Name: The Canadian Astroparticle physics Summer Student Talk (CASST) Competition 2023
Start: 2023-08-17T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-08-18T23:30:00-04:00
Location: Laurentian University / Virtual

The Canadian Astroparticle physics Summer Student Talk (CASST) Competition 2023

from Thursday 17 August 2023 (09:00) to Friday 18 August 2023 (23:30)

Monday 14 August 2023
Tuesday 15 August 2023
Wednesday 16 August 2023
Thursday 17 August 2023

09:00 Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and Introduction
09:00 - 09:10
Room: C-203
09:10 Session I
Session I
09:10 - 10:30
Room: C-203
Contributions

09:15 Quality assurance plan for the TeA plant - James Baker (SnoLab Student)

09:30 Sample Analysis Methodology for Telluric Purification - James Smith

09:45 Finding Primordial Black Holes via their Photon Rings - William Paty

10:00 Deeply Learning the Position Reconstruction of Antihydrogen Annihilations in ALPHA-g - Ashley Ferreira (TRIUMF (CA))

10:15 Radon-222 Gas Assays of the SNO+ Detector - Ana Carla Molina Colina
10:30

10:30 - 10:45
Room: C-203

10:45

10:45 - 11:15
Room: C-203
11:15 Session II
Session II
11:15 - 12:30
Room: C-203
Contributions

11:15 Locating Muons with Timing Information in a Prototype for the MATHUSLA Detector - Branden Aitken

11:30 Exploring Dark Matter with SuperCDMS: Leveraging GANs and Other Machine Learning Techniques - Mithun Vanniasinghe (University of Toronto)

11:45 Monte Carlo Analyisis of Alpha Backgrounds - Mark Volin (SNOLAB, Universidad Iberoamericana)

12:00 Nuclear beta decay of rare neutron-deficient isotopes - Dhruval Shah (University of Regina)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: C-203

13:30

13:30 - 15:00
Room: C-203

15:00 Health Break
Health Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: C-203
15:30 Session III
Session III
15:30 - 16:30
Room: C-203
Contributions

15:30 Characterizing Photomultiplier Tubes in nEXO's Outer Detector - Kristofer Karam (Université de Montréal)

15:45 External Cross in LoLX1 - Zachariah Charlesworth

16:00 The Legacy of SNO - Maggie Oxford

16:15 Roboshifter for SNO+ - David Drobner (Queen's University)
16:30

16:30 - 17:00
Room: C-203

17:15

17:15 - 18:15
Room: C-203
Friday 18 August 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: C-203
Contributions

09:00 All the light we cannot see: studying Dark Photon-Photon oscillations in astrophysical environments - Aditya Chugh (University of Toronto)

09:15 Adding Bis-MSB in the SNO+ Detector: Boosting the Light Yield One Batch at a Time - Myla Weiman

09:30 Cryogenic Distillation - Drake Wickman

09:45 Preliminary Steps Towards Simulating Gamma-Gamma Coincidence Events in the CTBT Dual Detector and Determining its Minimum Detectable Activity - Maxwell Bridgewater

10:00 Improving radon assay using activated charcoal - Yusuf Ahmed (SNOLAB)

10:15 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Errors for Measuring the Flux of Neutrons in the SNO Lab Underground Laboratory - Tatum Soward (SNO Lab)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: C-203
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: C-203
Contributions

11:00 Predicting Oxygen Sensor Failures at SNOLAB using Data Analysis and Machine Learning - Katherine Latosinsky

11:15 Cleaning Data with the Neck Cut in SNO+ - Victoria Howard (SNO+)

11:30 Detecting Radon with a Spherical Proportional Counter - Lauren Fearn

11:45 Scavenger Assay Development - Keegan Paleshi (Laurentian University)

12:00 Monte Carlo Simulations of Dark Matter Detectors for SuperCDMS - Sam Paudel (University of Toronto)

12:15 Simulating Magnetic Fields in a Magnetically Shielded Room for a Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment - Thomas Hepworth (The University of Winnipeg)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: C-203

13:30

13:30 - 14:00
Room: C-203

14:00

14:00 - 14:45
Room: C-203

14:45

14:45 - 15:15
Room: C-203

15:15

15:15 - 17:15
Room: C-203

17:15

17:15 - 17:45
Room: C-203