Name: Parallel 2
Start: 2006-05-16T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2006-05-16T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Pyle Center

Parallel 2

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 2:00 PM

Monday, May 15, 2006
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--DE335
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark matter searches in the BWCA and MWDM scenarios - Eun-Kyung Park (Florida State Univ.)

2:20 PM The effect of a decaying scalar field on the neutralino relic density - Carlos Yaguna (UCLA)

2:40 PM Little Higgs dark matter - Andrew Noble (Cornell Univ.)

3:00 PM QCD corrections to neutralino annihilation - Heather Logan (Carleton Univ.)

3:20 PM Classification of dark energy models - Danny Marfatia (Univ. of Kansas)

3:40 PM Interacting dark energy and the coincidence prolem - Mike Berger (Indiana Univ.)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--226
Contributions

2:00 PM Known fermion masses without strong Yukawa hierarchy - William Ponce (Univ. de Antioquia)

2:20 PM A search for LFV in Upsilon decays - Vladimir Savinov (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

2:40 PM Lepton flavor violation in tau decay - Robert Flack (Imperial College)

3:00 PM A model for neutrino and charged lepton masses in extra dimensions - Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State Univ.)

3:20 PM Lepton flavor violation and supersymmetric Dirac leptogenesis - Manuel Toharia (Univ. of Michigan)

3:40 PM EDM and Meson Mixing in Z' Models - Jing Jiang (University of Oregon)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--225
Contributions

2:00 PM Phenomenology in Littlest Higgs model with T-parity - Kazuhiro Tobe (Michigan State Univ.)

2:20 PM Z-H-eta couplings in Little Higgs models - David Rainwater (Univ. of Rochester)

2:40 PM An effective Higgsless theory: confronting phenomenological constraints - Carl Schmidt (Michigan State Univ.)

3:00 PM WW fusion in higgsless models - Rahul Malhotra (Univ. of Hawaii)

3:20 PM A fat Top for the fat Higgs - Tim Tait (Argonne National Lab.)

3:40 PM Higgsless Models of EWSB and the Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian - Chris Jackson (Brookhaven National Lab)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--112
Contributions

2:00 PM QCD background to Higgs -> gamma gamma - Pavel Nadolsky (Argonne National Lab)

2:20 PM Choosing the Factorization Scale in Perturbative QCD - Tom McElmurry (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2:40 PM QCD corrections to Higgs and vector-boson production - Carlo Oleari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center--213
Contributions

2:00 PM SUSY searches at CDF - Anadi Canepa (Purdue Univ.)

2:20 PM Search for GMSB SUSY in the diphoton final state with the D0 detector - Yurii Maravin (Kansas State Univ.)

2:40 PM RpV SUSY 4-lepton search at the Tevatron - Alon Attal (UCLA)

3:00 PM Finite width effects in SUSY at colliders - Daniel Berdine (Univ. of Rochester)

3:20 PM Constraints on B and Higgs Physics in the MSSM - Arjun Menon (Univ. of Chicago/ANL)

3:40 PM Unravelling SUSY-QCD - Ayres Freitas (Univ. of Zurich)
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Pyle Center--226
Contributions

4:30 PM A new limit on diffuse supernova electron neutrino - Orlando L. G. Peres (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

4:50 PM Non-standard interactions and MiniBooNE - Loretta Johnson (Kalamazoo College)

5:10 PM The NOvA electron neutrino appearance experiment at Fermilab - Alysia Marino (Fermilab)

5:30 PM Electromagnetic structure functions and neutrino-nucleon scattering - Hallsie Reno (Univ. of Iowa)

5:50 PM Probing the cosmic ray knee and VHE prompt muon fluxes - Raj Gandhi (Harish Chandra Research Inst.)

6:10 PM Sterile neutrinos in lepton-number-violating processes - Anupama Atre (Univ. of Wisconsin)
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Pyle Center--225
Contributions

4:30 PM Higgs decays into four photons - Spencer Chang (New York Univ.)

4:50 PM Natural electroweak symmetry breaking in NMSSM and Higgs at 100 GeV - Radovan Dermisek (Inst. for Advanced Study)

5:10 PM Higgs sector in extensions of the MSSM - Gabe Shaughnessy (Univ. of Wisconsin)

5:30 PM A new two-Higgs doublet model - Steven Gabriel (Oklahoma State Univ.)

5:50 PM Persistent fine-tuning in supersymmetry and the NMSSM - Philip Schuster (Harvard Univ.)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Pyle Center--213
Contributions

4:30 PM Inclusive jet production at the Tevatron - Craig Group (Univ. of Florida)

4:50 PM New results on jet fragmentation phenomena at the Tevatron - Sergo Jindariani (Univ. of Florida)

5:10 PM Results on diffraction from CDF confront QCD phenomenology - Koji Terashi (Rockefeller Univ.)

5:30 PM Search for single top quark production at D0 - Ernest Aguilo (Univ. of Alberta & York Univ.)

5:50 PM Search for single top production at CDF - Kevin Lannon (Ohio State Univ.)

6:10 PM W + jets production at the Tevatron - Ben Cooper (Univ. College London)
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Pyle Center--DE335
Contributions

4:30 PM The size of weak radiative corrections at hadron colliders - Ulrich Baur (SUNY at Buffalo)

4:50 PM Mass effects in W-b-bbar production at hadron colliders - Fernando Febres Cordero (Florida State Univ.)

5:10 PM Measuring the W-t-b interaction at the ILC - Puneet Batra (Argonne National Lab)

5:30 PM W/Z/Higgs production at LHC - Fred Olness (Southern Methodist Univ.)

5:50 PM Evaluation of alpha_QED(q^2) in the space- and time-like regime - Daisuke Nomura (Michigan State Univ.)