Phenomenology 2014 Symposium

from Monday, May 5, 2014 (7:00 AM) to Wednesday, May 7, 2014 (1:30 PM)
University of Pittsburgh

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 5, 2014
May 6, 2014
May 7, 2014
AM
7:30 AM --- Registration & Breakfast ---
8:40 AM
Plenary I - Marc Sher (William and Mary College) (until 10:35 AM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
8:40 AM Welcome - James Maher   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
8:45 AM Standard Model physics results from ATLAS and CMS - Jacob Alexander Searcy (University of Michigan (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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9:20 AM Recent BSM results from ATLAS & CMS - Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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9:55 AM Higgs boson production and coupling measurements at the LHC - Garabed Halladjian (Michigan State University (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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10:15 AM Measurements of the Higgs boson mass, width, and spin at the LHC - Dr Daniela Bortoletto (Purdue University (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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10:35 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary II -Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University) (until 12:45 PM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
11:00 AM Electroweak symmetry breaking after the Higgs - Martin Schmaltz   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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11:35 AM PDF's for Standard Model physics and beyond - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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12:10 PM Bridging theory and experiments - Valentin Hirschi (Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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8:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:45 AM
Plenary III - Amarjit Soni (BNL) (until 10:30 AM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
8:45 AM Recent LHCb physics results - Steven R. Blusk (Syracuse University (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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9:20 AM Flavor physics in the LHC era - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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9:55 AM Modern lattice QCD: progress and prospects - Ruth Van de Water (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary IV - Chris Carone (until 12:45 PM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
11:00 AM Direct searches for WIMP dark matter - Karen Gibson (Case Western Reserve University)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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11:35 AM Dark matter theory and searches - Ms Pearl Sandick (University of Minnesota)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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12:10 PM Recent excitement in astro-particle physics - Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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8:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:45 AM
Plenary V - Stephen Barr (University of Delaware) (until 10:30 AM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
8:45 AM Neutrino Oscillations: Present and Future - Chang Kee Jung (Unknown)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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9:20 AM Neutrino oscillations theory and phenomenology - Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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9:55 AM High energy astrophysical neutrinos - observations and implications - Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin - Madison)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break & Symposium Photo ---
11:00 AM
Plenary VI - Keith Dienes (University of Arizona) (until 1:30 PM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
11:00 AM Evidence for Inflationary Gravitational Waves from BICEP2 - Clem Pryke (Univ. of Minnesota)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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11:30 AM Cosmology: dark energy and beyond - Bhuv Jain (University of Pennsylvania)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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12:00 PM Physics potential at the ILC - Keisuke Fujii (KEK)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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12:30 PM HEP in the LHC Era - Andrew James Lankford (University of California Irvine (US))   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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1:00 PM Future perspectives - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)   (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)
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PM
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
BSM Higgs I - Felix Yu (Fermilab) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G30)
2:00 PM New Physics under the Higgs Lamp Post - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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2:30 PM Exotic Decays of the Higgs Boson - Yi-Ming Zhong (YITP Stony Brook)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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2:45 PM Search for Non-SM Higgs Boson Decays to Boosted Dimuons at the LHC - Alfredo Martin Castaneda Hernandez (Texas A & M University (US))   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:00 PM Chasing light vector-like leptons from the SM Higgs to ZZ* search - Seodong Shin (Indiana University)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:15 PM Higgs decays in gauge extensions of the standard model - Ms Bithika Jain (Syracuse University)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:30 PM Raising the Higgs Mass with t-t' Mixing - Mr Kevin Grizzard (Johns Hopkins)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:45 PM Higgs Portal Leptogenesis - Matthias Le Dall (University of Victoria)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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2:00 PM
Cosmology I - Hiren Patel (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G26)
2:00 PM Theory of CMB Polarization - Arthur Kosowsky (University of Pittsburgh)   (Benedum Hall G26)
2:30 PM Higgs Inflation in Light of BICEP2 - Jessica Cook (Arizona State)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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2:45 PM Cosmological Consequences of Massive Gravity - Dr Tina Kahniashvili (Carnegie Mellon University)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:00 PM Heavy Gravitino and Split SUSY in the Light of BICEP2 - Ogan Ozsoy (S)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:15 PM Constraints on Supersymmetric Cosmological Inflation Model - Mayukh Gangopadhyay (University of Notre Dame du Lac)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:30 PM Luminogenesis RG Flow - Kevin Ludwick (U)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:45 PM Tensor to scalar ratio and large scale power suppression from pre-slow roll initial conditions - Louis Lello (University of Pittsburgh)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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2:00 PM
Dark Matter I - Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G31)
2:00 PM Dark Matter and Complementarity - Alexander Wijangco (University of California Irvine)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:15 PM New Directions in Dark-Matter Complementarity: Inelastic Scattering and Constraints on Dark-Sector Instability - Dr Brooks Thomas (Carleton University)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:30 PM Effective WIMPs - Mr Jeffrey Hutchinson (UC Davis)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:45 PM Complementary constraints on light dark matter from heavy meson decays - Patrick Stengel (University of Hawaii)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:00 PM Optimal Conservative bounds on DM with Fermi Telescope - Andrea Massari (S)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:15 PM Exploring a Dark Sector Through the Higgs Portal at a Lepton Collider - Mr Sungwoo Hong (University of Maryland-College Park)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:30 PM A New Method for the Spin Determination of Dark Matter - Daniel Salmon   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:45 PM Better Mass Measurements Using Many-body Phase Space in Cascade Decay - Jianghao Yu (Univ. of Texas at Austin)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:00 PM
Neutrinos I - Sogee Spinner (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G27)
2:00 PM Democratic Neutrino Theory - Dmitry Zhuridov (Wayne State University)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:15 PM Predictive models of Dirac Neutrinos - Ms Shreyashi Chakdar (Oklahoma State University)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:30 PM Origin of the Icecube TeV-PeV neutrino events. - Jordi Salvado (W)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:45 PM Probing Radiative Neutrino Mass Generation through Monotop Production - Alejandro de la Puente (TRIUMF)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:00 PM LHC bounds on the inverse seesaw neutrino production - Mr Arindam Das (University of Alabama)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:15 PM New Tests of Neutrino Mass-Generating Mechanisms at the LHC - Richard Ruiz (University of Pittsburgh)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:30 PM How well can LSST measure neutrino masses? - Aravind Natarajan   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:45 PM Right-Handed Neutrinos as the Origin of Fundamental Mass Scales - Ian Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:00 PM
SM Higgs I -Mr Gabe Shaughnessy Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G28)
2:00 PM Measurement of properties of the Higgs boson in bosonic decay channels using the ATLAS detector - Kate Whalen (Carleton University (CA))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:15 PM Search for the Higgs boson in fermionic channels using the ATLAS detector - Yuki Sakurai (Waseda University (JP))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:30 PM Combined Measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson using the ATLAS Detector - James Saxon (University of Pennsylvania (US))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:45 PM Probing the Higgs-vector coupling with same-sign W bosons - Fady Bishara (U. of Cincinnati & Fermilab)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:00 PM Constraining anomalous HVV interactions at proton and lepton colliders - Mr Yaofu Zhou (JHU)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:15 PM Properties of a Higgs Boson in the $H\to ZZ\to 4l$ Channel at CMS - Donald Austin Belknap (University of Wisconsin (US))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:30 PM Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying into a bottom quark pair with the CMS experiment - Arnaud Pin (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:45 PM Search with the CMS detector for the SM Higgs boson decaying to a pair of hadronically decaying tau leptons, produced in association with a W boson - Anthony Rose (Texas A & M University (US))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:00 PM
SUSY I - James Gainer (University of Florida (US)) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G29)
2:00 PM Higgs Assisted Stop Search - Huanian Zhang (University of Arizona)   (Benedum Hall G29)
2:15 PM Searches for direct pair production of third generation squarks with the ATLAS detector - Alexandru Dafinca (University of Oxford (GB))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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2:30 PM Inclusive SUSY searches at CMS - Azeddine Kasmi (Baylor University (US))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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2:45 PM 3rd generation SUSY searches at CMS - Michael Sigamani (Ghent University (BE))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:00 PM Light Top Squark in Precision Top Quark Sample - Dr Liucheng Wang (University of Delaware)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:15 PM Inclusive searches for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector - Otilia Anamaria Ducu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:30 PM Pseudo-Dirac Gluino Oscillations - Seyda Ipek (University of Washington)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:45 PM Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric gauginos and sleptons with the ATLAS detector - Michael Ughetto ((CPPM - CNRS/IN2P3 et Aix-Marseille Université (FR)))   (Benedum Hall G29)
Transparents
4:00 PM
Coffee Break (until 4:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G)
4:30 PM
BSM Higgs II - Natascia Vignaroli (Michigan State University) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G30)
4:30 PM Higgs mass from compositeness at a multi-TeV scale - Jiayin Gu (UC Davis)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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4:45 PM Warped flavor, 126 GeV Scalar and the 100 TeV collider - Amarjit Soni (BNL)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:15 PM The decoupling limit in the Georgi-Machacek model - Kathryn (Katy) Hartling (C)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:30 PM Indirect effects of the triplet extension of the MSSM - Bryan Ostdiek (University of Notre Dame)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:45 PM The bestest little Higgs model in a post-Higgs era - Dr Travis Martin (TRIUMF)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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6:00 PM Electroweak-scale Right-handed Neutrino Model, 126 GeV Higgs boson and BSM scalars - AJINKYA KAMAT (University of Virginia)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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6:15 PM A $125$ GeV Higgs and the ${\mu}$-less MSSM - Jessica Goodman (The Ohio State University)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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4:30 PM
Cosmology II - Jay Hubisz (Syracuse University) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G26)
4:30 PM Cosmological Phase Transitions and their Properties in the NMSSM - Jonathan Kozaczuk (TRIUMF)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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4:45 PM Generating the Observed Baryon Asymmetry from the Inflaton Field - Mark Hertzberg (MIT)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:00 PM The Electroweak Vacuum Angle - Dr Hiren Patel (Max Planck Institute fur Kernphysik)   (Benedum Hall G26)
5:15 PM Implementing MaVaNs Cosmology - Akshay Ghalsasi (University of Washington)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:30 PM On a singular solution in Higgs field (7) – The stiffness of candidate for dark energy, and the matter-antimatter consumption by candidate for dark matter - Kazuyoshi Kitazawa (Risp Japan)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:45 PM Dark Matter Thermalization in Neutron Stars - Bridget Bertoni (U)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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6:00 PM Constraining Hidden Sectors with Light from Cosmic Strings - Andrew Long (A)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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6:15 PM Icezones vs. Firewalls - Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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4:30 PM
Dark Matter II - Brooks Thomas (University of Hawaii) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G31)
4:30 PM Blind Spots for neutralino Dark Matter in the MSSM with an intermediate m_A - Peisi Huang (ANL/U. of Chicago)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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4:45 PM The Case of Light Neutralino Dark Matter - Zhen Liu (U of Pittsburgh)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:00 PM Simplified Models of Mixed Dark Matter - Dr David Sanford (Caltech)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:15 PM Exotic signals from NMSSM with RH sneutrino LSP - Osamu Seto   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:30 PM Radiatively-driven natural SUSY with mixed axion/WIMP dark matter - Mickelson Dan (University of Oklahoma)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:45 PM Dark Matter in SUSY DFSZ axion model - Dr Kyu Jung Bae (University of Oklahoma)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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6:00 PM Displaced Axinos at LHC - Christopher Redino (SUNY at Buffalo)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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6:15 PM Rescuing the Wino from Indirect Searches - Nikita Blinov (TRIUMF)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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4:30 PM
Neutrinos II - Ian Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G27)
4:30 PM Theory of Lepton Flavors - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:00 PM Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions in the mu tau sector - Warren Wright (Penn State)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:15 PM Majorana Physics in the Flavor Ring - Michael Perez (University of Florida)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:30 PM Accommodating $\theta_{13}$ within $SU(5)$ - Jue Zhang (University of Florida)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:45 PM Obtaining a nonzero $\theta_{13}$ in lepton models based on $SO(3) \rightarrow A_4$ - Wee Hao Ng (C)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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6:00 PM Tests of lepton universality and lepton flavour violation in B decays - Nicola Anne Skidmore (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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6:15 PM Exploring lepton flavor violation at an electron-electron collider - Brandon Murakami (Rhode Island College)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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4:30 PM
SM Higgs II - Matthew Buckley (Fermilab) (until 6:45 PM) (Benedum Hall G28)
4:30 PM SM Higgs Properties - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:00 PM Constraint on Higgs boson total width using off-shell production in the ZZ decay - Ian James Anderson (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:15 PM Constraints on CP-violating Higgs couplings - Brod Joachim (University of Cincinnati)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:30 PM Higgs pair production at the LHC - Mr Gabe Shaughnessy Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:45 PM Higgs pair production at the LHC with NLO and parton-shower effects - Dr Eleni Vryonidou (Universite catholique de Louvain)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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6:00 PM Electroweak Effective Operators and Higgs Physics - Chien-Yi Chen (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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6:15 PM Taming the Goldstone contributions to the Standard Model Higgs effective potential - Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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6:30 PM Resummation effects on WW fiducial cross section. - Harikrishnan Ramani (Yang Institute Of Theoretical Physics)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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4:30 PM
SUSY II - Jamie Tattersall (University of Heidelberg) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G29)
4:30 PM LHC Phenomenology of SO(10) Models with Yukawa Unification - Brandon Bryant (The Ohio State University)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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4:45 PM Effects of Inverse Seesaw Mechanism on the Sparticle Sprectrum - Bin He (University of Delaware)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:00 PM Weighing Neutrinos at the LHC through Stop LSP Decays - Dr Sogee Spinner (University of Pennsylvania)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:15 PM R-parity Conserving Minimal B-L Model - Nathan Papapietro (University of Alabama)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:30 PM Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on the NMSSM SUSY Breaking Scales - sonia el hedri (SLAC)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:45 PM Mirage Models Confront the LHC: Flux-Stabilized Type IIB String Theory - Bryan Kaufman (Northeastern University)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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6:00 PM A-terms at tree level and composite sectors - Daniel Egana (R)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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6:15 PM Messenger Yukawa Alignment and Misalignment in Flavored Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Models with Higgs-Messenger Multiplets - Todd Garon (UW-Madison)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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7:00 PM
Banquet (until 10:00 PM) ()
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
B Physics I -Prof. Gil Paz (Wayne State University) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G27)
2:00 PM Charm mixing and CP violation - Adam Davis (University of Cincinnati (US))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:15 PM Measurement of CP violation in the Bs system - Mirco Dorigo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:30 PM Studies of charmless B decays - Jessica Prisciandaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:45 PM Physics with B to open charm decays - Ms Charlotte Wallace (University of Warwick (GB))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:00 PM Physics with the Bc meson - Mr Jacco de Vries (on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration) (Nikhef)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:15 PM Beauty in ATLAS: New physics searches, spectroscopy and decay properties of B-hadrons - Hok Chuen Cheng (University of Michigan (US))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:30 PM Radiative decays at LHCb - Mostafa on behalf of the LHCb collaboration HOBALLAH (LPC)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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3:45 PM Semileptonic decay of $B_s$ into $D_s$ mesons near zero recoil from LQCD. - Mrs Mariam Atoui (LPC)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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2:00 PM
BSM Higgs III - Seong Youl Choi (Chonbuk National University) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G30)
2:00 PM News in Two-Higgs Doublet Models - Jack Gunion (University of California Davis (US))   (Benedum Hall G30)
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2:30 PM 2HDM Fate after LHC 8 - YUN JIANG (UC Davis)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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2:45 PM MSSM Corrections to Higgs Self-Couplings - Ryan Gavin (Paul Scherrer Institut)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:00 PM Measuring the 2HDM Scalar Potential: hH Associated Production - Andrea Peterson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:15 PM A Higgs Discovery via Exotic Higgs Decays - Felix Kling (University of Arizona)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:30 PM Flavor violating decays of the Neutral Higgs bosons at the LHC - Baris Altunkaynak (University of Oklahoma)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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3:45 PM Higgcision in the two-Higgs doubelt models - Dr Po-Yen Tseng (NTHU)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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2:00 PM
Dark Matter III - Jennifer Kile (U) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G31)
2:00 PM Dark Matter at Colliders - LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:30 PM Collider Searches for Dark Matter in the Mono-Everything Search Channels - Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:45 PM Mono-Higgs Detection of Dark Matter at the LHC - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:00 PM A Probe of Dark Sector Dynamics at the LHC - Reinard Primulando (Johns Hopkins University)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:15 PM Looking for a Light Nonthermal Dark Matter at the LHC - Yu Gao (University of Texas A & M)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:30 PM Loop Effects of an Effective Dark Matter Model on Dilepton Production - Nirmal Raj (U)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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3:45 PM The Dark Z' Portal: Direct, Indirect and Collider Searches - Dr Farinaldo Queiroz (University of California Santa Cruz)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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2:00 PM
Electroweak + - Matthew Baumgart (Carnegie Mellon University) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G28)
2:00 PM W+jets and Z+jets cross-section measurements at CMS. - Darin Carl Baumgartel (Northeastern University (US), The CMS Collaboration)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:15 PM Neutral vector boson production in pp and pA collisions at hadron colliders - Mr Bowen Wang (myself)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:30 PM ATLAS measurements of vector boson production - Christian Gutschow (University College London (UK))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:45 PM Recent electroweak results from ATLAS - Haolu Feng (University of Michigan (US))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:00 PM Nuclear corrections to Vector Boson production at the LHC - Mr David Clark (SMU)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:15 PM Exclusive W decay in Effective Field Theory - Aditya Yechan Gunja (Wayne State University)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:30 PM Collider signature and Astrophysics Constraint of Goldstone Bosons. - Prof. Wai-Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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3:45 PM BSM Higgs Decoupling Scenarios in light of Unitarity Constraints - Kunal Kumar (Carleton University)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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2:00 PM
SUSY III & Tools - Arjun Menon (University of Oregon) (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G29)
2:00 PM Supersymmetric Crevices: Missing Signatures of RPV at the LHC - Prashant Saraswat (University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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2:15 PM Searches for supersymmetry in resonance production, R-parity violating signatures and events with long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector - Allan Kenneth Lehan (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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2:30 PM Simultaneous B and L-Violation in the MSSM - Bob Zheng (University of Michigan)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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2:45 PM Search for 3rd generation LQs and RPV stops - Kevin Pedro (University of Maryland (US))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:00 PM CheckMATE: Confronting your Favourite New Physics Model with LHC Data - Jamie Tattersall (University of Heidelberg)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:15 PM MadMax - tracking regions of significance - Peter Schichtel (Heidelberg University)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:30 PM Optimized Model-Independent Searches Using Matrix Element Ranking - James Gainer (University of Florida (US))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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3:45 PM AEACuS (Algorithmic Event Arbiter and Cut Selector) : A Universal Meta Language for Specifying Event Selection Cuts - Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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2:00 PM
Top Physics - Jared Evans (until 4:00 PM) (Benedum Hall G26)
2:00 PM Measurement of top quark pair production cross section with the ATLAS detector at LHC - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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2:15 PM Measurement of single top quark production with the ATLAS detector at LHC - Mr Jun Su (PITT)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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2:30 PM Single top quark production with CMS - Daniel Noonan (University of Kansas (US))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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2:45 PM Top Properties (including mass) at CMS - Yanjun Tu (Univ. of California San Diego (US))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:00 PM Measurement of properties of the top quark with the ATLAS detector at LHC - Olga Bylund (Stockholm University)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:15 PM Effective field theory for top quark physics at NLO accuracy - Cen Zhang (CP3 Université catholique de Louvain)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:30 PM Searches for BSM physics involving top quarks at the CMS experiment - Eleni Petrakou (National Taiwan University (TW))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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3:45 PM Angular Distributions as Lifetime Probes - Jeff Dror (Cornell University)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
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B Physics II & BSM - Joachim Brod (TU Munich) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G27)
4:30 PM Mass and lifetime measurements of heavy flavour hadrons - Adrian Andrew Pritchard (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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4:45 PM Physics with b-baryons at LHCb - James Mccarthy (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:00 PM Isospin violation in the yield of S-wave heavy meson pairs near threshold - Mr Xin Li (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:15 PM Electroweak penguin decays to leptons at LHCb - Peter Noel Griffith (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:30 PM A Swarm of Bs - Jared Evans   (Benedum Hall G27)
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5:45 PM Difficult BSM Signatures at the LHC - Matthew Buckley (Fermilab)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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6:00 PM Model independent extraction of the proton magnetic radius from electron scattering - Prof. Gil Paz (Wayne State University)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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6:15 PM New Limits on Light Hidden Sectors from Fixed-Target Experiments - Andrew Spray (CoEPP, University of Melbourne)   (Benedum Hall G27)
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4:30 PM
BSM - Jessica Goodman (T) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G28)
4:30 PM Search for heavy resonances with the ATLAS detector - Katherine Pachal (University of Oxford (GB))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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4:45 PM Distinguishing Flavor Non-universal Color-singlet and Color-octet Vector Resonances at the LHC - Pawin Ittisamai (Michigan State University)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:00 PM Search for massive resonances decaying to charged lepton pairs at CMS - Andreas Guth (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:15 PM Searches for vector-like quarks, tt and tb resonances with the ATLAS detector - Nicolas Gilberto Gutierrez Ortiz (University of Glasgow (GB))   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:30 PM Constraints on cosmological parameters from Planck and BICEP2 data - Luis Anchordoqui (U)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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5:45 PM New W-prime signals at the LHC - Natascia Vignaroli (Michigan State University)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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6:00 PM Searches for New Physics in Events with Multiple Leptons with the ATLAS Detector - Anthony David Hawkins (Lunds Universitet)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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6:15 PM Effective operators for coupling adjoint scalar fields to SM gauge bosons - Russell Colburn (O)   (Benedum Hall G28)
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4:30 PM
BSM Higgs IV - Ryan Gavin (Paul Scherrer Institut) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G30)
4:30 PM Beyond-the-Standard Model Higgs Physics using the ATLAS Experiment - Daniel Pelikan (Uppsala University (SE))   (Benedum Hall G30)
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4:45 PM LHC search for di-Higgs decays of stoponium and other scalars in events with two photons and two bottom jets - Ms Nilanjana Kumar (Ph.D student)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:00 PM Effective Lagrangians for Higgs Physics - Mr Tyler Corbett (YITP Stony Brook)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:15 PM Anatomizing Exotic Production of the Higgs Boson - Felix Yu (Fermilab)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:30 PM OPE Methods for the Holomorphic Higgs Portal - Dr Piyush Kumar (Yale University)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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5:45 PM Catching a Bouncing Higgs With Tops - Joseph Bramante (University of Notre Dame)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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6:00 PM Seeking Lorentz violation from the Higgs - Gustavo Marques Tavares (Boston University)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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6:15 PM Phenomenology of the minimal classically scale invariant Higgs sector - Dr Arsham Farzinnia (Tsinghua University)   (Benedum Hall G30)
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4:30 PM
Dark Matter IV - Reinard Primulando (Johns Hopkins University) (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G31)
4:30 PM Leptonically-flavored Dark Matter - Jennifer Kile (U)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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4:45 PM Leptophilic Dark Matter and the Magnetic Moment of the Muon - Christopher Verhaaren (U)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:00 PM Searching for Sub-GeV Dark Matter at Fixed Target Neutrino Experiments - Mr Patrick deNiverville (University of Victoria)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:15 PM Decaying Dark Matter and IceCube TeV-PeV neutrinos - Ran Lu   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:30 PM Predicting the Mass of the Dark Matter Particle - Prof. Stephen Barr (University of Delaware)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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5:45 PM Parallel Universe, Dark Matter and Invisible Higgs Decays - Prof. S. Nandi (Oklahoma State University)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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6:00 PM Dark Sector Mass Relations from RG Focusing - Jack Kearney (University of Michigan)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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6:15 PM Searches for dark matter and extra dimensions with the ATLAS detector - Mr Chase Shimmin (UC Irvine)   (Benedum Hall G31)
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4:30 PM
QCD - Gregory Mahlon (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G26)
4:30 PM Recent QCD results from ATLAS - Houry Keoshkerian (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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4:45 PM Jet Radiation Radius - Zhenyu Han (University of Oregon)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:00 PM A new tool for jet definitions at high luminosity - Daniel Duffty (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:15 PM HERAFITTER: an open source QCD fit program. - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:30 PM QCD measurements in the forward region - Marco Meissner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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5:45 PM Quarkonia production at LHCb - Maddalena Frosini (Universita e INFN (IT))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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6:00 PM Production of Quarkonium States at the ATLAS Experiment - Benjamin Weinert (Indiana University (US))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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6:15 PM Quarkonia and quarkonia-like spectroscopy at LHCb - Maddalena Frosini (Universita e INFN (IT))   (Benedum Hall G26)
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4:30 PM
SUSY IV - Peisi Huang (until 6:30 PM) (Benedum Hall G29)
4:30 PM SUSY at the LHC - Prof. Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:00 PM The LHC confronts the pMSSM - Matthew Cahill-Rowley (S)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:15 PM Searching for the Compressed Spectrum of Natural Supersymmetry - Arjun Menon (University of Oregon)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:30 PM LHC signatures of Natural SUSY - Azar Mustafayev (University of Hawaii)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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5:45 PM Searches for associated Higgs production - Anthony Barker (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))   (Benedum Hall G29)
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6:00 PM PQ Symmetric Pure Gravity Mediation - Dr Jason Evans (University of Minnesota/FTPI)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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6:15 PM Beyond Simplified Models: Constraining Supersymmetry on Triangles - Archana Anandakrishnan (The Ohio state University)   (Benedum Hall G29)
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8:00 PM
Particle Fever (until 10:00 PM) (Alumni Hall 7th Floor Auditorium)