Pheno 2008 Symposium

Name: Pheno 2008 Symposium
Start: 2008-04-28T07:30:00-05:00
End: 2008-04-30T12:45:00-05:00
Location: Memorial Union

Apr 28, 2008, 7:30 AM → Apr 30, 2008, 12:45 PM America/Chicago

Tripp Commons (Memorial Union)

Tripp Commons

Memorial Union

800 Langdon St.

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Mon, April 28
- 7:30 AM
  
  Registration outside Tripp Commons
  
  outside Tripp Commons
  
  Memorial Union
  
  800 Langdon St.
- Plenary 1 Tripp Commons
  
  Tripp Commons
  
  Memorial Union
  
  800 Langdon St.
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Speaker: Prof. Vernon Barger (Univ. of Wisconsin)
  - 2
    
    SM Tests at the Tevatron Collider
    
    Speaker: Prof. Cecilia Gerber (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    New Physics Searches at the Tevatron
    
    Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (Tufts Univ.)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
    
    Speaker: Prof. Janet Conrad (Columbia Univ.)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30 AM
    
    Coffee Break
  - 5
    
    New Results from MINOS
    
    Speaker: Dr Robert Zwaska (FNAL)
    
    Slides
  - 6
    
    Searches from HERA
    
    Speaker: Dr Jolanta Sztuk (Univ. Hamburg)
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Neutrino Mass Models
    
    Speaker: Prof. Steve King (Univ. of Southampton)
    
    Slides
  - 8
    
    Cosmology in the LHC Era
    
    Speaker: Prof. Max Tegmark (MIT)
- 12:45 PM
  
  Lunch on your own
  
  on your own
  
  Memorial Union
  
  800 Langdon St.
- Electroweak Symmetry Breaking 121 (Pyle Center)
  
  121
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 9
    
    Phenomenology of Radion-Higgs Mixing Revisited
    
    Speaker: Dr Manuel Toharia (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    LHC Phenomenology of the 3-Site Higgsless Model
    
    Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)
    
    Slides
  - 11
    
    Heavy Fermions from Higgsless Models at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Baradhwaj Coleppa (Michigan State University)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    T-Parity in Fermionic UV Completions of Little Higgs Models
    
    Speaker: Mr David Krohn (Princeton University)
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    T-Anomaly Induced Decays in Little Higgs Model with T-Parity
    
    Speaker: Mr Yu Gao (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    Not T-Parity but C-Parity (in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity)
    
    Speaker: Dr Jae Yong Lee (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    Mini Little Higgs
    
    Speaker: Dr Yang Bai (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
- Flavor 326 (Pyle Center)
  
  326
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 16
    
    Recent Results from BaBar on the CKM Angles
    
    Speaker: Mr Moritz Karbach (TU Dortmund)
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Charmonium Production at B-Factories and Hadron Colliders
    
    Speaker: Dr Congfeng Qiao (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Hadro-Charmonium
    
    Speaker: Mr Sergiy Dubynskiy (University of Minnesota)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Charm Mixing -- an Update
    
    Speaker: Dr Lei Wang (UC Santa Cruz)
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    Lifetime Difference of D0-D0bar Mixing within R-parity Violating SUSY
    
    Speaker: Mr Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    Sflavor at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Prof. Graham Kribs (University of Oregon)
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    Model-Independent Constraints on Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays of the Top Quark
    
    Speaker: Dr Jennifer Kile (Brookhaven National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    Future Constraints on and from Lepton Universality
    
    Speaker: Prof. Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)
    
    Slides
- Neutrino Experiments 325 (Pyle Center)
  
  325
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 24
    
    Neutrino Properties from Neutrino Telescopes
    
    Speaker: Ms Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)
    
    Slides
  - 25
    
    Direct Searches for New Physics at NuSOnG and Other Neutrino Experiments
    
    Speaker: Ms Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)
    
    Slides
  - 26
    
    The Terascale Physics Reach of NuSOnG
    
    Speaker: Prof. William Loinaz (Amherst College)
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    Global Lorentz Violation Model for Neutrino Oscillation with MiniBooNE
    
    Speaker: Mr Teppei Katori (Indiana University)
    
    Slides
  - 28
    
    NC pi0 Production in the MiniBooNE Antineutrino Data
    
    Speaker: Ms Van Nguyen (Columbia University)
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Multi-Beam Strategy for Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Cross-Sections
    
    Speaker: Mr Rainer Schiel (University of Kansas)
    
    Slides
  - 30
    
    Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos using Borexino
    
    Speaker: Mr Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)
    
    Slides
  - 31
    
    Search for theta13 at the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment
    
    Speaker: Dr Wei Wang (University of Wisconsin)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
- New Physics Searches at LHC/ILC 313 (Pyle Center)
  
  313
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 32
    
    Status of Higgs Feasibility Studies at ATLAS
    
    Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 33
    
    Heavy Electroweak Resonances at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Shrihari Gopalakrishna (Brookhaven National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 34
    
    Searching for t-tbar Resonances at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Baur (SUNY-Buffalo)
    
    Slides
  - 35
    
    Collider Constraints on Seesaw Models
    
    Speaker: Mr Guiyu Huang (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 36
    
    Testing Origin of Neutrino Mass at LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Tong Li (Nankai Univ. / Univ. of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 37
    
    Trilepton Production at LHC -- Standard and Beyond Standard Model Sources
    
    Speaker: Prof. Zack Sullivan (Southern Methodist University)
    
    Slides
  - 38
    
    General Features of Supersymmetric Signals at the ILC
    
    Speaker: Mr James Gainer (SLAC)
    
    Slides
  - 39
    
    Signals for Compressed SUSY at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)
    
    Slides
- Supersymmetry Breaking 213 (Pyle Center)
  
  213
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 40
    
    Balancing AMSB's Troubles: Lifting the Slepton Masses with a SUSY Seesaw
    
    Speaker: Mr Nicholas Setzer (University of Maryland)
    
    Paper
    
    Slides
  - 41
    
    The Upside of Minimal Seesaw in Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking
    
    Speaker: Mr Sogee Spinner (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
  - 42
    
    Discovering Sparticles in the CMSSM and GUT-less SUSY-Breaking Scenarios
    
    Speaker: Ms Pearl Sandick (University of Minnesota)
    
    Slides
  - 43
    
    Z'-Mediated SUSY Breaking
    
    Speaker: Dr Gil Paz (Institute for Advanced Study)
    
    Slides
  - 44
    
    Dynamically Solving the mu/Bmu Problem in Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking
    
    Speaker: Dr Tao Liu (Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)
    
    Slides
  - 45
    
    Gravity in Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
    
    Speaker: Dr Krzysztof Turzynski (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 46
    
    Axionic Mirage Mediation
    
    Speaker: Prof. Masahiro Yamaguchi (Tohoku University)
    
    Slides
  - 47
    
    Deflected Mirage Mediation
    
    Speaker: Dr Peter Ouyang (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
- 4:00 PM
  
  Coffee Break TBD (Pyle Center)
  
  TBD
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
- EW Gauge Bosons at the Tevatron 326 (Pyle Center)
  
  326
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 48
    
    Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Z/gamma*->ee Events at D0
    
    Speaker: Dr Junjie Zhu (SUNY, Stony Brook)
    
    Slides
  - 49
    
    Probing Antiquark Distributions in Drell-Yan Scattering at Fermilab
    
    Speaker: Dr John Arrington (Argonne National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 50
    
    Using Drell-Yan to Probe the Underlying Event in Run 2 at CDF
    
    Speaker: Mr Deepak Kar (University of Florida)
    
    Slides
  - 51
    
    ZZ->llvv Production with the D0 Detector at Tevatron
    
    Speaker: Mr Gianluca Cerminara (Northeastern Univ. / INFN Torino)
    
    Slides
  - 52
    
    CDF Analysis with Photons
    
    Speaker: Dr Ray Culbertson (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 53
    
    Search for New Physics in the gamma+b+j+MET+X Final State
    
    Speaker: Mr Scott Wilbur (University of Chicago)
    
    Slides
- Measurement Techniques 213 (Pyle Center)
  
  213
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 54
    
    A new method for mass determination at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Zhenyu Han (UC Davis)
    
    Slides
  - 55
    
    Inclusive transverse mass analysis for squark and gluino mass determination
    
    Speaker: Dr Yasuhiro Shimizu (IPMU/KEK)
    
    Slides
  - 56
    
    Polynomials for the determination of masses in events with missing energy
    
    Speaker: Dr Bob McElrath (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 57
    
    Generalizing the Method of Kinematical Endpoints
    
    Speaker: Mr Michael Burns (University of Florida)
    
    Slides
  - 58
    
    Ambiguities in SUSY mass determination from kinematic endpoints at LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Myeonghun Park (University of Florida)
    
    PPowerPoint
    
    Slides
  - 59
    
    Initial determination of the spin of gluino and squark at LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Jing Shao (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 60
    
    Measuring Z' couplings at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Seth Quackenbush (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Slides
  - 61
    
    What Do We Know from Missing pt Signature at LHC?
    
    Speaker: Dr Partha Konar (University of Florida)
    
    Slides
- Neutrino Models 121 (Pyle Center)
  
  121
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 62
    
    Interaction of Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos with Weak Gravitational Fields
    
    Speaker: Mr Arun Thalapillil (University of Chicago)
    
    Slides
  - 63
    
    Small Neutrino Masses in a TeV Scale Seesaw Model with a Z'
    
    Speaker: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (UC Irvine)
    
    Slides
  - 64
    
    TriMinimal Parametrization of the Neutrino Mixing Matrix
    
    Speaker: Prof. Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt University)
    
    Slides
  - 65
    
    Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND
    
    Speaker: Dr Daniel Dwyer (Caltech)
    
    Slides
  - 66
    
    Minimal Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Rates from Approximate Flavor Symmetries
    
    Speaker: Mr James Jenkins (Northwestern University)
    
    Slides
  - 67
    
    The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the CUORE Experiment
    
    Speaker: Dr Samuele Sangiorgio (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 68
    
    Implications of Electroweak-Scale Right-Handed Neutrinos
    
    Speaker: Prof. P. Q. Hung (University of Virginia)
    
    Slides
- New Ideas in Field Theory 325 (Pyle Center)
  
  325
  
  Pyle Center
  - 69
    
    Unparticle physics and Higgs phenomenology
    
    Speaker: Dr Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)
    
    Slides
  - 70
    
    Unparticle Self-Interactions and Their Collider Implications
    
    Speaker: Dr Huitzu Tu (UC Irvine)
    
    Slides
  - 71
    
    On vector unparticle constraints from B to K (gamma) + missing energy
    
    Speaker: Mr Mohammad AlFiky (Wayne State University)
    
    Slides
  - 72
    
    Unitarity Bounds for New Physics from Axial Coupling at LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Jing Shu (University of Chicago)
    
    Slides
  - 73
    
    Anomaly-free discrete symmetries
    
    Speaker: Dr Christoph Luhn (University of Florida)
    
    Slides
  - 74
    
    Electron-positron annihilation into four pions and the a_1-rho-pi Lagrangian
    
    Speaker: Prof. Peter Lichard (Silesian University in Opava)
    
    Slides
  - 75
    
    Exploring the Phenomenology of the Noncommutative Standard Model with WW Scattering
    
    Speaker: Mr John Conley (SLAC)
    
    Slides
  - 76
    
    New Parameter Space for Light Higgs Decays in the R-Parity Violating MSSM
    
    Speaker: Dr Linda Carpenter (UC Santa Cruz)
    
    Slides
- Unification Models 313 (Pyle Center)
  
  313
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 77
    
    Generation Symmetry and E(6) Unification
    
    Speaker: Dr Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 78
    
    Family Symmetry with SO(10)
    
    Speaker: Prof. K. S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 79
    
    Quark & Lepton Masses in SO(10) x A4
    
    Speaker: Mr Abdelamid Albaid (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 80
    
    Nonabelian Discrete Symmetries and the SUSY Flavor Problem
    
    Speaker: Mr Steven Gabriel (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 81
    
    What SO(10) SUSY GUTs Look Like at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Prof. Howie Baer (Florida State University)
    
    Slides
  - 82
    
    Gauge-Higgs Unification & EW Symmetry Breaking in Warped Extra Dimensions
    
    Speaker: Ms Nausheen Shah (University of Chicago)
    
    Slides
  - 83
    
    Collider Phenomenology of Gauge-Higgs Unification Scenarios in RS1 Models
    
    Speaker: Mr Anibal Medina (Univ. of Chicago / Argonne National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 84
    
    Neutrinos, Naturalness, and GUTs
    
    Speaker: Mr Joshua Sayre (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    
    Slides
- 6:45 PM
  
  Conference Dinner Alumni Lounge (Pyle Center)
  
  Alumni Lounge
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
Tue, April 29
- Plenary 2 Tripp Commons
  
  Tripp Commons
  
  Memorial Union
  
  800 Langdon St.
  - 85
    
    New Physics Searches at B Factories
    
    Speaker: Dr Sanjay Swain (SLAC)
    
    Slides
  - 86
    
    Flavor Physics in the LHC Era
    
    Speaker: Dr Zoltan Ligeti (LBL, Berkeley)
    
    Slides
  - 87
    
    Astroparticle Physics in the LHC Era
    
    Speaker: Prof. John Beacom (Ohio State Univ.)
    
    Slides
  - 88
    
    The Search for Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Prof. Stefano Profumo (UC-Santa Cruz)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30 AM
    
    Coffee Break
  - 89
    
    New Approaches in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
    
    Speaker: Prof. Hsin-Chia Cheng (UC-Davis)
    
    Slides
  - 90
    
    Gauge Mediation of SUSY Breaking
    
    Speaker: Prof. Nathan Seiberg (IAS)
    
    Slides
  - 91
    
    AdS/CFT, High Density QCD, and RHIC Physics
    
    Speaker: Prof. Hong Liu (MIT)
    
    Slides
- 12:45 PM
  
  Lunch on your own
  
  on your own
  
  Memorial Union
  
  800 Langdon St.
- B Physics 111 (Pyle Center)
  
  111
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 92
    
    Interplay between B Physics and Dark matter searches
    
    Speaker: Dr Arjun Menon (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 93
    
    B_s mixing: Standard Model and Beyond
    
    Speaker: Mr Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)
    
    Slides
  - 94
    
    Large Phase of Bs-Bsbar mixing in Supersymmetry Grand Unified Theories
    
    Speaker: Dr Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)
    
    Slides
  - 95
    
    Charmless B->VV decays (on behalf of BaBar Collaboration)
    
    Speaker: Dr Zijin Guo (Johns Hopkins University)
    
    Slides
  - 96
    
    Charmless B Decays
    
    Speaker: Dr Pablo del Amo Sanchez (LPNHE (Univ. Paris VI-VII) - CNRS)
    
    Slides
  - 97
    
    Radiative Penguin Decays at the Babar Experiment
    
    Speaker: Ms Minliang Zhao (MIT)
    
    Slides
  - 98
    
    Leptonic B-decays (Babar Collaboration)
    
    Speaker: Mr Miika Klemetti (McGill University)
    
    Slides
  - 99
    
    Recent results on Semileptonic B decays from BaBar
    
    Speaker: Mr Kenji Hamano (University of Victoria)
    
    Slides
- Dark Matter 213 (Pyle Center)
  
  213
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 100
    
    Bounds on the Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section
    
    Speaker: Dr James Dent (Vanderbilt University)
    
    Slides
  - 101
    
    Solving the LHC Inverse Problem with Dark Matter Observations
    
    Speaker: Prof. Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)
    
    Slides
  - 102
    
    Constraints on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter from Earth's Heat Flow
    
    Speaker: Mr Gregory Mack (The Ohio State University)
    
    Slides
  - 103
    
    Vector Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Prof. Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)
    
    Slides
  - 104
    
    Lightest U-parity Particle (LUP) Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Dr Hye-Sung Lee (University of Florida)
    
    Slides
  - 105
    
    Dark Matter Candidates in Non-minimal UED
    
    Speaker: Dr Thomas Flacke (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 106
    
    Dark Matter in the Left Right Twin Higgs Model
    
    Speaker: Mr Ethan Dolle (University of Arizona)
    
    Slides
  - 107
    
    Axino Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Prof. Eung Jin Chun (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
    
    Slides
- Extra Dimensions 313 (Pyle Center)
  
  313
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 108
    
    The Little Randall-Sundrum Model at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 109
    
    Realization of Local AdS_5 Isometry
    
    Speaker: Mr Lu-xin Liu (Purdue University)
    
    Slides
  - 110
    
    Search for Large Extra Dimensions at CDF
    
    Speaker: Dr Max Goncharov (Texas AM)
    
    Slides
  - 111
    
    Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Monophoton Channel using the D0 Detector
    
    Speaker: Mr Edgar Carrera (Florida State University)
    
    Slides
  - 112
    
    Phenomenology of the Standard Model with two extra dimensions
    
    Speaker: Prof. Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)
    
    Slides
  - 113
    
    Higgs Decays and Brane Graviphotons
    
    Speaker: Prof. Sherwin Love (Purdue University)
    
    Slides
  - 114
    
    Brane Oscillations at the TeVatron and LHC
    
    Speaker: Prof. Thomas Clark (Purdue University)
    
    Slides
  - 115
    
    Eikonal contributions to UHE neutrino-nucleon cross sections in LSG models
    
    Speaker: Mr Enrico Maria Sessolo (University of Kansas)
    
    Slides
- QCD / Jet physics 326 (Pyle Center)
  
  326
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 116
    
    Using Catani and Seymour's Dipole Method to Calculate NLO QCD Cross-Sections
    
    Speaker: Mr William Link (UIUC)
    
    Slides
  - 117
    
    QCD factorized cross section for heavy quarkonium in high energy collisions
    
    Speaker: Mr Zhongbo Kang (Iowa State University)
    
    Slides
  - 118
    
    QCD corrections to K-Kbar Mixing in R-symmetric Supersymmetric Models
    
    Speaker: Dr Andrew Blechman (University of Toronto)
    
    Slides
  - 119
    Interactions of stable heavy hadrons and Quark-Gluon String Model
    
    Speaker: Dr Olga Piskunova (Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)
    
    Slides
    
    PHENO08.PDF
    
    PISKOUNO.PDF
    
    slides
  - 120
    
    The Brand New Physics of Ghosts
    
    Speaker: Prof. John Ralston (University of Kansas)
    
    Slides
  - 121
    
    Jet Signals for TeV strings at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Prof. Haim Goldberg (Northeastern University)
    
    Slides
- Technicolor/ Strong Dynamics in EWSB 121 (Pyle Center)
  
  121
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 122
    
    Walking Technicolor and AdS/CFT
    
    Speaker: Dr Matti Jarvinen (University of Southern Denmark)
    
    Slides
  - 123
    
    (Minimal) Walking Technicolor : Constraints and Unitarity
    
    Speaker: Dr Roshan Foadi (Southern Denmark University)
    
    Slides
  - 124
    
    Collider Phenomenology of Minimal Walking Technicolor
    
    Speaker: Mr Mads Toudal Frandsen (Niels Bohr Inst. & Southern Denmark University)
    
    Slides
  - 125
    
    Holography and New Strong Interactions at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Veronica Sanz (Boston University)
    
    Slides
  - 126
    
    Hypercharge-Universal Topcolor
    
    Speaker: Mr Stefano Di Chiara (Michigan State University)
    
    Slides
  - 127
    
    Parameterizing Technivector Scenarios for the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Adam Martin (Yale University)
    
    Slides
  - 128
    
    Dark Matter from Technicolor
    
    Speaker: Dr Chris Kouvaris (Niels Bohr Institute)
    
    Slides
- Tevatron Searches 325 (Pyle Center)
  
  325
  
  Pyle Center
  - 129
    
    Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Top decays at CDF
    
    Speaker: Mr Alexander Paramonov (University of Chicago)
    
    Slides
  - 130
    
    Search for Anomalous Wtb copulings with 0.9 fb-1 of D0 data
    
    Speaker: Dr Shabnam Jabeen (Boston University)
    
    Slides
  - 131
    
    Global Search for New Physics in 2 fb^-1 of CDF data
    
    Speaker: Mr Si Xie (MIT)
    
    Slides
  - 132
    
    Search for Supersymmetry in p pbar collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using the trilepton signature of Chargino-Neutralino production
    
    Speaker: Mr Sourabh Dube (Rutgers University)
    
    Slides
  - 133
    
    Search for Pair Production of Stop Quarks Mimicking Top Event Signatures in 1.96 TeV p pbar Collisions
    
    Speaker: Dr Andrew Ivanov (UC Davis)
    
    Slides
  - 134
    
    Search for Sbottom from Gluino Decay at CDF
    
    Speaker: Mr Miguel Vidal (CIEMAT / Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 135
    
    Quantum Interference Effects Among Helicities at LEP-II and Tevatron
    
    Speaker: Mr Matthew Buckley (UC Berkeley/IPMU)
    
    Slides
- 4:00 PM
  
  Coffee Break TBD (Pyle Center)
  
  TBD
  
  Pyle Center
- Cosmology 213 (Pyle Center)
  
  213
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 136
    
    Regularization-independent Inflaton Spectrum
    
    Speaker: Mr Matthew Glenz (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
    
    Slides
  - 137
    
    Phase Transition in the Fine Structure Constant
    
    Speaker: Prof. Danny Marfatia (University of Kansas)
    
    Slides
  - 138
    
    LHC Searches for MSSM Electroweak Baryogenesis
    
    Speaker: Dr David Morrissey (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 139
    
    CP Violating Oscillations and BAU
    
    Speaker: Mr Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 140
    
    Minimal Extra Dimensional Cosmology from Hidden Sector Gauge Theory
    
    Speaker: Dr Jinn-Ouk Gong (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
    
    Paper
    
    Slides
  - 141
    
    Extra Dimensions and Stellar Evolution
    
    Speaker: Dr Maurizio Giannotti (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 142
    
    Transient Pulses from Exploding Black Holes as a Signature of an Extra Dimension
    
    Speaker: Mr Michael Kavic (Virginia Tech)
    
    Slides
- Higgs Physics 313 (Pyle Center)
  
  313
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 143
    
    Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with W bosons at CDF
    
    Speaker: Mr Jason Slaunwhite (The Ohio State University)
    
    Slides
  - 144
    
    Search for a Charged Higgs Boson in Single Top Quark Production at D0
    
    Speaker: Dr Liang Li (University of California - Riverside)
    
    Slides
  - 145
    
    Improving Higgs Sensitivity with Calorimeter Cell Weighting at D0
    
    Speaker: Mr John BackusMayes (University of Washington)
    
    Slides
  - 146
    
    Diquark Higgs Bosons at the CERN LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Irvine)
    
    Slides
  - 147
    
    Lone Higgs at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Ken Hsieh (Michigan State University)
    
    Slides
  - 148
    
    Constraining the Private Higgs Model
    
    Speaker: Dr Chris Jackson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 149
    
    Phenomenology of a Lepton-Specific Higgs
    
    Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)
    
    PDF
    
    Presentation (odp)
  - 150
    
    Comparing the Higgs Sector of 2HDM with the Scalar Sector of Linear Sigma Model with two Nonets
    
    Speaker: Dr Sherif Moussa (Department of Mathematical Sciences, UAEU)
    
    Slides
- Resonances and New Colored Particles 121 (Pyle Center)
  
  121
  
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  702 Langdon St.
  - 151
    
    Colored Octet Scalars at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Daniel Phalen (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 152
    
    Color Octet Scalar Phenomenology at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Ryan Gavin (University of Wisconsin)
    
    Slides
  - 153
    
    e-EDM Induced by Octet-colored Scalars
    
    Speaker: Mr Jae Ho Heo (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    
    Paper
    
    Slides
  - 154
    
    Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron
    
    Speaker: Ms MyPhuong Le (Stanford Linear Acceleration Center)
    
    Slides
  - 155
    
    Search for W' Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark at D0
    
    Speaker: Dr Tulika Bose (Brown University)
    
    Slides
  - 156
    
    Bump Hunting in 2 fb^-1 of CDF data
    
    Speaker: Mr Georgios Choudalakis (MIT)
    
    Slides
  - 157
    
    Colored Resonances at the Tevatron and Discovery Potential in Multijets
    
    Speaker: Dr Can Kilic (Johns Hopkins University)
    
    Slides
- Simulation / Computation 111 (Pyle Center)
  
  111
  
  Pyle Center
  
  702 Langdon St.
  - 158
    
    BlackHat, an Automated Program for the Computation of One-loop Amplitudes
    
    Speaker: Dr Harald Ita (UCLA)
    
    Slides
  - 159
    
    Implementation of New Models With FeynRules
    
    Speaker: Dr Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)
    
    Slides
  - 160
    
    Isajet-M: RGE Analysis of Quark and Neutrino Sectors
    
    Speaker: Mr Ali Soleimani (University of Kansas)
    
    Slides
  - 161
    
    BlackMax: A Black-hole Event Generator
    
    Speaker: Mr De-Chang Dai (Case Western Reserve University)
  - 162
    
    An Efficient Multi-parameter New-physics Event-generator
    
    Speaker: Dr John Strologas (University of New Mexico)
    
    Slides
  - 163
    
    SFitter: Combining LHC Measurements and this Flavor Stuff
    
    Speaker: Dr Tilman Plehn (Univ. of Edinburgh)
    
    Slides
  - 164
    
    H+ Iterative Discriminant Analysis of Spin Effects at the Tevatron and LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Andre Sopczak (Lancaster)
    
    Slides
  - 165
    
    Upsetting the Precision of the Fine Structure Constant Without 12,671 Diagrams
    
    Speaker: Mr Mihailo Backovic (University of Kansas)
    
    Slides
- Supersymmetry 325 (Pyle Center)
  
  325
  
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  702 Langdon St.
  - 166
    
    Phenomenology of Relic-density-consistent Models with Neutralino Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Prof. Xerxes R Tata (University of Hawaii)
    
    Slides
  - 167
    
    On a Solution to the Little Hierarchy Problem
    
    Speaker: Mr Benjamin Grossmann (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 168
    
    Generating Sneutrino LSPs with R-parity Violation at the GUT scale
    
    Speaker: Mr Sebastian Grab (University of Bonn)
    
    Slides
  - 169
    
    A New Extension of MSSM
    
    Speaker: Prof. Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 170
    
    Mu-problem and Neutrino Masses in Supersymmetry
    
    Speaker: Dr Raghavendra Hundi (University of Hawaii)
    
    Slides
  - 171
    
    Higgs Boson Exempt No-scale Supersymmetry with a Neutrino Seesaw
    
    Speaker: Mr Jason Evans (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 172
    
    Exploring a 4th Generation of Fermions in the MSSM
    
    Speaker: Mr Adam Murdock (Oklahoma State University)
    
    Slides
  - 173
    
    Higher Dimensional Supersymmetry in N=1 Superspace
    
    Speaker: Dr Chi Xiong (Purdue University)
    
    Slides
- Tevatron Top Results 326 (Pyle Center)
  
  326
  
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  702 Langdon St.
  - 174
    
    Top Quark Mass: The Latest CDF Results, Tevatron Combinations and Electroweak Implications
    
    Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Margaroli (Purdue University)
    
    Slides
  - 175
    
    Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton + Jets Channel
    
    Speaker: Dr Gustavo Otero Y Garzon (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 176
    
    Measurement of Top Pair Production Cross-section in Lepton + Hadronic Tau Channel
    
    Speaker: Mr Suharyo Sumowidagdo (Florida State University)
    
    Slides
  - 177
    
    Measurement of the Single Top Production Cross Section at CDF
    
    Speaker: Mr Koji Nakamura (Univ. of Tsukuba)
    
    Slides
  - 178
    
    Measurement of the Front Back Asymmetry in Top-Antitop Quark pairs in 1.9 fb^-1
    
    Speaker: Dr Thomas Schwarz (UC Davis)
    
    Paper
    
    Slides
  - 179
    
    Measurement of Charge Asymmetry in Top Pair Production at D0
    
    Speaker: Dr Isaac Hall (Michigan State University)
    
    Slides
  - 180
    
    Search for Heavy Top-like Quarks Using Lepton + Jets Events in 1.96 TeV ppbar Collisions
    
    Speaker: Dr Alison Lister (UC Davis)
    
    Slides
  - 181
    
    Top Quark Properties and Searches for New Physics in Top Event Sample at CDF
    
    Speaker: Dr Charles Plager (UCLA)
    
    Slides
Wed, April 30
- Plenary 3 Tripp Commons
  
  Tripp Commons
  
  Memorial Union
  
  800 Langdon St.
  - 182
    
    LHC in the Early Phase
    
    Speaker: Prof. Kyle Cranmer (NYU/Brookhaven)
    
    Slides
  - 183
    
    From Partons to New Physics at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Dr Pavel Nadolsky (Michigan State Univ.)
    
    Slides
  - 184
    
    New Developments in Perturbative QCD
    
    Speaker: Dr Carlo Oleari (Univ. Milano-Bicocca)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30 AM
    
    Coffee Break
  - 185
    
    What Can Higgs Bosons Tell Us?
    
    Speaker: Prof. Tim Tait (Northwestern Univ. / Argonne National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 186
    
    LHC-ILC Synergy
    
    Speaker: Prof. Heather Logan (Carleton)
    
    Slides
  - 187
    
    Physics at the LHC: A Top-down Approach to Interpreting New Physics Signals
    
    Speaker: Prof. Gordon Kane (Michigan)
    
    Slides

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