During the week of June 11^th 2018, Channel Systems joined the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The exhibition took place in the Student Union building at Dalhousie University.

Together with a small group of other exhibitors, we presented the products and services we had to offer. Throughout the two exhibition days I was approached by various students, researchers and industry people to discuss the imaging hardware we provide and what opportunities they may have for using our devices. A wide range of topics were presented at the show ranging from dark matter detection research and laser based applications to lithium ion performance research, to name a few.

At the show we offered live demonstrations of four of our cameras, one was a Xenics TE3 SWIR camera, another was the Infratec MWIR thermal camera, we had an intensified Cerenkov light imager and lastly a Specim IQ VNIR hyperspectral mobile camera.

One of the interesting exhibitor booths I was able to visit was the booth for SNOLAB out of Sudbury Ontario. SNOLAB is a worldwide known underground research facility that provides deep underground lab space for research requiring protection from cosmic background radiation. The underground portion of the facility is located at a depth of 2km and all of its clean room tunnels add up to nearly 5,000 square meters. SNOLAB is one of only a few labs around the world that offer the capabilities it has. One of the sophisticated detectors, which is related to Nobel prize winning research a few years ago, is contained within a 10 storey high chamber built within one of the tunnel sections.

Channel Systems has exhibited at the CAP Conference in the past and as always, it was a wonderful experience. We look forward to next year's Conference!

For more information on the other exhibitors and conference, please see the CAP conference website: www.cap.ca ​