Name: Pheno 07
Start: 2007-05-07T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2007-05-09T12:40:00-05:00
Location: Memorial Union

Pheno 07

from Monday, May 7, 2007 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, May 9, 2007 (12:40 PM)

Monday, May 7, 2007
8:40 AM
8:40 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Tripp Commons
Contributions

8:40 AM Welcome - Vernon Barger (UW)

8:45 AM First MiniBooNE Oscillation results - Chris Polly (University of Indiana)

9:00 AM Evidence for D0-D0bar mixing - Ray Cowan (MIT)

9:20 AM Bread and butter physics at Tevatron - Gordon Watts (University of Washington)

9:55 AM The race to find the Higgs - Mark Kruse (Duke University)
10:30 AM coffee
coffee
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Tripp Commons
10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
Contributions

10:55 AM Neutrino masses and oscillations - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

11:30 AM Neutrino oscillations - Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)

12:05 PM New physics in the Beauty sector - Tobias Hurth (CERN)
12:40 PM lunch
lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 225
Contributions

2:00 PM Charmless hadronic B decays at BaBar - Woochun Park (U. of South Carolina)

2:20 PM Measurement of the CKM angle alpha at BaBar - Woochun Park (U. of South Carolina)

2:40 PM Recent results on b-physics with CDF at Tevatron - Elena Vataga (University of Mexico)

3:00 PM Explaining the Muon g-2 anomaly - John Ralston (University of Kansas)

3:20 PM Jet multiplicity and background extraction in SUSY analyses at the LHC - Bruce Mellado (UW Madison)

3:40 PM The role of D0** in B- -> Ds+ K- pi- - Oleg Antipin (Iowa State University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 332
Contributions

2:00 PM Testing Lorentz symmetry violating neutrino oscillations - Kerry Whisnant (Iowa State University)

2:20 PM Neutrino states in oscillation experiments - are they pure or mix? - Marek Zralek (University of Silesia)

2:40 PM MiniBooNE and pion production measurements at HARP - Linda Coney (Hope College)

3:00 PM Which long baseline neutrino experiment? - Danny Marfatia (University of Kansas)

3:20 PM Constraints on non-standard interactions of the neutrino - Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)

3:40 PM Constraints on new physics from matter effects on neutrino oscillation - Alexey Pronin (Virginia Tech)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 112
Contributions

2:00 PM Instantons, brane-worlds, and violations of Lorentz invariance - Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue University)

2:20 PM Gravitating p-branes from higher dimension - Chi Xiong (Purdue University)

2:40 PM Vector Dynamics in Locally Invariant Brane World Models - Sherwin Love (Purdue University)

3:00 PM Explaining the EW scale in M-theory and the associated phenomenology - Jing Shao (University of Michigan)

3:20 PM Predictions and Signatures of the Landscape - Laura Mersini-Houghton (UNC)

3:40 PM Gravitating p-branes and collider physics - Thomas Clark (Purdue University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 213
Contributions

2:00 PM Vista@CDF: a global view of Tevatron Run II data - Georgios Choudalakis (MIT)

2:20 PM Model-independent search at the D0 experiment - Joel Piper (Michigan State University)

2:40 PM First evidence for single top quark production at D0 - Shabnam Jabeen (Boston University)

3:00 PM Improved search for single top quark production using Bayesian neural networks - Daekwang Kau (Florida State University)

3:20 PM Measurement of single top quark production at D0 using matrix elements - Jovan Mitrevski (Columbia University)

3:40 PM Sleuth@CDF: searching the high-sumPt tails - Conor Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 121
Contributions

2:00 PM A signal for a theory of flavor at the LHC - Oscar Eboli (Universidad de Sao Paulo)

2:20 PM Focus point physics at the LHC - Gabe Shaughnessy (UW Madison)

2:40 PM Identifying new phenomena with high-energy top quarks - Ben Lillie (Argonne National Lab)

3:00 PM High p_T top quarks at LHC - Ulrich Baur (State University of New York at Buffalo)

3:20 PM Tools for the LHC: little Higgs with T-parity - Jay Hubisz (Fermilab)

3:40 PM Using object correlations to extract new physics from multi-jet signals - Rouven Essig (Rutgers University)
4:00 PM coffee
coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 225
Contributions

4:30 PM DD/IDD rates for dark matter searches in models with a well-tempered neutralino - Eun-Kyung Park (Florida State University)

4:50 PM MeV dark matter with couplings to neutrinos - Dan Hooper (Fermilab)

5:10 PM Common origin of neutrino mass and dark matter - Ernest Ma (University of California, Riverside)

5:30 PM Gravitating p-branes and dark matter - Tonnis Ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

5:50 PM Minimal Dirac fermionic dark matter - Jae Ho Heo (University of Illinois at Chicago)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 112
Contributions

4:30 PM Natural realizations of type I and type II sesaw and mini-warped minimal SO(10) - Haibo Yu (University of Maryland)

4:50 PM Gauge-Higgs unification phenomenology in warped dimensions - Nausheen Shah (University of Chicago)

5:10 PM Studying the structure of RS model by studying G1 phenomenology - Jing Shu (University of Chicago)

5:30 PM Precise predictions for H->4 fermion decays with PROPHECY4f - Marcus Weber (University of Buffalo)

5:50 PM Warped space gauge bosons at the LHC - Shrihari Gopalakrishna (BNL)

6:10 PM Soft leptogenesis in warped extra dimensions - Anibal Medina (University of Chicago)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 332
Contributions

4:30 PM Electroweak corrections in the three-site model - Elizabeth H. Simmons (Michigan State University)

4:50 PM Phenomenology of three-site model - Alexander Belyaev (Michigan State University)

5:10 PM Unitarity and bounds on the scale of fermion mass generation - Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)

5:30 PM One-loop corrections to the S and T parameters in Higgsless models - Christopher Jackson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:50 PM How light can the lightest neutralino be? - Olaf Kittel (Bonn University)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 213
Contributions

4:30 PM Recoil detection of the lightest neutralino in MSSM singlet extensions - Ian Lewis (University of Wisconsin)

4:50 PM Higgs-exempt no-scale supersymmetry - David Morrissey (University of Michigan)

5:10 PM Compressed supersymmetry and natural neutralino dark matter - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

5:30 PM Dimension-five operators in grand unified theories - Joshua Sayre (UIUC)

5:50 PM A SUSY SO(10) GUT model with lopsided structure - Yingchuan Li (University of Maryland)

6:10 PM Proton Stability in SUSY SU(5) - Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 121
Contributions

4:30 PM Mass determination in events with missing energy - Bob McElrath (University of California, Davis)

4:50 PM Global analyses at the Tevatron and LHC - Bruce Knuteson (MIT)

5:10 PM SFitter: from LHC data back to the MSSM Lagrangian - Michael Rauch (University of Edinburgh)

5:30 PM Interplay of LHC and ILC in SUSY searches - Carola Berger (SLAC)

5:50 PM Interplay between B physics and Higgs searches at hadron colliders - Arjun Menon (University of Chicago)

6:10 PM Spin determination in hadron colliders - Itay Yavin (Princeton University)
6:45 PM banquet
banquet
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: lake view
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Tripp Commons
Contributions

8:30 AM Search for new physics at HERA - Bob Olivier (MPI Munich)

8:45 AM Particle dark matter - Howie Baer (Florida State)

9:20 AM Neutrino astrophysics - Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

9:55 AM Cosmology in the LHC era - Michael Turner (University of Chicago)
10:30 AM coffee
coffee
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Tripp Commons
10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
Contributions

10:55 AM Elektoweak baryogenesis and supersymmetry - Carlos Wagner (ANL)

11:30 AM Topological physics of extra dimensions - Christopher Hill (FNAL)

12:05 PM Test of fundamental symmetries - Alan Kostelecky (University of Indiana)
12:40 PM lunch
lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 225
Contributions

2:00 PM Discover the heavy top partner of the twin Higgs model - Xinyu Miao (University of Arizona)

2:20 PM Dark matter in the left-right twin Higgs model - Ethan Dolle (University of Arizona)

2:40 PM Anomalies in the little Higgs model - Richard Hill (Fermilab)

3:00 PM SU(4)_L x U(1)_X electroweak gauge group with little Higgs - Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central University)

3:20 PM T-odd gauge boson littlest Higgs model with T-parity at future colliders - Chen Chuan-Ren (Michigan State University)

3:40 PM Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron in extended supersymmetric models - Soeren Wiesenfeldt (UIUC)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 332
Contributions

2:00 PM 3+2 Neutrino phenomenology - Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)

2:20 PM Lepton EDM's from heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos - Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)

2:40 PM Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering at NuTeV - Kwangwoo Park (SUNY at Buffalo)

3:00 PM Long lived staus in IceCube from atmospheric neutrinos - David Rainwater (University of Rochester)

3:20 PM Cross sections, fluxes and neutrino telescopes - Doug McKay (University of Kansas)

3:40 PM Predictive model of inverted neutrino hierarchy & resonant leptogenesis - Abdel Bachri (Oklahoma State University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 112
Contributions

2:00 PM Dave's ideas on Majorana neutralinos - Tilman Plehn (University of Edinburgh)

2:20 PM Choosing the factorization scale in perturbative QCD - Robert Putman (University of Illinois)

2:40 PM Belle results relevant for LHC - Steve Olsen (University of Hawaii)

3:00 PM Parton shower + NLO: a positive weight hardest emission generator - Carlo Oleari (Universita Milano-Bicocca)

3:20 PM SUSY QCD corrections to Higgs pair production in bottom quark fusion - Yili Wang (University of Oklahoma)

3:40 PM B0_sbar B0_s mixing parameters with Nf=2+1 sea quarks in lattice QCD - Elvira Gamiz (University of Illinois)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 121
Contributions

2:00 PM Discovery of long-lived sleptons at LHC - Bryan Smith (UC-Irvine)

2:20 PM Detect nearly degenerate gauginos at LHC - Kai Wang (University of Wisconsin)

2:40 PM Phenomenology of gauge messenger models - Ian-Woo Kim (Seoul National University)

3:00 PM Dusting for SUSY's fingerprints in precision data - Arne Weber (Max-Planck-Institue for Physics - Munich)

3:20 PM Compressed SUSY at Tevatron: possibility to probe beyond LEP2 - Azar Mustafayev (University of Kansas)

3:40 PM Right-handed neutrinos in a supersymmetric world - Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 213
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurement of the inclusive Z+jet(s) production cross section at CDF - Oriol Salto (IFAE - Barcelona)

2:20 PM Inclusive search for squark/gluino production at CDF - Gianluca De Lorenzo (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona)

2:40 PM Top quark production cross section measurements at D0 - Hwidong Yoo (Brown University)

3:00 PM Measurement of top quark properties at D0 - Liang Li (University of California - Riverside)

3:20 PM Top quark mass measurement in the dilepton channel - Peter Renkel (SMU)

3:40 PM Measurement of the top quark mass at D0 using lepton + jets events - Gustavo Otero y Garzon (University of Illinois at Chicago)
4:00 PM coffee
coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 121
Contributions

4:30 PM Searches for new physics with photons at CDF - Aliaksandr Pranko (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

4:50 PM Transverse momentum distributions of a Higgs boson and a bottom quark - Bryan Field (Florida State University)

5:10 PM Collider implications of a non-universal Higgs - Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State University)

5:30 PM Searching for a hidden sector Higgs boson at the LHC - Yanou Cui (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

5:50 PM The effect of two-photon-decay suppression on light Higgs detection prospects - Brooks Thomas (University of Michigan)

6:10 PM Across the time dimension in search of dark matter at CDF - Max Goncharov (Texas A&M University)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 213
Contributions

4:30 PM United TeV scale picture of dark matter and baryogenesis - K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

4:50 PM Non-thermal leptogenesis with strongly hierarchical right handed neutrinos - Nefer Senoguz (University of Kansas)

5:10 PM Leptogenesis with quasi-Dirac neutrinos in warped extra dimensions - Kenji Kadota (University of Minnesota)

5:30 PM Space-time propagation of neutrino wave packets in the early universe - Chiu Man Ho (University of Pittsburgh)

5:50 PM Constraining accelerating cosmologies with distance measures - Yu Gao (UW Madison)

6:10 PM Constraints on leptogenesis from fermion masses in SO(10) GUTs - Liliana Velasco-Sevilla (University of Minnesota)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 112
Contributions

4:30 PM The role of finite groups as family symmetries for quarks and leptons - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)

4:50 PM A model independent survey of lepton number violation via effective operators - James Jenkins (Northwestern University)

5:10 PM A new mechanism for neutrino mass generation and associated Higgs signals - Steven Gabriel (Oklahoma State University)

5:30 PM A chiral fourth generation - Tim Tait (Argonne National Lab)

5:50 PM Lepton masses and mixing without Yukawa hierarchies - Wiliam Ponce (Universidad de Antioquia)

6:10 PM Phenomenology of the singlet extended standard model - Mathew McCaskey (UW Madison)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 225
Contributions

4:30 PM New precision measurements of Ke2 and LFV lepton universality - Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)

4:50 PM Measurements of the CKM angle beta at BaBar - Roberto Covarelli (University of Perugia)

5:10 PM Radiative and leptonic decays at the B factories - Chris Schilling (University of Texas)

5:30 PM Exclusive hadron production in e+e- annihilation - Yi Kai (SLAC)

5:50 PM Measurements of Vub and Vcb at BaBar - Kerstin Tackmann (LBNL)

6:10 PM Searches for lepton-flavor violation at BaBar - Jeffrey A. Kolb (University of Oregon)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 332
Contributions

4:30 PM Solving problems of 4D minimal SO(10) model in a warped extra dimension - Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)

4:50 PM Holographic mixing quantified - Brian Batell (University of Minnesota)

5:10 PM D0-D0 bar mixing in multi-Higgs models - Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)

5:30 PM Breakdown of the narrow width approximation in BSM physics - Daniel Berdine (University of Rochester)

5:50 PM Landscape of little hierarchy - Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Tripp Commons
Contributions

8:45 AM QCD at the LHC - Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY-Buffalo)

9:20 AM Signatures in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)

9:55 AM Anticipation of the LHC - Tom LeCompte (ANL)
10:30 AM coffee
coffee
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Tripp Commons
10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Tripp Commons
Contributions

10:55 AM Unusual physics signatures at LHC - Matt Strassler (University of Washington)

11:30 AM Path from the LHC to the new standard model via on-shell effective theories - Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard University)

12:05 PM ILC in the LHC era - Jack Gunion (UC-Davis)