Name: 53rd Annual Users Meeting
Start: 2020-08-10T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-08-14T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

53rd Annual Users Meeting

from Monday, 10 August 2020 (08:00) to Friday, 14 August 2020 (19:00)

Monday, 10 August 2020
08:00 Session 1
Session 1
08:00 - 08:45
Contributions

08:00 Welcome & UEC Report - Cindy Joe (Fermilab ND/Operations) Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)

08:25 Welcome & Director's report - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
08:45 Break
Break
08:45 - 08:55
08:55 Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
08:55 - 10:10
Contributions

08:55 Black Lives Matter - Michael Childress (Dupage County NAACP)
10:10 Break
Break
10:10 - 10:20
10:20 Session 3
Session 3
10:20 - 11:20
Contributions

10:20 Introduction to Fermilab's accelerators and beams (present and future) - Jeffrey Eldred (Fermilab)

10:40 Test Beam at Fermilab - Evan Niner (Fermilab)

11:00 Accelerator Physics - Robert Ainsworth (Fermilab)
11:20 Break
Break
11:20 - 11:30
11:30 Session 4
Session 4
11:30 - 12:10
Contributions

11:30 PIP-II - Lidija Kokoska

11:50 Celebrating 50 years of the Booster Accelerator - Salah Chaurize (Fermilab Proton Source Booster)
12:10 Room 1: "Intensity"
Room 1: "Intensity"
12:10 - 13:25
Contributions

12:10 $0\nu\beta\beta$ searches at a theoretical DUNE 4th module - Grace Reesman (University of Missouri at Kansas City)

12:25 Results from the ICARUS T600 Detector concerning the “Online Method” of Purity Monitoring - Olivia Bitter (Fermilab/UIC)

12:40 Implication of A_4 modular symmetry on neutrino mass, mixing and Leptogenesis - mitesh kumar behera (University of Hyderabad)

12:55 Charge response and energy calibration of ProtoDUNE-SP - Graham Chambers-Wall

13:10 A deep-learning based raw waveform region-of-interest finder for the liquid argon time projection chamber - Wanwei Wu (Fermilab)
Room 2: "Research"
Room 2: "Research"
12:10 - 13:25
Contributions

12:10 Search for a Higgs Portal scalar in MicroBooNE - Pawel Guzowski (University of Manchester)

12:25 Neutrino Energy Reconstruction in NOvA - Andrew Sutton (The University of Virginia)

12:40 Measurement of low-$Q^2$ protons from neutral current events in argon with MicroBooNE - Lu Ren (New Mexico State University) Lu Ren (New Mexico State University)

12:55 Accelerating Calculation of Confidence Intervals for NOvA's Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Estimation with Supercomputers - Steven Calvez

13:10 Constraining the Neutral Current Pi0 Background for MicroBooNE's Single-Photon Search - Andrew Mogan (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
Room 3: "Cosmic"
Room 3: "Cosmic"
12:10 - 13:25
Contributions

12:10 First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielastic–like $\nu_{\mu}$ –Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector - Afroditi Papadopoulou (Graduate Student MIT)

12:25 Quantum entanglement in neutrino oscillations - Abhishek Jha (University of Hyderabad)

12:40 Effect of sterile phases on degeneracy resolution capabilities of NOvA - Akshay Chatla (University Of Hyderabad)

12:55 Three-flavor neutrino oscillations in NOvA - Erika Catano Mur (William & Mary)

13:10 Analysis of the impact of different hit finding techniques on charge and energy reconstruction for ICARUS - Isabella Ginnett (Michigan State University)
Room 4: "Energy"
Room 4: "Energy"
12:10 - 13:25
Contributions

12:10 Neutrino Tridents in the NOvA Near Detector - Erica Smith Kelli Michaels (Indiana University) Erica Smith (Indiana University)

12:25 ANNIE: The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment - Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University)

12:40 Data-driven track reconstruction performance studies in MicroBooNE - Pavel Zhelnin

12:55 DUNE-beta: Can we expand DUNE’s physics program to search for neurtino-less double beta decay? - Fernanda Psihas Olmedo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Room 5: "Innovation"
Room 5: "Innovation"
12:10 - 13:25
Contributions

12:10 Systematic Studies for a Photon-like Low Energy Excess Search at MicroBooNE - Gray Yarbrough (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

12:25 Measurement of Single Electron Events in MicroBooNE - Ivan Caro Terrazas (Colorado State University) Ivan Caro Terrazas (Colorado State University)

12:40 Light sterile neutrinos and their implications on currently running long-baseline and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. - RUDRA MAJHI (UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD)

12:55 Measurement of pion cross-section in ProtoDUNE SP detector at CERN - Libo Jiang (Virginia Tech)
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
08:00 Scientific Jobs
Scientific Jobs
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Scientific Job Panel - Alexander Radovic (College of William and Mary) Gabriel Perdue (Fermilab) Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University) Monica Nunes (Syracuse University)
Sustainability at Fermilab
Sustainability at Fermilab
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Sustainability at Fermilab - Eric Mieland Walter Levernier
Visiting Faculty Program
Visiting Faculty Program
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Visiting Faculty Program - Kathrine Laureto
Science Communication
Science Communication
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Science Communication Training - Rebecca Thompson (Fermilab)
Visas and Immigration
Visas and Immigration
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Visas and Immigration - Griselda Lopez (FNAL) Kevin Aiston (Fragomen Worldwide Lawfirm) Valery Stanley
09:00 Break
Break
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 Session 6
Session 6
09:10 - 10:10
Contributions

09:10 Scientific Computing - Lisa Goodenough

09:30 Quantum Science & Technology - Farah Fahim (FERMILAB)

09:50 Artificial intelligence at Fermilab - Aleksandra Ciprijanovic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:10 Break
Break
10:10 - 10:20
10:20 Session 7
Session 7
10:20 - 11:05
Contributions

10:20 Muon Experiments at Fermilab - Emmanouil Kargiantoulakis (Fermilab)

10:45 Perspectives on Research and Development at Fermilab - Sarah Demers (Yale)
11:05 Break
Break
11:05 - 11:15
11:15 Session 8
Session 8
11:15 - 12:15
Contributions

11:15 Cosmic Microwave Background - Sasha Rahlin (Fermilab)

11:35 Dark Energy Experiments - Francisco javier Sanchez lopez

11:55 Dark Matter Experiments - Noah Kurinsky
12:15 Break
Break
12:15 - 12:25
12:25 Keynote presentation
Keynote presentation
12:25 - 13:30
Contributions

12:25 Keynote Presentation - Josh Cassada (NASA) Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
13:30 Break
Break
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 Prairie Ecology Tour
Prairie Ecology Tour
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 Prairie Ecology Tour - Walter Levernier
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
08:00 Session 10
Session 10
08:00 - 08:40
Contributions

08:00 Applied Physics and Superconducting Technology Division at Fermilab - Karie Badgley (Fermilab)

08:20 Engineering at Fermilab - Silvia Zorzetti (Fermilab)
08:40 Break
Break
08:40 - 08:50
08:50 Session 11
Session 11
08:50 - 10:00
Contributions

08:50 Introduction to the Energy Frontier at Fermilab: past, present, future - Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)

09:10 CMS - Javier Duarte (University of California San Diego)

09:30 Top Quark Silver Jubilee - Giorgio Bellettini (University and INFN, Pisa) Hugh Montgomery (Jefferson Lab) John Peoples (Fermilab) Mel Shochet (University of Chicago) Paul Grannis (Stony Brook University) Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)
10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:10
10:10 Alvin Tollestrup Memorial
Alvin Tollestrup Memorial
10:10 - 12:10
Contributions

10:10 Alvin Tollestrup Memorial
12:10 Break
Break
12:10 - 12:20
12:20 Session 13
Session 13
12:20 - 13:10
Contributions

12:20 URA Visiting Scholars - Marta Cehelsky (URA)

12:30 URA Graduate Thesis Award - David Sweigart (Cornell University)

12:35 URA Early Career Award - Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)

13:00 Fermilab HR Resources for Users and Visitors - Deanne Randich (FNAL) Ilene Winston
13:10 Break
Break
13:10 - 14:20
14:20 DOE
DOE
14:20 - 15:00
Contributions

14:20 DOE - Alan Stone (U.S. Department of Energy)
Thursday, 13 August 2020
08:00 Spotlight on the Community
Spotlight on the Community
08:00 - 08:50
Contributions

08:00 Spotlight on the Community - Anne Norrick Julie Saviano (Fermilab) Julius Borchert Michael Pfaff Tyrone Killebrew (;FNAL)
08:50 Break
Break
08:50 - 09:00
09:00 Session 15
Session 15
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to neutrinos at Fermilab - Andrew Mastbaum (Rutgers University)

09:20 NOvA - Steven Calvez

09:40 Neutrino theory outlook after Neutrino 2020 results - Kevin Kelly
10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:10
10:10 Session 16
Session 16
10:10 - 11:20
Contributions

10:10 Overview of neutrino cross-section measurements at Fermilab - Steven Gardiner (Fermilab)

10:35 Overview of sterile neutrino searches at Fermilab - Gianluca Petrillo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:00 DUNE - Tingjun Yang (Fermilab)
11:20 Break
Break
11:20 - 11:30
11:30 Session 17
Session 17
11:30 - 11:45
Contributions

11:30 FSPA - Michael Wallbank (University of Cincinnati)
11:45 Snowmass
Snowmass
11:45 - 12:45
Contributions

11:45 Snowmass Panel - Benjamin Nachman (LBNL) Ian Shipsey (Oxford) Kevin Lesko (LBNL) Meenakshi Narain (Brown University) Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara) Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech) Robert Bernstein (Fermilab) Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University) Sarah Demers (Yale) Tim Tait (UC Irvine) Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
12:45 Closing
Closing
12:45 - 12:55
Contributions

12:45 Closing - Cindy Joe (Fermilab ND/Operations)
Friday, 14 August 2020
15:30 Festa Italiana
Festa Italiana
15:30 - 19:00
Contributions

15:30 Festa Italiana - Donatella Torretta (Fermilab) Marco Mambelli (Fermilab)