LUNCH (Lobby, 1st floor)

13:00 SNOLAB Communications and Outreach (Nigel Smith)

13:30 Final Q&A (Nigel Smith, Allan Barr)

13:45 Committee In-Camera

15:15 Feedback to SNOLAB (Nigel Smith)

15:30 Wrap-up

09:00 → 10:30 TRIUMF Innovations: Breakfast with Jeter Hall @ Pinchman's (2037 Long Lake Rd #8b, Sudbury, ON P3E 6J9)

Kathryn Hayashi and David Asgeirsson visit to SNOLAB

12:20 → 13:00 Joint Lunch: STRC & SEF (Lobby, 1st floor)

12:20 → 19:00 SEF Meeting: Fraser Duncan Auditorium (1st floor)

12:20 LUNCH (Lobby, 1st floor)

13:00 TRIUMF Innovations Presentation

14:00 Welcome and Introduction of new members

14:05 Review and adoption of minutes from meeting of 09MAR2018

14:15 Housekeeping Items

14:20 McDonald Institute (Tony Noble)

Teleconference

14:50 Review of actions in tracker

15:50 Thematic Sessions

a. SNOLAB Report (Jeter Hall)
b. Project Life-Cycle Updates (Richard Ford)
c. Core Services (Brent Donnelly)
d. Scientific Support Group (Chris Jillings)
e. Operations Report (Allan Barr)

16:50 Other Business

13:00 → 14:00 TRIUMF Innovations: Presentation @ SEF (Fraser Duncan Auditorium)

Kathryn Hayashi and David Asgeirsson visit to SNOLAB

19:30 → 21:30 EAC Meeting: Joint Dinner: SNOLABI Board & EAC - Bella Vita Cucina (493 Kathleen St, Sudbury, ON P3C 2M7)

19:30 → 21:30 SNOLABI Board: Joint Dinner: SNOLABI Board & EAC - Bella Vita Cucina (493 Kathleen St, Sudbury, ON P3C 2M7)

Thursday 27 September

08:30 → 17:15 EAC Meeting: Conference Room 301 (3rd floor)

08:30 SNOLAB Facility Update (Nigel Smith)

09:00 SNOLAB Facility Update cont'd (Richard Ford)

09:45 SNOLAB Projects Overview and Lifecycle (Richard Ford, Brian Morissette)

10:15 Report from M. Lisanti (Mariangela Lisanti)

Teleconference

10:30 NEWS-DM Update (Giovanni De Lellis)

10:45 BREAK

11:00 DEAP Presentation (Mark Boulay)

including review of previous EAC recommendations

11:45 DEAP Discussion & Review

12:15 LUNCH (Lobby, 1st floor)

EAC in camera

12:45 PICO Presentation (Tony Noble)

including PICO-500 and PICO 40L, and review of previous EAC recommendations

13:25 PICO Discussion & Review

13:55 BREAK

14:05 NEWS-G Status Update (Gilles Gerbier)

14:20 NEWS-G Discussion & Review

14:35 SuperCDMS and CUTE Presentations (Prisca Cushman, David MacFarlane, Gilles Gerbier)

including review of previous EAC recommendations

15:15 SuperCDMS Discussion & Review

15:45 SNO+ Presentation (Mark Chen)

including review of previous EAC recommendations

16:30 SNO+ Discussion & Review

09:00 → 16:10 SNOLABI Board: Retreat (Fraser Duncan Auditorium, 1st floor)

09:00 Introductions & Retreat Overview

09:20 Future of Technical Lab Infrastructure (Sean Paling)

10:10 Future of Underground Science (Stefan Shönert)

11:00 BREAK

11:15 Commercialization and Innovation (Kathryn Hayashi)

Teleconference

12:15 LUNCH (Lobby, 1st floor)

13:15 Panel Discussion - Governance Issues (Cynthia Fekken)

13:30 Panel Discussion - Governance Issues cont'd (Anne Louise Aboud, TRIUMF)

14:00 Panel Discussion - Governance Issues cont'd (Christopher Loomis, Ocean Networks Canada)

14:30 Panel Discussion - Governance Issues cont'd (Isabelle Blain, CLS)

Teleconference

15:00 Comments from EAC (Stew Smith)

15:30 BREAK

15:45 Retreat Summary (Ken Ragan)

16:00 Wrap-up

18:30 → 20:30 EAC Meeting: Joint Dinner: SNOLABI Board & EAC - Science North (100 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury, ON P3E 5S9)

18:30 → 20:30 SNOLABI Board: Joint Dinner: SNOLABI Board & EAC - Science North (100 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury, ON P3E 5S9)

Friday 28 September

09:00 → 18:00 EAC Meeting: Conference Room 301 (3rd floor)

09:00 SENSEI - Rouven Essig (Stony Brook), (Michael Crisler)

09:20 Scintillating Bubble Chamber (Ken Clark)

09:40 nEXO Update (Giorgio Gratta)

10:00 Initial Feedback and Recommendation Construction

12:30 LUNCH and Feedback to Director (Lobby, 1st floor)

EAC in camera

13:00 DEAP Feedback and Q&A Session

13:20 PICO Feedback and Q&A Session

13:40 SuperCDMS Feedback and Q&A Session

14:00 NEWS-G Feedback and Q&A Session

14:20 SNO+ Feedback and Q&A Session

14:40 BREAK

15:00 Long Term Strategy and Vision (Jeter Hall)

15:30 McDonald Institute Update (Tony Noble)

15:50 Future Programme Strategy Discussion

17:00 Report Construction and Recommendation Tracker Update

09:00 → 12:40 SNOLABI Board: Fraser Duncan Auditorium (1st floor)

09:00 Call to Order

09:10 Agenda

09:20 Previous Meeting Minutes

09:30 Board Retreat Outcomes (Ken Ragan)

10:00 SNOLAB Executive Director Report (Nigel Smith)

11:15 BREAK

11:30 Governance Committee Report

12:00 In-Camera Meeting (Board Only)

12:30 Adjourn

19:00 → 21:00 EAC Meeting: In-Camera Dinner: Lot 88 (1070 Kingsway, Sudbury, ON P3B 2E5)