Name: PLHC2011 - Physics at LHC 2011
Start: 2011-06-05T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-06-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Perugia Congress Center GIO

Monday, 6 June 2011

08:00 Arrival and Registration
Arrival and Registration
08:00 - 10:30
Room: Reception Halls
10:30
10:30 - 13:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

10:30 Welcome (5') - Giancarlo MANTOVANI (INFN and Univers. of Perugia)

10:35 CERN: status and future plans (30'+5') - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

11:10 Status and Plans of LHC (30'+5') - Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)

11:45 Status of ATLAS (30'+5') - Ludovico Pontecorvo (INFN and University of Roma I)

12:20 Status of CMS (30'+5') - Guido Tonelli (INFN and University of Pisa)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:45
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Status of Totem (20'+5') - Nicola Turini (University of Siena and INFN Pisa)

14:55 Status of LHCf (20'+5') - Oscar Adriani (INFN Firenze)

15:20 Status of ALICE (30'+5') - Johannes Wessels (WWU Münster)

15:55 Status of LHCb (30'+5') - Andreas Schopper (CERN)
18:00 Official Opening and Reception
Official Opening and Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Aula Magna
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Soft gluons and soft Physics (25'+5') - Francesco Hautmann (ITP Oxford Univ.)

09:30 PDF for LHC Physics (20'+5') - Stefano Forte (INFN and University of Milano)

09:55 Soft QCD results from Alice Experiment (20'+5') - Luciano Ramello (INFN and Univ Piemonte Orientale)

10:20 Onia at LHC (20'+5') - Giulia Manca (INFN and Univ. Cagliari)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Heavy ION theory (30'+5') - Dmitri KHARZEEV (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY)

11:50 Heavy ION at RHIC (30'+5') - Gary WESTFALL (MICHIGAN ST. UNIVERSITY)

12:25 Heavy ION at LHC (30'+5') - Andreas Morsch (CERN)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Heavy-ion results from the CMS experiment (15'+5') - Raphael Granier De Cassagnac (Ecole polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3)

14:50 Theoretical perspectives on Heavy Ion LHC program (20'+5') - Nicolas Borghini (Univ. of Bielefeld)

15:15 Baryon number transport at LHC energies with the ALICE experiment (15'+5') - Michal Broz (Comenius University-Slovakia)

15:35 Results from lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV with ATLAS at the LHC (15'+5') - Tomasz Bold (UC Irvine, AGH-UST Krakow)
14:30 - 16:15
Room: Trumpet room
Contributions

14:30 EWK di-boson production in ATLAS (15'+5') - Johannes Ebke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)

14:50 Status of Higgs and EW cross-sections for the LHC (20'+5') - Fulvio Piccinini (INFN Pavia)

15:15 Vector boson production in ATLAS (15'+5') - Lashkar Kashif (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:35 Study of W and Z production, lepton charge asymmetry and Z differential cross sections at CMS (15'+5') - Hwidong Yoo (Purdue University)

15:55 Studies of electroweak boson production in the forward region with LHCb (15'+5') - Stephen Farry (UC Dublin)
16:15 Coffee Break and poster session
Coffee Break and poster session
16:15 - 17:15

Opening of the Poster Session
Opening of the Poster Session
16:15 - 17:15
17:15
17:15 - 19:30
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

17:15 Jet Reconstruction and the Evolution of Background Effects in Pb-Pb Collisions Measured with the ALICE Experiment at the LHC (15'+5') - Bastian BATHEN (UNIV. OF MÜNSTER)

17:35 ATLAS measurements of particle multiplicities and correlations (15'+5') - James William Monk (DPA University College London)

17:55 Forward physics at the LHC (20'+5') - Yogendra Srivastava (INFN and Univers. Perugia)

18:20 Electromagnetic Dissociation Measurement at LHC with ALICE ZDC (15'+5') - Nora De Marco (INFN and Univers. Torino)

18:40 Underlying event studies at CMS (15'+5') - Paolo Bartalini (NTU- Taiwan)

19:00 Transverse sphericity in minimum bias p-p collision at 0.9 and 7 Tev with ALICE (15'+5) - Antonio Ortiz Velasquez (ICN UNA Mexico)
17:15 - 19:30
Room: Trumpet room
Contributions

17:15 Multijets and the internal structure of jets measurements at ATLAS (15'+5') - Bilge Demirkoz (IFAE, Barcelona)

17:35 Measurements of forward energy flow and forward jet production with CMS (15'+5') - Alexander Flossdorf (DESY)

17:55 Higher-order effects in QCD and EW cross sections at the LHC (20'+5') - Radja Boughezal (Argonne NL)

18:20 Diffraction and the Inelastic Cross Section measurements with ATLAS (15'+5') - Oldrich Kepka (IP Prague)

18:40 Exclusive measurements (di-leptons and vector mesons) at CMS (15'+5') - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

19:00 Exclusive dimuon measurements with LHCb (15'+5') - Valentin Niess (LPC-Inst. Nat. Phys. Nucl. et P.)
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Production of the Higgs boson and other electroweak objects at the LHC (25'+5') - Frank Petriello (Northwestern Univers. and ANL)

09:30 EWK/hard QCD results from Tevatron (25'+5') - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan)

10:00 EWK results from CMS (20'+5') - Luca Lista (INFN and Univers. Napoli)

10:25 Recent EWK results from ATLAS (20'+5') - Matthias Schott (CERN)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

11:20 Hard QCD: theoretical aspects (25'+5') - Giulia Zanderighi (University of Oxford)

11:50 Hard QCD results from CMS (25'+5') - Konstantinos Kousouris (Fermilab)

12:20 Recent Hard QCD results from ATLAS (25'+5') - Mathieu Plamondon (University of Victoria)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30

14:30 Afternoon Excursion and Concert
Afternoon Excursion and Concert
14:30 - 22:30
Thursday, 9 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Flavour Physics at the LHC (25' +5') - Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute)

09:30 B physics from Tevatron (25' +5') - Paola Squillacioti (University of Siena and INFN Pisa)

10:00 B decays, CKM, spectroscopy B and Charm at LHCb (40' +5') - Marta Calvi (Universita degli Studi Milano - Bicocca)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:05
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Top physics: theoretical aspects (25' +5') - Eric Laenen (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

11:45 Top results from Tevatron (25' +5') - Aran Garcia-Bellido (University of Rochester)

12:15 Top results from ATLAS (20' +5') - Marina Cobal (INFN and University of Udine)

12:40 Top results from CMS (20' +5') - Alicia Calderon Tazon (IFCA - CSIC)
13:05 Lunch
Lunch
13:05 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Search for New Physics with rare decays of B and Bs mesons at LHCb (15' +5') - Johannes Albrecht (CERN)

14:50 Quarkonium Production at ATLAS (15' + 5') - Kendall Reeves (University of Texas at Dallas)

15:10 Signals of supersymmetry in flavour physics (20' + 5') - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Fermilab)

15:35 Mixing and CP violation in the Bs system at LHCb (15' + 5') - Greig Cowan (EPFL)

15:55 Measurements of quarkonia production and polarization with the CMS experiment (15'+ 5') - Hermine K. Woehri (CERN)

16:15 CP-violation measurements and prospects with hadronic B decays at LHCb (15'+ 5') - Lars Eklund (University of Glasgow)
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Trumpet room
Contributions

14:30 Jet production in association with vector bosons at ATLAS (15' + 5') - Maria Fiascaris (University of Chicago)

14:50 W,Z + jets production with CMS detector (15' + 5') - William Robert Reece (CERN)

15:10 Role of gluons in soft and semi’hard hadron production in pp collisions at LHC (15' + 5') - Gennady Lykasov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

15:30 QCD studies with photons in CMS (15' + 5') - Philippe Gras (CEA Saclay)

15:50 Jet production measurement with the ATLAS detector (15' + 5') - Felix Mueller (University of Heidelberg)

16:10 Measurements of WW, Wγ and Zγ production cross sections at CMS (15' + 5') - Armando Lanaro (University of Wisconsin Madison)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:20
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

17:00 Measurements of B production with the CMS experiment (15' + 5') - Polina Otiougova (University of Zurich)

17:20 Anomalous t-Wb couplings:interplay of t -Wb decays and B-Bbar mixing in MFV models (15' + 5') - Jure Drobnak (Jozef Stefan Institute)

17:40 CP-violation studies with charm decays at LHCb (15' + 5') - Vladimir Gligorov (CERN)

18:00 J/psi measurements in p-p and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC with ALICE (15' + 5') - Cynthia Hadjidakis (INP and University Paris-sud)

18:20 Open Bottom & Charm Production at ATLAS (15' + 5') - Miriam Watson (University of Birmingham, UK)

18:40 Measurements of open heavy flavour production in p-p and Pb-Pb collisions with Alice (15' + 5') - Davide Caffarri (INFN and University of Padova)
17:00 - 19:20
Room: Trumpet room
Contributions

17:00 Top quark pair production cross section measurements in the single- lepton and di-lepton channels with ATLAS (15' + 5') - Adam Roe (Goettingen University)

17:20 Top quark cross section measurements with CMS (15' + 5') - Haryo Sumowidagdo (University of California, Riverside)

17:40 The third generation quark sector in warped models LHC predictions from LEP/Tevatron anomalies (15' + 5') - Gregory Moreau (LPT Orsay)

18:00 Searches for Single Top-Quark Production with the ATLAS Detector in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV (15' + 5') - Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University)

18:20 Single top quark production with CMS (15' + 5') - Mara Senghi Soares (CIEMAT Madrid)

18:40 Top quark property measurements at ATLAS (15' + 5') - Valerio Dao (University of Geneve)

19:00 Top quark mass and other properties measurements with CMS (15' + 5') - Thomas Speer (Brown University)
Friday, 10 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 How weak is electroweak ? Probing strong EWSB at the LHC (30'+5') - Roberto Contino (Sapienza University of Rome)

09:35 Higgs results from Tevatron (20' +5') - Massimo Casarsa (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:00 Higgs results from CMS (20' +5') - Marcello Mannelli (CERN)

10:25 Recent Higgs results from ATLAS (20' +5') - Marc Escalier (University Paris-sud)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

11:20 The quest for new physics at the weak scale (30' +5') - Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago and ANL)

11:55 Searches in CMS (25' +5') - Lars Sonnenschein (RWTH Aachen)

12:25 Recent results from New Physics Searches in ATLAS (25' +5') - Tommaso Lari (INFN Milano)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

14:30 ATLAS Higgs results (15' + 5') - Yingchun Zhu (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)

14:50 Higgs Searches at CMS (15' + 5') - Ashok Kumar (University of Delhi)

15:10 Higgs phenomenology beyond the SM (20' + 5') - Heather LOGAN (Carleton U.)

15:35 Overview of ATLAS Supersymmetry searches with 2010 LHC data (15' + 5') - Troels Petersen (Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Trumpet room
Contributions

14:30 Searches for new particles decaying into jet pairs in 2011 ATLAS data (15' + 5') - Ryan Mark Buckingham (Particle Physics-University of Oxford)

14:50 Search for hadronic resonances at CMS (15' + 5') - Sertac Ozturk (University of Iowa)

15:10 What if SUSY is not right? Non-susy signals at the LHC (20' + 5') - Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)

15:35 Tevatron BSM results (15' + 5') - Gerard Sajot (University of Grenoble)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Search for SUSY in jets plus missing transverse momentum final states with the ATLAS (15' + 5') - Michael Rammensee (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)

16:50 Search for SUSY at CMS in all-hadronic final states (15' + 5') - Piet Verwilligen (Universiteit Gent)

17:10 Exploring Yukawa and Gauge-Yukawa Unification at the LHC (15' + 5') - Qaisar Shafi (Bartol research Institute, University of Delaware)

17:30 Search for Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascade Decays and Neutralino Dark Matter (15' + 5') - Stefania Gori (University of Chicago)

17:50 Search for SUSY at CMS in leptonic final states (15' + 5') - Didar Dobur (University of Florida)

18:10 New results from ATLAS supersymmetry searches with 2010 data (15' + 5') - Simon Owen (University of Sheffield)
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Trumpet room
Contributions

16:30 Searches for new heavy gauges bosons in 2011 ATLAS data (15' + 5') - Dominick John Olivito (University of Pennsylvania)

16:50 Search for leptonic resonances at CMS (15' + 5') - Carmen Diez Pardos (CIEMAT Madrid)

17:10 The top forward-backward asymmetry and the LHC (15' + 5') - Jessie Shelton (Yale University)

17:30 Search for Large Extra Dimensions at CMS (15' + 5') - Ka Vang Tsang (Department of Physics - Brown University)

17:50 Searches for ttbar resonances in 2011 ATLAS data (15' + 5') - Diane Cinca (LPC Clermont-F.)

18:10 Search for leptoquarks and heavy quarks at CMS (15' + 5') - Anne-Fleur Barfuss (Kansas State University)
19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
Saturday, 11 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Study of the dijet invariant mass distribution in ppbar->W + jj final states at D0 (15'+5') - Aran Garcia-Bellido (University of Rochester)

09:20 Cosmology and LHC (30'+5') - Neal Weiner (NYU)

09:55 Flavour Physics at LHC and B factories (30' + 5') - Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Experimental Summary and outlook (40' + 5') - Jim Virdee (Imperial College)

11:45 Theoretical overview (40' +5') - Riccardo Barbieri (INFN and SNS Pisa)

12:30 Presentation of next venue - Michel Lefebvre (University of Victoria)

12:40 Farewell - Guenakh Mitselmakher (University of Florida)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30

14:30 Departure
Departure
14:30 - 16:00