Name: CASST 2026
Start: 2026-08-12T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-13T23:49:00-04:00
Location: Laurentian University

CASST 2026

from Wednesday, August 12, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, August 13, 2026 (11:49 PM)

Monday, August 10, 2026
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
8:30 AM Welcome
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
Contributions

8:30 AM Opening talk - Christine Kraus (SNOLAB)
8:45 AM Talks: Session I
Session I
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
Contributions

8:45 AM Using Pulsar Observations to Probe Solar Wind Turbulence During the 2025 Crab Conjunction - Huiyu Xiao

8:58 AM Development and Characterization of a New Sensor for the NEWS-G Experiemnt - Connor Bennett (Queens)

9:11 AM Secure. Contain. Protect. Anomalies In Building Virtual Infrastructure at SNOLAB - Qusai Almasri

9:25 AM Slow-Control Infrastructure for Noble Liquid Detector R&D - Howard Wen

9:37 AM A Shot in the Dark: Searching for Dark Galaxies in the ALFALFA Catalog - Patrick Wang (Haverford College)

9:50 AM From Code to Cryostat: Building a Single-Phase Liquid Argon Detector - Julia Brachman

10:03 AM Developing Silver Doped Zinc Sulfide Scintillator for Lucas Cell 222Rn Counting - Kacper Rogut (SNOLAB student)

10:16 AM Charge Calibration of the HELIX Time-of-Flight System - Kaitlyn Broad (Queen's University)
10:30 AM Health Break
Health Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
10:45 AM WORKSHOP: Into for E&O activity
Into for E&O activity
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
Contributions

10:45 AM E&O Workshop Introduciton
11:00 AM Presentations: Session II
Session II
11:00 AM - 12:24 PM
Room: C-203
Contributions

11:00 AM Can Gravitational Waves Alter Binary Inspirals? - Emily Spence (Carleton University)

11:12 AM RAMPS and the Search for the Electron Capture of Lu-176 - Sanjit Patil (SNOLAB)

11:24 AM Applied Engineering and Project Management at SNOLAB - Frederick Aguirre-Levesque (SNOLAB)

11:36 AM Probing Dark Matter in the GD-1 Stellar Stream with Simulation-Based Inference - Driss Mestiri

11:48 AM Seeing Dark Matter: Reconstruction of Energy, Position, and Timing - Cary Kan (University of Toronto)

12:00 PM Background Monitoring in DarkSide-20k - Ty Bell

12:12 PM The Search for Galaxies Without Stars: HI Follow-up of FASHI Dark Galaxy Candidates - Qwin Goodwin (Queen's University)
12:25 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:25 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203

1:10 PM WORKSHOP: “Communicating Challenges” - Zachary Kenny
“Communicating Challenges” - Zachary Kenny
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
2:10 PM Presentations: Session III
Session III
2:10 PM - 3:48 PM
Room: C-203
Contributions

2:10 PM Cosmological Magnetic Fields from Dark Matter - Aviv David (McGill University)

2:23 PM Microwave Injection System Upgrades for Antihydrogen Gravity Experiments in ALPHA-g - Elspeth Bruce (University of Calgary)

2:36 PM From Signals to Science: Machine Learning for Event Reconstruction in SuperCDMS - Lyssa Dale-Davies (University of Toronto)

2:48 PM Radon Shielding in the SuperCDMS Experiment - Jonathan Finer (University of Toronto)

3:00 PM Testing a Pulse-IV Multiplexer for Large SiPM Array Characterization - Will Gray (McGill University)

3:12 PM Another Run Bites the Dust: Why SNO+ Data Pass or Fail Run Selection - Berin Sancakdar (SNOLAB)

3:24 PM Nucleosynthesis in classical novae: nuclear physics and astrophysics uncertainties - Spencer Reyno (Saint Mary's University)

3:36 PM When Signals Go Dark: Recovering Information From a Broken Detector - Simon Cao (University of Toronto)
3:50 PM Health Break
Health Break
3:50 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203

4:05 PM WORKSHOP: Career Panel
Career Panel
4:05 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
5:05 PM Presentations: Session IV
Session IV
5:05 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: C-203
Contributions

5:05 PM An Extensible Reaction-Diffusion Solver for Radiolysis and Astroparticle Physics - Hayden Klassen (TRIUMF; University of Toronto)

5:18 PM Building a peltier-cooled cloud chamber for physics outreach. - Cameron Flaman (McGill University)

5:31 PM How to Escape Things in Space, and The Things We Can't - Sebastian Blaha

5:44 PM Comparing the Milky Way to Simulated Galaxies - Nicole Muchos (Queen's University)

5:57 PM properties of the SNO+ detector from optical calibration data - Sara Bergevin (Queen's University)

6:10 PM Generation and Validation of Phonon Pulse Templates for SuperCDMS SNOLAB - Guneev Dhillon (SNOLAB)

6:23 PM Machine Learning Model for the Milky Way's Stellar Disk - Isabella Botelho (Queen's University)

6:36 PM An alternate approach to high energy event simulation in the DEAP3600 Detector - Matt Poser (Queen's University)
6:50 PM FOOD - in front of Planetarium
FOOD - in front of Planetarium
6:50 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203

7:30 PM Planetarium Show

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
Thursday, August 13, 2026

7:45 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:45 AM - 8:15 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
8:15 AM Presentations: Session V
Session V
8:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: C-203
Contributions

8:15 AM Letting 0νββ shine: How QA supports SNO+'s chemistry from backstage - Osanna Wong (SNOLAB)

8:28 AM Underground Neutron Flux Mapping at SNOLAB - Brianna Binoy (University of Toronto)

8:41 AM Developing a Quantitative ZnS(Ag) Test System - Connor Stubbs (SNOLAB)

8:54 AM Understanding the Origin of Heavy Elements Using Stellar Archaeology - Ella Jackson (SMU)

9:07 AM Operations and Technical Services Roles in SNOLAB's Science - Kai Turchan (SNOLAB)

9:20 AM Seeing Earthquakes Through a Supernova Detector - Katie Fosten (SNOLAB)

9:33 AM Characterization of Silicon Photomultipliers and Readout Board - Lily Moss (Queen's University)

9:46 AM SiPM Based Gamma-ray Detection - Gavin Croft (Queen's University)

9:59 AM Engineering World-Class Collaboration Infrastructure at SNOLAB: Modernization of the Fraser Duncan Auditorium Control System - Ahmed Abdel-Dayem

10:12 AM Vacuum Ultraviolet Measurements of Electron-Hole Pair Production Probabilities in Geiger-mode Avalanching Photodetectors - Celena Guo
10:30 AM Health Break
Health Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
10:45 AM Presentations: Session VI
Session VI
10:45 AM - 12:41 PM
Room: C-203
Contributions

10:45 AM Changing High School Physics Curriculum - Samantha Ryan (Memorial University)

10:58 AM Studying supernova nucleosynthesis with a direct measurement of the 13N(α,p)16O reaction - Luka Radulovic (Saint Mary's University)

11:11 AM Engineering and Quality Assurance Co-op Experience at SNOLAB - Martin Courchesne (SNOLAB)

11:24 AM Primordial Black Hole-Induced Radiative Suppression of H2 for Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Hole Formation - Kayla Payne (Queen's University)

11:37 AM Hardware Efforts at SNO+: Ultrasonic Bath for Circuit Precision and Infrared Light for Source Deployment - Julia Gorovitz (SNOLAB)

11:50 AM Characterizing Noise in SuperCDMS HveV Detectors - Hussein David (University of Toronto) Rhea Zhu (University of Toronto)

12:03 PM Optimizing the ablation and selection of Li-7 ions for implanting in quantum sensors - Justine Thebault-Weiser (McGill University)

12:16 PM Servers and Simulations: Building Critical Infrastructure for the NEWS-G Experiment - Andrew Gault (NEWS-G)
12:41 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:41 PM - 1:25 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203

1:25 PM WORKSHOP: "Paying for Privilege." - Alexandra Pedersen
"Paying for Privilege." - Alexandra Pedersen
1:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
2:30 PM Presentations: Session VII
Session VII
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: C-203
Contributions

2:30 PM Monte Carlo Simulation of the RadioActive isotope Measurement Program at SNOLAB (RAMPS) - Diba Toyserkani (SNOLAB)

2:43 PM Lyman–α Laser Cooling for Precision Antihydrogen Spectroscopy - Sahara Majeed (University of British Columbia)

2:55 PM Characterizing the Long-Term Behavior of IceCube Supernova Scaler Rates - Tayler East (Queen's University)

3:07 PM Neutron Scattering Experiment - Riley Breen (NEWS-G)

3:19 PM Toward Sensing Ultralight Dark Matter with Superfluid-Filled Optical Cavities - Alex Semeraro (McGill)

3:31 PM Galaxies Like Home: Expanded Photometry of 10,000 MaNGA Galaxies - Ella Hammet (MI)

3:43 PM A Brief History of the Physics Department at Queen’s and the Place of Women Within It - Alexandra Butler (Queen's University)

3:55 PM Improving Performance in Low-Background Cryogenic Experiments - Cheyanne Monk (Carleton University)
4:10 PM Health Break
Health Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203

4:30 PM WORKSHOP: E & O Activity
E & O Activity
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203

5:45 PM Student Activity Show and Tell

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
6:15 PM Results and Close-out: Results and Close-out
Results and Close-out
6:15 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: Classroom Building, C-203
Contributions

6:15 PM Closing Talk - Christine Kraus (SNOLAB)

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