Name: CPAD 2025 at Penn
Start: 2025-10-07T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Inn at Penn, University of Pennsylvania

CPAD 2025 at Penn

from Tuesday, October 7, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, October 10, 2025 (2:00 PM)

Monday, October 6, 2025
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Foyer outside Woodlands Ballroom
9:00 AM Introduction
Introduction
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome from Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania - Mark Trodden

9:15 AM Guest 2

9:30 AM Welcome from Local Organizing Committee - Evelyn Jean Thomson (University of Pennsylvania (US))

9:45 AM CPAD Introduction and Updates - Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (US)) Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Instrumentation Overview
Instrumentation Overview
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

11:00 AM ESPPU and DRDs - Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

11:25 AM National Initiatives: Microelectronics - Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:50 AM DOE Remarks - HELMUT MARSISKE (U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics)

11:55 AM NSF Remarks

12:00 PM Q&A
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM RDC 3&4 Solid State & ASICS
RDC 3&4 Solid State & ASICS
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

2:00 PM Laboratory characterization of ARCADIA MAPS sensors, and status of future developments at Fermilab - Artur Apresyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2:20 PM Measuring Beta Particle Momentum with CMOS Sensors and Scintillating Detectors for Sterile Neutrino Detection - Daniel Kodroff (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

2:40 PM MAPS with improved timing performance for low-duty cycle accelerators - Lorenzo Rota (SLAC National Laboratory)

3:00 PM AstroPix: Low power high voltage CMOS active pixel sensors for future space and collider experiments - Manoj Jadhav
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

2:00 PM LAr Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches - Daniel Pyda (Drexel University)

2:20 PM CrystaLiZe: Towards a neutrino-limited dark matter search with Crystal Xenon - Dan Hunt (University of Texas at Austin)

2:40 PM Calibrating the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Detector - Jack Genovesi (Pennsylvania State University)

3:00 PM Calibration and Performance of the ICARUS Detector at Fermilab - Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction - Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/Illinois Institute of Technology)

2:05 PM Development of Iridium Platinum Bilayer-based Athermal Phonon Detectors - Gensheng Wang (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:20 PM Superconducting Hafnium films for detectors - Kaja Rotermund (LBNL)

2:35 PM Development of microwave multiplexed readout for athermal phonon TES-based detectors - John Groh (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2:50 PM Toward a meV Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated (KIPM) detector for low mass dark matter searches - Junwen Xiong (Caltech)

3:05 PM Phonon sensitive kinetic inductance device with low-Tc hafnium for light dark matter search - Xinran Li (Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory)

3:20 PM Radiation-Induced Correlated Events in Layered Superconducting Detectors - Samuel Watkins (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)

3:35 PM Enhanced Phonon Collection Efficiency in Aluminum MKIDs with Phonon Reflective Coating - Kungang Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

2:00 PM Opening remarks - Marina Artuso (Syracuse University (US)) Minfang Yeh

2:15 PM Latest result from the BNL 1ton Water-based Liquid Scintillator detector development - Adam Baldoni (Penn State University)

2:30 PM Development and performance of the BNL 30-ton scale Water-based Liquid Scintillator detector - Praveen Kumar (University of Alabama)

2:45 PM Water results from Eos - Tanner Kaptanoglu (LBNL)

3:00 PM WbLS results from Eos - Leon Pickard

3:15 PM Gamma Ray Detection in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers - Thomas Murphy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)

3:30 PM Simulation and Design of Liquid Argon Positron Emission Tomography - Thomas Murphy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

4:30 PM Properties and mitigation strategies of high-voltage phenomena measured at the Stanford Liquid Xenon High-Voltage Observatory - Lin Si (Stanford University)

4:50 PM Optimizing Dual-phase LArTPCs for Sub-keV siignals - Shawn Westerdale

5:10 PM Initial Results of Liquid Argon Doping Studies with TinyTPC - Hannah McCright (University of Maryland, College Park)

5:30 PM Simulation of Noble Element Detectors with NEST - Kian Trengove (University at Albany, SUNY)
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

4:30 PM Power conversion for HEP using piezoelectric elements - Adrian Nikolica (University of Pennsylvania (US))

4:50 PM CMS HGCAL ECON-D ASIC : Impact of CMOS fabrication process tuning on performance and radiation tolerance - Danny Noonan (Fermilab) Danny Noonan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Danny Noonan (Fermilab)

5:10 PM Functional and Single Event Effects (SEE) Triplication Verification of the ATLAS ITk Strip Tracker HCCStar and AMACStar Front-end ASICs - Paul Keener (University of Pennsylvania (US))

5:30 PM Amplitude Walk in Fast Timing: The Role of Dual Thresholds - Sebastian White (University of Virginia (US))
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

4:30 PM Transmon-based single microwave photon detectors for QCD axion searches in the classical window - Osmond Wen (Stanford University)

4:45 PM Progress of Qubit-based Sensors for meV Phonon Detection - Brandon Sandoval (Caltech)

5:00 PM Environmental Engineering of Qubit-Based Detectors - Daniel Molenaar (Illinois Institute of Technology)

5:15 PM Examining the effect of various radioactive sources on superconducting qubits protected through gap-engineering - Doug Pinckney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5:30 PM Utilizing the Quantum Zeno Effect in superconducting qubit based particle sensors - Olivia Seidel

5:45 PM Quantum Charge Sensing with cCPT Amplifiers for Modular Rare-Event Detectors - Caleb Fink (Syracuse University)
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

4:30 PM A novel AmBe neutron source design for future large-scale liquid detector - Ryan Wang (University of Alabama)

4:45 PM Development of the FEB2 Readout Electronics for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter HL-LHC Upgrade - Brian Kirby (Columbia)

5:00 PM Operation and performance of the new ATLAS LAr Calorimeter Trigger - Gabriel Pinheiro Matos (Columbia)

5:15 PM Simulation of the CalVision crystal dual-readout calorimeter testbeam array - Jon Wilson (Baylor University (US))

5:30 PM Cosmic Ray Muon Detection and Commissioning with a Highly Granular Dual-Readout Fiber Calorimeter (HG-DREAM) - Yongbin Feng (Texas Tech University (US))

5:45 PM Performance of High Granularity Dual-Readout Fiber Calorimeter (HG-DREAM) with High Energy Particle Beams - Weijie Jin (University of Zurich (CH))
6:15 PM Reception (snacks)
Reception (snacks)
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
8:45 AM National Initiatives
National Initiatives
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

8:45 AM National AI Initiatives and Opportunities in HEP Instrumentation - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))

9:10 AM National Initiatives: QIS - Silvia Zorzetti

9:35 AM HEP Facility Status and Needs - Gabriella Carini

10:00 AM HEP Instrumentation at U Penn - Brig Williams Hugh Williams (University of Pennsylvania (US))
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

11:00 AM Evidence for mitigated thermal stress with interposers in extended thermocycling of ATLAS ITk strip modules - Jesse Liu (New York University)

11:20 AM α, β pulse shape discrimination in silicon detectors - Louis Varriano (University of Washington)

11:40 AM 4D Pixel Detector Demonstrator Project - Timon Heim (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

12:00 PM Machine-Detector Interface for the MAIA Detector at a 10 TeV Muon Collider - Benjamin John Rosser (University of Chicago (US))

12:20 PM MAIA: A Detector Concept for a 10 TeV Muon Collider - Rose Powers (Princeton University (US))
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

11:00 AM Research and Development efforts towards a Carbon-Fiber Wire Drift Chamber - Caden Glenn (Purdue University (US))

11:20 AM A straw tracker for FCC-ee experiments - Linnuo Zhang (University of Michigan (US))

11:40 AM A High-Precision, Fast, Robust, and Cost-Effective Muon Detector for the FCC-ee - Linnuo Zhang (University of Michigan (US))

12:00 PM Embedded ML Solutions for Real-time Processing in Future Drift Chamber Detectors - Liangyu Wu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

11:00 AM Geant4 Condensed Matter Physics Simulations of Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated Detectors - Selby Dang (Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:15 AM Phonon and Quasiparticle Transport in Superconductors and novel materials - Israel Hernandez (Illinois Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM Accurate Phonon Transport Across Interfaces in G4CMP for sub-eV Detector Simulations in the BeEST Experiment - Caitlyn Stone-whitehead (Colorado School of Mines)

11:45 AM Readout and Noise Sensing Schemes for Qubit-Based Detectors - Kester Anyang (Illinois Institute of Technology)

12:00 PM Event reconstruction analysis on radiation-induced correlated errors in superconducting qubits - Emanuela Celi (Northwestern University)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

11:00 AM Results of Dual Readout single crystal test beam at Jefferson Lab and matrix test plans for CalVision - Grace Cummings (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:15 AM Developing Digital Silicon Photomultiplier (dSiPM) Specifications for a High-Granularity Calorimeter with Simulations - Liangyu Wu (Stanford/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:30 AM The RADiCAL Platform: A Modular Development Testbed for Fast-Timing Calorimetry and Beyond - James William Wetzel (University of Iowa (US))

11:45 AM LFHCal for ePIC Detector at EIC - Prakhar Garg (Yale University)

12:00 PM Round table discussion - Marina Artuso (Syracuse University (US)) Minfang Yeh
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

2:00 PM ML processing and compression of signal shared AC-LGADs - Samantha Sunnarborg (Brown University)

2:20 PM Mortality of ultra-thin LGADs from high energy deposition - Abraham Tishelman-Charny (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

2:40 PM Stress Tests on Low Gain Avalanche Diodes and AC-coupled Low Gain Avalanche Diodes - Trevor Russell (Brown University)

3:00 PM Performance of AC-LGADs for ePIC and beyond - Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

3:20 PM 5D tracking active target development for the PIONEER experiment - Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

2:00 PM Innovative Back-Side Illuminated SiPMs (BSI-SiPMs): first results from the IBIS project - Elisabetta Montagna (INFN - Bologna)

2:20 PM A Directional Skipper CCD Detector for MeV Scale Dark Matter - Nora Hoch (MIT)

2:40 PM Development of UV-Sensitive GaN Single Photon Geiger-Mode avalanche diodes - Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

3:00 PM Is lamination the key to large-area, uniform multi-well amorphous Selenium detectors? - V. A. Chirayath (University of Texas at Arlington)

3:20 PM Novel optical readout scheme for UV photodetection in ZnO/noble-metal thin film devices using Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy - Vivek Khichar (UT Arlington)

3:40 PM Fabrication and characterization of selenium alloys by co-deposition for application specific - Kaitlin Hellier (University of California, Santa Cruz)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

2:00 PM Triple-GEM Characterization for High-Pressure Gas Argon-Based Operation - Tanaz Mohayai (Indiana University)

2:20 PM A High-Pressure Gaseous-Argon TPC R&D Effort for Neutrinos and Rare Events: Simulation Studies - Brenna McConnell (Indiana University Bloomington)

2:40 PM Electronics testing and development for high-pressure argon-based detectors - Francisco Martínez López (Indiana University)

3:00 PM Improvements on directional nuclear recoil measurements with BEAST TPCs - Shashank Jayakumar (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

3:20 PM Development of a scaleable 40L gaseous TPC module with micromegas strip readout for directional reconstruction of low-energy nuclear recoils - Michael Litke (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

3:40 PM Development of an Ideal Gaseous TPC Detector - Tanner Polischuk (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

2:00 PM Dual-sided Skipper-CCDs for sub-GeV dark matter searches - Sho Uemura (Fermilab)

2:20 PM LEGEND: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in high-purity 76Ge-enriched detectors - Louis Varriano (University of Washington)

2:40 PM The KIPM Detector Consortium - Dylan Temples (Fermilab)

3:00 PM SPLENDOR's Modular Detector System Designed for meV Charge Signals with Novel Semiconductors - Caleb Fink (Syracuse University) Jadyn Anczarski (Stanford/SLAC/KIPAC)

3:20 PM Advancing TES-Based Detectors for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection - Aditi Pradeep (SLAC/Stanford)

3:40 PM Progress on the HeRALD Experiment - Joanna Wuko (UMass Amherst)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

4:30 PM Response of AC-LGADs to Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Damage - Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico (US))

4:50 PM Optimization of Ultrafast Silicon Detectors for Timing Applications in Future High Luminosity Collider Experiments - Bridget Mack (Syracuse University (US))

5:10 PM Design and characterization of the FCFD chip for strip AC-LGAD readout - Shuoxing Wu (Fermilab)

5:30 PM Q-Pix: Pixelated Charge Readout Design, Prototyping, & Simulation - Kalindi Gosine (University of Texas at Arlington)

5:50 PM Design and characterization of 28nm readout ASICs for 3D-integrated LGAD sensors - Bojan Markovic (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

6:10 PM Performance of HPSoCv2: measurements on a very high Channel Density Waveform Digitizer with sub-10ps resolution - Luca Macchiarulo (Nalu Scientific, LLC)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

4:30 PM Develop the new generation DELTA photodetector - Wei Shi (Stony Brook University (US))

4:50 PM Novel High-Performance Single-Photon Detectors for Next Generation HEP Applications - Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat (Florida International University)

5:10 PM Dichroic Filter Characterization - Amanda Bacon (University of Pennsylvania)

5:30 PM Chemical Deposition of Wavelength Shifting Material p-Terphenyl for Photodetectors in DUNE Phase II FD APEX design - Rado Fanantenana Razakamiandra (Stony Brook University)

5:50 PM Recent Advances in Lead-free MCPs Functionalized by ALD for Photomultiplier Tubes - Cole Hamel (Incom. Inc.)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

4:30 PM Ultra-Pure Nickel for Structural Components of Low-Radioactivity Instruments - Tyler Schlieder (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

4:50 PM Cosmogenic tritium in silicon: measurement, mitigation, and removal - Richard Saldanha

5:10 PM Measuring the optical scattering in n-type GaAs that could explain its high cryogenic scintillation luminosity - Cecilia Ferrari (MIT)

5:30 PM Imaging nuclear recoils with light sheet microscopy - Sam Hedges (Virginia Tech)

5:50 PM Characterizing single-electron backgrounds in Skipper-CCDs - Yikai Wu (Stony Brook University)

6:10 PM Development of Carbon-based Dark Matter Detectors with Magnetic Phonon Sensors - Geon-Bo Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

4:30 PM A quantum-enhanced two-cavity Haloscope for high-mass QCD axion detection - Christian Boutan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

4:45 PM Axion Search with HAYSTAC Phase III Multi-Rod Cavity Upgrade - Claire Laffan (Yale University)

5:00 PM A Dark Photon Dark Matter Search with a Widely-Tunable SRF Cavity - Raphael Cervantes

5:15 PM Searching for Axions with Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopes - Muhammad Hani Zaheer (University of Delaware)

5:30 PM Discussion on RF amplifiers, simulation, test infrastructure - Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/Illinois Institute of Technology)
6:30 PM (poster reception 6:30-8:00pm with snacks. Note posters will be on display all day Wednesday and Thursday)
(poster reception 6:30-8:00pm with snacks. Note posters will be on display all day Wednesday and Thursday)
6:30 PM - 8:20 PM
Contributions

6:30 PM A Novel Optical Communication Scheme for a New Clock-less Q-Pix Detector Design (for Q-Pix Collaboration) - Grace Gansle (University of Texas at Arlington)

6:30 PM A GHz-Bandwidth Readout and Trigger System for the Eos Hybrid Neutrino Detector - Benjamin Harris (University of Pennsylvania (US))

6:50 PM Network intelligence for fault tolerance and data load balancing - Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

7:10 PM Results from Testing of the Novel Optical Communication Scheme with the Clockless Q-Pix Charge Readout System in Gaseous Argon - John Hunt (University of Texas at Arlington)

7:30 PM Characterization and modelling of three building block circuitry of the Q-Pix charge read out scheme implemented using the open-source Skywater 130nm MOSFETS for application in liquid Argon detectors. - ASHISH RIMAL (University of Texas at Arlington)

7:50 PM Measurement of the Qpix analog front end for track reconstruction in a Pixelated Liquid Argon TPC - Alex Kramer (University of Pennsylvania)

8:00 PM ArCS: A Magnetized LArTPC in a Test Beam - Giulia Cicogna (University of Bologna)

8:00 PM FELIX: the transition of the ATLAS readout system from LHC Run 3 to Run 4 - Haotian Cao (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

8:00 PM Delayed backgrounds and charged liquid surface effects in dual-phase detectors. - sergey pereverzev (LLNL)

8:00 PM LAr Purification and Purity Monitoring System at Wellesley College - Wenzhao Wei (Wellesley College)

8:00 PM On the way to design fast beam loss monitor for Machine-Detector Protection at EIC: Test results at RHIC - Aleksey Bolotnikov (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Andrii Natochii (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Erik Muller (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Evgeny Shulga (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Thomas Tsang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:00 PM High-Rate Picosecond Photodetectors (HRPPDs) for Particle Identification Subsystems - Yifan Jin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

8:00 PM hls4ml - a tool for machine learning hardware-software co-design for HEP detector applications - Jan-Frederik Schulte (Purdue University (US)) Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US))

8:00 PM Cold readout electronics for liquid argon TPCs in the DUNE far detector - Xuyang Ning (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

8:00 PM ALFE2, a Large-Dynamic-Range, Low-Noise Front-End ASIC Designed for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter High-Luminosity Large-Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) upgrade - Tiankuan Liu (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

8:00 PM Integrated Electro-Photonic Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for Charged Particle Tracking - Prashansa Mukim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:00 PM Event-Driven Readout: Key to Next-Generation Granular Detectors and AI-Integrated Processing in HEP and NP - Dominik Gorni (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:00 PM Characterization of the MetaRock prototype TDC for future HEP experiments - Josef Daniel Sorenson (University of New Mexico (US)) Timon Heim

8:00 PM Beam Test Results of SiPM-on-Tile Calorimeter Prototypes Toward the ePIC Forward Calorimeter - Weibin Zhang

8:00 PM FPGA-acceleration of image feature extraction for the ATLAS experiment at CERN at the Large Hadron Collider - Tong Xu (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

8:00 PM Advancements and future expansions of the Caribou DAQ system - Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

8:00 PM High-Voltage Phonon-Focusing Detector with Spectral Filtering for Sub-eV Nuclear Recoil Discrimination - Gerardo Gonzalez (Texas A&M University)

8:00 PM Long-Term Performance of VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers in Cryogenic Environments for nEXO - Edryd van Bruggen (University of Massachusetts)

8:00 PM Low-Latency Graph Neural Network Implementation for Charged Track Reconstruction - Amilqar Karam

8:00 PM Advancements in Power-over-Fiber technology for the DUNE Far Detector 3 - David Martinez (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

8:00 PM CHARMS250: A Cryogenic Front-End ASIC for Low-Noise Readout of Charge or Light Signals - Prashansa Mukim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:05 PM Design and Performance of a Cryogenic THz Calibration System for Ultra-Sensitive Detectors - Emily Perry (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))

8:05 PM Exploring Axion Dark Matter with Optical Quantum Sensors - Young Jin Kim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

8:05 PM Characterization of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers for the RICOCHET Experiment - Jiatong Yang (Department of Physics, MIT)

8:05 PM Machine Learning to Accelerate Qubit Designs for Quantum Sensing - Olivia Seidel
Thursday, October 9, 2025
8:55 AM Conference Photo Information - Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)
Conference Photo Information
- Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)
8:55 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Early Career Research
Early Career Research
9:00 AM - 10:32 AM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

9:00 AM Characterization of Low Gain Avalanche Diodes Using Diverse Particle Beams - Mohamed Hijas Mohamed Farook (University of New Mexico (US))

9:15 AM Towards 6D Tracking: using fast-timing to determine track position, time, and angles - Victor Turbiner (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

9:30 AM Development of the novel 3D-projection opaque liquid scintillator calorimeter - Guang Yang (Brookhaven National Lab)

9:45 AM Migration of feature extraction from firmware to software for the Belle II TOP detector - Harsh Purwar (University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA)

10:00 AM Progress of the TESSERACT Dark Matter Experiment - William Matava (University of California at Berkeley)

10:15 AM The QUAntum LImited PHotons In the Dark Experiment - Ritoban Basu Thakur

10:30 AM Photo before 2pm and banquet at 6:30pm - Evelyn Jean Thomson (University of Pennsylvania (US)) Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (US)) Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)
10:32 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:32 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM RDC 1&2&7 Noble & Photo & Low background
RDC 1&2&7 Noble & Photo & Low background
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

11:00 AM Development of pTP Coatings for Wavelength Shifter with Industrial Scale in LAr Detectors - Yichen Li

11:20 AM Quartz fluorescence backgrounds in liquid xenon TPCs - Peter Sorensen (LBL / Berkeley Lab)

11:40 AM Testing of the CRYO ASIC for in-liquid-xenon ionization readout - Brian Lenardo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:00 PM Development of an Ultrasensitive ICP-MS Assay Method for the Determination of Uranium, Thorium and Potassium in Gadolinium Used in Scintillator Materials - Isaac Arnquist (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

11:00 AM Thin Film Detectors - Jessica Metcalfe (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

11:20 AM InAs/GaAs Semiconductor Quantum Dot Scintillation Detector: Real and Projected Performance for 4D Tracking - Serge Oktyabrsky (University at Albany)

11:40 AM Radiation-Hard Ga₂O₃ Solid-State Detectors for Extreme Environments in High-Energy Physics - Ge Yang (Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University)

12:00 PM Time Resolution Studies of 4H-SiC LGADs for Fast Timing Applications - Tao Yang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

11:00 AM The Analog Photon Processor ASIC - Adrian Nikolica (University of Pennsylvania (US))

11:20 AM Possible new iterations of the VMM chip for MPGD readout - Gianluigi De Geronimo (University of Michigan, Stony Brook University, dgcircuits.com)

11:40 AM Smartpixels: Developing ASICs for high-energy particle detectors with on-chip neural networks in 28 nm CMOS - Danush Shekar (University of Illinois Chicago (US))

12:00 PM A Smart Readout ASIC with Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning Integrated into the Front-End - Prashansa Mukim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

11:00 AM Development of Thin Gap GEM-μRWELL Hybrid Detectors at Jefferson Lab - Kondo Gnanvo (Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. (US))

11:20 AM Plans for EIC generic R&D based on MPGD technology - Sourav Tarafdar (Jefferson Lab)

11:40 AM Design and production of GEM modules for the MOLLER experiment - James Shirk (Stony Brook University)

12:00 PM Large-area MPGDs for Physics Experiments at Jefferson Lab - Huong Nguyen (University of Virginia)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM RDC 4&5 ASICS & TDAQ
RDC 4&5 ASICS & TDAQ
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: St Marks
Contributions

2:00 PM Aligning data to better than one picosecond. - Roger Rusack (University of Minnesota (US))

2:20 PM Generic Hardware Platform for future high-bandwidth detector readout - Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

2:40 PM SparsePixels: Efficient Convolution for Sparse Data on FPGAs - Ho Fung Tsoi (University of Pennsylvania (US))

3:00 PM On-sensor regression of particle kinematics - Jennet Elizabeth Dickinson (Cornell University (US))

3:20 PM PQuant: Streamlining ML Model Compression to Deployment for Next-Gen Detector Systems - Arghya Ranjan Das (Purdue University (US))
RDC 7&8 Low background & Quantum
RDC 7&8 Low background & Quantum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

2:20 PM Toward a general-purpose ultra-low-external interference quantum device holder - Yen-Yung Chang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

2:40 PM Calibrating Interactions in Low-Threshold, Phonon-Mediated Qubit Detectors - Grace Bratrud (Northwestern University)

3:00 PM Stored energy releases: material problem in dark matter search and quantum computing - sergey pereverzev (LLNL)

3:20 PM Suppressing high energy events in superconducting devices in a shallow underground laboratory - Jacob Bargemann (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

3:40 PM Understanding the Origin of Non-Ionizing Phonon Bursts seen in Phonon Calorimeters and Superconducting QUBITs. - Matt Pyle (University of California Berkeley)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Regent
Contributions

2:00 PM Relieving Thermal Stress in ATLAS ITk Strip Modules - Anne Winifred Fortman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

2:20 PM Temperature dependent thermal conductivity measurements and their effects on the thermal management predictions for Silicon Detector Support Structures - Pau Simpson

2:40 PM Global Mechanics Challenges for Materials and Structures in Future Collider Detectors - Giorgio Vallone (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

3:00 PM Production of Vessel and Mirrors for the pfRICH Detector at the EIC - Charles Joseph Naim (Stony Brook University (CFNS))
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

2:00 PM Power-over-Fiber Development for DUNE VD Photon Detection System - Biswaranjan Behera (South Dakota Mines, USA)

2:20 PM ProtoDUNE Vertical Drift (NP02) Photon Detection System Status - Wei Shi (Stony Brook University (US))

2:40 PM High performance RICH detector concept with HRPPD sensors for EIC Generic R&D - Laura Brittany Havener (Yale University (US))

3:00 PM Measurements of Spectral Photon Sorting Using Dichroicons in Large Optical Neutrino Detectors - Jieran Shen (University of Pennsylvania (US))

3:20 PM Development, Characterization and Quality Control of Silicon Photomultipliers for the CMS Barrel Timing Layer - Mitch Wayne (Notre Dame)

3:40 PM LightPix-v3: Improvements in scalable readout for silicon photomultipliers in cryogenic environments - Brooke Russell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

4:30 PM The Noble Liquid Test Facility at Fermilab - Flor de Maria Blaszczyk (Fermilab)

4:50 PM Optical Characterization of Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes - Gabriele Giacomini (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

5:10 PM Modern Electronics Education with AI/ML and FPGA - Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: McNeil Building Room 150
Contributions

4:30 PM LArPix Pixelated Charge Readout System - Brooke Russell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:48 PM A readout ASIC on CMOS 28 nm for SiPM/PMT readout at cryogenic temperatures - Bojan Markovic

5:06 PM Cryogenic Testing of CRYO ASIC for Photon Readout - Liang Yang (UC San Diego)

5:24 PM Cryogenic Modeling of Open-Source Skywater 130nm Process Design Kit at 77K for High Energy Physics - Faith Beall (The University of Texas at Arlington)

5:42 PM Development of a 28 nm Cryogenic PDK for Next-Generation HEP Detectors - Brian Lenardo
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

4:30 PM High Energy Particle Detection with Large Area Superconducting Microwire Array - Christina Wenlu Wang (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

4:45 PM Investigation of Low-Energy Event Detection through Meissner Screening probed by a Superconductor–NV Center ensemble - Pratyanik Sau (University of Texas at Arlington)

5:00 PM Towards long-distance phase coherence for large-area quantum sensors. - Andrew Cameron (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:15 PM On-Sky Demonstration of a Superconducting Filter Bank Spectrometer on SPT-SLIM - Cyndia Yu (UChicago/ANL)

5:30 PM The SuperCDMS-HVeV Program: Results and New Directions - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

5:45 PM Discussion on material R&D, test infrastructure - Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/Illinois Institute of Technology)
6:30 PM Banquet (6:30-8:30pm)
Banquet (6:30-8:30pm)
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: St Marks & Regent
Friday, October 10, 2025
9:00 AM High Priority Big Projects
High Priority Big Projects
9:00 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

9:00 AM DUNE Phase-2 Detector R&D - Brooke Russell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

9:22 AM US HFCC PED - Liza Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

9:47 AM Muon Collider PED R&D - Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US))

10:10 AM ePIC - Oskar Hartbrich (ORNL)
10:35 AM Coffee break and morning snack
Coffee break and morning snack
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM Award ceremony, RDC Highlights, Closeout
Award ceremony, RDC Highlights, Closeout
11:05 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

11:05 AM GIRA Award: Olivia Seidel - Olivia Seidel

11:30 AM GIRA Award: Earl Almazan - Earl Russell Tang Almazan (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

11:55 AM Poster Award / RDC Highlights / Closeout - Jonathan Asaadi (The University of Texas at Arlington)

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