Parallel 2

Tuesday May 16, 2006, 2:00 PM → 6:30 PM America/Chicago

Pyle Center

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Cosmology III: The Dark Side

2:00 PM Dark matter searches in the BWCA and MWDM scenarios

Speaker: Eun-Kyung Park (Florida State Univ.)

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2:20 PM The effect of a decaying scalar field on the neutralino relic density

Speaker: Carlos Yaguna (UCLA)

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2:40 PM Little Higgs dark matter

Speaker: Andrew Noble (Cornell Univ.)

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3:00 PM QCD corrections to neutralino annihilation

Speaker: Heather Logan (Carleton Univ.)

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3:20 PM Classification of dark energy models

Speaker: Danny Marfatia (Univ. of Kansas)

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3:40 PM Interacting dark energy and the coincidence prolem

Speaker: Mike Berger (Indiana Univ.)

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2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Flavor Physics

2:00 PM Known fermion masses without strong Yukawa hierarchy

Speaker: William Ponce (Univ. de Antioquia)

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2:20 PM A search for LFV in Upsilon decays

Speaker: Vladimir Savinov (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

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2:40 PM Lepton flavor violation in tau decay

Speaker: Robert Flack (Imperial College)

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3:00 PM A model for neutrino and charged lepton masses in extra dimensions

Speaker: Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State Univ.)

3:20 PM Lepton flavor violation and supersymmetric Dirac leptogenesis

Speaker: Manuel Toharia (Univ. of Michigan)

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3:40 PM EDM and Meson Mixing in Z' Models

Speaker: Jing Jiang (University of Oregon)

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2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Non-SUSY BSM EWSB

2:00 PM Phenomenology in Littlest Higgs model with T-parity

Speaker: Kazuhiro Tobe (Michigan State Univ.)

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2:20 PM Z-H-eta couplings in Little Higgs models

Speaker: David Rainwater (Univ. of Rochester)

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2:40 PM An effective Higgsless theory: confronting phenomenological constraints

Speaker: Carl Schmidt (Michigan State Univ.)

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3:00 PM WW fusion in higgsless models

Speaker: Rahul Malhotra (Univ. of Hawaii)

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3:20 PM A fat Top for the fat Higgs

Speaker: Tim Tait (Argonne National Lab.)

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3:40 PM Higgsless Models of EWSB and the Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian

Speaker: Chris Jackson (Brookhaven National Lab)

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2:00 PM → 3:00 PM QCD at Colliders

2:00 PM QCD background to Higgs -> gamma gamma

Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (Argonne National Lab)

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2:20 PM Choosing the Factorization Scale in Perturbative QCD

Speaker: Tom McElmurry (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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2:40 PM QCD corrections to Higgs and vector-boson production

Speaker: Carlo Oleari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)

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2:00 PM → 4:00 PM SUSY at the Tevatron and LHC

2:00 PM SUSY searches at CDF

Speaker: Anadi Canepa (Purdue Univ.)

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2:20 PM Search for GMSB SUSY in the diphoton final state with the D0 detector

Speaker: Yurii Maravin (Kansas State Univ.)

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2:40 PM RpV SUSY 4-lepton search at the Tevatron

Speaker: Alon Attal (UCLA)

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3:00 PM Finite width effects in SUSY at colliders

Speaker: Daniel Berdine (Univ. of Rochester)

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3:20 PM Constraints on B and Higgs Physics in the MSSM

Speaker: Arjun Menon (Univ. of Chicago/ANL)

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3:40 PM Unravelling SUSY-QCD

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (Univ. of Zurich)

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4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Neutrinos

4:30 PM A new limit on diffuse supernova electron neutrino

Speaker: Orlando L. G. Peres (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

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4:50 PM Non-standard interactions and MiniBooNE

Speaker: Loretta Johnson (Kalamazoo College)

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5:10 PM The NOvA electron neutrino appearance experiment at Fermilab

Speaker: Alysia Marino (Fermilab)

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5:30 PM Electromagnetic structure functions and neutrino-nucleon scattering

Speaker: Hallsie Reno (Univ. of Iowa)

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5:50 PM Probing the cosmic ray knee and VHE prompt muon fluxes

Speaker: Raj Gandhi (Harish Chandra Research Inst.)

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6:10 PM Sterile neutrinos in lepton-number-violating processes

Speaker: Anupama Atre (Univ. of Wisconsin)

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4:30 PM → 6:10 PM Non-SM Higgs

4:30 PM Higgs decays into four photons

Speaker: Spencer Chang (New York Univ.)

4:50 PM Natural electroweak symmetry breaking in NMSSM and Higgs at 100 GeV

Speaker: Radovan Dermisek (Inst. for Advanced Study)

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5:10 PM Higgs sector in extensions of the MSSM

Speaker: Gabe Shaughnessy (Univ. of Wisconsin)

5:30 PM A new two-Higgs doublet model

Speaker: Steven Gabriel (Oklahoma State Univ.)

5:50 PM Persistent fine-tuning in supersymmetry and the NMSSM

Speaker: Philip Schuster (Harvard Univ.)

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4:30 PM → 6:30 PM QCD and Top Physics at the Tevatron

4:30 PM Inclusive jet production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Craig Group (Univ. of Florida)

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4:50 PM New results on jet fragmentation phenomena at the Tevatron

Speaker: Sergo Jindariani (Univ. of Florida)

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5:10 PM Results on diffraction from CDF confront QCD phenomenology

Speaker: Koji Terashi (Rockefeller Univ.)

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5:30 PM Search for single top quark production at D0

Speaker: Ernest Aguilo (Univ. of Alberta & York Univ.)

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5:50 PM Search for single top production at CDF

Speaker: Kevin Lannon (Ohio State Univ.)

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6:10 PM W + jets production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Ben Cooper (Univ. College London)

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4:30 PM → 6:10 PM SM Measurements at Future Colliders

4:30 PM The size of weak radiative corrections at hadron colliders

Speaker: Ulrich Baur (SUNY at Buffalo)

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4:50 PM Mass effects in W-b-bbar production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Fernando Febres Cordero (Florida State Univ.)

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5:10 PM Measuring the W-t-b interaction at the ILC

Speaker: Puneet Batra (Argonne National Lab)

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5:30 PM W/Z/Higgs production at LHC

Speaker: Fred Olness (Southern Methodist Univ.)

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5:50 PM Evaluation of alpha_QED(q^2) in the space- and time-like regime

Speaker: Daisuke Nomura (Michigan State Univ.)

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