Name: Phenomenology 2012 Symposium
Start: 2012-05-07T00:15:00-04:00
End: 2012-05-09T18:20:00-04:00
Location: University of Pittsburgh

Phenomenology 2012 Symposium

from Monday, 7 May 2012 (00:15) to Wednesday, 9 May 2012 (18:20)

Monday, 7 May 2012

07:30 Registration/Breakfast
Registration/Breakfast
07:30 - 08:40
08:40 Plenary I
08:40 - 10:30
Room: 120
Contributions

08:40 Welcome - David Turnshek (University of Pittsburgh)

08:45 SM Results from ATLAS and CMS - Corrinne Mills (Harvard University (US))

09:20 Searches for new physics at ATLAS and CMS - Rahmat Rahmat (University of Mississippi (US))

09:55 Higgs boson searches at CMS - Mia Tosi (Universita' degli Studi di Padova e INFN (IT))

10:10 Searches for the Higgs Boson with ATLAS - Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University of Victoria (CA))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary II
11:00 - 12:45
Room: 120
Contributions

11:00 Higgs physics at the LHC - Dieter Zeppenfeld (KIT, Karlsruhe)

11:35 Where could SUSY be hiding? - Csaba Csaki (Cornell University)

12:10 Strong dynamics in electroweak physics - Elizabeth H. Simmons (Michigan State University)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 BSM I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 107
Contributions

14:00 Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles at CMS - Venkatesh Veeraraghavan (Florida State University (US))

14:15 Quark lepton unification in higher dimensions - Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University)

14:30 Heavy Gauge Boson Decays at the LHC in the Simplest Higgs - Matthew Bishara (University of Rochester)

15:00 Left-right models and flavor - Monika Blanke (Cornell University)

15:15 Lepton Number Violation and W' Chiral Couplings at the LHC - Richard Ruiz (University of Pittsburgh)

15:30 Determination of Spin and Present Bounds on New Resonances in Electroweak Gauge Boson Pair Production at the LHC. - J. Gonzalez-Fraile (Universitat de Barcelona)

15:45 Kinematic Edges with flavor oscillation and non-zero widths - Mario Martone
Cosmology
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 120
Contributions

14:00 Dark Matter, Infinite Statistics and Quantum Gravity - Djordje Minic (Virginia Tech)

14:15 Dark Matter as the Trigger of Strong Electroweak Phase Transition - Yue Zhang (ICTP, Trieste)

14:30 CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter. - Aravind Natarajan (Carnegie Mellon University)

14:45 Dark energy from a renormalization group flow - Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

15:00 Probing alternative theories of gravity with gravitational wave detection from pulsar timing arrays - Sydney Chamberlin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

15:15 Neutrino Cosmology Redux - Luis Anchordoqui (UWM)

15:30 Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation as a Test of General Relativity - Madeline Wade (U)
Flavor I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 105
Contributions

14:00 Model Independent Constraints on New Physics in b-->s Transitions - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Fermilab)

14:15 Hadronic charmless B decays - David Alasdair Dossett (University of Warwick (GB))

14:30 CP Conserving and Violating Observables in the Charmless Three Body B Meson Decays $B \to V P_1 P_2$ - Murugeswaran Duraisamy (University of Mississippi)

14:45 Measurement of phi_s - Bilas Pal (Syracuse University (US))

15:00 Search for New Physics with exclusive electroweak FCNC decays of B(s) mesons. - Gregory Max Ciezarek (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

15:15 The Z' contribution in the Bs meson mixing and the recent LHCb result - Seodong Shin (Seoul National University)

15:30 Soft Photon Contributions to $B_s \rightarrow \mu \bar{\mu}$ - Kristopher Healey (Wayne State University)
Higgs I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 104
Contributions

14:00 Pseudo-Higgs signals at LHC - Linda Carpenter (UC Irvine)

14:15 A 125 GeV Higgs Boson in the MSSM from Strongly Coupled Spectators - Jason Evans (IPMU, The University of Tokyo)

14:30 Can the scale-invariant NMSSM naturally give higgs mass of 125 GeV? - Yanou Cui (University of Maryland)

14:45 Dark Z implications for Parity Violation, Rare Meson Decays, and Higgs Physics - Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)

15:00 Enhanced SU(2) D-term and Higgs Diphoton Decay Branching Ratio - Ran Huo (University of Chicago)

15:15 LHC Discovery Potential for Non-Standard Higgs Bosons in the 3b Channel - Arjun Menon (University of Oregon)

15:30 The Dark Side of the Higgs - Gabe Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin)

15:45 Top Decays with Flavor Changing Neutral Higgs Interactions at the LHC - Chung Kao (University of Oklahoma)
SM/EW
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 207
Contributions

14:00 Jet Production Measurements with ATLAS - Trisha Farooque (University of Toronto (CA))

14:15 Study of the di-jet mass spectrum in association with a W boson - Jake Anderson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)

14:30 W/Z production and properties - Anton Kapliy (University of Chicago (US))

14:45 Physics with electroweak gauge bosons at LHCb - Philip James Ilten (University College Dublin (IE))

15:00 Diboson production and TGCs from ATLAS - Laura Jeanty (Harvard University (US))

15:15 Diboson physics at CMS - Irakli Svintradze (Kansas State University (US))

15:30 Measurement of Drell-Yan Cross Section - Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Purdue University (US))

15:45 Direct Photons at ATLAS - Regina Caputo (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))
SUSY I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 121
Contributions

14:00 Inclusive searches for supersymmetric signatures with the ATLAS detector - Devin Harper (University of Michigan (US))

14:15 A Search for New Physics in Events with Jets and Missing Energy in pp Collisions at 7 TeV - Hongxuan Liu (Baylor University (US))

14:30 Searches for third generation squarks with the ATLAS detector - Bart Butler (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:45 Search for long-lived massive particles with the ATLAS detector - Christopher Marino (University of Victoria (CA))

15:00 Search for Supersymmetry in Events with Photons and Missing Transverse Energy - Yueh-Feng Liu (Carnegie-Mellon University)

15:15 Measuring Particle Masses From Missing Energy Signatures without Using Missing Energy - Michael Park (Rutgers)

15:30 Boosted Tops from Gluino Decays - Michael Saelim (Cornell University)

15:45 Finding Light Stops with Fat Jets - Stolarski Daniel (Maryland and Johns Hopkins)
Top I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 106
Contributions

14:00 Top quark pair production cross‐section with ATLAS - Dustin Henry Urbaniec (Columbia University (US))

14:15 Squeezed new physics in top-quark pair production - Susanne Westhoff (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

14:30 The Forward-Backward Top Asymmetry in a Singlet Extension of the MSSM - Alejandro de la Puente (University of Notre Dame)

14:45 Tevatron Top A_FB versus LHC Top Physics - Ian-Woo Kim (University of Michigan)

15:00 Parity violation constraints on top forward-backward asymmetry - Sean Tulin (U)

15:15 Top Pair Forward-Backward Asymmetry from Loops of New Strongly Coupled Quarks - Thomas McElmurry (University of Rochester)

15:30 On W+4 jets background to the top-quark asymmetry at the Tevatron - Yoshitaro Takaesu (KEK)

15:45 MSSM loop effects to top-quark pair observables at Hadron colliders - Stefan Berge (J)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 BSM II
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 107
Contributions

16:30 Limits on the pions of strong dynamics models from LHC Higgs searches - Jing Ren (Michigan State University)

16:45 Technicolor Assisted Leptogenesis with an Ultra-Heavy Higgs Doublet - Ian Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:00 Z1 production via Vector Boson Fusion at the LHC in the four-site Higgsless Model - Andrew Stump (University of Rochester)

17:15 Search for contact interactions in the dimuon final state at CMS - sowjanya gollapinni (wayne state university)

17:30 Higgs and ttbarh productions as a probe of effective operators involving the top or the Higgs boson - Celine Degrande (UIUC/UCL)

17:45 Searching for New Physics with Electroweak Effective Operators - Harrison Mebane (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

18:00 Low-energy imprints of extended gauge symmetries - Michal Malinsky (IFIC/CSIC and University of Valencia)
DM I
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 120
Contributions

16:30 Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics - Brooks Thomas (University of Hawaii)

16:45 Dark matter in 3D - sonia el hedri (SLAC)

17:00 KeV Warm Dark Matter and Composite Neutrinos - Dean Robinson (Cornell University)

17:15 Novel Astrophysical Constraint on Axion-Photon Coupling - Maurizio Giannotti (Barry University)

17:30 Dark Matter Direct Search Rates in Simulations of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Stream - Chris Purcell (University of Pittsburgh)

17:45 Millicharged Atomic Dark Matter - Zuowei Liu (McGill)

18:00 Dark Matter Considerations in the E(6)SSM - Jonathan Hall (University of Southampton)

18:15 WIMPless dark matter in Anomaly Mediated SUSY breaking - Vikram Rentala (U)
Extra Dimensions
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 207
Contributions

16:30 Quantum Corrections in the 5D (Supersymmetric) Space - Lu-Xin Liu (National Institute for Theoretical Physics/University of the Witwatersrand)

16:45 Chiral Symmetry in Holographic QCD - Dylan Albrecht

17:00 The Birds and the Bs in RS: the b to s gamma penguin in a warped extra dimension - Philip Tanedo (Cornell University)

17:15 Constraining Fermion Bulk Mass in Flat Extra Dimensions - Guiyu Huang (U)

17:30 Phenomenology of the Soft Wall - Bryan Ostdiek (University of Notre Dame)

17:45 An Explicit Model of Dynamical Dark Matter from Extra Dimensions - Brooks Thomas (University of Hawaii)

18:00 TeV scale gravity at the LHC - Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)

18:15 It is a Graviton! or maybe not - Ricky Fok (York University)
Flavor II
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 105
Contributions

16:30 Charm mixing and CPV - Artur Ukleja (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

16:45 New Physics Models of Direct CP Violation in Charm Decays - Reinard Primulando (College of William and Mary)

17:00 Direct CP-violation in charmed meson decays - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

17:15 CP asymmetries in $D^0 \to 2$ Pseudoscalar decays - Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (University of CHicago)

17:30 Hadronic B decays to Open Charm - michael williams

17:45 Search for New Physics with rare leptonic decays of B(s), D and K mesons. - Xabier Cid Vidal (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

18:00 Flavor SU(3) Analysis of D-meson Decays - Patipan Uttayarat

18:15 Heavy Flavour Production and Spectroscopy - Jianchun Wang (Syracuse University (US))
Higgs II
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 104
Contributions

16:30 Characterization of a single-produced Resonance at the LHC: Prospects for 2012 and Beyond - Andrew James Whitbeck (Johns Hopkins University (US))

16:45 Can we see a light Higgs in WW* ? - Joshua Sayre (University of Oklahoma)

17:00 Higgs Hunting with Boosted Jets - Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute of Science)

17:15 Physics with Tau Lepton Final States in ATLAS - Marcus Matthias Morgenstern (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

17:30 Higgs and Precision Electroweak Data - Brian Batell

17:45 Measuring Higgs Couplings - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

18:00 Jet scaling for vetos in Higgs searches - Erik Gerwick (Universität Göttingen)

18:15 Higgs Hunting with Minimal Prejudice - Jamison Galloway (Rome La Sapienza)
SUSY II
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 121
Contributions

16:30 pMSSM SUSY Without Prejudice at LHC-7 & -8 - Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

16:45 More pMSSM SUSY Without Prejudice at LHC-7 and -8 - Ahmed Ismail (SLAC/Stanford)

17:00 Phenomenology of Natural SUSY - Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)

17:15 Natural Supersymmetry Constraints from Dark Matter - Bibhushan Shakya

17:30 Constraints on Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors - Andrew Spray (TRIUMF)

17:45 LHC Implications for NMSSM - Zhen Liu

18:00 The CMSSM and the NUHM in Light of new LHC Limits - Enrico Maria Sessolo (NCBJ, Warsaw)
Top II
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 106
Contributions

16:30 Top Quark Pair Properties with ATLAS - Venkat Kaushik (University of Arizona (US))

16:45 Azimuthal Correlations in Top Pair Decays and the Effects of New Heavy Scalars - Brian Yencho (Universitat de Barcelona)

17:00 Massive Spin-2 States as the Origin of the Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry - Christopher W. Murphy (University of California, San Diego)

17:15 One-loop Helicity Amplitudes for Top Quark Pair Production in Randall-Sundrum Model - Liang Dai (self)

17:30 The Top Quark Forward Backward Asymmetry, Right Handed Charge Currents, and Vub - Peter Winslow (UBC/TRIUMF)

18:00 GUT-Inspired Scalar Models and the ttbar Forward-Backward Asymmetry - David Stone (UCSD)
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:45
08:45 Plenary III
08:45 - 10:30
Room: 120
Contributions

08:45 Physics results from the Tevatron - Victor Eduardo Bazterra (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

09:00 Higgs searches at the Tevatron - Wei-Ming Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

09:20 Recent LHCb Results - Sajan Easo (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

09:55 Flavor physics in the LHC era - David London (U)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary IV
11:00 - 12:50
Room: 120
Contributions

11:00 An experimental overview of neutrino oscillations - Eric D. Zimmerman (University of Colorado)

11:25 Measurement of theta13 with reactor electron-antineutrino disappearance - Wei Wang (College of William and Mary)

11:40 Probing new physics in neutrino oscillations - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)

12:15 Physics at the Intensity Frontier - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00 DM II
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 120
Contributions

14:00 Recent results from a search for Dark Matter production in the CMS experiment - Shruti Shrestha (Kansas State University)

14:15 Taking a Razor to Dark Matter Parameter Space at the LHC - Chiu-Tien Yu (UW-Madison/Fermilab)

14:30 Using M_T2 to Distinguish Dark Matter Stabilization Symmetries - Doojin Kim (University of Maryland)

14:45 Cracking the dark matter code at the LHC - Won Sang Cho (University of Tokyo, IPMU)

15:00 Kinematic Cusps to determine the slepton and LSP masses at the ILC - Stefanus Stefanus

15:15 Iso-spin violating dark matter at the LHC - Toshifumi Yamada (University of Tokyo)

15:30 Searching for super-WIMPs in leptonic heavy meson decays - Aditya Yechan Gunja (W)

15:45 Inelastic Dark Matter and Small Majorana Neutrino Mass - Bhupal Dev (U)
GUT/String
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 207
Contributions

14:00 Some curious consequences of the minimal length uncertainty relation - Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)

14:15 String Theory Predictions for The Higgs Boson Mass and Dark Matter - Ran Lu (University of Michigan (US))

14:30 Insensitive Unification of Gauge Couplings - Radovan Dermisek

14:45 Symmetry breaking in 5D SU(6) GUT - L.T. Handoko (Group for Theoretical and Computational Physics LIPI)

15:00 SU(6) GUT breaking on a Projective Plane - Archana Anandakrishnan (The Ohio state University)

15:15 Astronomical Searches for Warped Extra Spatial Dimensions - Michael Kavic (Long Island University)

15:30 Holographic walking technicolor and stability of technibranes - Tonnis Ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)
Higgs III
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 104
Contributions

14:00 Associated Higgs plus vector boson test of a fermiophobic Higgs boson - Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

14:15 Light top partners for a light composite Higgs - Giuliano Panico (ETH Zurich)

14:30 Discovering the composite Higgs through the decay of a heavy fermion - natascia vignaroli (i)

14:45 A composite Higgs at high q^2 - Heather Logan (Carleton U.)

15:00 Structure of derivarive interactions in N pseudo Nambu Goldstone Higgs doublet models - Yasuhiro Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)

15:15 The other Higgses, at resonance, in the Lee-Wick extension of the Standard Model - Terrance Figy (The University of Manchester)

15:30 Higgs and Collider Phenomenology of Models with Additional Lepton Generations - Pedro Schwaller (Argonne/UIC)
QCD/Tools
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 105
Contributions

14:00 Update on MG5 - olivier mattelaer (ucl)

14:15 FEWZ: A Fully Exclusive Numerical Code for QCD and EW Correction to Drell-Yan Process - Ye Li (Northwestern University)

14:30 Weak boson production via vector-boson fusion @ NLO matched with POWHEG - Franziska Schissler (KIT, Karlsruhe)

14:45 Correlations in Double Parton Scattering - Wouter Waalewijn (UCSD)

15:00 Strange Quark PDFs and Implications for W/Z Boson Production at the LHC - Aleksander Kusina (Southern Methodist University)

15:15 MadGolem: Automating NLO calculations for New Physics - David Lopez-Val (Heidelberg University)

15:30 Automatic Lagrangian Generation - Nicholas Setzer (University of Granada)
SUSY III
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 121
Contributions

14:00 Collider signatures of goldstini in gauge mediation - Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

14:15 LHC Signatures of Light Gauginos in String Motivated Models - Bob Zheng (University of Michigan)

14:30 Higgs and Sparticle Spectroscopy in Yukawa Unified Models - Shabbar Raza (U)

14:45 125 GeV Higgs Boson from t-b-tau Yukawa Unification - Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)

15:00 The Higgs to gamma-gamma rate as a probe of Susy - Stefania Gori (The University of Chicago)

15:15 MSSM Higgs Signals in Pair Production at the LHC - Tong Li (University of Delaware)

15:30 Stoponia and Higgs Bosons - Andrew Blechman

15:45 BEST: Bi-Event Subtraction Technique, SUSY Mediation Schemes, and Stop/Top/W Masses at the LHC - Kuver Sinha (Texas A&M University)
SUSY V
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 107
Contributions

14:00 A Naturally Attractive Supermodel - Timothy Cohen (SLAC)

14:15 Displaced Supersymmetry - Prashant Saraswat (Stanford University)

14:30 Excluding Electroweak Baryogenesis in the MSSM - Prerit Jaiswal (Stony Brook University)

14:45 Supersymmetric Non-Linear Sigma Model in 5 Dimensional Anti-de Sitter Space - Jingsheng Li (Johns Hopkins University)

15:00 Vectorlike quarks in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

15:15 The Focus Point for Non-Zero A - David Sanford (UCI)

15:30 SUSY Breaking in S-Confining Theories - John Mason (Western State College of Colorado)

15:45 TBA - Azar Mustafayev (University of Minnesota)
Top III
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 106
Contributions

14:00 Search for Fourth Generation Top-Like Quarks in the Lepton-plus-Jets Channel at CMS - Michael Luk

14:15 Single- vs multiple-Higgs production: a portal on heavy top-partners - Elisabetta Furlan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:30 Studying hadronically decaying particles using photons and leptons - Yevgeny Kats (Rutgers University)

14:45 Multi-lepton signals from the top-prime quark at the LHC - Mathew McCaskey

15:00 Diquark effect on single top production at LHC - Santosh Rai

15:15 Measuring Coloron Couplings Through Associated Production with W Bosons at the LHC - Pawin Ittisamai (Michigan State University)

15:30 Effects of an Extended Color Sector on gg -> h - Roberto Vega-Morales (Northwestern University)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 DM III
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 120
Contributions

16:30 Vector Boson dark matter at the LHC - Subhaditya Bhattacharya (UCR)

16:45 Dark Matter From Weak Polyplets - Jennifer Kile (Northwestern University)

17:00 Multipurpose Monojets: Dark Matter and Neutrinos at the LHC - Ian Shoemaker (L)

17:15 A model-independent analysis of dark matter direct detections - Yiming Xu (Boston University)

17:30 New Phenomenology from Dark Sectors - Felix Yu (Fermilab)

17:45 Oscillating Asymmetric Dark Matter. - Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)

18:00 Asymmetric Dark Matter in a Stueckelberg Extension - Gregory Peim (Northeastern University)

18:15 Singlet-Doublet Dark Matter - Jack Kearney (Harvard University (US))
Neutrino
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 104
Contributions

16:30 Phenomenology of Two Sterile Neutrinos with Widely Separated Masses - Samuel McDermott

16:45 Model independent determination of the axial mass in quasielastic neutrino-nucleon scattering - Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

17:00 A "Grand" Delta(96) Flavor Symmetry and a Large Prediction for the Reactor Neutrino Mixing Angle - Alexander Stuart (University of Southampton)

17:15 Lepton Private Higgs and the discrete group \Sigma(81) - Yoni BenTov (U)

17:30 Corrections to the atmospheric neutrino mixing from charged Higgs and $W'$ contribution to $ν_τ$-nucleon scattering - Ahmed Rashed (University of Mississippi)

17:45 Measurement of theta13 via antineutrino disappearance using two theories - Leonard S Kisslinger (Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University)
Open

16:30 - 18:30
Room: 207
QCD II
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 105
Contributions

16:30 NLO+PS predictions for Wjj production at the Tevatron - Rikkert Frederix

16:45 NLO QCD corrections to pp/ppbar -> WWbb with leptonic W decays - Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

17:00 NLO predictions for a Z boson + photons final states at hadron colliders - Heribertus Hartanto (Florida State University)

17:15 NLO QCD effects on quark compositeness search at LHC - Jun Gao (Southern Methodist University)

17:30 Combination of Electroweak and QCD Effects to Charged and Neutral Current Drell Yan - Cathy Bernaciak (Universitat Heidelberg)

17:45 Discovering Technicolor - Stefano Di Chiara (CP3-Origins, Southern Denmark University)

18:00 Tracking the Identities of Boosted Particles - Zhenyu Han (Harvard University)
SUSY IV
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 121
Contributions

16:30 Direct stau production at the LHC - Jonas Lindert

16:45 Significance of a Possible 125 GeV Higgs on the Light Stop Sector - Jonathan Eckel (University of Arizona)

17:00 Improved search of light third-generation squarks - Sunghoon Jung (University of Chicago)

17:15 Impact of LHC Searches on a Light Top Squark: Model-Independent Analysis - Bin He (University of Delaware)

17:30 Trilepton Signatures in the General MSSM - James Gainer (ANL/ Northwestern)

17:45 Sqrt(shat) resurrected - Tania Robens (TU Dresden)

18:00 Lepton Flavor Violation at the Large Hadron Collider - Abram Krislock
SUSY VI
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 107
Contributions

16:30 Searches for direct supersymmetric gaugino production and R-parity violation in final states with leptons with the ATLAS detector - Hideki Okawa (University of California Irvine (US))

16:45 SUSY with Broken Baryon Number: Higgs and the LHC - Sogee Spinner (SISSA)

17:00 R symmetry as lepton number - Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)

17:15 Spontaneous R-symmetry Breaking with Multiple Pseudomoduli - Yuhsin Tsai (LEPP, Cornell University)

17:30 Automated sgluon pair production to NLO - Dorival Goncalves Netto (Heidelberg University)

17:45 NLL soft and Coulomb resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC. - Christopher Wever (ITF, Utrecht University)

18:00 SCET improved SUSY search - xiaohui liu (ANL and NORTHWESTERN UNIV.)
Top IV
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 106
Contributions

16:30 Top Quark Properties with ATLAS - Arely Cortes Gonzalez (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

16:45 Search of new physics in the top quark sector at CMS - Victor Eduardo Bazterra (Physics Department)

17:00 Measurements of single top quark production with the ATLAS detector - Robert Calkins (Northern Illinois University (US))

17:15 Top quark forward-backward asymmetry and single-top - Chuan-Ren Chen (Argonne National Lab)

17:30 New Physics from the Top at the LHC - Chien-Yi Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:45 Boosted tops as a window to new physics - Michihisa TAKEUCHI (Uni Heidelberg)

18:00 Reach for W' Production through Single Top Decay at LHC - Daniel Duffty (I)

18:15 Top quark forward-backward asymmetry and W^prime bosons - HAO ZHANG (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology)
19:00 Banquet

19:00 - 22:00
Room: Music Hall Foyer
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 08:45
Room: Music Hall
08:45 Plenary V
08:45 - 10:30
Room: Music Hall
Contributions

08:45 Physics from ALICE - Jorn Henning Putschke (Yale University (US))

09:20 Perturbative QCD at the LHC - Zvi Bern (Univ. of California Los Angeles (US))

09:55 Physics results from Fermi-GLAST - Steve Ritz (UC Santa Cruz)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Music Hall
11:00 Plenary VI
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Music Hall
Contributions

11:00 Astroparticle Physics in the New Era - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton)

11:35 Theory and Phenomenology of Dark Matter - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

12:10 Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
12:45 Symposium sponsored visit to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Art
Symposium sponsored visit to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Art
12:45 - 17:00