I am honoured to have recently presented a seminar at the Sanford Underground Research Facility's "Deeper Talks" series. The talk, entitled "Under the Canadian Shield: The SNOLAB Research Portfolio and 15-Year Plan". Join me on a tour of SNOLAB, a look at the current science program, and get a small taste of the community- and consultation-driven plan for where the lab could be in 15 years.
Watch the seminar:
The Springfield Telescope Makers Association hosts an annual "convention under the stars" at the Stellafane site in Springfield, VT, USA. This event draws astronomers, astronomy enthusiasts, and telescope makers from across North America and the world for three days of workshops, camping, and lectures. I was honoured to have been selected to offer the keynote lecture on the final night of the convention. The lecture is given at the Stellafane site in an outdoor amphitheatre, inviting the universe to light up the night as the speaker lights up the audience.
I was pleased to represent SNOLAB in an interview with CBC Radio One Sudbury reporter Erika Choristol for the March 21, 2025 鈥淯p North鈥 program. I discussed the newly funded SEEDLING (Science and Engineering Experiments at Depth 鈥 LearnING) at SNOLAB program. This program is led by the outstanding Education and Outreach team at the laboratory. I am pleased the Research Group will have a chance to support this research opportunity for young, aspiring discoverers in Canada.
I am proud, along with Dr. Erica Caden and Dr. Thomas Brunner, to have been a co-leader of the effort to organize and execute the 24th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN'25). Preceding this was the first ever Extreme Nuclear Half-Lives: New Theories and Experiments (ENT1/2ENTE) workshop, whose focus was on new ideas to help propel the field to ultra-rare nuclear phenomena.
From the event website:
I am honoured to have been elected by the board of Principal Investigators of HALO to server as Co-Spokesperson of the experiment with my colleague, Dr. Clarence Virtue. Clarence has led HALO since its inception and I am excited to serve with him and to help guide this supernova early warning detector into the future.
Learn more about HALO here:
I was thrilled to deliver a public lecture to the community of Lead, South Dakota, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) visitor centre. SURF is a sister laboratory to SNOLAB and home to the current LZ dark matter search experiment and the MAJORANA demonstrator neutrinoless double beta decay experiment. It is the future home of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), the largest particle detector that will ever have been constructed.
I presented a lecture entitled "Catch a Dying Star: Astronomy Deep Underground". You can watch it online here:
I am very proud to be listed as one of the over 13,000 laureates for the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Unlike the Nobel Prize in Physics, the 13-year-old Breakthrough Prize can be awarded to more than 3 people.
I am very excited to announce that the textbook, "The Dark Matter Discoverer's Guidebook", is now ! Dr. Jodi Cooley and I co-authored this book over three years of work. Since no one has discovered the constituents of dark matter, this is definitely a "work in progress". Our goal was to capture the case for dark matter, specifically particle-like dark matter, and show the many paths by which discovery might happen. This is the book we wish we had when we started our physics careers.
I was very excited to represent SNOLAB at an Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Modane Underground Laboratory. You can follow along on my journey and observations here:
I sat down the the host of CBC Sudbury's "Morning North" program, Markus Schwabe, to talk about Dark Matter Day and some of the activities going on at SNOLAB to mark this day.