Zurich PhD seminar 2014

from Thursday 11 September 2014 (09:00) to Friday 12 September 2014 (18:00)
University of Zurich (UZH) (Y17-M-05, Y16-G-15)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Sept 2014
12 Sept 2014
AM
09:00
Session 1 - Gino Isidori (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT)) (until 10:40) (Y17-H-05)
09:00 Trigger and Tracking for the LHCb upgrade - Espen Eie Bowen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
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09:25 Same sign dileptons at CMS - Marc Dunser (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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09:50 Search for Dark Matter associated top pair production in single-lepton channel with the CMS detector - Deborah Pinna (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
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10:40 --- coffee break ---
11:00
Session 2 - Stefano Pozzorini (until 12:40) (Y17-M-05)
11:00 NLO Monte Carlo simulations of the ttH background - Niccolo Moretti  
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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))  
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11:50 Search for new heavy bosons with boosted b-tagged jets in the final state with CMS - Jennifer Ngadiuba (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
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12:15 Search for new bosons decaying to boosted tau and b pairs at CMS - Camilla Galloni (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
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09:00
Session 5 - Nicola Serra (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 10:40) (Y16-G-15)
09:00 Studies for a new experiment SHIP - Elena Graverini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
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09:25 Search for Muons to Neutrinos (MUTON) - Carlos Vigo Hernandez  
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09:50 Neutrino Oscillations at T2K - Davide Sgalaberna (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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10:15 Development of a double phase Lar TPC at CERN - Shuoxing Wu (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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10:40 --- coffee break ---
11:00
Session 6 - Christian Regenfus (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) (until 12:40) (Y16-G-15)
11:00 Response of liquid Xenon to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils - payam pakarha (UZH)  
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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)  
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PM
12:40 --- lunch ---
14:00
Session 3 (until 15:40) (Y17-M-05)
14:05 A new high intensity muon beamline at the Paul Scherrer Institut - Zachary Hodge  
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14:30 Towards a novel muon beamline for next generation precision experiments - Andreas Eggenberger (E)  
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14:55 Mu3e Fibre detector R&D - Roman Gredig  
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15:20 A Dedicated Calibration Tool for the MEG Positron Spectrometer - Giada Rutar (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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15:40 --- coffee break ---
16:00
Session 4 (until 17:15) (Y17-M-05)
16:00 Status of the PSI source for Ultracold Neutrons - Dieter Ries (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))  
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16:25 Neutron radiography of a helium gas density gradient at cryogenic temperatures for a novel muon beam line. - Gunther Wichmann (ETHZ)  
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18:00 --- Barbecue for students & mentors ---
12:40 --- lunch ---
14:00
Session 7 - Malte Hildebrandt (Paul Scherrer Institut) (until 15:40)
14:00 Test-beam characterisation and simulations for hybrid-pixel readout assemblies with ultra-thin sensors - Niloufar Alipour Tehrani (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
Transparents
14:25 Optimizing low energy and compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry systems - Sascha Maxeiner  
14:50 Tracker for Anti-hydrogen free-fall measurement - Dipanwita Banerjee  
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15:15 Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy quark production at hadron colliders - Hayk Sargsyan  
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15:40 --- coffee break ---
16:00
Session 8 - Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich) (until 17:15)
16:00 Vector boson pair production at NNLO - Dirk Rathlev  
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16:25 NNLO corrections to Higgs+jet production - Matthieu Jaquier  
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16:50 Regularization scheme dependence of two-loop amplitudes - Andrea Visconti  
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