Name: 42nd Annual Fermilab Users' Meeting
Start: 2009-06-03T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2009-06-04T17:50:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

42nd Annual Fermilab Users' Meeting

from Wednesday, 3 June 2009 (09:00) to Thursday, 4 June 2009 (17:50)

Monday, 1 June 2009
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 UEC Introduction - Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

09:10 GSA Introduction - Tyler Dorland (University of Washington)

09:20 Status of the Accelerator Complex - Keith Gollwitzer (Fermilab)

09:45 Tevatron Electroweak Results and Top Quark Properties - Bo Jayatilaka (Duke University)

10:15 Status of the NOvA Project - Leon Mualem (Caltech)
10:45 BREAK
BREAK
10:45 - 11:00
Room: ---
11:00
11:00 - 12:10
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Recent Results from MiniBooNe and SciBooNe - Sam Zeller (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:30 Status of the MINERvA Experiment - Robert Bradford (University of Rochester)

11:50 Searches for a High-Mass Higgs Boson in the H->WW Channel at CDF - Simone Pagan Griso (University of Padova)
12:10 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:10 - 13:30
Room: ---
13:30
13:30 - 15:05
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 J.J. Sakurai Prize Talk - Perturbative QCD from the Tevatron to the LHC - Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

14:00 URA Thesis Prize Award - Fred Bernthal (URA)

14:05 URA Thesis Award Talk - Mikko Voutilainen (CERN)

14:30 Report from the DOE Office of High Energy Physics - Mike Procario (DOE)
15:05 BREAK
BREAK
15:05 - 15:20
Room: ---
15:20
15:20 - 17:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

15:20 Results from the MINOS Experiment - Greg Pawloski (Stanford University)

15:45 Report from the National Science Foundation - Jim Reidy (NSF)

16:15 Tollestrup Award Presentation - Alvin Tollestrup (Fermilab) Fred Bernthal (URA)

16:20 Tollestrup Award Talk - Measurement of the W Boson Mass at D0 - Junjie Zhu (SUNY Stony Brook)

16:45 Tevatron SM and BSM Higgs Searches - Wade Fisher (Fermilab)
17:30 Poster Session & Banquet
Poster Session & Banquet
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Wilson Hall Atrium
20:00 Public Lecture - Surfing on Plasma Waves - Tom Katsouleas (Duke University)
Public Lecture - Surfing on Plasma Waves
- Tom Katsouleas (Duke University)
20:00 - 21:00
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
21:15 Indian & Italian Fest / Tesla Coil Show
Indian & Italian Fest / Tesla Coil Show
21:15 - 23:00
Room: Kuhn Barn / Village
Thursday, 4 June 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 LHC Status and Plans - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

09:30 CMS Status - Richard Cavanaugh (UIC)

10:00 Observation of ZZ Production - Emanuel Strauss (SUNY Stony Brook)

10:20 High Energy Physics in Japan - Koichiro Nishikawa (KEK)
10:50 BREAK
BREAK
10:50 - 11:05
Room: ---
11:05
11:05 - 12:30
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

11:05 Physics at the Energy Frontier - Gustavo Burdman (Fermilab / University of Sao Paulo)

11:35 Tevatron New Phenomena Searches - Simona Rolli (Tufts University)

12:05 Report from HEPAP - Mel Shochet (University of Chicago)
12:30 LUNCH & Outreach Posters
LUNCH & Outreach Posters
12:30 - 14:00
Room: ---

13:00 Wonders of Physics
Wonders of Physics
13:00 - 13:45
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Observational Cosmology - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

14:25 Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS - Christopher Backhouse (University of Oxford)

14:45 Physics at the Intensity Frontier - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

15:15 Tevatron Flavor Physics - Rick Van Kooten (Indiana University)
15:45 BREAK
BREAK
15:45 - 16:00
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
16:00
16:00 - 17:50
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Outreach Workshop Introduction - Karen Gibson (University of Pittsburgh)

16:10 ArgoNeuT and MicroBooNE: Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers at Fermilab - Josh Spitz (Yale University)

16:30 mu2e and g-2 - Andrew Norman (University of Virginia)

16:55 Dark Matter Searches - Andrew Sonnenschien (Fermilab)

17:20 Director's Closing Remarks - Pier Oddone (Fermilab)