Name: 2014 CHIPP Annual Plenary Meeting and PhD/Postdoc Days
Start: 2014-06-30T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-07-02T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Fribourg

2014 CHIPP Annual Plenary Meeting and PhD/Postdoc Days

from Monday, June 30, 2014 (10:00 AM) to Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (6:30 PM)

Monday, June 30, 2014

10:00 AM CHIPP Board meeting (for members only): agenda sent by e-mail
agenda sent by e-mail
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM SPS plenary session: Shifts in mountain water resources in a changing climate: highlights ... (Martin Beniston)
Shifts in mountain water resources in a changing climate: highlights ... (Martin Beniston)
1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
1:45 PM CHIPP plenary meeting
1:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Contributions

1:45 PM Welcome, news from Board and executive board - Olivier Schneider (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

2:00 PM Election - Olivier Schneider (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

2:15 PM CHIPP computing - Christophorus Grab (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

2:30 PM CHIPP outreach - H.P. Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH))

2:45 PM CERN Council - Olivier Schneider (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

3:00 PM ACCU - Michele Weber (Universitaet Bern (CH))

3:15 PM ECFA - Lenny Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

3:30 PM NuPECC - Bernd Krusche (University of Basel)

3:45 PM ApPEC - Teresa Montaruli (Université de Genève (CH))
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Combined session TASK & Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics: neutron EDM, ...
neutron EDM, ...
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: D 230 (2nd floor)
Contributions

4:30 PM Systematic effects in the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) - Prashanth Pataguppi (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:00 PM A laser based mercury magnetometer for the nEDM experiment at PSI - Sybille Komposch (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:15 PM Atomic magnetometer array in the nEDM experiment - Malgorzata Kasprzak (Paul Scherrer Institut)

5:30 PM High precision and accurate Cs magnetometer for the nEDM experiment - Samer Afach (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:45 PM An accurate fT-magnetometer based on the optically detected free-induction decay (FID) of atomic spin polarization - Peter Koss (Université de Fribourg)

6:00 PM A 3He-Cs magnetometer for absolute measurements of magnetic fields - Hans-Christian Koch (Paul Scherrer Institute)
5:00 PM TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: Astroparticle physics and experiments
Astroparticle physics and experiments
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Contributions

5:00 PM The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Mercedes Paniccia (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:15 PM The extragalactic gamma-ray sky seen by MAGIC - Elisa Prandini (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:30 PM The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope: Status and Results - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

5:45 PM The SST-1M telescope for CTA - Juan Antonio Aguilar Sanchez (Unknown)

6:00 PM How to measure dark matter with XENON1T - Lukas Bütikofer (Universität Bern)
6:15 PM Apéro and poster session: TASK posters
TASK posters
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Contributions

6:15 PM Measurements in Association with Electroweak Bosons at LHCb - Christian Urs Elsasser (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

6:15 PM Searches for New Physics in hadronic final states at the ATLAS detector with LHC Run-I data - Caterina Doglioni (Universite de Geneve (CH))

6:15 PM Large area SiPM characterization - Matthieu Heller (Universite de Geneve (CH))

6:15 PM Muonium production for fundamental physics experiments - Kim Siang Khaw (ETH Zurich)

6:15 PM Towards a novel muon beamline for next generation precision experiments - Andreas Eggenberger (ETH Zürich)

6:15 PM Schnelle Auslese des HV-MAPS Trackers des Mu3e Experiments - Simon Corrodi (ETH Zürich)

6:15 PM Characterisation of the source for ultracold neutrons at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) - Dieter Ries (P)

6:15 PM Neutron radiography of a helium gas density gradient at cryogenic temperatures for a novel muon beam line - Gunther Wichmann (ETH Zürich)
CHIPP posters on Swiss scientific contributions to CERN
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Contributions

6:15 PM Antihydrogen: ATHENA & AEgIS

6:15 PM UA2 & UA6 Experiments

6:15 PM NA52 (NEWMASS) & WA98

6:15 PM Hyperon experiments, Drell-Yan experiment

6:15 PM DIRAC & CLOUD

6:15 PM AMS-01 & -02: Investigating Charged Cosmic Rays Outside the Atmosphere

6:15 PM LEAR Experiments

6:15 PM Early Days of CERN in Geneva

6:15 PM From Bubble Chambers to Wire Chambers

6:15 PM L3 Experiment: Precision measurements of the standard model parameters

6:15 PM CLIC, HL-LHC and FCC

6:15 PM 60 Years of Particle Accelerators

6:15 PM LHC Experiments: ATLAS, CMS & LHCb

6:15 PM Neutrino Oscillations: The NOMAD Experiment

6:15 PM Neutrino Oscillations: The OPERA Experiment
8:15 PM Public lecture: The Higgs boson and our life (Fabiola Gianotti)
The Higgs boson and our life (Fabiola Gianotti)
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

9:00 AM SPS plenary session: The next life of silicon (Gabriel Aeppli)
The next life of silicon (Gabriel Aeppli)
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
9:40 AM SPS plenary session: Neutrino astronomy at its sunrise (Teresa Montaruli)
Neutrino astronomy at its sunrise (Teresa Montaruli)
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:40 AM Neutrino astronomy at its sunrise - Teresa Montaruli (Université de Genève (CH))
10:20 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

10:50 AM SPS plenary session: Precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen (Thomas Udem)
Precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen (Thomas Udem)
10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

11:30 AM SPS plenary session: Award ceremony + ABB award presentation
Award ceremony + ABB award presentation
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

12:30 PM Poster session and lunch buffet: see list of posters from the poster session on Monday evening
see list of posters from the poster session on Monday evening
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM CHIPP prize talk
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Contributions

1:45 PM Measurement of the differential isolated diphoton production cross section at CMS - Marco Peruzzi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
2:15 PM TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: LHC physics and experiments
LHC physics and experiments
2:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Overview of LHC Run-I results from ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb - Caterina Doglioni (Universite de Geneve (CH))

2:45 PM The ATLAS insertable B-layer for LHC Run-II - Maria Elena Stramaglia (Universitaet Bern (CH))

3:00 PM CMS pixel phase 1 upgrade [prepared and delivered by Vittorio Tavolaro, based on abstract submitted by Philipp Eller] - Philipp David Eller (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Vittorio Raoul Tavolaro (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

3:15 PM A SciFi Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade - Mark Tobin (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

3:30 PM Measurement of the t tbar gamma production cross section in the single lepton channel at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in 4.7 fb-1 of pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector - Gaetano Barone (Universite de Geneve (CH))

3:45 PM Study of B(s)0 -> pi+p-mu+mu- decays at LHCb - Ilya Komarov (CERN)

4:00 PM Observation of photon polarization in the b -> s gamma transition - Giovanni Veneziano (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

4:15 PM Search for associated t tbar H production in the H -> b bbar channel at CMS using the Matrix Element Method - Daniel Nicholas Salerno (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
4:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: LHC physics / Astroparticle physics and experiments
LHC physics / Astroparticle physics and experiments
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: C 230 (2nd floor)
Contributions

5:00 PM Search for exotic particles in the LHCb experiment - Bastien Luca Muster (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

5:15 PM Search for Displaced Supersymmetry in Dilepton Final States at CMS - Quentin Philippe Python (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

5:30 PM Point-source searches with the IceCube detector - Asen Christov (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:45 PM Dark matter searches with the IceCube detector - Mohamed Rameez (Universite de Geneve (CH))

6:00 PM Sparse On/Off data: an objective Bayesian analysis - Max Knötig (ETHZ)

6:15 PM The Space-borne Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter POLAR - Silvio Orsi (Universite de Geneve (CH))

6:30 PM FlashCam: a Camera with Continuous Signal Digitization for CTA - Arno Gadola (Universität Zürich)

6:45 PM Response of liquid xenon to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils - Payam Pakarha (Universität Zürich)

7:00 PM Photon Detectors for the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment - Daniel MAYANI Daniel Mayani Paras (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))

7:15 PM CANCELLED: Material screening for XENON1T dark matter experiment - Francesco Piastra (Universität Zürich)
TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: LHC physics and experiments
LHC physics and experiments
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Performance of the LHCb Silicon Tracker during LHC Run-I - Christian Urs Elsasser (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

5:15 PM The ATLAS Insertable B-Layer (IBL) production and integration - Javier Bilbao De Mendizabal (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:30 PM ATLAS Insertable B-Layer (IBL) module QA - Stefania Antonia Stucci (Universitaet Bern (CH))

5:45 PM CMS Upgrade Phase I: pixel modules testing - Vittorio Raoul Tavolaro (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

6:00 PM Characterization of SiPM detector for LHCb upgrade - Zhirui Xu (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

6:15 PM Dedicated Trigger for Highly Ionising Particles at ATLAS - Akshay Katre (Universite de Geneve (CH))

6:30 PM Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV - Marc Dunser (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

6:45 PM Jet production in association with a Z boson at CMS - Andrea Carlo Marini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

7:00 PM Charmless B decays at LHCb - Jessica Prisciandaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
7:45 PM Conference dinner
Conference dinner
7:45 PM - 10:30 PM
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

9:00 AM SPS plenary session: Attosecond science of solids and solid interfaces (Lukas Gallmann)
Attosecond science of solids and solid interfaces (Lukas Gallmann)
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

9:40 AM SPS plenary session: Pattern formation and collective phenomena in biological systems (Erwin Frey)
Pattern formation and collective phenomena in biological systems (Erwin Frey)
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

10:20 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

10:50 AM SPS plenary session: Quantum annealing and the D-wave quantum devices (Matthias Troyer)
Quantum annealing and the D-wave quantum devices (Matthias Troyer)
10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

11:30 AM Poster award and SPS general assembly

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)

12:00 PM Lunch buffet
Lunch buffet
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM 60th anniversary of CERN: Swiss event
Swiss event
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Contributions

1:00 PM (no title)
3:15 PM TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: LHC physics
LHC physics
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Contributions

3:15 PM Measurements of the properties of the Higgs-like boson in the four lepton decay channel with the ATLAS detector - Eleonora Benhar Noccioli (Universite de Geneve (CH))

3:30 PM Search for heavy resonances dacaying into a pair of Higgs bosons in the tau taubar b bbar final state at CMS - Camilla Galloni (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

3:45 PM Search for SUSY in hadronic final states using MT2 with the CMS detector at the LHC - Mario Masciovecchio (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

4:00 PM Measurements of CP violation in the Bs0 system at LHCb - Mirco Dorigo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

4:15 PM Higgs coupling studies at a High Luminosity-LHC with ATLAS detector - Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (Universite de Geneve (CH))
4:30 PM Coffe break
Coffe break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: Low energy precision physics and experiments
Low energy precision physics and experiments
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: C 230 (2nd floor)
Contributions

5:00 PM CANCELLED: Polarization Observables T and F in Single pi0 and eta Photoproduction of Quasi-Free Nucleons - Thomas Strub (Universität Basel)

5:15 PM A Dedicated Calibration Tool for the MEG & MEGII Positron Spectrometer - Giada Rutar (Paul Scherrer Institut)

5:30 PM A Compact Muon Beam Line for the Mu3e Experiment - Felix Berg (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:45 PM Simulation of the performance of the scintillation fibres for the Mu3e experiment - Roman Gredig

6:00 PM A New High Intensity Muon Beamline at the Paul Scherrer Institut - Zachary Hodge (Paul Scherrer Institute)
TASK session & CHIPP PhD/postdoc days: Neutrino physics and experiments
Neutrino physics and experiments
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 002 (ground floor)
Contributions

5:00 PM The GERDA Experiment for the Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Manuel Walter (University of Zurich)

5:15 PM Hadron production measurement from NA61/SHINE - Alexander Korzenev (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:30 PM Current Status of the MicroBooNE Experiment - Matthias Lüthi (Universität Bern)

5:45 PM Multi-nucleon interaction model to answer the low energy neutrino CCQE cross-section discrepancy - Asmita Ajit Redij (U)

6:00 PM Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics with the DARWIN Experiment - Alex Kish (University of Zurich)