Name: CASST 2024
Start: 2024-08-19T07:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-20T19:50:00-04:00
Location: Laurentian University

CASST 2024

from Monday, August 19, 2024 (7:30 AM) to Tuesday, August 20, 2024 (7:50 PM)

Monday, August 19, 2024

7:30 AM

7:30 AM - 7:50 AM

8:30 AM Morning Coffee/Tea and snacks available
Morning Coffee/Tea and snacks available
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: C-203

9:00 AM Welcome & Icebreaker activity : Christine Kraus, Rachel Richardson, Juliette Deloye
Welcome & Icebreaker activity : Christine Kraus, Rachel Richardson, Juliette Deloye
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
9:30 AM Networking - Zac Kenny
Networking - Zac Kenny
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
Contributions

9:30 AM Networking session
10:15 AM Creative Science Communication: Mark Richardson and Zac Kenny
Creative Science Communication: Mark Richardson and Zac Kenny
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

10:15 AM Creative Science Communication
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Session I .............................. Juliette Deloye
Session I .............................. Juliette Deloye
10:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
Contributions

10:50 AM All hands on DEAP - Trang Bui

11:00 AM External AmBe Calibrations in SNO+ - Cody O'Neill (SNO+)

11:10 AM Building database for HELIX - Kaan Sun (Queen's University)

11:20 AM Bringing Astroparticle Physics to the Classroom - Emma Acres (Queen's University)

11:30 AM The Search for Long-Lived Particles: Construction of MATHUSLA Detector Test Stand - Alex Lau

11:40 AM Cooling the nEXO Photomultiplier Tube Testing Setup and Improving Data Analysis Scripts - Lazar Paroski (SNOLAB / Queen's University)

11:50 AM Low Energy Excess Characteristics for CUTE HVeV - Emilia Topp-Johnson (SNOLAB)

12:00 PM Characterization and Mitigation of Decoherence Sources in Superconducting Qubits - Yusuf Ahmed (Research Student)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203

1:15 PM Creative Science Communication: Mark Richardson and Zac Kenny
Creative Science Communication: Mark Richardson and Zac Kenny
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
1:45 PM Session II ...................................... Matt Depatie
Session II ...................................... Matt Depatie
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
Contributions

1:45 PM Development of advanced photon-detection techniques for neutrinoless double beta decay studies with nEXO. - Eliot Raschetti

1:55 PM Developing Machine Learning Techniques for Particle Flow in the ATLAS Experiment - Joshua Himmens (TRIUMF)

2:05 PM SNO+ and Radon - Keegan Paleshi (Laurentian University)

2:15 PM DEAP-3600 Hardware Upgrades and Verifying the Energy Reconstruction in Data Reprocessing - Ayesha Iqbal (Laurentian University)

2:25 PM Room Temperature SiPM Charcterization for use in HAICU - Zach Charlesworth (TRIUMF)

2:35 PM Are Supermassive Stars in Primordial Halos a Source of Observable Gravitational Waves? - Florent Thibault (Université Concordia)

2:45 PM Staying Cool, The Thermoelectric Cooling of SiPMs - Julien Hacot-Slonosky (McGill University)
3:15 PM Break
Break
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
3:35 PM Session III ................................................. Ryan Bayes
Session III ................................................. Ryan Bayes
3:35 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
Contributions

3:35 PM Measurements of a Magnetically Shielded Room for a Neutron EDM Experiment - Thomas Hepworth

3:45 PM Simulating In-Orbit Performance for the CASTOR Telescope. - Wasi Naqvi (UBC Okanagan/ National Research Council Canada)

3:55 PM Modeling Trigger Delay of the SuperCDMS experiment. - Tom Wu (University of Toronto)

4:05 PM Luminescence Testing of Materials in the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment - Alex Hayes (University of Manitoba)

4:15 PM SNO+ Neck Events Analysis - Nelson Zhou (SNOLAB/Queen's)

4:25 PM Development of a barium tagging technique for the future nEXO detector - Emilio Yahir De La Cruz Navarro (McGill University)

4:35 PM DDA Quantification and Umbilical Cleaning - Danica Levesque (SNOLAB)

4:45 PM Performance Evaluation of Radon Monitors with SNOLAB and Health Canada - Alexander Vicol (SNOLAB)

4:55 PM Studies on the temperature dependent drift velocity for the HELIX Drift Chamber Tracker - Gabrielle Barsky-Giles (Queen's University)
5:30 PM Creative science communication work time
Creative science communication work time
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

7:30 AM

7:30 AM - 7:50 AM

8:15 AM Morning coffee chats (optional)
Morning coffee chats (optional)
8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
8:45 AM Session IV ........................... Pierre Gorel
Session IV ........................... Pierre Gorel
8:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
Contributions

8:45 AM Construction and Testing of PICO-500 Muon Veto Calibration System - Emma Greenall (SBC collaboration at Queens University)

8:55 AM Flasher Events; The Analysis of a Potentially Problematic Background in the DEAP3600 Dark Matter Search - Matt Poser (Queen's University)

9:05 AM DEAP-3600: Hardware Upgrades and 'Flasher' event Analysis - Aarchi Shah

9:15 AM Lucas Cell Simulation using Geant4 - Justin Suys (snolab)

9:25 AM SNO+ Americium-Beryllium Source Calibration and Simulation - Noah Fenlon (SNOLAB)

9:35 AM Chroma Simulation of SiPM Stave Testing for nEXO - Sophie Gélinas (McGill University)

9:45 AM DEAP-3600 Hardware Upgrades & Liquid Level Estimation Using PMT Rates - Rory Macdonald (Queen's University)

9:55 AM SNO+ Transfer Station - Gurpreet kainth (SNOLAB)

10:05 AM Machine Learning for Event Position Reconstruction in Germanium Detectors - Mary Calljeja (Queen's University)

10:15 AM Beyond the Classroom: Investigating Gendered Imposterism in Undergraduate Physics - Katharine Jekic (Queen's University, McDonald Institute)
10:45 AM Break
Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203

11:15 AM

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM Creative science communication work time
Creative science communication work time
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
1:15 PM Session V .......................... Mark Ward
Session V .......................... Mark Ward
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Classroom Building, Room C-203
Contributions

1:15 PM Ab initio Combined Neutrino Mass Limits - Taiki Shickele (UBC/TRIUMF)

1:25 PM Optimizing the TUCAN Experiment for Precision Measurements of Ultracold Neutron (UCN) Properties - Kyle Drury (McMaster University)

1:35 PM Further analysis with metric-affine f(R) gravity - Rafid Hasan Dejrah (Ankara University)

1:45 PM Machine Learning Meets Ancient Geology in the search for dark matter - Sharleen Chebet

1:55 PM Background mitigation for the SNO+ experiment - Jiarui Cao

2:05 PM DEAP3600 Hardware Upgrades and Lightyield Automation - Cheyanne Monk (Carleton University)

2:15 PM Diffuser Ball Light Simulations: An Analysis of Geometry, Optical Properties and Isotropy - Irina Nitu (McGill University)

2:25 PM Stepping Up Precision: Automated SiPM Characterization for the nEXO Experiment - Grace Champagne (Undergraduate Summer Student)

2:35 PM Argon removal from liquid nitrogen using zeolites - Franco Cabral (SNOLAB)

2:45 PM Observation of neutrino flux from Supernovae and the Sun with semiconductor cryogenic detectors. - Rodrigo Pacheco (CINVESTAV)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

4:45 PM Closeout and Results
Closeout and Results
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM