Pheno 2008 Symposium
Apr 28, 2008, 7:30 AM
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Apr 30, 2008, 12:45 PM
America/Chicago
Tripp Commons (Memorial Union)
Tripp Commons
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Plenary 1
Tripp Commons
Tripp Commons
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
8:40 AM
Welcome
5m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Vernon Barger
(
Univ. of Wisconsin
)
8:45 AM
SM Tests at the Tevatron Collider
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Cecilia Gerber
(
Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
)
Slides
9:20 AM
New Physics Searches at the Tevatron
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Simona Rolli
(
Tufts Univ.
)
Slides
9:55 AM
Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Janet Conrad
(
Columbia Univ.
)
Slides
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
25m
11:00 AM
New Results from MINOS
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Robert Zwaska
(
FNAL
)
Slides
11:15 AM
Searches from HERA
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jolanta Sztuk
(
Univ. Hamburg
)
Slides
11:35 AM
Neutrino Mass Models
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Steve King
(
Univ. of Southampton
)
Slides
12:10 PM
Cosmology in the LHC Era
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Max Tegmark
(
MIT
)
12:45 PM
→
2:00 PM
Lunch
1h 15m
on your own
on your own
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
121 (Pyle Center)
121
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Phenomenology of Radion-Higgs Mixing Revisited
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Manuel Toharia
(
University of Maryland
)
Slides
2:15 PM
LHC Phenomenology of the 3-Site Higgsless Model
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Elizabeth Simmons
(
Michigan State University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Heavy Fermions from Higgsless Models at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Baradhwaj Coleppa
(
Michigan State University
)
Slides
2:45 PM
T-Parity in Fermionic UV Completions of Little Higgs Models
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
David Krohn
(
Princeton University
)
Slides
3:00 PM
T-Anomaly Induced Decays in Little Higgs Model with T-Parity
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Yu Gao
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Not T-Parity but C-Parity (in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity)
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jae Yong Lee
(
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Mini Little Higgs
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Yang Bai
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Flavor
326 (Pyle Center)
326
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Recent Results from BaBar on the CKM Angles
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Moritz Karbach
(
TU Dortmund
)
Slides
2:15 PM
Charmonium Production at B-Factories and Hadron Colliders
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Congfeng Qiao
(
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Hadro-Charmonium
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Sergiy Dubynskiy
(
University of Minnesota
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Charm Mixing -- an Update
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Lei Wang
(
UC Santa Cruz
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Lifetime Difference of D0-D0bar Mixing within R-parity Violating SUSY
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Gagik Yeghiyan
(
Wayne State University
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Sflavor at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Graham Kribs
(
University of Oregon
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Model-Independent Constraints on Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays of the Top Quark
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jennifer Kile
(
Brookhaven National Lab
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Future Constraints on and from Lepton Universality
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tatsu Takeuchi
(
Virginia Tech
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Neutrino Experiments
325 (Pyle Center)
325
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Neutrino Properties from Neutrino Telescopes
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Irina Mocioiu
(
Pennsylvania State University
)
Slides
2:15 PM
Direct Searches for New Physics at NuSOnG and Other Neutrino Experiments
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Georgia Karagiorgi
(
Columbia University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
The Terascale Physics Reach of NuSOnG
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
William Loinaz
(
Amherst College
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Global Lorentz Violation Model for Neutrino Oscillation with MiniBooNE
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Teppei Katori
(
Indiana University
)
Slides
3:00 PM
NC pi0 Production in the MiniBooNE Antineutrino Data
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Van Nguyen
(
Columbia University
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Multi-Beam Strategy for Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Cross-Sections
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Rainer Schiel
(
University of Kansas
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos using Borexino
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Yee Kao
(
Virginia Tech
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Search for theta13 at the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Wei Wang
(
University of Wisconsin
)
abstract
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
New Physics Searches at LHC/ILC
313 (Pyle Center)
313
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Status of Higgs Feasibility Studies at ATLAS
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Bruce Mellado
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
2:15 PM
Heavy Electroweak Resonances at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Shrihari Gopalakrishna
(
Brookhaven National Lab
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Searching for t-tbar Resonances at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Ulrich Baur
(
SUNY-Buffalo
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Collider Constraints on Seesaw Models
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Guiyu Huang
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Testing Origin of Neutrino Mass at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Tong Li
(
Nankai Univ. / Univ. of Wisconsin
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Trilepton Production at LHC -- Standard and Beyond Standard Model Sources
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Zack Sullivan
(
Southern Methodist University
)
Slides
3:30 PM
General Features of Supersymmetric Signals at the ILC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
James Gainer
(
SLAC
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Signals for Compressed SUSY at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Stephen Martin
(
Northern Illinois University
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Supersymmetry Breaking
213 (Pyle Center)
213
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Balancing AMSB's Troubles: Lifting the Slepton Masses with a SUSY Seesaw
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Nicholas Setzer
(
University of Maryland
)
Paper
Slides
2:15 PM
The Upside of Minimal Seesaw in Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Sogee Spinner
(
University of Maryland
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Discovering Sparticles in the CMSSM and GUT-less SUSY-Breaking Scenarios
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Pearl Sandick
(
University of Minnesota
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Z'-Mediated SUSY Breaking
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Gil Paz
(
Institute for Advanced Study
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Dynamically Solving the mu/Bmu Problem in Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Tao Liu
(
Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Gravity in Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Krzysztof Turzynski
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Axionic Mirage Mediation
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Masahiro Yamaguchi
(
Tohoku University
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Deflected Mirage Mediation
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Peter Ouyang
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
4:00 PM
→
4:30 PM
Coffee Break
30m
TBD (Pyle Center)
TBD
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
EW Gauge Bosons at the Tevatron
326 (Pyle Center)
326
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Z/gamma*->ee Events at D0
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Junjie Zhu
(
SUNY, Stony Brook
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Probing Antiquark Distributions in Drell-Yan Scattering at Fermilab
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
John Arrington
(
Argonne National Lab
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Using Drell-Yan to Probe the Underlying Event in Run 2 at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Deepak Kar
(
University of Florida
)
Slides
5:15 PM
ZZ->llvv Production with the D0 Detector at Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Gianluca Cerminara
(
Northeastern Univ. / INFN Torino
)
Slides
5:30 PM
CDF Analysis with Photons
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Ray Culbertson
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
5:45 PM
Search for New Physics in the gamma+b+j+MET+X Final State
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Scott Wilbur
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Measurement Techniques
213 (Pyle Center)
213
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
A new method for mass determination at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Zhenyu Han
(
UC Davis
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Inclusive transverse mass analysis for squark and gluino mass determination
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Yasuhiro Shimizu
(
IPMU/KEK
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Polynomials for the determination of masses in events with missing energy
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Bob McElrath
(
CERN
)
Slides
5:15 PM
Generalizing the Method of Kinematical Endpoints
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Michael Burns
(
University of Florida
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Ambiguities in SUSY mass determination from kinematic endpoints at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Myeonghun Park
(
University of Florida
)
PPowerPoint
Slides
5:45 PM
Initial determination of the spin of gluino and squark at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jing Shao
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Measuring Z' couplings at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Seth Quackenbush
(
University of Wisconsin-Madison
)
Slides
6:15 PM
What Do We Know from Missing pt Signature at LHC?
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Partha Konar
(
University of Florida
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Neutrino Models
121 (Pyle Center)
121
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Interaction of Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos with Weak Gravitational Fields
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Arun Thalapillil
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Small Neutrino Masses in a TeV Scale Seesaw Model with a Z'
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mu-Chun Chen
(
UC Irvine
)
Slides
5:00 PM
TriMinimal Parametrization of the Neutrino Mixing Matrix
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tom Weiler
(
Vanderbilt University
)
Slides
5:15 PM
Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Daniel Dwyer
(
Caltech
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Minimal Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Rates from Approximate Flavor Symmetries
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
James Jenkins
(
Northwestern University
)
Slides
5:45 PM
The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the CUORE Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Samuele Sangiorgio
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Implications of Electroweak-Scale Right-Handed Neutrinos
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
P. Q. Hung
(
University of Virginia
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
New Ideas in Field Theory
325 (Pyle Center)
325
Pyle Center
4:30 PM
Unparticle physics and Higgs phenomenology
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Tatsuru Kikuchi
(
KEK
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Unparticle Self-Interactions and Their Collider Implications
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Huitzu Tu
(
UC Irvine
)
Slides
5:00 PM
On vector unparticle constraints from B to K (gamma) + missing energy
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mohammad AlFiky
(
Wayne State University
)
Slides
5:15 PM
Unitarity Bounds for New Physics from Axial Coupling at LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jing Shu
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Anomaly-free discrete symmetries
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Christoph Luhn
(
University of Florida
)
Slides
5:45 PM
Electron-positron annihilation into four pions and the a_1-rho-pi Lagrangian
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Peter Lichard
(
Silesian University in Opava
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Exploring the Phenomenology of the Noncommutative Standard Model with WW Scattering
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
John Conley
(
SLAC
)
Slides
6:15 PM
New Parameter Space for Light Higgs Decays in the R-Parity Violating MSSM
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Linda Carpenter
(
UC Santa Cruz
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Unification Models
313 (Pyle Center)
313
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Generation Symmetry and E(6) Unification
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Zurab Tavartkiladze
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Family Symmetry with SO(10)
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
K. S. Babu
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Quark & Lepton Masses in SO(10) x A4
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Abdelamid Albaid
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
5:15 PM
Nonabelian Discrete Symmetries and the SUSY Flavor Problem
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Steven Gabriel
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
5:30 PM
What SO(10) SUSY GUTs Look Like at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Howie Baer
(
Florida State University
)
Slides
5:45 PM
Gauge-Higgs Unification & EW Symmetry Breaking in Warped Extra Dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Nausheen Shah
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Collider Phenomenology of Gauge-Higgs Unification Scenarios in RS1 Models
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Anibal Medina
(
Univ. of Chicago / Argonne National Lab
)
Slides
6:15 PM
Neutrinos, Naturalness, and GUTs
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Joshua Sayre
(
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
)
Slides
6:45 PM
→
9:00 PM
Conference Dinner
2h 15m
Alumni Lounge (Pyle Center)
Alumni Lounge
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
Tuesday, April 29
Mon, Apr 28
Tue, Apr 29
Wed, Apr 30
8:25 AM
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12:45 PM
Plenary 2
Tripp Commons
Tripp Commons
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
8:25 AM
New Physics Searches at B Factories
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Sanjay Swain
(
SLAC
)
Slides
8:45 AM
Flavor Physics in the LHC Era
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Zoltan Ligeti
(
LBL, Berkeley
)
Slides
9:20 AM
Astroparticle Physics in the LHC Era
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
John Beacom
(
Ohio State Univ.
)
Slides
9:55 AM
The Search for Dark Matter
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Stefano Profumo
(
UC-Santa Cruz
)
Slides
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
25m
11:00 AM
New Approaches in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Hsin-Chia Cheng
(
UC-Davis
)
Slides
11:35 AM
Gauge Mediation of SUSY Breaking
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Nathan Seiberg
(
IAS
)
Slides
12:10 PM
AdS/CFT, High Density QCD, and RHIC Physics
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Hong Liu
(
MIT
)
Slides
12:45 PM
→
2:00 PM
Lunch
1h 15m
on your own
on your own
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
B Physics
111 (Pyle Center)
111
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Interplay between B Physics and Dark matter searches
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Arjun Menon
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
2:15 PM
B_s mixing: Standard Model and Beyond
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Andriy Badin
(
Wayne State University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Large Phase of Bs-Bsbar mixing in Supersymmetry Grand Unified Theories
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Yukihiro Mimura
(
Texas A&M University
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Charmless B->VV decays (on behalf of BaBar Collaboration)
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Zijin Guo
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Charmless B Decays
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pablo del Amo Sanchez
(
LPNHE (Univ. Paris VI-VII) - CNRS
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Radiative Penguin Decays at the Babar Experiment
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Minliang Zhao
(
MIT
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Leptonic B-decays (Babar Collaboration)
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Miika Klemetti
(
McGill University
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Recent results on Semileptonic B decays from BaBar
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Kenji Hamano
(
University of Victoria
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Dark Matter
213 (Pyle Center)
213
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Bounds on the Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
James Dent
(
Vanderbilt University
)
Slides
2:15 PM
Solving the LHC Inverse Problem with Dark Matter Observations
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Brent Nelson
(
Northeastern University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Constraints on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter from Earth's Heat Flow
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Gregory Mack
(
The Ohio State University
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Vector Dark Matter
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tonnis ter Veldhuis
(
Macalester College
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Lightest U-parity Particle (LUP) Dark Matter
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hye-Sung Lee
(
University of Florida
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Dark Matter Candidates in Non-minimal UED
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Thomas Flacke
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Dark Matter in the Left Right Twin Higgs Model
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ethan Dolle
(
University of Arizona
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Axino Dark Matter
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Eung Jin Chun
(
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Extra Dimensions
313 (Pyle Center)
313
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
The Little Randall-Sundrum Model at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hooman Davoudiasl
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Slides
2:15 PM
Realization of Local AdS_5 Isometry
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Lu-xin Liu
(
Purdue University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Search for Large Extra Dimensions at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Max Goncharov
(
Texas AM
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Monophoton Channel using the D0 Detector
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Edgar Carrera
(
Florida State University
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Phenomenology of the Standard Model with two extra dimensions
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Ayres Freitas
(
University of Pittsburgh
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Higgs Decays and Brane Graviphotons
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Sherwin Love
(
Purdue University
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Brane Oscillations at the TeVatron and LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Thomas Clark
(
Purdue University
)
Slides
3:45 PM
Eikonal contributions to UHE neutrino-nucleon cross sections in LSG models
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Enrico Maria Sessolo
(
University of Kansas
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
QCD / Jet physics
326 (Pyle Center)
326
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Using Catani and Seymour's Dipole Method to Calculate NLO QCD Cross-Sections
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
William Link
(
UIUC
)
Slides
2:15 PM
QCD factorized cross section for heavy quarkonium in high energy collisions
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Zhongbo Kang
(
Iowa State University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
QCD corrections to K-Kbar Mixing in R-symmetric Supersymmetric Models
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Andrew Blechman
(
University of Toronto
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Interactions of stable heavy hadrons and Quark-Gluon String Model
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Olga Piskunova
(
Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
)
Slides
PHENO08.PDF
PISKOUNO.PDF
slides
3:00 PM
The Brand New Physics of Ghosts
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
John Ralston
(
University of Kansas
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Jet Signals for TeV strings at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Haim Goldberg
(
Northeastern University
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Technicolor/ Strong Dynamics in EWSB
121 (Pyle Center)
121
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
2:00 PM
Walking Technicolor and AdS/CFT
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Matti Jarvinen
(
University of Southern Denmark
)
Slides
2:15 PM
(Minimal) Walking Technicolor : Constraints and Unitarity
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Roshan Foadi
(
Southern Denmark University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Collider Phenomenology of Minimal Walking Technicolor
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mads Toudal Frandsen
(
Niels Bohr Inst. & Southern Denmark University
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Holography and New Strong Interactions at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Veronica Sanz
(
Boston University
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Hypercharge-Universal Topcolor
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Stefano Di Chiara
(
Michigan State University
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Parameterizing Technivector Scenarios for the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Adam Martin
(
Yale University
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Dark Matter from Technicolor
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Chris Kouvaris
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
Slides
2:00 PM
→
4:00 PM
Tevatron Searches
325 (Pyle Center)
325
Pyle Center
2:00 PM
Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Top decays at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Alexander Paramonov
(
University of Chicago
)
Slides
2:15 PM
Search for Anomalous Wtb copulings with 0.9 fb-1 of D0 data
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Shabnam Jabeen
(
Boston University
)
Slides
2:30 PM
Global Search for New Physics in 2 fb^-1 of CDF data
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Si Xie
(
MIT
)
Slides
2:45 PM
Search for Supersymmetry in p pbar collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using the trilepton signature of Chargino-Neutralino production
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Sourabh Dube
(
Rutgers University
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Search for Pair Production of Stop Quarks Mimicking Top Event Signatures in 1.96 TeV p pbar Collisions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Andrew Ivanov
(
UC Davis
)
Slides
3:15 PM
Search for Sbottom from Gluino Decay at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Miguel Vidal
(
CIEMAT / Fermilab
)
Slides
3:30 PM
Quantum Interference Effects Among Helicities at LEP-II and Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Matthew Buckley
(
UC Berkeley/IPMU
)
Slides
4:00 PM
→
4:30 PM
Coffee Break
30m
TBD (Pyle Center)
TBD
Pyle Center
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Cosmology
213 (Pyle Center)
213
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Regularization-independent Inflaton Spectrum
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Matthew Glenz
(
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Phase Transition in the Fine Structure Constant
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Danny Marfatia
(
University of Kansas
)
Slides
5:00 PM
LHC Searches for MSSM Electroweak Baryogenesis
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
David Morrissey
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
5:15 PM
CP Violating Oscillations and BAU
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Yanzhi Meng
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Minimal Extra Dimensional Cosmology from Hidden Sector Gauge Theory
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jinn-Ouk Gong
(
University of Wisconsin - Madison
)
Paper
Slides
5:45 PM
Extra Dimensions and Stellar Evolution
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Maurizio Giannotti
(
Los Alamos National Laboratory
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Transient Pulses from Exploding Black Holes as a Signature of an Extra Dimension
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Michael Kavic
(
Virginia Tech
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Higgs Physics
313 (Pyle Center)
313
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with W bosons at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jason Slaunwhite
(
The Ohio State University
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Search for a Charged Higgs Boson in Single Top Quark Production at D0
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Liang Li
(
University of California - Riverside
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Improving Higgs Sensitivity with Calorimeter Cell Weighting at D0
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
John BackusMayes
(
University of Washington
)
Slides
5:15 PM
Diquark Higgs Bosons at the CERN LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hai-Bo Yu
(
University of California, Irvine
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Lone Higgs at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Ken Hsieh
(
Michigan State University
)
Slides
5:45 PM
Constraining the Private Higgs Model
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Chris Jackson
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Phenomenology of a Lepton-Specific Higgs
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Brooks Thomas
(
University of Arizona
)
PDF
Presentation (odp)
6:15 PM
Comparing the Higgs Sector of 2HDM with the Scalar Sector of Linear Sigma Model with two Nonets
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Sherif Moussa
(
Department of Mathematical Sciences, UAEU
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Resonances and New Colored Particles
121 (Pyle Center)
121
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Colored Octet Scalars at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Daniel Phalen
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Color Octet Scalar Phenomenology at the LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ryan Gavin
(
University of Wisconsin
)
Slides
5:00 PM
e-EDM Induced by Octet-colored Scalars
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jae Ho Heo
(
University of Illinois at Chicago
)
Paper
Slides
5:15 PM
Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
MyPhuong Le
(
Stanford Linear Acceleration Center
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Search for W' Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark at D0
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Tulika Bose
(
Brown University
)
Slides
5:45 PM
Bump Hunting in 2 fb^-1 of CDF data
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Georgios Choudalakis
(
MIT
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Colored Resonances at the Tevatron and Discovery Potential in Multijets
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Can Kilic
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Simulation / Computation
111 (Pyle Center)
111
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
BlackHat, an Automated Program for the Computation of One-loop Amplitudes
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Harald Ita
(
UCLA
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Implementation of New Models With FeynRules
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Neil Christensen
(
Michigan State University
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Isajet-M: RGE Analysis of Quark and Neutrino Sectors
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ali Soleimani
(
University of Kansas
)
Slides
5:15 PM
BlackMax: A Black-hole Event Generator
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
De-Chang Dai
(
Case Western Reserve University
)
5:30 PM
An Efficient Multi-parameter New-physics Event-generator
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
John Strologas
(
University of New Mexico
)
Slides
5:45 PM
SFitter: Combining LHC Measurements and this Flavor Stuff
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Tilman Plehn
(
Univ. of Edinburgh
)
Slides
6:00 PM
H+ Iterative Discriminant Analysis of Spin Effects at the Tevatron and LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Andre Sopczak
(
Lancaster
)
Slides
6:15 PM
Upsetting the Precision of the Fine Structure Constant Without 12,671 Diagrams
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mihailo Backovic
(
University of Kansas
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Supersymmetry
325 (Pyle Center)
325
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Phenomenology of Relic-density-consistent Models with Neutralino Dark Matter
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Xerxes R Tata
(
University of Hawaii
)
Slides
4:45 PM
On a Solution to the Little Hierarchy Problem
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Benjamin Grossmann
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Generating Sneutrino LSPs with R-parity Violation at the GUT scale
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Sebastian Grab
(
University of Bonn
)
Slides
5:15 PM
A New Extension of MSSM
15m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Satya Nandi
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Mu-problem and Neutrino Masses in Supersymmetry
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Raghavendra Hundi
(
University of Hawaii
)
Slides
5:45 PM
Higgs Boson Exempt No-scale Supersymmetry with a Neutrino Seesaw
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Jason Evans
(
University of Michigan
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Exploring a 4th Generation of Fermions in the MSSM
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Adam Murdock
(
Oklahoma State University
)
Slides
6:15 PM
Higher Dimensional Supersymmetry in N=1 Superspace
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Chi Xiong
(
Purdue University
)
Slides
4:30 PM
→
6:30 PM
Tevatron Top Results
326 (Pyle Center)
326
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
4:30 PM
Top Quark Mass: The Latest CDF Results, Tevatron Combinations and Electroweak Implications
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Fabrizio Margaroli
(
Purdue University
)
Slides
4:45 PM
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton + Jets Channel
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Gustavo Otero Y Garzon
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
5:00 PM
Measurement of Top Pair Production Cross-section in Lepton + Hadronic Tau Channel
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Suharyo Sumowidagdo
(
Florida State University
)
Slides
5:15 PM
Measurement of the Single Top Production Cross Section at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Koji Nakamura
(
Univ. of Tsukuba
)
Slides
5:30 PM
Measurement of the Front Back Asymmetry in Top-Antitop Quark pairs in 1.9 fb^-1
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Thomas Schwarz
(
UC Davis
)
Paper
Slides
5:45 PM
Measurement of Charge Asymmetry in Top Pair Production at D0
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Isaac Hall
(
Michigan State University
)
Slides
6:00 PM
Search for Heavy Top-like Quarks Using Lepton + Jets Events in 1.96 TeV ppbar Collisions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Alison Lister
(
UC Davis
)
Slides
6:15 PM
Top Quark Properties and Searches for New Physics in Top Event Sample at CDF
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Charles Plager
(
UCLA
)
Slides
Wednesday, April 30
Mon, Apr 28
Tue, Apr 29
Wed, Apr 30
8:45 AM
→
12:45 PM
Plenary 3
Tripp Commons
Tripp Commons
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
8:45 AM
LHC in the Early Phase
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Kyle Cranmer
(
NYU/Brookhaven
)
Slides
9:20 AM
From Partons to New Physics at the LHC
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pavel Nadolsky
(
Michigan State Univ.
)
Slides
9:55 AM
New Developments in Perturbative QCD
35m
Speaker
:
Dr
Carlo Oleari
(
Univ. Milano-Bicocca
)
Slides
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
25m
11:00 AM
What Can Higgs Bosons Tell Us?
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tim Tait
(
Northwestern Univ. / Argonne National Lab
)
Slides
11:35 AM
LHC-ILC Synergy
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Heather Logan
(
Carleton
)
Slides
12:10 PM
Physics at the LHC: A Top-down Approach to Interpreting New Physics Signals
35m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Gordon Kane
(
Michigan
)
Slides