Name: DPF2015
Start: 2015-08-04T07:00:00-04:00
End: 2015-08-08T17:00:00-04:00
Location: No location set

Monday, August 3, 2015
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Ballroom
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome from University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel - Mark Schlissel (University of Michigan)

8:35 AM Welcome and Opening - Homer Neal (University of Michigan (US))

8:45 AM Welcome from the DPF - nicholas hadley

9:10 AM LHC Run 2 Startup - Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

9:45 AM Pentaquarks and Tetraquarks at LHCb - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University (US))
10:15 AM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

10:45 AM BSM: Theory - Josh Ruderman (NYU)

11:20 AM Searches for New Physics at the Energy Frontier - John Alison (University of Chicago (US))

11:55 AM DOE-HEP Program and FOAs - Glen Crawford (DOE)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:52 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

2:00 PM IsoDAR and DAEdALUS: The next generation of cyclotrons for neutrino physics - Joshua Spitz (MIT)

2:30 PM Early Beam Injection Scheme for the Fermilab Booster: A Path for Intensity Upgrade - Chandra Bhat (Fermilab)

2:48 PM 500 GeV ILC Operating Scenarios - James Brau (University of Oregon (US))

3:06 PM HEPAP Accelerator R&D Subpanel - Don Hartill (Cornell University)

3:24 PM Crystal Ball : On the Future High Energy Colliders - Vladimir Shiltsev (Fermilab)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

2:00 PM New Science with the Dark Energy Survey - Eric Huff (Ohio State University)

2:30 PM Supernovae & The Dark Energy Survey - Rachel Wolf (University of Pennsylvania)

2:50 PM The Dark Energy Survey - First Results in Galaxy Cluster Weak Lensing - Rutuparna Das (University of Michigan)

3:10 PM Discovery of Milky Way dwarf galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey and implications for cosmological models - Ting Li
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

2:00 PM ATLAS results in the search for a charged Higgs boson - Allison Renae Mc Carn (University of Michigan (US))

2:15 PM Search for non Standard Model Higgs boson decays in events with displaced muon-jets - Sven Dildick (Texas A & M University (US))

2:30 PM Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying to ZZ diboson with the ATLAS Detector - Laser Seymour Kaplan (University of Wisconsin (US))

2:45 PM Search for Higgs bosons decaying to aa in the μμττ final state in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Benjamin Eric Kaplan (New York University (US))

3:00 PM ATLAS results in the search for a CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh, in final states with 2 taus and 2 electrons or muons - Allison Renae Mc Carn (University of Michigan (US))

3:15 PM Type-III seesaw fermionic triplets at the International Linear Collider - Deepanjali Goswami (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, INDIA)
Higgs coupling
Higgs coupling
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

2:00 PM Effective Lagrangians for Higgs Physics - Tyler Corbett (Stony Brook)

2:30 PM Measurement of the Higgs boson coupling strengths in the ATLAS experiment - Fangzhou Zhang (University of Wisconsin (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room D
Contributions

2:00 PM The CMS Silicon Tracker Performance during early LHC Run II - Petra Merkel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2:23 PM Commissioning and Performance of the upgraded ATLAS Pixel Detector for Run2 - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington, Seattle)

2:46 PM CMS Silicon Tracker Alignment: First Run2 Results - Heshy Roskes (Johns Hopkins University (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

2:00 PM Latest results/analysis in Double Chooz - Guang Yang (Argonne National Lab/Illinois Institute of Technology)

2:18 PM Super Kamiokande Atmospheric Neutrino Analysis - Chris Kachulis

2:36 PM Search for exotic transitions of muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos with MINOS - Marianna Gabrielyan (University of Minnesota)

2:54 PM Search for flavor changing non-standard interactions with the MINOS+ experiment - Nicholas Joseph Graf (University of Pittsburgh (US))

3:12 PM An Experimental Program in Neutrinos, Nucleon Decay and Astroparticle Physics Enabled by the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility - James Allen Stewart (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM QCD results from ATLAS and CMS - Emanuela Barberis (Northeastern University (US))

2:40 PM Overview of Precision QCD - Xiaohui Liu (University of Maryland)

3:10 PM Precision QCD for LHC New Physics Searches: Working with heavy quarks at High Scales & High Orders - Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)
2:00 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

2:00 PM BSM and Flavor - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute)

2:40 PM Rare electroweak B decays at LHCb - Espen Eie Bowen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

3:05 PM Bs0 → φμ+μ− at LHCb - Michael Kolpin (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

2:00 PM N^3LO threshold corrections for top-pair and single-top production - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

2:30 PM Measurements of the Top Quark Cross Section with the ATLAS Experiment - Thomas Andrew Schwarz (University of Michigan (US))

3:00 PM Top pair production inclusive and differential production cross section measurements in pp collisions - Gabriele Benelli (University of Kansas and Fermilab LPC Distinguished Researcher)
3:30 PM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

4:00 PM Pilot System for the CMS Phase I Pixel Upgrade - Robert Stringer (University of Kansas (US))

4:15 PM Studies on the prototype of ATLAS Phase-2 pixel module - Hongtao Yang (University of Wisconsin (US))

4:30 PM Radiation-Hard/High-Speed Parallel Optical Engine - K.K. Gan (The Ohio State University (US))

4:45 PM A Cosmic Ray Veto Detector for the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)

5:00 PM Performance of Scintillation Counters with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout - Yongyi Wu (University of Virginia)

5:15 PM Radiation Damage Testing of Silicon Photomultipliers for the Mu2e Experiment - Vishnu Zutshi (Northern Illinois University)

5:30 PM Beam Test Results of the Dependence of Signal Size on Incident Particle Rate in Diamond Pixel and Pad Detectors - Bin Gui (Ohio State University (US))

5:45 PM The qualification of the forward pixel detector modules for the CMS phase 1 upgrade - Jamie Antonelli (The Ohio State University (US))
4:00 PM - 6:02 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

4:00 PM A search for dark matter annihilation in the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Reticulum 2 - Alex Geringer-Sameth (Carnegie Mellon University)

4:15 PM Dark matter inferred from stellar kinematics in the smallest galaxies - Matthew Walker (Carnegie Mellon University)

4:30 PM Fermi/LAT observations of Dwarf Galaxies highly constrain a Dark Matter Interpretation of Excess Positrons seen in AMS-02, HEAT, and PAMELA - Alejandro Lopez

4:48 PM Constraining Unresolved Point Source Contributions to the GeV Excess with Probabilistic Catalogues - Stephen Portillo (Harvard University)

5:06 PM Antideuteron Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment - Kerstin Perez

5:24 PM Prospects for Measuring the Positron Excess with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Peter Karn (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

4:00 PM Estimating QCD background in search for new physics in events with missing energy and large hadronic activity in pp collisions at 13 TeV - Pawandeep S Jandir (University of California Riverside (US))

4:15 PM Search for Displaced Supersymmetry in Events with an Electron and a Muon with Large Impact Parameters - Jamie Antonelli (The Ohio State University (US))

4:30 PM Search for Chargino and Neutralino using Two Jets in Vector-Boson-Fusion Topology at CMS - Carlos Andres Florez Bustos (Universidad de los Andes (CO))

4:45 PM Search for direct scalar top production with R-Parity Violating decay in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV with ATLAS - Evelyn Jean Thomson (University of Pennsylvania (US))

5:00 PM Searches for RPV SUSY via LQD couplings at CMS Experiment - Sadia Khalil (Kansas State University (US))

5:15 PM Exploration of Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the International Linear Collider - Stefania Gori

5:30 PM Producing Heavy Squarks at 100 TeV - Bob Zheng (University of Michigan)

5:45 PM Prospects for a Search for Z' to the Dimuon Final State in Run 2 of the LHC - Yanlin Liu (Univ. of Michigan (US) / Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China (CN))

6:00 PM A First Look at 13 TeV Data for the Exotic Dilepton Channel Search using the ATLAS Detector - Daniel Hayden (Michigan State University (US))
Higgs Properties - CP
Higgs Properties - CP
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

4:00 PM Study of the spin and parity of the Higgs boson in di-boson decays with the ATLAS detector - Nan Lu (University of Michigan (US))

4:30 PM Tools for the Higgs boson CP studies: JHUGen and MELA - Heshy Roskes (Johns Hopkins University (US))

5:00 PM 125 GeV Higgs signal at the LHC in the CP-violating MSSM - Biswaranjan Das (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room D
Contributions

4:00 PM Novel real-time calibration & alignment and tracking performance for LHCb Run II - Espen Eie Bowen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

4:23 PM The CMS Beam Halo Monitor Detector System - Kelly Marie Stifter (University of Minnesota (US))

4:46 PM Improvements to ATLAS track reconstruction for Run-2 - Michael Ryan Clark (Columbia University (US))

5:09 PM The performance and development of the Inner Detector Trigger Algorithms at ATLAS for LHC Run 2 - Benjamin Sowden (Royal Holloway, University of London)

5:32 PM Commissioning and Alignment of the Pixel Luminosity Telescope of CMS - Grant Riley (University of Tennessee (US))
4:00 PM - 6:26 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

4:00 PM DUNE: the Physics Potential of a Large, Underground, Liquid Argon Neutrino Detector - Chris Grant (UC Davis)

4:18 PM The LBNF Beamline - Maury Goodman (Argonne)

4:36 PM LBNO-DEMO (WA105): a large demonstrator of the Liquid Argon double phase TPC - Sebastien Murphy (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

4:54 PM Characterization of New Meter Scale Light Guides for Liquid Argon TPC Light Collection - Jarrett Moon (MIT)

5:12 PM First Run of the LArIAT Testbeam Experiment - William Foreman (University of Chicago)

5:30 PM The MicroBooNE Experiment and the Impact of Space Charge Effects - Michael Mooney

5:48 PM Signal Processing in the MicroBooNE LAr TPC - Jyoti Joshi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

6:06 PM The CAPTAIN experiment - Jianming Bian (University of Minnesota)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent Jet Substructure Results from the LHC - Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

4:30 PM PDF Overview - Tie-Jiun Hou (SMU)

5:00 PM Mathematica Toolbox for PDF Uncertainties and Application to New Physics Searches - Eric Godat (Southern Methodist University)

5:20 PM Vector boson production in association with jets and heavy flavor quarks at CMS - Emanuela Barberis (Northeastern University, CMS Collaboration)

5:40 PM Drell-Yan Production of W/Z at the LHC with Protons and Heavy Nuclei - David Clark (Southern Methodist University)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

4:00 PM Test of lepton universality in the ratio of branching fractions BF(Y(3S)-> tau+tau-)/BF(Y(3S)->mu+mu-) at BABAR

4:25 PM Search for $B^{0}\rightarrow l^+ l^-$ at Belle - Kimberly Williams

4:50 PM Study of CP asymmetry in B0-B0bar mixing using inclusive dilepton samples in BABAR - Tomonari Miyashita

5:15 PM Searching for Nucleon Decay with Super-Kamiokande - Edward Kearns (Boston University)

5:40 PM The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - Marc Buehler (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

4:00 PM Run-1 Single-top measurements at CMS - Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (University of Nebraska (US))

4:30 PM Recent results on top-quark physics at D0 - Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska (US))

5:00 PM b,c-tagging, W+jet, and top measurements with LHCb - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

5:30 PM Top Quark Physics at a Future Linear Collider - Graham Wilson (University of Kansas (US))
7:00 PM Reception and Posters
Reception and Posters
7:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Ballroom
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

8:30 AM Top Physics - Kevin Patrick Lannon (University of Notre Dame (US))

9:05 AM Latest Electroweak Results - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))

9:40 AM Higgs Physics: Highlights from the Post-Discovery Era - Christopher Neu (University of Virginia (US))
10:15 AM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

10:45 AM Lattice QCD at the particle frontiers - William Detmold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:20 AM Advancing the Era of Quantitative QCD: Experiment - Christine Aidala (University of Michigan)

11:55 AM Sculpting the BSM landscape with low-energy precision physics - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

2:00 PM Surface-Engineered Photocathode for Tunable Photoemissive Properties - Daniel Velazquez (Illinois Institute of Technology) Daniel Velazquez

2:18 PM Muon cooling progress and prospects for an S-channel muon collider Higgs factory - Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.)

2:36 PM Compact Low-Voltage, High-Power, Multi-beam Klystron for ILC: Initial Test Results - Sergey Shchelkunov (yale univ., and omega-p, inc)

2:54 PM Beam Extinction and Monitoring at the Upcoming Mu2e Experiment - Ryan Hooper (Lewis University)

3:12 PM New Beam Profile Monitoring System for the Proton Irradiation Facility at the CERN PS East Area - Joseph Warner (The Ohio State University)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

2:00 PM Bound on the variation in the fine structure constant implied by Oklo data - Leila HAMDAN (Kuwait University)

2:18 PM SPT-3G: The Next Generation Receiver for Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements with the South Pole Telescope - Amy Bender (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:36 PM SPIDER: Exploring the dawn of time from above the clouds - Jeffrey Filippini (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2:54 PM Position-dependent power spectrum: a new observable in the large-scale structure - Chi-Ting Chiang (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)

3:12 PM Axion and ALP Dark Matter Search with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) - Julia Katharina Vogel (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))
BSM Physics
BSM Physics
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

2:00 PM Search a dark photon at BABAR - David Norvil Brown (University of Louisville (US))

2:15 PM Search for a new pi0-like particle at BABAR - Alexandre Beaulieu (University of Victoria)

2:30 PM Search for light CP-odd Higgs decay with a charm tag at BABAR - Richard Kass (Ohio State University (US))

2:45 PM Search for long-lived particles at BABAR - Richard Kass (Ohio State University (US))

3:00 PM Status of the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment - James Mott (Boston University)

3:15 PM Current status and prospects of the FNAL muon g-2 storage ring - Joseph Grange (Argonne National Laboratory)
Detector R&D, Intensity Frontier
Detector R&D, Intensity Frontier
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: East Partition
Contributions

2:00 PM Detector R&D - Glen Crawford (DOE)
Vector Boson Scattering
Vector Boson Scattering
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent Standard Model electroweak measurements at ATLAS - Yusheng Wu (University of Michigan; Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

2:30 PM Multiboson measurements and limits on anomalous gauge couplings with the CMS experiment - Joshua Milo Kunkle (University of Maryland (US))

3:00 PM Deep Learning and Vector Boson Scattering - Jacob Alexander Searcy (University of Michigan (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room D
Contributions

2:00 PM The upgraded ATLAS Trigger and DAQ system for the second LHC run - Kevin Black (Boston University)

2:23 PM The Upgrade of the ATLAS Electron and Photon Triggers towards LHC Run 2 and their Performance - Gabriella Pasztor (Carleton University (CA))

2:46 PM Precision electromagnetic calorimetry at the energy frontier: CMS ECAL at LHC Run 2 - Andrea Massironi (Northeastern University (US))

3:09 PM Jets and missing transverse energy performance in ATLAS with early Run 2 data - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

2:00 PM Results from CUORE-0 and a Status Report on CUORE - Jonathan Ouellet (U)

2:25 PM Status Update of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment - Julieta Gruszko (University of Washington)

2:45 PM Barium Tagging in Solid Xenon for the nEXO Experiment - Christopher Chambers (Colorado State University)

3:05 PM Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in same-sign dilepton + jets events in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV - Emrah Tiras (University of Iowa (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent QCD Results from the Tevatron - Konstantinos Vellidis (Fermilab)

2:30 PM Parton shower overview - Stefan Prestel (SLAC)

3:00 PM Flavor Tagging TeV Jets for BSM and QCD - Keith Pedersen (Illinois Institute of Technology)
2:00 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

2:00 PM Lattice inputs for Flavor - Daping De

2:40 PM New results on semileptonic b decays from LHCb - Marco Fiore (Universita di Ferrara (IT))

3:05 PM Inclusive electron spectrum from B-meson decays and determination of |V_{ub}| - Bob Kowalewski (University of Victoria (CA))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: West Partition
Contributions

2:00 PM Lorentz and CPT Violation in Top-Quark Production - Zhi Liu (Indiana University)

2:30 PM Forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production at CDF - Ziqing Hong

2:55 PM Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in 8 TeV $pp$ collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment - Daniel Marley (University of Michigan (US))
3:30 PM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

4:00 PM Low Voltage Power for the ATLAS New Small Wheel - Ryan Christopher Edgar (University of Michigan (US))

4:15 PM Micro-pattern detectors based on plasma panels: Past, present, and future developments - Merlin Davies (Tel Aviv University (IL))

4:30 PM A Straw Tube Tracker for the Mu2e Experiment - Jim Popp (York College)

4:45 PM Straw Leak Testing for the Mu2e Tracker - Daniel Ambrose (University of Minnesota)

5:00 PM Status of Belle II and SuperKEKB - Carl Rosenfeld

5:15 PM The iTOP particle identification detector at Belle II - Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawai) Kurtis Nishimura Kurtis Nishimura

5:30 PM The upgraded KLM detector at Belle II - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

5:45 PM The SiD Detector for the International Linear Collider - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
4:00 PM - 6:08 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

4:00 PM Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic photon or jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - Fuquan Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Physics)

4:18 PM Probing Theories of Dark Matter with Direct Detection - Samuel McDermott

4:36 PM DAMIC results : Low mass WIMP(~<5GeV) direct detection with scientific CCDs - Junhui Liao

4:54 PM World-leading Dark Matter Limits with PICO-2L and PICO-60 - Orin Harris (Indiana University South Bend)

5:12 PM Results of DM-Ice17 and Prospects of the DM-Ice Experiment - Kyungeun Lim (Yale University)

5:30 PM Status of the KIMS-NaI experiment - Kyungwon Kim (Center for Underground Physics, Seoul National University)

5:48 PM XENON: New Results and Prospects - Patrick de Perio (Columbia University)
BSM Physics
BSM Physics
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

4:00 PM Test of Lorentz Invariance from Compton Scattering - Prajwal Mohanmurthy (MIT)

4:15 PM Radiative B decays as probes of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) - Zhirui Xu (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
Higgs Properties - Mass and Lifetime
Higgs Properties - Mass and Lifetime
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

4:00 PM Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at s√=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments - Hongtao Yang (University of Wisconsin (US))

4:30 PM Lifetime and quantum numbers of the Higgs boson using the decay $H\to4\ell$ - Christopher Blake Martin (Johns Hopkins University (US))

5:00 PM The lifetime of the electroweak vacuum - Marc Sher (William and Mary College)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room D
Contributions

4:00 PM The updated ATLAS Jet Trigger for the LHC Run II - Sebastien Prince (McGill University (CA))

4:23 PM Real-time Flavour Tagging Selection in ATLAS: ready for LHC Run-2 - John Alison (University of Chicago (US))

4:46 PM Performance of the CMS endcap muon detector in Run 2 - Wells Wulsin (Ohio State University (US))

5:09 PM Muon reconstruction and identification performance in ATLAS at Run-II - Dongliang Zhang (University of Michigan (US))
4:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

4:00 PM KPipe: A Short-Baseline Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Experiment using Neutrinos from Kaon Decay-at-rest - Spencer Axani (MIT)

4:20 PM Looking for Sterile Neutrinos with NOvA - Shaokai Yang (University of Cincinnati)

4:40 PM Sensitivity and Discovery Potential of the PROSPECT Experiment - Karin Gilje (Illinois Institute of Technology)

5:00 PM Development of PROSPECT detectors for precision antineutrino studies - Danielle Norcini (Yale University)

5:20 PM Fast Neutron Detection with MITPC - Marjon Moulai (MIT)

5:40 PM Cosmogenic isotope production by stopping muons in Double Chooz - Matthew Strait (University of Chicago)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

4:00 PM Making Sense of the XYZ Mesons from QCD - Eric Braaten (Ohio State University)

4:20 PM Exotic hadron spectroscopy in LHCb - Nathan Philip Jurik (Syracuse University (US))

4:40 PM Searches for the exclusive double diffractive Higgs - Last Feremenga (University of Texas at Arlington)

5:00 PM Exotic and Charmonium(-like) states at BESIII - Peilian, on behalf of the BESIII collaboration LIU (Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

5:20 PM Measurement of low pT D+ meson production cross section at CDF - Luigi Marchese (Fermilab)

5:40 PM Measurement of Correlation of Lambda Pairs with the ATLAS Detector - Hok Chuen Cheng (University of Michigan (US))
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

4:00 PM First measurement of the differential branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the B+ → π+μ+μ− decay - Tobias Tekampe (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

4:25 PM Measurement of CP violation in D+ -> pi+pi0 decays at BABAR

4:50 PM Amplitude analysis of charmless B decays at LHCb - Paula Alvarez Cartelle (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

5:15 PM Recent results on charmless hadronic B decays at Belle - Bilas Pal (University of Cincinnati)

5:40 PM Study of B± → π±π∓π± at Belle - Yao Li (Virginia Tech)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: West Partition
Contributions

4:00 PM Observation of ttZ and measurement of ttW at CMS - Andrew Brinkerhoff (University of Notre Dame (US))

4:25 PM Measurement of the production cross sections of top quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Chen Zhou (Duke University (US))

4:50 PM Measurement of tt-gamma production cross section at CMS - Andrew Ivanov (Kansas State University (US))

5:15 PM Search for Standard Model Production of Four Top Quarks - Jesse Alan Heilman (University of California Riverside (US))
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Room A
Thursday, August 6, 2015

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Ballroom
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

8:30 AM Quark Flavor Physics - J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

9:05 AM Heavy-ion collisions - hot QCD in laboratory - Mateusz Ploskon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

9:40 AM Cosmology Experiment (DM, Collider) - Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway)
10:15 AM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

10:45 AM Beyond the WIMP: New Detectors for New Dark Matter Ideas - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

11:20 AM The State of Dark Energy in 2015 - David Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

11:55 AM Exascale and Exabytes: Future directions in HEP Software and Computing - Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
12:30 PM Lunch (box lunch provided)
Lunch (box lunch provided)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

(box lunch provided)
(box lunch provided)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Hussey
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

2:00 PM CMS Software and Computing: Ready for Run 2 - Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska (US))

2:13 PM Software and Physics Simulation at Belle II - Doris Kim (Soongsil University)

2:26 PM GRID computing at Belle II - Vikas Bansal (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

2:39 PM Code Management in the ATLAS Collaboration - Alexander Undrus (BNL)

2:52 PM The HEP Software Foundation - Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

3:05 PM New Developments in Multivariate Machine Learning Methods and their Applications in HEP - Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:18 PM Data Preservation at the Fermilab Tevatron - Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

2:00 PM Neutrino Dark Matter in the Higgs triplet model - Sahar Bahrami (Concordia University)

2:18 PM Soft-collinear effective theory for heavy WIMP annihilation - Mikhail Solon (University of Chicago)

2:36 PM Cosmology of Massive Gravity - Matteo Fasiello (Stanford University)

2:54 PM Optimized evaluation approach for inflationary power spectra - Hayato Motohashi (University of Chicago)

3:12 PM Gauge and fermion preheating and the end of axion inflation - Evangelos Sfakianakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark Matter search in ATLAS in the H -> two photons + MET channel: Run 1 results and Run 2 prospects - Lashkar Kashif (University of Wisconsin)

2:15 PM Search for Dark Matter produced in association with a Higgs Boson decaying to two bottom quarks in s= 8TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - Yangyang Cheng (University of Chicago (US))

2:30 PM Search for a light dark sector particle at LHCb - Andrea Mauri (University of Zurich)

2:45 PM Search for long-lived, weakly-interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector - Preema Rennee Pais (University of Massachusetts (US))

3:00 PM Search for new physics in the low MET monophoton channel with the CMS Detector - Toyoko Orimoto (Northeastern University (US))

3:15 PM Search for ttbar Resonances at CMS - Justin Pilot (University of California Davis (US))
Energy Frontier
Energy Frontier
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: West Partition
Contributions

2:00 PM Energy Frontier - Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
Electroweak Measurement
Electroweak Measurement
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

2:00 PM Physics prospects of the ZZ production measurements with the ATLAS experiment at LHC RUN2 - Cong GENG (USTC/University of Michigan)

2:30 PM Measurement of the Muon Charge Asymmetry for W Bosons Produced in Inclusive pp → W(μν) + X at √s = 8 TeV - Hasan Ogul (University of Iowa (US))

2:50 PM Improving parton distribution uncertainties in a W mass measurement at the LHC - Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

2:00 PM Elementary target data and precision neutrino-nucleus cross sections - Richard Hill

2:20 PM Measurement of the Charged Current Electron Neutrino Interaction Rate on Water with the T2K Pi-zero Detector - Jay Hyun Jo (Stony Brook University)

2:40 PM Measurement of the $\nu_\mu$ Charged Current Quasielastic Scattering Cross Section on Water with the T2K Off-Axis Near Detector - Jeremy Lopez (University of Colorado at Boulder)

3:00 PM HARP targets $\pi^{+}$ production measurements and $\nu_\mu$ flux for MiniBooNE - Don Athula Wickremasinghe for MiniBooNE Collaboration (University of Cincinnati)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM Model Independent Analysis of the Proton Magnetic Radius - Joydeep Roy (Wayne State University)

2:20 PM Recent results on low-energy e+e- annihilation into hadrons with initial state radiation with the BABAR detector

2:40 PM Measurement of Collins asymmetries for kaons and pions in e+e- annihilation at BABAR - David Norvil Brown (University of Louisville (US))

3:00 PM Study of inclusive charmonium production in e+e- annihilation and B decays at BABAR - Jacob Berg (University of Louisville)
2:00 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurement of forward-backward asymmetries in B+, Λb, and Λ production in pp ̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV - Peter Garbincius (Fermilab) Peter H Garbincius

2:25 PM Measurement of the Lambdab polarization and decay helicity amplitu - Dongliang Zhang (University of Michigan (US))

2:50 PM Double Quarkonium Production at CMS - Maksat Haytmyradov (University of Iowa (US))

3:15 PM Exclusive semileptonic B decays to a D or D* meson and one or two pions - Bob Kowalewski (University of Victoria (CA))
3:30 PM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

4:00 PM FELIX: the detector readout upgrade of the ATLAS experiment - Soo Ryu (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

4:15 PM Design Study of the Options for the ATLAS Muon Drift Tube (MDT) Electronics for Phase-II - Jay Chapman (High Energy Physics)

4:30 PM Characterization of the Trigger Data Serializer ASIC Prototype for the ATLAS Forward Muon Detector Upgrade - Liang Guan (University of Michigan) Liang Guan

4:45 PM Design and Test of a Signal Packet Router Board Prototype for the ATLAS Forward Muon Detector Upgrade - Xueye Hu (University of Michigan)

5:00 PM Real Time Tracker Based Upon Local Hit Correlation Circuit for Silicon Strip Sensors - Niklaus Lehmann (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

5:15 PM Impact of the GEM-based Upgrade of the CMS Forward Muon System on Trigger Performance - Tao Huang (Texas A & M University (US))

5:30 PM A Level-1 Track Trigger for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade - Brian Lee Winer (Ohio State University (US))

5:45 PM The sPHENIX Calorimeter Readout Electronics - Eric Mannel (Brookhaven National Labs)
4:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

4:00 PM Contribution of Dark Matter Annihilations to the Low-Redshift Metagalactic Ionization Rate - Tansu Daylan (Harvard University)

4:18 PM How dark matter conspires to facilitate baryogenesis at the electroweak scale - Tanja Rindler-Daller (Dept.of Physics, University of Michigan)

4:36 PM Cosmological tests of ultra-light axions - Daniel Grin (University of Chicago)

4:54 PM Axion Stars and Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter - Joshua Eby (University of Cincinnati)

5:12 PM Cosmological Non-Constant Problem: Cosmological bounds on TeV-scale physics and beyond - Niayesh Afshordi

5:30 PM Disorder: From Wires to Particle Production in Cosmology - Mustafa Amin (University of Cambridge)
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent CMS searches for exotic phenomena beyond the Standard Model - Wells Wulsin (Ohio State University (US))

4:15 PM Prospects for a Search for Vector-Like Quarks with Events that have Two Leptons of the Same Charge + b-Jets at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV at ATLAS - Sarah Louise Jones (University of Arizona (US))

4:30 PM Searches for Vector-Like Quarks at CMS - Robert Stringer (University of Kansas (US))

4:45 PM Model-Independent Production of a Top-Philic Resonance at the LHC - K.C. Kong (University of Kansas)

5:00 PM Searches for Micro Black Holes and String Balls with the ATLAS Detector During Run 1 - Nathan Rogers Bernard (University of Massachusetts (US))

5:15 PM Search for disappearing tracks - Wells Wulsin (Ohio State University (US))

5:30 PM Search for Monotop Production in Semi-Leptonic Decays of Top Quarks at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s}= 8}$ TeV Using the ATLAS Detector - Andrew Mc Rae Chegwidden (Michigan State University (US))

5:45 PM Constructing an Inclusive Lepton Early Warning System - Christopher Willis (Michigan State University (US))

6:00 PM The Most Important Searches Missing From Run I - Jared Evans
Cosmic Frontier
Cosmic Frontier
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: East Partition
Contributions

4:00 PM Cosmic Frontier - Kathleen Turner (US Department of Energy)
New Higgs Production
New Higgs Production
4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

4:00 PM Usefulness of effective field theory in Higgs plus jet production - Ian Lewis (SLAC)

4:25 PM New Physics in Double Higgs Production - Ahmed Ismail (Argonne National Laboratory/University of Illinois at Chicago)

4:50 PM Search for associated production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark - Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska (US))

5:15 PM Searches for associated top quark and Higgs boson production at the ATLAS experiment - Peter Onyisi (University of Texas (US))
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

4:00 PM Neutrino Flux Studies at NOvA - Kuldeep Maan (Panjab University, Chandigarh/Fermilab)

4:20 PM Neutrino CCQE Cross Section Discrepancies with Data and Generators - Andrew Cudd

4:40 PM nuPRISM - Gregorio Ponti (MSU)

5:00 PM First Search for EMC Effect and Shadowing in Neutrino Scattering at MIENRvA - Joel Mousseau

5:20 PM Electron neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic scattering in the MINERvA experiment - Jeremy Wolcott (University of Rochester)

5:40 PM Coherent Charged Pion Production at MINERvA - Aaron Mislivec (University of Rochester)
4:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

4:00 PM Extraction of the proton radius from electron-proton scattering data - Richard Hill

4:20 PM Parton Dynamics at PHENIX - Joseph Osborn (University of Michigan)

4:40 PM Saturation physics on the energy frontier - David Zaslavsky (Central China Normal University)

5:00 PM The sPHENIX Experiment - John Haggerty (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:20 PM The LPM Effect in Sequential Bremsstrahlung - Peter Arnold (University of Virginia)

5:40 PM Open heavy flavor measurements in heavy ion collisions with CMS - Jian Sun (Purdue University (US))
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

4:00 PM Control penguin effect in Bs->JpsiPhi at LHCb - Liming Zhang (Tsinghua University (CHINA))

4:25 PM A Selection of Three ATLAS B-Physics Results: A Search Beyond the Standard Model, A Precision Measurement, and the Discovery of a New Heavy Meson - Aaron Taylor (University of New Mexico (US))

4:50 PM Observation of B+→ψ(2S)K+ - Reddy Pratap Gandrajula

5:15 PM Observation of CP violation in B0->DC P (∗)h0 decays in a combined analysis using BABAR and Belle data - Soeren Andre Prell (Iowa State University (US))
8:00 PM Guest Lecture: Janna Levin
Guest Lecture: Janna Levin
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohm Theater
Friday, August 7, 2015

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Ballroom
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

8:30 AM Exploring Neutrinos Via Oscillations in the Atmosphere, at Reactors, and at Accelerators - Mark Messier (Indiana University)

9:05 AM Neutrinos and Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)

9:40 AM Weighing Neutrinos - Joseph Formaggio (MIT)
10:15 AM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

10:45 AM Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist: The Real Story About Employment for Physics Graduates - Crystal Bailey (American Physical Society)

11:20 AM The Highest Energy Frontier - Stephane Coutu (Penn State University)

11:55 AM Black Holes in String Theory - Samir Mathur (Ohio State University) Samir Mathur
12:30 PM (box lunch provided)
(box lunch provided)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Hussey

Lunch (box lunch provided)
Lunch (box lunch provided)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

2:00 PM Solid xenon bolometers - Michelle Dolinski (Drexel University)

2:15 PM Development of a Photon Detection System in Liquid Argon for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - Denver Whittington (Indiana University)

2:30 PM The Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter - Tomonari Miyashita

2:45 PM Studies of Beam Induced Radiation Backgrounds at the Mu2e Experiment and Implications for the Cosmic Ray Veto Detector Operations - Yuri Oksuzian (University of Virginia)

3:00 PM Progress on the development of 6 cm × 6 cm microchannel plate photodetectors at Argonne National Laboratory - Jingbo Wang (Argonne National Laboratory)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

2:00 PM TeV Astrophysics with the HAWC Observatory - Kirsten Anne Tollefson (Michigan State University (US))

2:18 PM A Deep Observation of Gamma-ray Emission from Cassiopeia A using VERITAS - Augusto Ghiotto (Columbia University, VERITAS Collaboration)

2:36 PM Searching for Primordial Black Holes with TeV Gamma Ray Detectors - James Thomas Linnemann (Michigan State University (US))

2:54 PM First Limits on the Dark Matter Cross-Section with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory - J. Patrick Harding (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:12 PM Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande - Kasia Frankiewicz (National Center for Nuclear Research, Poland) Katarzyna Frankiewicz (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

2:00 PM Automation of non-SUSY two-loop RGEs with PyR@TE: latest developments - Florian Lyonnet (LPSC)

2:20 PM Long-Lived Superparticles with Hadronic Decays at the LHC - Zhen Liu

2:40 PM Phenomenological implications of the naturally aligned NMSSM - Nausheen Shah (University of Michigan)

3:00 PM Supersymmetry Versus Extra Dimensions at the LHC - Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University)
Flavor Violation Decay of Higgs
Flavor Violation Decay of Higgs
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

2:00 PM Flavor Violating Heavy Higgs Decays at the LHC - Baris Altunkaynak (University of Oklahoma)

2:30 PM Search for LFV decays with Hadronic Taus of the Higgs with 2012 Data (ATLAS) - Robert Najem Clarke (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

3:00 PM Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson (CMS) - Nathan Marshall Kellams (University of Notre Dame (US))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM How to be a successful freelance science reporter - Colin Barras (freelance writer)

2:20 PM Enhancing Scientific Outreach with Social Media - April Jakubowski Sophia Nasr

2:40 PM HEP User Community Government Outreach - Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)

3:00 PM ATLAS virtual visits - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago)
2:00 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: East Partition
Contributions

2:00 PM Geometric constraints on the space of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs - Matteo Lotito (University of Cincinnati)

2:25 PM Gauged linear sigma models on the Omega-deformed two-sphere - Cyril Closset

2:50 PM Magnetic Catalysis in Graphene - christopher Winterowd (University of Utah)

3:15 PM Phenomenology of fundamental spinons - Roland Allen (Texas A&M University)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

2:00 PM Results from the OPERA experiment at the CNGS beam - Tomohiro Hayakawa (Nagoya University)

2:18 PM Prospects for measuring tau neutrino appearance in DeepCore - Joao Pedro Athayde Marcondes de Andre (Michigan State University/IceCube)

2:36 PM Neutrino Physics Prospects with PINGU - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University)

2:54 PM Numu Disappearance with IceCube/DeepCore - Joshua Hignight (Michigan State University)

3:12 PM Nucleon Decay Search in SNO+ Water Phase using a Likelihood Approach - Kevin Labe (University of Chicago)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

2:00 PM Experimental Overview of Lepton Non-universality Results and Prospects - Brian Keith Hamilton (University of Maryland (US))

2:40 PM LHCb data taking strategy for the upcoming LHC runs - Kevin Dungs (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)) Kevin Dungs (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

3:05 PM Searches for New Physics at the Belle II Experiment - Boqun Wang
3:30 PM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:18 PM
Room: Koessler
Contributions

4:00 PM High-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam in a plasma wakefield accelerator. - Michael Litos (Stanford University)

4:30 PM Future Accelerator Facilities for High Energy Physics Research - Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

4:48 PM Particle Acceleration - Laser Wakefield Experiments at U. Michigan - Alexander Thomas (university of michigan)

5:06 PM “TeV on a chip”: X-ray wakefield accelerator in nanomaterials - Toshiki Tajima (UCI)

5:24 PM High-Gradient, Millimeter Wave Accelerating Structure - Sergey Kuzikov (Institute of Applied Physics)

5:42 PM Two-Beam-Acceleration Experiments at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA) - Manoel Conde (Argonne National Laboratory)
4:00 PM - 6:08 PM
Room: Michigan
Contributions

4:00 PM Status of the MiniCLEAN Experiment - Tom Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania)

4:18 PM Commissioning Data Results for the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment - Bei Cai (Queen's University)

4:36 PM Status and Results from DarkSide-50 - Alden Fan (UCLA)

4:54 PM The LUX Dark Matter Experiment and an Updated Analysis of Its First Results - Tomasz Biesiadzinski

5:12 PM Progress of the LZ Dark Matter Experiment - Carter Hall (University of Maryland)

5:30 PM The PandaX Dark Matter Experiment - Andi Tan

5:48 PM Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Detection - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Vandenberg
Contributions

4:00 PM Color Discriminant Variable to Separate Dijet Resonances at the LHC - Pawin Ittisamai (Michigan State University)

4:20 PM Anatomy of Coannihilation with a Scalar Top Partner - Aaron Pierce (University of Michigan)

4:40 PM Anatomizing BSM effects with differential Higgsstrahlung observables - Zhen Liu

5:00 PM Neutrino Masses and Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from the PeV Scale - Bibhushan Shakya (MCTP)
Future Prospects
Future Prospects
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Kalamazoo
Contributions

4:00 PM Probing Flavon-Higgs mixing effects at future colliders - Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz (FCFM BUAP (Mexico))

4:30 PM Higgs Production at Extremely Large Transverse Momentum - Hong Zhang

5:00 PM The Higgs Physics Program at the International Linear Collider - Jan Fridolf Strube Jan Fridolf Strube (CERN) Jan Fridolf Strube
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room 4
Contributions

4:00 PM The International Particle Physics Outreach Group - Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab)

4:20 PM Discovery and the QuarkNet Data Portfolio - Kenneth Cecire (University of Notre Dame)

4:40 PM Reaching the Public with Science Festivals - Renee Leone (Michigan State University) Zach Constan (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory)

5:00 PM How to run a science cafe - Elyse Aurbach (University of Michigan) Katherine Prater (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: East Partition
Contributions

4:00 PM On the classification of 4d rank1 N=2 SCFT - Yongchao Lv

4:25 PM T-duality off shell in 3D Type II superspace - Martin Polacek (PhD student)

4:50 PM Thermalization in the D1D5 Black Hole - Zaq Carson (The Ohio State University)

5:15 PM Thermal Corrections to Renyi Entropies on the n-Sphere - Michael Spillane (Stony Brook University)

5:40 PM Spinning the fuzzy sphere - David Berenstein (UCSB)
4:00 PM - 6:06 PM
Room: Hussey
Contributions

4:00 PM Muon neutrino disappearance at NOvA - Kirk Bays

4:18 PM Extrapolation techniques and systematic uncertainties in the NOvA muon neutrino disappearance anaysis - Louise Suter (Argonne National Lab.)

4:36 PM Electron Neutrino Identification and First Results of the NuE Appearance Analysis at NOvA - Jianming Bian (University of Minnesota)

4:54 PM Cosmic Ray Background Rejection in NOvA - Tian Xin (Iowa State University)

5:12 PM Muon Induced EM Showers in NOvA Detectors - Hongyue Duyang (University of South Carolina)

5:30 PM Predicting the Far Detector Event Rate in the NOvA Electron Neutrino Appearance Channel - Daniel Pershey

5:48 PM Implementation of an upward-going muon trigger for indirect dark matter searches at the NOvA far detector - Robert Mina (University of Virginia)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Henderson
Contributions

4:00 PM Study of Bc Mesons at LHCb - Lucio Anderlini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

4:25 PM Study of baryonic decays of B mesons at BABAR - David Norvil Brown (University of Louisville (US))

4:50 PM Update on e+e− → π+π−ψ(2S) via initial state radiation at Belle - Xiaolong Wang (VirginiaTech)
5:00 PM HEP Theory
HEP Theory
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: West Partition
Contributions

5:00 PM HEP Theory - Simona Rolli
6:45 PM Conference Banquet at Museum of Art
Conference Banquet at Museum of Art
6:45 PM - 10:30 PM
Saturday, August 8, 2015

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Ballroom
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

8:30 AM Future Accelerators - Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

9:00 AM The Future (Near and Far) of Particle Detectors - Erik Ramberg (Fermilab)

9:30 AM The Vision of CERN - Paul Collier (CERN)

10:00 AM FNAL Vision - Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
10:30 AM Cafe Break
Cafe Break
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 2:10 PM
Room: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Contributions

10:50 AM The U.S. High Energy Physics Program in a Global Vision of Particle Physics - Jim Siegrist (DOE)

11:20 AM Maintaining the Visibility of the P5 Report - Steven Ritz (UCSC)

11:40 AM P5: One Year Later - Andrew James Lankford (University of California Irvine (US))

12:10 PM Status of the NSF Particle Physics program - Jim Shank (Boston University (US))

12:40 PM Closing Statement from Scientific Committee Chair - Myron Campbell (University of Michigan)