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Past Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminars

Monday, November 18th, 2024, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103))
Searching for Majorana neutrinos with NEXT
Roxanne Guenette
University of Manchester
Abstract
Monday, July 29th 2024, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Nuclear Physics Research at the Centre for Energy Research and Development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife-Ife: The journey so far!
Mouftahou Bakary Latif
Acting Head of Division of Applied Nuclear Science and Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University
Abstract
Thursday, April 18th 2024, 14:00 (TSI Conference room)
Update on the Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration and SBC-LAr10
Hector Hawley Herrara
Queen's University
Abstract
Thrusday, April 4th 2024, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Ion traps as tools for probing nuclear structure, astrophysics, and exotic nuclear decays
Zach Hockenbery
McGill & TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, February 7th 2024, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
Hugh Lippincott
UC Santa Barbara
Abstract
Wednesday, July 12th 2023, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Mass measurements of short-lived isotopes for Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Symmetries studies at TITAN
Marilena Lykiardopoulou
UBC & TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, March 9th 2023, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
PIONEER: a next generation pion decay experiment
Chloé Malbrunot
TRIUMF and McGill
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2022, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with nEXO and beyond
David Moore
Yale University
Abstract
Monday, September 19th 2022, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The road towards reliable nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double beta decay
Antoine Belley
TRIUMF & UBC
Abstract
Thrusday, February 17th 2022, 13:30
Application of Superconducting Quantum Sensors in Subatomic Physics
Kyle Leach
Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract
Wednesday, March 4th 2020, 15:30
The REDTOP experiment: Rare Eta Decays to Explore new Physics
Corrado Gatto
INFN / Northern Illinois University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 5th 2020, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Studying Neutrinos with SNO+
Erica Caden
SNOLAB/Laurentian
Abstract
Wednesday, December 4th 2019, 14:30
Neutrino Interferometry at DUNE: Preparing for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Deborah Harris
FNAL and York University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 12th 2019, 15:30
Searches for ultra long-lived particles with MATHUSLA
Miriam Diamond
University of Toronto
Abstract
Monday, November 11th 2019, 13:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Accelerator developments and model-based beam operation for accelerated rare isotope beams at TRIUMF
Oliver Kester
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, November 6th 2019, 15:30
Trinity: An air shower imaging instrument to detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos
Otte Nepomuk
Georgia Tech
Abstract
Wednesday, October 23rd 2019, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special Astroparticle Seminar
The Two Noble Kinsmen: use of liquid noble gas detectors in Astroparticle physics
Nigel Smith
Director of SNOLAB
Abstract
Thrusday, October 10th 2019, 15:30 (room 326)
Note special venue
Building LZ; the world's biggest and cleanest TPC Dark Matter detector to date
Alvine Kamaha
University at Albany SUNY
Abstract
Wednesday, October 9th 2019, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
First results of the KATRIN experiment on an absolute neutrino mass measurement
Björn Lehnert
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract
Friday, September 20th 2019, 13:00
Ab initio nuclear theory for beyond standard model physics
Jason Holt
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, May 1st 2019, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Background Reduction Techniques and Simulations for Dark Matter Search
Olivia Scallon
Laurentian University
Abstract
Friday, April 5th 2019, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special time and venue
Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge
Alan Poon
Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract
Wednesday, March 27th 2019, 14:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
The All Sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO): A Powerful Tool for Unlocking the MeV Sky
Sean Griffin
GSFC, NASA
Abstract
Wednesday, February 13th 2019, 14:30
Connections between the hard to see: dark matter and neutrinos
David McKeen
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, November 1st 2018, 15:00
Note special day
Ab initio theory for fundamental problems in nuclear-weak physics
Jason Holt
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, October 31st 2018, 15:30
HAWC's view of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky
Henrike Fleischhack
Michigan Tech
Abstract
Wednesday, October 24th 2018, 15:30
Recent high-energy neutrino measurements with the IceCube neutrino observatory
Nahee Park
University of Wisconsin
Abstract
Friday, August 17th 2018, 15:30
Special Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminar
Resonance ionization laser spectroscopy: from nuclear structure to a cure for cancer
Thomas Cocolios
KU Leuven
Abstract
Wednesday, August 8th 2018, 14:30
Lattice QCD, rare decays, flavour puzzles, and Belle II
Sophie Hollitt
University of Adelaide
Abstract
Wednesday, August 1st 2018, 14:30
Truth and Beauty: Selected top quark measurements from ATLAS
Véronique Boisvert
Royal Holloway London
Abstract
Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 14:30
Dark Matter Searches with PICO Bubble Chambers
Ubi Wichoski
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, May 2nd 2018, 14:30
Binary systems observed with H.E.S.S. telescopes
Chistian Mariaud
École Polytechnique
Abstract
Thursday, April 26th 2018, 15:30
Antinucleons in Cosmic Rays? Using GAPS to Open a New Window in the Search for Dark Matter
Ralph Bird
UCLA
Abstract
Wednesday, April 11th 2018, 14:30
Results from the First Two Years of Operation of the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) Mission on the International Space Station
Mike Cherry
Louisiana State University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 4th 2018, 14:30
Past, Present and Future of Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches
Pietro Giampa
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, March 21st 2018, 15:30
Opportunities for the next generation Neutrino physics
Akira Konaka
TRIUMF
Abstract
Monday, March 19th 2018, 13:30
TITAN: Precision nuclear experiments with ion traps
Ania Kwiatkowski
TRIUMF
Abstract
Tuesday, March 13th 2018, 13:30
COHERENT Neutrino Scattering at the SNS
Matt Green
North Carolina State University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 28th 2018, 14:30
Things That Go Flash or Blink in the Night: Outfitting VERITAS to Explore the High-Cadence Universe
Jeremy Heyl
University of British Colombia
Abstract
Wednesday, February 21st 2018, 13:30
DEAP-3600 Overview and Current Status
Thomas McElroy
University of Alberta
Abstract
Monday, February 19th 2018, 13:30
Decays of rare isotopes: From the precision frontier to the limits of stability
G.F. Grinyer
Department of Physics, University of Regina
Abstract
Tuesday, February 13th 2018, 14:30 (room 305)
Note special venue
Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson and a top quark pair at the LHC
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 10th 2018, 14:30
High Energy Cosmic rays and Neutrinos with the EUSO super pressure balloon program and POEMMA
Lawrence Wiencke
Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract
Monday, November 20th 2017, 14:45
Searches for long-lived particles and exotic signatures at the LHC
Heather Russell
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 8th 2017, 14:30
Searching dark matter with NaI detectors
Liang Yang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Wednesday, October 18th 2017, 14:30
Joint Particle and Astroparticle Physics & Experimental HEP Seminar
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
Michelle Dolinski
Drexel University
Abstract
Monday, October 16th 2017, 14:30
Joint Particle and Astroparticle Physics & Experimental HEP Seminar
ANTIHYDROGEN: Its Capture and Interrogation
Art Olin
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, September 27th 2017, 14:30
Dark matter particles and where to find them
Simon Viel
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, July 5th 2017, 14:30
Imaging Spent Nuclear Fuel with Passive Gamma Emission Tomography
Camille Bélanger-Champagne
Helsinki Institute of Physics
Abstract
Wednesday, June 14th 2017, 14:30
ARA Status and Development
Simon Archambault
Chiba University
Abstract
Thursday, May 25th 2017, 14:30
Commissioning the Belle II Experiment
Alexandre Beaulieu
University of Victoria
Abstract
Friday, April 7th 2017, 13:30
Ultracold neutrons and the nEDM: from Phonon excitaction to the Big Bang Theory and back to the Standard Model
Beatrice Franke
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, April 6th 2017, 14:30
Precision searches for new physics using optically levitated microspheres
Dave Moore
Yale University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 25th 2017, 15:00
Note special time
Dark Matter Search with DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB
Mark Boulay
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 30th 2016, 14:30
Search for Dark Matter with the XENON1T Experiment
Marie-Cécile Piro
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Abstract
Wednesday, November 23rd 2016, 14:30
Searching for the QCD Axion with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Masha Baryakhtar
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, November 7th 2016, 14:30
Probing the origin of cosmic rays with high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays
Marcos Santander
Barnard College - Columbia University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 2nd 2016, 14:30
Note special day
IceCube and Fermi-LAT: Complementary Limits on Heavy Dark Matter
Nicholas Rodd
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, October 26th 2016, 14:30
Dark matter annihilation vs. astrophysics: the gamma-ray signal from the dwarf galaxy Reticulum II
Alex Geringer-Sameth
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 12th 2016, 14:30
Gamma-ray Survey of our Universe
Michelle Hui
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Abstract
Wednesday, September 7th 2016, 14:30
New results on Heavy Flavor Production at HERA
Uri Karshon
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, July 6th 2016, 13:30
The Galactic Centre as a powerful cosmic PeVatron
Aion Viana
Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg
Abstract
Monday, May 16th 2016, 10:00
Note special day and time
Probing gravity - and other forces - at extreme scales
Giorgio Gratta
Stanford University
Abstract
Friday, May 6th 2016, 14:30
Note special day
Searching for ν physics with Liquid Argon detectors
Roxanne Guenette
Oxford University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 27th 2016, 13:30
Cosmic-ray isotope measurements with HELIX
Nahee Park
University of Chicago
Abstract
Wednesday, April 6th 2016, 14:30
Water Cherenkov Neutrino Detectors for the 21st Century
Hiro Tanaka
Univerisity of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, March 2nd 2016, 13:30
Latest ATLAS results on Supersymmetry with √s=13 TeV data
Jean-François Arguin
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, February 10th 2016, 13:30
Single Photon Detector Microsystems for Neutrino and High Energy Physics: 3D Digital Silicon Photomultiplier
Jean-François Pratte
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, January 28th 2016, 11:00
Note special day and time
SN neutrinos with HALO-2
Stanley Yen
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, January 27th 2016, 13:00 (room 305A/B)
Note special venue
On our way to build a precision probe at the TeV scale: The International Linear Collider
Alain Bellerive
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 21st 2015, 13:30
Magnetic field determination to 70 ppb in the new muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
Joseph Grange
Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
Wednesday, October 7th 2015, 13:30
Towards a measurement of the iron spectrum in cosmic rays with VERITAS
Henrike Fleischhack
DESY-Zeuthen
Abstract
Wednesday, September 23rd 2015, 13:30
The Digital Hadron Calorimeter: A New Concept and its First Results
Benjamin Freund
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, September 10th 2015, 14:30
Science results from VERITAS
Jamie Holder
University of Delaware
Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 13:30
CALICE: Calorimetry reinvented
Jose Repond
Argonne National Lab
Abstract
Wednesday, May 13th 2015, 13:30
Top Quark & Co.
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 15th 2015, 13:30
Measuring γ with B → P P P Decays
David London
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, December 10th 2014, 14:30
A Rare Opportunity - the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab
Douglas Glenzinski
Fermilab
Abstract
Wednesday, November 12th 2014, 14:30
Signal of a light dark force in the Galactic Center
Wei Xue
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 14:30
Search for New Physics in the Cosmic Rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Paolo Zuccon
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, October 22nd 2014, 14:30
The EAGLE project: Simulating the joint evolution of galaxies and dark matter in a large cosmological volume
Matthieu Schaller
Durham University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 15th 2014, 14:30
Rescaling cosmological simulations from standard to modified gravity
Alexander Mead
University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Wednesday, October 8th 2014, 14:30
Showers in the desert: measuring ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with Telescope Array
Thomas Stroman
University of Utah
Abstract
Wednesday, April 23rd 2014, 14:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
First WIMP search results from the Large Underground Xenon experiment
Blair Edwards
Yale University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 16th 2014, 14:30
Searching for Supersymmetry using the Higgs boson
Andrée Robichaud-Véronneau
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 2nd 2014, 14:30
New light on 21cm intensity fluctuations from the dark ages
Yacine Ali-Haimoud
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Abstract
Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 14:30
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON)
Gordana Tešić
Department of Physics, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 12th 2014, 14:30
Search for New Phenomena with the Mono-jet Signature with the ATLAS Detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Reyhaneh Rezvani
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, February 12th 2014, 14:30
Dark Cosmology with Heavenly Lenses
Joachim Harnois-Deraps
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 22nd 2014, 14:30
CMB Polarization with the South Pole Telescope
Duncan Hanson
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 15th 2014, 14:30
Beyond collisionless dark matter
Sean Tulin
University of Michigan
Abstract
Wednesday, December 4th 2013, 14:30
Birth of neutrino astronomy - Recent Highlights from IceCube
Matthias Danninger
UBC
Abstract
Wednesday, November 27th 2013, 15:00
Note special time
Studying the Strong Interaction in W/Z events at the LHC
Hugo Beauchemin
Tufts University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 20th 2013, 14:30
The SuperTIGER Experiment and Galactic Cosmic-Ray Origins
John E. Ward
Washington University in St. Louis
Abstract
Wednesday, October 30th 2013, 14:30
Would an Anti-apple Fall Up? Tests of the Gravitational Interaction between Matter and Antimatter
Scott Menary
York University
Abstract
R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
Wednesday, October 16th 2013, 14:30
First Results and Prospects for the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector
John Pretz
Los Alamos National Lab
Abstract
Wednesday, September 25th 2013, 14:30
Excess of Galactic Diffuse Gamma-ray Emission: Astrophysics, Dark Mater, or Statistical Fluke
Meng Su
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, September 18th2013, 14:30
Constraining annihilating and decaying Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Aaron Vincent
Universitat de València
Abstract
Wednesday, September 11th 2013, 14:30
Dynamical Dark Matter: An Alternative Framework for Dark-Matter Physics
Brooks Thomas
Carleton
Abstract
Tuesday, June 4th 2013, 16:00 (Room 326)
Note special day, time and venue
The Dark Side of the Sun: Searching for Solar Axions with Helioscopes
Julia K. Vogel
LLNL
Abstract
Wednesday, April 17th 2013, 14:30
The Fermi Large Area Telescope, Astrophysics, Dark Matter Searches and the 130GeV Line
Eric Charles
SLAC
Abstract
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013, 14:30
Gamma-ray lines in the Fermi LAT data?
Christoph Weniger
GRAPPA Institute, University of Amsterdam
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, March 27th 2013, 14:30
Recent evidence for Gamma-ray Line Emission from Fermi-LAT: WIMP or artifact?
Meng Su
Harvard CfA
Abstract
Wednesday, March 6th 2013, 14:30
Searching for sterile neutrinos with LAr detectors
Roxanne Guénette
Royal Holloway University of London
Abstract
Wednesday, February 20th 2013, 14:30
The Higgs boson: where we go from here
Heather Logan
Carleton University
Abstract
Thursday, February 14th 2013, 14:00
Special Astroparticle Seminar
How To See The Dark: Signatures of Strings and Other Things in the 21 cm radiation from high-redshift hydrogen
Óscar Hernández
Marianopolis College / McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 13th 2013, 14:30
Beyond Standard Model Top Physic through same-charge dilepton
Léa Gauthier
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 14:30
Novel statistical applications to gamma-ray astrophysics
Savvas Koushiappas
Brown University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 14:30
Understanding High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center
Tim Linden
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Wednesday, November 14th 2012, 14:30
Updates and Status of DM-Ice
Reina Maruyama
University of Wisconsin Madison
Abstract
Wednesday, October 31st 2012, 14:30
Search for New Physics using Same-Sign Leptons at ATLAS
Jean-François Arguin
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, October 3rd 2012, 14:30
An argument that the dark matter is axions
Pierre Sikivie
University of Florida
Abstract
Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 14:30
Noble Travails: Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 14:30
100 years of cosmic rays: present and future of cosmic-ray propagation models
Antje Putze
Oskar Klein Centre Stockholm
Abstract
Wednesday, May 9th 2012, 14:30
Neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the Sun
Christopher Savage
Stockholm University
Abstract
Monday, May 7th 2012, 14:30
Special Astroparticle Seminar
Long-term monitoring of blazars with dedicated Cherenkov telescopes the DWARF network and the FACT telescope
Michael Backes
Technical University Dortumd
Abstract
Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 14:30
The search for the Higgs boson at the ATLAS experiment
Dag Gillberg
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 18th 2012, 14:30
The Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: First Limits and Future Prospects
Rouven Essig
Stony Brook
Abstract
Wednesday, April 4th 2012, 14:30
Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in 136Xe: First EXO Results in the Search for the Neutrino-less decay
Jacques A. Farine
Laurentian University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012, 14:30
Note special day
The Supernova Equation of State: Potential vs. Field-Theoretical Approaches
C. Constantinou
Stony Brook
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2012, 14:30
Constraining Dark Matter models from a Combined Analysis of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Maja Llena-Garde
OKC Stockholm
Abstract
Wednesday, March 21st 2012, 14:30
The Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter
Dan Hooper
Fermilab
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, March 7th 2012, 14:30
Constantinos Constantinou
Ohio
Wednesday, February 22nd 2012, 14:30
The PICASSO and DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search Experiments at SNOLAB
Tony Noble
Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 8th 2012, 14:30
Morphology of the dark matter contribution to the 511 keV gamma ray sky: constraints from INTEGRAL/SPI observations
Aaron Vincent
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 14:00
Special Astroparticle Seminar
Searches for Exotic Physics with leptons and photons with the ATLAS Detector
Dominique Fortin
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 14:30
Optimizing global 21cm signal measurements with spectral and spatial information
Adrian Liu
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, January 11th 2012, 14:30
Old Physics, New Tricks, and the Theory of Atomic Dark Matter
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
UBC
Abstract