Conference on LHC First Data
December 12-14, 2010

Sponsored By: and UMATLAS

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MEETING LOCATION:
University of Michigan
Central Campus
Medical School Biomedical Science Research Building
Kahn Auditorium
109 Zina Pitcher Place
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Organizing Secretaries:
Angela Milliken
Beth Demkowski

University of Michigan
MCTP, 450 Church St.
3444B Randall Lab.
Ann Arbor MI
48109-1040

Scientific Program of the LHC2010 Conference at Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/LHC2010
Dec. 12 – Dec. 14, 2010 at Michigan
Early Registration Deadline: Nov. 12, 2010

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  • General schedule
      • Morning sessions from 9am to 12:30pm
      • Catered lunch each day: from 12:30pm to 2:00pm (in house)
      • Afternoon sessions from 2:00pm to 6:00pm
      • Breakfast and two coffee breaks each day
      • Conference banquet will be Monday night (Dec. 13) in same bldg as lecture hall (BSRB)
  • Program in each day

 

Sunday morning – starting from 9 AM (Chair: Homer Neal)

8:30

Breakfast (seminar rooms)

 

 

9:00

Welcome by UM Provost

Philip J. Hanlon

UM

9:10

LHC status and plan (30”)

Mike Lamont

CERN

9:40

CMS Status (30”)

Todd Adams

Florida State Univ.

10:10

ATLAS Status (30”)

Hong Ma

BNL

10:40 –11:00

Coffee Break (seminar rooms)

 

 

11:00

Alice Status (30”)

Jennyfer Klay

California Polytechnic State Univ.

11:30

LHCb Status (30”)

Miriam Calvo

Univ. of de Barcelona

12:00

Targets for early discoveries
at the LHC (30”)

Liantao Wang

Princeton

12:30-14:00

Catered Lunch in BSRB Seminar Rooms

 

 

Sunday Afternoon – QCD (Chair: Aaron Pierce)

2:00pm

Jet and photon physics with CMS (30”)

Colin Philip Jessop

Univ. of Notre Dame

2:30pm

Jet and photon physics with ATLAS (30”)

Francesca Bucci

Geneva

3:00pm

W/Z+jets with ATLAS (30”)

Alexander Paramonov

Argonne

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break (seminar rooms)

 

 

4:00pm

W/Z+jets with CMS (30”)

Jonathan Z Efron

Univ. of Wisconsin

4:30pm

Monte Carlo facing real data (30”)

Rick Field

Univ. of Florida

5:00pm

Properties of non pQCD events at
7 TeV (ATLAS&CMS) (CMS Speaker)

Wei Li

MIT

5:30pm

Future prospects for QCD computation (30”)

Zvi Bern

UCLA

 

Monday Morning– EW / Higgs  (Chair: Jonas Strandberg)

8:30

Breakfast (seminar rooms)

 

 

9:00

W and Z physics with CMS (30”)

Kalanand Mishra

FNAL

9:30

W and Z physics with ATLAS (30”)

Goetz Gaycken

U of Bonn, Germany

10:00

Diboson physics
(ATLAS & CMS) (30”) (ATLAS speaker)

Haijun Yang

U. of Michigan

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee Break (seminar rooms)

 

 

10:50

Can there be no Higgs boson? (30”)

Csaba Csaki

Cornell Univ.

11:20

Higgs search at Tevatron (CDF / D0) (30”)

Thomas Wright

U of Michigan

11:50

Higgs searches at LHC
(ATLAS/CMS 30”) (CMS speaker)

David Lopes-Pegna

Princeton Univ.

 

12:30-2:00

 

Catered Lunch in BSRB Seminar Rooms

 

 

 

Monday Afternoon – Bottom and Top  (Chair: Tom Wright)

2:00pm

Top physics at the Tevatron ( CDF/D0 35”)

Amitabha Das

FNAL

2:35pm

Recent B-physics results from Tevatron (25”)

Robert Harr

Wayne State Uni.

3:00pm

Bottom and Top and new physics (30”)

Bogdan Dobrescu

FNAL

3:30pm

B physics with CMS (25”)

Giordano Cerizza

Univ. of Tennessee

3:55 – 4:25 pm

Coffee Break (seminar rooms)

 

 

4:25pm

B physics with ATLAS (25”)

Xinchou Lou

UT Dallas

4:50pm

B physics with LHCb (30”)

Themis Bowcock

Univ. of Liverpool, UK

5:20pm

Top physics with ATLAS (30”)

Martijn Gosselink

Nikhef

5:50pm

Top physics with CMS (30”)

Kevin Patrick Lannon

Univ. of Notre Dame

6:45pm

Banquet in BSRB Atrium (ground level)

 

 

 

Tuesday morning – SUSY and Dark Matter Searches (Chair: Natalia Panikashvili)

8:30

Breakfast (seminar rooms)

 

 

9:00

Dark Matter, SUSY and the LHC (30”)

Brent Nelson

Northeastern

9:30

Status of Dark Matter searches (30”)

Neal Weiner

NYU

10:00

SUSY searches with early ATLAS data (30”)

Matthew Tamsett

Louisiana Tech

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break (seminar rooms)

 

 

11:00

SUSY searches with early CMS data (30”)

Yousi Ma

Caltech

11:30

SUSY search prospects with 1 fb-1 data (ATLAS & CMS)  (30”)

Rasmus Mackeprang

Copenhagen NBI

12:00

Kinematic techniques for events with
new missing particles (30”)

Ben Gripaios

CERN

 

12:30-2:00

 

Catered Lunch in BSRB Seminar Rooms

 

 

 

Tuesday afternoon – Other New Physics (Chair: Liantao Wang)

2:00pm

Searches at Tevatron (D0/CDF 30”)

Ioannis Katsanos

U. of Nebraska

2:30pm

Searches and new limits with CMS (30”)

Jie Chen

Florida State Univ.

3:00pm

Searches and new limits with ATLAS (30”)

Sing-Leubg Cheung       

Toronto

3:30pm

Heavy ion physics at LHC (ALICE 30”)

S. Voloshin

Wayne State Univ.

4:00-4:30pm

Coffee Break (seminar rooms)

 

 

4:30pm

Latest Heavy Ions Results from ATLAS (30”)

Brian Cole

Columbia

5:00pm

Distinguishing look-alike interpretations on new physics (30”)

Maria Spiropulu

CERN/Caltech

5:30pm

Long-term prospects for discovering
new physics at the LHC (30”)

Joe Lykken

FNAL