Name: Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition
Start: 2021-08-23T10:45:00-04:00
End: 2021-08-24T19:50:00-04:00
Location: No location set

Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition

from Monday 23 August 2021 (10:45) to Tuesday 24 August 2021 (19:50)

Monday 23 August 2021 ¶
10:45 Opening Remarks - Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)
Opening Remarks
- Benjamin Tam (Queen's University)
10:45 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 K40 Backgrounds in the SNO+ Neutrino Detector - Parmesh Ravi (University of Waterloo)

11:15 Dark matter search and calibration of detectors at Université de Montréal - Audréanne Matte-Landry (Université de Montreal)

11:30 Lab Weather Station - Felix Belair (McGill University)

11:45 Cherenkov Light Simulations with Chroma for nEXO’s Muon Veto - Emma Klemets (McGill University, UBC)

12:00 Hunting Unicorns: Model-Free Detection of Time Series Anomalies in GW Detector Data - Julian Ding (University of British Columbia)
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Contributions

12:30 Ab Initio Correlation between Double Gamow-Teller Transitions and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Izzy Ginnett (TRIUMF)

12:45 Evaluation C14 background in the SNO+ detector - keegan paleshi (Snolab)

13:00 Machine Learning for Top Quark Pair Kinematic Reconstruction - Maggie Wang (University of Toronto)

13:15 Measurements of Radon Concentration in SNOLAB air - Matt Stollman (SNOLAB)

13:30 Using Machine Learning to Denoise Acoustic Pulses - Charlotte Reed
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 An Analysis of C14 for SNO+ - Victoria Howard (SNOLAB)

14:15 Analyzing Neck Events in the SNO+ Experiment - Kai Soini (SNO+ - Queen's University)

14:30 NEWS-G3 Muon Background Simulation - Clara Mitchinson (Queen's University)

14:45 Feature Recognition and labelling for Photogrammetry Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector - Tapendra B C

15:00 PICO 500 Muon Veto Optical Calibration System - Laurie Amen (Queen's University)
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:45 Improving Gravity Spy's Classification Accuracy of Real Gravitational Wave Events and Excess Noise Artifacts - Seraphim HSIEH JAROV (University of British Columbia)

16:00 URM Pressure Equalizing System - Ashley McCambley

16:15 Finding Functional Approximations of the Absolute Counting Efficiencies for radon 222 and radon 220 for ESC’s under certain Pressures and High Voltages - Drake Wickman (nEXO)

16:30 Particle Discrimination Using Machine Learning Techniques - Megan McArthur (SNOLAB)
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Analysis of Alpha Particle Quenching in SNO+ Scintillator Using Internal Polonium Backgrounds - Anthony Allega (Queen's University)

17:15 Simulating Gamma Ray Interactions to Determine Dead Layer of Germanium - Erin Bolger

17:30 Recent development of the radiopurity.org materials database - Vicente Garrido (SNOLAB)

17:45 Radon Measurements and the Lucas Cell System - Julia Azzi

18:00 Characterization of ion plumes in laser ablation ion sources - Joseph Torsiello

18:15 The Evolution of Fundamental Galaxy Scaling Relations - Katherine Frazer
Tuesday 24 August 2021 ¶
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Contributions

12:45 Using Machine/Deep Learning to Analyze Acoustic Data and Probe the Physical Development of Bubble Nucleation - Kyle Yeates (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)

13:00 Geometries and PMT Configurations for nEXO Outer Detector Simulations - Liam Retty (Laurentian University)

13:15 Measuring the Mass of the Milky Way: Converting a 350 PHYS Project into a 250 Lab - Madelynn Mast (Queen's University)

13:30 Logical Muon Generation for Monte Carlo Simulations (Underground) - Regan Ross
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Identification of a Directional Cherenkov Signal in Tl208 Decays in the SNO+ Detector - Maeve Cockshutt (SNO+)

14:15 Improving Background Simulation Efficiency with Flux Surfaces - Alexander Pleava (McMaster University)

14:30 NEWS-G Sensor Characterization - Irina Babayan (Queen's University)

14:45 In-gas laser ablation source (IGLAS) for nEXO's Ba-tagging group at McGill - Laura Gonzalez Escudero (McGill University)

15:00 Building a Public Database for Transient High-Energy Event Analyses - Tai Withers (Queen's University)
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:45 Simulations of PMT and Track Reconstruction in Magnetic Field - Kishankumar Patel (The University of Winnipeg)

16:00 Black hole quasinormal mode spectroscopy - Ashley Chraya (IISER Mohali)

16:15 In-Gas Laser Ablation Source (IGLAS) Development at McGill University - Minya Bai

16:30 Distinguishing signal from background for a direct measurement of antihydrogen’s Lamb shift - Abbygale Grace Swadling (University of Calgary Dep. of Phys. and Astronomy (CA))
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Tellurium Plants and Tellurium Purification in SNO+ - Julia Patterson (SNOLAB)

17:15 A comparative study of various Deep Learning techniques for spatio-temporal Super-Resolution reconstruction of forced isotropic turbulent flows - T.S.Sachin Venkatesh (Delhi Technological University)

17:30 Simulation of backgrounds for the Ar2D2 detector. - Maria Ortiz

17:45 Cascade Reconstruction in Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) - Kaustav Dutta (University of Alberta)

18:00 Right Time, Right Place: a Comparative Analysis of DEAP-3600’s Position Reconstruction Algorithms - Raveen Sidhu (DEAP-3600)
18:30 Deliberation Period
Deliberation Period
18:30 - 19:30
19:30 Prize Announcement and Closing Remarks - Christine Kraus (Laurentian University)
Prize Announcement and Closing Remarks
- Christine Kraus (Laurentian University)
19:30 - 19:50

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