Name: Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility
Start: 2024-05-14T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-05-17T15:00:00-06:00
Location: SD Mines

Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

from Tuesday, May 14, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Friday, May 17, 2024 (3:00 PM)

Monday, May 13, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
8:20 AM
8:20 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: CB 204 E&W
Contributions

8:20 AM Welcome - Laurie Anderson (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

8:25 AM The Past Lives in Our Present: Black Hills History and Community Engagement Efforts at SURF - Rochelle Zens (SURF)

8:50 AM The Sanford Underground Research Facility - Jaret Heise (SDSTA/SURF)

9:30 AM Neutrino theory overview - Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University)
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: CB206 E&W
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: CB 204 E&W
Contributions

10:30 AM The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment DUNE: Prospective Physics Program and Status - Kevin Wood (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:00 AM Probing Astro- and Particle Physics with Supernova and Solar Neutrinos at SURF - Daniel Pershey (Florida State University)

11:30 AM Pushing Rare Event Search to the Limit with Machine Learning Algorithms - Aobo Li (University of California San Diego)
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Surbeck Center
2:00 PM Parallel I
Parallel I
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: CB 204 W
Contributions

2:00 PM Exploration of subsurface microorganisms with single cell techniques - Ramunas Stepanauskas (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)

2:20 PM From undergorund to space: How extremophiles can be developed for consumer product goods - Kyle Landry (Delavie Sciences)

2:40 PM Biology research at SURF - Markus Horn (Sanford Underground Research Facility)

3:00 PM The Impact of Oxygen Concentration on Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria and the Characterization of Novel Bacteria from SURF - Christopher Garner (University of Oklahoma)

3:20 PM Enhancement of methane oxidation in methanotrophs - Dipayan Samanta (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
Parallel
Parallel
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: CB 205
Contributions

2:00 PM LEGEND: Searching for 0νββ in 76-Ge - Brady Bos (THE UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL)

2:20 PM Recent Neutrino Parameters Impact on the Effective Majorana Neutrino Mass in 0$\nu\beta\beta$ Decay - Dongming Mei

2:40 PM Development of Germanium (Ge) Ring Contact Detectors for Ge-based Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment - Kunming Dong (University of South Dakota)

3:00 PM Enhancing XENONnT's Sensitivity to Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay with TextCNN - Min Zhong (University of California, San Diego)

3:20 PM Advances in High Purity Germanium Single Crystals: Characterization and Progress at the USD - Sanjay Bhattarai (University of South Dakota)
Parallel
Parallel
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: CB 204 E
Contributions

2:00 PM NOvA+T2K Joint Analysis Results - Gregory Pawloski (University of Minnesota)

2:25 PM The New JUNO Reactor Neutrino Experiment with Summary on Daya Bay/Double Chooz/RENO - Roberto Mandujano (University of California Irvine)

2:50 PM The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE): ND-LAr and the 2x2 Demonstrator - Kevin Wood (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

3:15 PM Results, Status and Future of the KATRIN experiment and Outlook on Project 8, ECHo, and HOLMES - Andrew Gavin (University on North Carolina)
3:40 PM

3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: CB206 E&W
I
I
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: CB 206 E&W
Contributions

3:45 PM Power Over Fiber for the DUNE Vertical Drift Photon Detection System - Diana Leon Silverio (South Dakota School of Mines)

3:45 PM The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment: New Developments in Neutrino Detection - Franklin Lemmons (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM Modification of Biopolymers from Geobacillus sp. strain EP1 for 3D printing Biofertilizer Encapsulation - Kelly Sutko (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM Unveiling pH-Dependent metabolic flexibility and homeostasis mechanisms in Oleidesulfovibrio alaskensis G20 - Dipayan Samanta (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM Advancing Sustainable Biopolymer Production through Cell Free Biomanufacturing - Chirag Abrol (SDSMT) Kritika Thakur (SDSMT)

3:45 PM Probing the Solar Neutrino Day/Night Effect - Michael Fodroci (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM Quality Assurance for Potential Supernova Neutrino Detections with DUNE at SURF - Tyler Rath (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM A Novel Neutron-Based Calibration System for DUNE - Walker Johnson (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM Synergistic Microbial Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture - Navdeep Kaur

3:45 PM Bio-Mediated Soil Stabilization for Enhanced Infrastructure Resilience - Ishika Garg (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology) Rimjhim Sharma (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

3:45 PM Utilizing Signaling Molecules for Sustainable Crop Management in Agriculture - Jasmeet Kaur (SDSMT)

3:45 PM Insight into Biofilm Dynamics: Integrating Experimental Curing, Advanced Imaging, and Machine Learning - Sirina Kalia (Karen M. Swindler Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States)
4:20 PM Parallel II
Parallel II
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: CB 204 W
Contributions

4:20 PM Mitigating Plastic Pollution in Agriculture through Biodegradable Mulch Films - Antonia Gibbs (South Dakota Mines - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) Jasmeet Kaur (South Dakota Mines - Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Health Sciences)

4:40 PM Urban Mining of e-scrap – Biohydrometallurgy is the future - Sudhir Kumar (Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh 173234)

5:00 PM Effect of bioavailable copper on Oleidesulfovibrio alaskensis G20 biofilm formation - Payal Thakur

5:20 PM Metagenome Assembled Genomes (MAGs): Extreme Habitat of Deception Island - Ram Singh (SD Mines)

5:40 PM Extremophilic processes and microbiome: Companion for marching towards net zero - Balendra Singh (Department of Biotechnology, India)
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: CB 204 E
Contributions

4:20 PM APEX Design and VD Technology for DUNE FD3 - Wei Shi (Stony Brook University)

4:40 PM SoLAr: a novel approach to multipurpose LArTPCs for neutrino physics - Daniele Guffanti (University & INFN Milano-Bicocca)

5:00 PM The Theia Detector - Leon Pickard (UC Berkley)

5:20 PM A SURF Low Background Module (SloMo) - Christopher Jackson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

5:40 PM Optical readout of large scale dual-phase liquid Argon TPCs with the ARIADNE technology - Kostas Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool)
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: CB 204 E&W
Contributions

8:30 AM Overview of Nucleon Decay - Linyan Wan (Fermilab)

9:00 AM Overview of neutrinoless double beta decay - Krishan Mistry (University of Texas at Arlington)

9:30 AM Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments - Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama)
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: CB206 E&W
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: CB 204 E&W
Contributions

10:30 AM Theory of Dark Matter - Joshua Berger (Colorado State University)

11:00 AM Dark Matter Searches with Noble Liquids - Jingke Xu (LLNL)

11:30 AM Light dark matter: wimpier than the WIMP - Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)
12:00 PM Conference Photo at "the Arch"
Conference Photo at "the Arch"
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM

12:10 PM

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Surbeck Center
2:00 PM Parallel I
Parallel I
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: CB 204 E
Contributions

2:00 PM Latest results of the PandaX-4T experiment - Zhicheng Qian (上海交通大学)

2:25 PM Searching for WIMPs and Other New Physics with LZ - Shilo Xia (LBNL)

2:50 PM Electron Lifetime Measurements in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment - Jack Genovesi (SDSMT)

3:15 PM The future of the DarkSide-20k Dark Matter Search - Michela Lai (UC Riverside)
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: CB 204 W
Contributions

2:00 PM First demonstration for a LArTPC-based search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transitions and annihilation in 40Ar using the MicroBooNE detector - Daisy Kalra (Columbia University)

2:30 PM Baryon Number Violation Searches Using the DUNE Far Detector - Josh Barrow (UMN, Fermilab visitor)

3:00 PM Nucleon Decay Searches in JUNO - Cailian Jiang (Nanjing University)
3:40 PM

3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: CB206 E&W

II
II
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: CB 206 E&W
4:20 PM Parallel
Parallel
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Machine learning-based waveform analysis for pile-up events - Laxman Sharma Paudel (University of South Dakota)

4:45 PM Predictive Impurity Profiling in Germanium Crystals through Machine Learning and Hall Effect Measurements - Pramod Acharya (The University of South Dakota)

5:10 PM Application of machine learning for anomaly detection and background discrimination in LZ data - Maris Arthurs (Postdoctoral associate)

5:35 PM Laying the groundwork for trust in dark matter results - Amy Roberts (University of Colorado Denver)
Parallel II
Parallel II
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: CB 204 E
Contributions

4:20 PM Unraveling Light Dark Matter and Rare B Decays: $L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}$ Model Enhanced by Scalar Leptoquark - Suchismita Sahoo (Central University of karnataka)

4:40 PM Latest Results and Future Directions of CRESST - Michele Mancuso (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

5:00 PM The SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment - Aditi Pradeep (University of British Columbia)

5:20 PM The search for light dark matter with DAMIC-M - Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

5:40 PM Searching for MeV-scale Dark Matter at TESSERACT - William Matava (University of California at Berkeley)
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, May 16, 2024
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: CB 204 E&W
Contributions

8:30 AM Advanced Germanium Detectors for LEGEND - David Radford (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) David Radford (ORNL)

9:00 AM The Value of Underground Field Laboratories for Advancing Geothermal Energy - Jeffrey Burghardt (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Recent results from MicroBooNE and status of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program - Brandon Eberly (University of Southern Maine)
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: CB206 E&W
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: CB 204 E&W
Contributions

10:30 AM Overview of the DUNE Phase-II Program - Sowjanya Gollapinni (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:00 AM Nuclear Astrophysics Underground – Status of CASPAR - Daniel Robertson (University of Notre Dame)

11:30 AM Automated industrial platform for fuel bioethanol using Clostridium with co-production of high-value peptides via clostridial IVTT - Stephen Hughes (CTO, Integrated Biorefining Corporation)
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Surbeck Center

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: CB 204 E

3:40 PM

3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: CB206 E&W
4:20 PM Parallel III
Parallel III
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: CB 204 E
Contributions

4:20 PM The CYGNO/INITIUM project for directional Dark Matter searches - Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

4:40 PM Radiopure flexible cables for rare-event physics detectors - Nicole Rocco (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

5:00 PM Innovative Purification Techniques for Producing High-Quality Germanium Detectors for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches - Austin Warren (University of South Dakota)

5:20 PM Unusual Dielectric Behavior at Low Temperatures: Neutrality Induction and Excited Dipole States in Germanium Detectors for MeV-Scale Dark Matter Detection - Narayan Budhathoki (University of South Dakota)
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: CB 204 W
Contributions

4:20 PM DUNE Low Energy Physics with Solar and Supernova Neutrinos - Gleb Sinev (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

4:40 PM Radiological Backgrounds in DUNE Far Detectors - Shawn Westerdale (University of California Riverside)

5:00 PM Calibrating DUNE LArTPC Detectors Using Low-Energy Radioactive Decays - Michael Mooney (Colorado State University)

5:20 PM Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background Search - Linyan Wan (Fermilab)
Friday, May 17, 2024

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Room: 4850L