Our goal is to have a balanced program in nuclear physics
(ISAC, nuclear astrophysics, etc...),
particle physics (energy frontier, precision and neutrino)
and particle astrophysics (SNOLAB or similar),
including both experiment and theory. We welcome abstracts from
all subfields of nuclear and particle physics.
Registration will take place Friday afternoon 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
A small reception will be held Friday evening after the first session.
Friday,
February 13, 2008 |
Session 1 |
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19:15 - 19:20 |
Tony Noble - Queen's U |
Welcoming Remarks |
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19:20 - 19:55 |
Cliff Burgess - McMaster/Perimeter |
Plenary 1. Extra Dimensions, Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant Problem |
19:55 - 20:15 |
Dinesh Singh - U Regina |
Contr. 1.Breakdown of Lorentz Invariance for Spin-1/2 Particle Motion in Curved Space-Time with Applications to Muon Decay |
20:15 - 20:35 |
James Charbonneau - UBC |
Contr. 2.Topological Currents, Neutron Star Kicks, and Toroidal Magnetic Fields. |
20:35 - 20:55 |
Evan Rand - U Guelph |
Contr. 3.GEANT4 Simulations of the Griffen Spectrometer |
20:55 - 21:15 |
Naomi Galinski - SFU/TRIUMF |
Contr. 4.Lifetime Measurement of the 6.79 MeV State in 15O |
21:15 - 21:35 |
David Cross - SFU |
Contr. 5.Use of DANTE in Fast Nuclear Timing at TRIUMF |
21:35 - 23:00 |
Reception |
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Saturday,
February 14, 2008 (morning) |
Session 2 |
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08:30 - 09:05 |
Wolfgang Rau - Queen's U |
Plenary 2. Dark Matter - A Mystery to Solve |
09:05 - 09:25 |
Joseph Fox - Queen's U |
Contr. 6. SuperCDMS in Canada |
09:25 - 09:45 |
Cecilia Levy - Queen's U |
Contr. 7. Latest Results from the PICASSO Search for Dark Matter Experiment |
09:45 - 10:05 |
Kyle Lawson - UBC |
Contr. 8. Lepton Distributions near a Quark Surface |
10:05 - 10:25 |
Erin O'Sullivan - Queen's U |
Contr. 9. Scintillation Timing Studies for the SNO+ Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment. |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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Session 3 |
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10:45 - 10:50 |
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DNP Thesis Prize Award Announcement |
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10:50 - 11:25 |
Recipient Geoff Grinyer - U Guelph |
Plenary 3. High-Precision Half-Life Measurements for Superallowed Fermi β Decays |
11:25 - 11:45 |
Claudia. De Oliveira - U. Manitoba |
Contr. 10. Highly Forbidden Transitions in Alkalis: Towards a Parity Violation Experiment |
11:45 - 12:05 |
Hamed Basseri - Ryerson U |
Contr. 11. Ion Source Development at TRIUMF’S ISAC Facility |
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Saturday,
February 14, 2008 (evening) |
Session 4 |
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19:30 - 20:05 |
Alysia Marino - U. Colorado at Boulder |
Plenary 4. T2K and the Potential of Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments |
20:05 - 20:25 |
Brian Kirby - UBC |
Contr. 12. Status of the T2K Fine Grained Detector |
20:25 - 20:45 |
Dana Lindemann - McGill U. |
Contr. 13. Search for the Radiative Leptonic Decay B+ →
l+ νl γ at the BABAR Detector |
20:45 - 21:05 |
Clay Lindsay - U. Victoria |
Contr. 14. Search for Lepton Flavour Violation in the Decays τ → l γ
(l = e, µ) at BABAR |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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Session 5 |
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21:25 - 22:00 |
Alain Bellerive - Carleton U. |
Plenary 5. From SNO to SNOLAB and Connection to the LHC |
22:00 - 22:20 |
Mark Baker - U. Victoria |
Contr. 15.Improving the Robustness of the ATLAS Calorimeter Software Trigger |
22:20 - 22:40 |
Allan Stewart - U. Victoria |
Contr. 16.Monte Carlo Determination of the Efficiency Matrix for DiBoson Decays into Electrons at ATLAS |
22:40 - 23:00 |
Jan Piclum - U. Alberta |
Contr. 17.Top-Quark Pair Production at Threshold |
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Sunday,
February 15, 2008 |
Session 6 |
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08:30 - 08:50 |
Rob Pywell - U. Saskatchewan |
Contr. 18.Precision Photonuclear Measurements at HIGS |
08:50 - 09:10 |
Ward A. Wurtz - U. Saskatchewan |
Contr. 19.Photodisintigration of Lithium Isotopes |
09:10 - 09:30 |
Jorge Mondejar - U. Alberta |
Contr. 20.Effective Lagrangian for Light-Light Interaction |
09:30 - 09:50 |
Paul McGrath - U. Alberta |
Contr. 21.Effective Field Theory Analysis of Polyelectrons to High Numerical Precision |
09:50 - 10:10 |
Matthew Dowling - U. Alberta |
Contr. 22.Semileptonic Decays: The Heavy Daughter Quark Limit |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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Session 7 |
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10:30 - 11:05 |
Corina Andreoiu - SFU |
Plenary 6. On Recent and Future Nuclear Studies
Using High Resolution Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
at TRIUMF ISAC II |
11:05 - 11:25 |
Ritesh Kshetri - Saha Inst & SFU/TRIUMF |
Contr. 23.Characterisation of Compton Suppressed Clover Detector for High Energy Gamma-Rays |
11:25 - 11:45 |
Jack Bangay - U. Guelph |
Contr. 24.Study of 110Cd Through β-Decay and
(N,N') Reaction |
11:45 - 12:05 |
Mark York - McGill U. |
Contr. 25.Second Order Hydrodynamic Coefficients from Kinetic Theory |
12:05 - 12:25 |
Stijn De Baerdemacker - U. Toronto & Ghent U. |
Contr. 26.Collective Structures within the Cartan-Weyl Based Geometrical Model |
12:25 - 12:35 |
Prizes and Closing Remarks |