Name: Zurich PhD seminar 2014
Start: 2014-09-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-09-12T18:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Zurich (UZH)

Zurich PhD seminar 2014

from Thursday, 11 September 2014 (09:00) to Friday, 12 September 2014 (18:00)

Monday, 8 September 2014
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Thursday, 11 September 2014
09:00 Session 1
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Y17-H-05
Contributions

09:00 Trigger and Tracking for the LHCb upgrade - Espen Eie Bowen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

09:25 Same sign dileptons at CMS - Marc Dunser (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

09:50 Search for Dark Matter associated top pair production in single-lepton channel with the CMS detector - Deborah Pinna (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
10:40 coffee break
coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Y17-H-05
11:00 Session 2
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Y17-M-05
Contributions

11:00 NLO Monte Carlo simulations of the ttH background - Niccolo Moretti

11:25 Search for associated ttH production in the Hbb decay channel at CMS using the Matrix Element Method - Daniel Nicholas Salerno (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

11:50 Search for new heavy bosons with boosted b-tagged jets in the final state with CMS - Jennifer Ngadiuba (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

12:15 Search for new bosons decaying to boosted tau and b pairs at CMS - Camilla Galloni (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
12:40 lunch
lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: Mensa
14:00 Session 3
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Y17-M-05
Contributions

14:05 A new high intensity muon beamline at the Paul Scherrer Institut - Zachary Hodge

14:30 Towards a novel muon beamline for next generation precision experiments - Andreas Eggenberger (E)

14:55 Mu3e Fibre detector R&D - Roman Gredig

15:20 A Dedicated Calibration Tool for the MEG Positron Spectrometer - Giada Rutar (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
15:40 coffee break
coffee break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Y17-M-05, Y16-G-15
16:00 Session 4
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Y17-M-05
Contributions

16:00 Status of the PSI source for Ultracold Neutrons - Dieter Ries (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

16:25 Neutron radiography of a helium gas density gradient at cryogenic temperatures for a novel muon beam line. - Gunther Wichmann (ETHZ)
18:00 Barbecue for students & mentors
Barbecue for students & mentors
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Artistic blue cow: by building 13
Friday, 12 September 2014
09:00 Session 5
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Y16-G-15
Contributions

09:00 Studies for a new experiment SHIP - Elena Graverini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

09:25 Search for Muons to Neutrinos (MUTON) - Carlos Vigo Hernandez

09:50 Neutrino Oscillations at T2K - Davide Sgalaberna (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

10:15 Development of a double phase Lar TPC at CERN - Shuoxing Wu (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
10:40 coffee break
coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Y17-M-05, Y16-G-15
11:00 Session 6
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Y16-G-15
Contributions

11:00 Response of liquid Xenon to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils - payam pakarha (UZH)

11:25 Noise Reduction and Pulse Shape Analysis in BEGe-type Germanium Detectors for the GERDA Experiment employing Wavelet Transformation - Manuel Walter (University of Zurich)
12:40 lunch
lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: Y16-G-15
14:00 Session 7
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Y17-M-05, Y16-G-15
Contributions

14:00 Test-beam characterisation and simulations for hybrid-pixel readout assemblies with ultra-thin sensors - Niloufar Alipour Tehrani (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

14:25 Optimizing low energy and compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry systems - Sascha Maxeiner

14:50 Tracker for Anti-hydrogen free-fall measurement - Dipanwita Banerjee

15:15 Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy quark production at hadron colliders - Hayk Sargsyan
15:40 coffee break
coffee break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Y16-G-15
16:00 Session 8
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Y17-M-05, Y16-G-15
Contributions

16:00 Vector boson pair production at NNLO - Dirk Rathlev

16:25 NNLO corrections to Higgs+jet production - Matthieu Jaquier

16:50 Regularization scheme dependence of two-loop amplitudes - Andrea Visconti