TIPP 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics

from Wednesday 8 June 2011 (08:00) to Tuesday 14 June 2011 (19:15)
Chicago (Sheraton Hotel)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
8 Jun 2011
9 Jun 2011
10 Jun 2011
11 Jun 2011
12 Jun 2011
13 Jun 2011
14 Jun 2011
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07:30
Registration (until 08:30) (Promendade)
08:30 Opening Speech - Dr Marcel Demarteau (ANL)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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09:00 Innovation: How It Happens - Dr Bill Brinkman (DOE Office of Science)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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09:45 Extremes of Electronics - Dr Kerry Bernstein (IBM, Yorktown Heights)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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10:30 --- Break ---
11:00 The LHC Detectors: Marvels of Technology - Dr Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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11:45 Probing the Cosmic Frontier with the Cosmic Microwave Background: Current Status and Future Challenges - Prof. John Carlstrom (University of Chicago)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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08:30 Neutrino Physics and Detectors - Prof. Yifang Wang (IHEP)   (Chicago 8,9,&10)
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09:15 Direct Dark Matter Physics and Detectors - Prof. Prisca Cushman (University of Minnesota)   (Chicago 8,9 &10)
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10:00 --- Break ---
10:30 Indirect Dark Matter Physics and Detectors - Prof. Jim Buckley (Washington University)   (Chicago 8,9,&10)
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11:15 Rare Decay Experiments - Prof. Yoshi Kuno (Osaka University)   (Chicago 8,9,&10)
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08:30
Astrophysics and Space Instr. - Brian Hummensky (until 10:30) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
08:30 Microwave detection of cosmic ray air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory, an R&D effort - Christopher Williams (University of Chicago)  
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08:50 Front-end electronics and triggering at the Auger Engineering Radio Array - Dr Charles Timmermans (Nikhef/Radboud University Nijmegen)  
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09:10 Upgrade Plans for VERITAS - Dr Ben Zitzer (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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09:30 The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy - Dr Adrian Biland (ETH Zurich)  
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09:50 The use of Gaseous Electron Multiplying detectors on suborbital X-ray rocket payloads - Prof. Randall McEntaffer (University of Iowa)  
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Calorimetry - Yasar Onel (Physics and Astronomy Department) (until 10:30) (Ontario)
08:30 First year of running for the LHCb calorimeter system - Frederic Machefert (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari)  
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08:50 Status of the Atlas Liquid Argon Calorimeter and its Performance after one year of LHC operation - Dr Julia Hoffman (Southern Methodist University (SMU))  
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09:10 Performance and calibration of CASTOR calorimeter at CMS. - Ekaterina Kuznetsova (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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09:30 CMS Hadronic EndCap Calorimeter Upgrade R&D Studies - Dr Ugur Akgun (University of Iowa) Prof. Yasar Onel (University of Iowa)  
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09:50 Upgrade plans for ATLAS Forward Calorimetry for the HL-LHC - Joshua Dennis Turner (Department of Physics-Carleton University)  
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10:10 HF GFlash - Dr Rahmat Rahmat (University of Mississippi)  
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08:30
Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 10:30) (Superior A)
08:30 Instrumentation and calibration of the Super-Kamiokande detector - Dr Yoshihisa Obayashi (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)  
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08:50 Developments toward a High Resolution Next-Generation Water Cherenkov Neutrino Detector - Matthew Wetstein (Argonne National Laboratory)  
09:10 Water Attenuation Length Measurements - Dr Serge Ouedraogo (LLNL)  
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09:30 Water Cherenkov Detector Event Scan And NuE Appearance Sensitivity Study For LBNE - Mr Hongyue Duyang (University of South Carolina)  
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09:50 Time Calibration of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Dr Umberto Emanuele (IFIC)  
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10:10 The KM3NeT Deep-Sea Research Infrastructure - Dr Robert Lahmann (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)  
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08:30
Front-end Electronics - Valerio Re (INFN) gustavo cancelo (Fermilab) (until 10:30) (Erie)
08:30 A Gigabit transceiver for data transmission in future high energy physics experiments - Dr Ken Wyllie (CERN)  
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09:00 A Versatile Link for high-speed, radiation resistant optical transmission in LHC upgrades - Dr Annie Xiang (Southern Methodist University)  
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09:30 RADIATION-HARD ASICS FOR OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION - Dr Mike Strang (The Ohio State University)  
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09:50 A high speed serializer ASIC for ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter upgrade - Tiankuan Liu (Department of Physics-Southern Methodist University (SMU))  
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10:10 Design and verification of an FPGA based bit error rate tester - Dr Annie Xiang (Southern Methodist University)  
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08:30
Gaseous Detectors - David Nygren (LBNL) (until 10:30) (Superior B)
08:30 Performance of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber - Dr Christian Lippmann (Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)  
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08:50 Experience with the Time Projection Chambers for the T2K Near Detectors - Blair Jamieson (University of British Columbia)  
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09:10 Development of Micro tracking TPC using a Micro Gas Pixel Chamber (PIC), and Application to time resolved Neutron Imaging Detector - Prof. Toru Tanimori (Dept. of Physics, Kyoto University)  
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09:30 Application of Time Projection Chambers with GEMs and Pixels to WIMP Searches and Fast Neutron Detection - Dr Jared Yamaoka (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Physics)  
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09:50 Rejection of Backgrounds in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals - Mr Jeremy Lopez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
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10:10 The DRIFT Dark Matter Search - Prof. Dinesh Loomba (University of New Mexico)  
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Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. - Rainer Bartoldus (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 10:30) (Huron)
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08:30 Operational Experience with ATF2 Beam Diagnostics - Dr Glen White (SLAC)  
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09:00 Shintake Monitor : Nanometer Beam Size Measurement and Beam Tuning - Ms Jacqueline YAN (The University of Tokyo)  
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09:20 Current Status of Nanometer Beam Size Monitor for ATF2 - Mr Yohei Yamaguchi (The University of Tokyo)  
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09:40 Optical transition Radiation System for ATF2 - Dr Angeles Faus-Golfe (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)  
10:00 The FONT5 bunch-by-bunch position and angle feedback system at ATF2 - Glenn Christian (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science)  
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08:30
Photon Detectors -Dr Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics) (until 10:30) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
08:30 MCP-PMT development for Belle-II TOP counter - Dr Kenji Inami (Nagoya university)  
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08:55 The “DIRC-like FTOF”: a time-of-flight Cherenkov detector for particle identification at SuperB - Mr Leonid Burmistrov (LAL)  
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09:20 Development of THGEM-based photon detectors for the upgrade of COMPASS RICH-1 - Dr Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Universita & INFN, Trieste)  
09:45 A RICH Detector for CLAS12 Spectrometer - Dr Ahmed El Alaoui (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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10:05 Improved PMTs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)  
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08:30
Semiconductor Detectors - Massimiliano Fiorini (CERN) Laci Andricek (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (until 10:30) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
08:30 Operational experience with the ATLAS Pixel Detector at the LHC - Markus Keil (2nd Institute Of Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / CERN)  
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08:50 Performance of the CMS Pixel Detector at the LHC - Morris Swartz (Johns Hopkins University-Unknown-Unknown)  
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09:10 Calibration, operation and performance of the ALICE Silicon Drift Detectors in pp and PbPb collisions - Dr Stefania Beole (University of Torino and INFN)  
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09:30 Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator - Dr Thomas Latham (University of Warwick)  
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09:50 An EUDET/AIDA pixel beam telescope for detector development - Dr Igor Rubinskiy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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08:30
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Fred Wickens (STFC) (until 10:30) (Mayfair)
09:00 GPUs for fast triggering in NA62 experiment - Gianluca Lamanna (CERN) Sozzi Marco (Pisa INFN)  
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09:30 Performance Study of a GPU in Real-Time Applications for HEP Experiments - Wesley Ketchum (University of Chicago)  
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10:00 Commissioning and Performance of the CMS High Level Trigger - Leonard Apanasevich (UIC)  
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10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Astrophysics and Space Instr. - Toru Tanimori (Kyoto University) (until 13:00) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
11:00 The Dark Energy Survey Camera (DECam) - Dr Thomas Diehl (Fermilab)  
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11:30 The Pierre Auger Observatory: challenges at the highest-energy frontier - Prof. Stephane Coutu (Penn State University)  
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12:00 Status and Plans for the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Dr Brian Humensky (University of Chicago / Columbia University)  
12:30 Detection of Cosmic-Ray particles with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Maria Elena Monzani (Stanford University)  
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Calorimetry - Gerald Eigen (CERN) (until 12:40) (Ontario)
11:00 Application of Large Scale Gas Electron Multiplier Technology to Digital Hadron Calorimetry - Prof. Jaehoon Yu (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON)  
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11:20 Design, Construction and Testing of the Digital Hadron Calorimeter - Kurt Francis (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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11:40 Test of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL) prototype with muons - Jose Repond (ANL)  
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12:00 DHCAL Response to Positrons and Pions - Burak Bilki (University of Iowa)  
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12:20 Large area Micromegas chambers with embedded front-end electronics for hadron calorimetry - Dr Jan Blaha (LAPP/CNRS)  
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11:00
Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 12:30) (Superior A)
11:00 IceCube-DeepCore and beyond: towards precision neutrino physics at the South Pole - Prof. Darren Grant (University of Alberta)  
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11:30 Search for tau-neutrino interactions in the OPERA hybrid detector - Cristiano Bozza (Univ. + INFN)  
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12:00 Antineutrino Detectors for a High-Precision Measurement of theta13 at Daya Bay - Prof. Karsten Heeger (University of Wisconsin)  
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Gaseous Detectors -Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (CERN) (until 12:40) (Superior B)
11:00 Commissioning and performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker with first high energy pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC - Jonathan Mark Stahlman (University of Pennsylvania-Unknown-Unknown)  
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11:20 NA62 spectrometer: a low mass straw tracker - Antonino Sergi (CERN)  
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11:40 Development of large and very thin GRPCs with new resistive coating and new gas distribution scheme - Prof. imad laktineh (ipn LYON) Dr nick lumb (ipn Lyon) Mr robert kieffer (ipn Lyon) Dr laurent mirabito (ipn Lyon)  
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12:00 A novel temperature monitoring sensor for gas-based detectors in large HEP experiments - Dr Michele Caponero (ENEA and INFN Frascati)  
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12:20 Detection and removal of short-circuits on GEM-foils - Mr Matti Kalliokoski (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)  
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11:00
Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. - Glen White (SLAC) (until 12:30) (Huron)
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11:00 SLAC End Station A Test Beams (ESTB) for MDI and Beam Instrumentation Experiments - Dr Carsten Hast (SLAC)  
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11:25 Neutron background predictions and measurement at ATF2 beamline. - Dr Hayg Guler (LLR/Ecole Polytechnique, France)  
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11:45 Accurate Measurement of Velocity and Acceleration of Seismic Vibrations near Nuclear Power Plants - Mr Javed Arif Syed (A.M.U., Aligarh)  
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11:00
Particle ID Detectors - Toru Iijima (Nagoya) (until 12:30) (Erie)
11:00 The DIRC Detectors of the PANDA Experiment at FAIR - Dr Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)  
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11:25 The Belle II time-of-propagation counter - Dr Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)  
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11:50 A large-area detector for precision time-of-flight measurements at LHCb - Neville Harnew (Univ. of Oxford (UK))  
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12:10 Timing detectors with 10 ps resolution - Dr Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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11:00
Photon Detectors -Dr Masashi Yokoyama (Kyoto University) (until 12:30) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
11:00 Development of a UV/X-ray imaging device based on large area gas photo-multiplier. - Dr Hiroyuki Sekiya (University of Tokyo)  
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11:20 Development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction Photon Detector using Hafnium - Prof. Shin-Hong Kim (University of Tsukuba)  
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11:40 Performance and Radioactivity Measurements of the Photomultiplier Tubes for the LUX and LZ Dark Matter Experiments - Carlos Faham (Brown University)  
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12:05 Photon Detection Systems for Modern Cherenkov Detectors - Dr Björn Seitz (University of Glasgow)  
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11:00
Semiconductor Detectors - Ulrich Parzefall (CERN) Markus Keil (CERN) (until 12:40) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
11:00 Recent progress of the ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project - Marco Bomben (LPNHE)  
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11:20 Diamond for high energy radiation and particle detection - Prof. Marko Mikuz (University Ljubljana/J. Stefan Institute)  
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11:40 3D pixel devices; design, production and characterisation in test beams - Dr Aaron Mac Raighne (Glasgow University)  
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12:00 New semiconductor 2D position-sensitive detector - Mrs Francisca Munoz Sanchez (IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria-Consejo Sup. de Investig)  
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12:20 A new solid state tracking detector: Electron Emission Membranes and a MEMS made vacuum electron multiplier - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)  
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11:00
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Adrian Biland (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH)) (until 12:30) (Mayfair)
11:00 Applications of Emerging Parallel Optical Link Technology to High Energy Physics Experiments - Mr Alan Prosser (Fermilab)  
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11:20 Free Space Data L inks for HEP Experiments - Dr David Underwood (HEP, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL))  
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11:40 Belle2Link — a unified high speed link in Belle II experiment - Mr Dehui Sun (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of sciences)  
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12:00 Acquisition system and detector interface for power pulsed detectors - Rémi Cornat (LLR - École polytechnique)  
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08:30 Detectors for Nuclear Physics - Prof. Susumu Shimoura (University of Tokyo)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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09:15 Double Beta Decay - Andrea Pocar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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10:00 --- Break ---
10:30 Gravitational Wave Detection: Past, Present and Future - Sam Waldman (LIGO MIT)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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11:15 Synchrotron and X-Ray Applications - Klaus Attenkofer (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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08:30 Detectors for Future Colliders - Hitoshi Yamamoto   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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09:15 DAQ and Triggering - Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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10:00 --- Break ---
10:30 Applications outside of HEP - Patrick LeDu   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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11:15 Applications of Analog Circuit Design to Life as a Scientist in the United States Congress - Dr G. William (Bill) Foster (fmr. Rep. U.S. congress)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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16:00
DPF Instrumentation Task Force meeting (until 18:00) (Superior A&B)
18:00
Registration (until 20:00) (Ballroom Promenade)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
12:45
DPF Instrumentation Taskforce Town Hall meeting (until 14:00) (Mayfair Room)
14:00
Astrophysics and Space Instr. - Akito Kusaka (University of Chicago) (until 15:30) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
14:00 Detectors for the South Pole Telescope - Dr clarence chang (University of Chicago)  
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14:30 Superconducting Detectors and Multiplexed SQUID Readout Systems for CMB Polarimetry - Dr Michael Niemack (National Institute of Standards and Technology)  
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14:50 Development of Superconducting Detectors for Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background and Other Applications. - Mr Satoru MIMA (Okayama University)  
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15:10 The QUIET Pseudo Correlation Polarimetry for Measuring the CMB polarization - Dr Hogan Nguyen (Fermilab)  
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Calorimetry - T. Takeshita (Shinshu Univ.) (until 15:30) (Ontario)
14:00 Crystal Calorimetry for the Next Decade - Dr Zhu Ren-Yuan (California Institute of Technology (CALTECH))  
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14:30 Imaging Calorimeters - Lei Xia (ANL-HEP)  
15:00 Dual Readout Calorimetry - Mr Adam Para (FNAL)  
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14:00
Detector for Neutrinos - Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) (until 15:30) (Superior A)
14:00 The T2K Pi Zero Detector - Prof. Norm Buchanan (Colorado State University)  
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14:20 Initial Performance from the NOvA Surface Prototype Detector - Mathew Muether (Fermilab)  
14:40 High Voltage system for the Double Chooz experiment - Mr Fumitaka Sato (Tokyo Metropolitan University)  
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15:00 Assembly and Installation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Assembly and Installation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors - Dr Henry Band (University of Wisconsin)  
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14:00
Experimental Detector Systems - Ariella Cattai (CERN) Prof. Haba Junji (KEK) (until 15:30) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
14:00 The Belle II detector - Gary Varner (University of Hawaii)  
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14:30 Overview of the PANDA experiment - Jerzy Smyrski (Jagiellonian University)  
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15:00 The LHCb upgrade - Dr Abraham Antonio Gallas Torreira (University of Santiago de Compostela, IGFAE)  
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14:00
Gaseous Detectors - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN) (until 15:30) (Erie)
14:00 The RD51 Collaboration for the Development of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors - Paul Colas (IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay)  
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14:30 New developments of microbulk Micromegas detectors - Mr Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA))  
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14:50 GEM-MIGAS gain optimisation for high pressure operation in CF4 and He/CF4 mixtures - Ana Conceição (Instrumentation Center, Physics Department, University of Coimbra)  
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15:10 Study of the ageing properties of construction materials for High Rate Gas Detectors - Mr Alhussain Abuhoza (GSI)  
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14:00
Instr. for Medical, Biological and Materials Res. - Chin-Tu Chen (The University of Chicago) (until 15:30) (Huron)
14:00 Full Field Imaging at the Advanced Photon Source - Wah-Keat Lee (APS/Argonne National Laboratory)  
14:30 DSSC - an X-ray Imager with Mega-Frame Readout Capability for the European XFEL - Ladislav Andricek (MPI Halbleiterlabor, Munich)  
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14:50 Development of high speed, radiation hard CMOS monolithic pixels for high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy - Dr Devis Contarato (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. - Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.) (until 15:30) (Superior B)
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14:00 Diamonds for Beam Instrumentation - Erich Griesmeyer (CERN)  
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14:30 Dielectric Collimators for Beam Delivery Systems - Dr PAUL SCHOESSOW (Euclid Techlabs)  
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14:50 The Beam Conditions and Radiation Monitoring System of CMS - Description and Performance of Subsystems - Dr Maria Elena Castro Carballo (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))  
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15:10 Beam Conditions Monitoring in ATLAS - Matthew James Fisher (High Energy Physics Group, Department of Physics - Ohio State Un)  
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14:00
Semiconductor Detectors -Prof. Marko Mikuz (CERN) Stefania Beole (CERN) (until 15:30) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
14:00 Silicon sensor technologies for ATLAS IBL upgrade - Dr Philippe Grenier (SLAC)  
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14:20 Silicon sensor R&D for an upgraded CMS Tracker in HL-LHC - Dr Selcuk Cihangir (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))  
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14:40 Silicon Strip Detectors for the ATLAS sLHC Upgrade - Dr Anthony Affolder (University of Liverpool)  
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15:00 Performance of Silicon n-in-p Pixel Detectors irradiated up to 5E15 n eq. /cm**2 for the future ATLAS Upgrades - Dr Anna Macchiolo (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)  
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Trigger and DAQ Systems - Young-Kee Kim (until 15:30) (Mayfair)
14:00 ATLAS TDAQ system: current status and performance - Sergio Ballestrero (U.Johannesburg+CERN/ATLAS)  
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14:30 Design, Implementation and Performance of the LHCb Online system - Beat Jost (CERN)  
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15:00 The new frontier of the DATA acquisition using 1 and 10 Gb/s Ethernet links. - Dr Filippo Costa (CERN)  
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15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Astrophysics and Space Instr. - Sam Waldman (LIGO MIT) (until 17:50) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
16:00 Progress in Development of a Monolithic Active Pixel Detectorfor X-ray Astronomy with SOI CMOS Technology - Mr Shinya Nakashima (Kyoto University)  
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16:20 Electron Tracking Compton Camera with Balloon Borne Experiment for Celestial and Terrestrial MeV gamma-ray Observations in the North Pole - Prof. Toru Tanimori (Dept. of Physics, Kyoto University)  
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16:40 Development of New Data Acquisition System for Nearby Supernova Bursts at Super-Kamiokande - Dr Tomonobu Tomura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR. University of Tokyo)  
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17:00 Probes of fundamental microphysics using intense photon beams - Aaron Chou (Fermilab)  
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17:30 Seismic attenuation technology for the advanced Virgo gravitational wave detector - Mark Beker (Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)  
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Calorimetry -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) (until 18:00) (Ontario)
16:00 The Electromagnetic Calorimeter of T2K's Near Detector - Dr Roberto Sacco (Queen Mary (QM)-University of London)  
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16:20 The ATLAS Tile Hadronic Calorimeter performance in the LHC collision era - Antonella Succurro (IFAE-Barcelona)  
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16:40 Design and performance of the integrator based read-out in Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment - Garoe Gonzalez Parra (IFAE - Barcelona)  
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17:00 Calibration of the ATLAS hadronic barrel calorimeter TileCal using 2008, 2009 and 2010 cosmic rays data - Mr Zhili Weng (Institute of Physics-Academia Sinica)  
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17:20 Laser calibration system for TileCal sub-detector - Vincent Francois Giangiobbe (Dipartimento di Fisica-INFN, Sezione di Pisa-Unknown)  
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17:40 The Large Angle Photon Veto System for the NA62 Experiment at CERN - Vito Palladino (INFN, Sezione di Roma "La Sapienza")  
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16:00
Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 18:00) (Superior A)
16:00 The ICARUS T600 detector at LNGS underground laboratory - Dr Nicola Canci (INFN-LNGS) Dr Chiara Vignoli (INFN-LNGS)  
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16:20 A global R&D program on liquid Ar Time Projection Chambers under execution at the University of Bern - Marcello Messina (University of Bern)  
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16:40 Some work on Liquid Argon at Fermilab : - stephen pordes (Fermilab)  
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17:00 Designs of Large Liquid Argon TPCs --- from MicroBooNE to LBNE LAr40 - Dr Bo Yu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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17:20 Membrane cryostat technology and prototyping program towards kton scale Neutrino detectors - Mr Russell Rucinski (Fermilab)  
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17:40 Front End Readout Electronics of the MicroBooNE Experiment - Dr Hucheng Chen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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Experimental Detector Systems - Ariella Cattai (CERN) Prof. Haba Junji (KEK) (until 17:30) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
16:00 Upgrade of the ALICE Detector - Dr Petra Riedler (CERN)  
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16:30 ATLAS : status, limitations and upgrade plans - Prof. Tatsuo Kawamoto (ICEPP, University of Tokyo)  
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17:00 CMS: present status, limitations and upgrade plans - Dr Harry Cheung (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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Front-end Electronics - Hans-Günther Moser (Max-Planck-Institut) Zheng Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (until 18:00) (Erie)
16:00 Recent developments of HEP pixel detector readout chips - Dr Lea Michaela Caminada (LBNL)  
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16:30 Advanced pixel sensors and readout electronics based on 3D integration for the SuperB Silicon Vertex Tracker - Valerio Re (INFN-Pavia and University of Bergamo)  
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17:00 Continuous Acquisition Pixel 12: Hexagonal Pixels in SOI Technology - Michael Cooney (University of Hawaii)  
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17:20 The TDCpix readout ASIC: a 75 ps resolution timing front-end for the Gigatracker of the NA62 experiment - Dr Gianluca Aglieri Rinella (CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research)  
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17:40 A High-speed Adaptively-biased Current-to-current Front-end for SSPM Arrays - Bob Zheng (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)  
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16:00
Instr. for Medical, Biological and Materials Res. - Chien-Min Kao (The University of Chicago) (until 18:00) (Huron)
16:00 A high-resolution PET demonstrator using a silicon "magnifying glass" - Neal Clinthorne (University of Michigan)  
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16:20 Study of TOF PET using Cherenkov Light - Prof. Samo Korpar (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and University of Maribor)  
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16:40 An Application of Micro-channel plate photomultiplier tube to Positron Emission Tomography - Dr Heejong Kim (University of Chicago)  
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17:00 Study of Highly Pixilated CdZnTe Detector for PET applications - Sergey Komarov (Radiology, Washington University in St.Louis,)  
17:20 Ultrahigh Resolution CZT/CdTe Detectors with a Hybrid Pixel-Waveform Readout System - Prof. Ling-Jian Meng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
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16:00
Particle ID Detectors - Toru Iijima (Nagoya) (until 18:00) (Superior B)
16:00 THE NA62 RICH DETECTOR - Monica Pepe (INFN Perugia)  
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16:20 The Ring Imaging CHerenkov detectors of the LHCb experiment - Davide Perego (Univ. Milano-Bicocca+ INFN)  
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16:40 Performance of the RICH detectors of LHCb - Dr Antonis Papanestis (RAL)  
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17:00 Recent Progress in Silica Aerogel Cherenkov Radiator - Dr Makoto Tabata (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))  
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17:20 Applications of Fast Time-of-Flight Detectors - Masahiro Notani (Muons, Inc.)  
17:40 The Instrumented Flux Return detector of the SuperB project: R & D studies and first results of the Fermilab Beam Test. - Dr Wander Baldini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))  
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16:00
Semiconductor Detectors - Paula Collins (CERN) Petra Riedler (CERN) (until 17:50) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
16:00 Semiconductor Detectors Overview - David Christian (Fermilab)  
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16:35 Silicon for High-Luminosity Tracking Detectors - Recent RD50 Results - Ulrich Parzefall (Freiburg University)  
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17:10 Future of pixels in non HEP - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)  
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16:00
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Srini Rajagopalan (BNL) (until 18:00) (Mayfair)
16:00 Implementation and performance of the signal reconstruction in the ATLAS Hadronic Tile Calorimeter - Alberto Valero (IFIC - University of Valencia)  
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16:30 Calibration and performance of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger with LHC collision data - Martin Wessels (Heidelberg University, KIP)  
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17:00 Operation and Performance of the CMS Level-1 Trigger during 7 TeV Collisions - Pamela Renee Klabbers (University of Wisconsin)  
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17:30 Software and Hardware R&D for CMS Trigger and Readout Upgrades - Dr Robert Frazier (University of Bristol)  
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18:00 --- Break ---
18:15
Homage to Georges Charpak (until 19:15) (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
18:15 Contribution from Stan Majewski - Stan Majewski  
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18:30 Contribution from Nick Solomey - Dr Nickolas Solomey (Wichita State University)  
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18:45 Contribution from Ioannis Giomataris - Mr Ioannis Giomataris (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA))  
19:15 --- Reception ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Dark Matter Detectors (until 15:30) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
14:00 DAMA/LIBRA at Gran Sasso - Dr Riccardo Cerulli (INFN-LNGS)  
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14:30 DM-Ice: a direct detection experiment for dark matter at the South Pole - Reina Maruyama (University of Wisconsin, Madison)  
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15:00 A testable conventional hypothesis for the DAMA-LIBRA annual modulation - David Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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14:00
Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 15:30) (Superior A)
14:00 The near neutrino detector complex of the T2K experiment - Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)  
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14:30 Status of Hyper-Kamiokande detector R&D - Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)  
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15:00 Station electronics for the Askaryan Radio Array testbed and first prototype - Dr Patrick Allison (Ohio State University)  
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14:00
Experimental Detector Systems - Tatsuo Kawamoto (ICEPP) (until 15:20) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
14:00 Status of the CMS detector - Prof. Ettore Focardi (University/INFN Florence)  
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14:20 Alignment of the Muon Spectrometer in ATLAS - Scott Alan Aefsky (Department of Physics-Brandeis University-Unknown)  
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14:40 Experiences with the Muon Alignment Systems of the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector - Noemi Beni (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen)  
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15:00 Upgrade of the CMS Hadron Outer Calorimeter with SIPMs - Jake Anderson (Fermilab)  
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14:00
Front-end Electronics - J.P. Walder (LBNL) (until 15:30) (Erie)
14:00 HIPPO, a Flexible Front-End Signal Processor for High-Speed Image Sensor Readout - Dr Carl Grace (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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14:30 Deeper Sampling CMOS Transient Waveform Recording ASICs - Prof. Gary Varner (University of Hawaii)  
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14:50 A 4-Channel Waveform Sampling ASIC using 130nm CMOS technology - Eric Oberla (University of Chicago) Herve Grabas (University of Chicago)  
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15:10 SPACIROC: A Front-End Readout ASIC for JEM-EUSO cosmic ray observatory - Mr Salleh Ahmad (OMEGA/LAL/IN2P3/Université Paris Sud 11,France)  
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14:00
Gaseous Detectors - Makoto Kobayashi (KEK, IPNS) (until 15:30) (Ontario)
14:00 Development of two-dimensional gaseous detector for energy-selective neutron radiography - Shoji Uno (KEK, Tsukuba)  
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14:30 Development of gaseous photomutipliers with Micro Pattern Gas Detectors - Mr Kohei MATSUMOTO (Tokyo Metropolitan University)  
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14:50 CAST micromegas background in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory - Alfredo Tomas Alquezar (Facultad de Ciencias-Universidad de Zaragoza)  
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15:10 Design and construction of a cylindrical GEM detector as Inner Tracker device at KLOE-2 - Gianfranco Morello (INFN Frascati)  
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14:00
Instr. for Medical, Biological and Materials Res. - P.Weilhammer (University of Perugia and INFN Perugia) (until 15:30) (Superior B)
14:00 TIPP for Medical Applications - Chin-Tu Chen (The University of Chicago)  
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14:30 The upstream detectors of the FIRST experiment at GSI - Dr Alessandro Paoloni (INFN - LNF)  
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14:50 R&D on detector of next generation for the Proton Computed Tomography - Mr Victor Rykalin (Northern Illinois University)  
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15:10 High-Resolution Photon Counting Detector using Solid-State Photomultipliers - Hamid Sabet (Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc.)  
14:00
Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. -Dr Victor Scarpine (FNAL) (until 15:30) (Huron)
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14:00 Beam Loss Monitoring for LHC Machine Protection - Dr Eva Barbara Holzer (CERN)  
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14:30 R&D of scCVD diamond Beam Loss Monitors for the LHC at ultra-cold temperatures - Mr Hendrik Jansen (CERN)  
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14:50 Cryogenic Loss Monitors with FPGA TDC Signal Processing - Arden Warner (Fermi Naional Accelerator Laboratory)  
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15:10 Measuring polarization of proton beams with silicon detectors at RHIC (BNL) - Dmitri Smirnov (BNL)  
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14:00
Semiconductor Detectors - Petra Riedler (CERN) Anna Macchiolo (MPG) (until 15:30) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
14:00 Mechanical design of the PHENIX VTX and FVTX vertex detectors - Mr Walter Sondheim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
14:20 Results from the NA62 Gigatracker prototype: a low-mass and sub-ns time resolution silicon pixel detector - Dr Massimiliano Fiorini (CERN)  
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14:40 The LHCb VELO Upgrade - Daniel Hynds (University of Glasgow-Unknown-Unknown)  
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15:00 High Precision Vertexing at the Belle-II Experiment - Dr Jelena Ninkovic (Max PlanckInstitute for Physics)  
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14:00
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Luciano Ristori (INFN Pisa) (until 15:30) (Mayfair)
14:00 The ATLAS Trigger System in 2010 LHC proton-proton collisions - Srini Rajagopalan (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))  
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14:40 The LHCb Trigger: present and future. - Roel Aaij (Unknown)  
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15:10 Resource utilization of the ATLAS High Level Trigger during 2010 LHC running - Rustem Ospanov (University of Pennsylvania)  
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15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Calorimetry - Adam Para (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)-Unknown-Unknown) (until 17:40) (Ontario)
16:00 Total Absorption Dual Readout Calorimetry R&D - Burak Bilki (University of Iowa)  
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16:20 ADRIANO: A Dual-readout Integrally Active Non-segmented Option for future colliders - Dr Corrado Gatto (INFN)  
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16:40 Polarization as a Tool in Calorimetry - Prof. Nural Akchurin (TTU)  
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17:00 Scintillator-based muon detector/tail catcher with SiPM readout - Prof. G. Pauletta (University of Udine)  
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17:20 Total Measurement Calorimetry - Dr Tohru Takeshita (Shinshu Univ.)  
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16:00
Dark Matter Detectors (until 17:50) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
16:00 Depleted Argon from Underground Sources - Dr Henning Back (Princeton University)  
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16:20 Fluorescence Efficiency and Visible Re-emission Spectrum of Tetraphenyl Butadiene Films at Extreme Ultraviolet Wavelengths - Dr Victor Gehman (Los Alamos National Laboraotory)  
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16:40 QUPID readout system and operation in Noble Liquid - Dr Paolo Beltrame (on behalf of the UCLA group)  
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17:00 WArP R&D: Demonstration and comparison of photomultiplier tubes operation at liquid Argon Temperature - Dr Ettore Segreto (INFN)  
17:15 Test of a new Fast Waveform Digitizer for PMT signal read-out from liquid Argon Dark Matter detectors - Dr Andrzej Szelc (Yale University)  
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17:30 WArP R&D: Neutron to Gamma Pulse Shape Discrimination in Liquid Argon Detectors with HQE PMTs - Dr Nicola Canci (INFN-LNGS)  
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16:00
Front-end Electronics - Yasuo Arai (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) (until 17:30) (Erie)
16:00 Readout Electronics for the ATLAS LAr Calorimeter at HL-LHC - Hucheng Chen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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16:30 A correlation-based timing calibration and diagnostic technique for fast digitizing ASICs - Dr Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)  
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16:50 Multipurpose Test Structures and Process Characterization using 0.13µm CMOS: The CHAMP ASIC. - Michael Cooney (University of Hawaii)  
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17:10 Upgrade Design of TileCal Front-end Readout Electronics and Radiation Hardness Studies - Fukun Tang (University of Chicago)  
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16:00
Instr. for Medical, Biological and Materials Res. -Mr Patrick LE DU (DAPNIA CEA) (until 17:50) (Superior B)
16:00 Photon Counting with Arrays of Fully Digital SiPMs – Performance Data, Applications and Comparison to Analogue SiPM’s - York Haemisch (Philips Digital Photon Counting)  
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16:30 A Summary of Timing Measurements at Fermilab for TOF-PET - Dr Erik Ramberg Ramberg (FNAL)  
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16:50 Study of TOF-PET performance - Dr Tohru Takeshita (Shinshu Univ.)  
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17:10 Optimization of the SiPM Pixel Size for a Monolithic PET Detector - Daoming Xi (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China)  
17:30 Initial Results of an LYSO/SiPM PET Insert for Small Animal PET/MRI - Mr Jun Zhu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China)  
16:00
Lecture Course (until 19:00) (Superior A)
16:00 Neutrino Detectors - Mayly Sanchez (Argonne National Laboratory)  
16:00
Lecture Course (until 19:00) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
16:00 Silicon Detectors: Principles and Technology - Carl Haber (LBNL)  
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16:00
Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. - Manfred Wendt (Fermi Naional Accelerator Laboratory) (until 17:30) (Huron)
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16:00 Beam Profile Monitor Instrumentation in the Fermilab M-Test Beam - Mr Gianni Tassotto (Fermilab)  
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16:20 Transverse Beam Shape Measurements of Intense Proton Beams using Optical Transition Radiation - Dr Victor Scarpine (FNAL)  
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16:40 NuMI Primary Beam Monitoring - Douglas Jensen (Fermilab)  
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16:00
Photon Detectors - Tsuyoshi Nakaya (Kyoto University) (until 17:30) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
16:00 Recent progress in vacuum photon detectors from Hamamatsu - Mr Yuji Yoshizawa (Hamamatsu Photonics)  
16:25 Development of Ring Imaging Cherenkov counter for Belle II experiment at super KEKB - Mr Shuichi Iwata (Tokyo Metropolitan University)  
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16:50 Development of large-aperture Hybrid Avalanche Photo-Detector - Toshinori Abe (University of Tokyo)  
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17:10 Characterization of the QUartz Photon Intensifying Detector (QUPID) - Mr Artin Teymourian (UCLA)  
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16:00
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Riccardo Paoletti (INFN) (until 18:05) (Mayfair)
16:00 Invited talk: "The History of the Silicon Vertex Trigger of CDF" - Dr Luciano Ristori (INFN, Pisa)  
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16:45 A new concept to use 3D vertical integration technology for fast pattern recognition - Dr Jim Hoff (Fermilab)  
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17:05 The EDRO board connected to the Associative Memory: a "Baby" FastTracKer processor for the ATLAS experiment - Dr Francesco Crescioli (INFN Pisa / Universita` di Pisa)  
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17:25 A tracker/trigger design for an upgraded CMS Tracker - Dr Leonard Spiegel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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17:45 Design and studies of micro-strip stacked module prototypes for tracking at S-LHC - Dr Giuseppe Broccolo (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN, Pisa)  
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17:30
Exhibition and Poster (until 19:00) (Chicago 6&7)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Calorimetry - Jose Repond (until 15:40) (Ontario)
14:00 Construction of a technological semi-digital hadronic calorimeter - Prof. imad laktineh (ipn LYON)  
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14:20 Calibration UV LED System with tunable light intensity for CALICE tile hadron calorimeter - Jiri Kvasnicka (Institute of Physics-Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (ASCR)-)  
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14:40 Hadronic Showers in a Highly Granular Imaging Calorimeter - Mr Alexander Kaplan (University of Heidelberg)  
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15:00 Measurements of the Time Structure of Hadronic Showers in a Scintillator-Tungsten HCAL - Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany)  
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15:20 Realization and Test of the Engineering Prototype of the CALICE Tile Hadron Calorimeter - Dr Mark Terwort (DESY)  
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14:00
Dark Matter Detectors (until 15:30) (Superior B)
14:00 The Xenon1T demonstration system - Dr Ran Budnik (Columbia university)  
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14:30 LUX Cryogenics and Circulation - Mr Adam Bradley (Case Western Reserve University)  
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14:50 Instrument Development for Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Searches: An Atom Trap Trace Analysis System to Measure Ultra-low Krypton Contamination in Xenon - Luke Goetzke (Columbia University)  
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15:10 PTFE reflectance measurements, modeling and simulation for Xenon detectors - Dr Cláudio Silva (LIP Coimbra)  
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14:00
Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 15:30) (Superior A)
14:00 Construction of PVC Extrusions for the NOvA Near and Far Detectors - Dr Sarah Phan-Budd (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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14:20 Quality Assurance System for NOvA Detector Module Production - Dr Alex Smith (University of Minnesota)  
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14:40 High Precision Measurement of the Target Mass of the Daya Bay Detectors - Mr thomas wise (university of Wisconsin)  
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15:00 R&D Effort for Plastic Scintillator Based Cosmic Ray Veto System for the Mu2e Experiment - Dr Yuri Oksuzian (University of Virginia)  
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14:00
Experimental Detector Systems - Jean-Claude Brient (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR)-Ecole Polytechnique-Unknown) Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermilab) (until 15:30) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
14:00 Detector Systems at CLIC - Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany)  
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14:30 Detectors Systems at ILD - Prof. Jean-Claude Brient (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet CNRS-IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)  
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15:00 Detector systems at SiD - Norman Graf (SLAC)  
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14:00
Front-end Electronics - Carl Grace (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (until 15:30) (Erie)
14:00 The Front-end Electronics for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment - Prof. Zheng Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
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14:30 EASIROC, an easy & versatile readout device for SiPM - Mr Stéphane Callier (OMEGA / IN2P3)  
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14:50 The cryogenic performances of specific optical and electrical components for a liquid argon time projection chamber - Dr Tiankuan Liu (Department of Physics-Southern Methodist University (SMU))  
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15:10 A concept for power cycling the electronics of CALICE-AHCAL with the train structure of ILC - Dr Peter Goettlicher (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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14:00
Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. - Angeles Faus-Golfe (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC) (until 15:30) (Huron)
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14:00 The beam background at SuperKEKB/Belle-II - Shoji Uno (KEK, Tsukuba)  
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14:25 MICE step I: first measurement of emittance with particle physics detectors - Pierrick Hanlet (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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14:45 Accelerator Backgrounds in a Muon Collider - Dr Stephen Kahn (Muons, Inc.)  
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15:05 Instrumented Shielding for Muon Collider Detectors - Dr Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.)  
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14:00
Photon Detectors - Norm Buchanan (Colorado State University) (until 15:40) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
14:00 SiPMs with Bulk Integrated Quench Resistors - Future Perspectives - Dr Jelena Ninkovic (Max PlanckInstitute for Physics)  
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14:20 UV Sensitive SiPMs of Very High PDE and Very Low X-talk - Dr Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)  
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14:40 The CHarged ANTIcounter for the NA62 experiment at CERN - Dr Giulio Saracino (Univ. Degli Studi di Napplo Federico)  
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15:00 20 cm sealed tube photon counting detectors with novel microchannel plates for imaging and timing applications - Dr Oswald Siegmund (University of California)  
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15:20 Fast Neutron Induced Nuclear Counter Effect in Hamamatsu Silicon PIN Diodes and APDs - Dr Liyuan Zhang (Caltech)  
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14:00
Semiconductor Detectors - Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF) Anthony Affolder (University of Liverpool) (until 15:40) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
14:00 System implications of the different powering distributions for the ATLAS Upgrade silicon tracker - Dr Sergio Diez-Cornell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))  
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14:20 Applications and imaging techniques of a Si/CdTe Compton gamma-ray camera - Dr Shin'ichiro Takeda (RIKEN and ISAS/JAXA)  
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14:40 High Resolution X-ray Imaging Sensor with SOI CMOS Technology - Mr Ayaki Takeda (SOKENDAI)  
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15:00 Optimization of Strip Isolation for Silicon Sensors - Manfred Valentan (Institute for High Energy Physics Vienna (HEPHY) - OeAW)  
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15:20 Variations in CVD Diamond Detector’s response to radiations with the crystal’s defects compared with calculated values from MC code (PENELOPE) at low energy Mammographic X-ray range - Dr Yusuf Zakari (DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in strong Materials and School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand. Private Bag 3, PO Wits 2050, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa)  
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14:00
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Rainer Bartoldus (CERN) (until 15:30) (Mayfair)
14:00 Design of the ATLAS IBL Readout System - Dr Alessandro Polini (INFN - Bologna)  
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14:20 An ATCA-based High Performance Compute Node for Trigger and Data Acquisition in Large Experiment - Dr hao xu (IHEP,Beijing)  
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14:40 Construction of high speed, massively parallel, ATCA based Data Acquisition Systems using modular components - Gregg Thayer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)  
15:00 The DAQ and Trigger Systems for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment - Prof. Christopher White (IIT)  
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15:40 --- Break ---
16:00
Calorimetry - Lei Xia (Argonne National Laboratory) (until 18:00) (Ontario)
16:00 A Particle Flow Algorithm for a future high energy linear collider - Usha Mallik (Physics and Astronomy Department-University of Iowa)  
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16:20 CALICE silicon-tungsten ECAL - Rémi Cornat (LLR - École polytechnique)  
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16:40 The Next Generation Scintillator-based Electromagnetic Calorimeter Prototype and Beamt Test - adil Khan (Kyungpook national University)  
17:00 Liquid xenon gamma-ray calorimeter for the MEG experiment - Dr Toshiyuki Iwamoto (The University of Tokyo)  
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17:20 Gas-Filled Calorimeter for High Intensity Beam Environments - Robert Abrams (Muons, Inc.)  
17:40 Luminometer for the future International Linear Collider - simulation and beam test results - Jonathan Aguilar (AGH University of Science and Technology)  
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16:00
Dark Matter Detectors (until 18:00) (Superior B)
16:00 Large Diameter Cryogenic Germanium Detectors for Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Dr Paul Brink (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/KIPAC)  
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16:30 The Argon Dark Matter experiment - Mr Lukas Epprecht (Institut for particle physics-ETH Zurich)  
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17:00 The LUX Dark Matter Experiment: Design, Calibration, and Simulation - Dr Matthew Szydagis (UC Davis)  
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17:30 Searching for Dark Matter with COUPP - Dr Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)  
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16:00
Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 18:20) (Superior A)
16:00 High-pressure xenon gas TPC for neutrino-less double-beta decay in 136Xe: Progress toward the goal of 1% FWHM energy resolution - Dr David Nygren (LBNL)  
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16:20 The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) - Russell Neilson (Stanford University)  
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16:40 Single ion detection for an ultra-sensitive neutrino-less double beta decay search with the Enriched Xenon Observatory - Karl Twelker (Stanford University)  
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17:00 R&D for the observation of Coherent Neutrino Scatter at a Nuclear Reactor with a Dual-Phase Argon Ionization Detector - Samuele Sangiorgio (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)  
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17:20 A Demonstration of Light guides for Light Detection in Liquid Argon TPCs - Ms Christina Ignarra (MIT)  
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17:40 Cold electronics development for the LBNE LArTPC - Craig Thorn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
16:00
Experimental Detector Systems - Jean-Claude Brient (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR)-Ecole Polytechnique-Unknown) Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermilab) (until 17:20) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
16:00 The Fermilab Test Beam Facility - Aria Soha (Fermilab)  
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16:20 Detector Powering in the 21st Century: Why stay stuck with the Good old 20th Century methods? - Dr Satish Dhawan (Yale University)  
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16:40 Improved jet clustering algorithm with vertex information for multi-b final states - Dr Taikan Suehara (The University of Tokyo)  
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17:00 slic: A Geant4-based full detector response simulation program - Norman Graf (SLAC)  
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16:00
Gaseous Detectors - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay)) (until 18:20) (Huron)
16:00 A GEM-TPC prototype detector for PANDA - Mr Rahul Arora (GSI)  
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16:20 Design Challenges for a High-Rate TPC with Micromegas Readout - Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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16:40 Development of a TPC for an ILC Detector - Ralf Diener (DESY)  
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17:00 Single module test of a Micromegas TPC Large Prototype - Paul COLAS (Saclay) Paul Colas (IRFU-CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA))  
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17:20 Analysis of data recorded by the GEM-LCTPC - Hans Martin LJUNGGREN (Lund University)  
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17:40 Development of Large Scale Gas Electron Multiplier Chambers - Prof. Jaehoon Yu (University of Texas at Arlington)  
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18:00 Thin active elements for DHCAL based on THGEMs - Pedro Hugo Ferreira Natal Da Luz (Departamento de Fisica-LIP Laboratorio de Instrumacao e Fisica)  
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16:00
Lecture Course (until 19:00) (Erie)
16:00 Basics of Electronics - Gary Drake (ANL)  
16:00
Photon Detectors - Hans-Gunther Moser (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (until 18:00) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
16:00 Steps Towards 8”x8” Photocathode For The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector Project At Argonne - Dr Zikri Yusof (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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16:20 Composition and thickness dependence of electron-induced secondary electron yield for MgO and Al2O3 from atomic layer deposition - Dr Slade Jokela (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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16:40 Theory and Applications of Transmission Mode Metal (Aluminum) Photocathode - Dr Seon Woo Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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17:00 Revealing the Correlations between Growth Recipe and Microscopic Structure of Multi-alkali Photocathodes - Dr Seon Woo Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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17:20 A novel atomic layer deposition method to fabricate economical and robust large area microchannel plates for photodetectors - Dr Anil U. Mane (ANL)  
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17:40 Instrumentation for Theory-Inspired Photocathode Development within the Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) Project - Dr JUNQI XIE (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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16:00
Semiconductor Detectors - Paula Collins (CERN) Simon Kwan (Fermilab) (until 18:00) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
16:00 Operational experience and aging studies of the CDF Run II Silicon Vertex Detector - Dr Benedetto Di Ruzza (Fermilab)  
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16:20 Radiation Damage to D0 Silicon Microstrip Detector - Dr Zhenyu Ye (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)  
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16:40 ATLAS Silicon Microstrip Tracker Operation and Performance - Victoria Moeller (Dept. of Physics, Cavendish Lab.-University of Cambridge-Unknown)  
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17:00 Performance of LHCb Silicon Tracker detector in the LHC - Johan Luisier (EPFL Lausanne)  
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17:20 CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Performance - Dr Jean-Laurent Agram (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien)  
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16:00
Trigger and DAQ Systems - Beat Jost (CERN) (until 18:00) (Mayfair)
16:00 Design and Status of the Data Acquisition Software for the NOvA Experiment Detectors - Dr Susan Kasahara (University of Minnesota)  
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16:30 The Data Acquisition System for the K0TO Detector - Monica Tecchio (University of Michigan)  
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17:00 Introduction of PANDA Data Acquisition System - Dr Hao Xu (IHEP,Beijing)  
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17:30 Design, Operation and Future of the CMS DAQ system. - Frans Meijers (CERN)  
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15:00 Public Lecture: Marvel of Technology: The LHC, machine and experiments - Lyn Evans (CERN)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8/9/10)
12:00
advertisements for Muon Collider 2011, DPF 2011 and EDIT 2012 (until 12:30)
12:00 EDIT2012 - Dr Erik Ramberg (Fermilab)  
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12:05 Muon Collider 2011  
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12:15 DPF 2011  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Astrophysics and Space Instr. - Randall McEntaffer (University of Iowa) (until 16:00) (Ontario)
14:00 The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) integration tests on telescope simulator - Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)  
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14:20 BVIT: A visible imaging, photon counting instrument on the Southern African Large Telescope for high time resolution astronomy - Dr Jason McPhate (Univ. of California, Berkeley)  
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14:40 The Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph (CHESS) design and status. - Dr Matthew Beasley (University of Colorado at Boulder)  
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15:00 Readout electronics for Hyper Suprime-Cam - Mr Hironao Miyatake (University of Tokyo)  
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15:20 Low Noise readout techniques for Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) - Dr Gustavo Cancelo (Fermilab)  
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Dark Matter Detectors (until 16:00) (Superior B)
14:00 CCDs for particle physics experiments - Natalie Harrison (Fermilab)  
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14:20 CoGeNT-4: Prospects for an expanded search for light-mass WIMPS - John Orrell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)  
14:40 Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment: Status and Plans - Prof. Vuk Mandic (University of Minnesota)  
15:10 Germanium Detectors for Dark Matter Searches - Prof. Vuk Mandic (University of Minnesota)  
15:30 The discrimination capabilities of Micromegas detectors at low energies - Mr Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA))  
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Detector for Neutrinos -Prof. Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern) Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University) (until 16:20) (Superior A)
14:00 The MINERvA Experiment - Dr Howard Budd (University of Rochester)  
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14:20 Detector technologies for Askaryan radio-pulse neutrino detectors - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin)  
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14:40 The Hanohano neutrino detector and ongoing R&D - Dr Nickolas Solomey (Wichita State University)  
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15:00 Large Mass Bolometers for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches - Ke Han (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US)  
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15:20 Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEMO-3 detector and R&D for SuperNEMO - Benton Pahlka (The University of Texas at Austin)  
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15:40 Development and Characterization of CdZnTe Detectors for Neutrino Physics Research - Thomas Kutter (LSU)  
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16:00 Super-Kamiokande's Gadolinium Research and Developement Project - Dr Andrew Renshaw (UCI)  
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Experimental Detector Systems - Adam Para (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)-Unknown-Unknown) (until 16:00) (Chicago Ballroom 8)
14:00 Detector Backgrounds at Muon Colliders - Sergei Striganov (Fermilab)  
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14:20 ILCroot tracker and vertex detector response to MARS simulation of the beam background in the muon collider - Dr Nikolai Terentiev (CMU)  
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14:40 Muon Collider Detector Studies - Dr Anna Mazzacane (FNAL)  
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14:00
Gaseous Detectors - Colas, P. (Saclay) (until 16:00) (Erie)
14:00 Calibration and Performance of the precision chambers of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. - Edward Diehl (University of Michigan)  
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14:20 Construction and Test of a Prototype Chamber for the Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Philipp Schwegler (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)  
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14:40 Development of Micro Pixel Chamber for ATLAS upgrade - Dr Atsuhiko Ochi (Kobe University)  
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15:00 Performance of a Large-Area Triple-GEM Detector in a Particle Beam - Prof. Paul Edmund Karchin (Department of Physics and Astronomy-College of Science-Wayne Sta)  
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15:20 Simulation of a Triple-GEM detector for a potential CMS muon tracking and trigger upgrade - Dr Tania Moulik (Department of Physics - National Inst. of Science Education and Research)  
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15:40 A new generation of RPCs to be used as muon trigger detectors at the super- LHC - Prof. Rinaldo Santonico (INFN and University of Roma "Tor Vergata")  
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Machine Det. Interface and Beam Instr. - Glenn Christian (University of Oxford) (until 16:20) (Huron)
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14:00 Online Determination of the LHC Luminous Region with the ATLAS High Level Trigger - Rainer Bartoldus (SLAC)  
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14:25 Performance and Operational Experience of the CDF Luminosity Monitor - Alexander Sukhanov (Fermilab)  
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14:50 "Beam Spot Finding in Real Time at CDF and Beyond" - luciano Ristori (INFN, Pisa)  
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15:15 The D0 Luminosity Monitor Operations and Performance - Ms Michelle Prewitt (Rice University)  
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15:40 Radiation Damage Studies and Operation of the D0 Luminosity Monitor - Dr Jesus Orduna (Rice University)  
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16:00 R&D of neutron beam monitor based GEM detector - Zhijia SUN (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)  
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Photon Detectors - Karen Byrum (Argonne National Laboratory) (until 16:00) (Chicago Ballroom 9)
14:00 Directly Coupled Scintillator Tiles and Silicon Photomultipliers - Dr Alexandre Dychkant (Northern Illiniois University)  
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14:20 Mechanical Performance of Large Format Underwater Photomultipliers - Jiajie Ling (BNL)  
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14:40 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PHOTOMULTIPLIERS AND READ-OUT SYSTEMS - Dr Jon Howorth (Photek Limited)  
15:00 PMT Light Collection Enhancement for LBNE - Prof. Norm Buchanan (Colorado State University)  
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15:20 Characterization of 10" and 12" Photomultiplier Tubes for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment - Dr Stanley Seibert (University of Pennsylvania)  
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15:40 Integration-Level Testing of Sub-Nanosecond Microchannel Plate Detectors for Use in Time-Of-Flight HEP Applications - Dr Matthew Wetstein (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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14:00
Semiconductor Detectors - Paula Collins (CERN) Petra Riedler (CERN) (until 16:00) (Chicago Ballroom 10)
14:00 CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for vertexing, tracking and calorimetry - Mr Tony Price (University of Birmingham, SPiDeR)  
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14:20 Recent progress of the pixel detectors R&D based on the SOI technology - Dr Toshinobu Miyoshi (KEK)  
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14:40 Ultra-thin fully depleted DEPFET active pixel sensors - Ladislav Andricek (MPI Halbleiterlabor)  
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15:00 SLID-ICV Vertical Integration Technology for the ATLAS Pixel Upgrades - Dr Anna Macchiolo (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)  
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15:20 Sensor Studies for SLHC Using CMS Pixel-Based Telescope - Lorenzo Uplegger (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))  
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15:40 Overview on measured properties of edgeless detectors and their use in high energy physics - Dr Juha Kalliopuska (VTT)  
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Trigger and DAQ Systems - Frans Meijers (CERN) (until 16:00) (Mayfair)
14:00 A fast precision tracking trigger with RPCs for high luminosity LHC upgrade - Dr Roberto Cardarelli (INFN Roma "Tor Vergata")  
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14:20 GET: a Generic Electronic system for TPCs for nuclear physics experiments° - Dr Emanuel Pollacco (CEA Saclay)  
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14:40 The GANDALF Multi-Channel Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) - Sebastian Schopferer (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Freiburg)  
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15:00 CMS Web-Based Monitoring - Dr Zongru Wan (Kansas State)  
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15:20 A two level trigger system for the ICARUS LAr-TPC - Mr Daniele Dequal (Università degli studi di Padova)  
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16:00
Exhibition and Poster (until 18:00) (Chicago 6&7)
19:00 Dinner - Marcel Demarteau (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))   (Mid America Club)
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12:00 Closing Speech - Tiehui Ted Liu (Fermilab)   (Chicago Ballrooms 8,9,10)
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13:50 --- 3D Vertically Integrated Electronics SATELLITE MEETING ---
13:55 3D Satellite Meeting: Introduction - Grzegorz Deptuch (FERMILAB)  
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14:00 3D Satellite Meeting: Flavors of the 3D-IC technology and where it is applicable - Paul Franzon (NCSU)  
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14:25 3D Satellite Meeting: 3D technology developments in Europe and European Union supported efforts - Hans Gunther Moser (MPI)  
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14:50 3D Satellite Meeting: 3D landscape in Japan - Masahiro Aoyagi (AIST (Japan))  
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15:15 3D Satellite Meeting: TSV revolution and Fermilab’s MPW experience - Ray Yarema (FNAL)  
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15:30 3D Satellite Meeting: Testimonial Talks - INFN, IN2P3, DoE  
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15:45 3D Satellite Meeting: Q&A, Panel Discussion and Coffee  
16:25 3D Satellite Meeting: SOI technology for monolithic and 3D integrated detectors - Yasuo Arai (KEK)  
16:50 3D Satellite Meeting: 3D-IC enabler of advanced focal planes - Chenson Chen (MIT-LL (USA))  
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17:15 3D Satellite Meeting: 3D-IC for real chips and prospectives - Bob Patti (Tezzaron)  
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17:40 3D Satellite Meeting: The Monolithic 3D-IC - Zvi Or-Bach (MonolithIC 3D)  
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17:55 3D Satellite Meeting: Q&A, Panel Discussion and Tea  
18:20 3D Satellite Meeting: Conclusions