Name: Kruger 2010: Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC
Start: 2010-12-05T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-12-10T19:10:00+02:00
Location: Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

Kruger 2010: Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC

from Sunday 5 December 2010 (16:00) to Friday 10 December 2010 (19:10)
Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

5 Dec 2010

6 Dec 2010

7 Dec 2010

8 Dec 2010

9 Dec 2010

10 Dec 2010

08:10	LHC Status, Performance and Plans - Lyn Evans (CERN) (Hubya) Slides
09:00	LHC Physics Overview - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN) (Hubya)
09:50	Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the LHC - Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton, IAS) (Hubya)
10:40	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55	Overview of the ALICE results - Paul Kuijer (NIKHEF) (Hubya)
11:45	ATLAS Overview - Daniel Dobos (Fachbereich Physik) (Hubya) Slides

09:00	Latest results from the CMS Experiment - Ivan Kresimir Furic (Department of Physics - University of Florida) (Hubya)
09:50	LHCb Status, First Physics and Discovery Potential - Olaf Steinkamp (Physik-Institut-Universitaet Zuerich-Unknown) (Hubya)
10:40	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55	SUSY Predictions for the LHC - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN) (Hubya) Slides
11:45	Phenomenology in the LHC Era - Prof. Tao Han (University of Wisconsin) (Hubya)

09:50	Search for New Physics Beyond SM at the Tevatron - Jianrong Deng (Hubya) Slides
10:40	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55	Challenging the Standard Model at the Tevatron Collider - Frank Filthaut (Radboud University Nijmegen / Nikhef) (Hubya) Slides
11:45	Antimatter Production in p-p and Heavy Ion Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies - Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics-University of Cape Town) (Hubya) Slides

09:50	New Physics Constraints from B Factories - Dr Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia) (Hubya) Slides
10:40	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55	LHC physics beyond the Standard Model - Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)) (Hubya) Slides
11:45	Neutrinos: from Pauli to the LHC - Dr Heather Ray (University of Florida) (Hubya)

10:25	The physics case for the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) - Bruce Mellado Garcia (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi) (Hubya)
11:15	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30	Overview of CLIC - Anne Dabrowski (CERN) (Hubya) Slides

16:00	--- Registration of Participants ---
17:00	Welcome Address - Dr Zeblon VILAKAZI (iThemba LABS) (Hubya)
17:25	Overview of Physics in South Africa - Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg) (Hubya)
17:55	Experimental particle physics in the LHC area and possible implications for development in Africa - Dr Ketevi ASSAMAGAN (Hubya)

12:35	--- Lunch Break ---
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Hubya)
14:00	The ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter EMCAL: its Status and its Physics Capabilities - Alessandra Fantoni (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)-Istituto Nazionale Fisica) (Hubya) Slides
14:30	Performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker - Salvador Marti i Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV-CSIC)) (Hubya)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Ghama)
14:00	Measurement of Transverse Momentum Spectra of identified Hadrons from pp Collisions with the ALICE Experiment - Alexander Philipp Kalweit (Technische Universität Darmstadt) (Ghama)
14:30	Quarkonium and Heavy Flavour Physics with ALICE at the LHC - Martino Gagliardi (Universita degli Studi di Torino) (Ghama) Slides
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla II)
14:00	Production of W, Z in ATLAS - Zofia Czyczula (Yale University) (Bandla II) Slides
14:30	Top Quark Studies in ATLAS - Aras Papadelis (Stockholm University) (Bandla II) Slides
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla I)
14:00	From Operators and Lorentz Invariance to Quantum Fields and Gauge Symmetry - Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
15:00	--- Tea Break ---
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Hubya)
15:30	Performance of the ATLAS Calorimeters - Claudio Santoni (Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand II) (Hubya) Slides
16:00	Performance of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Marcello Bindi (Universita & INFN, Bologna) (Hubya) Slides
16:30	Setting of the ATLAS Jet Energy Scale - Michele Petteni (Simon Fraser University) (Hubya)
17:00	Room available for open discussion (Hubya)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Ghama)
15:30	Particle Production Studies at LHCb - Andrea Contu (CERN) (Ghama) Slides
16:00	Inclusive production of jets and dijets at LHCb - Giulio Auriemma (Universita di Roma I "La Sapienza") (Ghama)
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Ghama)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla II)
15:30	Hard QCD Measurements in ATLAS - Rainer Stamen (Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik/Heidelberg) (Bandla II)
16:00	Soft QCD Measurements in ATLAS - Paul James Laycock (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool) (Bandla II) Slides
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Bandla II)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla I)
15:30	QFT Discussion - Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
16:00	Standard Model Discussion - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN) (Bandla I)
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Bandla I)

12:35	--- Lunch Break ---
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Ghama)
14:00	Heavy Flavour Production in ATLAS - Francesco Conventi (Univ. + INFN) (Ghama)
14:30	Study of hadronic b-decays at LHCb - Aurelien Martens (Lab. de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (IN2P3) (LAL)-Universite de Pari) (Ghama) Slides
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla II)
14:00	Operation, Calibration and Performance of the CMS Silicon Tracker - Ettore Focardi (University/INFN Florence) (Bandla II)
14:30	Operation and Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Martina Malberti (Univ. Milano Bicocca & INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca) (Bandla II) Slides
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Hubya)
14:00	Searches for new physics with jets at ATLAS - Lorraine Courneyea (University of Victoria) (Hubya) Slides
14:30	CMS searches for new physics - Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (CIE) (Hubya) Slides
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla I)
14:00	General Relativity Primer for Graduate Students - Dr Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I) Slides
15:00	--- Tea Break ---
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Ghama)
15:30	Prompt Jpsi and b->Jpsi X production in pp collisions - Dr Patrick Robbe (Ghama)
16:00	Prospects of CPV in Bs->JpsiPhi with first LHCb data - Basem Khanji (CPPM-Marseille) (Ghama) Slides
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Ghama)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla II)
15:30	Operation and Performance of the LHCb Experiment - Federico Alessio (CERN) (Bandla II) Slides
16:00	Performance of Track and Vertex Reconstruction and B-tagging Studies with CMS in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7TeV - Alexander Schmidt (Universität Zürich) (Bandla II) Slides
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Bandla II)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Hubya)
15:30	Searches for new physics in Heavy Flavour Rare b decays at LHCb - Antonio Pellegrino (NIKHEF) (Hubya) Slides
16:00	Searches for new physics with leptons in ATLAS - Xin Chen (University of Wisconsin) (Hubya) Slides
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Hubya)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla I)
15:30	General Relativity Discussion - Dr Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
16:00	Correlators of Operators With Large R-Charge in the ABJM Theory - Dr Tanay Dey (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Bandla I)

12:35	--- Lunch Break ---
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Ghama)
14:00	B->X_s/d gamma and B->X_s/d l+l- - Martino Margoni (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei) (Ghama) Slides
14:30	Leptonic decays - Dr Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia) (Ghama)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Hubya)
14:00	Early Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS - Xuai Zhuang (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen) (Hubya)
14:30	Searches for Stopped Gluinos during Beam-off Periods at CMS - Amita Raval (Penn State University) (Hubya)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla II)
14:00	CMS Results in Electroweak Physics - Dr Ilaria Segoni (CERN) (Bandla II)
14:30	W and Z Production in the forward region at LHCb - David Hutchcroft (University of Liverpool) (Bandla II)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla I)
14:00	Stau relic density at the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis era consistent with the abundance of light element nuclei in the co-annihilation scenario - Dr Joe Sato (Bandla I)
14:30	The properties of CKM Evolution in the UED Model - Dr Lu-Xin Liu (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
15:00	--- Tea Break ---
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Ghama)
15:30	Direct searches for light new physics with BaBar - Dr Neus Lopez-March (Ghama) Slides
16:00	B-physics Discussion - All (Ghama)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Hubya)
15:30	Higgs sensitivity in ATLAS - Jana Novakova (Hubya) Slides
16:00	Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in CMS - Norbert Neumeister (Purdue University) (Hubya) Slides
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Hubya)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla II)
15:30	SM Discussion - All (Bandla II)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla I)
15:30	SUSY Discussion - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN) (Bandla I) Slides
16:00	Phenomenology discussion - Prof. Tao Han (University of Wisconsin) (Bandla I)
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Bandla I)

12:35	--- Lunch Break ---
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Hubya)
14:00	Search for Pair Production of Leptoquarks in the CMS Experiment - Paolo Rumerio (University of Maryland) (Hubya) Slides
14:30	Search for New Physics in the Dijet Mass Spectrum in CMS - Lorenzo Agostino (Cornell University) (Hubya)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Ghama)
14:00	Results and Prospects for charm physics at LHCb - Philip John Hunt (Particle Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown) (Ghama)
14:30	Suppression of Charged Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central Pb–Pb Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV - Jochen Thaeder (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)) (Ghama)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla II)
14:00	Discussion I - All (Bandla II)
14:00	Parallel Session (until 15:00) (Bandla I)
14:00	Supergroups and generally extended supersymmetry - Dr Peter Roenne (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
14:30	Semiclassical strings in toric AdS/CFT and its marginal deformations - Dr Dimitrios Giataganas (University of the Witwatersrand) (Bandla I)
15:00	--- Tea Break ---
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Hubya)
15:30	Search for New Physics in the Dijet Centrality Ratio in CMS - Amita Raval (DESY) (Hubya)
16:00	Two early Exotic searches with dijet events at ATLAS - Reyhaneh Rezvani (Department of Physics-University of Toronto) (Hubya) Slides
16:30	Room available for open discussion (Hubya)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Ghama)
15:30	QCD Discussion - All (Ghama)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla II)
15:30	Discussion II - All (Bandla II)
15:30	Parallel Session (until 17:30) (Bandla I)
15:30	Qualitative and Quantitative Jet Physics in Pb + Pb at LHC - Dr Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town) (Bandla I)
16:00	Discussion session I - Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics) Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)) (Bandla I)
17:00	Room available for open discussion (Bandla I)
18:00	--- Gala Dinner ---

12:20	Goodbye (Hubya)
12:35	--- Lunch Break ---