Name: LHC Users Association Annual Meeting 2019
Start: 2019-10-15T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-10-17T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Rice University

LHC Users Association Annual Meeting 2019

from Tuesday 15 October 2019 (16:00) to Thursday 17 October 2019 (18:00)

Monday 14 October 2019
Tuesday 15 October 2019
16:00 Executive Committee Meeting - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US)) Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
Executive Committee Meeting
- Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))
- Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Herman Brown 223
17:45 Social gathering at Valhalla
Social gathering at Valhalla
17:45 - 19:15
(Valhalla the bar, not the mythological afterlife)
Wednesday 16 October 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to Rice - Paul Padley (Rice University (US))

09:15 Chair's report - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

10:00 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))
10:30 coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

11:00 ALICE status and outlook - Deepa Thomas (University of Texas at Austin (US))

11:30 CMS status and outlook - Patricia McBride (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) Patricia Mcbride (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:00 ATLAS Status and outlook - Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

14:00 LHCb Status and outlook - Daniel Charles Craik (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

14:30 ACCU and supporting young physicists - Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US))
15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 Machine Learning - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

15:00 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))

15:00 Heavy-Ion Measurements in Runs 3 & 4 - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))
16:00 pausa caffè
pausa caffè
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

16:30 The ALICE Time Projection Chamber Upgrade - Charles Hughes (University of Tennessee (US))

16:42 Search for new physics through precision measurement of B(s) mesons to two muons - Aidan Grummer (University of New Mexico (US))

16:54 Search for Supersymmetry at CMS in Events with Large Jet Multiplicity and Low Missing Transverse Momentum at sqrt(s)=13 TeV - Christopher Madrid (Baylor University (US))

17:06 Tau Energy Scale at the ATLAS Detector - Emma Grace Castiglia (Yale University (US))

17:18 Charm decays - Michael Kent Wilkinson (Syracuse University (US))
17:30

17:30 - 18:45
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Brockman 101
Thursday 17 October 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

09:00 pyhf: pure-Python implementation of HistFactory models with autograd - Matthew Feickert (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

09:12 Semantic Segmentation-Based Pixel Clustering for CMS - Savannah Jennifer Thais (Princeton University (US))

09:24 Recent results on ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at ALICE - Ritsuya Hosokawa (Creighton University (US))

09:36 Properties of Xi(1820) resonance measured in pp collisions by ALICE - Corey James Myers (University of Houston (US))
10:00 pause café
pause café
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 11:45
Contributions

10:30 Advocacy and US Funding - Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US)) Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US))

10:30 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning - Dmitri Denisov (Brookhaven National Laboratiry)

10:30 Quark Plasma Signatures in Small Systems - Wei Li (Rice University (US))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

13:30 Government relations and DC Trip Report - Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

14:00 DOE office of NP - Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy)
14:30 descanso
descanso
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

15:00 Using charged particles to study jet quenching in heavy ion collisions with CMS - Austin Alan Baty (Rice University (US))

15:12 Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson with the ATLAS detector - Dylan Frizzell (University of Oklahoma (US))

15:24 b baryon decays - Aravindhan Venkateswaran (Syracuse University (US))

15:36 ttH and ttW measurements in multilepton final states with the ATLAS experiment - Rohin Thampilali Narayan (Southern Methodist University (US))

15:48 Thermal fits to idenified particle yields in ALICE - Fernando Antonio Flor (University of Houston (US))
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Kyle Morren Room, Fondren Library
Contributions

16:00 NSF office of EPP - Randy Ruchti (National Science Foundation)

16:30 Reports on breakout sessions, and discussion - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US)) Dmitri Denisov (Brookhaven National Laboratiry) Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US)) Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US)) Wei Li (Rice University (US))

17:15 Lightning round awards and closeout - Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)) Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))