Name: Parallel 1
Start: 2006-05-15T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2006-05-15T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Pyle Center

Parallel 1

Monday, May 15, 2006 - 2:00 PM

Monday, May 15, 2006
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--226
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurements of the Sides of the Unitarity Triangle @ BaBar - Sylvie Brunet (Université de Montréal)

2:20 PM New states containing charm at BaBar - Adam Edwards (Stanford Univ.)

2:40 PM Search for new physics in rare B decays at BaBar - Jonathan Hollar (Univ. of Wisconsin)

3:00 PM Strangeness-changing hadronic B decays in left-right models - Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central Univ.)

3:20 PM Probing strong interactions at BaBar - Sepehr Saremi (Univ. of Massachusetts)

3:40 PM Measurements of angles of the unitarity triangle at BaBar - Francesco Polci (Univ. di Roma)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--225
Contributions

2:00 PM Post-sphaleron baryogenesis - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State Univ.)

2:20 PM New source of leptogenesis from gauged (B-L) symmetry - Tsedenbaljir Enkhbat (Oklahoma State Univ.)

2:40 PM Soft leptogenesis in left-right symmetric models - Abdelghafour Bachri (Oklahoma State Univ.)

3:00 PM The phenomenology of Dirac neutrinogenesis - Brooks Thomas (Univ. of Michigan)

3:20 PM Baryogenesis in gauge-extended model - Jing Shu (Univ. of Chicago)

3:40 PM Leptogenesis in a model of dark energy and dark matter - P. Q. Hung (Univ. of Virginia)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--213
Contributions

2:00 PM Vector bosons in the Littlest Higgs Model - John Boersma (Univ. of Rochester)

2:20 PM Heavy Z' boson searches at CDF - Catalin Ciobanu (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana)

2:40 PM Search for W' boson production in the top quark decay channel - Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State Univ.)

3:00 PM Search for third generation vector leptoquarks in Run II at CDF - Aron Soha (UC-Davis)

3:20 PM Exotic colored particles at the LHC - Junhai Kang (Univ. of Maryland)

3:40 PM The flavor of a little Higgs with T-parity - Seung Lee (Cornell Univ.)
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Pyle Center--112
Contributions

2:00 PM Minimal trinification - Josh Sayre (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2:20 PM Gauge mediation from emergent supersymmetry - Siew-Phang Ng (Bartol Research Inst.)

2:40 PM Naturalness of the vacuum energy in holographic theories - Csaba Balazs (Argonne National Lab)

3:00 PM Solving pure Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions - Aleksandr Yelnikov (Virginia Tech)

3:20 PM Neutrino masses and discretized gravity on the hyperbolic disk - Gerhart Seidl (Oklahoma State Univ.)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--DE335
Contributions

2:00 PM Vista: a new method for an inclusive search of Tevatron Run II Data - Conor Henderson (M.I.T.)

2:20 PM LHC multi-particle simulation for the MSSM and beyond - Juergen Reuter (DESY-TH)

2:40 PM Iterative discriminant analysis for charged Higgs bosons - Andre Sopczak (Lancaster Univ.)

3:00 PM Studies of the D0 calorimeter response using isolated charged hadrons - Petra Haefner (Munich Univ. (LMU))

3:20 PM High energy physics thresholds in weak-scale SUSY models - Yudi Santoso (Univ. of Victoria)

3:40 PM Reconstructing mass and spin at hadron colliders - Bob McElrath (UC-Davis)
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Pyle Center--112
Contributions

4:30 PM Reduced SU(3) gaugino mass: consequences for dark matter and collider searches - Azar Mustafayev (Florida State Univ.)

4:50 PM Seeing the Landscape on Earth and in the Sky - Natalia Toro (Harvard Univ.)

5:10 PM Cosmology and collider signatures of right-handed sneutrinos - Shrihari Gopalakrishna (Northwestern Univ.)

5:30 PM Impact of right-handed currents on Dirac vs. Majorana neutrino oscillation in matter - Marek Zralek (Silesia Univ.)
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Pyle Center--225
Contributions

4:30 PM Top pair production in Randall-Sundrum Models - Erin De Pree (College of William & Mary)

4:50 PM Higher curvature efects in ADD and RS Models - Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

5:10 PM Trinification in five dimensions - Christopher Carone (College of William & Mary)

5:30 PM Probing the properties of extra dimensions with Kaluza-Klein modes - Ben Lillie (ANL/Univ. Chicago)

5:50 PM TeV-string signatures at the e+e- collider - Piyabut Burikham (Iowa State Univ.)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Pyle Center--226
Contributions

4:30 PM SUSY at LHC in light of dark matter - Howie Baer (Florida State Univ.)

4:50 PM Implications of direct dark matter searches on MSSM Higgs - Daniel Hooper (Fermilab)

5:10 PM U(1)_X gauge symmetries and the mu problem of the MSSM - David Morrissey (Univ. of Michigan)

5:30 PM Precise gluino and squark pole masses in supersymmetry - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois Univ.)

5:50 PM MSSM light Higgs boson scenario - Alexander Belyaev (Michigan State Univ.)

6:10 PM Phenomenology of mixed-modulus--anomaly-mediated SUSY-breaking models - Xerxes Tata (Univ. of Hawaii)
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Pyle Center--213
Contributions

4:30 PM Study of uncertainties for the W mass measurement at D0 Run II - Tim Andeen (Northwestern Univ.)

4:50 PM A measurement of W helicity in top quark decays at CDF - Jeannine Wagner (Karlsruhe Univ.)

5:10 PM Measurement of the W helicity in top quark decay at DZero - Christian Schmitt (Univ. of Wuppertal)

5:30 PM A measurement of the Z forward-backward charge asymmetry at CDF - Jedong Lee (Univ. of Rochester)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Pyle Center--DE335
Contributions

4:30 PM Nonlinear realization of local supersymmetry; gravitino phenomenology - Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

4:50 PM From inclusive signatures to high scale theory? - Piyush Kumar (Univ. of Michigan)

5:10 PM Sleuth: Search strategy for new physics at the Tevatron - Georgios Choudalakis (MIT)

5:30 PM Bard: Interpreting new collider physics - Bruce Knuteson (MIT)

5:50 PM Unraveling the spin of the gluino at the LHC - Oscar Eboli (Univ. of Sao Paulo)

6:10 PM Predicting signal significances at the LHC - Tilman Plehn (Univ. of Edinburgh)