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40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie (CERN)

40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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Steven Goldfarb (CERN)
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    • 14:00 → 14:20
      Opening Remarks 20m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speakers: Homer Neal (University of Michigan (US)), Jean Krisch (University of Michigan), Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US)), Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan (US))
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    • 14:20 → 14:30
      Efficiency of Jet Algorithms 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      The efficiency of jet algorithms is studied especially in relation to pile-up.
      Speaker: Alexandru Bacanu (CERN)
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    • 14:30 → 14:40
      Search for Dark Matter Direct Production with the CMS Razor 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Ksheerasagar Vijay (CERN)
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    • 14:40 → 14:50
      Hadronic Interaction Studies for ATLAS Inner Detector for ISF 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Final results for child particle studies and first steps in parametrizing SCT and inner pixel layers for the Integrated Simulation Framework (ISF)
      Speaker: Ryan Badman (Syracuse University)
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    • 14:50 → 15:00
      Studies on Muon Reconstruction efficiency at ATLAS using 2012 8TeV data 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Feng Bi (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
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    • 15:00 → 15:10
      Unbiased reconstruction of #Lambda_{c} baryons in LHCb 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Whether the decay chain of the Λc (2595) * can provide a tag that is precise enough and has a low enough background to count the total number of Λc + baryons in the data sample
      Speaker: Yi Bao (CERN)
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    • 15:10 → 15:20
      Top Quark Mass at 8 TeV using kinematic fit 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Benjamin Henry Malkin Burdick (CERN)
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    • 15:20 → 15:30
      Multi-turn Extraction: Splitting the PS Beam in Transverse Phase Space 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Christopher Frye
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    • 15:30 → 15:40
      Measurement of the Transverse Momentum Spectra of Identified Hadrons in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV in the ALICE Detecor 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: John Groh (CERN)
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    • 15:40 → 15:50
      ATLAS - Examination of Corrupted Data in the Tile Calorimeter 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      A brief presentation on my examination of corrupted data from TileCal.
      Speaker: Stephanie June Hamilton (University of Michigan (US))
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    • 15:50 → 16:00
      Top Reconstruction Techniques in 0-Lepton Direct Stop Searches 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Final presentation of my summer research into new and improved methods for identifying top quarks in 6+ jet events with missing transverse energy. Specifically, I will discuss methods I have developed to reconstruct tops, and my future plans for my project in the future.
      Speaker: Anthony James Kremin (University of Michigan (US))
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    • 16:00 → 16:10
      Monte Carlo Comparisons in W-gamma-gamma Channel 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Kristina Krylova (CERN)
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    • 16:10 → 16:20
      Vector Boson Scattering At High Mass 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Hanzhe Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
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    • 16:20 → 16:30
      ALICE Trigger and Event Selection QA 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      I will present the last nine weeks of work on building a class that efficiently produces trending physics selection of various trigger classes for the purposes of quality assurance. This class is easily generalizable and will be used for live monitoring via a webpage.
      Speaker: Kevin Mcdermott (CERN)
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    • 16:30 → 16:40
      Resolving the Neutrino Ambiguity 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      A condensed talk about the neutrino ambiguity and the methods applied, both traditional and regression based, to solving it in single top quark reconstruction.
      Speaker: Kelvin Mei (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))
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    • 16:40 → 16:50
      The Development of the Scintillating Fiber Detector in AEgIS 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      A brief description of my work on AEgIS and their scintillating fiber detector.
      Speaker: Joseph Redford
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    • 16:50 → 17:00
      Search for the Higgs boson in the ATLAS Experiment: Optimization of the H-WW 0-jet cuts for 2011 and 2012 data 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Victor Alonso Rodriguez (University of Michigan (US))
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    • 17:00 → 17:10
      Lambda Lambdabar Spin Correlations & Higgs Spin, CP Measurement 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Cheryl Audrey Theroux (University of Michigan (US))
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    • 17:10 → 17:20
      Summer Study on Jet Physics and Beyond! 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      I will sum up my project about inclusive jet and dijet cross section from sqrt(s)=7 TeV pp collision, and also present other important things I learned at CERN.
      Speaker: Yu-Dai Tsai (CERN)
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    • 17:20 → 17:30
      Add Title 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

      40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie

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      Speaker: Shaofeng Xu
    • 17:30 → 18:00
      Portrait at BEBC 30m Detector Garden

      Detector Garden

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    • 18:25 → 18:55
      Bus to Restaurant 30m Building 40 Parking Lot

      Building 40 Parking Lot

      CERN
    • 18:55 → 21:55
      Dinner 3h Restaurant Creux de Genthod

      Restaurant Creux de Genthod
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