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, November 1, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 3, 2017 (7:20 PM)

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

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Sunrise Room, Wilson Hall

5:30 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall, atrium
Thursday, November 2, 2017
9:00 AM Welcome to Fermilab - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
Welcome to Fermilab
- Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
9:10 AM Meeting Logistics - Boaz Klima (Fermilab) Cecilia Gerber (UIC)
Meeting Logistics
- Boaz Klima (Fermilab)
- Cecilia Gerber (UIC)
9:10 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
9:20 AM US LUA Chair's Report - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
US LUA Chair's Report
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
9:20 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
9:45 AM Status and Outlook of the LHC - Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
Status and Outlook of the LHC
- Rende Steerenberg (CERN)
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
10:35 AM LARP Report - Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
LARP Report
- Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:00 AM ATLAS Status and Outlook - Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
ATLAS Status and Outlook
- Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:25 AM CMS Status and Outlook - Roberto Carlin (Padova)
CMS Status and Outlook
- Roberto Carlin (Padova)
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:50 AM LHCb Status and Outlook - Hassan Jawahery (Maryland)
LHCb Status and Outlook
- Hassan Jawahery (Maryland)
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
12:15 PM Group Photo
Group Photo
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

12:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
1:20 PM ALICE Status and Run2 Results - Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
ALICE Status and Run2 Results
- Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
1:50 PM
1:50 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

1:50 PM 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)

2:00 PM Hollow electron beam collimation for HL-LHC - Miriam Fitterer (FNAL)

2:10 PM 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)

2:20 PM 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)

2:30 PM The High Granularity Calorimeter for HL-LHC Upgrade - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)

2:40 PM Compressed Kinematics in SUSY Searches - Julia Gonski (Harvard University)
2:50 PM CMS Run2 Results - Nathaniel Pastika (Baylor University)
CMS Run2 Results
- Nathaniel Pastika (Baylor University)
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
3:10 PM ATLAS Run2 Results - David Miller (University of Chicago)
ATLAS Run2 Results
- David Miller (University of Chicago)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
3:30 PM LHCb Run 2 Results - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)
LHCb Run 2 Results
- Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
3:50 PM Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
4:10 PM Physics at Future Colliders - Kerstin Borras (DESY/RWTH Aachen)
Physics at Future Colliders
- Kerstin Borras (DESY/RWTH Aachen)
4:10 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
4:35 PM DOE Office of HEP Report - Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
DOE Office of HEP Report
- Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
5:00 PM DOE Office of NP Report - Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
DOE Office of NP Report
- Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
5:30 PM Careers Session (Panel, Q&A) - Christine Nattrass (Tennessee)
Careers Session (Panel, Q&A)
- Christine Nattrass (Tennessee)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
7:15 PM Courtyard Banquets
Courtyard Banquets
7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017
8:30 AM Introduction - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
Introduction
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
8:40 AM CERN and US LUA - Charlotte Warakaulle (CERN)
CERN and US LUA
- Charlotte Warakaulle (CERN)
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
9:00 AM HEP Trips to the US Congress - Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)
HEP Trips to the US Congress
- Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
9:30 AM APS and US LUA - Julia Gonski (Harvard University)
APS and US LUA
- Julia Gonski (Harvard University)
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
9:50 AM
9:50 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

9:50 AM 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 AM Phase-2 pixel upgrade simulations - Andres Nazario (University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez)

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

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

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

10:50 AM 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 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:20 AM Supporting Young Physicists - Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
Supporting Young Physicists
- Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
11:40 AM (by Vidyo)
(by Vidyo)
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM BSM Searches with 2-Leptons & ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Upgrades - Daniel Antrim (UC Irvine)
12:40 PM Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.
Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

1:40 PM US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)
US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327
Contributions

2:30 PM Machine learning to identify top quarks for top squark searches - Kenneth Remington Call (Baylor University)

2:40 PM HL-LHC Tile Calorimeter Upgrade - Kevin Hildebrand (UChicago)

2:50 PM Photon Photon Physics in CT-PPS - Justin Andrew Williams (Univ. of Kansas)

3:00 PM Search for compressed Supersymmetry with a soft tau lepton and a highly energetic ISR jet - Savanna Rae Starko (Vanderbilt University)

3:10 PM Identifying object in ATLAS through machine learning techniques - Wasikul Islam (Oklahoma State University)

3:20 PM HH searches at CMS - Luca Cadamuro (Univ. Florida)

3:30 PM Solutions and Improvements for VH to tau tau Run 2 Analysis - Savannah Thais (Yale)

3:40 PM Search for SUSY with a customized top tagger - Hui Wang
3:50 PM Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

4:10 PM Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA
Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

4:50 PM Lightning Round Winners Announcement
Lightning Round Winners Announcement
4:50 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

5:05 PM AOB
AOB
5:05 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327

5:20 PM Adjourn
Adjourn
5:20 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: CDF Big Room in Building 327