Thursday February 14, 2019
Session 1: Chair (Gwen Grinyer)
19:00 – 19:15 Welcome Introduction from Gwen Grinyer
19:15 – 19:45 Andrea Capra, ALPHA: Precision measurements of antihydrogen
19:45 – 20:00 Adam Powell, Commissioning the ALPHA-g experiment at CERN
20:00 – 20:15 Andrew Evans, Lamb shift in antihydrogen
20:15 – 20:30 Michael Staelens, Expanding the LHC’s discovery frontier
20:30 – 22:30 Welcome Reception (KC 105)
Friday February 15, 2019
Session 2: Chair (Beatrice Franke)
08:45 – 09:15 Pascal Reiter, Time-of-flight mass spectrometry
09:15 – 09:30 Andrew Jacobs, Approaching the N = 20 island of inversion
09:30 – 09:45 Marilena Lykiardopoulou, Mass measurements of neutron deficient Yb
09:45 – 10:00 Jake Flowerdew, Improving ion transport using Monte-Carlo optimization
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:45 Alex Laffoley, High-precision branching ratio for 22Mg superallowed decay
10:45 – 11:00 Nicholas Macsai, Precision measurements of correlations in neutron β decay
11:00 – 11:15 Wolfgang Klassen, Magnetic field decomposition for TUCAN nEDM
11:15 – 11:30 Matthew Stukel, Update on the KDK (potassium decay) experiment
11:30 – 11:45 Shihao Wu, Next to leading order dilepton production calculations
11:45 – 12:00 Reefat, Running of fine structure constant up to two loop level
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 3: Chair (Blair Jamieson)
19:00 – 19:30 Jesse Heilman, Progressively Sharper Rocks
19:30 – 19:45 Christopher Anelli, Future of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter
19:45 – 20:00 Evan Carlson, Results of the 2018 ATLAS sTGC beam tests
20:00 – 20:15 Alexandre Laurier, Current state of the ATLAS new small wheel simulation
20:15 – 20:30 Dylan Pizzi, Simulation of gas detectors using Ramo’s theorem
20:30 – 20:45 Coffee Break
20:45 – 21:00 Stephen Kay, Photoproduction of the d*(2380) dibaryon
21:00 – 21:15 Ahmed Foda, Photoproduction of the b1(1235) meson at E = 6 – 12 GeV
21:15 – 21:30 Tegan Beattie, Decay channels of the eta(548) and eta(958) at GlueX
21:30 – 21:45 Karthik Suresh, Gain calibrations of SiPMs using π0 events for GlueX
21:45 – 22:00 Vijay Kumar, Kaon L–T experiment at Jefferson Lab
Saturday February 16, 2019
Session 4: Chair (Alain Bellerive)
09:00 – 09:30 Deborah Harris, Neutrino interferometry at DUNE
09:30 – 09:45 Tsvetelin Totev, Measurement of Cherenkov radiation in liquid xenon
09:45 – 10:00 Amir Ouyed, Detecting the birth of a proto-quark star
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:45 Dominique Trischuk, ATLAS strip detector upgrade for the inner tracker
10:45 – 11:00 Chris Gubbels, Automated visual inspection of ITk sensors
11:00 – 11:15 Stephen Weber, Production of Z bosons in association with jets at 13 TeV
11:15 – 11:30 Alexander Bachiu, Prediction of Drell-Yan angular coefficients with ATLAS
11:30 – 11:45 Pourya Vakilipourtakalou, Low-scale string resonances at the LHC
11:45 – 12:00 Sina Safarabadi Farahani, Quantum black hole production at the LHC
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 5: Chair (Gordon Ball)
19:00 – 19:30 David McKeen, Dark Matter – WIMPS and beyond
19:30 – 19:45 Preetinder Jassal, Measurement of the 19F(p,α)16O astrophysical reaction
19:45 – 20:00 Bryn Knight, Degenerate neutron capture within neutron star crusts in TALYS
20:00 – 20:15 Carlton-James Osakwe, Sensitivity metrics in r-process simulations
20:15 – 20:30 Coffee Break
20:30 – 20:45 Andrew MacLean, Spectroscopy of 188Tl decay β+/EC decay with GRIFFIN
20:45 – 21:00 Daniel Yates, Decay spectroscopy of 160Eu using the GRIFFIN spectrometer
21:00 – 21:15 Robin Coleman, Investigating the shell closure N=32 in neutron-rich 52Ca
21:15 – 21:30 Sally Valbuena, Nuclear structure of 98Ru using β decay
21:30 – 21:45 Erin McGee, Searching for shape coexistence in 124Te
Sunday February 17, 2019
Session 6: Chair (Pierre-Philippe Ouimet)
09:00 – 09:30 Simon Viel, Dark matter search with DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB
09:30 – 09:45 Ryan Underwood, The CUTE facility
09:45 – 10:00 Mark Anderson, Machine learning to improve analysis of data from SNO+
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:45 Beau Greaves, Opportunities for future experiments at ISAC-II, TRIUMF
10:45 – 11:00 Eva Kasanda, Gamma spectroscopy for range verification in proton therapy
11:00 – 12:00 Best Student Prizes Awards
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
WNPPC 2019 Invited Speakers
- Andrea Capra, TRIUMF (ALPHA)
- Deborah Harris, York University and Fermilab (DUNE)
- Jesse Heilman, Carleton University (ATLAS)
- David McKeen, TRIUMF (Dark Matter)
- Pascal Reiter, TRIUMF (ISAC)
- Simon Viel, Carleton University (DEAP)
Access to talks
Thursday, February 14 — Registration desk will be open 16:00 - 17:30
Thursday, February 14 — Dinner in the Vistas Dining room 17:30 to 19:00
Thursday, February 14 — Registration desk opens again 18:00 to 19:00
Thursday, February 14 — Main sessions start 19:00 to 21:00
Thursday, February 14 — Reception for attendees starting at 21:00
The Conference ends on Sunday, February 17 at noon
