DPF 2009

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Jul 2009
27 Jul 2009
28 Jul 2009
29 Jul 2009
30 Jul 2009
31 Jul 2009
AM
08:30
Plenary I (until 12:00)
08:30 Welcome to DPF-2009 - Jay Noren (Wayne State University)  
08:40 LHC Machine Status - Dr Lyn Evans (CERN)  
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09:10 ATLAS Detector Status - Jim Shank (Boston University)  
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09:30 CMS Detector Status - Gregory Rakness (UCLA)  
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09:50 --- Coffee Break ---
10:10 LHC-b Detector Status - Eddy Jans (NIKHEF)  
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10:30 ALICE Detector Status - John Harris (Yale)  
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11:00 Experimenal Searches for Dark Matter - Sunil Golwala (Caltech)  
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11:30 Interpretation of Possible Signals of Dark Matter - Aaron Pierce (Michigan)  
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09:00
Plenary II (until 12:30)
09:00 Particle Astrophysics, High Energy Gamma-ray and Neutrino Astronomy - Angela Olinto (University of Chicago)  
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09:30 Early Universe and Cosmology - Josh Frieman (FNAL)  
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10:00 Higgs Searches - Kruse Mark (Duke University)  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Electroweak Physics - Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University)  
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11:30 Beyond SM Searchers - Leo Bellantoni (FNAL)  
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12:00 Beyond SM Theory - Liantao Wang (Princeton)  
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08:45
Plenary III (until 12:30)
08:45 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award - Ryan Patterson (Caltech)  
09:00 Low Energy Searches for BSM Physics - Lee Roberts (Boston University)  
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09:30 CP-violation - Tom Browder (University of Hawaii)  
10:00 Heavy Flavor Physics (Experiment) - David Hitlin (Caltech)  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Heavy Flavor Physics (Theory) - Benjamin Grinstein (UC San Diego)  
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11:30 Lattice QCD - Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois (Urbana))  
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12:00 Top Quark Physics - Mousumi Datta (FNAL)  
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09:00
Plenary IV (until 12:30)
09:00 QCD Theory - John Campbell (University of Glasgow)  
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09:30 QCD Experiment - Don Lincoln (FNAL)  
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10:00 Hadron Spectroscopy - Stephen Godfrey (Carleton University)  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Review of Heavy Ion Experiments - James Dunlop (BNL)  
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11:30 Theoretical Review of Heavy Ion Physics - Larry McLerran (BNL)  
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12:00 Education and Outreach in HEP - Randal Ruchti (University of Notre Dame)  
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09:00
Plenary V (until 12:30)
09:00 Neutrino Physics (Experiment) - Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)  
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09:30 Neutrino Physics (Theory) - Ernst Ma (UC Riverside)  
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10:00 Recent Progress in Field and String Theory - Chris Herzog (Princeton University)  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Recent Progress in String Phenomenology - Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)  
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11:30 Latest Developments in Technologies for Detectors - James Brau (University of Oregon)  
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12:00 Future Accelerators - Pier Oddone (FNAL)  
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PM
17:00
Arrival Day - no scientific activities (until 22:00)
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Accelerators I (until 18:30)
14:00 Challenges for Multi-Megawatt Neutrino Beamlines - Michael Martens (Fermilab)  
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14:30 MICE Overview - Dr Linda Coney (UC Riverside)  
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15:00 Study of Collective Effect in Ionization Cooling - Dr Dazhang Huang (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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15:30 Optimization of Integrated Luminosity of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider - Mary Convery (Fermilab)  
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16:00 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
16:30 Antiproton accumulation and cooling at Fermilabโ€™s Recycler ring - Alexander Shemyakin (Fermilab)  
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17:00 Speeding up simulations of relativistic systems using an optimal boosted frame - Dr Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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17:30 Muon Cooling and Future Muon Facilities - Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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18:00 MANX, A 6-D Muon Beam Cooling Experiment - Dr Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.)  
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14:00
Beyond the Standard Model I (until 18:30)
14:00 Searches for BSM signatures at the Tevatron - Andrew Haas (SLAC)  
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14:40 Search for Supersymmetry in ppbar Collisions at root(s)=1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production - Mr Rob Forrest (UC Davis)  
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15:00 Addressing the โ€œInverse Problemโ€ of Multichannel Particle Searches: A Model-independent Approach to Supersymmetry Search with Trileptons - Mr Alexander Sood (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)  
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15:20 Setting Limits on Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Models with Photons at CDF - Mr Eunsin Lee (Texas A&M University)  
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15:40 Discovery potential for GMSB Supersymmetry in ATLAS using the Zphoton+MET and ZZ+MET Final States - Devin Harper (University of Michigan)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 Recent developments in the phenomenology of supersymmetric models - Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)  
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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)  
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17:30 Searches for Squarks and Gluinos with the D0 Detector - Sergey Uzunyan (Northern llinois University)  
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17:50 R-symmetric Gauge Mediation and the MRSSM - Dr Andrew Blechman (University of Toronto)  
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14:00
CP-violation I (until 18:30)
14:00 Interpreting new CP violating signals in B Decays - Alakabha Datta (University of Mississippi)  
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14:30 Time-dependent $CP$ violation in radiative $B$ decays - Mr Himansu Sahoo (University of Hawaii)  
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14:50 A critical look at hadronic b \to s penguin modes - Rupak Dutta (University of Kentucky)  
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15:10 Hints for the scale of new CP-violating physics from B-CP anomalies - Dr Enrico Lunghi (Indiana University)  
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15:30 HINTS FOR NEW PHYSICS IN B-CP ASYMMETRIES: MAY BE WE ARE EIGHT NOW? - Amarjit Soni (BNL)  
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15:50 --- break ---
14:00
Computing (until 18:30)
14:00 The CMS Computing System: Successes and Challenges - Ken Bloom (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)  
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14:30 Review of Recent Developments in ATLAS Computing - Alden Stradling (UT Arlington)  
Keynote
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15:00 The Open Science Grid and High Energy Physics - Dr Burt Holzman (CMS)  
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15:30 ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 Computing and Muon Calibration Center Commissioning - Dr Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)  
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16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 Scalable Database Access Technologies for ATLAS Distributed Computing - Sasha Vanyashin (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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16:50 Emerging Computing Technologies in High Energy Physics - Amir Farbin (University of Texas, Arlington)  
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14:00
Heavy Flavor Physics I (until 18:30)
14:00 |Upsilon(1S)-->\Gamma(\eta',\eta,f_2(1270)) decays - Bing An Li (University of Kentucky)  
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14:24 Measurement of Bc properties at CDF - Turgun Nigmanov (University of Pittsburgh)  
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14:48 Production measurements at LHCb with the first data - Dr Francesco Dettori (Universitร  degli Studi di Cagliari / INFN)  
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15:12 Branching Fraction Measurements of the decays D0 --> Vector Eta - Prof. Klaus HONSCHEID (Ohio State University)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 A search for the decay B --> l nu gamma - Ms Dana LINDEMANN (McGill University)  
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16:54 Exclusive semileptonic b->c decays at BaBar and the determination of |Vcb| - Mr Manuel FRANCO SEVILLA (SLAC)  
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17:18 Measurement and interpretation of moments in Decays B -> Xc ell nu - Enrico FELTRESI (INFN Padova)  
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17:42 Selected Results in Tau Physics in BaBar - Sudarshan PARAMESVARAN (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
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14:00
Higgs Physics I (until 18:30)
14:00 Standard Model Higgs Production - Dr Radja Boughezal (Univ. of Zurich)  
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14:35 Search for standard model Higgs in ZH->llbb production channel - Mr Zaki Shalhout (Wayne State University)  
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15:00 Search for standard model Higgs in WH->lnubb channel - Dr Darren Price (Indiana University)  
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15:25 Search for standard model Higgs in VH->nunubb (V = W or Z) channel - Dr Bodhitha Jayatilaka (Duke University)  
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Higgs searches in final states with tau leptons - Dr Subhendu Chakrabarty (SUNY Stony Brook)  
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16:55 Search for Higgs boson in H->gamma gamma channel - Mr Xuebing Bu (Univ of Science and Technology of China, Hefei)  
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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 - Dr Rahmat Rahmat (University of Mississippi)  
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14:00
Neutrino Physics I (until 18:30)
14:00 Neutrino Oscillations: Beams and Reactors - Mary Bishai (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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14:30 Neutrino Oscillations: Atmospheric and Solar - Roger Wendell (Duke University)  
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15:00 Solar Neutrino Measurements at Super-Kamiokande-III - Byeongsu Yang (Seoul National University)  
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15:20 Recent atmospheric neutrino results using the SK-I, SK-II, SK-III datasets - Jennifer Raaf (Boston University)  
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15:40 Search for electron neutrino appearance in the MINOS experiment - Ryan Patterson (California Institute of Technology)  
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16:30 Identifying Electron Neutrino Events in MINOSย” - Pedro Ochoa (Caltech)  
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16:50 MINOS near-detector data decomposition and far-detector extrapolation - Sanjay Swain (Stanford University)  
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17:10 First observation of NuMI anti-neutrinos by MINOS - Dr Istvan Danko (University of Pittsburgh)  
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17:30 Analysis of Neutral Current Interactions in MINOS: A Search for Sterile Neutrinos - Dr Alexandre Sousa (Harvard University)  
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17:50 The NOvA Experiment - Andrew Norman (University of Virginia)  
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18:10 Overview of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment - Mr TRUNG LE (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY)  
14:00
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology I (until 18:30)
14:00 High Energy Astrophysics with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Elizabeth Hays (NASA/GSFC)  
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14:25 Highlights of Gamma-ray Astronomy with VERITAS - Brian Humensky (University of Chicago)  
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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 - Prof. 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 - Mr Patrick Smith (The Ohio State University and The Fermi LAT Collaboration)  
16:30 The Dark Energy Survey - Prof. Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)  
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16:55 The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope - Prof. Ian Shipsey (Purdue University)  
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17:20 Instabilities and Interactions in Cosmology's Dark Sector - Prof. Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)  
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17:40 Singlet scalar dark matter effects on Higgs boson driven inflation - Prof. Sherwin Love (Purdue University)  
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18:00 Upsilon Decays into Scalar Dark Matter - Mr Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)  
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14:00
Top Quark Physics I (until 18:30)
14:00 Searching for New Physics at the LHC with Top Quarks - Dr Walker Devin (University of California - Berkeley)  
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14:40 Top Jets and Substructure at LHC - Mr Leandro Almeida (Stony Brook University)  
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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)  
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15:25 Search for a heavy top t'->Wq in top events - Mr David Cox (University of California, Davis)  
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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)  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Top Polarization And New Physics - Dr Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University)  
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16:45 Measurement of top pair spin correlation using CDF data - Dr Alexei Varganov (the University o Michigan)  
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17:00 Measurement of Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Production at CDF - Mr Glenn Strycker (University of Michigan)  
17:15 Mass Dependence of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Pair Production - Dr Monica Tecchio (University of Michigan)  
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17:30 Top Properties Measurements with the D0 Detector - Shabnam Jabeen (Boston University-Unknown-Unknown)  
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17:50 Properties of the top quark - Hyunsu Lee (University of Chicago)  
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12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Accelerators II (until 18:30)
14:00 Muon Ionization Cooling R and D in the MuCool program - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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14:30 Muon Collider Progress and Prospects - Rolland Johnson (Muons, Inc.)  
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15:00 Large Angle Beamstrahlung at CESR - giovanni bonvicini (Wayne State University)  
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15:30 Accelerator Preparations for Muon Physics Experiments at Fermilab - Dr Michael Syphers (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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16:00 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
16:30 Muon Collider 6D Cooling Simulations - Dr Pavel Snopok (UC Riverside)  
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17:00 PETAVAC: 100 TeV PROTON-ANTIPROTON COLLIDER IN SSC TUNNEL - Prof. Peter McIntyre (Texas A&M University)  
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17:30 Challenges in Beam Instrumentation - Manfred Wendt (Fermi Naional Accelerator Laboratory)  
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18:00 Superconducting RF Cavity Topics - Dr Camille Ginsburg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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14:00
Beyond the Standard Model II (until 18:30)
14:00 Searches for Supersymmetry Signatures at the LHC - Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)  
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14:40 Inclusive search for Supersymmetry with missing transverse energy signatures in ATLAS - Dr Tapas Sarangi (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)  
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15:00 Search for supersymmetry at the CMS in all-hadronic final state - Gheorghe Lungu (Rockefeller University)  
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15:20 LHC signals of a Supersymmetry scenario with right chiral neutrinos - Dr Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)  
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15:40 Photon Searches at CDF - Eunsin Lee (Texas A&M University)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 BSM searches at the LHC with Leptons and Jets - Kevin Black (Harvard University)  
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17:10 Search for Charged Massive Long-Lived Particles Using Data from D0 - Yunhe Xie (Brown University)  
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17:30 Search for New Phenomena in final states with leptons, photons, MEt - Ioannis Katsanos (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)  
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17:50 Kinematic Cusps: Determining the Missing Particle Mass at the LHC - Dr Ian-Woo Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
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18:10 Search for a Heavy Top Partner at the LHC - Aram Avetisyan (Brown)  
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14:00
Education and Outreach in HEP (until 18:30)
14:00 Angels and Demons - Prof. Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)  
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14:20 Web 2.0 for Particle Physicists - Kathryn Grim (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
14:40 Overview of QuarkNet - Dr Mitchell Wayne (University of Notre Dame)  
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15:00 Education and Public Outreach of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Prof. Greg Snow (University of Nebraska)  
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15:20 Update on USCMS Education and Outreach - Randal Ruchti (University of Notre Dame)  
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15:45 --- break ---
16:00 So you want to write for the public: An author's perspective - Dr Don Lincoln (Fermilab)  
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16:20 Media Training - Ms Kathryn Grim (Fermilab)  
14:00
Electroweak Physics I (until 18:30)
14:00 Drell-Yan processes at hadron colliders - Dr Alessandro Vicini (Department of Physics, University of Milano)  
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14:30 Measurement of the W Boson Mass and Width with 1 fb-1 of D0 Run II Data - Jyotsna Osta (Notre Dame)  
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14:50 W and Z boson production at hadron colliders - Christopher Paul Hays (University of Oxford)  
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15:20 Inclusive W/Z productions at CMS - Ping Tan (FNAL)  
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15:40 Measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum spectrum on ATLAS with early data - Mr Lashkar Kashif (Harvard University)  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Towards to the First Measurement of the Drell-Yan Dimuon Differential Cross Section with the CMS detector - Chang Liu (Purdue)  
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16:50 Measurement of the $W$ and $Z$ + jets cross section with ATLAS - Ashfaq Ahmad (Stony Brook University)  
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14:00
First Results from LHC (until 18:30)
14:00 Commissioning the CMS pixel detector with Cosmic Rays - Andrew York (Unknown)  
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14:25 Results from the Commissioning of the ATLAS Pixel Detector with Cosmic data. - Dr Galyaev Evgeny (University of Texas at Dallas)  
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14:50 First Alignment of the CMS Tracker and Implications for the First Collision Data - Zijin Guo (Johns Hopkins University-Unknown-Unknown)  
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15:15 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - Grant Gorfine (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)  
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15:40 Calibration of the ATLAS EM Calorimeter using W, Z, and J/psi to ee events - Ashfaq Ahmad (Stony Brook University)  
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16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Commissioning of the CMS Endcap Muon System - Mr Phillip Killewald (The Ohio State University)  
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16:55 Alignment of the CMS Muon System with Tracks - Dr Jim Pivarski (Texas A&M University)  
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17:20 ATLAS Muon Detector Commissioning - Dr Edward Diehl (University of Michigan)  
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17:45 Cosmic Muon Analysis with the CMS detector - Chang Liu (Purdue University)  
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14:00
Hadron Spectroscopy I (until 18:30)
14:00 Hadron spectroscopy results from Belle - Dr Anze Zupanc  
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14:35 Heavy quark meson spectroscopy at CDF - Dr Kai Yi (Physics and Astronomy Department-University of Iowa-Unknown)  
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15:00 Analysis of D^0 D-bar^0 pi^0 Decays of the X(3872) - Eric Braaten (Ohio State University)  
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15:25 New Experiments with Antiprotons - Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
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16:30 Properties of weakly-decaying bottom baryons - Dr Satyajit Behari (CDF)  
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14:00
Heavy Ions I (until 18:30)
14:00 A light-cone wavefunction approach to open heavy flavor dynamics in a QGP - Rishi Sharma (LANL)  
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14:25 Heavy quarkonia measurements at STAR - Dr Haidong Liu (University of California (UCD)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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14:50 Hydro and HBT for RHIC - Dr Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)  
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15:15 Underlying Event Studies at RHIC - Helen Louise Caines (Yale University)  
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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)  
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16:05 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Azimuthal charged particle correlations as a probe for local strong parity violation in heavy ion collisions - Dr Ilya Selyuzhenkov (Indiana University)  
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16:55 Azimuthal correlation and anisotropic flow measurements from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC - Michael Issah (Vanderbilt University)  
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17:20 Two particle correlations and viscosity in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Dr Monika Sharma for the STAR Collaboration (Wayne State University)  
17:45 Viscous Hydrodynamics in (3+1)Dimensions for Heavy Ion Collisions - Josh Vredevoogd (MSU)  
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14:00
Higgs Physics II (until 18:30)
14:00 Higgs Production in the MSSM - Dr Christopher Jackson (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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14:35 Search for Higgs in NMSSM and Hidden Valley models - Dr Andy Haas (SLAC)  
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15:00 Search for a Light CP-Odd and Scaler Higgs in Upsilon Data - Prof. Yury Kolomensky (University of California, Berkeley)  
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15:25 Diboson Production in Semileptonic Decay Modes - Ms Martina Hurwitz (University of Chicago)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 Search for the Higgs Boson in H->WW and WH to WWW(*) with the D0 Detector - Dr Michael Kirby (Northwestern University)  
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16:55 Search for standard model Higgs boson in H->WW channel at CDF - Dr Jennifer Pursley (University of Wisconsin)  
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17:20 Combined upper limit on standard model Higgs boson production at the Tevatron - Dr Nils Krumnack (Baylor University)  
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14:00
Joint Session Heavy Flavor Physics II/CP-Violation II (until 18:30)
14:00 Lifetime difference in B(s) mixing: Standard model and beyond. - Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)  
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14:24 Study of CP violation in Bs -> J/psi phi decays at CDF - Dr Ignacio Redondo  
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14:48 Analysis of Bs->phiphi decay mode. - Benedetto di Ruzza (CDF Collaboration)  
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15:12 Recent results from Y(5S) at Belle - Dr Jin Li (University of Hawaii)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 Entangled Bs-Bs States at The Upsilon 5s - David Atwood (Iowa State University)  
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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)  
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17:18 Charm mixing and CPV at CDF - Nagesh Kulkarni (Wayne State University)  
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17:42 Measurement of D0-D0bar mixing and search for CP violation at Babar - Prof. Michael Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati)  
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18:06 Quantum Correlated Neutral D Meson Decays - Dr Adam LINCOLN (Wayne State University)  
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14:00
Neutrino Physics II (until 18:30)
14:00 Understanding Lepton Mixing - Prof. Lisa Everett (University of Wisconsin)  
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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 - Mr Alexander Stuart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
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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 - Dr Marilisa De Serio (I.N.F.N. Bari)  
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16:30 The Nuclear Emulsion Technology and the Analysis of the OPERA Experiment Data - Mr Tsutomu Fukuda (Nagoya university (JAPAN))  
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16:50 MiniBooNE Update - PAUL NIENABER (SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)  
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17:10 Low energy analysis of nu N --> nu N gamma in the Standard Model - Richard Hill (University of Chicago)  
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17:30 A phenomenological study of photon production in low energy neutrino nucleon scattering - Dr James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
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17:50 The Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment - Prof. Christopher White (Illinois Institite of Technology)  
18:10 Search for theta_13 at Daya Bay - Dr Debabrata Mohapatra (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)  
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14:00
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology II (until 18:30)
14:00 Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment - Dr Oleg Kamaev (University of Minnesota)  
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14:20 The COUPP Dark Matter Search Experiment - Prof. Ilan Levine (Indiana University South Bend)  
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14:40 Indirect Dark Matter Search with VERITAS - Ryan Dickherber (Washington University in St. Louis)  
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15:00 Pulsars and Indirect Signals for Dark Matter - Daniel Phalen (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)  
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15:20 Motivations for a New Force in the Dark Sector - Ms Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)  
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15:40 Light Dark Matter annihilation in model independent approach. - Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)  
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16:30 Recent Results from IceCube and AMANDA - Tyce DeYoung (Pennsylvania State University)  
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16:55 Leptogenesis and Its Electromagnetic Variant - Boris Kayser (Fermilab)  
17:20 Baryogenesis from the Decays of Exotic Vector-like Squarks - Mr Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)  
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17:40 Planck Scale Cosmology and Resummed Quantum Gravity - Dr Bennie Ward (Baylor University)  
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14:00
Top Quark Physics II (until 18:30)
14:00 Top Quark Phenomenology with D-Dimensional Generalized Unitarity - Dr Markus Schulze (Johns Hopkins University)  
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14:15 Measurements of Top Quark Production at CDF - Dr Thomas Andrew Schwarz (University of California (UCD))  
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14:35 Top Production Measurements with the D0 Detector - Mikhail Arov (Louisiana TU, Coll. Eng. & Science-Unknown-Unknown)  
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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)  
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15:10 Top quark pair cross section prospects in ATLAS - Andrei Gaponenko (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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15:35 Prospects for first ttbar cross section measurements at CMS - Dr Ashish Kumar (SUNY/Buffalo)  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Higher-order corrections to top-antitop pair and single top quark production - Prof. Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)  
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16:45 Observation of Single Top Quark Production with the D0 Detector - Dr Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois at Chicago)  
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17:10 Top quark mass measurement using mT2 at CDF -  
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17:25 Top Mass from Jet Distributions - Dr Sonny Mantry (University of Wisconsin at Madison)  
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17:40 Top Mass Measurements with the D0 Detector - Daniel Boline  
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18:05 Top quark mass: latest CDF results, Tevatron combinations, and electroweak implications - Costas Vellidis  
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12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
DPF Business Meeting (until 15:00)
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12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Accelerators III (until 17:50)
14:00 Compact, Achromatic Non-scaling FFAG Accelerators for Muon Acceleration and Cancer Therapy - Carol Johnstone (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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14:30 Fermilab Main Injector - Philip Adamson (Fermilab)  
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15:00 Tevatron Collider Status and Prospects - Dr Ronald Moore (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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15:30 Antiproton Production at Fermilab - Dr Vladimir Nagaslaev (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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14:00
Beyond the Standard Model III (until 17:50)
14:00 Assortment of Di-Lepton Signatures and Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Valerie Halyo (Princeton University)  
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14:40 Model Independent Search for New Physics in Leptonic Final States with the D0 Detector - James Linnemann (Michigan State University)  
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15:00 Early Searches for Contact Interactions in the Dimuon channel at ATLAS - Emily Thompson (University of Massachusetts)  
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15:20 Discovery Potential for Di-lepton and Lepton+Etmiss Resonances at High Mass with ATLAS - Ms Isabel Pedraza (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)  
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15:40 Search for Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Channel - Selda Esen (Department of Physics-Brown University-Unknown)  
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16:30 Searching for Majorana Neutrinos in the Like-Sign Dilepton Final - Warren James Clarida (Physics and Astronomy Department - University of Iowa)  
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16:50 Identification of Extra Neutral Gauge at the LHC - Stephen Godfrey (Carleton University)  
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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))  
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17:30 The Fourth Generation in Extensions of the Standard Model - Dr Erin De Pree (St. Mary's College of Maryland)  
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14:00
CP-violation III (until 17:50)
14:00 The Final Measurement of ฮตยด/ฮต from the KTeV Experiment - Dr Elizabeth Worcester (University of Chicago)  
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14:30 Searching for New Physics in CP-violation measurements at LHCb - Dr Steven Blusk (Syracuse University)  
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15:00 Physics prospects for Belle upgrade - Prof. Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)  
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15:30 Measurements of alpha in Babar - Dr Simone Stracka (Babar Collaboration)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 Charmless hadronic B decays into vector and tensor final states - Dr Paolo Gandini (Babar Collaboration)  
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16:50 Search for b --> u transitions in the decays B- --> D(*)0 K- - Dr Richard Kass (Ohio State University)  
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17:10 Two- and Three-body charmless B decays at BaBar - Dr Simone Stracka (Babar Collaboration)  
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17:30 Inclusive and exclusive B decays with radiative and electroweak penguins at Belle - Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)  
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14:00
Detectors I (until 17:55)
14:00 ATLAS Silicon Microstrip Tracker Operation - Dr Zdenek Dolezal (Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics)  
14:25 Development of FTK Architecture: A Fast Hardware Track Trigger for the ATLAS Detector - Mr Anton Kapliy (University of Chicago)  
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14:50 ATLAS Pixel Radiation Monitoring with HVPP4 System - Igor Gorelov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of New Mexico, USA)  
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15:15 Upgrade of CMS HCAL for SLHC - Warren James Clarida (Physics and Astronomy Department - University of Iowa)  
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15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15 RADIATION-HARD ASICS FOR SLHC OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION - Prof. K.K. Gan (The Ohio State University)  
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16:40 STUDY OF THE RADIATION-HARDNESS OF VCSEL/PIN ARRAYS - Waruna Fernando (The Ohio State University)  
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17:05 ArgoNeuT: A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Test in the NuMI Beamline - Dr Mitchell Soderberg (Yale University)  
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17:30 Novel Multi-pixel Silicon Photon Detectors and Applications in T2K. - Dmitriy Beznosko (NN Group SUNYSB)  
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14:00
Electroweak Physics II (until 17:50)
14:00 High Statistics Measurement of Di-boson Production with the D0 Detector - Mike Strang (Ohio State University)  
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14:20 Measurements of the Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings from Diboson Production at D0 - Jadranka Sekaric (Florida State University)  
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14:40 Search for diboson production in final states with one lepton, missing transverse energy, and jets at CDF - Martina Hurwitz (University of Chicago)  
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15:00 First Observation of Diboson Production in Hadronic Final State at Tevatron - Jennifer Pursley (Wisconsin)  
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15:20 Diboson physics at Tevatron - Ia Iashvili (SUNY at Buffalo)  
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14:00
Hadron Spectroscopy II (until 17:50)
14:00 Search for Phi(1862) Pentaquark States with CLAS - Dr Hovanes Egiyan (CLAS Collaboration)  
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14:25 On the absence of spin-orbit inversion in heavy-light mesons - Taekoon Lee (Kunsan National University)  
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14:50 Dalitz Plot Analysis of B Decays - Liaoyan Dong (SLAC)  
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16:30 Experimental Review of the Hadron Spectroscopy Session - Dr Vaia Papadimitriou (Fermilab)  
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17:05 Theory review of the Hadron Spectroscopy session - Eric Swanson (University of Pittsburg)  
14:00
Heavy Flavor Physics III (until 17:50)
14:00 Review of charm mixing and rare decays - Prof. Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)  
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14:24 Semileptonic Charm Meson Decays - Ian Shipsey (Purdue University)  
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14:48 Study of D+(s) decay properties at Belle - Mr Soohyung Lee (Korea University)  
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15:12 Measurements of Hadronic Decays of D0, D+, and Ds Mesons - David Cinabro (Wayne State University)  
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16:00 --- break ---
14:00
Heavy Ions II (until 17:50)
14:00 Heavy Ion Physics After Nine Years of RHIC Operation - Brian Cole (Physics Dept., Pupin Physics Lab.-Columbia University-Unknown)  
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14:45 Equation of State and the finite temperature transition for hot QCD - Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)  
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15:15 Anisotropic collective phenomena in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions - Prof. Sergei Voloshin (Department of Physics and Astronomy-College of Science-Wayne Sta)  
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15:45 Test of the viscous hydrodynamic paradigm for RHIC - Denes Molnar (Purdue University and RIKEN BNL Research Center)  
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16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
16:45 Viscous Evolution of a Quark Gluon Plasma - Kevin Dusling (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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17:15 Viscous hydrodynamics with shear and bulk viscosity for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions - Huichao Song (The Ohio State Univ)  
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14:00
Higgs Physics III (until 17:45)
14:00 The Higgs boson as a portal to dark matter - Dr Gabe Shaughnessy (Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)  
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14:35 Discovery Potential of SM Higgs through H->WW Decay Modes at LHC with ATLAS Detector - Dr Haijun Yang (University of Michigan)  
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15:00 H to WW and ZZ and projected exclusion limits on the SM Higgs boson cross sections - Dr Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida)  
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15:25 Search for a supersymmetric Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons - Prof. John Conway (University of California, Davis)  
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:35 Search for Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons - Prof. Flera Ritzadinova (Oklahoma State University)  
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17:00 Discovery Potential for MSSM Higgs Bosons with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Dr Trevor Vickey (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)  
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17:25 Prospects for Standard Model Higgs physics with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Dr German Carrillo-Montoya (University of Wisconsin, Madison)  
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14:00
Low Energy Searches for New Physics I (until 17:50)
14:00 Probing light hidden sectors via the U(1) portal - Dr Adam Ritz (U of Victoria)  
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14:30 Search for the Rare Decay Kl->pi0nunubar at E391a Experiment - Jiasen Ma (The University of Chicago)  
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15:00 The K0TO Experiment - Dr Monica Tecchio (University of Michigan)  
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15:30 Measuring the BR(K+->pi+nu nubar) with the NA62 experiment at CERN - Dr Giulio Saracino (Univ. Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)  
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16:30 Search for KL -> pi0 pi0 ฮผ+ฮผโˆ’ with KTeV data - Leo Bellantoni (Fermilab)  
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16:55 A Search for Invisible Decay of the Y(1S) - Yury Kolomensky (UC Berkeley/LBNL)  
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17:20 Measurement of Upsilon(1S) --> l+l- and Test of Lepton Universality - Elisa Guido (University & INFN Genova)  
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14:00
Neutrino Physics III (until 17:50)
14:00 Particle Physics with Astrophysical Neutrino Detectors - Prof. Kara Hoffman (UMD)  
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14:30 Testing Neutrino Physics with Colliders - Dr Anupama Atre (Fermilab)  
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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)  
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15:40 Gadolinium study for a water Cherenkov detector - Atsuko Kibayashi (Okayama University)  
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16:30 NuSOnG  
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14:00
QCD I (until 18:00)
14:00 Perturbative QCD for hadron collider physics: progress and applications - Mr Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)  
14:35 HERA measurements on proton structure - Dr Alexander Glazov (DESY)  
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15:10 Two-loop soft anomalous dimensions with massive and massless quarks - Prof. Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)  
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15:35 HERWIRI1.0: MC Realization of IR-Improvement for DGLAP-CS Parton Showers - Dr Bennie Ward (Baylor University)  
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16:20 Detection of Jets and Photons at ATLAS - Yaquan Fang (University of Wisconsin)  
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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)  
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17:10 Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions and Search for New Physics with the D0 Detector - Dr Don Lincoln (Fermilab)  
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17:35 Measurement of Differential Z/gamma+jet+X Cross Sections with the D0 Detector - Sabine Lammers (Indiana University)  
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18:00
Public Lecture: "Einstein's Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story" (until 19:00)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Beyond the Standard Model IV (until 18:30)
14:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the Threshold - Prof. Markus Luty (UC Davis) Markus Luty (University of California Davis)  
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14:40 Search for Leptoquark Production with the D0 Detector - Sergey Uzunyan (Northern llinois University)  
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15:00 ATLAS sensitivity to leptoquarks and heavy Majorana neutrinos in final states with high-pt dileptons and jets with early LHC data - Mr Vikas Bansal (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Pittsburgh-Unk)  
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15:20 Searches for quark compositeness/heavy resonances in hadronic final states - Dmitri Smirnov (Notre Dame)  
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15:40 Lifetime Difference in $D^0$-${\overline D}^0$ Mixing within R-Parity Violating SUSY - Mr Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 Exotic Searches With Complex Final States - Prof. Tulika Bose (Boston University)  
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17:10 Could leptons, quarks or both be highly relativistic, bound states of a minimally interacting fermion and scalar? - Prof. G. Bruce Mainland (The Ohio State University at Newark)  
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17:30 Presymmetry beyond the Standard Model - Prof. Ernesto Matute (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)  
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14:00
Detectors II (until 18:30)
14:00 The Dark Energy Camera - a New Instrument for the Dark Energy Survey - Prof. Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)  
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14:25 Local alignment of the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracking detector - Zijin Guo (Johns Hopkins University)  
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14:50 An imaging time-of-propagation system for charged particle identification at a Super B factory - Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)  
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15:15 Prospects for Upgrade of KEKB - Prof. Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)  
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15:40 Cerenkov Light Diagnostics for Superconducting Cavities - Aram Apyan (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
14:00
Electroweak Physics III (until 18:30)
14:00 Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Neutrino-Neucleon Scattering at NuTeV - Dr kwangwoo park (southern methodist university)  
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14:20 Electroweak corrections to b-jet and di-jet production - Dr Andreas Scharf (University at Buffalo)  
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14:40 Measurement of the Forward-backward Charge Asymmetry in Z/gamma*->ee events with the D0 Detector - Trang Hoang (Florida State University)  
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14:00
Heavy Ions III (until 18:30)
14:00 Evolution of the ridge structure in RHIC heavy ion collisions - Mr Chanaka De Silva (Wayne State University)  
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14:25 Soft Contribution to the Hard Ridge - Mr George Moschelli (Wayne State University)  
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14:50 Bridging the soft and the hard at RHIC: collective flow, jet quenching and medium response. - Dr Jiangyong Jia (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Stony Brook University)  
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15:25 A theory of jet shapes and cross sections in hadronic and nuclear collisions - Dr Ivan Vitev (LANL)  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Full Jet Reconstruction In Heavy Ion Collisions: Prospects and Perils - Dr Sevil Salur (LBL)  
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17:00 Direct jet reconstruction in p + p and Cu + Cu at PHENIX - Yue Shi Lai (Columbia University-Unknown-Unknown)  
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17:30 Modification of high p_{T} hadro-chemistry in Au+Au collisions relative to p+p - Dr Anthony Timmins (Wayne State University)  
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18:00 Hadro-Chemistry with High-PT Particles in Nuclear Collisions - Prof. Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University & RBRC)  
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14:00
Low Energy Searches for New Physics II (until 18:30)
14:00 Search for tau -> mu/e gamma - Swagato Banerjee (University of Victoria)  
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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 - Dr Jennifer Kile (Brookhaven National Lab)  
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15:15 The CLEAR Experiment - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)  
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16:10 Minimal Flavor Violation and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Dr Christopher Kolda (U of Notre Dame)  
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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)  
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14:00
Neutrino Physics IV (until 18:30)
14:00 Non-Oscillation Neutrino Physics Experiments - Dr Jason Detwiler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
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14:30 EXO-200 - Nicole Ackerman (SLAC)  
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14:50 The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in CUORE - Larissa Ejzak (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
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15:10 The Majorana Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment - Michael Marino (University of Washington)  
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15:30 Minerva  
14:00
Poster Session (until 18:30)
14:00
QCD II (until 18:30)
14:00 New limit of pion form factor at very large $Q^2$ - Bing An Li (University of Kentucky)  
Paper
14:25 The strange quark condensate in the nucleon in 2+1 flavor QCD - doug toussaint (University of Arizona)  
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14:50 Recent results on two-photon physics at BABAR - Prof. Mike Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati)  
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15:15 Renormalon subtraction from the average plaquette and the gluon condensate - Taekoon Lee (Kunsan National University)  
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15:40 Optimal spin-quantization axes for the polarizations of dileptons and quarkonium with large transverse momentum - Daekyoung Kang (The Ohio State University)  
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16:30 Computation of the string tension in Yang-Mills theory using large N reduction - Prof. Joe Kiskis (UC Davis)  
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16:55 Improving the precision of light quark mass determinations - Christian Sturm (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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14:00
String & Field Theory (until 18:30)
14:00 The Hamiltonian Approach to Yang-Mills (2+1): An Expansion Scheme and Corrections to String Tension - Dr Alexandr Yelnikov (City College of New York)  
14:20 Meson Configurations from String Theory - Kory Stiffler (University of Iowa)  
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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 - Mr James Alsup (University of Tennessee)  
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15:20 The fate of black branes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity - Prof. L.C.R. Wijewardhana (University of Cincinnati)  
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15:40 Gauge-Invariant Localization of Infinitely Many Gravitational Energies from All Possible Auxiliary Structures - Dr J. Brian Pitts (University of Notre Dame)  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Solitons in AdS1+1 - Prof. Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)  
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