Aspen Particle Physics 2010

17 Jan 2010, 16:00 → 23 Jan 2010, 12:00 US/Mountain

Aspen Center for Physics (Aspen Center for Physics)

Graham Kribs (University of Oregon), John Conway (University of California, Davis), Robin Erbacher (University of California, Davis), Timothy Tait (University of California, Irvine)

Aspen Particle Physics 2010 January 18-23, 2010

Sunday 17 January

16:00 → 19:00 Arrival and Registration

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome Reception

Monday 18 January

08:00 → 11:00 First Results from the LHC

08:00 Introduction: The Revolution is here, where the heck have YOU been?

Speaker: Neal Weiner (NYU)

Slides Weiner.pdf

08:30 The LHC Machine

Speaker: Dr Eric Prebys (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides

• aspen_prebys_10100118.pdf
• aspen_prebys_10100118.ppt
• aspen_prebys_10100118.pptx

09:15 break

09:30 First Results and Performance of ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Guillaume Unal (CERN)

Slides aspen-atlas-unal-18jan10.pdf

10:15 First Results and Performance of CMS

Speaker: Dr Christos Leonidopoulos (CERN)

Slides CMS-Leonidpoulos.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Lunch/Skiing

16:30 → 19:15 Electroweak, QCD, and Higgs Physics

16:30 Prospects for QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Nikos Varelas (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides QCD-Varelas.pdf

16:50 QCD Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Kenichi Hatakeyama (Rockefeller University)

Slides Aspen2010_hatakeyama.pdf Aspen2010_hatakeyama.pptx

17:10 Higgs at the LHC - Evolution vs Revolution

Speaker: Prof. Tilman Plehn (University of Heidelberg)

Slides Plehn.pdf.pdf

17:30 break

17:50 Electroweak Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Junjie Zhu (SUNY Stony Brook)

Slides aspen_2010_Zhu.pdf

18:10 Prospects for Electroweak Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Massimiliano Bellomo (INFN Pavia)

Slides EWPhysicsAtLHC.pdf

18:30 Uplifted Supersymmetry

Speaker: Dr Patrick Fox (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides uplifted2.pdf

18:50 New NLO Gluon Distributions for the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Marty Block (Northwestern University)

Slides Block.pdf Block.ppt

19:15 → 20:15 Dinner

Tuesday 19 January

08:00 → 10:10 Top Quark Physics

08:00 Top Theory

Speaker: Jessie Shelton (Yale)

Slides 100119-AspenA.pdf

08:30 Top Properties

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Heinz (Brown University)

Slides Heintz.pdf

08:50 Top Mass

Speaker: Dr Lina Galtieri (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides Galtieri.pdf

09:10 break

09:30 Top Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Campagnari (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Slides Campagnari.pdf

09:50 New Physics In Top at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Ivanov (Kansas State University)

Slides Ivanov.pdf

10:10 → 10:50 Hadron Collider B Physics

10:10 B Physics Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool)

Slides aspen_sb20100119b.pdf aspen_sb20100119b.ppt

10:30 B Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Dr Chris Jones (Cambridge University)

Slides LHCb-Aspen2010.pdf LHCb-Aspen2010.pptx

11:00 → 16:15 lunch/skiing

16:30 → 19:10 The Higgs Boson

16:30 Search for the Low Mass Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Bo Jayatilaka (Duke University)

Slides http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/~boj/aspen-jayatilaka.pdf

16:50 Search for the High Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Marc Buehler (Univ. of Virginia)

Slides Buehler.pdf

17:10 Searches for Non-SM Higgs Bosons

Speaker: Dr Andy Haas (SLAC)

Slides Haas.pdf

17:30 break

17:50 Search for the Low Mass Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides Mellado.pdf

18:10 Search for the Low Mass Higgs Boson in CMS

Speaker: Alexei Safonov (Texas A&M University)

Slides Aspen_2010_safonov.pdf

18:30 Search for the High Mass Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Chris Potter (McGill University)

Slides aspen_19Jan10.pdf

18:50 Search for the High Mass Higgs Boson in CMS

Speaker: Dr Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida)

Slides ASPEN2010.AlexeyDrozdetskiy.Higgs.3.pdf

19:10 → 21:00 Dinner

Wednesday 20 January

08:00 → 11:00 Beyond the Standard Model

08:00 Casting a Wide Net for New Physics with jets+MET Searches at LHC

Speaker: Jacob Wacker (SLAC)

Slides Wacker.pdf

08:20 Searches for New Physics in CDF

Speaker: Dr Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool)

Slides Donofrio.pdf

08:40 Supermodels at the LHC

Speaker: Martin Schmaltz (Boston U)

Slides Schmaltz_Aspen_W2010.pdf

09:00 Searches for New Physics at D0

Speaker: Prof. Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers University)

Slides d0-np.pdf

09:20 break

09:40 Boosting BSM Higgs discovery with jet substructure

Speaker: Adam Martin (Fermilab)

Slides boosted_amartin.pdf

10:00 Searches for New Physics in CMS

Speaker: Prof. Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

Slides Landsberg.pdf

10:20 The LHC Phenomenology of Vectorlike Confinement

Speaker: Takemichi Okui (Florida State)

Slides Okui.pdf

10:40 Searches for New Physics in ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia University)

Slides talk.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Lunch/Skiing

16:30 → 21:00 Public Lecture

Thursday 21 January

08:00 → 11:00 Dark Matter

08:00 Dark Matter from the Baryon Asymmetry

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

08:20 New Results from CDMS II

Speaker: Dr Nader Mirabolfathi (University of California, Berkeley)

Slides Mirabolfathi.pdf

08:40 Large Scale Searches for Relic Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Mani Tripathi (University of California, Davis)

Slides Tripathi.pdf

09:00 Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi Space Telescope

Speaker: Yvonne Edmonds (Stanford University)

Slides Edmonds.pdf Edmonds.ppt

09:20 break

09:40 Dark Matter searches with Dwarf Galaxies

Speaker: Dr Rouven Essig (Stanford University)

Slides Essig.pdf

10:00 New Results from PAMELA

Speaker: Dr Marco Casolino (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Rome)

Slides pamela_aspen_jan2010_.pdf

10:20 High-Intensity Accelerator Probes of Dark Matter

Speaker: Philip Schuster (SLAC)

Slides Schuster.pdf

10:40 Dark Matter Searches with Antideuterons

Speaker: Prof. Lisa Randall (Harvard University)

Slides Randall.pdf Randall.pptx

11:00 → 16:30 Lunch/Skiing

16:30 → 19:00 Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy and Dark Matter

16:30 Recent Developments String Phenomenology

Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides Cvetic.pdf

16:50 New Physics Spectroscopy with Dark Matter

Speaker: Gabe Shaughnessy (ANL / Northwestern)

Slides gshaughnessy-aspen-winter2010.pdf

17:10 LSST

Speaker: Dr Ryan Scranton (University of California, Davis)

Slides Scranton.pdf

17:30 break

17:50 Dark Energy Survey

Speaker: Prof. Josh Frieman (University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides Frieman.pdf

18:10 WMAP and Planck

Speaker: Prof. Lloyd Knox (University of California, Davis)

Slides Knox.pdf

18:30 Astrophysical Constraints on Interacting Dark Matter

Speaker: Matt Buckley (Caltech)

Slides Buckley.pdf.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Conference Banquet

Friday 22 January

08:00 → 10:00 Flavor Physics

08:00 Theory of Flavor Physics

Speaker: Dr Gudrun Hiller (Technical University Dortmund)

Slides Hiller.pdf

08:20 Results from Belle

Speaker: Prof. Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnatti)

Slides Schwartz.pdf

08:40 Results from BaBar

Speaker: Dr David Lopes Pegna (Princeton University)

Slides BaBar_Aspen3.pdf

09:00 Results from CLEO/c

Speaker: Prof. Phil Rubin (George Mason Univ.)

Slides Rubin.pdf

09:20 Future B Factories

Speaker: Prof. David Hitlin (California Institute of Technology)

Slides Hitlin.pdf Hitlin.pptx

09:40 break

10:00 → 11:00 Neutrinos I

10:00 Neutrino Signals for Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Ina Sarcevic (University of Arizona)

Slides Sarcevic.pdf

10:20 MiniBooNE

Speaker: Dr William Louis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Louis.pdf

10:40 Measuring Theta_13

Speaker: Prof. Jim Napolitano (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut)

Slides NapolitanoTheta13FullSlides.pdf NapolitanoTheta13Overlays.pdf

11:00 → 16:30 Lunch/Skiing

16:30 → 18:45 Neutrinos II

16:30 MINOS and NOvA

Speaker: Dr Robert Zwaska (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides zwaska_minosnova.pdf

16:50 Project X: Accelerator and Experiments

Speaker: Dr Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides ProjX_aspen.pdf

17:10 LBNE - Long Baseline Neutrinos at DUSEL

Speaker: Dr Christopher Mauger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides MaugerAspenLBNE.pdf

17:30 break

17:45 NEMO-3/SuperNEMO

Speaker: Prof. Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides NEMO-Aspen-Jan-2010.pdf

18:05 IceCube

Speaker: Dr Patrick Toale (Penn State University)

Slides Toale.pdf

18:25 ANITA

Speaker: Prof. David Saltzberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

Slides Saltzberg.pdf

18:45 → 19:15 Is the Revolution Here?

18:45 Is the Revolution Here?

Speaker: Prof. Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Wagner.pdf

19:15 → 21:00 Dinner