USLUA annual meeting

from Tuesday, 16 December 2025 (13:00) to Thursday, 18 December 2025 (23:30)
Physics and Astronomy Tower (PAC) (WRF Data Science Studio)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Dec 2025
17 Dec 2025
18 Dec 2025
AM
08:30
Check-In (Collect Name Tag) (until 09:00)
09:00
Welcome & Introductory Talks (until 10:00)
09:00 Welcome, University of Washington and its Programs by Associate Dean for Research - Prof. Xiaosong Li (University of Washington Seattle (US))  
09:20 USLUA Chair Report - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))  
09:50 Introduction, Welcome, Logistics and Safety - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))  
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Report from APS DPF (until 10:50)
10:30 Report from APS DPF - Heidi Marie Schellman (Oregon State University (US))  
10:50
Government relations (until 12:15)
10:50 Government relations and DC trip report and plans - Lauren Larson (University of Texas at Austin (US))  
11:15 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))  
09:00
Reports from Agencies (until 10:00)
09:00 DOE NP - Sharon Stephenson  
09:30 DOE HEP - Regina Abby Rameika (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
09:50 Questions & Comments from LHC Users  
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Report from CERN Users Office (until 11:00)
10:30 Report from CERN Users Office - Gaelle Duperrier (CERN)  
11:00
Lightning Round Talks (until 12:10)
11:00 Improving vertex tagging efficiency in the search for Higgs decays to dark photons - Timothy Thankachen Mathew (University of Oregon (US))  
11:12 The Power of Positive Samples: Eliminating Negative Weights with Optimal Transport - Camille Alessia Mauceri (Brown University (US))  
11:24 Lessons Learned at the CHARM Beam Test for CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker Modules - Ashling Clare Quinn (Princeton University (US))  
11:36 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 Cell-Level Classification of Merged Photons: Insights from a Simplified Calorimeter Model - Lauren Larson (University of Texas at Austin (US))  
PM
13:00
Mini-symposium in honor of Henry Lubatti (until 17:00) (C520)
13:00 --- Check-In for Henry Fest ---
13:30 Mini-symposium in honor of Henry Lubatti  
15:00
*Closed session* - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US)) (until 16:30)
16:30
Check-In (Collect Name Tag) (until 17:30)
17:00 --- Joint reception with Henry Fest participants ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Lightning Round Talks (until 14:42)
13:30 HL-LHC Upgrade of the ATLAS LAr Calorimeter Front-End Readout Electronics - Maria Bressan (Columbia University (US))  
13:42 Scaling together: Building the Backend Systems alongside the Detector for the CMS Phase 2 Outer Tracker Upgrade - John Lawless (University of Tennessee (US))  
13:54 Jet Mass in Multijet Events as a Probe of QCD at CMS - Lauren Meryl Hay (SUNY Buffalo)  
14:06 Developing and deploying GPU-accelerated tracking as-a-Service - Miles Cochran-Branson (University of Washington (US))  
14:18 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))  
14:30 Search for single production of a Maverick Top partner using the ATLAS detector - Zackary Lee Alegria (Oklahoma State University (US))  
14:42 --- Tea ---
15:10
LHC Reports (until 16:50)
15:10 ATLAS Report - Alex Zeng Wang (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
15:30 CMS Report - Marko Stamenkovic (Brown University (US))  
15:50 LHCb Report - Jake Pfaller (University of Cincinnati (US))  
16:10 Machine Report - Maria Baldini  
16:30 ALICE Report - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)  
16:50
Careers (until 18:00)
16:50 Career strategies for HEP postdocs, and how their faculty mentors can help - Robert Harris (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
17:20 Breaking into Industry from HEP - Nicholas Haubrich  
17:50 Questions & Comments from Early Career Scientists  
18:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:10 --- Group Photo ---
12:20 --- Lunch ---
13:15 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))  
14:15 Committee Reports (until 15:00)
14:15 Quality of Life - Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))  
14:25 Meetings & Events - Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))  
15:00 --- Tea ---
15:30
Invited Theorist (until 16:15)
15:30 Melting LHC detectors: a novel search for stopped long-lived particles - Samuel S. Y. Wong (University of Washington)  
16:15
Awards & Concluding Remarks (until 16:45)