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2012 Michigan REU Student Program - Final Presentations

chaired by Steven Goldfarb (CERN)
Thursday, 9 August 2012 from to (Europe/Zurich)
at CERN ( 40-S2-C01 - Salle Curie )
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Presentations by the REU Summer Students
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  • Thursday, 9 August 2012
    • 14:00 - 14:20 Opening Remarks 20'
      Speakers: Homer Neal (University of Michigan (US)), Jean Krisch (University of Michigan), Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US)), Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan (US))
      Material: Video in CDS link
    • 14:20 - 14:30 Efficiency of Jet Algorithms 10' 
      The efficiency of jet algorithms is studied especially in relation to pile-up.
      Speaker: Alexandru Bacanu (CERN)
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 14:30 - 14:40 Search for Dark Matter Direct Production with the CMS Razor 10'
      Speaker: Ksheerasagar Vijay (CERN)
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 14:40 - 14:50 Hadronic Interaction Studies for ATLAS Inner Detector for ISF 10' 
      Final results for child particle studies and first steps in parametrizing SCT and inner pixel layers for the Integrated Simulation Framework (ISF)
      Speaker: Ryan Badman (Syracuse University)
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 14:50 - 15:00 Studies on Muon Reconstruction efficiency at ATLAS using 2012 8TeV data 10'
      Speaker: Feng Bi (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 15:00 - 15:10 Unbiased reconstruction of #Lambda_{c} baryons in LHCb 10' 
      Whether the decay chain of the Λc (2595) * can provide a tag that is precise enough and has a low enough background to count the total number of Λc + baryons in the data sample
      Speaker: Yi Bao (CERN)
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 15:10 - 15:20 Top Quark Mass at 8 TeV using kinematic fit 10'
      Speaker: Benjamin Henry Malkin Burdick (CERN)
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 15:20 - 15:30 Multi-turn Extraction: Splitting the PS Beam in Transverse Phase Space 10'
      Speaker: Christopher Frye
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 15:30 - 15:40 Measurement of the Transverse Momentum Spectra of Identified Hadrons in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV in the ALICE Detecor 10'
      Speaker: John Groh (CERN)
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 15:40 - 15:50 ATLAS - Examination of Corrupted Data in the Tile Calorimeter 10' 
      A brief presentation on my examination of corrupted data from TileCal.
      Speaker: Stephanie June Hamilton (University of Michigan (US))
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 15:50 - 16:00 Top Reconstruction Techniques in 0-Lepton Direct Stop Searches 10' 
      Final presentation of my summer research into new and improved methods for identifying top quarks in 6+ jet events with missing transverse energy. Specifically, I will discuss methods I have developed to reconstruct tops, and my future plans for my project in the future.
      Speaker: Anthony James Kremin (University of Michigan (US))
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 16:00 - 16:10 Monte Carlo Comparisons in W-gamma-gamma Channel 10'
      Speaker: Kristina Krylova (CERN)
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 16:10 - 16:20 Vector Boson Scattering At High Mass 10'
      Speaker: Hanzhe Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 16:20 - 16:30 ALICE Trigger and Event Selection QA 10' 
      I will present the last nine weeks of work on building a class that efficiently produces trending physics selection of various trigger classes for the purposes of quality assurance.  This class is easily generalizable and will be used for live monitoring via a webpage.
      Speaker: Kevin Mcdermott (CERN)
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 16:30 - 16:40 Resolving the Neutrino Ambiguity 10' 
      A condensed talk about the neutrino ambiguity and the methods applied, both traditional and regression based, to solving it in single top quark reconstruction.
      Speaker: Kelvin Mei (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 16:40 - 16:50 The Development of the Scintillating Fiber Detector in AEgIS 10' 
      A brief description of my work on AEgIS and their scintillating fiber detector.
      Speaker: Joseph Redford
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 16:50 - 17:00 Search for the Higgs boson in the ATLAS Experiment: Optimization of the H-WW 0-jet cuts for 2011 and 2012 data 10'
      Speaker: Victor Alonso Rodriguez (University of Michigan (US))
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 17:00 - 17:10 Lambda Lambdabar Spin Correlations & Higgs Spin, CP Measurement 10'
      Speaker: Cheryl Audrey Theroux (University of Michigan (US))
      Material: Slides pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 17:10 - 17:20 Summer Study on Jet Physics and Beyond! 10' 
      I will sum up my project about inclusive jet and dijet cross section from sqrt(s)=7 TeV pp collision, and also present other important things I learned at CERN.
      Speaker: Yu-Dai Tsai (CERN)
      Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file Video in CDS link
    • 17:20 - 17:30 Add Title 10'
      Speaker: Shaofeng Xu
    • 17:30 - 18:00 Portrait at BEBC ( Detector Garden )
    • 18:25 - 18:55 Bus to Restaurant ( Building 40 Parking Lot )
    • 18:55 - 21:55 Dinner ( Restaurant Creux de Genthod )