US LHC Users Meeting

Friday Oct 24, 2008, 8:50 AM → 9:00 PM US/Central

One West (Fermilab)

First annual meeting of US LHC Users Organization

Fermilab Access http://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/communication/currentstatus.html

List of Participants Final List of Participants

Streaming Video http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/VMS_Site_2/000Return/video/r_livelogicindex.xsl?&-recid=458&-find

1 Welcome to Fermilab by the Laboratory Director

Speaker: Pier Oddone (Fermilab Director)

Chair’s Report - Michael Barnett (LBNL)

slides usluo10_08.pdf usluo10_08.ppt

Reports from ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb on Status of Experiments

2 ALICE

Speaker: John Harris (Yale)

Slides ALICE_-_US_LHC_Users_Mtg.pdf ALICE_-_US_LHC_Users_Mtg.ppt

3 ATLAS

Speaker: Howard Gordon (Brookhaven)

Slides Gordon_USLHC_Users_Meeting_Oct._24_2008_Fermilab.pdf Gordon_USLHC_Users_Meeting_Oct._24_2008_Fermilab.ppt

4 CMS

Speaker: Nick Hadley (Maryland)

Slides USLUO_cms_njh.pdf USLUO_cms_njh.ppt

5 LHCb

Speaker: Steve Blusk (Syracuse)

Slides Blusk_USLHCUO_v2.pdf Blusk_USLHCUO_v2.ppt

11:00 AM Coffee Break - Group Photo on Wilson Hall Steps

Status and Plans for LHC, LARP, and Upgrade - Eric Prebys (Fermilab)

slides http://home.fnal.gov/~prebys/talks/usluo_prebys_20081024_public.ppt

Perspectives from OSTP - Jean Cottam (OSTP)

12:20 PM LUNCH

Young Scientist Poster Competition with Dessert and Coffee

A. Kasmi, SMU http://www.physics.smu.edu/devel/kasmi/presentations/kasmi_Fermi_08.pdf

C. Dragoiu http://home.fnal.gov/~cdragoiu/cms_area/USLUO_poster.pdf

Chang Liu, Purdue http://cliu.web.cern.ch/cliu/MuonsPosterCLiu.pdf

Ingo Bloch http://nippon.fnal.gov:8888/lpc1/cmsroc/ibloch/poster.pdf

Jie Chen, Wisconsin Apanasavich

J. Klukas, Wisconsin http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jklukas/Poster2.pdf

J. Wetzel, Iowa http://omega.physics.uiowa.edu/jwetzel/USLHCPoster_Wetzel_Final.pdf

Kalanand Mishra, SLAC http://home.fnal.gov/~kalanand/USLHC_poster_kalanand.pdf

L. Apanasavich, Wisconsin http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~dasu/LenUSLUOTriggerPoster.pdf

L. Gray, Wisconsin http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~lgray/USLHCPoster_Lindsey_Gray.pdf

M. Anderson, Wisconsin http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~mbanderson/public//2008/10/15/MikeAnderson-FNAL.pdf

M. Gataullin, Caltech http://www.hep.caltech.edu/~marat/hgg_usluo/Hgg_usluo_v2.pdf

Y. Zheng, Purdue https://yzheng.web.cern.ch/yzheng/posterUSLUO_zheng.pdf

Report from CERN Users Organization - Darin Acosta (Florida)

slides CERN-ACCU.pdf

slides CERN-ACCU.pdf CERN-ACCU.ppt

Panel with DOE and NSF

Panel: Moishe Pripstein (NSF), Glen Crawford (DOE-HEP), Gulshan Rai (DOE-NP), Mark Petri (APS Fellow Office of Sen. Durbin / Argonne)

3:20 PM Wine and Cheese

Magnetic Attraction: A Journalist's View of the LHC's Status in Popular Culture - Alan Boyle (MSNBC)

Wine & Cheese Seminar

Open Forum

7:00 PM DINNER - Pizza at the Fermilab Villiage Barn