International Conference on Particle Physics "In Memoriam" Engin Arık and Her Colleagues

27 Oct 2008, 09:30 → 31 Oct 2008, 12:00 Europe/Istanbul

Albert Long Hall and Rectorate Conference Hall (Bogazici University)

Erhan Gülmez (Bogazici University, Physics Department)

This conference was held to remember our colleagues that we lost in a plane crash November 30, 2007 near Isparta, Turkey

pictures PICT0019.JPG PICT0137.JPG

Monday 27 October

09:30 → 10:30 REGISTRATION

10:30 → 11:00 WELCOME AND OPENING

Convener: Erhan Gülmez (Bogazici University)

10:30 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Erhan Gülmez (Bogazici University)

document Openıng-Remarks.doc Openıng-Remarks.pdf

10:40 Rector's Welcome, Boğaziçi University

Speaker: Gülay Barbarosoglu (Bogazici University)

document opening-Barbarosoglu.doc opening-Barbarosoglu.pdf

10:50 Rector's Welcome, Doğuş University

Speaker: Ahmet Ceranoglu (Doğuş University)

11:00 → 13:00 MEMORIAL SESSION

Serkant Çetin
Daniel Denegri
Dilek Doltaş
John Freely
Daniel Froidveaux
Pauline Gagnon
Peter Jenni
Christine Kourkoumelis
Fahrünisa Neyzi
Emmanuel A. Paschos
Ken Peach
Konstantin Zioutas
Michael Green
Füsun Akarsu
Yannis Semertzidis

background slide opening_session.pdf opening_session.ppt

background slide opening_session.pps

Background slide show memorial_session.pdf memorial_session.ppt

Denegri-tribute tribute-to-Arik.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30 → 18:25 OPENING PLENARY

14:35 Physics with Long Baseline, Broad Band Neutrino Beams and Large Detectors

Speaker: Nicholas P. Samios (BNL/RBRC)

Slides samios.ppt.pdf samios.ppt.ppt

15:25 The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation

Speaker: Peter Jenni (CERN)

Slides jenni.pdf jenni.ppt

16:15 COFFEE BREAK

16:45 The enigmatic sun as laboratory for new physics

Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Zioutas (University of Patras)

Slides Zioutas.pdf Zioutas.ppt

17:35 Latest Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Jane Nachtman (The University of Iowa/FNAL)

Slides nachtman.pdf nachtman.pptx

19:00 → 21:00 RECEPTION

Tuesday 28 October

09:00 → 12:40 HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS IN LHC PLENARY

09:00 Physics with the CMS Detector

Speaker: Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides CMS__Physics-green.pdf CMS__Physics-green.ppt

09:50 What physics at the SLHC

Speaker: Daniel Denegri (DAPNIA)

Slides daniel_denegri.ppt

10:40 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 Women and physics

Speaker: Pauline Gagnon (Indiana University)

Slides Mentor_and_Pioneer.pdf

11:50 Search for the Higgs bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Christine Kourkoumelis (University of Athens)

Slides Kourkoumelis.pdf Kourkoumelis.ppt

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 16:00 LHC PHYSICS CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION I

14:00 The ATLAS TRT: its characteristics, construction, test-beam performance /experience and results with first data

Speaker: Daniel Froidveaux (CERN)

Slides Froidveaux.pdf Froidveaux.ppt

14:15 CASTOR: A novel, very forward calorimeter at CMS

Speaker: Prof. Apostolos Panagiotou (University of Athens, Hellas)

Slides Panagiotou.pdf

14:30 Prospects for quark searches and their impact to Higgs searches in ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Gokhan Unel (U.C. Irvine)

Slides Engin_Arik_memorial-unel-final.pdf

14:45 CMS triggers for LHC startup

Speaker: Chi Nhan Nguyen (Texas A&M University)

Slides chinhan_cmsTrigger.pdf

15:00 Search for the VBF Higgs-->tau-tau decays with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Speaker: Rachid Mazini (University of Toronto)

Slides RachidMazini_ICPP08_Istanbul.pdf

15:15 Searching for new physics in events with three leptons in ATLAS

Speaker: Christina Potter (RHUL)

Slides Potter_SUSYTrileptons.pdf

15:30 The reach of the ATLAS experiment in SUSY parameter space

Speaker: Janet Dietrich (Universitaet Freiburg)

Slides ICCP_Istanbul_28_10_2008_J_Dietrich[2].pdf

15:45 Diboson Physics Studies in the ATLAS Experiment

Speaker: Dan Levin (University of Michigan)

Slides Levin.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 → 18:30 LHC PHYSICS CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION II

16:30 Rediscovering SM physics with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Michael James Flowerdew (University of Liverpool)

Slides FlowerdewTalk_Istanbul.pdf

16:45 Production of jets accompanied by W and Z bosons at LHC startup

Speaker: Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)

Slides WZ+jets-ICPP-Dobur.pdf

17:00 Jet Shapes at CMS

Speaker: Pelin Kurt (Cukurova University/FNAL)

Slides ICCP_jetshapes-pelin.pdf

17:15 Electron and Photon Reconstruction and Identification with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Victor Maleev (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI))

Slides Electron_and_Photon_Reconstruction_and_Identification_3.pdf Electron_and_Photon_Reconstruction_and_Identification_3.ppt

17:30 MSSM neutral Higgs searches

Speaker: Simonetta Gentile (Universita di Roma I "La Sapienza")

Slides Gentile_Istanbul.pdf Gentile_Istanbul.ppt

17:45 Muon Identification for the ATLAS Experiment

Speaker: Edward Moyse (UMass)

Slides MuonIdentification.pdf

18:00 Search For Scalar And Vector Diquarks At The LHC

Speaker: Mehmet Sahin (Ankara University)

Slides ICPP_1-sahin.pdf ICPP_1-sahin.ppt

18:15 A study of anomalous events in the HF PMTs

Speaker: Arda Halu (Bogazici University)

Slides a_study_of_anomalous_events_in_CMS-HF_PMTs.pdf a_study_of_anomalous_events_in_CMS-HF_PMTs.ppt

Wednesday 29 October

09:00 → 10:40 DARK MATTER AND NEUTRINO PHYSICS PLENARY

09:00 Charm physics with CHORUS

Speaker: Jaap Panman (CERN)

Slides panman_istanbul_2008.pdf

09:05 Final results from a search for nu-mu to nu-tau oscillations with the CHORUS experiment

Speaker: Prof. Roumen Tsenov (University of Sofia)

Slides RoumenTsenov_ICPP-Istanbul2008.pdf RoumenTsenov_ICPP-Istanbul2008.ppt

10:40 → 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 → 12:40 SPIN PHYSICS PLENARY

11:00 Structure of the Proton, Neutron, and Deuteron from Scattering of Polarized Electrons by Polarized Gas Targets

Speaker: June L. Matthews (MIT)

Slides Matthews-JLM-Istanbul.pdf Matthews-JLM-Istanbul.ppt

11:50 Hadron Spin Physics

Speaker: Aldo Penzo (INFN-Trieste)

Slides Penzo-SPINSTAPE1.pdf Penzo-SPINSTAPE1.ppt

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 16:00 DARK MATTER CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION

14:00 Borexino Experiment Results

Speaker: Marco Giammarchi (INFN - Milan)

Slides Giammarchi_Istanbul.pdf Giammarchi_Istanbul.ppt

14:45 The Status of OPERA: Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

Speaker: Murat Ali Guler (METU)

Slides mguler_icpp.pdf mguler_icpp.ppt

15:30 Recent Developments in Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Emmanuel A. Paschos (Dortmund University)

Slides E-A-Paschos-ICPP.pdf E-A-Paschos-ICPP.ppt

16:00 → 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 → 18:30 LHC PHYSICS CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION III

16:30 Search for low scale gravity signatures in ATLAS

Speaker: Muge Karagoz Unel (University of Oxford)

Slides karagoz-Low_scale_gravity_signatures_in_ATLAS.pdf karagoz-Low_scale_gravity_signatures_in_ATLAS.ppt

16:45 Search for the Standard Model Higgs-->gamma-gamma decays with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Speaker: Jean-François Marchand (LAPP)

Slides marchand-icpp_hgg_jfm.pdf

17:00 Vector Boson Scattering at ATLAS

Speaker: Erkcan Ozcan (University College London)

Slides ozcan-icpp_20081029_eo.pdf

17:15 Determination of invisible Z boson+jets background to Hadronic SUSY search

Speaker: Hüseyin Topakli (Cukurova University/FNAL)

Slides topaklı-TalkinIstanbul.pdf topaklı-TalkinIstanbul.ppt

17:30 Early top physics in ATLAS

Speaker: Jochen Schieck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides schieck-Istanbul.pdf

17:45 b-tagging performance in ATLAS

Speaker: Grant Gorfine (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides gorfine-ICPP-IstanbulOct2008.pdf gorfine-ICPP-IstanbulOct2008.ppt

18:00 Anomalous Single Production of the Fourth Generation Quarks at Future ep and gamma-p Colliders

Speaker: Abbas Kenan Ciftci (University of Ankara)

Slides Ciftci-ICPP.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 BANQUET DINNER

Thursday 30 October

09:00 → 12:40 ACCELERATOR PHYSICS PLENARY

09:00 A new accelerator for advanced research and cancer therapy

Speaker: Ken Peach (JAI-University of Oxford/RHUL)

Slides Peach.pdf Peach.ppt

09:50 The SLHC Program and CMS Detector Upgrades

Speaker: Yasar Onel (The University of Iowa)

Slides SLHC-Upgrade_08_YONEL_FINAL.pdf SLHC-Upgrade_08_YONEL_FINAL.ppt

10:40 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 The Physics Case for CLIC

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

Slides ellis-CLIC.pdf ellis-CLIC.ppt

11:50 The International Linear Collider and its Detectors

Speaker: Jose Repond (ANL)

Slides repond-ILC_Istanbul_Oct_2008.pdf repond-ILC_Istanbul_Oct_2008.ppt

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 16:00 ACCELERATOR PHYSICS CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION

14:00 Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC) Project First Facility and Road Map

Speaker: Ömer Yavas (Ankara University)

Slides ICPP_O._Yavas_TAC.pdf ICPP_O._Yavas_TAC.ppt

14:45 Energy Recovery Linac as an Alternative Option for TAC and QCD-E Projects

Speaker: Bora Ketenoglu (Ankara University)

Slides ICPP_Sunum.pdf ICPP_Sunum.ppt

15:00 Comparison of Double Bend and Triple Bend Achromatic Lattice Structures for TAC TDR-SR

Speaker: Kahraman Zengin (Ankara University)

Slides ICPP-Kahraman_Zengin.pdf

15:15 Main Characteristics of TAC IR FEL

Speaker: Ömer Yavas (Ankara University)

Slides ICPP_O.Yavas_TAC_IR_FEL.pdf ICPP_O.Yavas_TAC_IR_FEL.ppt

15:30 Research Potential of TAC IR FEL Facility

Speaker: Müge Tural (Ankara University)

Slides M._TURAL_ICPP.pdf M._TURAL_ICPP.ppt

Friday 31 October

09:00 → 12:00 CLOSING PLENARY

09:00 The Status of the CMS

Speaker: Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides CMS_Status.pdf CMS_Status.ppt

09:50 Deuteron Dipole Moment Experiment

Speaker: Dr Yannis Semertzidis (BNL)

Slides YkS_ICPP_memoriam_081031.pdf

10:40 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 Naturalness of the Fourth SM Family

Speaker: Saleh Sultansoy (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)

Slides Sultansoy-ICPP.pdf Sultansoy-ICPP.PPT