Name: DPF 2011
Start: 2011-08-08T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2011-08-13T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Rhode Island Convention Center

DPF 2011

from Monday, August 8, 2011 (6:00 PM) to Saturday, August 13, 2011 (4:00 PM)

Monday, August 8, 2011

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Lobby
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - James Valles (Chair Physics Department - Brown University)

8:35 AM Welcome - Clyde Briant (Vice President for Research (Brown University))

8:45 AM Electroweak Physics - Michael Henry Schmitt (Department of Physics and Astronomy-Northwesten University)

9:15 AM Beyond the Standard Model: theory - Konstantin Matchev (Department of Physics-University of Florida)

9:45 AM Beyond the Standard Model: experiment - George Redlinger (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
10:15 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

10:45 AM Neutrino Physics: theory - Lisa Everett Everett (University of Wisconsin)

11:15 AM Neutrino Physics: experiment - Jennifer Raaf (FNAL)

11:45 AM Searches for BSM Physics at Low Energy - Krishna Kumar (Physics Department University of Massachusetts Amherst)
12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ballroom A
Contributions

12:35 PM Panel Discussion - Adrian Cho Lisa Van Pay Michael Henry Schmitt (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Are Leptons and Quarks Highly Relativistic Bound States? - G. Bruce Mainland (The Ohio State University at Newark)

12:31 PM Interparticle forces in scalar QFTs with non-linear mediating fields - Alexander Chigodaev (York University)

12:32 PM Complex Path Integral as a Fractional Fourier Transform - Daniel Ferrante (Brown University)

12:33 PM NS5 Branes on the Resolved Cone over $Y^{p,q}$ - Catherine Whiting (University of Iowa)

12:34 PM The Value of the Newton Gravitation Constant Derived From a Combined Sakharov and Kaluza-Klein Model of Baryo-Genesis and Gravity EM Unification - john brandenburg (Orbital Technologies Corporation)

12:35 PM Theory of EW interactions with dynamically generated scalars, gauge fixings, and masses of Z and W bosons - Bing An Li (University of Kentucky)

12:36 PM On the Smallness of the Dark Energy Density in Split SUSY Models Inspired by Degenerate Vacua - Roman Nevzorov (University of Hawaii)

12:37 PM Sticky Dark Matter - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

12:38 PM Possible Existence of Overlapping Universe and Antiuniverse - Mohamed Assad Abdel-Raouf (United Arab Emirates Un iversity, College of Science)

12:39 PM Strictly Calculate the Electron Mixing-loop Chain Propagator in SM - Haiyan Tang (Department of Mathematics and Physics, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, China)

12:40 PM Missing Transverse Energy Significance - Dayong Wang (Department of Physics-University of Florida)

12:41 PM On a Singular Solution in Higgs Field (2) - A Representation of Certain f0 Mesons' Masses. - Kazuyoshi Kitazawa (Mitsui Chemicals)

12:42 PM Semi-leptonic D_s^+ (1968) Decays as a Scalar Meson Probe - Muhammad Shahid (Syracuse University)

12:43 PM Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake - Jaret Heise (Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 557
Contributions

2:00 PM Tevatron Accelerator Methods and Techniques Applicable for Future Accelerators - Valeri Lebedev (FNAL)

2:30 PM High-luminosity operation of RHIC and future upgrades - Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

3:00 PM Status of the Super-B factory Design - Walter Wittmer (SLAC)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

2:00 PM MiniReview of Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Kevin Black (Department of Physics-Boston University)

2:30 PM Search for Heavy Vector-like Quarks at ATLAS in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV - Samuel Meehan (University of Chicago)

2:50 PM Search for Fourth Generation Quarks at CMS - Michael Luk (Brown University)

3:10 PM Model independent search for new phenomena in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV - Peter Renkel (postdoc)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 556
Contributions

2:00 PM Upgrade plans of the CMS detector - Daniela Bortoletto (Purdue)

2:35 PM ATLAS detector upgrade plans - Venetios Polychronakos (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

3:10 PM A Fast Hardware Tracker for the ATLAS Trigger System - Mark Neubauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

2:00 PM Review of Electroweak Physics at Hadron Colliders - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

2:40 PM Measurement of the differential production cross section of Z bosons at 7 TeV - Joseph Anthony Gartner (University of Florida)

3:00 PM Measurement of the Drell-Yan differential cross section at 7 TeV - Stoyan Emilov Stoynev (Department of Physics and Astronomy-Northwesten University)

3:20 PM W and Z production in the forward region with the LHCb experiment - Jonathan Anderson (Universitaet Zuerich)
Quarkonium
Quarkonium
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 554
Contributions

2:00 PM Studies with onia at LHCb - Luigi Li Gioi (Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC)-Inst. Nat. Phys. Nucl. et)

2:22 PM Measurement of Quarkonia production at 7 TeV with the CMS experiment - Yu Zheng (Purdue University)

2:44 PM New Measurements of Production and Polarization of Heavy Mesons at CDF - Niharika Ranjan (Purdue University)
2:00 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

2:00 PM Deconfinement and chiral transition in QCD at finite temperature - Peter Petreczky (BNL)

2:30 PM QCD Critical Point and Event-by-event Fluctuations - Misha Stephanov (UIC)

2:55 PM Identified Hadron Production from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program in the STAR experiment - lokesh kumar (Kent State University)

3:15 PM Recent Results of Fluctuation and Correlation Studies from the QCD Critical Point Search at RHIC - Terence John Tarnowsky (Michigan State University)
2:00 PM - 3:29 PM
Room: 555
Contributions

2:00 PM Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in H->ZZ decay channels with the ATLAS detector - G Carrillo Montoya (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)

2:23 PM Search for the Higgs boson in leptonic ZZ* and semileptonic WW* decays in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Savanna Shaw (MIchigan State University)

2:46 PM A Search For The Higgs Boson In H --> ZZ --> 2l 2jet Mode - Ashish Kumar (Department of Physics-Physics Faculty-State University of New Y)

3:09 PM A Search For The Higgs Boson In H --> ZZ--> 4l Mode - Mario Pelliccioni (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita e INFN)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

2:00 PM Search for a Neutron Electric Dipole Moment at the Paul Scherrer Institut - Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (Paul Scherrer Institut)

2:20 PM A Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron - Paul Huffman (North Carolina State University)

2:40 PM EDMs and their implications - Yingchuan Li (Brookhaven National Lab)

3:00 PM A proton EDM experiment: most sensitive to CP-violation beyond the SM - Yannis Semertzidis (BNL)
Chaired by Jon Urheim
Chaired by Jon Urheim
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

2:00 PM Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Physics with Super-Kamiokande - Roger Wendell (Duke University)

2:20 PM Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy in Super-Kamiokande - Michael Smy (UCI)

2:40 PM MINOS Electron-neutrino Appearance Analysis - Xiaobo Huang (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:55 PM Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS - Mhair Orchanian (Caltech)

3:15 PM Electron Antineutrino Appearance in MINOS - Adam Schreckenberger (University of Minnesota)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

2:00 PM Mini-Review: Unravelling Jets at Colliders - Saba Zuberi (UC Berkeley)

2:30 PM Jet substructure and event shapes at high Q^2 in ATLAS - David Miller (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:50 PM A New Formulation of Analytic, Non-Perturbative, Gauge-and Lorentz-Invariant QCD - Herbert Fried (Brown University)

3:10 PM The Rapidity Renormalization Group - Jui-Yu Chiu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Chaired by Zack Sullivan
Chaired by Zack Sullivan
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 553
Contributions

2:00 PM Mini-review of the top quark physics - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)

2:30 PM Measurements of the top production cross section and properties with the D0 detector - Liang Li (University of California Riverside)

2:50 PM Top quark physics results using CMS data at 7 TeV - Karl Ecklund (Rice University)

3:10 PM Measurement of the top-pair production cross-section at ATLAS - M Saleem (University of Oklahoma, USA)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 557
Contributions

4:00 PM Experimental program at Accelerator Test Facility - vitaly yakimenko (bnl)

4:30 PM Do optical-scale structures make suitable accelerators for colliders? - Gil Travish (UCLA)

5:00 PM New Methods of Particle Collimation in Colliders - Giulio Stancari (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:30 PM Novel Beam Diagnostics for Future HEP facilities - John Byrd (LBNL)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

4:00 PM Searches for Supersymmetry in Hadronic Final States with the CMS Detector at the LHC - Sudarshan Paramesvaran (University of California Riverside)

4:20 PM Search for supersymmetry in final state containing isolated electrons and muons, jets, and missing transverse momentum from sqrt(s)=7 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC - Tapas Sarangi (University of Wisconsin)

4:40 PM Searches for Supersymmetry in Final States with Leptons with the CMS detector at the LHC - Benjamin Henry Hooberman (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))

5:00 PM Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Opposite-Sign Dilepton Events at CMS - Derek Michael Barge (Physics Department-Univ. of California Santa Barbara)

5:20 PM Search for New Physics in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV in Final States with Missing Transverse Energy and Heavy Flavor - Bart Butler (SLAC)

5:40 PM Interpretation of SUSY Searches in ATLAS with Simplified Models - Hideki Okawa (UC Irvine)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

4:00 PM CP violation - minireview - Jure Zupan (Unknown)

4:40 PM Anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry at D0 - Bruce Hoeneisen (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)

5:08 PM Probing CP violating anomalous top-quark couplings at Hadron Colliders - Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)
Chaired by Kevin Pitts
Chaired by Kevin Pitts
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 556
Contributions

4:00 PM Performance of the b-tagging algorithms with an upgraded CMS detector - Eric Charles Brownson (Department of Physics and Astronomy-Vanderbilt University)

4:20 PM Belle II Detector: Status and Proposed US Contribution - James Fast (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

4:40 PM ATLAS pixel detector upgrades - Mauricio Garcia-Sciveres (LBNL)

5:00 PM Study of the readout chip and silicon sensor degradation for the CMS pixel upgrade - gemma Tinti (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas)

5:20 PM Chronopixel Detector Development for Vertex Detectors for future e+e- Colliders - Charles Baltay (Yale University)

5:40 PM Studies of VCSEL failures in the optical readout systems of the ATLAS silicon trackers and Liquid Argon calorimeters - Mark Cooke (LBNL)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

4:00 PM Education and Public Outreach Activities of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory - Marco Cavaglia (University of Mississippi)

4:15 PM Getting Science Beyond the Research Community: Examples of Education and Outreach from the IceCube Project - James Madsen (University of Wisconsin River Falls)

4:30 PM Early education activities at the Sanford Underground Laboratory/DUSEL - Margaret Norris (Sanford Underground Laboratory)

4:45 PM Education and Public Outreach of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Gregory Snow (University of Nebraska)

5:00 PM HiSPARC: On the interface between outreach and scientific research - Charles Timmermans (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)

5:15 PM MARIACHI: Science by Scientists, Teachers and Students - Helio Takai (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:30 PM The Multimedia Project Quarked! - Alice Bean (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

5:45 PM Plain English Summaries of Experimental Results - Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

4:00 PM Z boson property at Tevatron: angular coefficients and Afb of Drell-Yan process - Jiyeon Han (University of Rochester)

4:20 PM Studies of Z/gamma* differential cross sections in ppbar collisions with the D0 detector - Rafael Lopes de Sa (Stony Brook University)

5:00 PM Measurement of W and Z boson production rate and asymmetry at CMS - Ji Yeon Han (University of Rochester)

5:20 PM Rates of Jets Produced in Association with W and Z Bosons - Kira Suzanne Grogg (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)

5:40 PM A Measurement of the Ratio of the W+ 1 Jet to Z + 1 Jet Cross Sections with ATLAS - Andrew Robert Meade (University of Massachusetts)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

4:00 PM Hydrodynamic flow in Pb+Pb collisions observed via azimuthal angle correlations of charged hadrons - Charles Felix Maguire (Department of Physics and Astronomy-Vanderbilt University)

4:25 PM Conformal hydrodynamics in Minkowski and de Sitter spacetimes - Amos Yarom (Princeton University)

4:50 PM Measurement of elliptic and higher order flow harmonics at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76TeV$ Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS Detector. - Soumya Mohapatra (Department of Physics-State University of New York (SUNY))

5:15 PM Triangularity and Dipole Assymetry in Ideal Hydrodynamics - li Yan (Stony Brook University)

5:35 PM Triangular Flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions in an Event-by-Event Hybrid Approach - Hannah Petersen (Duke University)
4:00 PM - 6:06 PM
Room: 555
Contributions

4:00 PM A Search For The Higgs Boson In H --> ZZ--> 2l 2nu Mode - Daniele Trocino (Department of Physics-Northeastern University)

4:23 PM Search for the Higgs boson in the H->gamma gamma decays in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Karen Bland (Baylor University)

4:46 PM Search for Higgs Boson in Diphoton Final State with the ATLAS Detector - Haichen Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

5:08 PM Searches for the Higgs boson in VH->VWW->leptons+X decays in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV - Michael Cooke

5:32 PM SUSY QCD Corrections to Higgs-b Production - Prerit Jaiswal (YITP, Stony Brook University)
Chaired by Ed Kearns
Chaired by Ed Kearns
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

4:00 PM Constraints on non-standard neutrino-matter interactions from MINOS - Zeynep Isvan (University of Pittsburgh)

4:20 PM Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K - Glenn Lopez (Stony Brook University)

4:40 PM NOvA: Present and Future - Gavin Davies (Iowa State University)

5:00 PM Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment: Goal, Progress and Schedule - Zhe Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:20 PM The 600 Ton ICARUS Liquid Argon Experiment at the LNGS - David Cline (UCLA)

5:40 PM Status of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment LBNE - Jon Urheim (Indiana University)
Chaired by Kirill Melnikov
Chaired by Kirill Melnikov
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 553
Contributions

4:00 PM A Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section and the Top Quark Mass in the Hadronic Tau + Jets Decay Channel at CDF - Daryl Hare (Rutgers University)

4:20 PM Measurement of Tau Leptons from Top Quark Pair Production and Decay in ATLAS - Allison McCarn (Department of Physics-Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

4:40 PM Top Quark Theoretical Cross Sections and pT and Rapidity Distributions - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

5:00 PM Measurements of the top quark pair production cross section at 7 TeV - Sadia Khalil (Kansas State University)

5:20 PM A standard model explanation of a dijet excess in Wjj at CDF - Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

5:40 PM Search for new physics in ttbar + MET -> b bbar qqbar qqbar final state in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV - Marco Bentivegna
7:00 PM Welcome reception
Welcome reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

8:30 AM Field and String Theory - Christopher Herzog (Princeton University)

9:00 AM QCD: Experiment - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

9:30 AM QCD: Theory - Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

10:30 AM Hadron Spectroscopy - Adam Szczepaniak (Indiana University)

11:00 AM Liquid Quark-Gluon Plasma: Opportunities and Challenges - KRISHNA Rajagopal (MIT)

11:30 AM Heavy Ion Physics - Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook University)

12:00 PM Education & Outreach - Michael Barnett (Physics Division-Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ballroom A
Contributions

12:35 PM Fermilab Strategy with LBNE and Project X - Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

12:45 PM Project X: Accelerator and Physics - Brendan Casey (Fermilab) Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)

1:15 PM DOE Sponsored Intensity Frontier Workshop - Michael Procario (DOE, Office of Science)

1:25 PM Q/A
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 557
Contributions

2:00 PM Project-X: stepping stone for future accelerator-based HEP at Fermilab - Bob Tschirhart (-Fermilab)

2:30 PM eRHIC collider design status -

3:00 PM Muon Collider Progress: Accelerators - Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

2:00 PM The ATLAS Search for Resonances in the Inclusive Dijet Final State - Georgios Choudalakis (University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)

2:20 PM Search for high mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Dominick Olivito (University of Pennsylvania)

2:40 PM Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at the LHC, Recent Results from the ATLAS Collaboration - Evan Wulf (Columbia University)

3:00 PM Searches for Large Extra Dimensions at CMS - Alexey Ferapontov (Department of Physics-Brown University)

3:20 PM Search for GMSB SUSY and extra dimensions in diphoton+missing ET and Z+photon+missing ET final states at D0 - Yunhe Xie (Fermilab)

3:40 PM Searches for Supersymmetry in Events with Photons and Missing Transverse Energy with the CMS Detector at the LHC - Duong Hai Nguyen (Department of Physics-Brown University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

2:00 PM Two-loop corrections to W and Z boson production at high pT - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

2:30 PM Measurement of the Transverse Momentum Distribution of Z/gamma* Bosons in 7TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector - Jianbei Liu (University of Michigan)

2:50 PM W boson mass and width measurements at D0 - Daniel Boline

3:10 PM Study of Wgamma and Zgamma production at the LHC - Al Goshaw (Duke University)

3:30 PM The Epsilon Expansion via Hypergeometric Functions and Differential Reduction - Scott Yost (The Citadel)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

2:00 PM New Mathematics for Old Scattering Amplitudes - Marcus Spradlin (Brown University)

2:30 PM Manifest SO(N) invariance and S-matrices of three-dimensional N=2,4,8 SYM - Abhishek Agarwal (American Physical Society)

2:50 PM Minimal Holography: Higher spin gravity from 2d CFTs - Thomas Hartman (Institute for Advanced Study)

3:10 PM Fuzzy Twistors and Emergent Gravity - Jonathan Heckman (Institute for Advanced Study)

3:30 PM Large Nc Gauge Theories on the Lattice - Rajamani Narayanan (Florida International University)
LHC techniques
LHC techniques
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 554
Contributions

2:00 PM b-tagging Algorithms in the CMS experiment - Gavril Giurgiu (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University (JH)

2:20 PM Efficiency measurement of b-tagging algorithms developed by the CMS experiment - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Brown University)

2:40 PM b-Tagging at ATLAS - Gordon Watts (Department of Physics-University of Washington)

3:00 PM Electron Vetos and Taus at ATLAS - Susie Bedikian (Physics Department-Yale University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

2:00 PM Probing hot and dense nuclear matter with particle correlations and jets at RHIC - Hua Pei (University of Illinois at Chicago)

2:25 PM The Rise and Fall of the Ridge at RHIC and the LHC - Paul Sorensen (BNL)

2:50 PM Untriggered di-hadron correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 2.76 TeV - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston)

3:15 PM Dihadron correlations in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS - Yuting Bai (Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)

3:40 PM Sound Propagation on Top of the Fireball - Pilar Staig (Stony Brook University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 555
Contributions

2:00 PM The Beginnings of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Elementary Particle Theory - Gerald Guralnik (Brown University, Providence RI 02912, USA)

2:35 PM Electroweak symmetry breaking and the higgs beyond the standard model - Takemichi Okui (Florida State University)

3:10 PM Search for charged and doubly-charged Higgs boson production in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Louise Suter

3:33 PM $H^\pm \rightarrow \chi^\pm \chi^0 \to 3\ell + E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{miss}}$ Searches - Caleb Lampen (University of Arizona)
Chaired by Morgan Wascko
Chaired by Morgan Wascko
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

2:00 PM Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions - Rex Tayloe (Dept of Physics, Indiana University)

2:40 PM Highlights from MINERvA's first year - Aaron McGowan (University of Rochester)

3:00 PM The MINERvA Detector: Description and Performance - Bari Osmanov (University of Florida)

3:20 PM Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Scattering of Muon Neutrinos at the T2K Near Detector - Brian Kirby (University of British Columbia)

3:40 PM Neutrino Studies with the T2K P0D Detector - Dmitriy Beznosko (NN Group SUNYSB)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurement of three-jet differential cross sections $\boldsymbol{d\sigma_{\text{3jet}} / dM_{\text{3jet}}}$ in $\boldsymbol{p\bar{p}}$ collisions at $\boldsymbol{\sqrt{s}=1.96}$ TeV - Lee Sawyer (College of Engineering and Science-Louisiana Technical Universi)

2:20 PM Measurement of multi-jet cross-sections at ATLAS - Matthew Cleary Tamsett (College of Engineering and Science-Louisiana Technical Universit)

2:40 PM Second-Order Approximate Corrections for QCD Processes - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

3:00 PM Measurements of W/Z boson production in associations with jets at D0 - Ashish Kumar (Department of Physics-Physics Faculty-State University of New Y)
Chaired by Liang Li
Chaired by Liang Li
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 553
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurement of t-channel single top quark production at 7 TeV - Thomas Speer (Department of Physics-Brown University)

2:20 PM Single top production in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV with the D0 detector - Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University)

2:40 PM Measurement of Top Quark Properties in CDF - Zhenbin Wu (Baylor University)

3:00 PM Measurement of Single-top Quark Production with the ATLAS Detector - Jenny Holzbauer (Michigan State University)

3:20 PM Search for flavor changing neutral currents in decays of top quarks - Carrie McGivern (University of Kansas)
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 557
Contributions

4:30 PM High Gradient RF Progress : Toward Tev-scale Accelerators - Sami Tantawi (SLAC)

5:00 PM Towards 20 T accelerator magnets: a road to super-high energy colliding beams - Alexander Zlobin (Fermilab)

5:30 PM SRF Technology for Particle Accelerators: Progress Report - Jean Delayen (Old Dominion University)

6:00 PM High Power, High Energy Cyclotrons for Decay-At-Rest Neutrino Sources: The DAEdALUS Project - Jose Alonso (MIT-LNS)
4:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

4:30 PM Search for new physics with same-sign isolated dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy at CMS - Marc Gabriel Weinberg (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)

4:50 PM Search for Chargino-Neutralino Associated Production in Dilepton Final States with Tau Leptons - Robert Forrest (UC Davis)

5:10 PM Inclusive Search for Same-Sign Dileptons - Benjamin Cerio (Physics Department-Duke University)

5:30 PM Search for universal extra dimensions and supersymmetry in like-sign dimuon events using 7.3 fb-1 of D0 data - Jason Mansour (University of Göttingen)

5:50 PM Search for Supersymmetry at CMS in events with three or more leptons - Sho Maruyama (Department of Physics-University of California Davis (UCD))

6:10 PM Search for multilepton final states of supersymmetry at the ATLAS Detector - Jeremiah Jet Goodson (Department of Physics - State University of New York (SUNY))

6:30 PM Missing-ET insensitive search for new physics such as R-parity Violation with multileptons - Sanjay Ravi Ratan Arora (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy-Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jers)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

4:30 PM Lattice weak matrix elements and CP violation in the LHC era - Amarjit Soni (BNL)

4:54 PM Bs -> J/psi phi at CMS - Giordano Cerizza (Department of Physics and Astronomy-College of Arts and Science)

5:18 PM Search for CP violation in the Bs - Bsbar system with LHCb - Daan Van Eijk (NIKHEF)

5:42 PM Measurement of CP violating parameters in the decay Bs -> J/psi phi - Avdhesh Chandra (Rice University)

6:06 PM Long-Distance Dominance of the CP Asymmetry in B->X_{s,d}+gamma Decays - gil paz (The University of Chicago)
Chaired by Andy White
Chaired by Andy White
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 556
Contributions

4:30 PM Status of particle flow calorimetry - Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:05 PM Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter at the LHC - Marco Grassi (Universita di Roma I 'La Sapienza'-Universita e INFN, Roma I)

5:25 PM Performance of Particle Identification with the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker > - Elizabeth Hines (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Pennsylvania)

5:45 PM Calibration and Performance of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Edward Diehl (University of Michigan)

6:05 PM Frequency Scanned Interferometry for ILC Tracker Alignment - Haijun Yang (University of Michigan)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

4:30 PM Particle Physics Masterclasses - Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame)

4:42 PM CMS Data for High School Teachers and Students - MIke Fetsko (Goodwin High School, Virginia)

4:55 PM Classroom Cosmic Rays: Detectors and Analysis - Thomas Jordan (University of Florida/Fermilab)

5:10 PM Bringing the LHC and ATLAS to a planetarium - Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University)

5:25 PM Celebrating 30 Years of K-12 Educational Programming at Fermilab - Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab)

5:50 PM Round Table Discussion - Presenters and participants All
EW penguins and Charm
EW penguins and Charm
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 554
Contributions

4:30 PM BABAR Results on Leptonic and Radiative B and Charm Decays - Brad Wray (University of Texas at Austin)

4:50 PM Updated Search for Non-SM Physics in B->K(*)mumu Decays at CDF - Austin Napier (Tufts University)

5:10 PM Electroweak Penguin decays at LHCb - Thomas Blake (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)

5:30 PM Semileptonic B and Charm Decays with BABAR - Brian Hamilton (University Of Maryland)

5:50 PM Measurements of Charm Mixing and CP Violation at Belle - Debabrata Mohapatra (Virginia Tech)

6:10 PM Results and prospects for Charm Physics at LHCb - Silvia Borghi (University of Glasgow)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

4:30 PM Jets and Jet-like Correlations at RHIC - Helen Louise Caines (Physics Department-Yale University)

5:00 PM Results from Pb+Pb Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

5:30 PM Studies of Jet Quenching in PbPb Collisions at CMS - george Stephans (Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)-Massachusetts Inst. of Tec)

6:00 PM Parton showers as sources of energy-momentum deposition in the QGP and implications for jet observables - Richard Neufeld (LANL)

6:25 PM The Wake of a Quark Moving Through Hot QCD Plasma vs. N=4 SYM Plasma - JUHEE HONG (Stony Brook University)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 555
Contributions

4:30 PM A Search For The Higgs Boson In H -->Gamma Gamma Mode - Christopher Allan Palmer (Department of Physics-Univ. of California San Diego (UCSD))

4:51 PM A Search For The Higgs Boson In H --> WW - Kevin Kai Hong Sung (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))

5:12 PM Search For The Standard Model Higgs Boson In The WH->lnubb And H->WW->lnulnu Decay Modes - G Carrillo Montoya (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)

5:33 PM Higgs Tansverse Momentum Distributions at the LHC - Jui-Yu Chiu (Carnegie Mellon University)

5:54 PM Updated Search for Standard Model Higgs to WW Production Using up to 8.2 fb-1 at the Tevatron - Benjamin Carls

6:15 PM Searches for Diboson Production in the Lepton + MET + Jets Final State in ATLAS - Mark Neubauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

6:36 PM A Search For An Exotic Higgs In The Decay Mode H++ --> l+l+ - Maxwell Chertok (Department of Physics-University of California Davis (UCD))
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

4:30 PM The COMET Experiment to Search for Muon to Electron Conversion - Mark Lancaster (UCL)

4:50 PM The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - Craig Group (University of Virginia)

5:10 PM Results from MEG Experiment - donato nicolo (pisa university)

5:30 PM The Fermilab Muon (g-2) Experiment - Bradley Lee Roberts (Boston University)

5:50 PM The Enriched Xenon Observatory for double beta decay - Timothy Daniels (University of Massachusetts)
Chaired by Jocelyn Monroe
Chaired by Jocelyn Monroe
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

4:30 PM The MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment - Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:50 PM The DarkSide Program at LNGS - Alex Wright (Princeton University)

5:10 PM Constraining Light Dark Matter with CDMS II and SuperCDMS - Scott Hertel (Department of Physics)

5:30 PM Status of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment - Jeremy Chapman (Brown)

5:50 PM Status of CoGeNT - Juan Collar Colmenero (University of Chicago)

6:10 PM After LUX: The LZ Program - David Malling (Brown University)
Chaired by Nick Kidonakis
Chaired by Nick Kidonakis
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 553
Contributions

4:30 PM HollowConeSieveForTops - Peisi Huang (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin-Madison)

4:50 PM Search for ttbar Resonances in the Lepton plus Jets Channel in pp Collisions at Sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS Detector - Venkatesh Kaushik (University Of Arizona)

5:10 PM Discriminating Top-Antitop Resonances using Azimuthal Decay Correlations - Brock Tweedie (Boston University)

5:30 PM Measurement of the top pair invariant mass distribution at 7 TeV and search for New Physics - Salvatore Rappoccio (Department of Physics and Astronomy-Johns Hopkins University (J)

5:50 PM Measurements of spin correlation in $\boldsymbol{t\bar{t}}$ production at D0 - Kenneth Bloom (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Nebraska)
Thursday, August 11, 2011

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

8:30 AM High Energy Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Astrophysics - John Beacom (Ohio State University)

9:00 AM Early Universe and Cosmology - Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

9:30 AM Dark Matter Searches - Jonghee Yoo (FNAL)
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 557
Contributions

10:30 AM MICE step I: first measurement of emittance with particle physics detectors - Ulisse Bravar

11:00 AM Precision Calibration of the Luminosity Measurement in ATLAS - Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)

11:30 AM Novel Accelerator Methods and Technologies for KEKB Upgrade - John Flanagan (KEK)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

10:30 AM Supersymmetric multiple Higgs doublet models - Sherwin Love (purdue university)

10:50 AM Collider Phenomenology of the E6SSM - Roman Nevzorov (University of Hawaii)

11:10 AM Detecting Fourth Generation Heavy Quarks at the LHC - David Atwood (Iowa State University)

11:30 AM Higgs Production through Top-prime decays at the LHC - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Brown University)

11:50 AM Charged X Production in Simplest Higgs via Gauge Boson Fusion - Matthew Bishara (University of Rochester)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

10:30 AM First ADS Analysis of B+ --> D0 K Decays in Hadron Collisions - Paola Garosi

10:54 AM Recent BABAR results on CP violation in B decays - Romulus Godang (University of Mississippi)

11:18 AM Measurements of CP Violation in B Decay at Belle - Himansu Sahoo (University of Hawaii)

11:42 AM Updated Measurement of Charmless B Decays at CDF - Benjamin Carls

12:06 PM A New CP Violating Observable for the LHC - Joshua Berger (Cornell University)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

10:30 AM An outlook of the user support model to educate the users community at the CMS Experiment - Sudhir Malik (University of Nebraska/FNAL)

11:00 AM ATLAS data analysis on Grid - Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

11:30 AM CMS Computing: Performance and Outlook - Kenneth Bloom (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Nebraska)

12:00 PM Persistent Data Layout and Infrastructure for Efficient Selective Retrieval of Event Data in ATLAS - Peter Van Gemmeren (Argonne National Laboratory)
Bs and tau decays
Bs and tau decays
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 554
Contributions

10:30 AM Searches for Rare and Forbidden B and Charm Decays with BABAR - Alessandro Rossi (INFN Perugia)

10:52 AM Bc and Suppressed Bs Decays at CDF - William Wester (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))

11:14 AM Updated Measurement of B(Bs -> Ds(*)+Ds(*)-) and Determination of Delta Gamma_CP - Sevda Esen (University of Cincinnati)

11:37 AM Measurement of the relative branching fraction of Bs -> J/psi f_0(980), f_0(980) -> pi+pi- to Bs-> J/psi phi, phi -> K+K- - Braden Keim Abbott (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Oklahoma)

11:58 AM Three-Pion Decays of the tau Lepton, the a_1(1260) Properties, and the a_1-rho-pi Lagrangian - Peter Lichard (Silesian University in Opava)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

10:30 AM Gravitational collapse and far from equilibrium dynamics in holographic gauge theories - Paul Chesler (MIT)

11:00 AM Monte-Carlo simulation of jets in heavy-ion collisions - Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

11:30 AM Effective theory for jets in medium - grigory ovanesyan (LANL)

12:00 PM Transverse Momentum Broadening in Weakly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma - Mindaugas Lekaveckas (MIT)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 555
Contributions

10:30 AM Review of recent theoretical developments in Higgs physics - Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Lab.)

11:05 AM The Combination of Higgs Searches with the ATLAS Detector - Haichen Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:30 AM Searches For The Higgs Boson With The CMS Detector - Marat Gataullin (Charles C. Lauritsen Lab. of HEPhys-California Institute of Tec)

11:55 AM Combined upper limits on Higgs boson production in the Standard Model, fourth generation and fermiophobic models in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron - Richard Edward Hughes (Ohio State University)
Chaired by John Beacom
Chaired by John Beacom
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

10:30 AM Neutrino Physics with SciBooNE - Morgan Wascko (Imperial College London)

10:50 AM Neutrino interactions in the NOvA near detector prototype - Jaroslaw Nowak (University of Minnesota)

11:10 AM Early Neutrino Data in the NOvA Near Detector - Minerba Betancourt (University of Minnesota)

11:30 AM SciNOvA: A measurement of neutrino-nucleus scattering in a narrow-band beam - Xinchun Tian (Univesrity of South Carolina)

11:50 AM Lorentz noninvariant neutrino oscillations without neutrino masses - Kerry Whisnant (Iowa State University)

12:10 PM Three-Parameter Lorentz-Violating Model for Neutrino Oscillations - Jorge S Diaz (Indiana University)
Chaired by Andrew Zentner
Chaired by Andrew Zentner
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 556
Contributions

10:30 AM The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System - Ignacio Sevilla (CIEMAT)

10:50 AM Studying Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey - Masao Sako (University of Pennsylvania)

11:10 AM The Dark Energy Camera - A new Instrument for the Dark Energy Survey - Jiangang Hao (Fermilab)

11:30 AM Ultra High Energy Cosmology with the POLARBEAR Telescope - Stephanie Moyerman (UCSD)

11:50 AM Probing Cosmology and Particle Physics with ACT - Sudeep Das (UC BERKELEY)

12:10 PM Cosmic Ray in the Northern Hemisphere: Results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Charles Jui (University of Utah)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

10:30 AM Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated Diphoton Production in p\bar p Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV - Costas Vellidis (Fermilab)

10:50 AM First Measurement of the isolated prompt diphoton production cross-section in CMS at sqrt(s)=7 TeV - Laurent Millischer (IRFU-CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA))

11:30 AM Measurement of the Cross Section of the Associated Production of Photons and b-quark Jets at CDF - Tingjun Yang (FNAL)

11:50 AM The Charge Radius of the Proton, a 5 Sigma Discrepancy? - Gil Paz (The University of Chicago)

12:10 PM Parity- and Time-Reversal-Violating Form Factors of the Deuteron - Emanuele Mereghetti (University of Arizona)
Chaired by Venkat Kaushik
Chaired by Venkat Kaushik
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 553
Contributions

10:30 AM Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top quark production in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV - Douglas Orbaker (University of Rochester)

10:50 AM The Tevatron Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry and Same Sign Top Quark Pair Production at the LHC - Edmond Berger (ANL)

11:10 AM Improving the Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurement at the LHC - Zhenyu Han (Harvard University)

11:30 AM Search for new physics involving top quarks in ATLAS - Tobias Golling (Physics Department-Yale University)

11:50 AM Top signals in flavor changing Z' models - Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Chair: Boris Kayser
Chair: Boris Kayser
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ballroom A
Contributions

12:30 PM NRC/NAS Study Report on Assessment of DUSEL and its Science - Peter Fisher (Unknown)

12:50 PM Underground Physics Research at NSF - Jon Kotcher (Unknown)

1:10 PM Committee to Evaluate DOE-SC Options for Underground Science - Mel Shochet (Enrico Fermi Institute-University of Chicago)

1:30 PM Prospects for Underground High Energy Physics Experiments in the US - William Brinkman (DOE)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

2:00 PM Lepton Collider Forum - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine)

2:05 PM Electron Collider Physics - Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University)

2:28 PM ILC - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)

2:51 PM CLIC - Lucie Linssen (CERN)

3:14 PM Muon Collider Physics - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

3:37 PM Muon Collider - Ronald Lipton (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Plenary (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

4:30 PM Introduction - Patricia McBride (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

4:40 PM ECFA and European Strategy - Planning HEP in Europe - Tatsuya Nakada (Lab. de Phys. des Hautes Energies (LPHE-IPEP)-Ecole Polytechniq)

4:50 PM HEP Outreach and Education - Gregory Snow (University of Nebraska)

5:00 PM Accelerators and the DPF - R. Joel England (SLAC)
Friday, August 12, 2011

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 557
Contributions

8:00 AM Progress with Laser Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and Prospects of LPWA HEP Colliders - Wim Leemans (LBNL)

8:30 AM Future Linear Collider Applications with Laser-Driven Dielectric Structures - Robert Byer (Stanford University)

9:00 AM Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration - Patric Muggli (University of Southern California)
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

8:00 AM Search for dark matter from prompt lepton-jets in the electron channel - Mahsana Ahsan (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Dallas-Unknown)

8:20 AM Search for New Physics with Mono-Jet and Missing Transverse Energy in 7 TeV pp collisions at CMS - SARAH MALIK (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

8:40 AM Search for W' bosons at the CMS Experiment - Tulika Bose (Boston University)
8:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

8:00 AM The Status of Exotic Mesons Light and Heavy - Dennis Weygand (Jefferson National Lab)

8:30 AM BABAR results on meson-photon transition form factors and ISR production of hadrons - David Muller (SLAC)

8:50 AM First observation of the h_b(1P) and h_b(2P) bottomonium states - David Asner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:10 AM A new algorithm to estimate quark propagation in Lattice QCD - Keisuke Juge (University of the Pacific)

9:30 AM Probing Scalar Mesons Below and Above 1 GeV - Amir Fariborz (SUNY Institute of Technology)

9:50 AM Recent BABAR Studies of Bottomonium States - Veronique Ziegler (SLAC)
B to mumu, SL, and Tevatron review
B to mumu, SL, and Tevatron review
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 554
Contributions

8:00 AM Relating B_s Mixing and B_s -> mu+mu- with New Physics - Gene Golowich (U Mass)

8:32 AM Updated Search for B->mumu Decays at CDF - Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)

8:52 AM Search for B_(s,d)->mumu in CMS - Jose Lazo-Flores (University of Nebraska)

9:12 AM Search for Bs -> mu+mu- at LHCb - Marc-Olivier Bettler (Universita e INFN)

9:30 AM Review of heavy flavor physics at the Tevatron - Gavril Giurgiu (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University (JH)
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 555
Contributions

8:00 AM Nonstandard Higgs Decays and Dark Matter in the E6SSM - Roman Nevzorov (University of Hawaii)

8:18 AM A Search For MSSM Higgs Boson in the Mode H --> Tau Tau - Louis James Antonelli (Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da)

8:39 AM Search for Standard Model Higgs bosons in tau final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Elisabetta Pianori (University of Pennsylvania)

9:00 AM Search for neutral Supersymmetric Higgs bosons in di-tau and b+di-tau final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Subhendu Chakrabarti

9:21 AM Search for neutral Supersymmetric Higgs bosons in bbb(b) final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Craig Group

9:42 AM Higgs Boson Differential Distributions from Effective Field Theory - Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Chaired by Mayly Sanchez
Chaired by Mayly Sanchez
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 550
Contributions

8:00 AM Data Quality and Performance of the NO$\nu$A Prototype Detector - Susan Lein (University of Minnesota)

8:20 AM The DAQ Software System For NOvA Experiment - Xinchun Tian (Univesrity of South Carolina)

8:40 AM Charged Particle Tracking in NOvA - Nicholas Raddatz (University of Minnesota)

9:00 AM KATRIN: an experiment to determine the neutrino mass - Florian Fränkle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

9:20 AM Project 8: Using Radio Frequencies to Measure the Neutrino Mass - Noah Oblath (MIT)

9:40 AM The Majorana Demonstrator Project - Frank Avignone (University of South Carolina)
Chaired by Savvas Koushiappas
Chaired by Savvas Koushiappas
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 556
Contributions

8:00 AM Current and Future Dark Matter Searches with SuperCDMS Experiment - Oleg Kamaev (Queen's University)

8:20 AM Rejection of Backgrounds in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals - Jeremy Lopez (MIT)

8:40 AM Testing Inflation with Dark Matter Halos (Primordial Non-Gaussianity in Large-scale Structure) - Marilena Loverde (Institute for Advanced Study)

9:00 AM New Perspectives on Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Sun and Other Stars - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

9:20 AM Multidimensional Quantum Tunneling: A Perturbative Approach - Nathaniel Reden (Brandeis University)

9:40 AM Daily Modulation of the Dark Matter Signal in Crystalline Detectors - Nassim Bozorgnia (UCLA)
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

8:00 AM Azimuthal decorrelations and multiple parton interactions in $\boldsymbol{\gamma+{\rm 2~jet}}$ and $\boldsymbol{\gamma+{\rm 3~jet}}$ events in $\boldsymbol{p\bar{p}}$ collisions at $\boldsymbol{\sqrt{s}=1.96}$~TeV - Dmitry Bandurin (Kansas State University)

8:20 AM Study of Particle Correlations in ATLAS - Rishiraj Pravahan (University of Texas at Arlington)

8:40 AM A QCD and N = 4 SYM Motivated Model for Soft Interactions and LHC Data - Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)

9:00 AM Soft QCD measurements in the forward direction with the LHCb experiment - Alessandro Camboni (Universitat de Barcelona)

9:20 AM LHC Sensitivity to Wbb Production via Double Parton Scattering at 7 TeV - Seth Quackenbush (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:40 AM Measurement of the elastic $\boldsymbol{p\bar{p}}$ differential cross section in the range $\boldsymbol{0.25<|t|<1.2}$ GeV at $\boldsymbol{\sqrt{s}=}$1.96 TeV - Andrew Gerhart Brandt (University of Texas at Arlington)
Chired by Reinhard Schwienhorst
Chired by Reinhard Schwienhorst
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 553
Contributions

8:00 AM Top quark pairs in association with a photon and the top quark electric charge - Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins University)

8:40 AM Measurements of the top quark mass and the top-antitop mass difference at 7 TeV - Aram Avetisyan (Department of Physics-Brown University)

9:00 AM Measurements of the top quark mass and width with the D0 detector - Yuriy Ilchenko (Southern Methodist University (SMU))

9:20 AM Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays using 5.4 fb-1 of ppbar collision data - Amitabha Das (University of Arizona)

9:40 AM Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production at 7 TeV - Michael Andrew Segala (Department of Physics-Brown University)
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

10:30 AM A search for charged massive long-lived particles at D0 - Juliette Alimena (Department of Physics-Brown University)

10:50 AM Triggering on Long Lived Particles at ATLAS - Steve Alkire (Department of Physics-University of Washington)

11:10 AM Searches for Long-lived particles and displaced vertices with the ATLAS experiment - Vivek Jain (Indiana University)

11:30 AM Search for Stopped Long-lived particles with the ATLAS experiment - Josh Cogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:50 AM Search for pair-production of scalar leptoquarks - Emanuela Barberis (Department of Physics-Northeastern University)

12:10 PM Searches for vector quarks, leptoquarks and heavy gauge bosons at D0 - Lidija Zivkovic (Brown University)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

10:30 AM ATLAS Petascale Data Processing on the Grid: Facilitating Physics Discoveries at the LHC - Alexandre Vaniachine (Argonne)

10:50 AM The Tiers of US ATLAS: Integrating a Distributed Computing Facility for LHC Physics - Robert W Gardner (University of Chicago)

11:10 AM ATLAS Analysis Data Distribution and Panda PD2P - Alden Stradling (UT Arlington)
Chaired by William Wester
Chaired by William Wester
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 556
Contributions

10:30 AM CMS pixel detector upgrade - Neeti Parashar (Purdue University Calumet)

10:50 AM Non accelerator HEP instrumentation challenges - Carter Hall (University of Maryland)

11:35 AM Using Large-Area Micro-channel Plate Photosensors in the Next Generation Water Cherenkov Neutrino Detectors - Mayly Sanchez (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:55 AM SciBath: A novel tracking detector for measuring neutral particles underground - Rex Tayloe (Dept of Physics, Indiana University)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

10:30 AM WW Cross Section Measurement and Limits on Anomalous TGCs with the ATLAS Detector - Haijun Yang (University of Michigan)

10:50 AM Search for WW/WZ in Lepton plus Neutrino plus Heavy Flavor Dijet Final States at CDF - Federico Sforza (INFN Pisa)

11:10 AM WZ Cross Section Measurement and Limits on Anomalous WWZ couplings with the ATLAS Detector at 7 TeV - Yusheng Wu (Univ. of Michigan / Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China)

11:30 AM Diboson production in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV with the D0 detector - Michael Cooke (Fermilab)

11:50 AM Study of diboson production at CMS - Kalanand Mishra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))

12:10 PM Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Shih-Chieh Hsu (Physics Division-Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

10:30 AM The Fermion Sign Problem at Finite Density, and Large N Orbifold Equivalence - Brian Tiburzi (MIT CTP)

10:50 AM Strongly-Coupled Quarks and Colorful Black Holes - Justin Vazquez-Poritz (New York City College of Technology)

11:10 AM Triangle Anomaly in QCD Plasma with Magnetic Field: Chiral Magnetic Effect and Chiral Magnetic Wave - Ho-Ung Yee (SUNY, Stony Brook)

11:30 AM Local Conformal Symmetry and Prediction of Antigravity in the History of the Universe - Itzhak Bars (Univ. Southern California)
Hadronic B decays and LHC review
Hadronic B decays and LHC review
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 554
Contributions

10:30 AM Charmless Hadronic B Decays with BABAR - Brian Edward Lindquist (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:52 AM Studies of b-hadron decays to charmless final states at LHCb - Paul Douglas Sail (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Glasgow)

11:14 AM Recent BABAR measurements of hadronic B branching fractions - David Norvil Brown (Department of Physics-University of Louisville)

11:36 AM Studies of b-hadron decays to charming final states at LHCb - Stefania Ricciardi (Particle Physics-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science)

11:58 AM Review of heavy flavor physics at the LHC - Marina Artuso (Department of Physics-Syracuse University)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 555
Contributions

10:30 AM Combined CDF and D0 upper limits on MSSM Higgs boson production in in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron - Louise Suter

10:53 AM Search for associated production of W and Higgs bosons in lvbb final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Duncan Brown (CNRS / LPNHE Paris Universities VI and VII)

11:16 AM Search for associated production of Z and Higgs bosons in bb+neutrino final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Tim Scanlon (Imperial College/Fermilab)

11:39 AM Search for associated production of Z and Higgs bosons in llbb final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Michael Kirby (Northwestern University)

12:02 PM Tevatron Measurement of WZ/ZZ (Z->bb) production cross section in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV - Gabriel Facini
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

10:30 AM Searches for Light New Physics with BABAR - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia)

10:50 AM The proton charge radius - Paul Indelicato (CNRS)

11:10 AM A New Part-Per-Million Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant - David Webber (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:30 AM Measurement of the Proton’s Weak Charge at the Qweak Experiment - Jean-Francois Rajotte (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)
Chaired by Kerry Whisnant
Chaired by Kerry Whisnant
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

10:30 AM Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations - Zarko Pavlovic (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:50 AM Confronting Recent Neutrino Oscillation Data with Sterile Neutrinos - Georgia KARAGIORGI (Columbia University)

11:10 AM Simulation of Reactors for Antineutrino Experiments Using DRAGON - Lindley Winslow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM Searching for Coherent Neutrino Scattering at a Decay-at-Rest Neutrino Source - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (MIT)

11:50 AM Constraining Sterile Neutrinos at IceCube - Yu Gao (University of Oregon)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 556
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Plenary room (Ballroom B+C)
Contributions

2:00 PM Taskforce Charge, Status & Position Papers - Ian Shipsey (Purdue/LPC) Marcel Demarteau (ANL)

2:20 PM Community Discussion
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Plenary Ballroom
Contributions

4:00 PM Search for a heavy neutrino and right-handed W of the left-right symmetric model with CMS detector - Nathaniel Joseph Pastika (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Minnesota)

4:20 PM Search for High-Mass States with Lepton Plus Missing Transverse Energy Using the ATLAS Detector at Center of Mass Energy of 7 TeV - James David Degenhardt (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pennsylvania)

4:40 PM Search for narrow resonances in the lepton final state at CMS - Gennadiy Kukartsev (Department of Physics-Brown University)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 551 B
Contributions

4:00 PM Measurement of the CKM Angle phi_3/gamma at Belle - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

4:20 PM Tau and charm CP violation studies with BABAR - Ryan White (University of South Carolina)
Chaired by Rick Gaitskell
Chaired by Rick Gaitskell
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 556
Contributions

4:00 PM New Optical Link Technologies for HEP Experiments - Waruna Fernando (Argonne National Lab)

4:20 PM RADIATION-HARD ASICS FOR OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION - Richard Kass (Ohio State University)

4:40 PM STUDY OF THE RADIATION-HARDNESS OF VCSEL/PIN - K. K.Gan Gan (The Ohio State University)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 552 B
Contributions

4:00 PM Axion monodromy - Albion Lawrence (Brandeis University)

4:20 PM From Navier-Stokes to Einstein - Irene Bredberg (Harvard University)

4:40 PM String Landscape and Supernovae Ia - Louis Clavelli (University of Alabama)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 552 A
Contributions

4:00 PM Charmonium and Charmonium-like States with BABAR - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia)

4:20 PM Chiral field theory of 0-+ glueball - Bing An Li (University of Kentucky)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 554
Contributions

4:00 PM Measurement of the production fraction times branching fraction f(b->Lambda_b)xB(Lambda_b -> J/psi Lambda) - Ivan Heredia De La Cruz (Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (CINVESTAV))

4:22 PM Measurements of inclusive B-quark production at 7 TeV with the CMS experiment - gemma Tinti (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas)
Chaired by Charlie Baltay
Chaired by Charlie Baltay
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 550
Contributions

4:00 PM The ArgoNeuT experiment - Roxanne Guenette (Yale University)

4:30 PM The MicroBooNE Experiment - Christina Ignarra (MIT)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 551 A
Contributions

4:00 PM Soft QCD results from CMS - Dayong Wang (Department of Physics-University of Florida)

4:20 PM Measurements of the forward energy flow and forward jet production with CMS. - Hans Jozef H Van Haevermaet (Universiteit Antwerpen Physics Department)
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Salomon Hall
Contributions

6:00 PM The Frontier of Physics and Beyond - Harrison Prosper (Florida State University)
7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday, August 13, 2011

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Salomon Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Mark Schlissel (Provost - Brown University)

8:35 AM Welcome - Angel Taveras (Mayor of Providence)

8:45 AM Heavy Flavor Physics - Sheldon Stone (Department of Physics-Syracuse University)

9:15 AM CP Violation - Hassan Jawahery (Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics Groups)

9:45 AM What Life is like as a Scientist in Congress - Bill Foster
10:15 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Salomon Hall
Contributions

10:45 AM Tanaka award

11:00 AM Top Quark Physics - Kirsten Anne Tollefson (Michigan State University)

11:30 AM Higgs Searches - Aurelio Juste Rozas (IFAE - Institut de Física d'Altes Energies-Universitat Autònom)

12:00 PM LHC Luminosity and Energy Upgrades - Steve Myers (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Salomon Hall
Contributions

2:00 PM Celebrating the Tevatron: physics - Paul Grannis (High Energy Group (HEG))

2:30 PM Celebrating the Tevatron: Machine - Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)

3:00 PM Future US Facilities - Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

3:30 PM Closing Remarks - Barry Barish (Caltech)

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