Name: DPF 2009
Start: 2009-07-24T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2009-07-31T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Wayne State University

DPF 2009

from Friday 24 July 2009 (14:00) to Friday 31 July 2009 (18:30)

Monday 20 July 2009
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Wednesday 22 July 2009
Thursday 23 July 2009
Friday 24 July 2009
Saturday 25 July 2009
Sunday 26 July 2009

17:00

17:00 - 22:00

Monday 27 July 2009
08:30 Welcome
Welcome
08:30 - 12:00
Contributions

08:30 Welcome to DPF-2009 - Jay Noren (Wayne State University)

08:40 LHC Machine Status - Lyn Evans (CERN)

09:10 ATLAS Detector Status - Jim Shank (Boston University)

09:30 CMS Detector Status - Gregory Rakness (UCLA)

10:10 LHC-b Detector Status - Eddy Jans (NIKHEF)

10:30 ALICE Detector Status - John Harris (Yale)

11:00 Experimenal Searches for Dark Matter - Sunil Golwala (Caltech)

11:30 Interpretation of Possible Signals of Dark Matter - Aaron Pierce (Michigan)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Challenges for Multi-Megawatt Neutrino Beamlines - Michael Martens (Fermilab)

14:30 MICE Overview - Linda Coney (UC Riverside)

15:00 Study of Collective Effect in Ionization Cooling - Dazhang Huang (Illinois Institute of Technology)

15:30 Optimization of Integrated Luminosity of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider - Mary Convery (Fermilab)

16:30 Antiproton accumulation and cooling at Fermilab’s Recycler ring - Alexander Shemyakin (Fermilab)

17:00 Speeding up simulations of relativistic systems using an optimal boosted frame - Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:30 Muon Cooling and Future Muon Facilities - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

18:00 MANX, A 6-D Muon Beam Cooling Experiment - Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Searches for BSM signatures at the Tevatron - Andrew Haas (SLAC)

14:40 Search for Supersymmetry in ppbar Collisions at root(s)=1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production - Rob Forrest (UC Davis)

15:00 Addressing the “Inverse Problem” of Multichannel Particle Searches: A Model-independent Approach to Supersymmetry Search with Trileptons - Alexander Sood (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

15:20 Setting Limits on Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Models with Photons at CDF - Eunsin Lee (Texas A&M University)

15:40 Discovery potential for GMSB Supersymmetry in ATLAS using the Zphoton+MET and ZZ+MET Final States - Devin Harper (University of Michigan)

16:30 Recent developments in the phenomenology of supersymmetric models - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

17:10 Search for Charginos and Neutralinos with the D0 detector; Search for dark photons from supersymmetric hidden valleys with the D0 Detector - Todd Adams (Department of Physics, B-159 - Florida State University)

17:30 Searches for Squarks and Gluinos with the D0 Detector - Sergey Uzunyan (Northern llinois University)

17:50 R-symmetric Gauge Mediation and the MRSSM - Andrew Blechman (University of Toronto)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Interpreting new CP violating signals in B Decays - Alakabha Datta (University of Mississippi)

14:30 Time-dependent $CP$ violation in radiative $B$ decays - Himansu Sahoo (University of Hawaii)

14:50 A critical look at hadronic b \to s penguin modes - Rupak Dutta (University of Kentucky)

15:10 Hints for the scale of new CP-violating physics from B-CP anomalies - Enrico Lunghi (Indiana University)

15:30 HINTS FOR NEW PHYSICS IN B-CP ASYMMETRIES: MAY BE WE ARE EIGHT NOW? - Amarjit Soni (BNL)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 The CMS Computing System: Successes and Challenges - Ken Bloom (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

14:30 Review of Recent Developments in ATLAS Computing - Alden Stradling (UT Arlington)

15:00 The Open Science Grid and High Energy Physics - Burt Holzman (CMS)

15:30 ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 Computing and Muon Calibration Center Commissioning - Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)

16:30 Scalable Database Access Technologies for ATLAS Distributed Computing - Sasha Vanyashin (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:50 Emerging Computing Technologies in High Energy Physics - Amir Farbin (University of Texas, Arlington)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 |Upsilon(1S)-->\Gamma(\eta',\eta,f_2(1270)) decays - Bing An Li (University of Kentucky)

14:24 Measurement of Bc properties at CDF - Turgun Nigmanov (University of Pittsburgh)

14:48 Production measurements at LHCb with the first data - Francesco Dettori (Università degli Studi di Cagliari / INFN)

15:12 Branching Fraction Measurements of the decays D0 --> Vector Eta - Klaus HONSCHEID (Ohio State University)

16:30 A search for the decay B --> l nu gamma - Dana LINDEMANN (McGill University)

16:54 Exclusive semileptonic b->c decays at BaBar and the determination of |Vcb| - Manuel FRANCO SEVILLA (SLAC)

17:18 Measurement and interpretation of moments in Decays B -> Xc ell nu - Enrico FELTRESI (INFN Padova)

17:42 Selected Results in Tau Physics in BaBar - Sudarshan PARAMESVARAN (Royal Holloway, University of London)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Standard Model Higgs Production - Radja Boughezal (Univ. of Zurich)

14:35 Search for standard model Higgs in ZH->llbb production channel - Zaki Shalhout (Wayne State University)

15:00 Search for standard model Higgs in WH->lnubb channel - Darren Price (Indiana University)

15:25 Search for standard model Higgs in VH->nunubb (V = W or Z) channel - Bodhitha Jayatilaka (Duke University)

16:30 Higgs searches in final states with tau leptons - Subhendu Chakrabarty (SUNY Stony Brook)

16:55 Search for Higgs boson in H->gamma gamma channel - Xuebing Bu (Univ of Science and Technology of China, Hefei)

17:20 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson produced in Vector Boson Fusion and decaying into tau pair in CMS with 1fb-1 of luminosity - Rahmat Rahmat (University of Mississippi)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Neutrino Oscillations: Beams and Reactors - Mary Bishai (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:30 Neutrino Oscillations: Atmospheric and Solar - Roger Wendell (Duke University)

15:00 Solar Neutrino Measurements at Super-Kamiokande-III - Byeongsu Yang (Seoul National University)

15:20 Recent atmospheric neutrino results using the SK-I, SK-II, SK-III datasets - Jennifer Raaf (Boston University)

15:40 Search for electron neutrino appearance in the MINOS experiment - Ryan Patterson (California Institute of Technology)

16:30 Identifying Electron Neutrino Events in MINOS - Pedro Ochoa (Caltech)

16:50 MINOS near-detector data decomposition and far-detector extrapolation - Sanjay Swain (Stanford University)

17:10 First observation of NuMI anti-neutrinos by MINOS - Istvan Danko (University of Pittsburgh)

17:30 Analysis of Neutral Current Interactions in MINOS: A Search for Sterile Neutrinos - Alexandre Sousa (Harvard University)

17:50 The NOvA Experiment - Andrew Norman (University of Virginia)

18:10 Overview of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment - TRUNG LE (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 High Energy Astrophysics with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Elizabeth Hays (NASA/GSFC)

14:25 Highlights of Gamma-ray Astronomy with VERITAS - Brian Humensky (University of Chicago)

14:50 The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, South and North: Recent Results and Plans for the Future - corbin covault (Case Western Reserve University)

15:15 Search for Anisotropy in the Flux of Cosmic Rays Using the LAT Instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope - Richard Hughes (The Ohio State University and The Fermi LAT Collaboration)

15:40 Prospects for Measuring the Cosmic-Ray Proton Spectrum Using the LAT Instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope - Patrick Smith (The Ohio State University and The Fermi LAT Collaboration)

16:30 The Dark Energy Survey - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)

16:55 The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope - Ian Shipsey (Purdue University)

17:20 Instabilities and Interactions in Cosmology's Dark Sector - Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)

17:40 Singlet scalar dark matter effects on Higgs boson driven inflation - Sherwin Love (Purdue University)

18:00 Upsilon Decays into Scalar Dark Matter - Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Searching for New Physics at the LHC with Top Quarks - Walker Devin (University of California - Berkeley)

14:40 Top Jets and Substructure at LHC - Leandro Almeida (Stony Brook University)

14:55 Reconstruction of high transverse momentum top quarks at CMS - Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)

15:10 CP Violating Anomalous top quark couplings at the LHC - Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State)

15:25 Search for a heavy top t'->Wq in top events - David Cox (University of California, Davis)

15:40 Probing the heavy flavor content in ttbar events and using ttbar events as a calibration tool at CMS - Roberta Volpe (INFN, Sezione di Perugia-Universita & INFN, Perugia-Unknown)

16:30 Top Polarization And New Physics - Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University)

16:45 Measurement of top pair spin correlation using CDF data - Alexei Varganov (the University o Michigan)

17:00 Measurement of Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Production at CDF - Glenn Strycker (University of Michigan)

17:15 Mass Dependence of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Pair Production - Monica Tecchio (University of Michigan)

17:30 Top Properties Measurements with the D0 Detector - Shabnam Jabeen (Boston University-Unknown-Unknown)

17:50 Properties of the top quark - Hyunsu Lee (University of Chicago)
Tuesday 28 July 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Particle Astrophysics, High Energy Gamma-ray and Neutrino Astronomy - Angela Olinto (University of Chicago)

09:30 Early Universe and Cosmology - Josh Frieman (FNAL)

10:00 Higgs Searches - Kruse Mark (Duke University)

11:00 Electroweak Physics - Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)

11:30 Beyond SM Searchers - Leo Bellantoni (FNAL)

12:00 Beyond SM Theory - Liantao Wang (Princeton)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Muon Ionization Cooling R and D in the MuCool program - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology)

14:30 Muon Collider Progress and Prospects - Rolland Johnson (Muons, Inc.)

15:00 Large Angle Beamstrahlung at CESR - giovanni bonvicini (Wayne State University)

15:30 Accelerator Preparations for Muon Physics Experiments at Fermilab - Michael Syphers (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:30 Muon Collider 6D Cooling Simulations - Pavel Snopok (UC Riverside)

17:00 PETAVAC: 100 TeV PROTON-ANTIPROTON COLLIDER IN SSC TUNNEL - Peter McIntyre (Texas A&M University)

17:30 Challenges in Beam Instrumentation - Manfred Wendt (Fermi Naional Accelerator Laboratory)

18:00 Superconducting RF Cavity Topics - Camille Ginsburg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Searches for Supersymmetry Signatures at the LHC - Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)

14:40 Inclusive search for Supersymmetry with missing transverse energy signatures in ATLAS - Tapas Sarangi (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)

15:00 Search for supersymmetry at the CMS in all-hadronic final state - Gheorghe Lungu (Rockefeller University)

15:20 LHC signals of a Supersymmetry scenario with right chiral neutrinos - Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)

15:40 Photon Searches at CDF - Eunsin Lee (Texas A&M University)

16:30 BSM searches at the LHC with Leptons and Jets - Kevin Black (Harvard University)

17:10 Search for Charged Massive Long-Lived Particles Using Data from D0 - Yunhe Xie (Brown University)

17:30 Search for New Phenomena in final states with leptons, photons, MEt - Ioannis Katsanos (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

17:50 Kinematic Cusps: Determining the Missing Particle Mass at the LHC - Ian-Woo Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

18:10 Search for a Heavy Top Partner at the LHC - Aram Avetisyan (Brown)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Angels and Demons - Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)

14:20 Web 2.0 for Particle Physicists - Kathryn Grim (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:40 Overview of QuarkNet - Mitchell Wayne (University of Notre Dame)

15:00 Education and Public Outreach of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Greg Snow (University of Nebraska)

15:20 Update on USCMS Education and Outreach - Randal Ruchti (University of Notre Dame)

16:00 So you want to write for the public: An author's perspective - Don Lincoln (Fermilab)

16:20 Media Training - Kathryn Grim (Fermilab)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Drell-Yan processes at hadron colliders - Alessandro Vicini (Department of Physics, University of Milano)

14:30 Measurement of the W Boson Mass and Width with 1 fb-1 of D0 Run II Data - Jyotsna Osta (Notre Dame)

14:50 W and Z boson production at hadron colliders - Christopher Paul Hays (University of Oxford)

15:20 Inclusive W/Z productions at CMS - Ping Tan (FNAL)

15:40 Measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum spectrum on ATLAS with early data - Lashkar Kashif (Harvard University)

16:30 Towards to the First Measurement of the Drell-Yan Dimuon Differential Cross Section with the CMS detector - Chang Liu (Purdue)

16:50 Measurement of the $W$ and $Z$ + jets cross section with ATLAS - Ashfaq Ahmad (Stony Brook University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Commissioning the CMS pixel detector with Cosmic Rays - Andrew York (Unknown)

14:25 Results from the Commissioning of the ATLAS Pixel Detector with Cosmic data. - Galyaev Evgeny (University of Texas at Dallas)

14:50 First Alignment of the CMS Tracker and Implications for the First Collision Data - Zijin Guo (Johns Hopkins University-Unknown-Unknown)

15:15 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - Grant Gorfine (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

15:40 Calibration of the ATLAS EM Calorimeter using W, Z, and J/psi to ee events - Ashfaq Ahmad (Stony Brook University)

16:30 Commissioning of the CMS Endcap Muon System - Phillip Killewald (The Ohio State University)

16:55 Alignment of the CMS Muon System with Tracks - Jim Pivarski (Texas A&M University)

17:20 ATLAS Muon Detector Commissioning - Edward Diehl (University of Michigan)

17:45 Cosmic Muon Analysis with the CMS detector - Chang Liu (Purdue University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Hadron spectroscopy results from Belle - Anze Zupanc

14:35 Heavy quark meson spectroscopy at CDF - Kai Yi (Physics and Astronomy Department-University of Iowa-Unknown)

15:00 Analysis of D^0 D-bar^0 pi^0 Decays of the X(3872) - Eric Braaten (Ohio State University)

15:25 New Experiments with Antiprotons - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

16:30 Properties of weakly-decaying bottom baryons - Satyajit Behari (CDF)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 A light-cone wavefunction approach to open heavy flavor dynamics in a QGP - Rishi Sharma (LANL)

14:25 Heavy quarkonia measurements at STAR - Haidong Liu (University of California (UCD)-Unknown-Unknown)

14:50 Hydro and HBT for RHIC - Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

15:15 Underlying Event Studies at RHIC - Helen Louise Caines (Yale University)

15:40 Probing the Quark-Gluon Phase Transition with Correlations and Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment - Terence Tarnowsky (Michigan State University)

16:30 Azimuthal charged particle correlations as a probe for local strong parity violation in heavy ion collisions - Ilya Selyuzhenkov (Indiana University)

16:55 Azimuthal correlation and anisotropic flow measurements from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC - Michael Issah (Vanderbilt University)

17:20 Two particle correlations and viscosity in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Monika Sharma for the STAR Collaboration (Wayne State University)

17:45 Viscous Hydrodynamics in (3+1)Dimensions for Heavy Ion Collisions - Josh Vredevoogd (MSU)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Higgs Production in the MSSM - Christopher Jackson (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:35 Search for Higgs in NMSSM and Hidden Valley models - Andy Haas (SLAC)

15:00 Search for a Light CP-Odd and Scaler Higgs in Upsilon Data - Yury Kolomensky (University of California, Berkeley)

15:25 Diboson Production in Semileptonic Decay Modes - Martina Hurwitz (University of Chicago)

16:30 Search for the Higgs Boson in H->WW and WH to WWW(*) with the D0 Detector - Michael Kirby (Northwestern University)

16:55 Search for standard model Higgs boson in H->WW channel at CDF - Jennifer Pursley (University of Wisconsin)

17:20 Combined upper limit on standard model Higgs boson production at the Tevatron - Nils Krumnack (Baylor University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Lifetime difference in B(s) mixing: Standard model and beyond. - Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)

14:24 Study of CP violation in Bs -> J/psi phi decays at CDF - Ignacio Redondo

14:48 Analysis of Bs->phiphi decay mode. - Benedetto di Ruzza (CDF Collaboration)

15:12 Recent results from Y(5S) at Belle - Jin Li (University of Hawaii)

16:30 Entangled Bs-Bs States at The Upsilon 5s - David Atwood (Iowa State University)

16:54 Evidence for the Decay Bs to Ds(*) Ds(*) and a Measurement of DeltaGamma(CP)_s/Gamma_s - Sung Woo Youn (Northwestern U./Fermilab)

17:18 Charm mixing and CPV at CDF - Nagesh Kulkarni (Wayne State University)

17:42 Measurement of D0-D0bar mixing and search for CP violation at Babar - Michael Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati)

18:06 Quantum Correlated Neutral D Meson Decays - Adam LINCOLN (Wayne State University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Understanding Lepton Mixing - Lisa Everett (University of Wisconsin)

14:30 Supernova neutrinos: time dependent oscillation features - Alexander Friedland (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:00 Icosahedral (A_5) Family Symmetry and the Golden Ratio Prediction for Solar Neutrino Mixing - Alexander Stuart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:20 Long-baseline neutrino experiments as tests for Lorentz violation - Jorge S. Diaz (Indiana University)

15:40 The OPERA experiment: on the way to the direct observation of nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillation - Marilisa De Serio (I.N.F.N. Bari)

16:30 The Nuclear Emulsion Technology and the Analysis of the OPERA Experiment Data - Tsutomu Fukuda (Nagoya university (JAPAN))

16:50 MiniBooNE Update - PAUL NIENABER (SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)

17:10 Low energy analysis of nu N --> nu N gamma in the Standard Model - Richard Hill (University of Chicago)

17:30 A phenomenological study of photon production in low energy neutrino nucleon scattering - James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17:50 The Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment - Christopher White (Illinois Institite of Technology)

18:10 Search for theta_13 at Daya Bay - Debabrata Mohapatra (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment - Oleg Kamaev (University of Minnesota)

14:20 The COUPP Dark Matter Search Experiment - Ilan Levine (Indiana University South Bend)

14:40 Indirect Dark Matter Search with VERITAS - Ryan Dickherber (Washington University in St. Louis)

15:00 Pulsars and Indirect Signals for Dark Matter - Daniel Phalen (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)

15:20 Motivations for a New Force in the Dark Sector - Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)

15:40 Light Dark Matter annihilation in model independent approach. - Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)

16:30 Recent Results from IceCube and AMANDA - Tyce DeYoung (Pennsylvania State University)

16:55 Leptogenesis and Its Electromagnetic Variant - Boris Kayser (Fermilab)

17:20 Baryogenesis from the Decays of Exotic Vector-like Squarks - Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)

17:40 Planck Scale Cosmology and Resummed Quantum Gravity - Bennie Ward (Baylor University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Top Quark Phenomenology with D-Dimensional Generalized Unitarity - Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins University)

14:15 Measurements of Top Quark Production at CDF - Thomas Andrew Schwarz (University of California (UCD))

14:35 Top Production Measurements with the D0 Detector - Mikhail Arov (Louisiana TU, Coll. Eng. & Science-Unknown-Unknown)

14:55 Prospects for measuring Top Pair Production using a likelihood method at ATLAS in 10 TeV p-p Collisions - Dilip Jana (University of Oklahoma)

15:10 Top quark pair cross section prospects in ATLAS - Andrei Gaponenko (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:35 Prospects for first ttbar cross section measurements at CMS - Ashish Kumar (SUNY/Buffalo)

16:30 Higher-order corrections to top-antitop pair and single top quark production - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

16:45 Observation of Single Top Quark Production with the D0 Detector - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois at Chicago)

17:10 Top quark mass measurement using mT2 at CDF -

17:25 Top Mass from Jet Distributions - Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

17:40 Top Mass Measurements with the D0 Detector - Daniel Boline

18:05 Top quark mass: latest CDF results, Tevatron combinations, and electroweak implications - Costas Vellidis
Wednesday 29 July 2009
08:45
08:45 - 12:30
Contributions

08:45 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award - Ryan Patterson (Caltech)

09:00 Low Energy Searches for BSM Physics - Lee Roberts (Boston University)

09:30 CP-violation - Tom Browder (University of Hawaii)

10:00 Heavy Flavor Physics (Experiment) - David Hitlin (Caltech)

11:00 Heavy Flavor Physics (Theory) - Benjamin Grinstein (UC San Diego)

11:30 Lattice QCD - Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois (Urbana))

12:00 Top Quark Physics - Mousumi Datta (FNAL)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:00
Thursday 30 July 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 QCD Theory - John Campbell (University of Glasgow)

09:30 QCD Experiment - Don Lincoln (FNAL)

10:00 Hadron Spectroscopy - Stephen Godfrey (Carleton University)

11:00 Review of Heavy Ion Experiments - James Dunlop (BNL)

11:30 Theoretical Review of Heavy Ion Physics - Larry McLerran (BNL)

12:00 Education and Outreach in HEP - Randal Ruchti (University of Notre Dame)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Compact, Achromatic Non-scaling FFAG Accelerators for Muon Acceleration and Cancer Therapy - Carol Johnstone (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 Fermilab Main Injector - Philip Adamson (Fermilab)

15:00 Tevatron Collider Status and Prospects - Ronald Moore (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:30 Antiproton Production at Fermilab - Vladimir Nagaslaev (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Assortment of Di-Lepton Signatures and Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Valerie Halyo (Princeton University)

14:40 Model Independent Search for New Physics in Leptonic Final States with the D0 Detector - James Linnemann (Michigan State University)

15:00 Early Searches for Contact Interactions in the Dimuon channel at ATLAS - Emily Thompson (University of Massachusetts)

15:20 Discovery Potential for Di-lepton and Lepton+Etmiss Resonances at High Mass with ATLAS - Isabel Pedraza (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)

15:40 Search for Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Channel - Selda Esen (Department of Physics-Brown University-Unknown)

16:30 Searching for Majorana Neutrinos in the Like-Sign Dilepton Final - Warren James Clarida (Physics and Astronomy Department - University of Iowa)

16:50 Identification of Extra Neutral Gauge at the LHC - Stephen Godfrey (Carleton University)

17:10 Search for New Physics in rare processes in the B meson systems by LHCb - Marc-Olivier Bettler (Laboratoire de Physique des Hautes Energies (LPHE-IPEP))

17:30 The Fourth Generation in Extensions of the Standard Model - Erin De Pree (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 The Final Measurement of ε´/ε from the KTeV Experiment - Elizabeth Worcester (University of Chicago)

14:30 Searching for New Physics in CP-violation measurements at LHCb - Steven Blusk (Syracuse University)

15:00 Physics prospects for Belle upgrade - Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)

15:30 Measurements of alpha in Babar - Simone Stracka (Babar Collaboration)

16:30 Charmless hadronic B decays into vector and tensor final states - Paolo Gandini (Babar Collaboration)

16:50 Search for b --> u transitions in the decays B- --> D(*)0 K- - Richard Kass (Ohio State University)

17:10 Two- and Three-body charmless B decays at BaBar - Simone Stracka (Babar Collaboration)

17:30 Inclusive and exclusive B decays with radiative and electroweak penguins at Belle - Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)
14:00 - 17:55
Contributions

14:00 ATLAS Silicon Microstrip Tracker Operation - Zdenek Dolezal (Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics)

14:25 Development of FTK Architecture: A Fast Hardware Track Trigger for the ATLAS Detector - Anton Kapliy (University of Chicago)

14:50 ATLAS Pixel Radiation Monitoring with HVPP4 System - Igor Gorelov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of New Mexico, USA)

15:15 Upgrade of CMS HCAL for SLHC - Warren James Clarida (Physics and Astronomy Department - University of Iowa)

16:15 RADIATION-HARD ASICS FOR SLHC OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION - K.K. Gan (The Ohio State University)

16:40 STUDY OF THE RADIATION-HARDNESS OF VCSEL/PIN ARRAYS - Waruna Fernando (The Ohio State University)

17:05 ArgoNeuT: A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Test in the NuMI Beamline - Mitchell Soderberg (Yale University)

17:30 Novel Multi-pixel Silicon Photon Detectors and Applications in T2K. - Dmitriy Beznosko (NN Group SUNYSB)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 High Statistics Measurement of Di-boson Production with the D0 Detector - Mike Strang (Ohio State University)

14:20 Measurements of the Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings from Diboson Production at D0 - Jadranka Sekaric (Florida State University)

14:40 Search for diboson production in final states with one lepton, missing transverse energy, and jets at CDF - Martina Hurwitz (University of Chicago)

15:00 First Observation of Diboson Production in Hadronic Final State at Tevatron - Jennifer Pursley (Wisconsin)

15:20 Diboson physics at Tevatron - Ia Iashvili (SUNY at Buffalo)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Search for Phi(1862) Pentaquark States with CLAS - Hovanes Egiyan (CLAS Collaboration)

14:25 On the absence of spin-orbit inversion in heavy-light mesons - Taekoon Lee (Kunsan National University)

14:50 Dalitz Plot Analysis of B Decays - Liaoyan Dong (SLAC)

16:30 Experimental Review of the Hadron Spectroscopy Session - Vaia Papadimitriou (Fermilab)

17:05 Theory review of the Hadron Spectroscopy session - Eric Swanson (University of Pittsburg)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Review of charm mixing and rare decays - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

14:24 Semileptonic Charm Meson Decays - Ian Shipsey (Purdue University)

14:48 Study of D+(s) decay properties at Belle - Soohyung Lee (Korea University)

15:12 Measurements of Hadronic Decays of D0, D+, and Ds Mesons - David Cinabro (Wayne State University)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Heavy Ion Physics After Nine Years of RHIC Operation - Brian Cole (Physics Dept., Pupin Physics Lab.-Columbia University-Unknown)

14:45 Equation of State and the finite temperature transition for hot QCD - Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)

15:15 Anisotropic collective phenomena in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions - Sergei Voloshin (Department of Physics and Astronomy-College of Science-Wayne Sta)

15:45 Test of the viscous hydrodynamic paradigm for RHIC - Denes Molnar (Purdue University and RIKEN BNL Research Center)

16:45 Viscous Evolution of a Quark Gluon Plasma - Kevin Dusling (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:15 Viscous hydrodynamics with shear and bulk viscosity for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions - Huichao Song (The Ohio State Univ)
14:00 - 17:45
Contributions

14:00 The Higgs boson as a portal to dark matter - Gabe Shaughnessy (Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)

14:35 Discovery Potential of SM Higgs through H->WW Decay Modes at LHC with ATLAS Detector - Haijun Yang (University of Michigan)

15:00 H to WW and ZZ and projected exclusion limits on the SM Higgs boson cross sections - Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida)

15:25 Search for a supersymmetric Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons - John Conway (University of California, Davis)

16:35 Search for Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons - Flera Ritzadinova (Oklahoma State University)

17:00 Discovery Potential for MSSM Higgs Bosons with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Trevor Vickey (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)

17:25 Prospects for Standard Model Higgs physics with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - German Carrillo-Montoya (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Probing light hidden sectors via the U(1) portal - Adam Ritz (U of Victoria)

14:30 Search for the Rare Decay Kl->pi0nunubar at E391a Experiment - Jiasen Ma (The University of Chicago)

15:00 The K0TO Experiment - Monica Tecchio (University of Michigan)

15:30 Measuring the BR(K+->pi+nu nubar) with the NA62 experiment at CERN - Giulio Saracino (Univ. Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

16:30 Search for KL -> pi0 pi0 μ+μ− with KTeV data - Leo Bellantoni (Fermilab)

16:55 A Search for Invisible Decay of the Y(1S) - Yury Kolomensky (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

17:20 Measurement of Upsilon(1S) --> l+l- and Test of Lepton Universality - Elisa Guido (University & INFN Genova)
14:00 - 17:50
Contributions

14:00 Particle Physics with Astrophysical Neutrino Detectors - Kara Hoffman (UMD)

14:30 Testing Neutrino Physics with Colliders - Anupama Atre (Fermilab)

15:00 Magnetic Moment of Neutrino in Hot and Dense Medium - Samina Masood (Univ. of Houston Clear Lake)

15:20 Precision Measurement of the Low Energy Solar Neutrino Spectrum with the LENS Experiment - Mark Pitt (Virginia Tech)

15:40 Gadolinium study for a water Cherenkov detector - Atsuko Kibayashi (Okayama University)

16:30 NuSOnG
14:00 - 18:00
Contributions

14:00 Perturbative QCD for hadron collider physics: progress and applications - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)

14:35 HERA measurements on proton structure - Alexander Glazov (DESY)

15:10 Two-loop soft anomalous dimensions with massive and massless quarks - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

15:35 HERWIRI1.0: MC Realization of IR-Improvement for DGLAP-CS Parton Showers - Bennie Ward (Baylor University)

16:20 Detection of Jets and Photons at ATLAS - Yaquan Fang (University of Wisconsin)

16:45 Photons plus Heavy Flavors and Double Parton Interactions in Photon plus Three-jet events in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV in the D0 experiment - Dmitry Bandurin (Kansas State University)

17:10 Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions and Search for New Physics with the D0 Detector - Don Lincoln (Fermilab)

17:35 Measurement of Differential Z/gamma+jet+X Cross Sections with the D0 Detector - Sabine Lammers (Indiana University)
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Friday 31 July 2009
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Neutrino Physics (Experiment) - Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)

09:30 Neutrino Physics (Theory) - Ernst Ma (UC Riverside)

10:00 Recent Progress in Field and String Theory - Chris Herzog (Princeton University)

11:00 Recent Progress in String Phenomenology - Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)

11:30 Latest Developments in Technologies for Detectors - James Brau (University of Oregon)

12:00 Future Accelerators - Pier Oddone (FNAL)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the Threshold - Markus Luty (UC Davis) Markus Luty (University of California Davis)

14:40 Search for Leptoquark Production with the D0 Detector - Sergey Uzunyan (Northern llinois University)

15:00 ATLAS sensitivity to leptoquarks and heavy Majorana neutrinos in final states with high-pt dileptons and jets with early LHC data - Vikas Bansal (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Pittsburgh-Unk)

15:20 Searches for quark compositeness/heavy resonances in hadronic final states - Dmitri Smirnov (Notre Dame)

15:40 Lifetime Difference in $D^0$-${\overline D}^0$ Mixing within R-Parity Violating SUSY - Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)

16:30 Exotic Searches With Complex Final States - Tulika Bose (Boston University)

17:10 Could leptons, quarks or both be highly relativistic, bound states of a minimally interacting fermion and scalar? - G. Bruce Mainland (The Ohio State University at Newark)

17:30 Presymmetry beyond the Standard Model - Ernesto Matute (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 The Dark Energy Camera - a New Instrument for the Dark Energy Survey - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)

14:25 Local alignment of the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracking detector - Zijin Guo (Johns Hopkins University)

14:50 An imaging time-of-propagation system for charged particle identification at a Super B factory - Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)

15:15 Prospects for Upgrade of KEKB - Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)

15:40 Cerenkov Light Diagnostics for Superconducting Cavities - Aram Apyan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Neutrino-Neucleon Scattering at NuTeV - kwangwoo park (southern methodist university)

14:20 Electroweak corrections to b-jet and di-jet production - Andreas Scharf (University at Buffalo)

14:40 Measurement of the Forward-backward Charge Asymmetry in Z/gamma*->ee events with the D0 Detector - Trang Hoang (Florida State University)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Evolution of the ridge structure in RHIC heavy ion collisions - Chanaka De Silva (Wayne State University)

14:25 Soft Contribution to the Hard Ridge - George Moschelli (Wayne State University)

14:50 Bridging the soft and the hard at RHIC: collective flow, jet quenching and medium response. - Jiangyong Jia (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Stony Brook University)

15:25 A theory of jet shapes and cross sections in hadronic and nuclear collisions - Ivan Vitev (LANL)

16:30 Full Jet Reconstruction In Heavy Ion Collisions: Prospects and Perils - Sevil Salur (LBL)

17:00 Direct jet reconstruction in p + p and Cu + Cu at PHENIX - Yue Shi Lai (Columbia University-Unknown-Unknown)

17:30 Modification of high p_{T} hadro-chemistry in Au+Au collisions relative to p+p - Anthony Timmins (Wayne State University)

18:00 Hadro-Chemistry with High-PT Particles in Nuclear Collisions - Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University & RBRC)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Search for tau -> mu/e gamma - Swagato Banerjee (University of Victoria)

14:20 Search for Lepton-Flavor Violating Upsilon Decays at BaBar - Swagato Banerjee (University of Victoria)

14:45 Light Hidden Fermionic Dark Matter In Neutrino Experiments - Jennifer Kile (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:15 The CLEAR Experiment - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

16:10 Minimal Flavor Violation and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Christopher Kolda (U of Notre Dame)

16:40 A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at FNAL - Andrew Norman (Univeristy of Virginia)

17:10 CP Violation and EDMs in an M-theory motivated SUSY breaking model - Jing Shao (U of Michigan)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 Non-Oscillation Neutrino Physics Experiments - Jason Detwiler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 EXO-200 - Nicole Ackerman (SLAC)

14:50 The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in CUORE - Larissa Ejzak (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:10 The Majorana Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment - Michael Marino (University of Washington)

15:30 Minerva
14:00 - 18:30
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 New limit of pion form factor at very large $Q^2$ - Bing An Li (University of Kentucky)

14:25 The strange quark condensate in the nucleon in 2+1 flavor QCD - doug toussaint (University of Arizona)

14:50 Recent results on two-photon physics at BABAR - Mike Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati)

15:15 Renormalon subtraction from the average plaquette and the gluon condensate - Taekoon Lee (Kunsan National University)

15:40 Optimal spin-quantization axes for the polarizations of dileptons and quarkonium with large transverse momentum - Daekyoung Kang (The Ohio State University)

16:30 Computation of the string tension in Yang-Mills theory using large N reduction - Joe Kiskis (UC Davis)

16:55 Improving the precision of light quark mass determinations - Christian Sturm (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
14:00 - 18:30
Contributions

14:00 The Hamiltonian Approach to Yang-Mills (2+1): An Expansion Scheme and Corrections to String Tension - Alexandr Yelnikov (City College of New York)

14:20 Meson Configurations from String Theory - Kory Stiffler (University of Iowa)

14:40 Massive Quark Scattering at Strong Coupling from AdS/CFT - Edwin Barnes (University of Virginia)

15:00 Bjorken hydrodynamics from an AdS Schwarzschild black hole - James Alsup (University of Tennessee)

15:20 The fate of black branes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity - L.C.R. Wijewardhana (University of Cincinnati)

15:40 Gauge-Invariant Localization of Infinitely Many Gravitational Energies from All Possible Auxiliary Structures - J. Brian Pitts (University of Notre Dame)

16:30 Solitons in AdS1+1 - Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

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