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Detector Development Group meeting on Nuclear Technologies, March 2023

Europe/London
Universe

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Description
This meeting will bring together industry and academia to discuss the latest research developments from QMUL in the area of nuclear technologies alongside sector challenges. The aim is to facilitate networking toward building collaborations and working toward enhancing existing and developing new partnerships.
  • Thursday, March 9
    • 1:00 PM 1:10 PM
      Welcome 10m
    • 1:10 PM 1:40 PM
      QMUL's Detector Development Group 30m
      An overview of activities including characterisation, simulation and systems engineering solutions and integration of instruments
      Speaker: Prof. A Bevan (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 1:40 PM 2:10 PM
      Case Study: ATLAS Tracker Upgrade 30m
      An overview of our contributions to the upgrade of the CERN experiment ATLAS for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
      Speaker: S Zenz (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 2:10 PM 2:40 PM
      Case Study: Organic Semiconductor Radiation Detectors 30m
      Speaker: Dr t Kreouzis (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 2:40 PM 3:30 PM
      Tea Break and Networking 50m
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Multi physics modelling for nuclear engineering and other applications 30m
      Including reactor modelling, algorithm improvements and simulation of environmental aspects
      Speaker: Dr Andrew Buchan (QMUL)
      Slides
    • 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Nuclear Imaging and Therapy Research at Barts Cancer Institute 30m
      An overview of current work and proposals for a UK radionuclide manufacturing facility for sustainable medicine
      Speaker: Dr Jen Young (Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL)
    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Simulating radiation environments and predicting detector response 30m
      Examples of radiation environment and device simulation using Monte Carlo Codes, other capabilities including radiation testing, and case studies of working with industry on product development.
      Speaker: I Dawson (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Radiation Damage in Materials 30m
      Molecular dynamical simulations of materials, studying radiation damage effects for waste storage
      Speaker: Dr K Trachenko (Queen Mary)
      Slides
      Video
    • 9:30 AM 10:00 AM
      Case Study: SAPIENS - Air pollution modelling 30m
      Modelling of air pollution in large urban areas. This work has potential to be used for CBRN situations including predicting pollution arising from industrial accidents, forensics and crisis management.
      Speaker: Mr N Heatley (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Eversion robots for the nuclear industry 30m
      Eversion robots for nuclear applications
      Speaker: Prof. Kaspar Althoefer (QMUL)
      Slides
    • 10:30 AM 11:10 AM
      Tea break and networking 40m
    • 11:10 AM 11:40 AM
      Curved and flexible sensors 30m
      Curved silicon and flexible organic semiconductor detector potential
      Speaker: Prof. A Bevan (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 11:40 AM 12:10 PM
      Demonstration: COTS data acquisition for radiation detectors 30m
      Demonstration of a multi channel Rasberry Pi radiation monitor readout system.
      Speaker: L Vozdecky (Queen Mary)
    • 12:10 PM 12:40 PM
      Ways to collaborate with QMUL 30m
      Slides
    • 12:40 PM 12:50 PM
      Closeout 10m
    • 12:50 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and networking 1h 10m