Name: US LHC Users Association Annual Meeting
Start: 2014-11-12T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2014-11-14T19:15:00-06:00
Location: Building 240

US LHC Users Association Annual Meeting

from Wednesday, 12 November 2014 (16:00) to Friday, 14 November 2014 (19:15)

Monday, 10 November 2014
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
17:00 Executive Committee Meeting - Harvey Newman (Caltech)
Executive Committee Meeting
- Harvey Newman (Caltech)
17:00 - 18:00
Room: A-224
18:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:00 - 19:30
Thursday, 13 November 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Room 1416
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to Argonne - Rik Yoshida (ANL)

09:10 US LUA Chair's Report - Harvey Newman (Caltech)

09:40 Status and Outlook of the LHC - Giulia Papotti (CERN)

10:10 LARP - Eric Prebys (Fermilab)
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Conference Room 1416 Thursday morning
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 1416
Contributions

11:00 ATLAS Highlights and Outlook - Raymond Brock (Michigan State University)

11:30 CMS Highlights and Outlook - Tiziano Camporesi (CERN)

12:00 LHCb Highlights and Upgrades - Mike Sokoloff (Cincinnati)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Conference Room 1416 Thursday morning

13:30 Group Photo
Group Photo
13:30 - 13:45
Room: Auditorium
13:45
13:45 - 15:05
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:45 ALICE Highlights and Upgrades - Peter Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:15 CMS Upgrade Program - Jeremiah Mans (University of Minnesota)

14:40 ATLAS Upgrade Program - Anadi Canepa (TRIUMF)
15:05
15:05 - 16:05
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:05 Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to WW* with ATLAS at the LHC - Philip Chang

15:17 Physics Beyond Higgs: Searches for Extra Vector-Like Quarks at CMS - Sadia Khalil

15:29 Mass measurement of the Higgs boson in the H->ZZ*->4l channel at the ATLAS detector - Laser Kaplan

15:41 Results in B_c physics at LHCb - Nathan Jurik

15:53 A Search for Prompt Lepton-Jets in p-p Collisions at sqrt(𝑠) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector - Harisankar Namasivayam
16:05 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
16:05 - 16:25
Room: Auditorium
16:25
16:25 - 18:05
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:25 Supporting Young Physicists - Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)

16:50 DOE Office of HEP Report - Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)

17:15 NSF EPP Office Report - James Shank (NSF)

17:40 DOE Office of NP Report - James Sowinski (DOE Office of Nuclear Physics)
18:05
18:05 - 18:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

18:05 The Dark Matter and Higgs Sectors - JiJi Fan (Syracuse)
18:45 Conference Dinner - Cocktails
Conference Dinner - Cocktails
18:45 - 19:10
Room: Conference Room 1416 Thursday morning

19:15 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:15 - 20:30
Room: Conference Room 1416 Thursday morning
Friday, 14 November 2014
08:30
08:30 - 09:10
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Introduction; 2014 Trip to Washington - Harvey Newman (Caltech)

08:50 US - CERN Relations and the LHC Program - Ruediger Voss (CERN)
09:10
09:10 - 10:22
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:10 Search for resonant production of two Higgs bosons in the two photon two b-quark final state - Philip Hebda

09:22 Evidence of Electroweak Vector Boson Scattering in the same-sign WW channel in ATLAS - Jessica Metcalfe

09:34 Search for Higgs production in association with single top quarks - Daniel Knowlton

09:46 The UT Detector for the LHCb Upgrade - Matthew Kelsey

09:58 Measurement of differential ttbar cross section for boosted tops at 8 TeV using CMS data - Susan Dittmer

10:10 Search for non-pointing and delayed photons in the diphoton and missing transverse momentum final state in 8 TeV pp collisions - Andrew Hard
10:22 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:22 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium
10:45
10:45 - 11:35
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 US LUEC Committee Reports - Committee Chairs

11:15 Advisory Committee of CERN Users - Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)
11:35
11:35 - 12:35
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:35 Search for electroweak SUSY production - Dominick Olivito

11:47 Jet Reclustering in 0-lepton Direct Stop Search - Chaowaroj Wanotayoroj

11:59 Search for stealth supersymmetry with photons or leptons, jets, and low MET - Marc Weinberg

12:11 Latest Jet Results from ALICE - Megan Connors

12:23 Search for resonant production of two Higgs bosons in the four b-quark final state - Souvik Das
12:35

12:35 - 13:45
Room: Auditorium
13:45
13:45 - 15:21
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:45 Search for W' -> tb -> qqbb Decays with the ATLAS Detector - Ho Ling Li

13:57 Properties of a Higgs Boson in the H → ZZ → 4l Channel at CMS - Austin Belknap

14:09 Search for Higgs bosons pair production at the LHC using hh -> tautau bb channel - Puja Saha

14:21 UPC Physics at ALICE - Barak Gruberg

14:33 The Global Feature Extraction (gFEX) module and its Physics Impact - Giordon Stark

14:45 The CMS L1 Track Trigger at the HL-LHC - Marco Trovato

14:57 Search for 4th generation Vector Like Quarks that decays to a Z boson and 3rd generation quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8TeV with the ATLAS detector - Brad Schoenrock

15:09 Search for second generation leptoquarks - Lovedeep Saini
15:21 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:21 - 15:45
Room: Auditorium
15:45
15:45 - 17:20
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:45 US HEP Program Outlook - Joseph Lykken (Fermilab)

16:25 Lightning Round Winners Announcement - Ken Bloom (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

16:35 Discussion; AOB
17:20 Adjourn
Adjourn
17:20 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium

18:00 Dinner (Self-Organized)
Dinner (Self-Organized)
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Conference Room 1416 Thursday morning