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

Photos

Student Posters