Name: 2016 CHIPP Annual Plenary Meeting and PhD/Postdoc Days
Start: 2016-08-23T09:15:00+02:00
End: 2016-08-25T16:30:00+02:00
Location: USI, Lugano

2016 CHIPP Annual Plenary Meeting and PhD/Postdoc Days

from Tuesday 23 August 2016 (09:15) to Thursday 25 August 2016 (16:30)

Monday 22 August 2016
Tuesday 23 August 2016
09:15
09:15 - 11:50
Contributions

09:15 Welcome, news from CHIPP Board and Executive Board - Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

09:30 Elections of Swiss representatives and admission of new honorary members - Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

09:45 CHIPP Computing Board report - Christoph Grab (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

10:00 CHIPP Outreach report - Hans Peter Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH))

10:15 Advisory Committee of CERN Users (ACCU) report - Michael Dittmar (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

10:30 European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) report - Lenny Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

10:45 Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) report - Teresa Montaruli (Universite de Geneve (CH))

11:00 Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) report - Bernd Krusche (University of Basel)

11:15 CERN Council report - Olivier Schneider (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

11:30 The Future Circular Collider (FCC) project - Lenny Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 12:45

12:45 SPS Plenary: Opening, Michele Parrinello (13:00-13:45), Sibylle Günter (13:45-14:30)
SPS Plenary: Opening, Michele Parrinello (13:00-13:45), Sibylle Günter (13:45-14:30)
12:45 - 14:30

14:30 SPS General Assembly
SPS General Assembly
14:30 - 15:30

15:30 SPS Award Ceremony (Including CHIPP Prize!)
SPS Award Ceremony (Including CHIPP Prize!)
15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 CHIPP Prize talk - Mohamed Rameez (Universite de Geneve (CH))

17:00 Highlights from ICHEP 2016 - Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

17:30 Towards a novel high-brightness low-energy muon beamline - Ivana Belosevic

17:45 In Search of Charged Lepton Flavor Violating Decays at PSI - Giada Rutar

18:00 Current status and plans of the Gerda Experiment - Rizalina Mingazheva (UZH)

18:15 Status of the MicroBooNE Experiment - Matthias Lüthi (University of Bern)
18:30
18:30 - 20:00
Contributions

18:30 Search for the lepton flavour violating decay Bs,d → e+μ− at the LHCb experiment - Guido Andreassi (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

18:32 Systematics related to neutron detection in PSI nEDM - Prajwal Mohan Murthy (PSI)

18:34 Development of a high-brightness muonium beam - Narongrit Ritjoho (PSI)

18:36 Monitoring of the Ortho D2, tritium and HD concentrations in the moderator deuterium of the PSI UCN source - Nicolas Hild (PSI)

18:38 T2K neutrino flux predictions using the replica target measurements by NA61/SHINE - Muhammad Ajaz (Universite de Geneve (CH))

18:40 Flavour tagging in pp collisions at LHCb - Vincenzo Battista (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

18:42 The Scintillating Fibre Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade - Axel Kevin Kuonen (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

18:44 Performance of missing transverse momentum (MET) reconstruction at the ATLAS experiment - Marco Valente (Universite de Geneve (CH))

18:46 Displaced vertex searches for sterile neutrinos at future lepton colliders - Eros Cazzato (University of Basel)

18:48 Characterisation of HV-CMOS active pixel sensors for the High Luminosity ATLAS upgrade - Marco Rimoldi (Universitaet Bern (CH))

18:50 Performance of pixel detectors based on pCVD diamond at particle fluxes up to 7MHz/cm² - Diego Alejandro Sanz Becerra (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

18:52 Production and quality assurance of scintillating fibre modules for the LHCb upgrade - Plamen Hristov Hopchev (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

18:54 The Mu3e Fibre Sub-Detector: Readout, Integration and Sensitivity Studies - Simon Corrodi (ETHZ (CH))

18:56 Towards accurate cesium magnetometry for the nEDM experiment at PSI - Zoran Grujic (University of Fribourg (CH))

18:58 News on the laser based Hg Co-magnetometer at nEDM - Sybille Komposch (PSI (CH))

19:00 Search on the associated Z+Higgs Boson Production in the leptonic+beauty Final State - Gael Ludovic Perrin (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

19:02 Experiment on Positronium Invisible decay Channels (EPIC) - Carlos Vigo Hernandez (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)

19:04 Multiplexed XY Resistive Micromegas Tracker for NA64 - Dipanwita Banerjee (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
20:00 Public lecture by Hervé le Treut : Is there a new role for science after the Paris climate conference (COP21)
Public lecture by Hervé le Treut : Is there a new role for science after the Paris climate conference (COP21)
20:00 - 21:15
Wednesday 24 August 2016

09:00 SPS Plenary: Laura Heyderman (9:00-9:40), Tilman Sauer (9:40-10:20)
SPS Plenary: Laura Heyderman (9:00-9:40), Tilman Sauer (9:40-10:20)
09:00 - 10:20

10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:50

10:50 SPS Plenary: Aleksandra Radenovic (10:50-11:30), NN (11:30-12:00)
SPS Plenary: Aleksandra Radenovic (10:50-11:30), NN (11:30-12:00)
10:50 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch buffet + Poster session (continued)
Lunch buffet + Poster session (continued)
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Radiation hardness studies of silicon sensors for the ATLAS upgrade - Claudia Merlassino (Universitaet Bern (CH))

14:15 Readout electronics and test bench for the CMS Phase I pixel detector - Riccardo Del Burgo (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

14:30 3D Monitoring of LHCb Inner Tracker using BCAM - Pavol Stefko (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

14:45 Reconstruction software and alignment of silicon tracker of DAMPE - Andrii Tykhonov (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:00 Nuclear charge measurement using the DAMPE Silicon-Tungsten Tracker - Stefania Vitillo (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:15 High performance prototype SiPM camera for the single mirror small size telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array project - Matthieu Heller (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:30 Characterization of VUV Silicon-Photomultipliers for xenon based dark matter detectors - Julien Wulf

15:45 Development of scintillating fibre tracker technology for the next LHCb tracking system and other applications - Olivier Goran Girard (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 19:00
Contributions

16:30 Muon Beam Monitoring Using Luminophore Foils at PSI - Zachary Hodge (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:45 A Scintillation Stopping Target for the MEG II Experiment - Felix Berg (PSI)

17:00 Design and characterisation of the Xurich II dual-phase xenon time projection chamber - Michelle Galloway (University of Zurich)

17:15 A versatile liquid Xenon R&D platform for future low-background detectors - Basho Kaminsky (University of Bern)

17:30 A Pixelated readout and cold electronics for the ARGONCUBE Liquid Argon TPC - Damian Göldi (University of Bern)

17:45 Updates on Time-Dependent and Stacking Analyses of IceCube Data at the University of Geneva - Tessa Lauren Carver (Universite de Geneve (CH))

18:00 Precision Measurement of Nuclei Fluxes and their Ratios in Primary Cosmic Rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Yang Li (Universite de Geneve (CH))

18:15 POLAR: A dedicated Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter ready to be launched - Merlin Reynaard Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH))

18:30 The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-Rays (STIX) of the ESA Solar Orbiter Mission - Diego Casadei (FHNW (CH))
19:00 Transfer to dinner
Transfer to dinner
19:00 - 19:30

19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Thursday 25 August 2016

09:00 SPS Plenary: Jonathan Home (9:00-9:40), Laura Baudis (9:40-10:20)
SPS Plenary: Jonathan Home (9:00-9:40), Laura Baudis (9:40-10:20)
09:00 - 10:20

10:20 SPS Poster Award Session
SPS Poster Award Session
10:20 - 10:40

10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 Real-time data analysis with the LHCb detector - Maurizio Martinelli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

11:30 Bs⁰ lifetime measurement using semileptonic decays at the LHCb experiment - Brice Emile Maurin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

11:45 Search for the Bs → η'φ decay at LHCb - Sebastiana Giani (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

12:00 Investigation of the photon polarization in B+ → K+ π- π+ γ decays at LHCb - Violaine Bellée (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

12:15 Time-dependent measurement of CP violation in Bd → Dπ decays at LHCb - Vincenzo Battista (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

12:30 Search for CP violation in the charm sector at LHCb - Maxime Schubiger (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

12:45 Study of the inclusive J/ψ production at the LHCb experiment - Liupan An (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:30
Contributions

14:00 Search of the top quark heaviest supersymmetric partner with the ATLAS detector - Geoffrey Mullier (Universitaet Bern (CH))

14:15 Search for direct pair production of a chargino and a neutralino in pp collisions with the ATLAS Detector - Thomas Weston (Universitaet Bern (CH))

14:30 ATLAS searches for Supersymmetry with jets and missing transverse momentum (MET) - Teng Jian Khoo (Universite de Geneve (CH))

14:45 Searches for SUSY with two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, jets and MET with the CMS detector - Minna Leonora Vesterbacka (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

15:00 The search for sterile neutrinos at future particle collider - Oliver Fischer (Unibas)

15:15 The Search for Bosonic Super-WIMPs in XENON100 - Peter Barrow (University of Zurich)

15:30 The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment - Yuehuan Wei (University of Zurich)

15:45 Neutron Electric Dipole Moment experiment at PSI - Malgorzata Kasprzak (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:00 Looking for axions with the nEDM experiments - Michal Rawlik (ETHZ (CH))

16:15 Magnetic monopole searches with ATLAS and MoEDAL - Anthony Lionti (Universite de Geneve (CH))