USLUA annual meeting

from Tuesday, December 16, 2025 (1:00 PM) to Thursday, December 18, 2025 (11:30 PM)
Physics and Astronomy Tower (PAC) (WRF Data Science Studio)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 16, 2025
Dec 17, 2025
Dec 18, 2025
AM
8:30 AM
Check-In (Collect Name Tag) (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Welcome & Introductory Talks (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Welcome, University of Washington and its Programs by Associate Dean for Research - Prof. Xiaosong Li (University of Washington Seattle (US))  
9:20 AM USLUA Chair Report - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))  
9:50 AM Introduction, Welcome, Logistics and Safety - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))  
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:30 AM
Report from APS DPF (until 10:50 AM)
10:30 AM Report from APS DPF - Heidi Marie Schellman (Oregon State University (US))  
10:50 AM
Government relations (until 12:15 PM)
10:50 AM Government relations and DC trip report and plans - Lauren Larson (University of Texas at Austin (US))  
11:15 AM Government relations panel discussion - Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi) Herman White Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico / ATLAS) Leland Cogliani (Lewis-Burke Associates) Heidi Marie Schellman (Oregon State University (US)) Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
9:00 AM
Reports from Agencies (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM DOE NP - Sharon Stephenson  
9:30 AM DOE HEP - Regina Abby Rameika (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
9:50 AM Questions & Comments from LHC Users  
10:00 AM --- Coffee ---
10:30 AM
Report from CERN Users Office (until 11:00 AM)
10:30 AM Report from CERN Users Office - Gaelle Duperrier (CERN)  
11:00 AM
Lightning Round Talks (until 12:10 PM)
11:00 AM Improving vertex tagging efficiency in the search for Higgs decays to dark photons - Timothy Thankachen Mathew (University of Oregon (US))  
11:12 AM The Power of Positive Samples: Eliminating Negative Weights with Optimal Transport - Camille Alessia Mauceri (Brown University (US))  
11:24 AM Lessons Learned at the CHARM Beam Test for CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker Modules - Ashling Clare Quinn (Princeton University (US))  
11:36 AM Search for Higgs Pairs decaying to the bbgammagamma final state with 308ifb of data from ATLAS - Alex Zeng Wang (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
11:48 AM Cell-Level Classification of Merged Photons: Insights from a Simplified Calorimeter Model - Lauren Larson (University of Texas at Austin (US))  
PM
1:00 PM
Mini-symposium in honor of Henry Lubatti (until 5:00 PM) (C520)
1:00 PM --- Check-In for Henry Fest ---
1:30 PM Mini-symposium in honor of Henry Lubatti  
3:00 PM
*Closed session* - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US)) (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM
Check-In (Collect Name Tag) (until 5:30 PM)
5:00 PM --- Joint reception with Henry Fest participants ---
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Lightning Round Talks (until 2:42 PM)
1:30 PM HL-LHC Upgrade of the ATLAS LAr Calorimeter Front-End Readout Electronics - Maria Bressan (Columbia University (US))  
1:42 PM Scaling together: Building the Backend Systems alongside the Detector for the CMS Phase 2 Outer Tracker Upgrade - John Lawless (University of Tennessee (US))  
1:54 PM Jet Mass in Multijet Events as a Probe of QCD at CMS - Lauren Meryl Hay (SUNY Buffalo)  
2:06 PM Developing and deploying GPU-accelerated tracking as-a-Service - Miles Cochran-Branson (University of Washington (US))  
2:18 PM Colder than Ice, Stronger than Steel: The Mechanical Structures for the CMS Phase-II Outer Tracker Flat Barrel - Christopher Cosby (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
2:30 PM Search for single production of a Maverick Top partner using the ATLAS detector - Zackary Lee Alegria (Oklahoma State University (US))  
2:42 PM --- Tea ---
3:10 PM
LHC Reports (until 4:50 PM)
3:10 PM ATLAS Report - Alex Zeng Wang (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
3:30 PM CMS Report - Marko Stamenkovic (Brown University (US))  
3:50 PM LHCb Report - Jake Pfaller (University of Cincinnati (US))  
4:10 PM Machine Report - Maria Baldini  
4:30 PM ALICE Report - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)  
4:50 PM
Careers (until 6:00 PM)
4:50 PM Career strategies for HEP postdocs, and how their faculty mentors can help - Robert Harris (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
5:20 PM Breaking into Industry from HEP - Nicholas Haubrich  
5:50 PM Questions & Comments from Early Career Scientists  
6:30 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
12:10 PM --- Group Photo ---
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
1:15 PM AI in HEP: A3D3, IRIS HEP, WATCHEP et al: Extending Our DIscovery Reach - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US)) Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))  
2:15 PM Committee Reports (until 3:00 PM)
2:15 PM Quality of Life - Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))  
2:25 PM Meetings & Events - Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))  
3:00 PM --- Tea ---
3:30 PM
Invited Theorist (until 4:15 PM)
3:30 PM Melting LHC detectors: a novel search for stopped long-lived particles - Samuel S. Y. Wong (University of Washington)  
4:15 PM
Awards & Concluding Remarks (until 4:45 PM)