Name: New Perspectives 2015
Start: 2015-06-08T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-06-09T22:30:00-05:00
Location: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

New Perspectives 2015

from Monday, 8 June 2015 (08:00) to Tuesday, 9 June 2015 (22:30)

Monday, 8 June 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: 1 West
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 1 West
Contributions

09:00 Observation of B+ → ψ(2S)φK + - Reddy Pratap Gandrajula (The University of Iowa)

09:15 CMS pixel detector upgrade - Xuan Chen (Purdue university calumet)

09:30 Search for a SM-like Higgs boson decaying into $\rm W^+W^-\rightarrow \ell \nu q\bar q^\prime$ final state in high mass - Bibhuti Parida (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)

09:45 Testing of the High Density Interconnect Circuits for the CMS Forward Pixel Detector Upgrade - Ashley Parker (SUNY Buffalo)

10:00 Search for an Invisible Decaying Higgs Boson in Dilepton Events at CDF - Cristiana Principato (University of Virginia)

10:15 Forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production at CDF - Ziqing Hong (Texas A&M University)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 1 West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 1 West
Contributions

11:00 FSPA Update - Mateus Carneiro (CBPF)

11:30 Validation of Extrapolation Techniques Applied to Leptonic Asymmetry Measurements - Katrina Colletti (Texas A&M University)

11:45 Avast! SeaQuest Charts the Nucleon Sea at Fermilab - Brian Tice (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 Dark photons at SeaQuest E906 Experiment - Arun Tadepalli (Rutgers University)

12:15 First Measurement of the Beam Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Delta Resonance Production by Q-weak - Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 1 West
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 1 West
Contributions

13:30 PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment - Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Illinois Institute of Technology)

13:45 Background and Detector Response Studies With PROSPECT Prototype Detectors - XIANYI ZHANG (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)

14:00 Progress Made with the Double Chooz Time Projection Chamber (DCTPC) Neutron Detector - Hexley Allie (MIT)

14:15 Fast Neutron Detection with MITPC at Fermilab - Marjon Moulai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:30 ANNIE: Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment - Erika Catano Mur (Iowa State University)

14:45 Sensitivity Study of Resonance Interaction in a Fine-Grained Tracker Detector - Hongyue Duyang (university of south carolina)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:45
Room: 1 West
15:45
15:45 - 17:45
Room: 1 West
Contributions

15:45 Neutrino-Electron Scattering at MINERvA - Edgar Valencia-Rodriguez (Universidad de Guanajuato)

16:00 Beam Energy Studies at the Minerva Test Beam Detector - Aaron Bercellie (University of Rochester)

16:15 Search for Sterile antineutrinos in MINOS - Navaneeth Poonthottathil Poonthottathil (CUSAT/Fermilab)

16:30 HARP targets π+ production measurements for MiniBooNE - Don Athula Wickremasinghe (University of Cincinnati)

16:45 Cosmic Muon induced EM Showers in NOvA Experiment - Nitin Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

17:00 Simulation & Beam Transport Systematics of Neutrino Flux in NOvA - Kuldeep Kaur Maan (Panjab Univeristy, Chandigarh/Fermilab)

17:15 Cosmic Ray Background Rejection in NOvA - Tian Xin (Iowa State University)

17:30 Impact of Beam Induced Radiation Backgrounds on the Cosmic Ray Veto System of the Mu2e Experiment - Steven Boi (Northern Illinois University)
18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Room: 1 West
Tuesday, 9 June 2015

08:00 Coffee & Snacks
Coffee & Snacks
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 1 West
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 1 West
Contributions

08:30 WIMP Searches with the SuperCDMS Experiment - Bradford Welliver (University of Florida)

08:45 DAMIC : a Low mass WIMP(~< 5GeV) detection project with CCDs - Junhui Liao (University of Zurich)

09:00 Search for sub-GeV Dark Matter @DUNE - Animesh Chatterjee (Postdoctoral fellow, University of Texas at Arlington)

09:15 Exploring Milky Way Halo Substructures from Large-Area Digital Sky Surveys - Ting Li (Texas A&M University)

09:30 Galaxy Evolution in X-Ray selected clusters and groups in Dark Energy Survey Data - Yuanyuan Zhang (University of Michigan)

09:45 An Overview of DESI and the Collaboration Efforts at SIDET - Conett Huerta Escamilla (Graduate Student)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:45
Room: 1 West
10:45
10:45 - 12:15
Room: 1 West
Contributions

10:45 Luminosity and Crab Waist Collision Studies - Wanwei Wu (University of Mississippi)

11:00 Machine Learning for Particle Accelerator Control Systems - Auralee Edelen (Colorado State University)

11:15 Measurements of Electron Cloud at Fermilab - Jeffrey Eldred (Indiana University)

11:30 Tailored smooth electron for efficient beam-driven acceleration - Francois Lemery (NIU Accelerator Physics)

11:45 Implementation of Quadrupole Scan Technique for Transverse Beam Emittance Measurements at Fermilab’s Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) - Andrew Green (Northern Illinois University)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:15
Room: 1 West
13:15
13:15 - 15:00
Room: 1 West
Contributions

13:15 Improved TPB-coated Light Guides for Liquid Argon TPC Light Detection Systems: Air Measurements - Alexander Moss (MIT)

13:30 Characterization of New Meter Scale Light Guides for Liquid Argon TPC Light Collection - Jarrett Moon (MIT)

13:45 Dirt Neutrons in MicroBooNE - Katherine Woodruff (New Mexico State University)

14:00 Searches for neutron-antineutron oscillations with Liquid Argon TPC experiments - Jeremy Hewes (The University of Manchester)

14:15 Searching for dark sector phenomena at LArTPC fixed target experiments - Brooke Russell (Yale University)

14:30 LArIAT - Liquid Argon In A Testbeam - Elena Gramellini (Yale University)

14:45 Scintillation light detection in the LArIAT TPC - Pawel Kryczynski (Fermilab/INP PAS Krakow)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 1 West

15:30 An eye-opening glimpse at the wealth of non-academic job opportunities
An eye-opening glimpse at the wealth of non-academic job opportunities
15:30 - 17:30
Room: 1 West

17:30 Panel Mixer
Panel Mixer
17:30 - 18:00
Room: 2 Crossover

20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Room: Users' Center