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, December 5, 2010 (4:00 PM) to Friday, December 10, 2010 (7:10 PM)
Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Dec 5, 2010

Dec 6, 2010

Dec 7, 2010

Dec 8, 2010

Dec 9, 2010

Dec 10, 2010

8:10 AM	LHC Status, Performance and Plans - Lyn Evans (CERN) (Hubya) Slides
9:00 AM	LHC Physics Overview - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN) (Hubya)
9:50 AM	Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the LHC - Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton, IAS) (Hubya)
10:40 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55 AM	Overview of the ALICE results - Paul Kuijer (NIKHEF) (Hubya)
11:45 AM	ATLAS Overview - Daniel Dobos (Fachbereich Physik) (Hubya) Slides

9:00 AM	Latest results from the CMS Experiment - Ivan Kresimir Furic (Department of Physics - University of Florida) (Hubya)
9:50 AM	LHCb Status, First Physics and Discovery Potential - Olaf Steinkamp (Physik-Institut-Universitaet Zuerich-Unknown) (Hubya)
10:40 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55 AM	SUSY Predictions for the LHC - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN) (Hubya) Slides
11:45 AM	Phenomenology in the LHC Era - Prof. Tao Han (University of Wisconsin) (Hubya)

9:50 AM	Search for New Physics Beyond SM at the Tevatron - Jianrong Deng (Hubya) Slides
10:40 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55 AM	Challenging the Standard Model at the Tevatron Collider - Frank Filthaut (Radboud University Nijmegen / Nikhef) (Hubya) Slides
11:45 AM	Antimatter Production in p-p and Heavy Ion Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies - Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics-University of Cape Town) (Hubya) Slides

9:50 AM	New Physics Constraints from B Factories - Dr Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia) (Hubya) Slides
10:40 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
10:55 AM	LHC physics beyond the Standard Model - Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)) (Hubya) Slides
11:45 AM	Neutrinos: from Pauli to the LHC - Dr Heather Ray (University of Florida) (Hubya)

10:25 AM	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 AM	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM	Overview of CLIC - Anne Dabrowski (CERN) (Hubya) Slides

4:00 PM	--- Registration of Participants ---
5:00 PM	Welcome Address - Dr Zeblon VILAKAZI (iThemba LABS) (Hubya)
5:25 PM	Overview of Physics in South Africa - Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg) (Hubya)
5:55 PM	Experimental particle physics in the LHC area and possible implications for development in Africa - Dr Ketevi ASSAMAGAN (Hubya)

12:35 PM	--- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Hubya)
2:00 PM	The ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter EMCAL: its Status and its Physics Capabilities - Alessandra Fantoni (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)-Istituto Nazionale Fisica) Slides
2:30 PM	Performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker - Salvador Marti i Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV-CSIC))
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Ghama)
2:00 PM	Measurement of Transverse Momentum Spectra of identified Hadrons from pp Collisions with the ALICE Experiment - Alexander Philipp Kalweit (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
2:30 PM	Quarkonium and Heavy Flavour Physics with ALICE at the LHC - Martino Gagliardi (Universita degli Studi di Torino) Slides
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla II)
2:00 PM	Production of W, Z in ATLAS - Zofia Czyczula (Yale University) Slides
2:30 PM	Top Quark Studies in ATLAS - Aras Papadelis (Stockholm University) Slides
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla I)
2:00 PM	From Operators and Lorentz Invariance to Quantum Fields and Gauge Symmetry - Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)
3:00 PM	--- Tea Break ---
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Hubya)
3:30 PM	Performance of the ATLAS Calorimeters - Claudio Santoni (Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand II) Slides
4:00 PM	Performance of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Marcello Bindi (Universita & INFN, Bologna) Slides
4:30 PM	Setting of the ATLAS Jet Energy Scale - Michele Petteni (Simon Fraser University)
5:00 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Ghama)
3:30 PM	Particle Production Studies at LHCb - Andrea Contu (CERN) Slides
4:00 PM	Inclusive production of jets and dijets at LHCb - Giulio Auriemma (Universita di Roma I "La Sapienza")
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla II)
3:30 PM	Hard QCD Measurements in ATLAS - Rainer Stamen (Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik/Heidelberg)
4:00 PM	Soft QCD Measurements in ATLAS - Paul James Laycock (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool) Slides
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla I)
3:30 PM	QFT Discussion - Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)
4:00 PM	Standard Model Discussion - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion

12:35 PM	--- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Ghama)
2:00 PM	Heavy Flavour Production in ATLAS - Francesco Conventi (Univ. + INFN)
2:30 PM	Study of hadronic b-decays at LHCb - Aurelien Martens (Lab. de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (IN2P3) (LAL)-Universite de Pari) Slides
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla II)
2:00 PM	Operation, Calibration and Performance of the CMS Silicon Tracker - Ettore Focardi (University/INFN Florence)
2:30 PM	Operation and Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Martina Malberti (Univ. Milano Bicocca & INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca) Slides
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Hubya)
2:00 PM	Searches for new physics with jets at ATLAS - Lorraine Courneyea (University of Victoria) Slides
2:30 PM	CMS searches for new physics - Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (CIE) Slides
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla I)
2:00 PM	General Relativity Primer for Graduate Students - Dr Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand) Slides
3:00 PM	--- Tea Break ---
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Ghama)
3:30 PM	Prompt Jpsi and b->Jpsi X production in pp collisions - Dr Patrick Robbe
4:00 PM	Prospects of CPV in Bs->JpsiPhi with first LHCb data - Basem Khanji (CPPM-Marseille) Slides
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla II)
3:30 PM	Operation and Performance of the LHCb Experiment - Federico Alessio (CERN) Slides
4:00 PM	Performance of Track and Vertex Reconstruction and B-tagging Studies with CMS in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7TeV - Alexander Schmidt (Universität Zürich) Slides
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Hubya)
3:30 PM	Searches for new physics in Heavy Flavour Rare b decays at LHCb - Antonio Pellegrino (NIKHEF) Slides
4:00 PM	Searches for new physics with leptons in ATLAS - Xin Chen (University of Wisconsin) Slides
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla I)
3:30 PM	General Relativity Discussion - Dr Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand)
4:00 PM	Correlators of Operators With Large R-Charge in the ABJM Theory - Dr Tanay Dey (University of the Witwatersrand)
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion

12:35 PM	--- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Ghama)
2:00 PM	B->X_s/d gamma and B->X_s/d l+l- - Martino Margoni (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei) Slides
2:30 PM	Leptonic decays - Dr Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia)
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Hubya)
2:00 PM	Early Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS - Xuai Zhuang (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)
2:30 PM	Searches for Stopped Gluinos during Beam-off Periods at CMS - Amita Raval (Penn State University)
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla II)
2:00 PM	CMS Results in Electroweak Physics - Dr Ilaria Segoni (CERN)
2:30 PM	W and Z Production in the forward region at LHCb - David Hutchcroft (University of Liverpool)
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla I)
2:00 PM	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
2:30 PM	The properties of CKM Evolution in the UED Model - Dr Lu-Xin Liu (University of the Witwatersrand)
3:00 PM	--- Tea Break ---
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Ghama)
3:30 PM	Direct searches for light new physics with BaBar - Dr Neus Lopez-March Slides
4:00 PM	B-physics Discussion - All
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Hubya)
3:30 PM	Higgs sensitivity in ATLAS - Jana Novakova Slides
4:00 PM	Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in CMS - Norbert Neumeister (Purdue University) Slides
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla II)
3:30 PM	SM Discussion - All
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla I)
3:30 PM	SUSY Discussion - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN) Slides
4:00 PM	Phenomenology discussion - Prof. Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion

12:35 PM	--- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Hubya)
2:00 PM	Search for Pair Production of Leptoquarks in the CMS Experiment - Paolo Rumerio (University of Maryland) Slides
2:30 PM	Search for New Physics in the Dijet Mass Spectrum in CMS - Lorenzo Agostino (Cornell University)
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Ghama)
2:00 PM	Results and Prospects for charm physics at LHCb - Philip John Hunt (Particle Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown)
2:30 PM	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))
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla II)
2:00 PM	Discussion I - All
2:00 PM	Parallel Session (until 3:00 PM) (Bandla I)
2:00 PM	Supergroups and generally extended supersymmetry - Dr Peter Roenne (University of the Witwatersrand)
2:30 PM	Semiclassical strings in toric AdS/CFT and its marginal deformations - Dr Dimitrios Giataganas (University of the Witwatersrand)
3:00 PM	--- Tea Break ---
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Hubya)
3:30 PM	Search for New Physics in the Dijet Centrality Ratio in CMS - Amita Raval (DESY)
4:00 PM	Two early Exotic searches with dijet events at ATLAS - Reyhaneh Rezvani (Department of Physics-University of Toronto) Slides
4:30 PM	Room available for open discussion
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Ghama)
3:30 PM	QCD Discussion - All
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla II)
3:30 PM	Discussion II - All
3:30 PM	Parallel Session (until 5:30 PM) (Bandla I)
3:30 PM	Qualitative and Quantitative Jet Physics in Pb + Pb at LHC - Dr Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)
4:00 PM	Discussion session I - Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics) Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL))
5:00 PM	Room available for open discussion
6:00 PM	--- Gala Dinner ---

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

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