Students Orientation Session (Fall 2026)

Sep 8, 2026, 9:00 AM → Sep 19, 2026, 4:00 PM Canada/Eastern

 

Welcome to SNOLAB Fall 2026 student cohort!

 

Tue, September 8

9:00 AM → 3:30 PM Onboarding

9:00 AM Welcome

Emma to retrieve students from the turnstiles and walk them to site.

9:30 AM Coffee hour

Coffee hour with SNOLAB staff. Supervisors meet and greet with their students.

10:15 AM Tour of the surface building

11:00 AM Orientation slides

Speaker: Emma Larcher

11:15 AM Do's and don't's of SNOLAB

Speaker: Mike Stoddart

11:30 AM Student 101

Speaker: Cheyanne Monk

11:45 AM Communications at SNOLAB

12:00 PM Lunch

12:30 PM Ice breaker

12:45 PM Science at SNOLAB

Speaker: Erica Caden

1:45 PM Break

2:00 PM Violence and harassment

Speaker: Ashley Verge

3:00 PM Ice breaker

Wed, September 9

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Training: STMS training session

Convener: Emma Larcher (SNOLAB)

Thu, September 10

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Particle Matter Interactions

Speaker: Pierre Gorel (SNOLAB)

Fri, September 11

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Cleanliness

Speaker: Aleksandra Bialek (SNOLAB)

Mon, September 14

7:00 AM → 5:00 PM Training: Site Specific

7:00 AM Site Specific

Tue, September 15

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Introduction to Dark Matter

Speaker: Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM Administrative

1:00 PM Onboarding 1

Speaker: Kalpana Joshi

2:00 PM Onboarding 2

Speaker: Kalpana Joshi

Wed, September 16

6:00 AM → 4:00 PM Training

6:00 AM Common Core training

Thu, September 17

8:00 AM → 10:00 AM Training: SLOT

10:30 AM → 11:30 AM Introduction to Neutrinos

Speaker: Erica Caden (SNOLAB)

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM GEANT4

Speaker: Samantha Ryan (Memorial University)

Fri, September 18

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Introduction to Quantum Information

Speaker: Vijay Iyer (SNOLAB)

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM SNOLAB Chemistry

Speaker: Steve Maguire

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Linux

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB. Queen's University, and Laurentian University)