Name: 2015 US LHC Users Association Meeting
Start: 2015-11-11T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2015-11-13T19:20:00-06:00
Location: Fermilab

2015 US LHC Users Association Meeting

from Wednesday, 11 November 2015 (08:00) to Friday, 13 November 2015 (19:20)

Monday, 9 November 2015
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Wilson Hall, Sunrise, WH 11NE

17:30 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Wilson Hall, 11th Floor Crossover
Thursday, 12 November 2015
09:00 Welcome to Fermilab - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
Welcome to Fermilab
- Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Building 327
09:10 US LUA Chair's Report - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
US LUA Chair's Report
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
09:10 - 09:40
Room: Building 327
09:40 Status and Outlook of the LHC - Mike Lamont (CERN)
Status and Outlook of the LHC
- Mike Lamont (CERN)
09:40 - 10:10
Room: Building 327
10:10 LARP Report - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
LARP Report
- Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
10:10 - 10:30
Room: Building 327
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Building 327
10:50 ATLAS Status and Outlook - Beate Heinemann (University of California Berkeley , LBNL)
ATLAS Status and Outlook
- Beate Heinemann (University of California Berkeley , LBNL)
10:50 - 11:20
Room: Building 327
11:20 CMS Status and Outlook - Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
CMS Status and Outlook
- Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
11:20 - 11:50
Room: Building 327
11:50 US HEP Program and Outlook - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
US HEP Program and Outlook
- Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
11:50 - 12:20
Room: Building 327
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
Room: Building 327

13:20 Group Photo
Group Photo
13:20 - 13:30
Room: Building 327
13:30 LHCb Status and Run2 Results - Mike Williams (MIT)
LHCb Status and Run2 Results
- Mike Williams (MIT)
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Building 327
14:00 ALICE Status and Run2 Results - Bellwied Rene (University of Houston)
ALICE Status and Run2 Results
- Bellwied Rene (University of Houston)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Building 327
14:30 5 presentations
5 presentations
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Building 327
Contributions

14:30 Fast tracking in the ATLAS Trigger: Why and How - James Saxon (University of Chicago / ATLAS)

14:42 Higgs Decays to New Light Higgs Bosons in Boosted Tau Final States - Francesca Ricci-Tam (University of California, Davis)

14:54 Exciting opportunities in a boosted hadronic diboson excess - Liu Zhen (Fermilab)

15:06 Search for Higgs bosons decaying to $aa$ in the $\mu\mu\tau\tau$ final state in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment - Benjamin Kaplan (New York University)

15:18 Exotic Higgs Decays: LHC Reach and Theoretical Constraints - Felix Kling (Arizona / Fermilab)
15:30 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 15:50
Room: Building 327
15:50 CMS Run2 Results - Gunther Dissertori (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich)
CMS Run2 Results
- Gunther Dissertori (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich)
15:50 - 16:15
Room: Building 327
16:15 ATLAS Run2 Results - Jessica Metcalfe
ATLAS Run2 Results
- Jessica Metcalfe
16:15 - 16:40
Room: Building 327
16:40 DOE Office of HEP Report - Simona Rolli (DOE)
DOE Office of HEP Report
- Simona Rolli (DOE)
16:40 - 17:05
Room: Building 327
17:05 DOE Office of NP Report - Tim Hallman
DOE Office of NP Report
- Tim Hallman
17:05 - 17:30
Room: Building 327
17:30 P5 Plan: Progress and Visibility - Steve Ritz (UCSC and SCIPP)
P5 Plan: Progress and Visibility
- Steve Ritz (UCSC and SCIPP)
17:30 - 17:45
Room: Building 327
17:45 Careers Session (Panel, Q&A) - Alexandra Carley Bennett Toyoko Orimoto (Northeastern University) Thomas Gadfort (Fermilab) Ben Auerbach Jennifer Gimmell
Careers Session (Panel, Q&A)
- Alexandra Carley Bennett
- Toyoko Orimoto (Northeastern University)
- Thomas Gadfort (Fermilab)
- Ben Auerbach
- Jennifer Gimmell
17:45 - 19:15
Room: Building 327 Panel discussion moderated by Toyoko Orimoto. Panelists: Ben Auerbach, Alexandra Carley Bennett, Thomas Gadfort, Jennifer Gimmell
19:30 Conference Dinner; Cocktail at 7:20
Conference Dinner; Cocktail at 7:20
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Wilson Hall 2nd Floor Crossover Area
Friday, 13 November 2015
08:45 Introduction; 2015 Trip to Washington - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
Introduction; 2015 Trip to Washington
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
08:45 - 09:10
Room: Building 327
09:10 Supporting Young Physicists - Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
Supporting Young Physicists
- Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
09:10 - 09:35
Room: Building 327
09:35 6 presentations
6 presentations
09:35 - 10:50
Room: Building 327
Contributions

09:35 Polyurethane spray coating of aluminum wire bons to prevent corrosion and suppress resonant oscillations - Matthew Kurth (University of Texas at Dallas)

09:47 Measuring R(D*) = B(B -> D* tau nu)/B(B -> D* mu nu) at LHCb - Jack Wimberley (University of Maryland)

09:59 Pentaquarks at LHCb - Nathan Jurik (Syracuse University)

10:11 Top quark-antiquark cross section from highly Lorentz-boosted jets - Maral Alyari (State University of New York)

10:23 Search for evidence of new physics in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Brian Amadio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:35 Associative Memory Based L1 Tracking Trigger Demonstration for CMS Phase II Upgrade - Zhen Hu (Fermilab)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Building 327
11:10 US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program - Ruediger Voss (CERN)
US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program
- Ruediger Voss (CERN)
11:10 - 11:35
Room: Building 327
11:35 Advisory Committee of CERN Users - Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)
Advisory Committee of CERN Users
- Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)
11:35 - 11:55
Room: Building 327
11:55 5 presentations
5 presentations
11:55 - 12:55
Room: Building 327
Contributions

11:55 ATLAS Trigger Operation in Run 2 - Catrin Bernius (New York University)

12:07 Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Brad Axen (University of California, Berkeley)

12:19 Measurement of the top-Higgs coupling at CMS as a possible window to new physics - Evan Wolfe (University of Virginia)

12:31 Combined measurement of the Higgs Boson mass in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS experiments - Hongtao Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

12:43 Strangeness production in small collision systems at the LHC - Livio Bianchi (University of Houston)
12:55 Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.
Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.
12:55 - 13:55
Room: Building 327

13:55 US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)
US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)
13:55 - 14:20
Room: Building 327
14:20 6 presentations
6 presentations
14:20 - 15:35
Room: Building 327
Contributions

14:20 Search for top-antitop quark resonances - Irving Daniel SANDOVAL (University of Illinois at Chicago)

14:32 Differential two-particle correlations in ALICE - Prabhat Pujahari (Wayne State University)

14:45 Advanced Reconstruction Algorithms for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter - Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)

14:56 Measurements of open heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Deepa Thomas (University of Texas at Austin)

15:08 Searching for all-hadronic SUSY with Jet Substructure - Maximilian Swiatlowski (University of Chicago)

15:20 Search for neutral MSSM heavy scalar Higgs Boson - Laura Margaret Dodd (University Wisconsin-Madison)
15:35 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:35 - 16:00
Room: Building 327
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Building 327
Contributions

16:00 Search for Supersymmetry in Same-Sign Dilepton Final states - Matthew Carver (University of Florida)

16:12 Search for Dark Matter with Higgs (to bbar) at ATLAS: Run 1 and beyond - Yangyang Cheng (University of Chicago)

16:24 MadDM v2.0: Computation of Dark Matter Observables using Madgraph 5 - Gopolang Mohlanbeng (Fermilab)

16:36 Search for Supersymmetry in Higgs to diphoton final states with the razor variables at 8 TeV - Cristian Pena (Caltech)

16:48 Measurement of the production of pairs of prompt J/psi mesons at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector - Benjamin Weinert (Indiana University)

17:00 Heavy Ion Jet Results from CMS - Hallie Trauger (University of Illinois at Chicago)
17:15 Lightning Round Winners Announcement
Lightning Round Winners Announcement
17:15 - 17:25
Room: Building 327

17:25 Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA
Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA
17:25 - 18:25
Room: Building 327

18:45 Adjourn
Adjourn
18:45 - 18:50
Room: Building 327