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Monday May 15, 2006, 2:00 PM → 6:30 PM America/Chicago

Pyle Center

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM B-Physics

2:00 PM Measurements of the Sides of the Unitarity Triangle @ BaBar

Speaker: Sylvie Brunet (Université de Montréal)

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2:20 PM New states containing charm at BaBar

Speaker: Adam Edwards (Stanford Univ.)

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2:40 PM Search for new physics in rare B decays at BaBar

Speaker: Jonathan Hollar (Univ. of Wisconsin)

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3:00 PM Strangeness-changing hadronic B decays in left-right models

Speaker: Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central Univ.)

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3:20 PM Probing strong interactions at BaBar

Speaker: Sepehr Saremi (Univ. of Massachusetts)

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3:40 PM Measurements of angles of the unitarity triangle at BaBar

Speaker: Francesco Polci (Univ. di Roma)

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2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Cosmology I: Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

2:00 PM Post-sphaleron baryogenesis

Speaker: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State Univ.)

2:20 PM New source of leptogenesis from gauged (B-L) symmetry

Speaker: Tsedenbaljir Enkhbat (Oklahoma State Univ.)

2:40 PM Soft leptogenesis in left-right symmetric models

Speaker: Abdelghafour Bachri (Oklahoma State Univ.)

3:00 PM The phenomenology of Dirac neutrinogenesis

Speaker: Brooks Thomas (Univ. of Michigan)

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3:20 PM Baryogenesis in gauge-extended model

Speaker: Jing Shu (Univ. of Chicago)

3:40 PM Leptogenesis in a model of dark energy and dark matter

Speaker: P. Q. Hung (Univ. of Virginia)

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Non-SUSY TeV-Scale Physics

2:00 PM Vector bosons in the Littlest Higgs Model

Speaker: John Boersma (Univ. of Rochester)

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2:20 PM Heavy Z' boson searches at CDF

Speaker: Catalin Ciobanu (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana)

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2:40 PM Search for W' boson production in the top quark decay channel

Speaker: Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State Univ.)

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3:00 PM Search for third generation vector leptoquarks in Run II at CDF

Speaker: Aron Soha (UC-Davis)

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3:20 PM Exotic colored particles at the LHC

Speaker: Junhai Kang (Univ. of Maryland)

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3:40 PM The flavor of a little Higgs with T-parity

Speaker: Seung Lee (Cornell Univ.)

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2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Perspectives in QFT & Beyond

2:00 PM Minimal trinification

Speaker: Josh Sayre (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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2:20 PM Gauge mediation from emergent supersymmetry

Speaker: Siew-Phang Ng (Bartol Research Inst.)

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2:40 PM Naturalness of the vacuum energy in holographic theories

Speaker: Csaba Balazs (Argonne National Lab)

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3:00 PM Solving pure Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions

Speaker: Aleksandr Yelnikov (Virginia Tech)

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3:20 PM Neutrino masses and discretized gravity on the hyperbolic disk

Speaker: Gerhart Seidl (Oklahoma State Univ.)

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2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Simulations and Analysis at Colliders I

2:00 PM Vista: a new method for an inclusive search of Tevatron Run II Data

Speaker: Conor Henderson (M.I.T.)

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2:20 PM LHC multi-particle simulation for the MSSM and beyond

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY-TH)

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2:40 PM Iterative discriminant analysis for charged Higgs bosons

Speaker: Andre Sopczak (Lancaster Univ.)

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3:00 PM Studies of the D0 calorimeter response using isolated charged hadrons

Speaker: Petra Haefner (Munich Univ. (LMU))

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3:20 PM High energy physics thresholds in weak-scale SUSY models

Speaker: Yudi Santoso (Univ. of Victoria)

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3:40 PM Reconstructing mass and spin at hadron colliders

Speaker: Bob McElrath (UC-Davis)

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4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 5:50 PM Cosmology II: New Physics

4:30 PM Reduced SU(3) gaugino mass: consequences for dark matter and collider searches

Speaker: Azar Mustafayev (Florida State Univ.)

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4:50 PM Seeing the Landscape on Earth and in the Sky

Speaker: Natalia Toro (Harvard Univ.)

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5:10 PM Cosmology and collider signatures of right-handed sneutrinos

Speaker: Shrihari Gopalakrishna (Northwestern Univ.)

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5:30 PM Impact of right-handed currents on Dirac vs. Majorana neutrino oscillation in matter

Speaker: Marek Zralek (Silesia Univ.)

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4:30 PM → 6:10 PM Extra Dimensions

4:30 PM Top pair production in Randall-Sundrum Models

Speaker: Erin De Pree (College of William & Mary)

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4:50 PM Higher curvature efects in ADD and RS Models

Speaker: Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

5:10 PM Trinification in five dimensions

Speaker: Christopher Carone (College of William & Mary)

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5:30 PM Probing the properties of extra dimensions with Kaluza-Klein modes

Speaker: Ben Lillie (ANL/Univ. Chicago)

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5:50 PM TeV-string signatures at the e+e- collider

Speaker: Piyabut Burikham (Iowa State Univ.)

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM MSSM

4:30 PM SUSY at LHC in light of dark matter

Speaker: Howie Baer (Florida State Univ.)

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4:50 PM Implications of direct dark matter searches on MSSM Higgs

Speaker: Daniel Hooper (Fermilab)

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5:10 PM U(1)_X gauge symmetries and the mu problem of the MSSM

Speaker: David Morrissey (Univ. of Michigan)

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5:30 PM Precise gluino and squark pole masses in supersymmetry

Speaker: Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois Univ.)

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5:50 PM MSSM light Higgs boson scenario

Speaker: Alexander Belyaev (Michigan State Univ.)

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6:10 PM Phenomenology of mixed-modulus--anomaly-mediated SUSY-breaking models

Speaker: Xerxes Tata (Univ. of Hawaii)

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4:30 PM → 6:10 PM New EW Measurement at the Tevatron

4:30 PM Study of uncertainties for the W mass measurement at D0 Run II

Speaker: Tim Andeen (Northwestern Univ.)

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4:50 PM A measurement of W helicity in top quark decays at CDF

Speaker: Jeannine Wagner (Karlsruhe Univ.)

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5:10 PM Measurement of the W helicity in top quark decay at DZero

Speaker: Christian Schmitt (Univ. of Wuppertal)

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5:30 PM A measurement of the Z forward-backward charge asymmetry at CDF

Speaker: Jedong Lee (Univ. of Rochester)

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4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Simulations and Analysis at Colliders (II)

4:30 PM Nonlinear realization of local supersymmetry; gravitino phenomenology

Speaker: Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

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4:50 PM From inclusive signatures to high scale theory?

Speaker: Piyush Kumar (Univ. of Michigan)

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5:10 PM Sleuth: Search strategy for new physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Georgios Choudalakis (MIT)

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5:30 PM Bard: Interpreting new collider physics

Speaker: Bruce Knuteson (MIT)

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5:50 PM Unraveling the spin of the gluino at the LHC

Speaker: Oscar Eboli (Univ. of Sao Paulo)

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6:10 PM Predicting signal significances at the LHC

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Univ. of Edinburgh)

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