42nd Annual Fermilab Users' Meeting

3 Jun 2009, 09:00 → 4 Jun 2009, 17:50 US/Central

Ramsey Auditorium (Fermilab)

Lee Sawyer (Louisiana Tech University)

Poster poster.jpg

Presentation videos http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/search/r_Users2009.xsl

Program UsersMeetingProgram2009.pdf UsersMeetingProgram2009.pub

Tesla Coil Show Tesla_Coil_map.pdf

Wednesday, 3 June

09:00 → 10:45 One

09:00 UEC Introduction

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

Slides kotwal_uec.pdf

09:10 GSA Introduction

Speaker: Tyler Dorland (University of Washington)

Slides dorland_gsa.pdf

09:20 Status of the Accelerator Complex

Speaker: Keith Gollwitzer (Fermilab)

Slides gollwitzer_accelerator.ppt

09:45 Tevatron Electroweak Results and Top Quark Properties

Speaker: Bo Jayatilaka (Duke University)

Slides jayatilaka_ew.pdf

10:15 Status of the NOvA Project

Speaker: Leon Mualem (Caltech)

Slides mualem_NOvA.pdf mualem_NOvA.ppt

10:45 → 11:00 BREAK

11:00 → 12:10 Two

11:00 Recent Results from MiniBooNe and SciBooNe

Speaker: Sam Zeller (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides zeller_boone.pdf zeller_boone.ppt

11:30 Status of the MINERvA Experiment

Speaker: Robert Bradford (University of Rochester)

Slides Bradford_Minerva.pdf Bradford_Minerva.ppt

11:50 Searches for a High-Mass Higgs Boson in the H->WW Channel at CDF

Speaker: Simone Pagan Griso (University of Padova)

Slides Pagan_HiggsWW.pdf

12:10 → 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 → 15:05 Three

13:30 J.J. Sakurai Prize Talk - Perturbative QCD from the Tevatron to the LHC

Speaker: Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

Slides Ellis_QCD.pdf

14:00 URA Thesis Prize Award

Speaker: Fred Bernthal (URA)

14:05 URA Thesis Award Talk

Speaker: Mikko Voutilainen (CERN)

Slides voutilainen_uraThesis.pdf

14:30 Report from the DOE Office of High Energy Physics

Speaker: Mike Procario (DOE)

Slides Procario_DOE.pdf Procario_DOE.ppt

15:05 → 15:20 BREAK

15:20 → 17:15 Four

15:20 Results from the MINOS Experiment

Speaker: Greg Pawloski (Stanford University)

Slides Pawloski_MINOS.pdf

15:45 Report from the National Science Foundation

Speaker: Jim Reidy (NSF)

Slides reidy_nsf.pdf

16:15 Tollestrup Award Presentation

Speakers: Alvin Tollestrup (Fermilab), Fred Bernthal (URA)

16:20 Tollestrup Award Talk - Measurement of the W Boson Mass at D0

Speaker: Junjie Zhu (SUNY Stony Brook)

Slides zhu_tollestrup.pdf

16:45 Tevatron SM and BSM Higgs Searches

Speaker: Wade Fisher (Fermilab)

Slides wfisher_FUM2009_v4_0.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 Poster Session & Banquet

20:00 → 21:00 Public Lecture - Surfing on Plasma Waves

Speaker: Tom Katsouleas (Duke University)

21:15 → 23:00 Indian & Italian Fest / Tesla Coil Show

Thursday, 4 June

09:00 → 10:50 Five

09:00 LHC Status and Plans

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

Slides bertolucci_LHC.ppt

09:30 CMS Status

Speaker: Richard Cavanaugh (UIC)

Slides Cavanaugh_CMS.pdf

10:00 Observation of ZZ Production

Speaker: Emanuel Strauss (SUNY Stony Brook)

Slides strauss_ZZ.pdf

10:20 High Energy Physics in Japan

Speaker: Koichiro Nishikawa (KEK)

Slides 0604_High_Energy_Physics_in_Japan.ppt

10:50 → 11:05 BREAK

11:05 → 12:30 Six

11:05 Physics at the Energy Frontier

Speaker: Gustavo Burdman (Fermilab / University of Sao Paulo)

Slides Burdman_energyFrontier.pdf

11:35 Tevatron New Phenomena Searches

Speaker: Simona Rolli (Tufts University)

Slides Rolli_newphysics.pdf

12:05 Report from HEPAP

Speaker: Mel Shochet (University of Chicago)

Slides Shochet_HEPAP.pdf shochet_hepap.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 LUNCH & Outreach Posters

13:00 → 13:45 Wonders of Physics

14:00 → 15:45 Seven

14:00 Observational Cosmology

Speaker: Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

Slides frieman_cosmo.ppt

14:25 Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS

Speaker: Christopher Backhouse (University of Oxford)

Slides backhouse_minos.ppt

14:45 Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Speaker: Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

Slides parke_intensity.pdf

15:15 Tevatron Flavor Physics

Speaker: Rick Van Kooten (Indiana University)

Slides vankooten_flavor.pdf

15:45 → 16:00 BREAK

16:00 → 17:50 Eight

16:00 Outreach Workshop Introduction

Speaker: Karen Gibson (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides gibson_outreach.pdf gibson_outreach.ppt

16:10 ArgoNeuT and MicroBooNE: Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers at Fermilab

Speaker: Josh Spitz (Yale University)

Slides spitz_lar.ppt

16:30 mu2e and g-2

Speaker: Andrew Norman (University of Virginia)

Slides norman_muon-1.ppt

16:55 Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Andrew Sonnenschien (Fermilab)

Slides Sonnenschein_dark.pdf Sonnenschein_dark.ppt

17:20 Director's Closing Remarks

Speaker: Pier Oddone (Fermilab)