Brookhaven Forum 2011: "A First Glimpse of the Tera Scale"
from
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 (08:00)
to
Friday, 21 October 2011 (12:30)
Monday, 17 October 2011
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
09:00
Plenary Program I, Chair: H. Gordon - Welcome
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Howard Gordon
Plenary Program I, Chair: H. Gordon - Welcome
Howard Gordon
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
09:10
Organizer's Welcome
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Hooman Davoudiasl
(
BNL
)
Amarjit Soni
(
BNL
)
Organizer's Welcome
Hooman Davoudiasl
(
BNL
)
Amarjit Soni
(
BNL
)
09:10 - 09:15
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
09:15
Tevatron Highlights
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Amnon Harel
(
Rochester/CERN, D0
)
Tevatron Highlights
Amnon Harel
(
Rochester/CERN, D0
)
09:15 - 09:55
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
09:55
Fermi Results
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Keith Bechtol
(
Stanford, Fermi
)
Fermi Results
Keith Bechtol
(
Stanford, Fermi
)
09:55 - 10:35
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
10:35
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Berkner Hall Lobby
11:00
Plenary Program II, Chair: E. Ponton - Direct Dark Matter Searches
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Antonio Melgarejo Fernandez
(
Columbia, Xenon 100
)
Plenary Program II, Chair: E. Ponton - Direct Dark Matter Searches
Antonio Melgarejo Fernandez
(
Columbia, Xenon 100
)
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
11:40
Dark Matter Theory
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Kathryn Zurek
(
Michigan
)
Dark Matter Theory
Kathryn Zurek
(
Michigan
)
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
12:20
Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Cafeteria
14:00
Higgs & EWSB (1), Chair: D. Stojkovic
Higgs & EWSB (1), Chair: D. Stojkovic
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Parallel Session - SUSY (I), Chair: S. Gori
Parallel Session - SUSY (I), Chair: S. Gori
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Particle Cosmology I, Chair: H-S Lee
Particle Cosmology I, Chair: H-S Lee
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Top Physics, Chair: I. Lewis
Top Physics, Chair: I. Lewis
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
14:01
Exceptional Grand Unification in the Light of LHC Data
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Juergen Reuter
(
DESY
)
Exceptional Grand Unification in the Light of LHC Data
Juergen Reuter
(
DESY
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berner Hall: Room A
Finite fermion mass effects in Higgs physics production beyond NLO
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Fabrizio Caola
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
Finite fermion mass effects in Higgs physics production beyond NLO
Fabrizio Caola
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Forward-backward Asymmetry in ttbar Events at D0
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Douglas Orbaker
(
Rochester
)
Forward-backward Asymmetry in ttbar Events at D0
Douglas Orbaker
(
Rochester
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Two Models of TeV-scale Decaying Dark Matter
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Christopher Carone
(
William & Mary
)
Two Models of TeV-scale Decaying Dark Matter
Christopher Carone
(
William & Mary
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
14:20
A Dark Force for Baryons
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Ian Shoemaker
(
Los Alamos National Laboratory
)
A Dark Force for Baryons
Ian Shoemaker
(
Los Alamos National Laboratory
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Massive Gluons in Top-quark Pair Production
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Susanne Westhoff
(
Jahannes0Gutenberg, Universitat Mainz
)
Massive Gluons in Top-quark Pair Production
Susanne Westhoff
(
Jahannes0Gutenberg, Universitat Mainz
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Quantum Effects in 5D: A 5D NJL Model
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Jay Hubisz
(
Syracuse University
)
Quantum Effects in 5D: A 5D NJL Model
Jay Hubisz
(
Syracuse University
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Stealth Supersymmetry
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JiJi Fan
(
Princeton
)
Stealth Supersymmetry
JiJi Fan
(
Princeton
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkener Hall: Room A
14:40
Discovering Higgs Bosons in SUSY GUT’s with Tau Leptons at the LHC
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Kesheng Yang
(
University of Oklahoma
)
Discovering Higgs Bosons in SUSY GUT’s with Tau Leptons at the LHC
Kesheng Yang
(
University of Oklahoma
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Flavored Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Colliders
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Prateek Agrawal
(
University of Maryland
)
Flavored Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Colliders
Prateek Agrawal
(
University of Maryland
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Lattice Exploration of Strong Dynamics at the TeV Scale
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Meifeng Lin
(
Yale University
)
Lattice Exploration of Strong Dynamics at the TeV Scale
Meifeng Lin
(
Yale University
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Top Pair Forward-backward Asymmetry from Loops of New Strongly Coupled Quarks
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Thomas McElmurry
(
University of Rochester
)
Top Pair Forward-backward Asymmetry from Loops of New Strongly Coupled Quarks
Thomas McElmurry
(
University of Rochester
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
15:00
An effective Lagrangian Approach to Like Sign Top Pair Production at the LHC
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David Atwood
(
Iowa State University
)
An effective Lagrangian Approach to Like Sign Top Pair Production at the LHC
David Atwood
(
Iowa State University
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Diboson Production and Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in ATLAS
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Shih-Chieh Hsu
(
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
)
Diboson Production and Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in ATLAS
Shih-Chieh Hsu
(
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Flavored Dark Matter
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Jennifer Kile
(
Northwestern University
)
Flavored Dark Matter
Jennifer Kile
(
Northwestern University
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Light Stop from b-tau Yukawa Unification
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Syed Rizvi
(
University of Delaware
)
Light Stop from b-tau Yukawa Unification
Syed Rizvi
(
University of Delaware
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
15:20
Conformal fixed Point of SU(3) Gauge Theory with 12 Fundamental Fermions in the Twisted Polyakov Loop Scheme
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Eigo Shintani
(
BNL
)
Conformal fixed Point of SU(3) Gauge Theory with 12 Fundamental Fermions in the Twisted Polyakov Loop Scheme
Eigo Shintani
(
BNL
)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the DSSM
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Piyush Kumar
(
Columbia
)
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the DSSM
Piyush Kumar
(
Columbia
)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Inelastic Dark Matter in SUSY Inverse Seesaw
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Bhupal Dev
(
University of Maryland
)
Inelastic Dark Matter in SUSY Inverse Seesaw
Bhupal Dev
(
University of Maryland
)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
15:40
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
16:00
Director's Welcome
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Sam Aronson
(
BNL
)
Director's Welcome
Sam Aronson
(
BNL
)
16:00 - 16:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
16:15
BSA Distinguished Lecture, Hosted by Peter Wanderer
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Nima Arkani-Hamed
(
IAS
)
BSA Distinguished Lecture, Hosted by Peter Wanderer
Nima Arkani-Hamed
(
IAS
)
16:15 - 17:15
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
17:15
BSA Reception
BSA Reception
17:15 - 18:15
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
Thursday, 20 October 2011
09:00
Plenary Program I, Chair: M. Artuso - CMS Results
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Albert de Roeck
(
CERN, CMS
)
Plenary Program I, Chair: M. Artuso - CMS Results
Albert de Roeck
(
CERN, CMS
)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium, Building 488, Brookhaven National Laboratory
09:40
ATLAS Results
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Henri Bachacou
(
Saclay, ATLAS
)
ATLAS Results
Henri Bachacou
(
Saclay, ATLAS
)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
10:50
Plenary Program II, Chair: T. Gherghetta - Heavy Flavor Highlights
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Sheldon Stone
(
Syracuse, LHCb
)
Plenary Program II, Chair: T. Gherghetta - Heavy Flavor Highlights
Sheldon Stone
(
Syracuse, LHCb
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
11:30
Developments in QCD
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Kirill Melnikov
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
Developments in QCD
Kirill Melnikov
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
11:30 - 12:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
12:10
Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Cafeteria
14:00
Alternative Models, Chair: J. Hubisz
Alternative Models, Chair: J. Hubisz
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Flavor & CPV (I), Chair: S. Bar-Shalom
Flavor & CPV (I), Chair: S. Bar-Shalom
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Parallel Session I - SUSY (II), Chair: C. Carone
Parallel Session I - SUSY (II), Chair: C. Carone
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Particle Cosmology II, Chair: J. Kile
Particle Cosmology II, Chair: J. Kile
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
14:01
ATLAS Searches for New Physics With an e mu Final State
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Daniel Pomeroy
(
Brandeis University
)
ATLAS Searches for New Physics With an e mu Final State
Daniel Pomeroy
(
Brandeis University
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Codimension-2 Brane Back Reaction and Cosmology
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Leo van Nierop
(
McMaster University
)
Codimension-2 Brane Back Reaction and Cosmology
Leo van Nierop
(
McMaster University
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Light Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascades
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Oscar Stal
(
DESY
)
Light Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascades
Oscar Stal
(
DESY
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs Physics
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Stefania Gori
(
University of Chicago
)
Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs Physics
Stefania Gori
(
University of Chicago
)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
14:20
CPV Measurement at LHCb
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Liming Zhang
(
Syracuse University
)
CPV Measurement at LHCb
Liming Zhang
(
Syracuse University
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Goldstini Give the Higgs a Boost
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Zachery Thomas
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
Goldstini Give the Higgs a Boost
Zachery Thomas
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Majorana Neutrino and W' Chiral Couplings at the LHC
-
Ian Lewis
(
BNL
)
Majorana Neutrino and W' Chiral Couplings at the LHC
Ian Lewis
(
BNL
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Status of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
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James Verbus
(
Brown University
)
Status of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
James Verbus
(
Brown University
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
14:40
After LUX: The LZ Program
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David Malling
(
Brown University
)
After LUX: The LZ Program
David Malling
(
Brown University
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
CMS SUSY Searches - Interpretation in Terms of Simplified Models
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Wolfgang Waltenberger
(
HEPHY Vienna
)
CMS SUSY Searches - Interpretation in Terms of Simplified Models
Wolfgang Waltenberger
(
HEPHY Vienna
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Flavour Physics of a Generalized Left-right Symmetric Model
-
Katrin Gemmler
(
Technical University Muncih
)
Flavour Physics of a Generalized Left-right Symmetric Model
Katrin Gemmler
(
Technical University Muncih
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Vanishing Dimensions: Theory and Phenomenology
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Dejan Stojkovic
(
SUNY Buffalo
)
Vanishing Dimensions: Theory and Phenomenology
Dejan Stojkovic
(
SUNY Buffalo
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
15:00
Collider Bounds on Neutrino Interactions
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Luca Vecchi
(
LANL
)
Collider Bounds on Neutrino Interactions
Luca Vecchi
(
LANL
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
SQCD Corrections to bg -> bh
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Prerit Jaiswal
(
BNL
)
SQCD Corrections to bg -> bh
Prerit Jaiswal
(
BNL
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Search for New Physics in B(s,d)->mumu Decays at LHCb
-
Flavio Archilli
(
INFN
)
Search for New Physics in B(s,d)->mumu Decays at LHCb
Flavio Archilli
(
INFN
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
WIMPless Dark Matter in Anomaly Mediation
-
Zeev Surujon
(
UC Irvine
)
WIMPless Dark Matter in Anomaly Mediation
Zeev Surujon
(
UC Irvine
)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
15:20
Search for Heavy Resonances at CMS
-
George Alverson
(
Northeastern
)
Search for Heavy Resonances at CMS
George Alverson
(
Northeastern
)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
15:40
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
16:10
Collider Topics, Chair: T. McElmurry
Collider Topics, Chair: T. McElmurry
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Flavor and CPV (II), Chair: S. Westhoff
Flavor and CPV (II), Chair: S. Westhoff
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Higgs and EWSB (II), Chair: D. Atwood
Higgs and EWSB (II), Chair: D. Atwood
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Parallel Session II - SUSY (III), Chair: J. Fan
Parallel Session II - SUSY (III), Chair: J. Fan
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
16:11
4th Generation Phenomenology with More than One Higgs Doublet
-
Shaouly Bar-Shalom
(
Technion
)
4th Generation Phenomenology with More than One Higgs Doublet
Shaouly Bar-Shalom
(
Technion
)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Heavy Flavor Simplified Models at the LHC
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Eder Izaguirre
(
Stanford University
)
Heavy Flavor Simplified Models at the LHC
Eder Izaguirre
(
Stanford University
)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector at the LHC
-
Yuriy Pakhotin
(
Texas A & M
)
Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector at the LHC
Yuriy Pakhotin
(
Texas A & M
)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory
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Ye Li
(
Northwestern
)
Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory
Ye Li
(
Northwestern
)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
16:20
"Recent Results from BSM Searches at ATLAS (Including SUSY"
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John Stupak
(
Stony Brook University
)
"Recent Results from BSM Searches at ATLAS (Including SUSY"
John Stupak
(
Stony Brook University
)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Heavy Flavor Production and Decays at the LHC: Selected Highlights
-
Marina Artuso
(
CERN
)
Heavy Flavor Production and Decays at the LHC: Selected Highlights
Marina Artuso
(
CERN
)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Search Strategies For 4th Generation Quarks at the LHC; Beyond the SM4
-
Michael Geller
(
Technion
)
Search Strategies For 4th Generation Quarks at the LHC; Beyond the SM4
Michael Geller
(
Technion
)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Tracking the Identities of Boosted Objects
-
Zhenyu Han
(
Harvard
)
Tracking the Identities of Boosted Objects
Zhenyu Han
(
Harvard
)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
16:40
Belle Results at Y(5S)
-
Sevda Esen
(
University of Cincinnati
)
Belle Results at Y(5S)
Sevda Esen
(
University of Cincinnati
)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Kinectically-Enhanced Anomaly Mediation
-
Abhishek Kumar
(
TRIUMF
)
Kinectically-Enhanced Anomaly Mediation
Abhishek Kumar
(
TRIUMF
)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Peering into the UV with Late Decays at the LHC
-
Daniel Stolarski
(
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland University
)
Peering into the UV with Late Decays at the LHC
Daniel Stolarski
(
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland University
)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM
-
Elisabetta Furlan
(
BNL
)
Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM
Elisabetta Furlan
(
BNL
)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
17:00
Making the Sneutrino a Higgs with a U(1)R Lepton Number
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Claudia Frugiuele
(
Carleton University
)
Making the Sneutrino a Higgs with a U(1)R Lepton Number
Claudia Frugiuele
(
Carleton University
)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Search for B_s --> mu+mu- and B_d --> mu+mu- Decays with CDF II
-
Walter Hopkins
(
Cornell University
)
Search for B_s --> mu+mu- and B_d --> mu+mu- Decays with CDF II
Walter Hopkins
(
Cornell University
)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
The Discrete Composite Higgs Model
-
Giuliano Panico
(
ETH Zurich
)
The Discrete Composite Higgs Model
Giuliano Panico
(
ETH Zurich
)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
W b bbar Production via Double Parton Scattering at the LHC
-
Seth Quackenbush
(
Argonne National Laboratory
)
W b bbar Production via Double Parton Scattering at the LHC
Seth Quackenbush
(
Argonne National Laboratory
)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
17:20
General Analysis of Decay Chains with Three-body Decays Involving Missing Energy
-
Chien-Yi Chen
(
Carnegie Mellon
)
General Analysis of Decay Chains with Three-body Decays Involving Missing Energy
Chien-Yi Chen
(
Carnegie Mellon
)
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Recent Results from Higgs Boson Searches at ATLAS
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Tae Min Hong
(
University of Pennsylvania
)
Recent Results from Higgs Boson Searches at ATLAS
Tae Min Hong
(
University of Pennsylvania
)
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
no talk
no talk
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Room: Room A
no talk
no talk
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
18:30
Banquet Dinner
Banquet Dinner
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Brookhaven Center, Building 30
Friday, 21 October 2011
09:00
Plenary Program, Chair: F. Paige - Status of SUSY
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Scott Thomas
(
Rutgers
)
Plenary Program, Chair: F. Paige - Status of SUSY
Scott Thomas
(
Rutgers
)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Chemistry, Auditorium, Building 555
09:40
Non-SUSY BSM
-
Tony Gherghetta
(
Melbourne
)
Non-SUSY BSM
Tony Gherghetta
(
Melbourne
)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Chemistry: Auditorium
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Chemistry: Lobby
10:50
Plenary Program II, Chair: A. De Roeck - Recent Neutrino Results
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Andre De Gouvea
(
Northwestern
)
Plenary Program II, Chair: A. De Roeck - Recent Neutrino Results
Andre De Gouvea
(
Northwestern
)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Chemistry: Auditorium
11:30
Overview of Cosmology
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Roman Scoccimarro
(
New York University
)
Overview of Cosmology
Roman Scoccimarro
(
New York University
)
11:30 - 12:10
Room: Chemistry: Auditorium
12:10
**End of Forum**
**End of Forum**
12:10 - 12:30