Physics in Collision 2011

28 Aug 2011, 17:00 → 1 Sept 2011, 14:20 Canada/Pacific

Asia Pacific Hall (SFU Wosk Centre for Dialogue)

Bernd Stelzer (Simon Fraser University-Unknown-Unknown)

The international symposium on Physics in Collision (PIC) is a conference series that began in 1981 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. The program of the conference is composed of invited talks and contributions in poster session.
Invited speakers review and update key topics in elementary particle physics with the aim of encouraging informal discussions on new experimental results and their implications.  The conference covers the following topics:

• Electroweak
• Heavy Flavour
• Higgs
• QCD
• Searches
• Neutrino Physics
• Astroparticle Physics

More details for PIC2011 can be found on the conference webpage: http://hep.phys.sfu.ca/pic2011

For all locations, please refer to the conference map (link)

Sunday, 28 August

17:00 → 20:30 Initial Registration

Monday, 29 August

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome Address

09:10 → 11:00 Electroweak I

09:10 W/Z and Diboson Production

Speaker: Sara Bolognesi (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides bolognesi_PIC_29Aug2011.pdf

09:50 W/Z Properties

Speaker: Alex Melnitchouk (University of Mississippi)

Slides Melnitchouk.pdf

10:30 Measurement of Tau Parameters and mu-tau Universality Tests

Speaker: Dr Shwartz Boris (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides talk-pic11-4.pdf

11:00 → 11:25 Coffee

11:25 → 13:15 Electroweak II

11:25 Top Quark Production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dave Mietlicki (University of Michigan)

Slides PIC2011_DMietlicki_TopProd.pdf

11:55 Top Quark Production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Francesco Spano (Physics Department-Royal Holloway College-University of London)

Slides spanoTopProductionAtLHC29thAugPIC2011.pdf

12:35 Top Quark Properties

Speaker: Yvonne Peters (University of Manchester)

Slides Peters_TopProperties.pdf

13:15 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 16:25 Heavy Flavour I

14:20 Kaon Physics

Speaker: Rainer Wanke (Institut fuer Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)

Slides PIC_2011.pdf

14:55 Charmonium Physics

Speaker: Jingzhi Zhang (IHEP, Bejing)

Slides Zhang.pdf

15:40 D Meson Mixing and Decay

Speaker: Eunil Won (Korea University)

Slides PIC2011_Won.pdf

16:25 → 16:50 Coffee

16:50 → 18:10 QCD I

16:50 Minimum Bias and Underlying Event

Speaker: Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida)

Slides PIC2011_RickField_8-29-11.pdf PIC2011_RickField_8-29-11.ppt

17:25 Results from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Prof. Christine Davies Davies (University of Glasgow)

Slides davies.pdf

19:00 → 21:30 Reception

Tuesday, 30 August

08:30 → 10:45 Heavy Flavour II

Convener: Dong Su (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

08:30 Bottomonia and Exotic Hadrons

Speaker: Stephen Jacob Sekula (Southern Methodist University)

Slides Sekula.pdf

09:15 B_s and b Baryons

Speaker: Robert Harr (Wayne State University)

Slides BsBbary-Harr.pdf

10:00 CP Violation, rare decays and CKM physics in B's

Speaker: david asner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Slides Asner.pdf

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 13:15 QCD II

11:10 Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Hamburg University)

Slides placakyte_pic2011.pdf

11:55 Measurement of Alpha_s in DIS

Speaker: Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides Schoerner.PIC2011.pdf Schoerner.PIC2011.pptx

12:30 High ET Jet Physics

Speaker: Richard Teuscher (Department of Physics-University of Toronto)

Slides TEUSCHER_jets.pdf

13:15 → 14:25 Lunch

14:25 → 15:55 Searches I

14:25 Higgs Searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Jacobo Konigsberg (Department of Physics-University of Florida)

Slides JK_Higgs_PIC11_final.pdf

15:10 Higgs Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Paolo Meridiani (Sezione di Roma I (INFN)-Universita e INFN, Roma I)

Slides HiggsAtLHCPIC2011.pdf

15:55 → 16:30 Poster Presentations I

15:55 Measurement of Single-top Quark Production with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Jenny Lyn Holzbauer (Michigan State University)

Slides PICoverview4.pdf

16:02 W,Z + jets production with CMS detector

Speaker: Sandro Gonzi (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides Gonzi_XXXIPIC_slides_final.pdf

16:09 Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Simon Viel (University of British Columbia)

Slides sviel_PIC_aug30.pdf

16:16 Measurement of CP violation in B_s mixing at LHCb

Speaker: Georg Alexander Krocker (Physikalisches Institut-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)

Slides krocker_pictalk.pdf

16:23 Searches for Long-lived, Stable Massive Particles with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Paul Douglas Jackson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Jackson-PIC-2011.pdf

16:30 → 17:05 Coffee

17:05 → 19:00 LHC - Heavy Ion and Heavy Flavor

17:05 Heavy Flavour Results at the LHC

Speaker: Patrick Koppenburg (NIKHEF)

Slides Koppenburg_110830PIC.pdf

17:50 Heavy Ion Results from LHC

Speaker: Francesco Prino (Sezione di Torino (INFN)-Universita e INFN)

Slides FPrino-PIC11.pdf

18:35 Heavy Ion Results from RHIC

- cancelled -

Speaker:

19:00 → 21:00 IAC (Dinner) Meeting

3rd annual IAC meeting

Wednesday, 31 August

08:30 → 10:00 Searches II

08:30 SUSY Searches

Speaker: Xavier Portell Bueso (CERN)

Slides portell_SUSYsearches.pdf

09:15 Exotic Searches

Speaker: Shahram Rahatlou (Universita di Roma I 'La Sapienza'-Universita e INFN, Roma I)

Slides rahatlou-exo-pic2011-v6.pdf

10:00 → 10:25 Coffee

10:25 → 11:45 Phenomenology

10:25 Dark Photon Searches

Speaker: Mathew Graham (SLAC)

Slides DarkForces-PIC-August2011.pdf

11:00 LHC Phenomenology

Speaker: Heather Logan (Carleton University)

Slides lhcpheno-pic11.pdf

11:45 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:55 Neutrinos I

12:45 Solar Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Alvaro Chavarria (Princeton)

Slides 2011_PIC-Alvaro.Chavarria-slides.pdf solar_neutrino.key.zip

13:15 Neutrino Interaction Measurements

Speaker: Ronald Ransome (Rutgers University)

Slides ransome-neutrino.pdf

13:55 → 14:30 Poster Presentations II

13:55 In Situ Jet Energy Scale Determination in ATLAS

Speaker: Doug Schouten (TRIUMF)

Slides slides.pdf

14:02 Leptonic SUSY searches at CMS

Speaker: Hannes Helmut Schettler (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik (UHH)-Universitaet Ham)

Slides Hannes_poster_talk.pdf

14:09 Searches for supersymmetry in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum, b-jets and no leptons

Speaker: Bart Butler (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides 8-31-2011_PIC_2011_SUSY_b-jets.pdf

14:16 Mu2e Experiment

Speaker: Dr Kutschke Rob (FNAL)

Slides kutschke_shortTalk_PIC2011.pdf

14:23 Status of the KATRIN experiment with special emphasis on source-related issues

Speaker: Michael Sturm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Poster pic2011_poster_sturm.pdf

Slides pic2011_sturm.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 17:15 Neutrinos II

15:00 Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations

Speaker: Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides PIC2011_vdwater.pdf

15:45 Results on v_mu Disappearance and v_tau Appearance

Speaker: Dr Sanchez Mayly (Iowa State University)

Slides msanchez-PIC-2011-new.key msanchez-PIC-2011-new-print.pdf

16:30 Progress on v Mixing Angle Theta_13

Speaker: Prof. Dean Karlen (University of Victoria and TRIUMF)

Slides karlen-pic2011.pdf

18:00 → 18:20 Conference Photo

18:20 → 21:20 Dinner Cruise

board the boat after the conference photo

Thursday, 1 September

08:30 → 10:35 Astro Particle Physics I

08:30 Neutrino Astroparticle Physics

Speaker: Dr Gregory Sullivan (University of Maryland)

Slides NeutrinoAstro-PIC2011.pdf

09:15 Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Dr Emilija Pantic (University of California, Los Angeles)

Slides pic2011_pantic.pdf

10:00 Lensing and dark Matter/Energy

Speaker: Dr Hildebrandt Hendrik (University of British Columbia)

Slides 2011-08_PIC.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 13:10 Astro Particle Physics II / Final Session

11:00 Gamma Ray Astronomy

Speaker: Javier Rico (IFAE)

Slides Rico_GammaRay_PIC2011.pdf

11:45 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Miguel Mostafa (Colorado State University)

Slides UHECRs-PIC2011-Sep01.pdf

12:15 Inspirational Talk

Speaker: Prof. Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Slides pic2011_halzen.pdf

13:00 Announcement PIC 2012

Speaker: Dusan Bruncko (Department of Subnuclear Physics-Institute of Experimental Phys)

Slides pic2012_01.pdf

13:10 → 13:30 Lunch - Tapas