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Neutrino Physics  -  SU-A2
Physique des neutrinos  -  SU-A2
Session Chair: Mark G. Boulay, Queen's University  
Session Date 2008-Jun-08  
Room Number VCH 2830 (106)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
09:00 SESSION STARTS
             
1 09:00 Alex Wright, Queen's University The SNO+ Experiment at SNOLAB*
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3011
             
2 09:30 Olivier Simard, Carleton University A low energy threshold analysis of the data from the pure heavy water and salt phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment.
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3204
             
3 09:45 Ryan MacLellan, Queen's Univerity Low Threshold 8B Solar Neutrino Energy Spectrum from the First Two Phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3405
             
4 10:00 Ryan Martin The Neutral Current Detector Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3180
             
10:15 COFFEE BREAK
             
5 10:30 Hirohisa A. Tanaka, University of British Columbia T2K and the Next Generation of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3333
             
6 11:00 Issei Kato, TRIUMF Time projection chambers for the T2K experiment
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3312
             
7 11:15 Daniel Roberge, University of British Columbia A Water Target System for the T2K Near Detector Tracker
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3083
             
11:30 SESSION ENDS
             

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IPP General Meeting  -  SU-IPP-Gen
Assemblée générale de l'IPP  -  SU-IPP-Gen
Session Chair: William Trischuk, University of Toronto  
Session Date 2008-Jun-08  
Room Number VCH 2860 (142)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
14:30 SESSION STARTS
             
16:45 SESSION ENDS
             

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Plenary - Nigel Lockyer (TRIUMF Five-Year Plan)  -  SU-Plen3
Plénière - Nigel Lockyer (Plan quinquennal de TRIUMF)  -  SU-Plen3
Session Chair: Colin Gay, University of British Columbia  
Session Date 2008-Jun-08  
Room Number POU 1112 (500)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
17:00 SESSION STARTS
             
1 17:00 Nigel Lockyer, TRIUMF A Vision for TRIUMF 2010-2015
( Click on title to view abstract ) 		I 3500
             
2 18:00 Nigel Lockyer, TRIUMF Reception for session participants
( Click on title to view abstract ) 		C 3526
             
19:00 SESSION ENDS
             

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Plenary - Art McDonald, SNO  -  MO-Plen1
Plénière - Art McDonald, SNO  -  MO-Plen1
Session Chair: Shelley A. Page, University of Manitoba  
Session Date 2008-Jun-09  
Room Number VCH 2850 (404)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
08:15 SESSION STARTS
             
1 08:15 Art McDonald, Queen`s University SNO and the New SNOLAB Underground Facility
( Click on title to view abstract ) 		I 2963
             
09:00 SESSION ENDS
             

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Particle Physics Instrumentation  -  MO-A8
Instrumentation en physique des particules  -  MO-A8
Session Chair: John F. Martin, University of Toronto  
Session Date 2008-Jun-09  
Room Number VCH 3860 (148)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
10:00 SESSION STARTS
             
1 10:00 Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan Compact laser-plasma based accelerators
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3016
             
2 10:30 Steve Robertson, McGill University SuperB: New Physics Opportunities at a High Luminosity Flavour Factory
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3147
             
3 11:00 Alain Bellerive, Carleton University International RD collaboration for the development of micro pattern gaseous detectors
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3297
             
4 11:15 Fabrice Retiere, TRIUMF The T2K Fine-Grained Detector: design and performances
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3097
             
5 11:30 B.D. Leverington, University of Regina Performance of the prototype module of the GlueX electromagnetic barrel calorimeter
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3415
             
6 11:45 John Paul Archambault, Carleton University Geant4 Studies of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Forward Calorimeter
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3248
             
7 12:00 Jennifer Godfrey, Simon Fraser University Using Boosted Decision Trees for Tau Identification in ATLAS
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3380
             
8 12:15 David Asgeirsson, University of British Columbia Parameter Estimation with a Weighted Monte-Carlo Likelihood Fit.
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3349
             
12:30 SESSION ENDS
             

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Non-Accelerator Particle Physics  -  MO-P5
Physique des particules sans accélérateur  -  MO-P5
Session Chair: Andreas Thomas Warburton, McGill University  
Session Date 2008-Jun-09  
Room Number VCH 3860 (148)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
14:15 SESSION STARTS
             
1 14:15 John F. Martin, University of Toronto The History and Physics Impact of the HERA e-p Collider
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3103
             
2 14:45 Ken Ragan, McGill University Results of the first year of operation of the VERITAS ground-based gamma-ray observatory
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3018
             
3 15:15 Michael McCutcheon, McGill University Camera Health Monitoring for the VERITAS Collaboration at McGill University.
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3456
             
4 15:30 Stanley Yen, TRIUMF, for the HALO collaboration HALO-A lead supernova neutrino detector for SNOLAB
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3177
             
15:45 COFFEE BREAK
             
5 16:00 Mark G. Boulay, Queen's University Status of DEAP/CLEAN at SNOLAB
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3430
             
6 16:30 Paradorn Pasuthip, Queen's University Triple Coincident Gamma Calibration in Dark Matter Experiment with Argon and Pulse Shape Discrimination (DEAP)
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3196
             
7 16:45 Bei Cai, Queen's University Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) in Liquid Argon
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3064
             
8 17:00 Patrick Nadeau, Laurentian University Measurement and Analysis of the Droplet Size Distributions of PICASSO Detectors
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3311
             
9 17:15 Rachel Faust, Université de Montréal Neutron calibration of the PICASSO detector
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3234
             
10 17:30 Pierre-Luc Drouin, Carleton University Towards A Three Phases Analysis At The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3211
             
17:45 SESSION ENDS
             

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Precision Frontier I  -  TU-A3
Les limites de la précision I  -  TU-A3
Session Chair: David M. Asner, Carleton University  
Session Date 2008-Jun-10  
Room Number VCH 2830 (106)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
10:00 SESSION STARTS
             
1 10:00 Steven Robertson, Institute for Particle Physics / McGill University Recent results from the BABAR experiment
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3061
             
2 10:30 Dana Lindemann, McGill University Search For The Rare Decay B to l nu gamma at BaBar
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3089
             
3 10:45 Martin Simard, BaBar - Universite de Montreal Measurement of the B->eta(')lv Form-Factor Shapes and Branching Fractions
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3263
             
4 11:00 Mateusz Lewczuk, University of Victoria Measurement of the tau->3pietanu Branching Fraction and a Search for a Second-Class Current in the tau->eta'(958)pinu Decay.
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3122
             
5 11:15 Ryan Bayes, University of Victoria A Muon Decay Spectrum Measurement from TWIST
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3350
             
6 11:30 Jason Schwartz, McGill University Towards the First Direct Measurement of the Longitudinal Structure Function at the ZEUS Experiment
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3111
             
7 11:45 Zhiyi Liu, Simon Fraser University Cross section measurement of single top quark in tau+jets channel by decision trees
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3328
             
8 12:00 Etienne Rollin, Carleton University Barium tagging for the Enriched Xenon Observatory
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3281
             
12:15 SESSION ENDS
             

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PPD Business Meeting  -  TU-PPD
Réunion d'affaires PPD  -  TU-PPD
Session Chair: Roger W. Moore, University of Alberta  
Session Date 2008-Jun-10  
Room Number VCH 2830 (106)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
12:30 SESSION STARTS
        [Report]    
13:15 SESSION ENDS
             

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New Phenomena  -  TU-P5
Phénoménologie des particules  -  TU-P5
Session Chair: Roger W. Moore, University of Alberta  
Session Date 2008-Jun-10  
Room Number VCH 2830 (106)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
14:15 SESSION STARTS
             
1 14:15 Heather Logan, Carleton University What's new at the energy frontier
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 2992
             
2 14:45 Daniel M. MacQueen, University of Toronto Searches for New Physics in the Exclusive Dijet + Missing Et Signature at the CDF-II Experiment
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3121
             
3 15:00 Rainer Dick, University of Saskatchewan Cosmic rays through the Higgs portal
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3411
             
4 15:15 Adrian Buzatu, McGill University Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in association with W bosons at CDF
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G* 3348
             
5 15:30 Céline Lebel, Université de Montréal The ATLAS detector at LHC
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 2943
             
6 16:00 Ruben Sandapen, Université de Moncton Diffractive Z and Upsilon production at the LHC
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3193
             
7 16:15 Alakabha Datta, University of Mississippi Testing explanations of the Polarization Puzzle
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3145
             
16:30 SESSION ENDS
             

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Precision Frontier II  -  WE-A6
Les limites de la précision II  -  WE-A6
Session Chair: Roger W. Moore, University of Alberta  
Session Date 2008-Jun-11  
Room Number VCH 3830 (110)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
10:00 SESSION STARTS
             
1 10:00 Anna Davour, Queen's University The PICASSO Dark Matter Search Project
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3074
             
2 10:30 Marie-Cécile Piro, Université de Montréal Status of PICASSO Detector for direct dark matter detection.
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3249
             
3 10:45 Guillaume Giroux, Université de Montréal Data analysis of the ongoing PICASSO 3kg-phase
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3237
             
4 11:00 Cecilia Levy, Queen's University Calibration for the PICASSO dark matter search project
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3527
             
5 11:15 Wolfgang Rau, Queen's Universtiy News from Direct Dark Matter Search with CDMS
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3157
             
6 11:30 Makoto C. Fujiwara, TRIUMF New Results from ALPHA Antihydrogen Project at CERN
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3398
             
7 11:45 Jeffery Martin, University of Winnipeg Ultracold Neutrons at TRIUMF
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3339
             
8 12:00 Kevin Graham, Carleton University Measuring Neutrino Mass with EXO
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3012
             
12:30 SESSION ENDS
             

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Energy Frontier  -  WE-P2
Frontière énergétique  -  WE-P2
Session Chair: Steven Robertson, McGill University  
Session Date 2008-Jun-11  
Room Number VCH 3830 (110)  
No. TIME SPEAKER TITLE I/C* U/G** REF. #
14:15 SESSION STARTS
             
1 14:15 Andreas Warburton, McGill University Recent Results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3100
             
2 14:45 Ernest Aguilo, University of Alberta and York University Latest Results of the DZero Experiment
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3046
             
3 15:15 Sebastian Carron Montero, University of Toronto Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the template method in the dilepton and lepton+jets decay channels from pp collisions at 1.96 TeV
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3238
             
4 15:30 Brigitte Vachon, McGill University Search for direct production of a heavy charged Higgs boson decaying to tb final state in proton-antiproton collisions
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3433
             
5 15:45 Bertrand Brelier, Universite de Montreal Associated production ZH/WH -> photons with the Atlas detector.
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C G 3269
             
6 16:00 Madhu Dixit, TRIUMF/Carleton University The International Linear Collider - a precision probe for physics in the post-LHC era
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 I 3019
             
7 16:30 Mauricio Barbi, University of Regina Study of Dark Matter with the International Linear Collider
( Click on title to view abstract ) [Talk]		 C 3308
             
16:45 SESSION ENDS
             

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