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Minya Bai (Queen's University), Neha Panchal (Postdoctoral Fellow), Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)07/05/2025, 12:00
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Tony Noble07/05/2025, 12:15
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Brigitte Vachon (McGill University, (CA))07/05/2025, 13:30
Through the telling of historical facts and stories, you'll learn about how particle accelerators work and some of the ways accelerators are used for fundamental research. In this talk, I'll also introduce some of the well-known particle accelerators used for discovery research around the world, and some of the future ideas!
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Derek Cranshaw (Queen's University)07/05/2025, 15:00
This workshop is intended to get participants familiar with using the command line to manipulate data files and write scripts. No knowledge of Unix or programming is assumed.
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Nahee Park08/05/2025, 12:00
I will review the observations of high-energy astroparticle physics focusing on experiments I am involved in (HELIX, IceCube, P-ONE, VERITAS).
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Dr Stephen Sekula (SNOLAB and Queen's University)08/05/2025, 13:30
A hands-on introduction to controlling revisions to a shared project using Git.
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Dr Conor McGrath (Queen's University)08/05/2025, 15:00
Beryllium-10, a so called clock isotope can provide unique measurements of Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) lifetimes with respect to the size of the propagation halo in the Milky Way. To this date there are no high-precision measurements of beryllium-10 above 2 GeV/n. The High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment (HELIX), a balloon-borne magnet spectrometer, directly measures a cosmic ray’s charge,...
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Patrick Hatch08/05/2025, 15:30
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino detector located 2 km under the South Pole. Since it became operational in the early 2010s, IceCube has detected the most energetic neutrinos ever seen (from TeV to PeV -- solar neutrinos are ~ MeV for scale). It is clear that these high energy neutrinos are astrophysical in origin, but how are they being produced? It is thought...
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Bryan Owens (Queen's University)08/05/2025, 16:00
The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is an array of four 12 m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona, USA, that has been in full array operation since 2007. VERITAS pursues a broad science program spanning both Galactic and extragalactic targets: it probes supernova remnants, pulsar wind...
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Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)09/05/2025, 12:00
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Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)09/05/2025, 13:30
Potassium-40 is one of the most abundant naturally occurring radio isotopes. Though it's primary decay mode is well known the rare decay via positron emission is not well understood. KDK+ is an experiment that will look for this rare positron decay using liquid scintillators, and sophisticated gamma detection techniques.
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Kenneth Clark09/05/2025, 14:00
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Mr Remington Hill12/05/2025, 12:00
C++ is an object-oriented successor to the programming language C and has become one of the most common programming languages used today. In physics research, it is commonly used in simulation software packages like GEANT4, or analysis packages like ROOT.
In this talk, it is assumed that attendees have zero knowledge of C++. Starting with the basics of data types and operations, we will...
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Scott Oser12/05/2025, 14:30
In this two-hour whirlwind session, I'll introduce basic principles of frequentist and Bayesian statistics and illustrate the most common statistical techniques used in particle physics.
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Gary Sweeney (Part-time PhD Student)13/05/2025, 12:00
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Jeremy Savoie (Université de Montréal)13/05/2025, 13:30
Mental well-being is incredibly important in our daily life and can affect positively or negatively how we navigate challenges. Many surveys have shown that academia negatively impacts student's mental well-being. In this talk, we will go over these surveys, understand how mental well-being can impact your studies and your research and have a discussion amongst participants about their shared...
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Brian Krar13/05/2025, 15:00
This tutorial is intended as an initial introduction to ROOT for new students in particle astrophysics.
The contents of the workshop will assume you have ROOT already installed!
Please refer to the ROOT website for installation instructions (https://root.cern/install/), as this session will not go through how to install it.
Truthfully, you (the student) will not be a ROOT expert in...
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Guillaume Giroux14/05/2025, 12:00
Basics of dark matter searches, with a focus on direct detection experiments.
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Emily Adams (Queen's University)14/05/2025, 13:30
Introduction to the PICO experiment and the use of superheated bubble chambers in the search for dark matter.
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Carter Garrah14/05/2025, 14:00
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Theo Hugues (Queen's University)14/05/2025, 15:00
This talk will present a summary of liquid argon technology and the scientific opportunities it offers for probing fundamental physics. The main focus will be on two experiments: DEAP-3600, a single-phase detector located at SNOLAB, and DarkSide-20k, a future liquid argon time projection chamber currently under construction at LNGS, Italy. This talk will highlight recent progress, challenges,...
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Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University, Canada)14/05/2025, 15:30
The NEWS-G experiment searches for low-mass dark matter using spherical proportional counters (SPCs). An SPC is a sphere filled with gas, with a high-voltage anode at its centre producing a radial electric field, sensitive to ionizing particles within the detector. The largest NEWS-G detector is a sphere of 135cm of diameter currently taking data at SNOLAB. This talk will explain how an SPC...
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Dr Matthew Stukel (Gran Sasso Science Institute)14/05/2025, 16:00
Located 2km underground at SNOLAB, the SuperCDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) experiment is currently being constructed and will focus on the detection of low-mass (<10 GeV/c2) dark matter particles. The experiment will utilize 6 silicon and 18 germanium cryogenic calorimeters arranged in 4 detector towers. There are two types of individual detectors; HV and iZIP. The HV detectors are...
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Ryan Martin15/05/2025, 12:00
Neutrinos. What are they? What do we know about them? What do we still need to know about them? Tune in to learn about the history of research in neutrinos and the motivation behind the various experiments in neutrino physics.
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Alex Wright (IPP/Queen's University)15/05/2025, 13:30
An overview of the global experimental program searching for neutrinoless double beta decay will be given.
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Dr Ali Ajmi (University of Winnipeg)15/05/2025, 14:00
The discovery of neutrino oscillation in atmospheric neutrinos by the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Super-K has been a long-running neutrino experiment using Water Cherenkov Detector for more than 20 years using ultra-pure water as its neutrino target. Recently it has been upgraded to Super-K-Gd....
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Thomas Brunner (McGill University)15/05/2025, 14:30
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Minya Bai (Queen's University), Neha Panchal (Postdoctoral Fellow), Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)15/05/2025, 15:15
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Nicholas Swidinsky (Queen's University)16/05/2025, 12:00
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Minya Bai (Queen's University)16/05/2025, 13:30
This workshop will aim to review the basics of Python and dive deeper into how it is often used in physics.
I will perform examples using jupyter notebook with python 3.13.2. If you do not have it installed, I would recommend using syzygy (Queen's student) or https://colab.google/ (non Queen's student).
I will upload slides and scripts to Indico after the workshop.
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