US CMS Collaboration Meeting 2009

7 May 2009, 15:00 → 9 May 2009, 21:00 US/Eastern

Zehmer Auditorium (The University of Virginia)

US CMS collaboration meeting at the University of Virginia

Thursday 7 May

1 Tour of Rotunda

Meet on steps of the Rotunda facing the Lawn.

2 Tour of UVa Grounds

Meet on steps of the Rotunda facing the Lawn.

3 Welcome Reception

Friday 8 May

08:00 Zehmer Hall Conference Center Coffee and Pastries

Bus service begins at 07:30

4 Announcements and Introductions

Speaker: B. Cox (University of Virginia)

5 Welcome from University of Virginia

Speaker: Meredith Jung-En Woo (Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia)

6 Meeting Overview and Perspective

Speaker: Nicholas Hadley (University of Maryland)

Slides CB_Chair_virginia09.pdf CB_Chair_virginia09.ppt

7 Spokesperson Report on CMS Status

Speaker: R. Cousins (UCLA), T. Virdee (Imperial College)

Slides USCMS_8may09_cousins_virdee.pdf

8 Looking Towards First Physics

Speaker: J. Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides lykken_USCMS.pdf

10:35 coffee break

9 LPC Advisory Board Report

Speaker: Ian Shipsey (Purdue University)

Slides LPCAB-Virginia.pdf

10 LPC Summary and Plans

Speaker: D. Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides USCMS_LPC_05_09.pdf USCMS_LPC_05_09.ppt

11 Constitution

Speaker: Nicholas Hadley (University of Maryland)

Slides Constitution_virginia09.pdf Constitution_virginia09.ppt

12 Collaboration Photo

12:15 Lunch (Provided at Conference Center)

13 USCMS Program Talks (Joel Butler, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:15 coffee break

Tier-3 Computing Session

Title: USCMS week Tier-3 Computing Session
Description: USCMS week Tier-3 Computing Session
Community: CMS
Password: UVAT3C2009
- Phone Bridge
ID: 981929
Password: 8759

14 Introduction

Speaker: Robert Snihur (University of Nebraska)

Slides uscms_20090508.pdf

15 PhEDEx

Speaker: Paul Rossman (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides USCMS_T3_PhEDEx.pdf

16 REDDnet

Speakers: Daniel Engh (Vanderbilt University), Paul Sheldon (Vanderbilt University)

Slides REDDnet_USCMS.pdf

Education and Outreach Session

Title: USCMS week Education and Outreach Session
Description: USCMS week Education and Outreach Session
Community: CMS
Password: UVAEAO2009
- Phone Bridge
ID: 981862
Password: 0612

17 USCMS E&O and Plans

Speaker: Daniel Karngard (Notre Dame University)

18 LPC E&O Plans

Speaker: Don Lincoln (Fermilab)

19 Update on Quarknet

Speaker: Randy Ruchti (Notre Dame University)

Slides QuarkNet_Update.pdf QuarkNet_Update.pptx

20 Update on I2U2

Speaker: Daniel Karngard (Notre Dame University)

21 Discussion of Near Term Activities

Speaker: Daniel Karmgard (Notre Dame University)

Trigger Session

Title: USCMS week Trigger Session
Description: USCMS week Trigger Session
Community: CMS
Password: UVATRI2009
- Phone Bridge
ID: 981884
Password: 3635

22 Review of US CMS SLHC Trigger Program

Speaker: Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin)

Slides smith_slhctrig_USCMS_may09.pdf smith_slhctrig_USCMS_may09.ppt

23 US CMS SLHC Calorimeter Trigger R&D

Speaker: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

Slides DasuSLHC2009-05-08.ppt

24 US CMS SLHC Muon Trigger R&D

Speaker: Darin Acosta (University of Florida)

Slides mutrig_slhc_uscms_may09.pdf mutrig_slhc_uscms_may09.ppt

25 US CMS SLHC Tracking Trigger R&D

Speaker: Karl Ecklund (Rice University)

Slides TK_Trigger_R&D.pdf TK Trigger R&D updated

26 US CMS SLHC Trigger Discussion

Speaker: All

US ECAL Session

Title: USCMS week ECAL Session
Description: USCMS week ECAL Session
Community: CMS
Password: UVAECAL2009
- Phone Bridge
ID: 981918
Password: 3285

27 Preliminary Remarks

Speaker: Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

Slides ryz_090508_ecal.pdf

28 ECAL Project Manager Report

Speaker: Brad Cox (University of Virginia)

Slides USCMS_Annual_Meeting_US_ECAL_Manager_Report.pdf USCMS_Annual_Meeting_US_ECAL_Manager_Report.ppt

29 Status of ECAL Comissioning

Speaker: Alexander Ledovskoy (University of Virginia)

Slides 090508_uscms_ledovskoy.pdf

30 ECAL Results from the Crozet, Craft and MWGR runs

Speaker: Giovanni Franzoni (University of Minnesota)

Slides 2009-05-08-usCMS-ECALDPG.pdf 2009-05-08-usCMS-ECALDPG.ppt

31 ECAL Monitoring and Calibration

Speaker: Marat Gataullin (Caltech)

Slides uscms_ecalcalib_may09.pdf

32 ECAL Upgrade

Speaker: Bob Hirosky (University of Virginia)

Slides 090508-hirosky-SLHC_USECAL_IB.pdf

33 Discussion

Speaker: All

17:05 Bus Service to Hotels

Banquet

Buses will loop by hotels and conference center around 18:30 to provide banquet transportation

Saturday 9 May

08:00 Zehmer Hall Conference Center Coffee and Pastries

Bus service begins at 07:30

34 Announcements

Speaker: Prof. Vasken Hagopian (Florida State University)

Slides

• ANOUNCEMENTS5-09.pdf
• ANOUNCEMENTS5-09.ppt
• ANOUNCEMENTS5-09.ppt.lnk

35 Doing Physics with CMS

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (CERN)

36 US Physics Summary

Speaker: Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers University)

Slides 2009-05-09-USCMS.pdf

37 QCD

Speaker: Lenard Apanasevich (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides QCD_USCMS.pdf

38 Top

Speaker: Gena Kukartsev (Brown University)

Slides kukartsev-top-uscms-09may2009-v2.pdf

10:20 coffee break

39 B Physics

Speaker: David Lopes-Pegna (Department of Physics-Princeton University-Unknown)

Slides CMS_Virginia.pdf

40 SUSY

Speaker: Roberto Rossin (Santa Barbara)

Slides 20090509_USCMS_Virginia_SUSY_V7.pdf 20090509_USCMS_Virginia_SUSY_V7.ppt

41 Exotica

Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins)

Slides exotica_uscms09.pdf

42 EW

Speaker: Bryan Dahmes (Minnesota)

Slides bdahmes.pdf

43 Higgs

Speaker: Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida)

Slides 2009-05-09.AlexeyDrozdetskiy.USCMS.Higgs.v5.pdf

12:20 Lunch (Provided at Conference Center)

44 Heavy Ion

Speaker: Marguerite Belt Tonjes (Unknown)

Slides USCMS_HI_MBTonjes_9May09_v4.pdf

45 SLHC Upgrades

Speaker: Daniela Bortoletto (Purdue University)

Slides db_virginia.pdf

46 Outreach

Speaker: Daniel Karmgard (Notre Dame)

Slides karmgard_e_and_o_2009.pdf

47 USLUO

Speaker: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

Slides DasuUSLUO2009-05-08.ppt

48 DOE/NSF Panel

Speaker: Nick Hadley (University of Maryland)

49 Closing "vision"

Speaker: Dan Marlow (Princeton University)

Slides Marlow_Summary.pdf

15:50 closeout coffee

50 Informal Dinner Arrangements