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

Initial Registration

Monday, 29 August

1 Registration

2 Welcome Address

Electroweak I

3 W/Z and Diboson Production

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

Slides bolognesi_PIC_29Aug2011.pdf

4 W/Z Properties

Speaker: Alex Melnitchouk (University of Mississippi)

Slides Melnitchouk.pdf

5 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 Coffee

Electroweak II

6 Top Quark Production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dave Mietlicki (University of Michigan)

Slides PIC2011_DMietlicki_TopProd.pdf

7 Top Quark Production at the LHC

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

Slides spanoTopProductionAtLHC29thAugPIC2011.pdf

8 Top Quark Properties

Speaker: Yvonne Peters (University of Manchester)

Slides Peters_TopProperties.pdf

13:15 Lunch

Heavy Flavour I

9 Kaon Physics

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

Slides PIC_2011.pdf

10 Charmonium Physics

Speaker: Jingzhi Zhang (IHEP, Bejing)

Slides Zhang.pdf

11 D Meson Mixing and Decay

Speaker: Eunil Won (Korea University)

Slides PIC2011_Won.pdf

16:25 Coffee

QCD I

12 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

13 Results from Lattice QCD

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

Slides davies.pdf

Reception

Tuesday, 30 August

Heavy Flavour II

Convener: Dong Su (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14 Bottomonia and Exotic Hadrons

Speaker: Stephen Jacob Sekula (Southern Methodist University)

Slides Sekula.pdf

15 B_s and b Baryons

Speaker: Robert Harr (Wayne State University)

Slides BsBbary-Harr.pdf

16 CP Violation, rare decays and CKM physics in B's

Speaker: david asner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Slides Asner.pdf

Coffee

QCD II

17 Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Hamburg University)

Slides placakyte_pic2011.pdf

18 Measurement of Alpha_s in DIS

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

Slides Schoerner.PIC2011.pdf Schoerner.PIC2011.pptx

19 High ET Jet Physics

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

Slides TEUSCHER_jets.pdf

13:15 Lunch

Searches I

20 Higgs Searches at the Tevatron

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

Slides JK_Higgs_PIC11_final.pdf

21 Higgs Searches at the LHC

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

Slides HiggsAtLHCPIC2011.pdf

Poster Presentations I

22 Measurement of Single-top Quark Production with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Jenny Lyn Holzbauer (Michigan State University)

Slides PICoverview4.pdf

23 W,Z + jets production with CMS detector

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

Slides Gonzi_XXXIPIC_slides_final.pdf

24 Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Simon Viel (University of British Columbia)

Slides sviel_PIC_aug30.pdf

25 Measurement of CP violation in B_s mixing at LHCb

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

Slides krocker_pictalk.pdf

26 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 Coffee

LHC - Heavy Ion and Heavy Flavor

27 Heavy Flavour Results at the LHC

Speaker: Patrick Koppenburg (NIKHEF)

Slides Koppenburg_110830PIC.pdf

28 Heavy Ion Results from LHC

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

Slides FPrino-PIC11.pdf

29 Heavy Ion Results from RHIC

- cancelled -

Speaker:

IAC (Dinner) Meeting

3rd annual IAC meeting

Wednesday, 31 August

Searches II

30 SUSY Searches

Speaker: Xavier Portell Bueso (CERN)

Slides portell_SUSYsearches.pdf

31 Exotic Searches

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

Slides rahatlou-exo-pic2011-v6.pdf

10:00 Coffee

Phenomenology

32 Dark Photon Searches

Speaker: Mathew Graham (SLAC)

Slides DarkForces-PIC-August2011.pdf

33 LHC Phenomenology

Speaker: Heather Logan (Carleton University)

Slides lhcpheno-pic11.pdf

11:45 Lunch

Neutrinos I

34 Solar Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Alvaro Chavarria (Princeton)

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

35 Neutrino Interaction Measurements

Speaker: Ronald Ransome (Rutgers University)

Slides ransome-neutrino.pdf

Poster Presentations II

36 In Situ Jet Energy Scale Determination in ATLAS

Speaker: Doug Schouten (TRIUMF)

Slides slides.pdf

37 Leptonic SUSY searches at CMS

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

Slides Hannes_poster_talk.pdf

38 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

39 Mu2e Experiment

Speaker: Dr Kutschke Rob (FNAL)

Slides kutschke_shortTalk_PIC2011.pdf

40 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 Coffee

Neutrinos II

41 Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations

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

Slides PIC2011_vdwater.pdf

42 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

43 Progress on v Mixing Angle Theta_13

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

Slides karlen-pic2011.pdf

Conference Photo

Dinner Cruise

board the boat after the conference photo

Thursday, 1 September

Astro Particle Physics I

44 Neutrino Astroparticle Physics

Speaker: Dr Gregory Sullivan (University of Maryland)

Slides NeutrinoAstro-PIC2011.pdf

45 Dark Matter Searches

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

Slides pic2011_pantic.pdf

46 Lensing and dark Matter/Energy

Speaker: Dr Hildebrandt Hendrik (University of British Columbia)

Slides 2011-08_PIC.pdf

10:35 Coffee

Astro Particle Physics II / Final Session

47 Gamma Ray Astronomy

Speaker: Javier Rico (IFAE)

Slides Rico_GammaRay_PIC2011.pdf

48 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Miguel Mostafa (Colorado State University)

Slides UHECRs-PIC2011-Sep01.pdf

49 Inspirational Talk

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

Slides pic2011_halzen.pdf

50 Announcement PIC 2012

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

Slides pic2012_01.pdf

13:10 Lunch - Tapas