LHC Users Association Annual Meeting 2019

15 Oct 2019, 16:00 → 17 Oct 2019, 18:00 US/Central

Rice University

Fondren Library at Rice University

The Annual US LHC Users Association Meeting will be held Tuesday - Thursday October 15-17, 2019, with gratitude to Rice University for hosting us.  On Tuesday evening we will organize a social gathering in the vicinity of the university for early arrivals.  The main sessions will be on Wednesday and Thursday.  

As always, we will have presentations on recent results, a review of the successful trip to Washington DC, and the latest news from representatives of the DOE and NSF.  The "Lightning Round" student talks are judged by a panel of senior researchers, and the best speakers are invited to join us on next Spring's DC trip.  We will also have a career panel with members of our field who have moved into teaching, data science, other areas of science and technology, or finance.  In addition to the talks there will be many opportunities for structured and unstructured discussion. 

 

fondren_library.jpg

USLUA_CodeOfConduct.pdf

Tuesday, 15 October

16:00 → 17:30 Executive Committee Meeting

Speakers: Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)), Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

17:45 → 19:15 Social gathering at Valhalla

(Valhalla the bar, not the mythological afterlife)

Wednesday, 16 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary talks

Conveners: Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)), Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

09:00 Welcome to Rice

Speaker: Paul Padley (Rice University (US))

US LUA Intro.pdf

US LUA Intro.pptx

09:15 Chair's report

Speaker: Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

USLUAChairReport_hbn101619.pdf

USLUAChairReport_hbn101619.pptx

10:00 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning

Speaker: Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))

USLUA-Future-Colliders-Oct2019.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary talks

11:00 ALICE status and outlook

Speaker: Deepa Thomas (University of Texas at Austin (US))

USLUS_ALICEoverview-Oct16.pdf

11:30 CMS status and outlook

Speakers: Patricia McBride (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)), Patricia Mcbride (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

PLM_CMS_USLUA_OCT2019.pdf

12:00 ATLAS Status and outlook

Speaker: Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))

USLUO2019_ATLASStatus_Tompkins.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Plenary talks

14:00 LHCb Status and outlook

Speaker: Daniel Charles Craik (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

20191016_dcraik_lua.pdf

14:30 ACCU and supporting young physicists

Speaker: Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US))

USLUA-ACCU.pdf

USLUA-ACCU.pptx

15:00 → 16:00 Breakout discussions

15:00 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning

Speaker: Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))

15:00 Heavy-Ion Measurements in Runs 3 & 4

Speaker: Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))

15:00 Machine Learning

Speaker: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

ML in HEP Discussion

16:00 → 16:30 pausa caffè

16:30 → 17:30 Lightning round talks

16:30 The ALICE Time Projection Chamber Upgrade

Speaker: Charles Hughes (University of Tennessee (US))

CHARLES_HUGHES_US_LHC_UA_PRES_DRAFT11.pdf

16:42 Search for new physics through precision measurement of B(s) mesons to two muons

Speaker: Aidan Grummer (University of New Mexico (US))

Grummer_USLUA_Final.pdf

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

Speaker: Christopher Madrid (Baylor University (US))

StealthRPVStop_USLUA.pdf

17:06 Tau Energy Scale at the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Emma Grace Castiglia (Yale University (US))

Castiglia_ATLAS_TES_USLUA.pdf

17:18 Charm decays

Speaker: Michael Kent Wilkinson (Syracuse University (US))

Michael Wilkinson.pdf

17:30 → 18:45 Career panel

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Thursday, 17 October

09:00 → 10:00 Lightning round talks

09:00 pyhf: pure-Python implementation of HistFactory models with autograd

Speaker: Matthew Feickert (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

Feickert_lightning_talk.pdf

pyhf US LUA 2019 Talk

09:12 Semantic Segmentation-Based Pixel Clustering for CMS

Speaker: Savannah Jennifer Thais (Princeton University (US))

uslua_2019.pdf

09:24 Recent results on ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at ALICE

Speaker: Ritsuya Hosokawa (Creighton University (US))

US_meeting_UPC_rhosokawa_v3.pdf

09:36 Properties of Xi(1820) resonance measured in pp collisions by ALICE

Speaker: Corey James Myers (University of Houston (US))

Xi1820 RICE Conferance.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 pause café

10:30 → 11:45 Breakout discussions

10:30 Advocacy and US Funding

Speakers: Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US)), Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US))

10:30 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning

Speaker: Dmitri Denisov (Brookhaven National Laboratiry)

Rice_Snowmass_2019.pdf

Rice_Snowmass_Future_Colliders_Denisov.pdf

10:30 Quark Plasma Signatures in Small Systems

Speaker: Wei Li (Rice University (US))

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Plenary talks

13:30 Government relations and DC Trip Report

Speaker: Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

GovRelDC_cmills.pdf

14:00 DOE office of NP

Speaker: Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy)

Hallman_LHC_User_MTG_10172019.pdf

Hallman_LHC_User_MTG_10172019.pptx

14:30 → 15:00 descanso

15:00 → 16:00 Lightning round talks

15:00 Using charged particles to study jet quenching in heavy ion collisions with CMS

Speaker: Austin Alan Baty (Rice University (US))

Baty_USLUA2019_v3.pdf

15:12 Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Dylan Frizzell (University of Oklahoma (US))

2019-17-10-USLUA.pdf

15:24 b baryon decays

Speaker: Aravindhan Venkateswaran (Syracuse University (US))

Lambda_b_USLUA.pdf

15:36 ttH and ttW measurements in multilepton final states with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Rohin Thampilali Narayan (Southern Methodist University (US))

US_LHCUA_rohin.pdf

15:48 Thermal fits to idenified particle yields in ALICE

Speaker: Fernando Antonio Flor (University of Houston (US))

FAFlor_USLUA2019.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary talks

16:00 NSF office of EPP

Speaker: Randy Ruchti (National Science Foundation)

USLUA NSF Presentation for 17.Oct.19.pdf

16:30 Reports on breakout sessions, and discussion

Speakers: 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))

Beyond_the_Higgs_BreakoutSession_USLHC_2019_Final.pdf

BreakoutDiscussionsTimmins.pdf

Rice_Snowmass_Future_Colliders_Denisov.pdf

Rice_Snowmass_Future_Colliders_Denisov.pptx

USLUA_ML_16Oct2019.pdf

USLUA_WeiLi.pdf

17:15 Lightning round awards and closeout

Speakers: Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)), Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

USLUA2019Closer.pdf