Zurich PhD seminar 2018

8 Mar 2018, 09:00 → 9 Mar 2018, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

University of Zurich (UZH)

Claudia Seitz (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)), Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

PhD seminar for Zurich area PhD students. There are 30 talks from the groups of UZH, ETHZ, and PSI phd students, covering a wide variety of topics from collider physics to ultra cold neutrons, particle beams, and detector R&D.

The seminars will be held at UZH, room  KO2 F 152. 
Karl Schmid-Strasse 4 , 8006 Zürich

Thursday, 8 March

09:00 → 10:40 Session 1

Convener: Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

09:00 A new approach to radiocarbon dating of paintings

Speaker: Laura Hendriks (ETHZ)

09:20 Dating the stablisation age of relict rockglaciers using 10Be exposure

Speaker: Olivia Kronig

09:40 Highly resolved temporal 14C dates during the Younger Dyras

Speaker: Adam Sookdeo (ETH-Zurich)

Sookdeo. A PhD Seminar 2018.pptx

Sookdeo. A PhD Seminar for pdf.pdf

10:00 A novel Transient-Current-Technique based on 2-Photon Absorption in Diamond

Speaker: Christian Dorfer (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

20180308_dorfer.pdf

10:20 NA64: searching for hidden sectors at the CERN SPS

Speaker: Emilio Depero (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

PhD_pres.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Session 2

Convener: Rainer Wallny (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

11:00 SAFIR PET project: Development of STIR- software for PET image reconstruction

Speaker: Parisa Khateri (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

2010308_Zurich_Phd_Seminar_v1.pdf

11:20 Performance Evaluation of Novel Silicon Photomultipliers and their Application in Xenon-based Dark Matter TPCs

Speaker: Mr julien wulf

11:40 Response of liquid xenon to low-energy ionizing radiation

Speaker: Chiara Capelli

phd_seminar_2018.pdf

12:00 Search for ttH in the all-hadronic channel

Speaker: Korbinian Schweiger (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

PhDSeminar_2018.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Session 3

Convener: Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zurich)

14:00 Combination of Higgs boson differential cross sections and limits on Higgs couplings

Speaker: Thomas Klijnsma (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

0308_PhDSeminar_v2.pdf

14:20 Scattering Amplitudes with OpenLoops2

Speaker: Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich)

buccioni_PhD_seminar.pdf

14:40 NLO QCD corrections to Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion

Speaker: Seraina Glaus (PSI/UZH)

phd Seminar.pdf

15:00 Initial PET measurements for the SAFIR project

Speaker: Christian Edwin Ritzer (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

ChristianRitzer.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Session 4

16:00 NuSTAR detection of X-ray flares in the quiet Sun

Speaker: Matej Kuhar (ETH)

16:20 Investigating the solid deuterium in the PSI UCN source moderator

Speaker: Nicolas Hild (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

PhDTalk2018_NHild_v1.pdf

16:40 The development of a high brightness muonium beam

Speaker: Narongrit Ritjoho (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)

PhD_seminar_2018.key

17:00 Muonic Atom Spectroscopy: Preparations Regarding a Measurement of the Charge Radius of Radium

Speaker: Alexander Skawran (PSI)

17:20 AMR

Speakers: Matthias Frey (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Matthias Frey (PSI)

frey_08_03_2018.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Friday, 9 March

09:00 → 10:40 Session 5

Convener: Massimiliano Grazzini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

09:00 Heavy quark production at the LHC

Speaker: Simone Devoto (Universität Zürich)

phd seminar.pdf

09:20 Leptoquarks in flavour physics

Speaker: Dario Müller (PSI / UZH)

PhD_seminar.pdf

09:40 Fully differential predictions for lepton decays

Speaker: Yannick Ulrich (Paul Scherrer Institut / Universität Zürich)

talk.pdf

10:00 Search for inelastic WIMP-nucleus scattering with XENON1T

Speaker: Adam Brown (University of Zurich)

Adam_Brown_PhD_seminar_2018.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Session 6

Convener: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

11:00 Search for the keV-scale Dark Matter with the GERDA experiment

Speaker: Rizalina Mingazheva (UZH)

mingazheva_phd_seminar2.pdf

11:20 Progress towards the first measurement of the anti-hydrogen Lamb shift

Speaker: Gianluca Janka (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

PhD_Seminar_2018_GianlucaJanka.pdf

11:40 CMS Phase-2 Upgrade / serial powering

Speaker: Daniele Ruini (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

ruini_serialPowering.pdf

12:20 → 13:40 lunch

13:40 → 15:00 Session 7

Convener: Prof. Guenther Dissertori (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

13:40 Progress on the ArDM Dark Matter experiment

Speaker: Wei Mu (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

The ArDM Experiment - ZurichPhDSeminar2018 - MUWei.pdf

14:00 Performance of the 3x1x1 m^3 Dual Phase Liquid Argon TPC prototype

Speaker: Christoph Alt (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

ChristophAlt_3x1x1Prototype.pdf

14:20 Pulse Shape Simulations for the GERDA Experiment

Speaker: Michael Miloradovic (Universität Zürich)

14:40 Energy calibration for the GERDA experiment

Speaker: Chloe Ransom

ransom_PhDSeminar.pdf

ransom_PhDSeminar.pdf