7–9 May 2012
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

• Plenary Program

Plenary Program

Last update May 3, 2012.
The plenary sessions will take place in David Lawrence Hall (street level) in room 120 on Monday and Tuesday and at the Carnegie Museum Music Hall on Wednesday.

Registration: Begins at 7:30 AM, Monday, May 7
Breakfast: Begins at 7:30 AM
Lawrence Hall (street level) in the lobby
Breakfast: Begins at 8:00 AM
Carnegie Museum Music Hall
Monday, May 7
David Lawrence Hall
room 120 (street level)
Tuesday, May 8
David Lawrence Hall
room 120 (street level)
Wednesday, May 9
Carnegie Museum
Music Hall
Chair: Sally Dawson Chair: Sekhar Chivukula Chair: Fred Olness
8:40 - 8:45:
David Turnshek
Chair of Physics and Astronomy
(U. Pittsburgh)
Welcome

8:45 - 9:20
Corrinne Mills
(Harvard & ATLAS)
SM Results from ATLAS and CMS
8:45 - 9:00
Victor Bazterra
(U. Illinois - Chicago & DO)
Physics results from the Tevatron

9:00 - 9:15
Wei-Ming Yao
(LBL & CDF)
Higgs searches at the Tevatron
8:45 - 9:20
Jeorn Putschke
(Wayne State U. & ALICE)
Physics from ALICE
9:20 - 9:55
Rahmat Rahmat
(U. of Mississippi & CMS)
Searches for new physics at ATLAS and CMS
9:20 - 9:55
Sajan Easo
(Rutherford Lab & LHCb)
Recent LHCb Results
9:20 - 9:55
Zvi Bern
(UCLA)
Perturbative QCD at the LHC
9:55 - 10:10
Mia Tosi
(U. di Padova e Sez. dell'INFN & CMS)
Higgs boson searches at CMS

10:10 - 10:25
Alex Christopher Martyniuk
(U. of Victoria & ATLAS)
Searches for the Higgs Boson with ATLAS
9:55 - 10:30
David London
(U. Montreal, Canada)
Flavor physics in the LHC era
9:55 - 10:30
Steve Ritz
(UC Santa Cruz)
Physics results from Fermi-GLAST
10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break
Chair: Tilman Plehn Chair: Kaoru Hagiwara Chair: Xerxes Tata
11:00 - 11:35
Dieter Zeppenfeld
(Karlsruhe)
Higgs physics at the LHC

11:00 - 11:25
Eric D. Zimmerman
(U. Colorado & T2K)
An experimental overview of neutrino oscillations

11:25 - 11:40
Wei Wang
(C. William and Mary & Daya Bay)
Measurement of theta13 with reactor electron-antineutrino disappearance
11:00 - 11:35
Suzanne Staggs
(Princeton U. & ACT)
Astroparticle Physics in the New Era
11:35 - 12:10
Csaba Csaki
(Cornell U.)
Where could SUSY be hiding?
11:40 - 12:15
Kaladi Babu
(Oklahoma S. U.)
Probing new physics in neutrino oscillations
11:35 - 12:10
Kathryn Zurek
(U. Michigan)
Theory and Phenomenology of Dark Matter
12:10 - 12:45
Elizabeth Simmons
(Michigan State U.)
Strong dynamics in electroweak physics
12:15 - 12:50
JoAnne Hewett
(Stanford & SLAC)
Physics at the Intensity Frontier
12:10 - 12:45
Cumrun Vafa
(Harvard)
Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics
Lunch on your own until 2:00 PM

Parallel Sessions
2:00 - 6:30 PM
End of Conference
Symposium sponsored visit to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Art
  Symposium Banquet
Carnegie Museum Music Hall Foyer
7:00 - 10:00 PM