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
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
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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
→
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
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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
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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