Name: 2017 Meeting of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 2017)
Start: 2017-07-31T07:30:00-05:00
End: 2017-08-04T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

2017 Meeting of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 2017)

from Monday, 31 July 2017 (07:30) to Friday, 4 August 2017 (17:00)

Monday, 31 July 2017

07:30

07:30 - 08:25
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
08:25 Monday morning
Monday morning
08:25 - 10:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Introduction - Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab)

08:37 Welocme from DPF - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

08:44 Welcome from Fermilab - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

08:51 Properties of the Higgs boson - Giacinto Piacquadio (Stony Brook University)

09:20 Searches for new physics at the energy frontier - Sadia Khalil (Kansas State)

09:50 Physics at the future colliders - Liantao Wang (University of Chicago)
10:15 Break
Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

10:45 Search for 3rd generation superpartners with the ATLAS experiment - Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Pennsylvania)

11:01 SUSY searches using top quark tagging at CMS - Nathaniel Pastika (Baylor University)

11:13 Search for supersymmetry in multijet events with missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV - Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)

11:29 Search for production of supersymmetric particles in final states with missing transverse momentum and multiple b-jets at s√=13~TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS experiment - Giordon Stark (University of Chicago)

11:41 Revisiting Dyons in Particle Physics - David Bartlett (University of Colorado at Boulder)

11:53 Search for supersymmetry using boosted Higgs bosons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV - Frank Jensen (University of Colorado)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

10:45 TeV Particle Astrophysics with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Detector - Kirsten Tollefson (Michigan State University)

11:05 Constraints on the astrophysical flux and the dark matter decay with IceCube HESE data - INA SARCEVIC (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)

11:25 Searching for Dwarf Galaxies with DECam - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)

11:45 Constraining the Nature of Dark Matter with the Milky Way Satellite Galaxies - Ting Li (Fermilab)

12:00 Study of Galaxy Evolution in DES Clusters - Antonella Palmese (Fermilab/UCL)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

10:45 Dark matter collider at DUNE: relativistic scattering of boosted dark matter - Seodong Shin (Yonsei University)

11:00 The SuperCDMS Soudan High Mass Analysis - Brett Cornell (Caltech)

11:15 Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 C3F8 Bubble Chamber - Orin Harris (NEIU)

11:30 The SENSEI project - Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)

11:45 The DAMIC Experiment at SNOLAB - Juan Estrada (FNAL)

12:00 Light Dark matter eXperiment - Andrew Whitbeck (Fermilab) Philip Schuster (SLAC)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

10:45 Higgs-boson physics at the LHC: from discovery to precision physics. - Laura Reina (Florida State University)

11:15 Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS experiment - Zirui Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. / U.Michigan)

11:35 Inclusive search for boosted SM Higgs bosons using H to bb decays with the CMS detector at 13 TeV - Javier Duarte (Fermilab)

11:55 Search for SM Higgs Boson in the H->tautau->mumu decay mode with the CMS experiment at 13TeV - Vallary Bhopatkar (Florida institute of Technology)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:10
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 Sterile Neutrino Searches with NOvA - Gavin S. Davies (Indiana University)

11:03 The Short Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab - José Ignacio Crespo-Anadón (Columbia University Nevis Laboratories)

11:21 Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay, and Combined Analysis with MINOS and Bugey-3 - Matt Kramer (UC Berkeley)

11:39 Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay - David Martinez Caicedo (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

10:45 Microhexcavity Plasma Panel Detectors - Alexis Mulski (University of Michigan)

11:03 Ultra long-lived particles searches with MATHUSLA - Gordon Watts (University of Washington)

11:21 Overview of the CEPC Vertex Detector - Hongbo Zhu (Institute of High Energy Physics)

11:39 Optical Ring Resonators for HEP and Cosmology Applications - Stephen Kuhlmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:57 The Construction and Commissioning of the Belle II iTOP Counter - Boqun Wang (University of Cincinnati)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

10:45 PDF Flavor Determination with LHC W/Z production - Fredrick Olness (SMU)

11:15 Update on CTEQ-TEA PDFs - Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University)

11:35 Refinement of the Pion PDF implementing Drell-Yan Experimental Data - Patrick Barry (North Carolina State University)

11:55 Are PDFs still consistent with Tevatron data? - Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

10:45 The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - Yuri Oksuzian (Univeristy of Virginia)

11:03 Lepton-flavour violation in a Pati-Salam model with gauged flavour symmetry - Paul Moch (Theoretische Physik 1, University of Siegen)

11:21 Lepton flavor violating meson decays - Derek Hazard (Wayne State University)

11:39 Flavor gauge models below the Fermi scale - Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

11:57 Gauge Model for Minimal Flavor Violation - K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University) Shaikh Saad (Oklahoma State University)
Monday morning
Monday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 East
Contributions

10:45 Top-pair and tW production at approximate N^3LO - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

11:00 Measurement of quantum interference between doubly and singly resonant top quark production with the ATLAS experiment - Theodor Christian Herwig (University of Pennsylvania)

11:15 Measurement of the cross section of the production of a top quark pair in association with a photon in pp collisions at 8 TeV - Daniel Noonan (Florida Institute of Technology)

11:30 Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ spin correlations and top quark polarization in dileptonic channel - Ajeeta Khatiwada (Purdue University)

11:45 Measuring Polarized Gluon Distributions by Heavy Quark Spin Correlations and Polarizations - Gary Goldstein (Tufts University)

12:00 Forward-backward asymmetry in pp̄ → tt̄ events at the Tevatron - Collaboration CDF (Fermilab) Collaboration D0 (Fermiab) Ziqing Hong (Northwestern University)
12:15
12:15 - 13:30
Contributions

12:30 DOE PIs Meeting: HEP Civics - Michael Cooke (U.S. Department of Energy)
12:30 HEP Civics
HEP Civics
12:30 - 13:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

12:30 HEP Civics - Michael Cooke (U.S. Department of Energy)
13:30 Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

13:30 Searches for electroweakly produced supersymmetry with CMS - Basil Schneider (FNAL)

13:46 Search for compressed supersymmetry using low pT leptons and missing transverse energy with the ATLAS detector - Joseph Reichert (University of Pennsylvania)

13:58 Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in the two and three lepton final state at $\sqrt s = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector - Elodie Resseguie (University of Pennsylvania)

14:14 One-loop effects on Z boson decays in the SM EFT - William Shepherd (JGU Mainz)

14:30 Little hierarchy in the minimally specified MSSM - Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)

14:46 Imposing LHC constraints on the combined Anomaly and Z'-Mediation mechanism of Supersymmetry Breaking - Joydeep Roy (Wayne state University)

15:01 Critical behavior of SU(3) lattice gauge theory with 12 light flavors - Yannick Meurice (U. of Iowa)
Joint session with Particle Detectors, Monday afternoon
Joint session with Particle Detectors, Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 East
Contributions

13:30 The Calorimeter Global Feature Extractor (gFEX) for the Phase-I Upgrade of the ATLAS experiment - Giordon Stark (University of Chicago)

13:47 The ATLAS New Small Wheel Trigger - Alexander Tuna (Harvard University)

14:04 Instantaneous luminosity calibration of the ATLAS experiment with $Z\to \mu ^{-} \mu ^ {+}$ - Harish Potti (University of Texas at Austin)

14:21 Mu2e Trigger & DAQ Design and Challenges - Tomonari Miyashita (California Institute of Technology)

14:38 The ATLAS Trigger algorithms upgrade and performance in Run 2 (TDAQ) - Catrin Bernius (SLAC)

14:55 The ATLAS Trigger Menu design for higher luminosities in Run 2 (TDAQ) - Heather Russell (McGill University)
Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

13:30 LUX, and the Combating of the Lamppost Effect - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany, SUNY)

13:45 First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment - Chris Tunnell (University of Oxford)

14:00 The XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment - Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)

14:15 The LUX-Zeplin Dark Matter Search: detector design and sensitivity - Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 Background Simulations for the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Amy Cottle (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:45 ADMX - axion dark matter experiment - Daniel Bowring (Fermilab)

15:00 Emission of Photons and Relativistic Axions from Axion Stars - Abhishek Mohapatra (The Ohio State University)
Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

13:30 Search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS experiment - Aaron White (University of Michigan)

13:50 Search for the Higgs Boson Decays into Dimuons at CMS - Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida)

14:10 Combined measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment - Hongtao Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:30 Mass Dependence of Higgs Production at Large Transverse Momentum - Eric Braaten (Ohio State University)

14:50 Radiative Decays of the Higgs Boson to a Pair of Fermions - Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

13:30 Signal Simulation and Processing in the MicroBooNE LArTPC - Brian Kirby (Brookhaven National Lab)

13:48 Design and Fabrication of the ProtoDUNE Dual Phase LArTPC - ANIMESH CHATTERJEE (The University of Texas at Arlington)

14:06 Recent progress on wire-cell tomographic reconstruction for LArTPC - Hanyu Wei (brookhaven national laboratory)

14:24 Cold electronics preparation for the protoDUNE experiment - Guang Yang (Stony brook university)

14:42 Measurement of Electron Attenuation using Cosmic Ray Muons in the MicroBooNE Detector - Varuna Meddage (Kansas State University)
Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Summary of the Second Numu Disappearance Results from the NOvA Experiment - Michael Baird (University of Virginia)

13:48 Muon Neutrino Dissapearance in the NOvA experiment - Diana Patricia Mendez (University of Sussex)

14:06 Recent Developments in T2K Oscillation Analysis - Xiaoyue Li (Stony Brook University)

14:24 Using the PPFX package for the DUNE Experiment - Amit Bashyal (Oregon State University)

14:42 Design of the LBNF Beamline - Jim Hylen (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:00 Analytic Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities in Matter Revisited. - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)
Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

13:30 Upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube Electronics for the HL-LHC - yu liang (University of Michigan)

13:45 Near-Infrared Scintillation of Liquid Argon - Carlos Escobar (Fermilab and UNICAMP)

14:00 Studies with the LArIAT Light Collection System - Monica Nunes (UNICAMP)

14:15 Characterizing LArTPC detector performance with MicroBooNE - JYOTI JOSHI (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:30 Detector performance and cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiency in MicroBooNE - Stefano Roberto Soleti (University of Oxford)

14:45 protoDUNE-SP Cold Electronics Quality Control - Brian Kirby (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:00 Development of fast timing detectors at Fermilab - Anatoly Ronzhin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

13:30 NNLO QCD Predictions - Xiaohui Liu (Beijing Normal University)

13:59 The spin-dependent quark beam function at NNLO - Ulrich Schubert (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:37 Analytic resummation of TMD distributions in momentum space in SCET_II. - Varun vaidya (lanl)

14:56 Pion Polarizability at CERN COMPASS - Murray Moinester (Tel Aviv University)
15:15 Break
Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 Monday afternoon
Monday afternoon
15:45 - 17:30
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

15:45 WIMP dark matter searches progress and plans - Rafael Lang (Purdue University)

16:20 Progress and new ideas in non-WIPM dark matter searches - Kathryn Zurek (Berkeley Lab)

16:55 APS Fellows award ceremony - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)
17:40

17:40 - 17:50
Room: In front of the Wilson Hall
18:00
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Reception Area
Contributions

18:00 Gamow penetration factor for nuclear fusion reaction in quantum plasmas - Young-Dae Jung (Hanyang University)

18:01 Investigation of Beam Emittance and Beam Transport Line Optics on Polarization - Andrew Fiedler (Northern Illinois University)

18:02 Probing MeV Scale Physics in LArTPCs with Radioactive Calibration Sources - Jonathan Echevers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

18:03 Testing data connections for use with the HL-LHC CMS forward pixel electronics - Mario D. Balcazar (University of Kansas)

18:04 Real time trigger rate monitoring at CMS - Charles Mueller (University of Notre Dame)

18:05 Shower reconstruction performance studies for DUNE far detector - Reddy Pratap Gandrajula (Michigan State University)

18:06 The Cosmological Principle Breaks Down as Superstructures Grow in the Universe - Cameron Marshall (Manhattan High School & Kansas State University)

18:07 New fermionic dark matters, extended standard model and cosmic rays - Jae-Kwang Hwang (JJJ Physics Laboratory)

18:08 CMS Pixel Detector Upgrade for HL-HLC - Yangyang Cheng (Cornell University)

18:10 Reaching Out for Particle Physics - Marjorie Bardeen (FNAL)

18:11 A Flux Spectrometer for LBNF/DUNE - Laura Fields (Fermilab)

18:12 Performance Studies of Capacitively Coupled HVCMOS Pixel Sensors Before and After Gamma Irradiation - Dylan Frizzell (University of Oklahoma)

18:13 The Low Background Laboratory at Idaho State University - P James Norris (Idaho State University)

18:14 Search for Dark Interactions with the ATLAS experiment - Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

18:15 Measurement of PTFE Reflectance for Xenon Scintillation Light - Yuhan Wang (University of Michigan)

18:16 Muon Intensity Increase by Wedge Absorbers - David Neuffer (Fermilab)

18:17 Testing, Installation, Integration and Performance Studies of a Cosmic Ray Tagging System for the Short Baseline Neutrino Program Far Detector (ICARUS) - Christopher Hilgenberg (Colorado State University)

18:18 LBNF Optimized Horn Design & Target Integration - Cory Crowley (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)

18:19 A Minimal non-universal EW extension of the Standard Model: A chiral family of models - Richard Benavides (Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano)

18:20 The Mu2e Solenoid Cold Mass Position Monitor System - Thomas Strauss (FNAL)

18:21 A Study of Mass Matrices with Permutational Symmetry for Quark Families - Richard Holmes (Boeing Company)

18:22 Search for vector-like quarks in fully hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector - Madhuranga Thilakasiri Madugoda Ralalage Don (Oklahoma State University)

18:23 CosmicWatch: the Desktop Muon Detector - Spencer Axani (MIT)

18:24 The formalization of the relation between wave and particle and the unifying of three kinds of wave-particle duality - Yongchao Gan (Faculty of Physics & Electronic Science, Hubei University)

18:25 Background estimation for the electron neutrino appearance analysis in NOvA - Erika Catano Mur (Iowa State University)

18:26 Design of a Nitrogen Cooled Target Shield Pile for the LBNF Beamline - Joseph Angelo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

18:27 Looking at BNB Neutrinos in the NOvA Near Detector - Ryan Murphy (Indiana University)

18:28 Tracking Detector Performance and Data Quality in the NOvA Experiment - Biswaranjan Behera (IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)

18:29 Prospects for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Searches with Convolutional Neural Networks in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers - Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)

18:31 Particle Identification and Kaon Physics in LArIAT - Daniel Smith (Boston University)

18:32 Measuring the $t\bar{t}$ Forward-Backward Asymmetry using semi-leptonic final states at 8 TeV with the CMS detector - lei feng (Johns Hopkins University)

18:34 Search for a large muon neutrino magnetic moment in the NOvA Near Detector - Biao Wang (Southern Methodist University)

18:35 Probing new physics scale through dimension-6 operator and enhanced $t\bar{t}h$ and $hh$ production at the LHC - SUDIP JANA (OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY)

18:36 An overview of the ANNIE experiment at Fermilab - Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University)

18:37 The NOvA Data Driven Trigger - Matthew Judah (Colorado State University)

18:38 A Panel Prototype for the Mu2e Straw Tube Tracker at Fermilab - Alessandra Lucà (FERMILAB)

18:39 LAr Scintillation Light Detection, Simulation and Analysis in LArIAT - Pawel Kryczynski (IFJ PAN, Krakow)

18:40 NNLO QCD Predictions of W and Z Bosons in proton-proton collisions at 7, 8, 13, 14 and 100 TeV Center of Mass Energies - Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University)

18:41 NOvA Short-Baseline Tau Neutrino Appearance Search - Rijeesh Keloth (Cochin University of Science and Technology)

18:42 Calibration of gBlocks using Offline Jets for the gFEX Subsystem of the ATLAS Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger - Ian Snyder (University of Oregon)

18:43 Cross Section Predictions of W/Z + Jets at LHC - Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University)

18:44 Skimming tau neutrinos and tau showers in the atmosphere - Mary Hall Reno (University of Iowa)

18:45 Design, construction and characterization of a three channel of cosmic ray detector - Oscar Eduardo Moreno Palacios (Universidad de Guanajuato)

18:46 Towards a new approach to cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

18:47 DES & Planck survey: Galaxy group-tSZ cross correlation - Vinu Vikraman (Argonne National Lab)

18:48 Photometric Properties and Stellar Masses in Dark Energy Survey Galaxy Clusters - Brian Welch (University of Chicago/Fermilab)

18:49 A search for BH dark matter using microlensing in the Dark Energy Survey - James Annis (Fermilab)

18:50 Charged Lepton Flavor Violation in Electron-Positron Scattering: Calculations of Cross Section and Asymmetry Using an Effective Field Theory - Ching Li (Haverford College)

18:51 Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter - Evan Johnson (Ohio State University)

18:52 Impact of Neutrino Decay on Sterile Neutrino Search in IceCube - Marjon Moulai (MIT)

18:53 Full TPC Signal and Noise Simulation - Brooke Russell (Yale University)

18:54 Studies of Radiation Damage to Silicon Photomultipliers - Sergey Uzunyan (Northern Illinois University, for the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto Group)

18:55 Drifted Charge Extraction in Single Phase LArTPCs - JYOTI JOSHI (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

18:56 Liquid argon test of the ARAPUCA device at the National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light in Campinas (São Paulo) - Marina Guzzo (UNICAMP)

18:57 Pion Production Measurements at MINERvA - Gonzalo Diaz (Rochester University)

18:58 MuSim, a Graphical User Interface for Multiple Simulation Codes - Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.)

18:59 Pre-production and quality assurance of the Mu2e Silicon Photomultipliers - Raffaella Donghia (LNF - INFN)

19:00 NuMI Target and Horn Studies for NOvA - Jyoti Tripathi (Panjab University)

19:01 Data Acquisition and Triggering for the KOTO Experiment - Melissa Hutcheson (University of Michigan)

19:02 Large Neutrino Mixing Angles in Minimal SO(10) Unification - Shaikh Saad (Oklahoma State University)

19:03 Cosmic Ray Backgrounds in the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - Ralf Ehrlich (University of Virginia)

19:04 Muon Tomography of Galeras Volcano: first results leaded by young scientists in Colombia - Alex Tapia (University of Medellin) David Martinez Caicedo (Illinois Institute of Technology)

19:05 Radiopurity Screening and Radiological Simulation for DUNE - Jason Stock (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

19:06 Sterile neutrino search in the NOvA Far Detector. - SIJITH EDAYATH (COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INDIA)

19:07 Exploring end-to-end image-based deep learning for particle & event classification - Michael Andrews (Carnegie Mellon University)

19:08 Observing Neutrinos from the Next Galactic Supernova with the NOvA Detectors - Justin Vasel (Indiana University)

19:09 Design and Simulation of the IsoDAR RFQ Direct Injection System and Spiral Inflector - Philip Weigel (Drexel University)

19:10 Seasonal Variations of multiple-muons in NOvA - Philip Schreiner (Benedictine University)

19:12 ProtoDUNE Trigger Study - David Rivera (University of Pennsylvania) Jonathon Sensenig (University of Pennsylvania)

19:13 Ongoing Community Efforts in Machine Learning in Particle Physics - Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University) Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida)

19:14 Silicon and Germanium Ionization Yield Measurements with Neutron Beams - Ziqing Hong (Northwestern University)

19:15 A uniform magnetic field generator system and a Cu hybrid cosmic ray detector of 4 channels - Francisco Rosas-Torres (Universidad de Guanajuato) Julian Felix (Universidad de Guanajuato) Karla Natalia Herrera Guzman (Universidad de Guanajuato) Raul Alejandro Gutierrez Sanchez (Universidad de Guanajuato)

19:16 Effects of Magnetic Horn Geometry Uncertainty on Neutrino Flux at DUNE - Amador Eric (University of Texas Arlington)

19:17 A particle hypothesis based approach for energy estimation in muon neutrino charged current events at NOvA - Erica Smith (Indiana University)

19:18 Studies of effect of aging and studies to optimize scintillation counter response for the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto System - Pedrom Zadeh (University of Virginia) Peter Farris (University of Virginia)

19:25 R&D Toward Ton-Scale HPGXe Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments - Leslie Rogers (University of Texas in Arlington)

19:26 Site characterization for ground-based CMB observations with a 183GHz radiometer - Nicole Larsen (U. Chicago, KICP)
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
08:30 Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 CERN program and plans for the European Strategy - Eckhard Elsen (CERN)

09:00 Next European strategy process - Sijbrand de Jong (Roadbed University Nijmegen and Nikhef)

09:15 Asia particle physics program - Sachio Komamiya (The University of Tokyo)

09:45 US Particle Physics Program - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
10:15 Break
Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

10:45 Spectroscopy of lattice SU4 gauge theory with fermions in multiple representations - Venkitesh Ayyar (University of Colorado, Boulder)

11:01 Thermodynamics of SU(4) gauge theory with fermions in multiple representations - Daniel Hackett (University of Colorado, Boulder)

11:17 Search for Vector-like Top Quarks in di-Leptons - Anthony Barker (Purdue University)

11:33 Search for vector-like quarks with oppositely-charged dilepton pairs, jets, and missing transverse energy in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV - Rachitha Mendis (Kansas State University)

11:45 Inclusive search for vector-like T quark pairs in leptonic final states in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV - Rizki Syarif (Brown University)

11:57 Search for vector-like B quarks with oppositely-charged dilepton pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV - Tyler Mitchell (Kansas State University)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

10:45 Galaxy Cluster Science Results with the Dark Energy Survey - Yuanyuan Zhang (Fermilab)

11:05 Cluster Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope - Lindsey Bleem (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:25 Fundamental Physics from SZ Cluster Surveys with CMB and Optical Lensing Mass Calibration - Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton University)

11:45 Measuring the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope - Eve Vavagiakis (Cornell University)

12:00 Delensing CMB B-modes: results from SPT. - Kimmy Wu (UC Berkeley)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

10:45 Flavored Dark Matter and a Secret Asymmetry - Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)

11:00 Sommerfeld-Enhanced J-Factors For Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies - Jason Kumar (University of Hawaii)

11:15 Searches for dark matter with the Super-Kamiokande detector - Katarzyna Frankiewicz (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

11:30 Dark Matter Searches with HAWC - J. Patrick Harding (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:45 Supersymmetric Resonant Dark Matter: an Explanation to AMS-02 Positron Excess - Joshua Berger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

12:00 Explaining Diverse Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies with Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Tao Ren (UC Riverside)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 Current Analysis Status for the Inclusive Neutral Current π0 Production Cross section Measurement with the NOvA Near Detector - Daisy Kalra (Student)

11:03 Measurement of Neutral Current Coherent Pi0 Production In The NOvA Near Detector - Hongyue Duyang (university of south carolina)

11:21 Measurement of Reconstructed Charged Particle Multiplicities of Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE - Aleena Rafique (Kansas State University)

11:39 Neutrino-Nucleus Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) results from MINERvA - Dipak Rimal (University of Florida)

11:57 Antineutrino to neutrino charged-current interaction cross section ratio in MINERvA - Lu Ren (University of pittsburgh)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

10:45 The LUCID-2 detector - Pinfold James (University of ALberta)

11:03 Performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter in Run 2 and Electronics Upgrade for High Luminosity LHC - Joakim Olsson (University of Chicago)

11:21 Commissioning and operation of the new CMS Phase 1 pixel detector - Weinan Si (UC Riverside)

11:39 Construction of the Phase 1 upgrade of the CMS pixel detector - Maral Alyari (Fermilab)

11:57 The LHCb Upgrades - Matthew Rudolph (Syracuse University)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

10:45 Monte Carlo Simulations of the PEN experiment: A Precision Measurement of $\pi\rightarrow$e$\nu(\gamma)$ Branching Ratio - Charles Glaser (University of Virginia)

11:10 Measurement of same-sign WW diboson production with the ATLAS experiment - Will DiClemente (University of Pennsylvania)

11:35 Single W/Z boson production cross sections with the CMS detector - Jay Lawhorn (Caltech)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

10:45 The proton radius puzzle - Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

11:03 On HQET and NRQCD Operators of Mass Dimension 8 and Above - AYESH GUNAWARDANA (Wayne State University)

11:21 Alternative Formulation of the z-Expansion in Semileptonic Decays - Erik Gustafson (University of Iowa)

11:39 Recent measurements of exclusive hadronic cross sections at BABAR and the implication for the muon g-2 calculation - David Brown (University of Louisville)

11:57 Regge Trajectories of triply heavy baryons - Ajaykumar Rai (Assistant Professor) Zalak Shah (PhD student)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

10:45 Exotic multiquark states in pp̄ collisions at D0 - Peter Garbincius (Fermilab)

11:03 Heavy hadron spectroscopy at LHCb - Ivan Polyakov (CERN)

11:21 Pentaquark & tetraquark states at LHCb - Liming Zhang (Tsinghua University)

11:39 Beauty-full Tetraquarks - Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:57 Thomas-Fermi quark model for mesons - Suman Baral (Baylor University)
Tuesday morning
Tuesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 East
Contributions

10:45 Direct measurement of the top quark mass in $p\bar p$ collisions at D0 - Gregorio Bernardi (LPNHE Paris)

11:00 Measurement of the pole mass of the top quark using pp̄ → tt̄ production cross sections at D0 - Andreas Jung (Fermilab)

11:15 P5' anomaly for top: tZ' associated production at LHC - George W.S. Hou (National Taiwan University)

11:30 A Boosted Event Shape Tagger for Heavy Object Classification - Justin Pilot (University of California, Davis)

11:45 Toward Precision Top Quark Measurements in e+e- collisions - Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tohoku University)
12:15

12:15 - 13:30
12:30 Intensity Frontier
Intensity Frontier
12:30 - 13:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

12:30 Intensity Frontier - Michael Cooke (U.S. Department of Energy)
13:30 Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

13:30 Search for pair production of vector-like quarks in final states with a boosted W boson and b-jet with the ATLAS experiment - Joseph Haley (Oklahoma State University)

13:46 Search for electroweak production of a vectorlike quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs or Z boson using boosted topologies in an all-hadronic final state - Erich Schmitz (University of Kansas)

14:02 Search for low mass dijet resonances in association with ISR at the ATLAS experiment - Laser Kaplan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:18 Search for light vector resonances decaying to a quark pair produced in association with a jet with the CMS detector at 13 TeV - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Fermilab)

14:30 Search for paired dijet resonances in the boosted and non-boosted regime with the CMS detector at 13 TeV - Alejandro Gomez Espinosa (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

14:46 Searches for new heavy resonances in final states with leptons, photons, and jets in CMS - Norbert Neumeister (Purdue University)

15:02 Search for diphoton high-mass resonances with 36.7 fb−1 of data collected at √ s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Manuel Silva (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 East
Contributions

13:30 Deep Neural Networks for HEP Images - Benjamin Nachman (LBNL)

13:55 Applying Deep Learning in MicroBooNE - Taritree Wongjirad (MIT)

14:20 Deep Learning and DUNE - Alexander Radovic (College of William and Mary)

14:45 Advanced machine-learning solutions in LHCb operations and data analysis - Fedor Ratnikov (YSDA)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

13:30 News from BICEP/Keck Array CMB program - Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

13:50 The ACTPol and Advanced ACTPol Experiments - Jeff McMahon (University of Michigan)

14:10 Recent progress from the SPT-3G experiment - Amy Bender (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 Cosmology from CMB Polarization with POLARBEAR and the Simons Array - Darcy Barron (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

14:50 The Simons Observatory: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background - Adrian Lee (University of California, Berkeley)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

13:30 Search for new physics phenomena using events with missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying into two photons at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Chen Zhou (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

13:45 Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to bb at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment - Efe Yigitbasi (Boston University)

14:00 Search for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson at the ATLAS experiment - Yicheng Guo (University of Michigan; University of Science and Technology of China)

14:15 Search for invisible decay of a dark photon produced in $e^+e^-$ collisions at BaBar - Tomonari Miyashita (California Institute of Technology)

14:30 Search for muonic dark force at BABAR - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech)

14:45 An Indirect Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles in the Sun Using Upward-Going Muons in NOvA - Cristiana Principato (University of Virginia)

15:00 The Potential of the ILC for Discovering New Particles - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

13:30 Soft Gluon Resummation at NNLL Accuracy for Associated $t\bar{t}H$ Production at the LHC - Vincent Theeuwes (SUNY, Buffalo)

14:00 Search for production of a Higgs boson and a single top quark - Ken Bloom (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

14:20 Search for the Higgs boson production in association with top quarks at \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

14:40 Search for ttH production in multilepton final states using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Harish Potti (University of Texas at Austin)

15:00 Search for production of a Higgs boson and a top quark pair at CMS - Evan Wolfe (University of Virginia)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Nuclear Dependence of Quasi-Elastic Scattering at MINERvA - Aaron Bercellie (Rochester University)

13:48 Recent MINERvA Double Differential CCQE Cross Section Results Using Lepton Kinematics - Jeffrey Kleykamp (Rochester University)

14:06 Status of an Alternative Measurement of the Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-current Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector - Biswaranjan Behera (IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)

14:24 Status of the Charged Pion Semi-Inclusive Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Section in NOvA - Aristeidis Tsaris (Fermilab)

14:42 Status of the Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Inclusive Cross-Section Measurement in NOvA - Pengfei Ding

15:00 Measurement of Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering at NOvA Near Detector - Jianming Bian (University of California, Irvine)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

13:30 Studies of GaInP based Geiger-mode APD arrays - Bob Hirosky (Virginia) Grace Cummings (Virginia Commonwealth University)

13:51 Detecting Axions with Superconducting Qubits - Akash Dixit (University of Chicago)

14:12 Gain stabilization of Silicon Photomultipliers and Afterpulsing - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

14:33 Directional measurements of fast neutron backgrounds at SuperKEKB - Michael Hedges (BEAST II Collaboration)

14:54 Characterizing New Detectors for SuperCDMS SNOLAB - Matthew Fritts (University of Minnesota)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

13:30 Quarkonium Production in Jets - Thomas Mehen (Duke University)

13:54 Studies of quarkonium at Belle and Belle II - Bryan Fulsom (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

14:18 Heavy flavour production at LHCb - Marco Gersabeck (The University of Manchester) Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:39 Precise measurements of the mass differences between the $D^*(2010)^+$, and the $D^+$ and $D^0$ mesons with the BaBar detector - Michael Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati)

14:57 Heavy Flavor measurements and production studies at CMS - Jhovanny Mejia (Cinvestav Mexico City)
Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

13:30 Recent results of charmed baryon decays at Belle - Bilas Pal (University of Cincinnati)

13:48 Study of Lambda_c decays at BESIII - Hajime Muramatsu (University of Minnesota)

14:06 Hadronic decays of D(s) at BESIII - Bai-Cian Ke (BESIII (Carnegie Mellon University))

14:24 A novel, precise measurement of $B^0_s$ and $D^-_s$ lifetimes at LHCb - Diego Tonelli (INFN Trieste)

14:42 Measuring the b-tagging Efficiency in ATLAS - Rachael Creager (University of Pennsylvania)
15:15 Break
Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
15:45 - 17:30
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

15:45 DOE High Energy Physics Program and funding opportunities - Glen Crawford (US Dept of Energy)

16:15 NSF Particle Physics Program - Saul Gonzalez (NSF)

16:40 New developments in the relation between quantum gravity and quantum information - Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study)

17:05 Developments in the theory of flavor mixing and new developments in FCNC decays - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)
18:00 Toward Next Snowmass
Toward Next Snowmass
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

18:00 Toward Next Snowmass - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
08:30 Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 New experimental results and prospects on flavor physics - Steven Blusk (Syracuse University)

09:10 Properties of the top quark and electroweak measurements - Andreas Jung (Fermilab)

09:50 Diversity and Inclusion - Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)
10:15 Break
Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

10:45 Search for Top-Anitop Quark Resonances in Boosted Semileptonic Final States in 13 TeV pp Collisions - Douglas Berry (University of Illinois at Chicago)

11:00 Search for new physics with dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV at CMS - Jingyu Zhang (University of Illinois Chicago)

11:15 Search for Contact Interactions in μ + μ − and e + e − Final States in 13 TeV p-p Collisions at CMS - Shawn Zaleski (Wayne State University)

11:30 A search for B-L R-parity-violating scalar top decays in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS experiment - Leigh Schaefer (University of Pennsylvania)

11:45 Search for evidence of Type-III seesaw mechanism in multilepton final states in pp collisions at 13 TeV - Maximilian Heindl (Rutgers University)

12:00 Broader Use of Simplified Limits on Resonances at the LHC - Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)
Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

10:45 Exploration of Deep Convolutional and Domain Adversarial Neural Networks in MINERvA. - Jonathan Miller (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)

11:10 Deep Learning Applications in the NOvA Experiment - Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University)

11:35 Exploring Computing Methods for Improved Cosmic Background Rejection in NOvA's Sterile Neutrino Searches - Shaokai Yang (university of Cincinnati)

11:55 Data unfolding with Wiener-SVD Method - Xiaoyue Li (Stony Brook University)
Innovation in Science Communication
Innovation in Science Communication
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

10:45 Better public talks…through science! - Katie Yurkewicz (Fermilab)

10:57 Science writing workshops with the ATLAS experiment - Tasneem Zehra Husain (Author and Science Educator)

11:09 Social media and innovative outreach - Lauren Biron (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:21 Advocating for HEP in Congress - Louise Suter (FNAL)

11:33 Panel and Discussion
Cosmic Frontier
Cosmic Frontier
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 East
Contributions

10:45 Cosmic Frontier - Eric Linder (DOE)
Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 Solar and Supernova Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande - Scott Locke (University of California, Irvine)

11:03 Perturbative charm production and the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux in light of RHIC and LHC - INA SARCEVIC (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)

11:21 New Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube - João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André (Michigan State University)

11:39 Dimension 7 neutrino mass generation and its implications for the LHC and the dark matter - Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University)
Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

10:45 Plans for the Upgrade of the CMS Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Brad Cox (University of Virginia)

11:03 ATLAS LAr Calorimeter Electronics Upgrade for the HL-LHC - Tim Andeen (U Texas, Austin)

11:21 Study of neutron-induced background hits in the CMS endcap muon system, and implications for the HL-LHC - Christian Schnaible (University of California, Los Angeles)

11:39 Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer for Phase II - Thomas Schwarz (Fermilab)

11:57 Design and status of the Mu2e crystal calorimeter - Rafaella Donghia (INFN Frascati, Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

10:45 Measurement of the effective weak mixing angle in dimuon events at D0 and combination of the weak mixing angle measurements and W mass extraction at the Tevatron - Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)

11:25 Electroweak precision measurements with the CMS detector - Rafael Lopes de Sa (Fermilab)

11:50 Addressing the Proton Radius Puzzle Using QED-NRQED Effective Field Theory - Steven Dye (Wayne State University)
Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

10:45 Search for the critical point in hot QCD matter - Yi Yin (MIT)

11:03 QCD and Short-Range Correlations in Nuclei - Or Hen (MIT)

11:21 QCD multiple scattering in cold nuclear matter - Zhongbo Kang (University of California Los Angeles)

11:39 Comparison of the F2 Structure Function in Iron as Measured by Charged Lepton and Neutrino Probes - Jorge G. Morfin (Fermilab)

11:57 Quark versus Gluon Jet Tagging Using Charged-Particle Constituent Multiplicity with the ATLAS Experiment - Francesco Rubbo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Wednesday morning
Wednesday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

10:45 New Physics in b -> s mu+ mu- after the Measurement of R_K* - David London (Universite de Montreal)

11:08 New physics searches in b->sll decays - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)

11:28 Rare decays at LHCb - marina artuso (syracuse university)

11:49 Prospects for rare B decays at Belle II - Sam Cunliffe (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
12:15

12:15 - 13:30
12:30 Energy Frontier
Energy Frontier
12:30 - 13:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

12:30 Energy Frontier - Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
13:30 Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

13:30 Current status of MSSM Higgs sector with LHC 13 TeV data - Debtosh Chowdhury (INFN, Rome1)

13:48 Search for pair production of Higgs bosons in the $b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ final state with the ATLAS experiment - Tony Tong (Harvard University)

14:06 A search for charged Higgs bosons with the ATLAS experiment - Blake Burghgrave (Northern Illinois University)

14:24 Searches for exotica at LHCb - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:42 Searches for new physics using long-lived particles with the CMS detector - Todd Adams (Florida State University)
Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

13:30 Operation and Performance of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter and Level-1 Topological Triggers in Run 2 at the LHC - Kate Whalen (University of Oregon)

13:47 Data analysis at CMS Level-1 Trigger - Zhenbin Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago)

14:05 Data Acquisition with GPUs for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab - Wes Gohn (University of Kentucky)

14:22 Radiation-Hard/High-Speed VCSEL Array Driver ASIC for HL-LHC - K.K. Gan (The Ohio State University)

14:38 Studies of Beam Induced Radiation Backgrounds at the Mu2e Experiment and Implications for the Cosmic Ray Veto Detector Operations - Yuri Oksuzian (University of Virginia)

14:55 Using the Jets-without-Jets Algorithm to Model MET in an ATLAS Level-1 Trigger Algorithm - Rebecca Linck (Indiana University)
Education in the Digital Age
Education in the Digital Age
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

13:30 Exploring Cosmic Rays with a High School Student Global Detector - Mark Adams (Fermilab)

13:42 Developments in International Masterclasses - Kenneth Cecire (University of Notre Dame)

13:57 US-CERN Virtual Visits: Building Transcontinental Connections for High Energy Physics - Julia Gonski (Harvard University)

14:09 Phantom of the Universe: A Planetarium Show about Dark Matter - Kaushik De (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

14:21 VENu: The Virtual Environment for Neutrinos - Marco Del Tutto (University of Oxford)

14:33 Panel and discussion
Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

13:30 Search for Higgs boson pair production in the $bbWW$ final state at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector - Benjamin Tannenwald (Ohio State University)

13:50 Charged Higgs production with a W boson via b-quark annihilation - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

14:10 Enhanced $t \bar{t} h$ and Di-Higgs production rates in the Two Higgs Doublet Model - K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

14:30 Two Top Utilities of Two Higgs Doublets: Electroweak Baryogenesis and Alignment - George W.S. Hou (National Taiwan University)
Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 COHERENT at the Spallation Neutron Source - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

13:48 Searching for Neutrino-Induced Neutron Production at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) on Lead Target - Brandon Becker (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

14:06 CAPTAIN: Current Neutron and Future Stopped Pion Neutrino Measurements - Neha Dokania (Stony Brook University)

14:24 The LArIAT Experiment - Gregory Pulliam (Syracuse University)

14:42 A study of charged kaon-nucleon total interaction cross section in liquid argon. - Elena Gramellini (Yale University)

15:00 Antiproton Annihilation on Argon Nuclei in LArIAT - William Foreman (University of Chicago)
Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

13:30 Normalizing to the Number of Stopped Muons in the Mu2e Experiment - Nam Tran (Boston University, Depatrment of Physics)

13:48 Preliminary Results from the AlCap Experiment - John Quirk (Boston University)

14:06 Mu2e Solenoid Field Mapping System - Brian Pollack (Northwestern University)

14:24 Quality Assurance on Un-Doped CsI Crystals for the Mu2e Experiment - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech)

14:42 Performance of Scintillation Counters with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout - Ralf Ehrlich (University of Virginia)

15:00 A High Efficiency Cosmic Ray Veto Detector for the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)
Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

13:30 QCD backgrounds to dark matter searches at the LHC - Kristian Hahn (Northwestern Univ.)

13:55 The energy distribution of subjets and the jet shape - Felix Ringer (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

14:17 Mapping the QCD radiation spectrum - Keith Pedersen (Illinois Institute of Technology)

14:39 Jet Energy Scale and Resolution Measurements at CMS - Bahareh Roozbahani (suny Buffalo)

14:57 Jet Calibration in the ATLAS Experiment - Jeff Dandoy (University of Pennsylvania)
Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

13:30 Recent Results on Radiative and Electroweak Penguin B decays at Belle - Saurabh Sandilya (University of Cincinnati)

13:48 Lepton-flavour universality tests with semi-leptonic B decays at LHCb - Benedetto Gianluca Siddi (INFN Ferrara)

14:06 Measurement of charge asymmetry in B → μD0 X decays at D0 - Peter Garbincius (Fermilab)

14:24 Z' Models for B Anomalies at the LHC - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)

14:42 Hadronic contributions to muon g-2 from lattice QCD - Ruth Van de Water (Fermilab)
15:15 Break
Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
15:45 - 17:55
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

15:45 Neutrino oscillations review - Jonathan Paley (Fermilab)

16:15 Neutrino interactions – experimental and theoretical developments - Gabriel Perdue (Fermilab)

16:40 Neutrino mass and double beta decay - Michelle Dolinski (Drexel University)

17:05 How all neutrino measurements results fit together - Alexander Himmel (Fermilab)

17:30 Recent highlights from neutrino theory - Pedro Machado (Fermilab)
18:15

18:15 - 19:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Thursday, 3 August 2017
08:30 Thursday morning
Thursday morning
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Recent Developments in Lattice QCD - Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:55 QCD studies at high and low energies - Federico Sforza (CDF)

09:22 Hot and cold QCD matter - James Dunlop (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:49 QCD theory developments - Christopher Lee (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:15 Break
Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: West Wing
Contributions

10:45 Novel Application of Density Estimation Techniques in Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment - Tanaz Angelina Mohayai (Illinois Institute of Technology)

11:03 Bunched beam cooling for hadron colliders - Sergei Nagaitsev (FNAL)

11:21 Muon Cooling Innovations and the Future of Bright Muon Beams - Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.)

11:39 Beam Line Extinction in the Mu2e Experiment - Eric Prebys (Fermilab)

11:57 Measurement of Ionization Cooling With the MICE Experiment - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Joint with Higgs, Thursday morning
Joint with Higgs, Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

10:45 Search for new resonances decaying into boosted W, Z and H bosons at CMS - Michael Krohn (University of Colorado Boulder)

11:01 Searches for Heavy Resonances Decaying to a W or Z Boson and a Higgs Boson with the ATLAS experiment - Ines Ochoa (Columbia University)

11:13 Searches for new resonances decaying into diboson final states with large missing transverse momentum - Yanchu Wang (University of Virginia)

11:25 Search for high-mass $Z\gamma$ and $W^{\pm}\gamma$ resonances using 36 $fb^{-1}$ of data from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Wei Tang (Duke University)

11:41 Looking Forward to Dark Photons at the LHC - Felix Kling (Arizona / Fermilab)
Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

10:45 Nucleon Decay in Super-Kamiokande: Results and Prospects - Gabriel Santucci (Stony Brook University)

11:01 Searches for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation in DUNE - Joshua Barrow (The University of Tennessee)

11:17 A Neural Net Trigger for a Monopole Search with the NOvA Far Detector - Enhao Song (University of Virginia)

11:33 Search for Dark Matter in Jets plus MET final state for Non-thermal Dark Matter, Fermion Portal and ADD models using data from Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. - Sonaina Undleeb (Texas Tech University)

11:49 What does a non-vanishing neutrino mass have to say about the strong CP problem? - P.Q. Hung (University of Virginia)
Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

10:45 Track extrapolation and muon identification in Belle II event reconstruction - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

11:07 GPUs in LHCb for Analysis - Henry Schreiner (LHCb)

11:29 Histogram Binning with Bayesian Blocks - Brian Pollack (Northwestern University)

11:51 Automated proton track identification in MicroBooNE using gradient boosted decision trees - Katherine Woodruff (New Mexico State University)
Joint with BSM, Thursday morning
Joint with BSM, Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

10:45 Double Gauge Boson Production in the Standard Model EFT - Ian Lewis (University of Kansas)

11:15 Searching for heavy ZZ resonance in four-lepton or di-lepton and di-neutrino final states with the ATLAS experiment - Xiangyang Ju (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:35 A seach for a charged Higgs decaying into a top and a bottom quark with single leptonic, an electron or a muon, final state at 13 TeV - JANGBAE LEE (Brown University)
Detector R&D
Detector R&D
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 Detector R&D - Helmut Marsiske (Office of High Energy Physics, U.S. Department of Energy)
Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

10:45 JSNS2: A sterile neutrino search in Japan - Joshua Spitz (University of Michigan)

11:03 PROSPECT: The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum experiment - Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Illinois Institute of Technology)

11:21 Status of Sterile Neutrino fits with Global Data - Alejandro Diaz (Graduate Student at MIT)

11:39 Fertile neutrinos - Alfredo Aranda (Universidad de Colima (Mexico))
Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 Extracting neutrino oscillation parameters using a simultaneous fit of the nue appearance and numu disappearance data in the NOvA experiment - Prabhjot Singh Singh (Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India)

11:03 Physics reach of electron neutrino appearance measurements in NOvA - Erika Catano Mur (Iowa State University)

11:21 Measurement of Neutrino Flux In The DUNE Near Detector - Hongyue Duyang (university of south carolina)

11:39 Optimization of the LBNF Neutrino Beam - Rowan Zaki (Radboud University Nijmegen)

11:57 Reducing neutrino cross-section uncertainties with the NuPRISM experiment - Cristovao Vilela (Stony Brook University)
Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

10:45 Front End Digitization of tRPCs in the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Phase-1 Upgrade - Xiangting Meng (University of Michigan)

11:03 Development of Trigger and Readout Electronics for the ATLAS New Small Wheel Detector Upgrade - LIANG GUAN (University of Michigan)

11:21 Front-End Electronics Scheme for the Mu2e Straw Tracker - Manolis Kargiantoulakis (Fermilab)

11:39 Overview of the Fourth Flight of the ANITA Experiment - Andrew Ludwig (University of Chicago)

11:57 A Novel Readout System for a High Efficiency Cosmic Ray Veto for the Mu2e Experiment - Neely R. Kreswell (Kansas State University)
Thursday morning
Thursday morning
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

10:45 Pure and semi-leptonic decays of D(s) at BESIII - Huijing Li (IHEP)

11:03 Semi-leptonic B decays at LHCb - Matthew Rudolph (Syracuse University)

11:21 Semileptonic B-meson decays to light pseudoscalar mesons with lattice QCD - Zechariah Gelzer (University of Iowa)

11:39 Exclusion of multifold solutions of the CKM Unitarity Triangle by a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B0->D(*) h0 with D->K_S0 pi+ pi- decays combining BaBar and Belle data - Gerald Eigen (Caltech)

11:57 CP violation measurements in b hadrons at LHCb - Maria Vieites Diaz (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
12:15

12:15 - 13:30

12:30 Theory
Theory
12:30 - 13:15
Room: 1 West
13:30 Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: West Wing
Contributions

13:30 Fermilab PIP-II Status and Strategy - Shekhar Mishra (Fermilab)

13:55 CEPC R&D and key technologies - YUNLONG CHI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

14:20 Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors for Weapons-Grade Plutonium Disposition and Energy Generation - Robert Abrams (Muons, Inc.)

14:45 Beam Based RF Voltage Measurements at the Fermilab Booster (RCS) for Intensity Upgrade - Chandra Bhat (Fermilab)
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

13:30 CompEx II: A Pathway in Search of BSM Physics using Compton Scattering - Prajwal Mohanmurthy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

13:46 The REDTOP experiment: Rare Eta Decays with a TPC for Optical Photons - Corrado Gatto (INFN and NIU)

14:02 Search for the Lepton Flavor Violating Decay $\Upsilon(3{\mathrm{S}}) \to e^{\pm}\mu^{\mp}$ - Nafisa Tasneem (University of Victoria)

14:18 New Search for Mirror Neutrons at HFIR - Leah Broussard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:34 The MoEDAL Experiment at the LHC - a new light on the High Energy Frontier - Pinfold James (University of ALberta)

14:50 Small Instantons and the Strong CP Problem - Kiel Howe (Fermilab)

15:02 Generalized CP: Yukawa Interactions - Alfredo Aranda (Universidad de Colima (Mexico))
Thursday Afternoon
Thursday Afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Hornets Nest
Contributions

13:30 HEPCloud: Provisioning 160,000 Compute Cores for Science - Burt Holzman (FNAL)

13:47 The FabrIc for Frontier Experiments Project at Fermilab: Computing for Experiments - Kenneth Herner (Fermilab)

14:04 Belle II Distributed Data Management System and Networking - Vikas Bansal (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

14:21 Large-scale Simulation and Data Processing in the NOvA Experiment - Adam Moren (University of Minnesota, Duluth)

14:38 CMS Software and Computing in LHC Run 2 (and Beyond) - Matteo Cremonesi (FNAL)

14:56 Conceptualization of a Scientific Software Innovation Institute for HEP and a Community Roadmap Process for Software and Computing R&D - Mark Neubauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Equity, Inclusivity and Diversity in Science Culture
Equity, Inclusivity and Diversity in Science Culture
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Racetrack
Contributions

13:30 Brookhaven Women in Science - Promoting Women, Advancing Science - JYOTI JOSHI (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:45 UIUC diversity and inclusion efforts in STEM education - Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)

14:00 Survey of the physics landscape and attempts to improve diversity. - Brian Beckford (University of Michigan)

14:12 Mu2e Diversity and Inclusion Task Force - Doug Glenzinski (Fermilab)

14:24 Spanish Outreach at Fermilab - Minerba Betancourt (Fermilab)

14:37 Panel on Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity in Science Culture
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: 1 East
Contributions

13:30 Black hole unitarity via small couplings: basic postulates to soft quantum structure - Steve Giddings (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Sunrise
Contributions

13:30 Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS experiment - Atanu Pathak (University of Louisville)

13:50 Precision Higgs Measurements at the 250 GeV ILC - Jan Strube (PNNL)

14:20 Physics Reach and Detector Optimization at the CEPC - Manqi RUAN (Institute of High Energy Physics)
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Comitium
Contributions

13:30 MicroBooNE Investigation of Low-Energy Excess Using Deep Learning Algorithms - Lauren Yates (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

13:48 Event Reconstruction in the NOvA Experiment - Biswaranjan Behera (IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)

14:06 Energy reconstruction of NOvA neutrino events. - Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University)

14:24 Selection of charged-current muon-neutrino and electron-neutrino interactions in the DUNE far detector - Dominic Brailsford (Lancaster University)

14:42 Neutrino energy reconstruction in the DUNE far detector - Nick Grant (University of Warwick)
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Beyond Standard Model scales constrained by recent double beta decay experimental data - Mihai Horoi (Central Michigan University)

13:48 Results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Andrew Lopez (University of Tennessee)

14:06 Project 8: A New Generation of Neutrino Mass Experiment - Ali Ashtari Esfahani (University of Washington)

14:24 Recent results of EXO-200 and R&D progress of nEXO - Matthew Coon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:42 Current Status and Commissioning of the SNO+ Experiment - Christopher Grant (Boston University)

15:00 The NEXT Experiment - Benjamin Jones (UTA)
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: IARC Building
Contributions

13:30 3D Diamond Sensor Development - Bin Gui (Ohio State University)

13:51 Modeling Radiation Damage to Pixel Sensors in the ATLAS Detector - Benjamin Nachman (LBNL)

14:12 Track Reconstruction Efficiencies with the H35DEMO HV-CMOS Pixel Detector - Matt Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

14:33 Design layout and expected performance of Inner Tracker for ATLAS Phase 2 Upgrade - Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville)

14:55 Enhancing the muon physics program of the CMS experiment during the high luminosity LHC with triple-foil GEM detectors in the forward region - Jared Sturdy (Wayne State University)
Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Curia II
Contributions

13:30 CP violation and mixing in charm at LHCb - Riccardo Cenci (University of Pisa - INFN Pisa, Italy)

13:48 Direct CP asymmetry in D -> pi^+\pi^- and D -> K^+K^- from QCD Light-Cone Sum Rules - Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University / MCTP)

14:06 Results on D-mixing in CP-odd mode: D->Ksomega, omega->pi+pi-pi0 at Belle - Minakshi Nayak (Wayne State University)

14:24 Present status of the search for the K—>π0νν decay with the KOTO detector at J-PARC - Brian Beckford (University of Michigan)

14:42 Kaon-Scatter Introduced Backgrounds in the KOTO Experiment - Stephanie Su (University of Michigan)
15:15 Break
Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 Thursday afternoon
Thursday afternoon
15:45 - 17:45
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

15:45 “Dark sectors” and other novel types of new particles - Patrick Fox (Fermilab)

16:10 New models of elementary and composite Higgs bosons - Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)

16:35 Cosmic Microwave Background - Mark Devlin (University of Pennsylvania)

17:00 Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results - Daniel Gruen (Stanford)
18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Room: Wilson Hall Cafeteria
Friday, 4 August 2017
08:30 Friday early morning
Friday early morning
08:30 - 10:35
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 New T2K Neutrino Oscillation Results - Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook University)

08:45 Results from COHERENT - Phillip Barbeau (Duke University)

09:00 DPF instrumentation award - Blair Ratcliff (Slac)

09:10 DPF Instrumentation award - Lawrence Sulak (Boston University)

09:20 DPF mentoring award - Thomas Devlin (Rutgers; U. Pennsylvania)

09:30 DPF Tanaka thesis award talk - Benjamin Jones (UTA)

09:50 DPF Sakurai thesis award talk - Ian Moult (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

10:10 Education and Outreach - Sarah Demers (Yale)
10:35 Break
Break
10:35 - 11:00
11:00 Friday late morning
Friday late morning
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Ramsey Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Developments in accelerators for future high energy machines - Mark Palmer (Fermilab)

11:25 Future directions in particle physics software and computing - Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:50 Particle detectors developments - Robert Svoboda (UC Davis)

12:15 Concluding remarks - Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab)
12:30

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Ramsey Auditorium

13:00

13:00 - 15:30