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We have a shorter newsletter for you this month. As always, please let us know if there are things you'd like the astroparticle physics community to know about, and we'll include them here!
I’d like to apologize for the error in last month’s newsletter. You may have noticed that some text that was supposed to be white on a dark background was black, making it difficult to read. Whenever we make an error like this, a corrected version is posted to our newsletter archive.
Upcoming:
MI HQP Seminar Series:
May 28, 3:00-4:00 PM ET Braeden Veenstra, University of Alberta
A Zoom link will be sent via the Astroparticle Physics HQP Mailing list. Join the list here.
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Today is the final day to submit an abstract for the Women+ in Physics Canada 2025 Conference at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, July 22-25, 2025!
Whether you're doing theory, applied physics, astronomy, education, or interdisciplinary research, apply now!
This conference platform aims to amplify the scientific contributions of women, gender minorities, and their allies to share research, network, and expand professionally in the field of physics. Conference delegates will have the opportunity to build networks, explore career paths, and present research while also promoting conversations about gender equity in physics. This conference is for everyone who supports and wants to see a better future for physics in Canada. It takes everyone working together to build a more inclusive and diverse research community! Also, remember that there are three categories to apply to with talks and posters: Discovery, Application, and Vision/Impact, so there are a lot of different ways for people to participate.
For more information, visit the Conference Website.
Please also consider the 2SLGBTQ+ in STEM Conference, an annual nationwide event dedicated to celebrating and advancing the contributions of the 2SLGBTQ+ community in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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Annual Community’s Aug. 7 social event at Canada Science & Tech Museum:
The Canadian Astroparticle Physics Annual Community Meeting at Carleton University will host a special social and dinner event on the evening of August 7 at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Attendees will enjoy a private reception and viewing in the museum's artifact gallery before dinner in the museum’s banquet room.
The annual meeting, to be held Aug. 6-8, draws together faculty, fellows, technicians, engineers, and students working across the entire breadth of theoretical and experimental astroparticle physics with significant Canadian participation. The regular meeting will feature research updates on key experimental collaborations, new theory work, and updates on the McDonald Institute’s current efforts to respond to the IPP-organized subatomic physics long-range plan. The meeting also includes a one-day, Aug. 5 professional development workshop for HQP (Highly Qualified Personnel) that will feature sessions on career networking in this year’s iteration.
The Institute will provide residence room accommodations free of charge for students, technicians, and postdoctoral fellows to support their participation in any part of the workshop and meeting. Faculty and career scientists are also welcome to request residence rooms, at cost, through the registration link. Registration for both the workshop and the regular meeting is now open.
Secure your spot at https://indico.global/event/14027/
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SNOLAB developing hands-on student experiences
SNOLAB is developing a program for students in Sudbury and across Canada that will invite learners to engage with science at SNOLAB. The project, called SEEDLING (Science & Engineering Experiments at Depth: LearnING at SNOLAB), will encourage students from grades 4 to 8 to ask their own questions and follow the scientific method to reach an answer. The program will encourage students to design experiments to test their own questions aligned with the unique conditions at SNOLAB. Selected projects will be matched with SNOLAB mentors to design, build, and test experiments via live broadcast from the underground laboratory.
SEEDLING will be driven by curiosity and is designed to increase the exposure of Canadian students to the process of science, regardless of their location, available resources, or science background, says Dr. Jodi Cooley, SNOLAB’s executive director.
“Our goal is to develop STEM programming in Northern Ontario and Canada to better reach equity-seeking groups as we inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers,” said Cooley.
Funding for SEEDLING will come from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s PromoScience program. PromoScience will contribute $225,000 over three years to support SEEDLING.
Learn more about SNOLAB’s SEEDLING program here.
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The 24th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN25) will be held in Sudbury from Monday, September 29 to Friday, October 3, 2025.
The workshop location will be split between host SNOLAB (pre-workshop Monday and Tuesday, hosted by McGill University) and the main workshop in downtown Sudbury’s Places des Arts (from Wednesday to Friday). The main physics topics at NNN25 will include: searches for proton decay, CP violation in the lepton sector, determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, and observation of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae.
NNN25 is jointly organized by SNOLAB, the McDonald Institute, and McGill University.
Over the last 25 years, the NNN series of workshops has provided the international community with a forum for in-depth discussions on future large-scale detectors for research on nucleon decay and neutrino physics, since its inaugural workshop in 1999 at Stony Brook, NY.
More information and a call for abstracts (now open) can be found here.
https://indico.snolab.ca/event/21/overview
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Symposium: Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing with Photonics
June 6, at Queen's University. Cohosted by the NSERC CREATE NUCLEUS program and FABrIC, this ecosystem development event will bring together technology leaders’ perspectives on photonics-enabled hardware solutions for Bridging AI and Quantum Computing.
https://fabricinnovation.ca/symposium-ai-and-photonics-quantum-computing/
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Dark Matter and Stars Conference Call for Abstracts
The International Conference "Dark Matter and Stars: Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity" will be held at Queen’s University in Kingston July 14-16.
The conference aims to bring together scientists working across the different research fields of astrophysics, cosmology, and modified gravity to look at the dark matter problem from different perspectives. The meeting is intended to initiate cross-field discussions of dark matter searches, their current status, and future prospects.
Abstract submission deadline: 18 May 2025
Registration deadline: 31 May 2025
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1467343/
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Monday, June 2nd, at 2:00 pm ET
(First Monday of every month at 2pm ET)
The MI-HQPAC (McDonald Institute Highly Qualified Personnel Advisory Committee) invites you to join in an open, drop-in virtual Town Hall meeting.
This event is open to all members of the astroparticle physics research community. It focuses on issues relevant to the HQP community (students, postdocs, early career researchers, engineers, and technicians). It is a chance to talk about all issues, ideas, and questions with the people who are working to address them.
Details here.
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