Name: 2017 US LHC Users Association Meeting
Start: 2017-11-01T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-11-03T19:20:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

2017 US LHC Users Association Meeting

from Wednesday, 1 November 2017 (08:00) to Friday, 3 November 2017 (19:20)

Monday, 30 October 2017
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Sunrise Room, Wilson Hall

17:30 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Wilson Hall, atrium
Thursday, 2 November 2017
09:00 Welcome to Fermilab - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
Welcome to Fermilab
- Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
09:00 - 09:10
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
09:10 Meeting Logistics - Boaz Klima (Fermilab) Cecilia Gerber (UIC)
Meeting Logistics
- Boaz Klima (Fermilab)
- Cecilia Gerber (UIC)
09:10 - 09:20
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
09:20 US LUA Chair's Report - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
US LUA Chair's Report
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
09:20 - 09:45
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
09:45 Status and Outlook of the LHC - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
Status and Outlook of the LHC
- Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
09:45 - 10:15
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:35
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
10:35 LARP Report - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
LARP Report
- Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
10:35 - 11:00
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:00 ATLAS Status and Outlook - Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
ATLAS Status and Outlook
- Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
11:00 - 11:25
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:25 CMS Status and Outlook - Roberto Carlin (Padova)
CMS Status and Outlook
- Roberto Carlin (Padova)
11:25 - 11:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:50 LHCb Status and Outlook - Hassan Jawahery (Maryland)
LHCb Status and Outlook
- Hassan Jawahery (Maryland)
11:50 - 12:15
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
12:15 Group Photo
Group Photo
12:15 - 12:20
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
13:20 ALICE Status and Run2 Results - Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
ALICE Status and Run2 Results
- Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
13:20 - 13:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
13:50
13:50 - 14:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

13:50 Search for vector-like T quarks with oppositely-charged dilepton pairs and jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV - Dalath Mendis (Kansas State Univ)

14:00 Hollow electron beam collimation for HL-LHC - Miriam Fitterer (FNAL)

14:10 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)

14:20 Multiplicity evolution of identified particle charge-dependent correlations in Pb-Pb, p-Pb and pp collisions at the LHC with ALICE - Jinjin Pan (Wayne State University)

14:30 The High Granularity Calorimeter for HL-LHC Upgrade - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)

14:40 Compressed Kinematics in SUSY Searches - Julia Gonski (Harvard University)
14:50 CMS Run2 Results - Nathaniel Pastika (Baylor University)
CMS Run2 Results
- Nathaniel Pastika (Baylor University)
14:50 - 15:10
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
15:10 ATLAS Run2 Results - David Miller (University of Chicago)
ATLAS Run2 Results
- David Miller (University of Chicago)
15:10 - 15:30
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
15:30 LHCb Run 2 Results - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)
LHCb Run 2 Results
- Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)
15:30 - 15:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
15:50 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:50 - 16:10
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
16:10 Physics at Future Colliders - Kerstin Borras (DESY/RWTH Aachen)
Physics at Future Colliders
- Kerstin Borras (DESY/RWTH Aachen)
16:10 - 16:35
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
16:35 DOE Office of HEP Report - Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
DOE Office of HEP Report
- Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
16:35 - 17:00
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
17:00 DOE Office of NP Report - Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
DOE Office of NP Report
- Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
17:00 - 17:25
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
17:30 Careers Session (Panel, Q&A) - Christine Nattrass (Tennessee)
Careers Session (Panel, Q&A)
- Christine Nattrass (Tennessee)
17:30 - 19:00
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
19:15 Courtyard Banquets
Courtyard Banquets
19:15 - 21:15
Friday, 3 November 2017
08:30 Introduction - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
Introduction
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
08:30 - 08:40
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
08:40 CERN and US LUA - Charlotte Warakaulle (CERN)
CERN and US LUA
- Charlotte Warakaulle (CERN)
08:40 - 09:00
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
09:00 HEP Trips to the US Congress - Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)
HEP Trips to the US Congress
- Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
09:30 APS and US LUA - Julia Gonski (Harvard University)
APS and US LUA
- Julia Gonski (Harvard University)
09:30 - 09:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
09:50
09:50 - 11:00
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

09:50 Search for low mass resonances decaying to quark pairs with the CMS detector at 13 TeV - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Johns Hopkins University)

10:00 Phase-2 pixel upgrade simulations - Andres Nazario (University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez)

10:10 Azimuthally differential pion femtoscopy relative to the second and third harmonic in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV from ALICE - Mohammad Saleh (Wayne State)

10:20 Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair - Sean Jiun Wang (Univ. of Florida)

10:30 Measurement of the calorimeter response to single hadrons with ATLAS at 13 TeV - Joakim Olsson (University of Chicago)

10:40 Ultra-peripheral collisions in ALICE experiment - Jaroslav Adam (Creighton University)

10:50 Search for new physics with dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV at CMS - Jingyu Zhang (University of Illinois Chicago)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:20 Supporting Young Physicists - Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
Supporting Young Physicists
- Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
11:20 - 11:40
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:40 (by Vidyo)
(by Vidyo)
11:40 - 12:40
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

11:40 Analysis preservation and reinterpretation infrastructure - Lukas Heinrich (NYU)

11:50 Neutral pion and eta meson production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV - Nicholas Schmidt (ORNL)

12:00 Fast Simulation with Generative Adversarial Networks - Michela Paganini (Yale)

12:10 Silicon Test Beam Results for the LHCb-UT Detector - Scott Edward Ely (Syracuse University)

12:20 BSM Searches with 2-Leptons & ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Upgrades - Daniel Antrim (UC Irvine)
12:40 Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.
Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.
12:40 - 13:40
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

13:40 US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)
US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)
13:40 - 14:30
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
14:30
14:30 - 15:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

14:30 Machine learning to identify top quarks for top squark searches - Kenneth Remington Call (Baylor University)

14:40 HL-LHC Tile Calorimeter Upgrade - Kevin Hildebrand (UChicago)

14:50 Photon Photon Physics in CT-PPS - Justin Andrew Williams (Univ. of Kansas)

15:00 Search for compressed Supersymmetry with a soft tau lepton and a highly energetic ISR jet - Savanna Rae Starko (Vanderbilt University)

15:10 Identifying object in ATLAS through machine learning techniques - Wasikul Islam (Oklahoma State University)

15:20 HH searches at CMS - Luca Cadamuro (Univ. Florida)

15:30 Solutions and Improvements for VH to tau tau Run 2 Analysis - Savannah Thais (Yale)

15:40 Search for SUSY with a customized top tagger - Hui Wang
15:50 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:50 - 16:10
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

16:10 Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA
Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA
16:10 - 16:50
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

16:50 Lightning Round Winners Announcement
Lightning Round Winners Announcement
16:50 - 17:05
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

17:05 AOB
AOB
17:05 - 17:20
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

17:20 Adjourn
Adjourn
17:20 - 17:25
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327