KRUGER2012 International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC

from Sunday, 2 December 2012 (19:00) to Friday, 7 December 2012 (20:30)
Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Dec 2012
3 Dec 2012
4 Dec 2012
5 Dec 2012
6 Dec 2012
7 Dec 2012
AM
09:45 Welcome - Dr Zeblon Vilakazi (iThemba LABS)   ()
10:00 Lessons from LHC8 - Dr Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN)   ()
Talk
10:45 LHC Status - Dr Mike Lamont (CERN)   ()
Slides
11:30 --- Morning Tea ---
09:15 Statistics for Higgs search and discovery - Prof. Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science)   ()
10:00 Overview of results from the ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC - Dr Yiota Foka (GSI/CERN)   ()
Talk
10:45 Testing the Standard Model with rare decays at the LHCb - Dr Eugeni Grauges Pous (Universitat de Barcelona)   ()
Talk
11:30 --- Morning Tea ---
10:00 The charm of hot matter - charmonium and open charm measurements in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Dr Anton Andronic (GSI Darmstadt)   ()
Talk
10:45 Heavy Ion Physics with ATLAS - Dr Zvi Citron (Weizmann Institute of Science)   ()
Talk
11:30 --- Morning Tea ---
10:00 The NICA Project - Prof. Alexander Sorin (JINR, Dubna)   ()
Talk
10:45 Strangeness from GeV to TeV - Dr Helmut Oeschler (TU Darmstadt and CERN)   ()
Talk
11:30 --- Morning Tea ---
10:00 Observation of Paramagnetic Fe3+ in Mn/Fe implanted Metal Oxides and III-Nitrides - Prof. Krishanlal Bharuth-Ram (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)   ()
10:45 Heavy Ion Physics from the CMS Collaboration - Prof. Pradeep Sarin (IIT, Bombay)   ()
Talk
11:30 --- Morning Tea ---
PM
19:00 Welcome Function on the banks of the Sabie River with Shangaan dancers and choir   ()
12:00 SM Higgs searches with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Dr Rachid Mazini (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Taiwan)   ()
12:45 Search for the Standard Model Higgs at the LHC - Prof. Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)   ()
Talk
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session I: BSM, Exotics (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Probing extra-dimensions at the LHC using quartic photon W and photon Z anomalous couplings - Mr Christophe Royon (IRFU-SPP, CEA Saclay)   ()
Talk
15:00 Searches for a light Higgs and dark photons at BABAR - Mr Rocky So (University of British Columbia)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Search for the neutral sypersymmetric Higgs boson at CMS - Mr Antonio Branca (University of Padova / INFN / CERN)   ()
16:30 Searches for neutral and charged Higgs bosons in the ATLAS experiment as a test of physics beyond the Standard Model - Dr Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University)   ()
14:30
Parallel Session II: Heavy Ion Collisions (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Light-flavour identified charged-hadron production in pp and Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC - Dr Roberto Preghenella (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro di Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi" and INFN Sezione di Bologna)   ()
15:00 (Anti-)matter and hyper-matter production at the LHC with ALICE - Ms Nicole Alice Martin (Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Flow with ALICE - Dr Mikolaj Krzewicki (GSI)   ()
Talk
16:30 Measurement of coherent J/Psi production in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHC - Dr Guillermo Contreras (CVUT Praga)   ()
Talk
14:30
Parallel Session III: Theory (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Tomography of the QGP by open charm and bottom mesons - Dr Joerg Aichelin (SUBATECH)   ()
15:00 The QGP dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions - Dr Elena Bratkovskaya (ITP, FIAS, Uni. Frankfurt)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 An effective model description of QCD thermodynamics - Prof. Ludwik Turko (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University Wroclaw)   ()
Talk
16:30 Is it Hard yet? The qualitative agreement of pQCD energy loss with RHIC and LHC data - Dr Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)   ()
Talk
17:00 The deconfinement of Charm and Beauty - Prof. Helmut Satz (University of Bielefeld)   ()
Talk
18:30 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Review of results from the Tevatron - Dr Sahal Yacoob (University of Kwazulu Natal)   ()
Talk
12:45 Strangeness production in the ALICE detector - Dr Domenico Elia (INFN Bari)   ()
Talk
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session IV: BSM, SUSY, Exotics (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Searches for Physics beyond the SM in Monojets and Monophotons events with the ATLAS detector - Ms Ruth Pöttgen (CERN)   ()
Talk
15:00 Search for single and pair production of dijet resonances with the CMS Detector - Dr Kai Yi (University of Iowa)   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Search for exotic resonances in diboson final states with the CMS detector at the LHC - Ms Flavia de Almeida Dias (Sao Paulo State University)   ()
Talk
16:30 Search for Exotics heavy resonances with the ATLAS detector - Mr Simon Viel (University of British Colombia)   ()
Talk
14:30
Parallel Session V: Quarkonia (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Quarkonium Production at STAR - Mr Christopher Powell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / University of Cape Town)   ()
Talk
15:00 J/Psi Production in the ALICE detector - Dr Guillermo Contreras (CVUT Praga)   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Production of beauty and quarkonia in ATLAS: transverse momenta spectra, prompt and non-prompt production, spectroscopy - Mr Tomas Jacoubek (Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)   ()
16:30 Latest results on the search for the D0->µµ and Bs(Bd)->µµ decays from CMS - Dr Fabrizio Palla (INFN, Pisa)   ()
Slides
14:30
Parallel Session VI: Standard Model Higgs (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Search for Higgs Decaying to WW at CMS - Mr Leonardo di Matteo (University and INFN Milano-Bicocca)   ()
Talk
15:00 Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced decaying to a b-quark pair and Tau-lepton pair with the ATLAS detector - Dr Ada Farilla (INFN Roma Tre)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H -> GammaGamma, H->WW and H->ZZ decay modes with the ATLAS detector - Dr German David Carrillo Montoya (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
Slides
16:30 Property measurements of the Higgs-like Boson from CMS - Dr Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary University London)   ()
Talk
17:00 Beam Energy Scan (BES) at STAR - Dr Grazyna Odyniec (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
Talk
18:30 --- Dinner ---
20:30 The African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications - Dr Ketevi Assamagan (BNL)   ()
12:00 Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model with the ATLAS detector - Dr Andree Robichaud-Veronneau (University of Oxford)   ()
Talk
12:45 New Results from CMS - Prof. Christopher Hill (The Ohio State University)   ()
Talk
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session IX and Student Session (until 17:00) ()
14:30 ATLAS measurements of vector boson and diboson production - Mr William Buttinger (University of Cambridge)   ()
15:00 Electroweak results from CMS - Dr Vitaliano Ciulli (Università di Firenze and INFN, Firenze)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 First direct observation of time reversal violation in the B system and new CPV results from BABAR - Prof. Franco Simonetto (Universita & INFN Padova)   ()
Talk
16:30 Evolution of Yukawa Coupling and Quark Flavor Mixings in the 5D MSSM - Mr Ammar Abdalgabar (University of Wits)   ()
Talk
16:40 Z' boson decay to di-muon final states - Ms Catherine Hsu (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
Talk
16:50 Baryon-Omega Meson Electroproduction - Mr Doomnull Attah Unwuchola (University of Johannesburg)   ()
Talk
14:30
Parallel Session VII: BSM, SUSY, Exotics (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Studies of exotic quarkonium states at CMS - Dr Alessandra Fanfani (University and INFN Bologna)   ()
Talk
15:00 Inclusive searches for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector - Mr Valerio Consorti (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Search for the Standard Model Higgs at CMS in the 4 Lepton Channel - Dr Nicola de Filippis (Politecnico and INFN Bari)   ()
Talk
16:30 Searches for natural supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector - Dr Mark Hodgkinson (University of Sheffield)   ()
Talk
14:30
Parallel Session VIII: Heavy Ion Collisions (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Photoproduction of Rho-0 in Ultra-Peripheral Nuclear Collisions at ALICE - Mr Kyrre Skjerdal (University of Bergen)   ()
Talk
15:00 Summary of ALICE at the LHC results from heavy flavour measurements in p-p and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies. - Dr Zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 The long-wavelength limit of the Boltzmann equation: recent insights in deriving dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics - Prof. David Rischke (University of Frankfurt)   ()
Talk
16:30 Hadronic Resonance Production in pp and pb-pb collisions at the LHC with the ALICE experiment - Dr Helmut Oeschler (TU Darmstadt)   ()
Talk
17:00 Phase Structure of Strongly Interacting Matter - Prof. Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw)   ()
12:00 CP violation at LHCb - Dr Olaf Steinkamp (Physik-Institut der Universitaet Zuerich)   ()
Talk
12:45 Standard Model and Top Physics with ATLAS - Mr Killian Rosbach (Université de Genève, DPNC)   ()
Slides
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session X (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Does p-p soft scattering attain saturation at the TeV-scale? - Prof. Uri MAOR (Tel Aviv University)   ()
15:00 Studies on B hadron production, spectroscopy and decays at CMS - Dr Xin Shi (National Taiwan University)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 The Tsallis Distribution at the LHC - Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town/iThemba LABS)   ()
Talk
16:30 Jet physics and vector boson plus jet physics at CMS - Mr Tom Cornelis (University of Antwerp)   ()
Talk
14:30
Parallel Session XI (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Top quark pair production cross section at CMS - Dr Silvia Costantini (University of Ghent)   ()
15:00 Top Quark production - Dr Danilo Enoque Ferreira de Lima (University of Glasgow)   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Top quark properties - Mrs Lucia Batkova (Comenius University in Bratislava)   ()
16:30 The Physics Case for the LHeC - Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin - Madison & The University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
14:30
Parallel Session XII (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Higgs to four leptons searches at the LHC : constraints on Abelian Hidden sector models - Dr Mathieu Aurousseau (University of Johannesburg)   ()
Talk
15:00 Renormalisation running of masses and mixings in UED models - Dr Alan Cornell (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
Talk
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter and Its Role for the Hunt for the Higgs Boson in the 2 Gamma Channel - Dr Federico de Guio (University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN)   ()
Talk
16:30 Turning on the Charm - Prof. Andre Peshier (University of Cape Town)   ()
Talk
17:00 Highlights from STAR - Prof. Sonia Kabana (SUBATECH)   ()
Talk
19:00 --- Conference Banquet ---
12:00 Towards the Little Bang Standard Model - Prof. Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)   ()
Talk
12:45 Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS detector at the LHC - Prof. Andrew Askew (Florida State University)   ()
Talk
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session XIII (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Implications of LHC results for Supersymmetry - Dr Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble)   ()
Talk
15:00 RHIC and LHC heavy ion collisions with pQCD Boltzmann transport - Prof. Carsten Greiner (University of Frankfurt)   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Charged particle production in Pb-Pb collisions in ALICE - Dr Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Sezione di Torino)   ()
14:30
Parallel Session XIV (until 17:00) ()
14:30 Searches for supersymmetry in resonance production, R-parity violating signatures and events with long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector - Dr Helen Hayward (University of Liverpool)   ()
15:00 Search for Exotics new particles with the ATLAS detector - Dr John Almond (University of Manchester)   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon Tea ---
16:00 Evidence for an excess of B to D(*) tau nu decays at BABAR - Dr Robert Kowalewski (University of Victoria)   ()
Talk
17:00 QCD in Astrophysics - Prof. David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw)   ()
18:30 --- Dinner ---