Amsterdam Particle Physics Symposium

30 Nov 2011, 09:00 → 2 Dec 2011, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Felix Meritis (Amsterdam)

Theory and Experiment in the LHC Era

Wednesday 30 November

09:00 → 10:45 Registration & Coffee

10:45 → 11:00 Welcome

10:45 Practical Issues

Speaker: Eric Laenen (Nikhef)

Slides APPS2011-Organizational-Welcome.pdf

10:50 Welcome Address

Speaker: Frank Linde (Nikhef)

11:00 → 13:00 LHC highlights and Theory introduction

11:00 View on recent results of ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (Athens and CERN)

Slides APPS-2011-11-30_final-Sphicas.pdf APPS-2011-11-30_final-Sphicas.pptx

11:30 View on recent results of LHCb

Speaker: Niels Tuning (Nikhef)

Slides NTuning-LHCb-APPS2011.pdf NTuning-LHCb-APPS2011.ppt

12:00 Implications of LHC data for theory

Speaker: Michael Kraemer (RWTH Aachen)

Slides mkraemer_APPS11.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Precision Calculations

14:00 Precision calculations: the NLO case

Speaker: Stefano Frixione (CERN, EPFL)

Slides Frixione.pdf

14:30 News on parton density functions

Speaker: Maria Ubiali (RWTH Aachen)

Slides ubiali-apps.pdf

14:50 Physics of W and Z bosons at LHC

Speaker: Stefan Kluth (MPI Munich)

Slides Kluth-appstalk.pdf

15:10 QCD Resummation for SUSY Production

Speaker: Irene Niessen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Slides Irene_Niessen.pdf

16:00 → 17:30 Beyond the Standard Model

16:00 Overview of the BSM theory

Speaker: Herbert Dreiner (Bonn)

Slides dreiner-amsterdam.pdf

16:30 ATLAS BSM Studies

Speaker: Paul De Jong (Nikhef)

Slides apps2011_pauldejong.pdf

16:50 Towards an asymptotically safe model of electroweak interactions

Speaker: Federica Bazzocchi (SISSA)

Slides Bazzocchi2011.pdf

17:10 New physics at LHCb

Speaker: Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef)

Slides hulsbergen_apps2011.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Welcome reception

Thursday 1 December

09:00 → 10:30 Higgs physics

09:00 Higgs at LHC

Speaker: Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef)

Slides Higgs@LHC.pdf

09:30 Higgs statistics explained

Speaker: Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef)

Slides apps-higgstats-v8.pdf apps-higgstats-v8.pptx

09:50 Vector boson fusion from theory

Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (University of Mainz)

Slides jaeger-apps2011.pdf

10:10 Higgs production cross sections

Speaker: Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich)

Slides Lazopoulos_2011_Amsterdam.pdf

11:00 → 12:40 Discrete symmetries

11:00 Discrete symmetries overview

Speaker: Sebastian Jaeger (Sussex University)

Slides apps_2011_sjaeger.pdf

11:30 Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Nicola Serra (University of Zurich)

Slides serra_lhcb_apps2011.pdf

12:00 Recent Theoretical Studies of B_s Physics

Speaker: Rob Knegjens (Nikhef)

Slides robk_apps.pdf

12:20 The parity- and time-reversal-violating moments of light nuclei

Speaker: Jordy De Vries (KVI)

Slides Amsterdam2011.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Dark Matter

14:00 Dark matter at XENON

Speaker: Patrick Decowski (Nikhef)

Slides decowski-APPS-Dec11.pdf

14:30 Overview of Dark Matter models

Speaker: Yann Mambrini (Orsay)

14:50 Searches for dark matter at the LHC

Speaker: Dr David Milstead (Stockholm University)

Slides milstead_darkmatter_ams.pdf

15:10 Sterile neutrinos: dark matter, baryogenesis, magnetic fields and more

Speaker: Oleg Ruchayskiy (CERN)

16:00 → 17:30 Top physics

16:00 Overview of top physics

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Louvain)

Slides maltoni_amsterdam_short.pdf

16:30 Top quarks in ATLAS

Speaker: Marina Cobal (Universita degli Studi di Udine)

Slides Amsterdam_final_2.pdf

16:50 Single top searches in ATLAS

Speaker: Duc Bao Ta (Nikhef)

Slides APPS.pdf

17:10 Top physics: resummation, and single top production

Speaker: Pietro Falgari (Utrecht University)

Slides APPS11_falgari.pdf

Friday 2 December

09:00 → 10:30 Cosmology

09:00 Particle physics implications of the CMB

Speaker: Christophe Ringeval (Louvain)

Slides amsterdam_11_ringeval.pdf

09:30 Gravitational lensing

Speaker: Henk Hoekstra (Leiden)

Slides apps_talk_hoekstra.pdf

09:50 Gauge invariant cosmological perturbations

Speaker: Jan Weenink (Utrecht University)

Slides JanWeenink_APPS_2011.pdf

10:10 Baryo- and leptogenesis

Speaker: Bjorn Gabrecht (Aachen)

Slides Amsterdam02122011_gabrecht.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Electro-weak Symmetry breaking

11:00 Overview of dynamical symmetry breaking

Speaker: Francesco Sannino (Odense)

11:30 Symmetry breaking on the lattices

Speaker: Agostino Patella (CERN)

Slides patella.pdf

11:50 Phenomenology of strong WW scattering at LHC

Speaker: Nicolas Berger (LAPP Annecy)

Slides StrongWW-APPS2011-expanded.pdf

14:00 → 15:40 Conference summary and outlook

14:00 Experimental outlook

Speaker: Daniel Froidevaux (CERN)

Slides LHC_Outlook_021211.pdf LHC_Outlook_021211.pptx

14:45 Theory outlook

Speaker: Rohini Godbole (Bangalore)

Slides ams-lhc.pdf

15:30 Farewell