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

Onboarding

1 Welcome

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

2 Coffee hour

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

3 Tour of the surface building

4 Orientation slides

Speaker: Emma Larcher

5 Do's and don't's of SNOLAB

Speaker: Mike Stoddart

6 Student 101

Speaker: Cheyanne Monk

7 Communications at SNOLAB

New Student Presentation.pptx

12:00 PM Lunch

8 Ice breaker

9 Science at SNOLAB

Speaker: Erica Caden

SNOLAB Student Orientation - Autumn 2027.pdf

1:45 PM Break

10 Violence and harassment

Speaker: Ashley Verge

11 Ice breaker

Wed, September 9

Training: STMS training session

Convener: Emma Larcher (SNOLAB)

12 Testing

Speaker: Emma Larcher (SNOLAB)

Thu, September 10

13 Particle Matter Interactions

Speaker: Pierre Gorel (SNOLAB)

A Practical Introduction to Particle Physics_Rev1.pptx

Fri, September 11

14 PPE sign out

Speaker: Emma Larcher (SNOLAB)

15 Cleanliness

Speaker: Aleksandra Bialek (SNOLAB)

Mon, September 14

Training: Site Specific

16 Site Specific

Tue, September 15

17 Introduction to Dark Matter

Speaker: Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)

Introduction_To_Dark_Matter_Stukel.pdf

Administrative

18 Onboarding 1

Speaker: Kalpana Joshi

19 Onboarding 2

Speaker: Kalpana Joshi

Wed, September 16

Training

20 Common Core training

Thu, September 17

Training: SLOT

21 Introduction to Neutrinos

Speaker: Erica Caden (SNOLAB)

22 GEANT4

Speaker: Samantha Ryan (Memorial University)

23 EDI in Science

Speaker: Christine Kraus (SNOLAB)

Fri, September 18

24 Introduction to Quantum Information

Speaker: Vijay Iyer (SNOLAB)

25 SNOLAB Chemistry

Speaker: Steve Maguire

26 Linux

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