LHC Users Association Annual Meeting 2019

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Oct 2019
16 Oct 2019
17 Oct 2019
AM
09:00
Plenary talks - Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)) Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US)) (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Plenary talks (until 12:30)
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 Lab. (US)) Patricia McBride (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
12:00 ATLAS Status and outlook - Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))  
09:00
Lightning round talks (until 10:00)
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 ---
10:30
Breakout discussions (until 11:45)
10:30 Advocacy and US Funding - Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US)) Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US))   (Herman Brown 254)
10:30 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning - Dmitri Denisov (Brookhaven National Laboratiry)   (Brockman 300)
10:30 Quark Plasma Signatures in Small Systems - Wei Li (Rice University (US))   (Herman Brown 223)
PM
16:00 Executive Committee Meeting - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US)) Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))   (Herman Brown 223)
17:45 Social gathering at Valhalla  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary talks (until 15:00)
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
Breakout discussions (until 16:00)
15:00 Future Colliders and Snowmass Planning - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))   (Brockman 300)
15:00 Heavy-Ion Measurements in Runs 3 & 4 - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))   (Herman Brown 223)
15:00 Machine Learning - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))   (Herman Brown 254)
16:00 --- pausa caffè ---
16:30
Lightning round talks (until 17:30)
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
Career panel (until 18:45)
19:00
Dinner (until 21:00)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Plenary talks (until 14:30)
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 ---
15:00
Lightning round talks (until 16:00)
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
Plenary talks (until 18:00)
16:00 NSF office of EPP - Randy Ruchti (National Science Foundation)  
16:30 Reports on breakout sessions, and discussion - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Dmitri Denisov (Brookhaven National Laboratiry) Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US)) Wei Li (Rice University (US)) Darin Acosta (University of Florida (US)) Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US)) Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))  
17:15 Lightning round awards and closeout - Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US)) Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))