Phenomenology 2009 Symposium - PHENO 09

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.
    • 7:30 AM
      Registration 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)
    • 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)
      • 1
        Welcome
        Speaker: Prof. Vernon Barger (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
      • 2
        Standard Model physics at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)
        Slides
      • 3
        New physics searches at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Prof. Yurii Maravin (Kansas State University)
        Slides
      • 4
        Measurements of the proton structure at HERA: Impact for LHC physics
        Speaker: Dr Amita Raval (Penn State University)
        Slides
      • 5
        New physics searches at B-factories
        Speaker: Dr Elisa Manoni (Università di Perugia)
        Slides
    • 10:20 AM
      Coffee Break 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)
    • 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)
      • 6
        Recent developments in flavor physics
        Speaker: Dr Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 7
        Neutrino Phenomenology
        Speaker: Prof. Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)
        Slides
      • 8
        Signature-based searches at colliders
        Speaker: Prof. Henry Frisch (University of Chicago)
        Slides
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • 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)
      • 9
        Mass determination at LHC
        Speaker: Dr Partha Konar (University of Florida)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 10
        Generalized MT2 for mass determinations in decay chains with missing PT at LHC
        Speaker: Mr Myeonghun Park (University of Florida)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 11
        Randall-Sundrum graviton spin determination using azimuthal angular dependence
        Speaker: Mr Vikram Rentala (University of California, Berkeley)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 12
        Azimuthal angular spin determination: Towards the LHC
        Speaker: Mr William Klemm (University of California, Berkeley)
        Slides
      • 13
        Matrix element analysis for hadron collider data
        Speaker: Dr Igor Volobouev (Texas Tech University)
        Slides
      • 14
        Jets with variable R
        Speaker: Mr David Krohn (Princeton University)
        Slides
      • 15
        A study of low pT Z->mumu and Z->ee events using a novel technique
        Speaker: Mr Mika Vesterinen (University of Manchester)
        Slides
      • 16
        Simulation of spin effects in SUSY decay chains with Pandora
        Speaker: Mr Michael Davenport (SLAC)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 17
        Can the Higgs boson be the inflaton?
        Speaker: Dr Michael Trott (Perimeter Institute)
        Slides
      • 18
        Minimal simple de Sitter solutions
        Speaker: Dr Bret Underwood (McGill University)
        Slides
      • 19
        Implications of SUSY Phenomenology for Baryogenesis
        Speaker: Dr Björn Garbrecht (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
        Slides
      • 20
        Electroweak baryogenesis in the mu-from-nu SSM
        Speaker: Mr Andrew Long (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
        Slides
      • 21
        New ways to leptogenesis with gauged B-L symmetry
        Speaker: Mr Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)
        Slides
      • 22
        On gaugino contributions to soft leptogenesis
        Speaker: Mr Chee Sheng Fong (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)
        Slides
      • 23
        The WMAP haze from pulsars
        Speaker: Dr Kathryn Zurek (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 24
        Quintessence and gravitational wave from phase transition
        Speaker: Mr Peng Zhou (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 25
        Radion flavor in warped extra dimensions
        Speaker: Dr Manuel Toharia (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 26
        Higgs flavor violation in warped extra dimensions
        Speaker: Mr Lijun Zhu (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 27
        Flavor violation test of warped Standard Model
        Speaker: Mr Aleksandr Azatov (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 28
        Phenomenology of non-minimal universal extra dimensions
        Speaker: Dr Thomas Flacke (University of Michigan)
        Slides
      • 29
        Kaluza-Klein masses and couplings: radiative corrections to tree-level relations
        Speaker: Dr Sky Bauman (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
        Slides
      • 30
        The soft-wall Standard Model
        Speaker: Mr Daniel Sword (University of Minnesota)
        Slides
      • 31
        Neutrino mass from the soft wall
        Speaker: Dr David Diego (University of Notre Dame)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 32
        Higgs ID at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Gabe Shaughnessy (Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 33
        Leptonic Higgs signatures at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)
        Slides
      • 34
        Discovering the Higgs with low mass muon pairs
        Speaker: Ms Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)
        Slides
      • 35
        Neutrino LHC connection: new Higgs signals
        Speaker: Prof. Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State University)
        Slides
      • 36
        Search for SM Higgs boson in the WH channel with ME technique
        Speaker: Ms Bárbara Álvarez González (Universidad de Oviedo)
        Slides
      • 37
        How well can we measure the Higgs self-coupling in e+e- collisions?
        Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Baur (State University of New York at Buffalo)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 38
        MSSM Higgs bosons at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Mr Patrick Draper (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 39
        MSSM Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion
        Speaker: Dr Heidi Rzehak (Universität Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 40
        Searching for MSSM Higgs with 3 b-quarks
        Speaker: Dr Joshua Sayre (University of Oklahoma)
        Slides
      • 41
        Higgs boson signatures of MSSM electroweak baryogenesis
        Speaker: Dr Arjun Menon (University of Michigan)
        Slides
      • 42
        Many light Higgs bosons in the NMSSM
        Speaker: Prof. Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)
        Slides
      • 43
        Reach for NMSSM h->aa->4mu with early LHC data
        Speaker: Prof. Alexei Safonov (Texas A&M University)
        Slides
      • 44
        Multi-parameter approach to R-parity violating SUSY couplings
        Speaker: Mr Enrico Maria Sessolo (University of Kansas)
        Slides
      • 45
        Single slepton production in R-parity violating SUSY models with a stau LSP
        Speaker: Ms Maike Trenkel (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
        Slides
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break 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)
    • 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)
      • 46
        4th Generation and B-CP Anomalies
        Speaker: Dr Amarjit Soni (Brookhaven National Lab)
        Slides
      • 47
        LHC Phenomenology of a Strongly Coupled Fourth Generation
        Speaker: Dr Ricardo D'Elia Matheus (Univ. of Sao Paulo)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 48
        Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top
        Speaker: Dr Jessie (Julia) Shelton (Rutgers University)
        Slides
      • 49
        Family Non-universal U(1)' Gauge Symmetries and b to s Transitions
        Speaker: Dr Tao Liu (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 50
        Determination of B_s^0 and B_d^0 mixing parameters using lattice QCD.
        Speaker: Dr Elvira Gamiz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
        Slides
      • 51
        Observation of the bottomonium ground state eta_b(1S) at BaBar
        Speaker: Dr Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 52
        New charmonium like states at BaBar
        Speaker: Ms Valentina Santoro (University of Ferrara)
        Slides
      • 53
        Measurement of Branching Fractions in B to K nu nubar Decays
        Speaker: Mr Carl Vuosalo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 54
        Inflation and singlet scalar dark matter
        Speaker: Prof. Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)
        Slides
      • 55
        Indications of DM by astrophysical e+/- and gamma observations
        Speaker: Mr Yu Gao (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
        Slides
      • 56
        Cosmic rays and dark matter with sub-GeV hidden U(1)
        Speaker: Dr Jong-Chul Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
        Slides
      • 57
        Phase-space structure of the Milky Way's dark halo
        Speaker: Dr Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 58
        Changes in dark matter properties after freeze-out
        Speaker: Mr Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)
        Slides
      • 59
        The thermal abundance of semi-relativistic relics
        Speaker: Dr Mitsuru Kakizaki (LAPTH)
        Slides
      • 60
        Hidden charged dark matter
        Speaker: Dr Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Irvine)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 61
        Beyond the 3-Site Higgsless Model
        Speaker: Dr Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)
        Slides
      • 62
        Z to b bbar and Chiral Currents in Higgsless Models
        Speaker: Dr Ken Hsieh (Michigan State University)
        Slides
      • 63
        Emergent Electroweak symmetry breaking with composite W,Z bosons
        Speaker: Dr Yanou Cui (Harvard University)
        Slides
      • 64
        A Light Scalar as the Messenger of EWSB
        Speaker: Mr Zeke Murdock (Oklahoma State University)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 65
        Electroweak symmetry breaking from layered QCD
        Speaker: Prof. Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue University)
        Slides
      • 66
        A Higher-Derivative Lee-Wick Standard Model
        Speaker: Prof. Christopher Carone (College of William and Mary)
        Slides
      • 67
        The Higgs Sector of the Lee-Wick Extension of the Standard Model
        Speaker: Dr Bryan Field (IPPP, Durham University)
        Slides
      • 68
        Unparticle decays
        Speaker: Prof. Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 69
        Five loop QED contributions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon
        Speaker: Dr Christian Sturm (Brookhaven National Lab)
        Slides
      • 70
        Dynamics of Charged Hadronic Thresholds
        Speaker: Mr Mihailo Backovic (University of Kansas)
        Slides
      • 71
        Four-quark operator contribution to neutron electric dipole moment
        Speaker: Mr Haipeng An (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 72
        Process-independent determination of two-loop electroweak logarithms
        Speaker: Dr Bernd Jantzen (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
      • 73
        Electroweak corrections to Higgs production via gluon fusion
        Speaker: Dr Stefano Actis (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
      • 74
        Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering - fix NuTeV anomaly?
        Speaker: Dr Kwangwoo Park (Southern Methodist University)
        Slides
      • 75
        QCD radiative correction to pair-annihilation of spin-1 bosonic Dark Matter.
        Speaker: Mr Jae Ho Heo (Uni. of IL at Chicago)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 76
        Renormalization group improved prediction for Higgs production at hadron colliders
        Speaker: Dr Li Lin Yang (Univ. of Mainz)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 77
        Collider aspects of supersymmetry with non-universal gaugino masses
        Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)
        Slides
      • 78
        Testing gaugino mass hypotheses at the LHC
        Speaker: Prof. Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)
        Slides
      • 79
        Studying Gaugino mass unification at the LHC
        Speaker: Mr Michael Holmes (Northeastern University)
        Slides
      • 80
        A sneutrino NLSP in the nuCMSSM
        Speaker: Dr Kenji Kadota (University of Michigan)
        Slides
      • 81
        A heavy Higgs and a light sneutrino NLSP in the MSSM with enhanced D-terms
        Speaker: Dr Anibal Medina (University of California, Davis)
        Slides
      • 82
        Pure leptonic signatures with a sneutrino NLSP at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Terrance Figy (IPPP, Durham University)
        Slides
      • 83
        Supersymmetric baryogenesis and EDMs
        Speaker: Dr Yingchuan Li (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
        Slides
      • 84
        CP Violation and EDMs from Yukawa coupling in a supersymmetry breaking scenario
        Speaker: Mr Jing Shao (University of Michigan)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 85
        Search for SM Higgs production in the H->WW->lnujj channel at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Dr Marc Buehler (Fermilab, DZero)
        Slides
      • 86
        Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production with Like-Sign Leptons at DZero
        Speaker: Dr Maiko Takahashi (University of Manchester)
        Slides
      • 87
        Search for ZH to ee bb in p pbar Collisions at D0
        Speaker: Dr Satish Desai (Fermilab, DZero)
      • 88
        Search for ZH to mu mu bb in p pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
        Speaker: Mr John BackusMayes (University of Washington)
        Slides
      • 89
        Search for the SM Higgs boson in the ZH to nu nu bb channel at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
        Speaker: Mr Abhinav Dubey (University of Delhi and Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 90
        Search for a Light NMSSM Higgs Boson at CDF
        Speaker: Mr Scott Wilbur (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 91
        Photon Results from CDF
        Speaker: Dr Ray Culbertson (Fermilab, CDF)
        Slides
      • 92
        D0 1fb-1 W Boson Mass Measurement
        Speaker: Mr Jun Guo (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 93
        New results from Fermi/GLAST
        Speaker: Dr Simona Murgia (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 94
        Direct searches of dark matter
        Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)
        Slides
      • 95
        Indirect searches of dark matter
        Speaker: Dr Dan Hooper (FNAL / U. Chicago)
        Slides
    • 10:15 AM
      Coffee Break 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)
    • 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)
      • 96
        Dark energy: addressing the crisis in fundamental physics
        Speaker: Prof. Chris Stubbs (Harvard University)
        Slides
      • 97
        Effects of SUSY breaking
        Speaker: Dr Patrick Meade (IAS)
      • 98
        SUSY phenomenology
        Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Hollik (MPI-Munich)
        Slides
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • 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)
      • 99
        Probing Dark Forces and Light Hidden Sectors at Low-Energy e+e- Colliders
        Speaker: Dr Rouven Essig (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 100
        Hidden Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments and LHC
        Speaker: Dr Jennifer Kile (BNL)
        Slides
      • 101
        Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures
        Speaker: Mr Joshua Ruderman (Princeton University)
        Slides
      • 102
        WIMPless Dark Matter and Meson Decays with Missing Energy
        Speaker: Mr David McKeen (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 103
        Dark Matter Out of Seclusion
        Speaker: Mr Brian Batell (Perimeter Institute)
        Slides
      • 104
        Leptonic Higgs as a Messenger of Dark Matter
        Speaker: Dr Hock Seng Goh (UC Berkeley)
        Slides
      • 105
        U(1)_B-L Provides a Dark Matter Explanation for Pamela
        Speaker: Ms Katherine Richardson-McDaniel (University of New Mexico)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 106
        A Novel Origin of CP Violation
        Speaker: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)
        Slides
      • 107
        Yukawa unification in SUSY SU(5) and its experimental implications
        Speaker: Mr Enkhbat Tsedenbaljir (Abdus Salam ICTP)
        Slides
      • 108
        A5 Family Symmetry and the Golden Ratio Prediction for Solar Neutrino Mixing
        Speaker: Mr Alexander Stuart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 109
        Minimal SO(10) x A4 SUSY GUT
        Speaker: Mr Abdelhamid Albaid (Oklahoma State university)
        Slides
      • 110
        Models for Fermion Mass Hierarchy
        Speaker: Mr Benjamin Grossmann (Oklahoma State University)
      • 111
        Flavour violations in supersymmetric SO(10) unification with type II seesaw
        Speaker: Dr Michele Frigerio (Institut de Physique Theorique)
        Slides
      • 112
        Lepton number violating non-standard interactions and neutrino oscillations
        Speaker: Mr Julio Julio (Oklahoma State University)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 113
        Color Sextet Scalars at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Kai Wang (IPMU, University of Tokyo)
        Slides
      • 114
        Prediction of light diquarks observable at LHC from baryogenesis models
        Speaker: Mr Bhupal Dev (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 115
        QCD Corrections to Scalar Diquark Production at Hadron Colliders
        Speaker: Mr Ian Lewis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 116
        Heavy quarks above the top at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Dr Anupama Atre (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 117
        Threshold resummation for production of coloured heavy particles at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Pietro Falgari (IPPP, Durham University)
        Slides
      • 118
        Electroweak effects in b-jet and di-jet production
        Speaker: Dr Andreas Scharf (SUNY at Buffalo)
        Slides
      • 119
        Constraining new physics with combined low and high energy observables
        Speaker: Dr James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 120
        Higgs Production and Decay from TeV Scale Black Holes at the LHC
        Speaker: Mr Arif Erkoca (University of Arizona)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 121
        Sgluons
        Speaker: Prof. Tim Tait (Northwestern University / Argonne National Lab)
        Slides
      • 122
        Vacuum Stability in No-Scale Supersymmetry or Gaugino Mediation
        Speaker: Mr Jason Evans (University of Michigan)
        Slides
      • 123
        Anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking demystified
        Speaker: Dr Jae Yong Lee (Korea Institute for Advance Study)
        Slides
      • 124
        Hypercharged Anomaly Mediation - LHC Signatures
        Speaker: Mr Shivakumar Rajagopalan (University of Oklahoma)
        Slides
      • 125
        The Upside of SUSY Seesaw in Deflected AMSB
        Speaker: Dr Nicholas Setzer (University of Melbourne)
        Slides
      • 126
        U(1)_R Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
        Speaker: Dr Hyun Min Lee (McMaster University)
        Slides
      • 127
        A Pyramid Scheme for Particle Physics
        Speaker: Mr Jean-Francois Fortin (Rutgers University)
        Slides
      • 128
        Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
        Speaker: Mr James Gainer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 129
        First Observation of Single Top Quark Production at DZero
        Speaker: Ms Monica Pangilinan (Brown University)
        Slides
      • 130
        Top quark mass measurement using mT2 in the dilepton channel at CDF
        Speaker: Dr Hyunsu Lee (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 131
        Forward-Backward Asymmetry in t t-bar Production
        Speaker: Mr Leandro G. Almeida (Stony Brook University)
        Slides
      • 132
        Top Quark Decays in Standard Model Extensions
        Speaker: Dr Martin Wiebusch (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
      • 133
        Model Independent limits on scalar charged boson in top quark decays
        Speaker: Ms Geumbong Yu (University of Rochester)
        Slides
      • 134
        Manifestations of Top Compositeness at Colliders
        Speaker: Mr Kunal Kumar (Northwestern University)
        Slides
      • 135
        Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Dr Rakhi Mahbubani (Fermilab)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 136
        Measuring Scalar Top Mass through Bound State Decays
        Speaker: Mr James Younkin (Northern Illinois University)
        Slides
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break 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)
    • 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)
      • 137
        Why SUSY GUT theories predict the bulk of cold dark matter is axions
        Speaker: Prof. Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
        Slides
      • 138
        Yukawa Unification and Neutralino Dark Matter in Pati-Salam Model
        Speaker: Dr Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)
        Slides
      • 139
        R-Parity Breaking via Type II Seesaw, Gravitino Dark Matter and Positron Excess
        Speaker: Dr Shaolong Chen (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 140
        Neutrino sector impacts SUSY dark matter
        Speaker: Mr Azar Mustafayev (University of Kansas)
        Slides
      • 141
        Dark Matter Phenomenology in NUHM Models
        Speaker: Dr Pearl Sandick (UT Austin)
        Slides
      • 142
        WIMPonium
        Speaker: Mr William Shepherd (Northwestern University)
        Slides
      • 143
        The WIMP Forest
        Speaker: Dr Chris Jackson (Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 144
        Left-right symmetry at the LHC
        Speaker: Prof. Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)
        Slides
      • 145
        Neutralino dark matter in an SO(10) model with two-step intermediate scale symmetry breaking
        Speaker: Dr Eun-Kyung Park (Bonn University)
        Slides
      • 146
        LHC Phenomenology of supersymmetric multi-step GUTs
        Speaker: Prof. Jürgen Reuter (University of Freiburg)
        Slides
      • 147
        Cosmology of a minimal SUSY SO(10)
        Speaker: Dr Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)
        Slides
      • 148
        Grand anarchy: Unification patterns of random Hamiltonians
        Speaker: Prof. John Ralston (University of Kansas)
        Slides
      • 149
        String phenomenology at the dawn of the LHC era
        Speaker: Prof. Luis Anchordoqui (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
        Slides
      • 150
        Open Strings in Warped Extra Dimensions
        Speaker: Mr Paul McGuirk (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 151
        Detecting String Resonance at LHC
        Speaker: Dr Minxin Huang (CERN)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 152
        Normalizing VV production at the LHC
        Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 153
        Theoretical Uncertainties in Vector Boson Cross Sections at the LHC
        Speaker: Prof. Scott Yost (The Citadel)
        Slides
      • 154
        Jet angular correlation in vector-boson fusion processes at hadron colliders
        Speaker: Dr Kentaro Mawatari (Heidelberg University)
        Slides
      • 155
        Extracting Z' Couplings from the LHC and low-energy measurements
        Speaker: Dr Seth Quackenbush (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Slides
      • 156
        Identifying new physics with photons at the LHC
        Speaker: Mr Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)
        Slides
      • 157
        Early SUSY searches at LHC without missing Et
        Speaker: Mr Andre Lessa (University of Oklahoma)
        Slides
      • 158
        Distinguishing between SUSY and Littlest Higgs Model using trileptons at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 159
        Measuring the dark force at the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Zhenyu Han (UC Davis)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 160
        Oscillation of Dirac or Majorana neutrinos produced in muon decay
        Speaker: Prof. Marek Zralek (Inst. of Physics, University of Silesia)
        Slides
      • 161
        Dirac neutrinos from a second Higgs doublet
        Speaker: Prof. Heather Logan (Carleton University)
        Slides
      • 162
        The Pseudo-Dirac See-Saw neutrinos
        Speaker: Mr Wei-Chih Huang (Northwestern University)
        pdf
      • 163
        Neutrino Signals in the Inert Doublet Model
        Speaker: Mr Ethan Dolle (University of Arizona)
        Slides
      • 164
        Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos Using W-decay Data
        Speaker: Mr Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)
        Slides
      • 165
        Non-zero electron Electric Dipole Moment from TeV Majorana Neutrinos
        Speaker: Dr Saif Rayyan (Beloit College)
        Slides
      • 166
        Renormalization group evolution of neutrino masses and mixing in Type-III seesaw
        Speaker: Ms Shamayita Ray (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
        Slides
      • 167
        Beta-Beam : An Ultimate Probe for Sterile Neutrinos
        Speaker: Dr Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Virginia Tech)
        Slides
    • 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)
      • 168
        Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions
        Speaker: Prof. Fred Olness (SMU)
        Slides
      • 169
        The collinear factorization scheme
        Speaker: Mr Rob Putman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
      • 170
        Electroweak and QCD corrections to W+jet production at hadron colliders
        Speaker: Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (University of Freiburg)
        Slides
      • 171
        Z-boson pair + 1-jet production at NLO QCD
        Speaker: Dr Nikolas Kauer (Royal Holloway, University of London)
        Slides
      • 172
        Graviton production with 1 jet at NLO QCD at the LHC in large extra dimensions
        Speaker: Dr Stefan Karg (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
      • 173
        Precise predictions for hadronic collisions from on-shell methods - BlackHat
        Speaker: Dr Carola F. Berger (MIT, CTP)
        Slides
      • 174
        W+3 Jet Production: NLO computations with BlackHat + SHERPA
        Speaker: Dr Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA)
        Slides
      • 175
        Alternative dipole subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper dipoles
        Speaker: Dr Tania Robens (RWTH Aachen University, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik E)
        Slides
    • 7:00 PM
      Banquet
    • 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)
      • 176
        Perturbative QCD and the LHC
        Speaker: Dr Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)
        Slides
      • 177
        Theoretical tools for collider physics
        Speaker: Prof. Frank Krauss (Durham University)
        Slides
      • 178
        Higgs boson physics
        Speaker: Prof. Dieter Zeppenfeld (Universität Karlsruhe)
        Slides
    • 10:15 AM
      Coffee Break 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)
    • 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)
      • 179
        Physics with extra dimensions
        Speaker: Prof. Kaustubh Agashe (University of Maryland)
        Slides
      • 180
        Exotic theoretical scenarios at the LHC
        Speaker: Prof. Markus Luty (UC Davis)
        Slides
      • 181
        LHC Alive!
        Speaker: Dr Mónica Vázquez Acosta (Imperial College)
        Slides
      • 182
        Wu-Ki Tung Remembrance
        Speakers: Prof. Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University), Prof. Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)