Phenomenology 2009 Symposium - PHENO 09
11 May 2009, 07:00
→
13 May 2009, 14:00
America/Chicago
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
Description
PHENO 09 will cover the latest topics in particle phenomenology and theory plus related issues in astrophysics and cosmology.
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Monday, 11 May
Mon, 11 May
Tue, 12 May
Wed, 13 May
07:30
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08:25
Registration
55m
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
08:25
→
10:20
Plenary 1a
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
08:25
Welcome
5m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Vernon Barger
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
08:30
Standard Model physics at the Tevatron
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Ashutosh Kotwal
(Duke University)
Slides
09:05
New physics searches at the Tevatron
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Yurii Maravin
(Kansas State University)
Slides
09:40
Measurements of the proton structure at HERA: Impact for LHC physics
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Amita Raval
(Penn State University)
Slides
10:00
New physics searches at B-factories
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Elisa Manoni
(Università di Perugia)
Slides
10:20
→
10:45
Coffee Break
25m
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
10:45
→
12:30
Plenary 1b
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
10:45
Recent developments in flavor physics
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Andreas Kronfeld
(Fermilab)
Slides
11:20
Neutrino Phenomenology
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Patrick Huber
(Virginia Tech)
Slides
11:55
Signature-based searches at colliders
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Henry Frisch
(University of Chicago)
Slides
12:30
→
14:00
Lunch
1h 30m
14:00
→
16:00
Collider Kinematics and Measurement Techniques
Pyle Center, room 213
Pyle Center, room 213
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Mass determination at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Partha Konar
(University of Florida)
Paper
Slides
14:15
Generalized MT2 for mass determinations in decay chains with missing PT at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Myeonghun Park
(University of Florida)
Paper
Slides
14:30
Randall-Sundrum graviton spin determination using azimuthal angular dependence
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Vikram Rentala
(University of California, Berkeley)
Paper
Slides
14:45
Azimuthal angular spin determination: Towards the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
William Klemm
(University of California, Berkeley)
Slides
15:00
Matrix element analysis for hadron collider data
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Igor Volobouev
(Texas Tech University)
Slides
15:15
Jets with variable R
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
David Krohn
(Princeton University)
Slides
15:30
A study of low pT Z->mumu and Z->ee events using a novel technique
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mika Vesterinen
(University of Manchester)
Slides
15:45
Simulation of spin effects in SUSY decay chains with Pandora
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Michael Davenport
(SLAC)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
Cosmology
Pyle Center, room 326
Pyle Center, room 326
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Can the Higgs boson be the inflaton?
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Michael Trott
(Perimeter Institute)
Slides
14:15
Minimal simple de Sitter solutions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Bret Underwood
(McGill University)
Slides
14:30
Implications of SUSY Phenomenology for Baryogenesis
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Björn Garbrecht
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Slides
14:45
Electroweak baryogenesis in the mu-from-nu SSM
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Andrew Long
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Slides
15:00
New ways to leptogenesis with gauged B-L symmetry
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Yanzhi Meng
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
15:15
On gaugino contributions to soft leptogenesis
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Chee Sheng Fong
(C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Slides
15:30
The WMAP haze from pulsars
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Kathryn Zurek
(Fermilab)
Slides
15:45
Quintessence and gravitational wave from phase transition
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Peng Zhou
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
Extra Dimensions
Pyle Center, room 325
Pyle Center, room 325
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Radion flavor in warped extra dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Manuel Toharia
(University of Maryland)
Slides
14:15
Higgs flavor violation in warped extra dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Lijun Zhu
(University of Maryland)
Slides
14:30
Flavor violation test of warped Standard Model
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Aleksandr Azatov
(University of Maryland)
Slides
14:45
Phenomenology of non-minimal universal extra dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Thomas Flacke
(University of Michigan)
Slides
15:00
Kaluza-Klein masses and couplings: radiative corrections to tree-level relations
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Sky Bauman
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Slides
15:15
The soft-wall Standard Model
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Daniel Sword
(University of Minnesota)
Slides
15:30
Neutrino mass from the soft wall
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
David Diego
(University of Notre Dame)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
Higgs Physics
Pyle Center, room 313
Pyle Center, room 313
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Higgs ID at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Gabe Shaughnessy
(Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)
Slides
14:15
Leptonic Higgs signatures at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Brooks Thomas
(University of Arizona)
Slides
14:30
Discovering the Higgs with low mass muon pairs
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Mariangela Lisanti
(Stanford University)
Slides
14:45
Neutrino LHC connection: new Higgs signals
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Satya Nandi
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
15:00
Search for SM Higgs boson in the WH channel with ME technique
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Bárbara Álvarez González
(Universidad de Oviedo)
Slides
15:15
How well can we measure the Higgs self-coupling in e+e- collisions?
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Ulrich Baur
(State University of New York at Buffalo)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
SUSY Phenomenology 1
Pyle Center, room 121
Pyle Center, room 121
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
MSSM Higgs bosons at the Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Patrick Draper
(University of Chicago)
Slides
14:15
MSSM Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Heidi Rzehak
(Universität Karlsruhe)
Slides
14:30
Searching for MSSM Higgs with 3 b-quarks
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Joshua Sayre
(University of Oklahoma)
Slides
14:45
Higgs boson signatures of MSSM electroweak baryogenesis
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Arjun Menon
(University of Michigan)
Slides
15:00
Many light Higgs bosons in the NMSSM
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Radovan Dermisek
(Indiana University)
Slides
15:15
Reach for NMSSM h->aa->4mu with early LHC data
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Alexei Safonov
(Texas A&M University)
Slides
15:30
Multi-parameter approach to R-parity violating SUSY couplings
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Enrico Maria Sessolo
(University of Kansas)
Slides
15:45
Single slepton production in R-parity violating SUSY models with a stau LSP
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Maike Trenkel
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Slides
16:00
→
16:30
Coffee Break
30m
Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 109
Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 109
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
→
19:00
Bottom, Top, and Heavy Flavor
Pyle Center, room 325
Pyle Center, room 325
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
4th Generation and B-CP Anomalies
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Amarjit Soni
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Slides
16:45
LHC Phenomenology of a Strongly Coupled Fourth Generation
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Ricardo D'Elia Matheus
(Univ. of Sao Paulo)
Paper
Slides
17:00
Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jessie (Julia) Shelton
(Rutgers University)
Slides
17:15
Family Non-universal U(1)' Gauge Symmetries and b to s Transitions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Tao Liu
(Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)
Slides
17:30
Determination of B_s^0 and B_d^0 mixing parameters using lattice QCD.
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Elvira Gamiz
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Slides
17:45
Observation of the bottomonium ground state eta_b(1S) at BaBar
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Bertrand Echenard
(California Institute of Technology)
Slides
18:00
New charmonium like states at BaBar
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Valentina Santoro
(University of Ferrara)
Slides
18:15
Measurement of Branching Fractions in B to K nu nubar Decays
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Carl Vuosalo
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
Dark Matter 1
Pyle Center, room 313
Pyle Center, room 313
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Inflation and singlet scalar dark matter
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tonnis ter Veldhuis
(Macalester College)
Slides
16:45
Indications of DM by astrophysical e+/- and gamma observations
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Yu Gao
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Slides
17:00
Cosmic rays and dark matter with sub-GeV hidden U(1)
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jong-Chul Park
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Slides
17:15
Phase-space structure of the Milky Way's dark halo
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Leanne Duffy
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Slides
17:30
Changes in dark matter properties after freeze-out
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Timothy Cohen
(University of Michigan)
Slides
17:45
The thermal abundance of semi-relativistic relics
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Mitsuru Kakizaki
(LAPTH)
Slides
18:00
Hidden charged dark matter
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hai-Bo Yu
(University of California, Irvine)
Slides
16:30
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19:00
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Pyle Center, room 111
Pyle Center, room 111
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Beyond the 3-Site Higgsless Model
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Neil Christensen
(Michigan State University)
Slides
16:45
Z to b bbar and Chiral Currents in Higgsless Models
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Ken Hsieh
(Michigan State University)
Slides
17:00
Emergent Electroweak symmetry breaking with composite W,Z bosons
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Yanou Cui
(Harvard University)
Slides
17:15
A Light Scalar as the Messenger of EWSB
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Zeke Murdock
(Oklahoma State University)
Paper
Slides
17:30
Electroweak symmetry breaking from layered QCD
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Sergei Khlebnikov
(Purdue University)
Slides
17:45
A Higher-Derivative Lee-Wick Standard Model
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Christopher Carone
(College of William and Mary)
Slides
18:00
The Higgs Sector of the Lee-Wick Extension of the Standard Model
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Bryan Field
(IPPP, Durham University)
Slides
18:15
Unparticle decays
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Antonio Delgado
(University of Notre Dame)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
Loops and Precision Calculations
Pyle Center, room 213
Pyle Center, room 213
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Five loop QED contributions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Christian Sturm
(Brookhaven National Lab)
Slides
16:45
Dynamics of Charged Hadronic Thresholds
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mihailo Backovic
(University of Kansas)
Slides
17:00
Four-quark operator contribution to neutron electric dipole moment
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Haipeng An
(University of Maryland)
Slides
17:15
Process-independent determination of two-loop electroweak logarithms
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Bernd Jantzen
(RWTH Aachen University)
Slides
17:30
Electroweak corrections to Higgs production via gluon fusion
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Stefano Actis
(RWTH Aachen University)
Slides
17:45
Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering - fix NuTeV anomaly?
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Kwangwoo Park
(Southern Methodist University)
Slides
18:00
QCD radiative correction to pair-annihilation of spin-1 bosonic Dark Matter.
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jae Ho Heo
(Uni. of IL at Chicago)
Paper
Slides
18:15
Renormalization group improved prediction for Higgs production at hadron colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Li Lin Yang
(Univ. of Mainz)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
SUSY Phenomenology 2
Pyle Center, room 121
Pyle Center, room 121
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Collider aspects of supersymmetry with non-universal gaugino masses
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Stephen Martin
(Northern Illinois University)
Slides
16:45
Testing gaugino mass hypotheses at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Brent Nelson
(Northeastern University)
Slides
17:00
Studying Gaugino mass unification at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Michael Holmes
(Northeastern University)
Slides
17:15
A sneutrino NLSP in the nuCMSSM
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Kenji Kadota
(University of Michigan)
Slides
17:30
A heavy Higgs and a light sneutrino NLSP in the MSSM with enhanced D-terms
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Anibal Medina
(University of California, Davis)
Slides
17:45
Pure leptonic signatures with a sneutrino NLSP at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Terrance Figy
(IPPP, Durham University)
Slides
18:00
Supersymmetric baryogenesis and EDMs
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Yingchuan Li
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Slides
18:15
CP Violation and EDMs from Yukawa coupling in a supersymmetry breaking scenario
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jing Shao
(University of Michigan)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
Tevatron
Pyle Center, room 326
Pyle Center, room 326
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Search for SM Higgs production in the H->WW->lnujj channel at the Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Marc Buehler
(Fermilab, DZero)
Slides
16:45
Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production with Like-Sign Leptons at DZero
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Maiko Takahashi
(University of Manchester)
Slides
17:00
Search for ZH to ee bb in p pbar Collisions at D0
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Satish Desai
(Fermilab, DZero)
Slides
pheno2009-higgs-svd.pdf
pheno2009-higgs-svd.pdf
pheno2009-higgs-svd-v3.pdf.pdf
17:15
Search for ZH to mu mu bb in p pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
John BackusMayes
(University of Washington)
Slides
17:30
Search for the SM Higgs boson in the ZH to nu nu bb channel at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Abhinav Dubey
(University of Delhi and Fermilab)
Slides
17:45
Search for a Light NMSSM Higgs Boson at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Scott Wilbur
(University of Chicago)
Slides
18:00
Photon Results from CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Ray Culbertson
(Fermilab, CDF)
Slides
18:15
D0 1fb-1 W Boson Mass Measurement
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jun Guo
(State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Slides
Tuesday, 12 May
Mon, 11 May
Tue, 12 May
Wed, 13 May
08:30
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10:15
Plenary 2a
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
08:30
New results from Fermi/GLAST
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Simona Murgia
(SLAC)
Slides
09:05
Direct searches of dark matter
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Graciela Gelmini
(UCLA)
Slides
09:40
Indirect searches of dark matter
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Dan Hooper
(FNAL / U. Chicago)
Slides
10:15
→
10:45
Coffee Break
30m
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
10:45
→
12:30
Plenary 2b
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
10:45
Dark energy: addressing the crisis in fundamental physics
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Chris Stubbs
(Harvard University)
Slides
11:20
Effects of SUSY breaking
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Patrick Meade
(IAS)
11:55
SUSY phenomenology
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Wolfgang Hollik
(MPI-Munich)
Slides
12:30
→
14:00
Lunch
1h 30m
14:00
→
16:00
Dark Matter 2
Pyle Center, room 313
Pyle Center, room 313
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Probing Dark Forces and Light Hidden Sectors at Low-Energy e+e- Colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Rouven Essig
(SLAC)
Slides
14:15
Hidden Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments and LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jennifer Kile
(BNL)
Slides
14:30
Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Joshua Ruderman
(Princeton University)
Slides
14:45
WIMPless Dark Matter and Meson Decays with Missing Energy
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
David McKeen
(University of Chicago)
Slides
15:00
Dark Matter Out of Seclusion
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Brian Batell
(Perimeter Institute)
Slides
15:15
Leptonic Higgs as a Messenger of Dark Matter
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hock Seng Goh
(UC Berkeley)
Slides
15:30
U(1)_B-L Provides a Dark Matter Explanation for Pamela
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Katherine Richardson-McDaniel
(University of New Mexico)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
Flavor Physics
Pyle Center, room 325
Pyle Center, room 325
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
A Novel Origin of CP Violation
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mu-Chun Chen
(University of California - Irvine)
Slides
14:15
Yukawa unification in SUSY SU(5) and its experimental implications
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Enkhbat Tsedenbaljir
(Abdus Salam ICTP)
Slides
14:30
A5 Family Symmetry and the Golden Ratio Prediction for Solar Neutrino Mixing
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Alexander Stuart
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
14:45
Minimal SO(10) x A4 SUSY GUT
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Abdelhamid Albaid
(Oklahoma State university)
Slides
15:00
Models for Fermion Mass Hierarchy
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Benjamin Grossmann
(Oklahoma State University)
15:15
Flavour violations in supersymmetric SO(10) unification with type II seesaw
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Michele Frigerio
(Institut de Physique Theorique)
Slides
15:30
Lepton number violating non-standard interactions and neutrino oscillations
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Julio Julio
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
LHC 1
Pyle Center, room 121
Pyle Center, room 121
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Color Sextet Scalars at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Kai Wang
(IPMU, University of Tokyo)
Slides
14:15
Prediction of light diquarks observable at LHC from baryogenesis models
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Bhupal Dev
(University of Maryland)
Slides
14:30
QCD Corrections to Scalar Diquark Production at Hadron Colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ian Lewis
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
14:45
Heavy quarks above the top at the Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Anupama Atre
(Fermilab)
Slides
15:00
Threshold resummation for production of coloured heavy particles at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pietro Falgari
(IPPP, Durham University)
Slides
15:15
Electroweak effects in b-jet and di-jet production
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Andreas Scharf
(SUNY at Buffalo)
Slides
15:30
Constraining new physics with combined low and high energy observables
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
James Jenkins
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Slides
15:45
Higgs Production and Decay from TeV Scale Black Holes at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Arif Erkoca
(University of Arizona)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
SUSY Model Building
Pyle Center, room 213
Pyle Center, room 213
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
Sgluons
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tim Tait
(Northwestern University / Argonne National Lab)
Slides
14:15
Vacuum Stability in No-Scale Supersymmetry or Gaugino Mediation
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jason Evans
(University of Michigan)
Slides
14:30
Anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking demystified
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jae Yong Lee
(Korea Institute for Advance Study)
Slides
14:45
Hypercharged Anomaly Mediation - LHC Signatures
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Shivakumar Rajagopalan
(University of Oklahoma)
Slides
15:00
The Upside of SUSY Seesaw in Deflected AMSB
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Nicholas Setzer
(University of Melbourne)
Slides
15:15
U(1)_R Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hyun Min Lee
(McMaster University)
Slides
15:30
A Pyramid Scheme for Particle Physics
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jean-Francois Fortin
(Rutgers University)
Slides
15:45
Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
James Gainer
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Slides
14:00
→
16:00
The Top Sector
Pyle Center, room 326
Pyle Center, room 326
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
14:00
First Observation of Single Top Quark Production at DZero
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Monica Pangilinan
(Brown University)
Slides
14:15
Top quark mass measurement using mT2 in the dilepton channel at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hyunsu Lee
(University of Chicago)
Slides
14:30
Forward-Backward Asymmetry in t t-bar Production
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Leandro G. Almeida
(Stony Brook University)
Slides
14:45
Top Quark Decays in Standard Model Extensions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Martin Wiebusch
(RWTH Aachen University)
Slides
15:00
Model Independent limits on scalar charged boson in top quark decays
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Geumbong Yu
(University of Rochester)
Slides
15:15
Manifestations of Top Compositeness at Colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Kunal Kumar
(Northwestern University)
Slides
15:30
Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Rakhi Mahbubani
(Fermilab)
Paper
Slides
15:45
Measuring Scalar Top Mass through Bound State Decays
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
James Younkin
(Northern Illinois University)
Slides
16:00
→
16:30
Coffee Break
30m
Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 109
Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 109
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
→
19:00
Dark Matter 3
Pyle Center, room 313
Pyle Center, room 313
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Why SUSY GUT theories predict the bulk of cold dark matter is axions
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Howard Baer
(University of Oklahoma)
Slides
16:45
Yukawa Unification and Neutralino Dark Matter in Pati-Salam Model
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Ilia Gogoladze
(University of Delaware)
Slides
17:00
R-Parity Breaking via Type II Seesaw, Gravitino Dark Matter and Positron Excess
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Shaolong Chen
(University of Maryland)
Slides
17:15
Neutrino sector impacts SUSY dark matter
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Azar Mustafayev
(University of Kansas)
Slides
17:30
Dark Matter Phenomenology in NUHM Models
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pearl Sandick
(UT Austin)
Slides
17:45
WIMPonium
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
William Shepherd
(Northwestern University)
Slides
18:00
The WIMP Forest
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Chris Jackson
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
GUTs and Strings
Pyle Center, room 326
Pyle Center, room 326
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Left-right symmetry at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Kaladi Babu
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
16:45
Neutralino dark matter in an SO(10) model with two-step intermediate scale symmetry breaking
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Eun-Kyung Park
(Bonn University)
Slides
17:00
LHC Phenomenology of supersymmetric multi-step GUTs
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Jürgen Reuter
(University of Freiburg)
Slides
17:15
Cosmology of a minimal SUSY SO(10)
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Zurab Tavartkiladze
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
17:30
Grand anarchy: Unification patterns of random Hamiltonians
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
John Ralston
(University of Kansas)
Slides
17:45
String phenomenology at the dawn of the LHC era
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Luis Anchordoqui
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Slides
18:00
Open Strings in Warped Extra Dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Paul McGuirk
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
18:15
Detecting String Resonance at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Minxin Huang
(CERN)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
LHC 2
Pyle Center, room 121
Pyle Center, room 121
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Normalizing VV production at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Bruce Mellado
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
16:45
Theoretical Uncertainties in Vector Boson Cross Sections at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Scott Yost
(The Citadel)
Slides
17:00
Jet angular correlation in vector-boson fusion processes at hadron colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Kentaro Mawatari
(Heidelberg University)
Slides
17:15
Extracting Z' Couplings from the LHC and low-energy measurements
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Seth Quackenbush
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Slides
17:30
Identifying new physics with photons at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ayres Freitas
(University of Pittsburgh)
Slides
17:45
Early SUSY searches at LHC without missing Et
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Andre Lessa
(University of Oklahoma)
Slides
18:00
Distinguishing between SUSY and Littlest Higgs Model using trileptons at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Sudhir Gupta
(Iowa State University)
Paper
Slides
18:15
Measuring the dark force at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Zhenyu Han
(UC Davis)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
Neutrinos
Pyle Center, room 213
Pyle Center, room 213
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Oscillation of Dirac or Majorana neutrinos produced in muon decay
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Marek Zralek
(Inst. of Physics, University of Silesia)
Slides
16:45
Dirac neutrinos from a second Higgs doublet
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Heather Logan
(Carleton University)
Slides
17:00
The Pseudo-Dirac See-Saw neutrinos
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Wei-Chih Huang
(Northwestern University)
pdf
17:15
Neutrino Signals in the Inert Doublet Model
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ethan Dolle
(University of Arizona)
Slides
17:30
Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos Using W-decay Data
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Yee Kao
(Virginia Tech)
Slides
17:45
Non-zero electron Electric Dipole Moment from TeV Majorana Neutrinos
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Saif Rayyan
(Beloit College)
Slides
18:00
Renormalization group evolution of neutrino masses and mixing in Type-III seesaw
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Shamayita Ray
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Slides
18:15
Beta-Beam : An Ultimate Probe for Sterile Neutrinos
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla
(Virginia Tech)
Slides
16:30
→
19:00
QCD
Pyle Center, room 325
Pyle Center, room 325
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
16:30
Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Fred Olness
(SMU)
Slides
16:45
The collinear factorization scheme
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Rob Putman
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Slides
gg_Pieces.pdf
The_Collinear_Scheme.pdf
The_Collinear_Scheme.pptx
17:00
Electroweak and QCD corrections to W+jet production at hadron colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Stefan Dittmaier
(University of Freiburg)
Slides
17:15
Z-boson pair + 1-jet production at NLO QCD
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Nikolas Kauer
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Slides
17:30
Graviton production with 1 jet at NLO QCD at the LHC in large extra dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Stefan Karg
(RWTH Aachen University)
Slides
17:45
Precise predictions for hadronic collisions from on-shell methods - BlackHat
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Carola F. Berger
(MIT, CTP)
Slides
18:00
W+3 Jet Production: NLO computations with BlackHat + SHERPA
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Fernando Febres Cordero
(UCLA)
Slides
18:15
Alternative dipole subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper dipoles
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Tania Robens
(RWTH Aachen University, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik E)
Slides
19:00
→
21:00
Banquet
2h
Wednesday, 13 May
Mon, 11 May
Tue, 12 May
Wed, 13 May
08:30
→
10:15
Plenary 3a
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
08:30
Perturbative QCD and the LHC
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Giulia Zanderighi
(Oxford University)
Slides
09:05
Theoretical tools for collider physics
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Frank Krauss
(Durham University)
Slides
09:40
Higgs boson physics
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Dieter Zeppenfeld
(Universität Karlsruhe)
Slides
10:15
→
10:45
Coffee Break
30m
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
10:45
→
12:45
Plenary 3b
Ebling Symposium Center
Ebling Symposium Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Bldg., 1550 Linden Dr., Room 1220 (plenaries), and The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. (parallels)
10:45
Physics with extra dimensions
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Kaustubh Agashe
(University of Maryland)
Slides
11:20
Exotic theoretical scenarios at the LHC
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Markus Luty
(UC Davis)
Slides
11:55
LHC Alive!
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Mónica Vázquez Acosta
(Imperial College)
Slides
12:30
Wu-Ki Tung Remembrance
15m
Speakers
:
Prof.
Carl Schmidt
(Michigan State University)
,
Prof.
Fred Olness
(Southern Methodist University)