Name: PSD11: The 11th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors
Start: 2017-09-03T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-09-08T14:00:00+01:00
Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

PSD11: The 11th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

from Sunday 3 September 2017 (16:00) to Friday 8 September 2017 (14:00)

Monday 28 August 2017
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Thursday 31 August 2017
Friday 1 September 2017
Saturday 2 September 2017
Sunday 3 September 2017

17:00 Welcome drinks reception
Welcome drinks reception
17:00 - 21:00
Room: Kents Hill Park (first floor foyer)

Monday 4 September 2017

08:45 Opening address by Peter Horrocks (VC)
Opening address by Peter Horrocks (VC)
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Berill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

09:00 Detectors and imagers for planetary exploration missions - Harald Michaelis (DLR)

09:30 High-Energy 3D Calorimeter for Use in Gamma-ray Astronomy based on position-sensitive virtual Frisch-grid CdZnTe (CZT) detectors - Alexander Moiseev (CRESST/NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland)

09:50 The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) - Riccardo Rando (University and INFN Padova)

10:10 High frame rate and low noise CMOS WaveFront imager for E-ELT Adaptative Optics - Jerome Pratlong (Teledyne e2v)
10:30 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Berill Foyer (OU)
11:00
11:00 - 12:50
Room: Berill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

11:00 Chromatic X-ray imaging with a fine pitch CdTe sensor coupled to a large area photon counting pixel ASIC - Ronaldo Bellazzini (INFN Pisa)

11:30 Performances of depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor in a high-resistivity CMOS process for X-ray detection - Julian Heymes (IPHC)

11:50 Processing of Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) X-ray pixel detectors - Akiko Gädda (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland. Advacam Oy, Espoo, Finland)

12:10 Detector requirements for single mask edge illumination x-ray phase contrast imaging applications - Gibril Kallon (University College London)

12:30 Detectors for use with high-intensity laser-driven sources of radiation - Sion Richards (Science & Technology Facilities Council)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:10
Room: Hub Theatre (OU)
14:10
14:10 - 15:40
Room: Berill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

14:10 Hybrid pixel detector developments for Synchrotrons and Free Electron Lasers at the Paul Scherrer Institut - Gemma Tinti (Paul Scherrer Institute)

14:40 AGIPD detectors - fast cameras for the experimental stations of the European XFEL - Alexander Klyuev (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

15:00 LAMBDA 2M GaAs – A multi-megapixel hard X-ray detector for synchrotrons - David Pennicard (DESY)

15:20 Using EMCCDs with centroiding to achieve better than 5 µm spatial resolution for soft X-ray RIXS - David Gopinath (The Open University)
15:40 Industrial exhibit (with tea and coffee)
Industrial exhibit (with tea and coffee)
15:40 - 16:30
Room: Berrill Foyer, ground and first floor (OU)
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

16:30 3D sensors - Cinzia Da Via (University of Manchester (GB))

17:00 High Performance Infrared Imaging Sensors, Basic Principles to the State-of-the-Art - James Beletic (Teledyne Imaging Sensors)

17:30 Teledyne-e2v - recent developments in CCD and CMOS sensors and characterisation techniques - Doug Jordan (Teledyne-e2v)

18:00 Sensor Development at MPG HLL - Alexander Bahr (MPG HLL)
18:30 Industrial exhibit and drinks reception
Industrial exhibit and drinks reception
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Berrill Foyer, first and ground floor (OU)
Tuesday 5 September 2017
08:30
08:30 - 11:25
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

08:30 The Tynode: a new vacuum electron multiplier for ultra fast pixelised particle detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

09:00 The Capacitive Division Image Readout - Development and Experimental Results - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)

09:20 A real-time method for particle fall-out detection and monitoring using pixelated silicon sensors - Abigail Shaylor (XCAM Limited)

09:40 SOPHIA: Photon Counting and Time-to-Digital Conversion using Single Photon Avalanche Diodes - Ben Marsh (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

10:45 Characterisation and comparison of detectors for electrons in the range 10-20 keV - John Matheson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:05 Initial results from a cryogenic proton irradiation test campaign of P-channel CCD204s - Ben Dryer (The Open University)
11:25
11:25 - 12:25
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

11:25 Hybrid gamma camera for medical applications - John Lees (University of Leicester)

11:45 Performance of a Photon Counting CdTe detector for different pixel sizes - Sonia Fernandez-Perez

12:05 Double photon emission coincidence imaging of 111-In using high resolution Ce:GAGG-SiPM pixel detectors - Kenji Shimazoe (The University of Tokyo)
12:25 Buffet lunch
Buffet lunch
12:25 - 13:45
Room: Hub Theatre (OU)
13:45
13:45 - 16:25
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

13:45 CHEC: A Compact High Energy Camera for CTA - Richard White (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik)

14:15 Operational Experience and Performance with the ATLAS Pixel detector - Juanan Garcia (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))

14:35 The construction of the phase 1 upgrade of the CMS pixel detector - Hannsjorg Weber (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:55 Monolithic Pixel Development in TowerJazz 180~nm CMOS for the outer pixel layers in the ATLAS experiment - Ivan Berdalovic (CERN)

15:15 A new strips tracker for the upgraded ATLAS ITk detector - Claire David (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

16:05 Limits in point to point resolution of MOS based pixels detector arrays - Nicolas Fourches (CEA/IRFU, Université Paris –Saclay, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France,)
16:25
16:25 - 18:05
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

16:25 The SMILE Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) CCD design and development - Matthew Soman (Open University)

16:45 On-Ground and In-Orbit Characterisation Plan for the PLATO CCD Normal Cameras - Jason Gow (University College London)

17:05 Initial trap pumping results from the Euclid CCD273 radiation campaign - Jesper Skottfelt (The Open University)

17:25 Radiation testing of Solid State Detectors flying on the JUICE mission - Richard Gillham Darnley (University College London)

17:45 Calibration Techniques for CCDs in the Presence of the Brighter Fatter Effect - Daniel Weatherill (University of Oxford)
18:30 Conference BBQ
Conference BBQ
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Mulberry Lawn, outside the Hub Theatre (OU)

20:30 Film: The Imitation Game
Film: The Imitation Game
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Hub Theatre (OU)
Wednesday 6 September 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

09:00 X-ray Polarimetry Techniques - Hill Joanne (NASA)

09:30 A Flight Photon Counting Camera for the WFIRST Coronagraph - Patrick Morrissey (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

09:50 Mitigating Radiation Damage in Photon Counting EMCCDs for the WFIRST Coronagraph: survival in an L2 orbit - Leon Harding (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

10:10 Proton Induced Traps within EM-CCDs - Nathan Bush (The Open University)
10:30 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Berrill Foyer (OU)
11:00
11:00 - 12:20
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

11:00 Development of a range telescope for proton CT - Michela Esposito (University of Lincoln)

11:20 Innovative thin silicon detectors for monitoring of therapeutic proton beams: preliminary beam tests. - Anna Vignati (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Torino (IT))

11:40 Development of a silicon tracker for imaging with protons - Jon Taylor (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:00 Imaging of prompt gamma emissions during proton cancer therapy for geometric and dosimetric verification - Benjamin Le Crom (University of Liverpool)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:40
Room: Hub Theatre (OU)

14:00 Visit to Bletchley Park Museum and the National Museum of Computing (including buffet dinner and drinks reception)
Visit to Bletchley Park Museum and the National Museum of Computing (including buffet dinner and drinks reception)
14:00 - 20:00
Room: Coaches will depart from outside of the OU library
Thursday 7 September 2017
08:30
08:30 - 11:20
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

08:30 The Development of the LPD Pixel Detector at RAL - Marcus Julian French (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

09:00 Multi-port CCD detector family at SACLA: six-year operation status and future outlook - Takaki Hatsui (RIKEN)

09:30 Development of Gotthard-II Detector for the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser

09:50 First results of the MYTHEN-III strip detector prototype - Roberto Dinapoli (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:40 Characterisation of GaAs:Cr Detector Systems for High Flux X-Ray Imaging - Matthew Veale (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:00 Performance of the Lancelot Beam Position Monitor at the Diamond Light Source - Hassan Chagani (Diamond Light Source Ltd.)
11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

11:20 FBK-INFN-LPNHE thin n-on-p pixel detectors: beamtest results - Audrey Ducourthial (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:40 Diamond Detector Technology: Status and Perspectives - Lukas Baeni ( Department of Physics, ETH Zurich)

12:00 Development of Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors for 4D Tracking - Amedeo Staiano (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

12:20 Overview of the latest developments in HV-CMOS detectors for particle physics - Eva Vilella Figueras (University of Liverpool (GB))
12:40 Poster session (including buffet lunch)
Poster session (including buffet lunch)
12:40 - 14:30
Room: Hub Theatre (OU)
Contributions

12:40 Time resolved crystallography at ELI Beamlines facility - Borislav Angelov (Institute of Physics, AVCR)

12:40 ICP etched position sensitive silicon sensors on silicon and SOI substrates - Ralf Röder (CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mirkosensorik GmbH)

12:40 Module production tests and integration of the Belle II pixel detector - Botho Paschen (University of Bonn)

12:40 Mitigation Strategies against Radiation-Induced Background for the Athena Wide Field Imager (WFI) - Chris Davis (The Open University)

12:40 Integrated readout electronics for Belle II pixel detector - Roberto Blanco (KIT)

12:40 Characterisation of a CdTe detector for medical imaging applications - John Lees (University of Leicester)

12:40 Measurements and calculations of gas gain in Xe – 5% TMA mixture – pressure scaling. - Tadeusz Z. Kowalski (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology,)

12:40 Ageing and Proton Irradiation Effects on an EMCCD Manufactured in a CMOS Process - Alice Dunford (The Open University)

12:40 Improving radiation hardness in space-based Charge Coupled Devices through the narrowing of the charge transfer channel - David Hall (The Open University)

12:40 Thermal Annealing Response following Total Ionizing Dose of a CMOS Imager for the JUICE JANUS Instrument - Daniel-Dee Lofthouse-Smith (Open University)

12:40 Development of position-sensitive scintillation neutron detector for a new protein crystal diffractometer at J-PARC MLF - Tatsuya Nakamura (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, J-PARC, MLF)

12:40 Gas gain and secondary processes in Ne – N2 mixtures – concentration and pressure scaling. - Tadeusz Z. Kowalski (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology,)

12:40 Development of a bump cathode element for two-dimensional neutron detection - Kentaro Toh (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

12:40 A Segmented Anode Vacuum Phototriode with Position Sensitivity - Sema Zahid (Brunel University (GB))

12:40 X-ray metrology of a close packed array of 'edgeless' Medipix3 detectors. - Richard Plackett (University of Oxford (GB))

12:40 Deep Diffused Avalanche Photo Diodes for Timing at the High Luminosity LHC - Matteo Centis Vignali (CERN)

12:40 Fully Depleted, Monolithic Pinned Photodiode CMOS Image Sensor Using Reverse Substrate Bias - Konstantin Stefanov (The Open University)

12:40 Design and characterization of pixelated needle probe for molecular neuroimaging on awake and freely moving rats - Julian Heymes (IPHC)

12:40 Development of slew rate limited time-over-threshold (ToT) ASIC for multi-channel silicon based ion detector - Mizuki Uenomachi (The University of Tokyo)

12:40 Pulsed-Neutron Imaging by a High-Speed Camera and Center-of-Gravity Processing - Koh-ichi Mochiki (Tokyo City University)

12:40 Characterization of a new HV/HR CMOS sensor in LF150nm technology for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade - Mohamed Lachkar (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

12:40 Characterization of Detector Modules for the CMS Pixel Phase 1 Upgrade - De Hua Zhu (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

12:40 Modeling Radiation Damage to Pixel Sensors in the ATLAS Detector - Clara Troncon (Milano Universita e INFN (IT))

12:40 The Point Spread Function in CIS113 - James Ivory (The Open University)

12:40 Simulated spectrum of the OGRE X-ray camera system - Matthew Lewis (The Open University)

12:40 Radiation induced damage analysis of CCD47-20 at room temperature - Anton Lindley-DeCaire

12:40 A Novel Multi-SiPM Position Sensitive Detector for Neutron-Gamma Discrimination - Matt Taggart (University of Surrey)

12:40 Simulation and characterisation of low gain avalanche detector for particle physics and synchrotron applications - Richard Bates (University of Glasgow (GB))

12:40 Prototypes of planar n-in-n quad modules for the ATLAS ITk upgrade at HL-LHC - Andreas Gisen (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

12:40 Clock Induced Charge in EM-CCD Image Sensors - Nathan Bush (The Open University)

12:40 Four-quadrant Silicon and Silicon Carbide Photodiodes for Beam Position Monitor Application: Electrical Characterization and Electron Irradiation Effects - Joan Marc Rafí (Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC))

12:40 Characterisation of the Charge Transport Properties of High-Flux Capable CdZnTe - Brett Thomas (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

12:40 Design of image quality phantoms to evaluate positron emission mammography systems - Luis Fernando Torres-Urzúa (Instituto de Física, UNAM)

12:40 Monte Carlo based System Matrix calculation for iterative reconstruction in X-ray Luminescence Optical Tomography - Raúl Osorio Durán (Instituto de Física, UNAM) Arnulfo Martínez-Dávalos (Instituto de Física, UNAM)

12:40 Measurements of a Multi-anode Microchannel Plate Detector System with 100 picosecond event timing - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)

12:40 A Novel gain stage for Microchannel Plate Imaging Photomultipliers - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)

12:40 MTF and QE Characterisation of a CMOS Imager for the JUICE JANUS Instrument - Edgar Allanwood (The Open University)

12:40 Performance verification of the CMS Phase 1 Upgrade pixel detector with collision data - Viktor Veszpremi (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))

12:40 The LUVMI Imaging System - Joseph Rushton (Dynamic Imaging Analytics Limited)

13:00 The Radiation Gas Detectors with Novel Nano Porous Converter For Medical Imaging Applications - Hajar zarei (Energy Engineering and Physics Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave., Tehran, Iran)

13:00 Multi-leaf Collimator (MLC) Edge Reconstruction for Radiotherapy Using Large Area CMOS Image Sensor - Nicola Carlo Guerrini (STFC-RAL)

13:00 Quantum and charge collection efficiency measurements back illuminated CCDs in the soft X-ray regime - Jonathan Keelan (The Open University)

14:10 Position sensitive radiation detectors for high temperature environments using single crystal diamond - David Smith (Brunel University London)

14:10 The ZnO Nanowires in AAO Membrane as a Novel High Spatial Resolution Position Sensitive X-ray Detector - Shahyar Saramad (Amirkabir University of Technology)
14:30
14:30 - 16:20
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

14:30 Silicon Photomultipliers: introducing the digital age in low light detection - Massimo Caccia (University' dell'Insubria)

15:00 Development of a pin-hole collimated camera: The CoNG (Compact Neutron-Gamma) Imager - Matt Taggart (University of Surrey)

15:20 Development of the Glass Micro-Well Detector (g-MWD) - Stanley Hunter (NASA/GSFC)

15:40 Characterisation of small electrode HPGe detectors - Carl Unsworth (University of Liverpool)

16:00 Automatic Detection of Recoil Proton Track and Separation from Radiation Induced Background - Ilan Mor (Soreq NRC)
16:20 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
16:20 - 16:50
Room: Berrill Foyer (OU)
16:50
16:50 - 18:20
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

16:50 Silicon microstrip detector for space-borne astroparticle experiments - Giovanni Ambrosi (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

17:20 A High-Granularity Timing Detector for the Phase-II upgrade of the ATLAS Calorimeter system - Sebastian Grinstein (IFAE - Barcelona (ES))

17:40 CMOS pixel development for the ATLAS experiment at HL-LHC - Marco Rimoldi (Universitaet Bern (CH))

18:00 Study of prototypes of LFoundry active and monolithic CMOS pixels sensors for the ATLAS detector - Luigi Vigani (University of Oxford (GB))
19:00 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Room: Hilton Milton Keynes (OU)
Friday 8 September 2017
09:20
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

09:20 Characterisation of capacitively coupled HV/HR-CMOS sensor chips for the CLIC vertex detector - Iraklis Kremastiotis (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

09:40 Test-beam activities and results for the ATLAS ITk pixel detector - Tobias Bisanz (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

10:00 Layout and prototyping of the new ATLAS Inner Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC - Ankush Mitra (University of Warwick (GB))

10:20 Characterization of Novel Thin N-in-P Planar Pixel Modules for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade - Julien-Christopher Beyer (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

10:40 Development of a serially powered, prototype pixel stave for the upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Tracker - Jon Taylor (University of Liverpool (GB))
11:00 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Berrill Foyer (OU)
11:30
11:30 - 13:20
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)
Contributions

11:30 The direct electron detector driven revolution in structural biology - Greg McMullan (MRC-LMB)

12:00 Performance studies towards a TOF-PET sensor using Compton scattering at plastic scintillators - Takeshi Nakamori (Yamagata University)

12:20 A thin time-of-flight PET scanner based on novel pixel silicon detectors - Yves Bandi (Universitaet Bern (CH))

12:40 Regularized Richardson-Lucy deconvolution of positron range effects in micro-PET studies - Mercedes Rodriguez-Villafuerte (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)

13:00 A large-area detector module based on SiPM and pixelated LYSO crystal arrays - Héctor Alva-Sánchez (Instituto de Física, UNAM)
13:20 Closing remarks
Closing remarks
13:20 - 13:30
Room: Berrill Lecture Theatre (OU)