NTCO AGM 2024

 

The sixth (last) NTCO Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held at NRC-Herzberg in Victoria, BC from February 22-23, 2024.  Our last AGM was held in person but we also had an online component for those individuals that were unable to travel to Victoria.  The NTCO AGM included 8 NTCO student poster sessions, 18 Flash Talks (given by former and current NTCO students), lab tours, and several presentations by industry partners, former NTCO students, NTCO supervisors, and NTCO Team Members.  We also hosted a group dinner with NTCO students, university faculty members and industry partners.

 

AGM Presentations

NTCO Team Members, Industry Members, NTCO Supervisors, and former NTCO Students were invited to present a 10-20 minute talk during the AGM.  The talks are listed in the order in which they were presented.

 

Topic Spokesperson Affiliation
The Canadian Astronomy Landscape: Science, Technology, Data and People Luc Simard HAA-Victoria
Summary of the NTCO program Kim Venn University of Victoria
NTCO Interns at the International Gemini Observatory Stephen Goodsell Gemini Observatory
Bridging the gap between ideas and great discoveries, success stories and lessons learnt Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard ABB
Introduction to Teledyne FLIR and Success Stories Stephen Se FLIR
NTCO Supervisor Experience Colin Bradley University of Victoria
Success Story and Lessons Learned Simon Thibault Université Laval
A journey through grad school Adam Johnson University of Victoria
NTCO....a journey from WesternU to CFHT Viraja Khatu CFHT

Flash Talks

Current and Former NTCO students gave 2-3 minute presentations about their internships.  Presentations were a mixture of in-person, via zoom, and video recordings.  The talks are listed in the order in which they were presented.

Presentation Title Student University
New Horizons Subaru Target Search Lowell Peltier University of Victoria
NTCO...a journey from WesternU to CFHT Viraja Khatu Western University
Neural Network Optimization for Machine Vision Edge Devices with Model Distillation Techniques Robert Bickley University of Victoria
Unsupervised Machine Learning For Identifying Signatures Of Past Mergers In Galaxy Light Profiles Joyo Smit Saint Mary's University
NTCO Internship Daniel Muhwezi-Banyweine Carleton University
NTCO Internship Dia Martinez Gracey McMaster University
Development of a Cryogenic Far-infrared Post-dispersed Polarizing Fourier Transform Spectrometer Matthew Buchan University of Lethbridge
NTCO Internship Ophélie Légaré Université Laval
NTCO AGM Flash Talk - Overview of my 2021/22 undergrad NTCO work Ashley Ferreira University of Waterloo
Wide-field atmospheric turbulence mitigation using short-exposure video sequences and machine learning Spencer Bialek University of Victoria
SPIDER Hardware Monitoring Angus Bews University of Victoria
Software Development at Diffraction Ted Grosson University of Victoria
The high-resolution fibre-fed velocity spectrograph: VROOMM Farbod Jahandar University of Montreal
LUVCam NTCO Internship Julia Empey University of Waterloo
Flaring M-dwarfs in the TAOS II Fields Claire Sibbald University of Victoria
Developing Sensitivity Threshold Algorithms for CHIME/FRB Naman Jain McGill University
Summary of NTCO Internships Stephanie Monty University of Victoria
NTCO Flash Talk William Thompson University of Victoria

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Student Posters

Poster Title Student University
Development of a Cryogenic Far-Infrared Post-Dispersed Polarizing Fourier-Transform Spectrometer Matthew Buchan University of Lethbridge
Applying Self-Supervised Representation Learning to Unions Ashley Ferreira University of Waterloo
Software Development at Diffraction Ted Grosson University of Victoria
Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Development and Results of a New Generation Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer Adam Johnson University of Victoria
Gemini Automated Scheduler: Historical Analysis of Queue Plans Lowell Peltier University of Victoria
Flaring M-dwarfs in the TAOS II Fields Claire Sibbald University of Victoria
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Identifying Signatures of Past Mergers in Galaxy Light Profiles Joyo Smit Saint Mary's University
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