Kruger2014: The International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC

from Monday, 1 December 2014 (08:00) to Friday, 5 December 2014 (18:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
3 Dec 2014
4 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014
AM
09:00
Plenary Session -Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town) (until 11:30) ()
09:00 Welcome from the Department of Science and Technology - Dr Daniel Adams (Department of Science and Technology)   ()
09:15 State of Physics in South Africa - Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
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09:30 CERN: A European Laboratory for a Global Project - Dr Rüdiger Voss (CERN)   ()
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10:00 The CERN Medium and Long Term Program towards Future Discoveries - Prof. Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)   ()
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10:45 The Future of ALICE - Paolo Giubellino (CERN PH and INFN Torino)   ()
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11:30 --- Tea Break ---
09:15
Plenary Session -Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) (until 11:30) ()
09:15 Physics at FAIR: Oportunities for South Africa - Prof. Horst Stöcker (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)   ()
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10:00 Till the supersymmetric path? To tread or not to tread? - Prof. Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India)   ()
10:45 Physics of the Higgs Boson beyond the Standard Model - fabio maltoni (CP3-UCLouvain)   ()
11:30 --- Tea Break ---
09:15
Plenary Session -Dr Joerg Aichelin (SUBATECH) (until 11:30) ()
09:15 SM Higgs Combination and Higgs Properties Measurements in ATLAS - Kyle Cranmer (New York University)   ()
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10:00 Heavy-flavor physics with ALICE at the LHC - Silvia Masciocchi (GSI)   ()
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10:45 ATLAS Physics prospects at the high-luminosity LHC - Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)   ()
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11:30 --- Tea Break ---
10:00
Plenary Session -Prof. John Harris (Yale University) (until 11:30) ()
10:00 New Heavy Flavour Results from CMS - Prof. Vincenzo Chiochia (University of Zurich)   ()
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10:45 Light Flavour Production in the ALICE Experiment - Dr Michele Floris (CERN)   ()
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11:30 --- Tea Break ---
10:00
Plenary Session (until 11:30) ()
10:00 SUSY Searches in the ATLAS Experiment - Dr Lawrence Lee (The University of Adelaide)   ()
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10:45 Direct Photon and high-pT Particle Production with ALICE - Dr Klaus Reygers (University of Heidelberg)   ()
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11:30 --- Tea Break ---
PM
12:00
Plenary Session -Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town) (until 13:30) ()
12:00 Selected Highlights from the Precision Studies in ATLAS - Dr Hans Peter Beck (University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)   ()
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12:45 Highlights from Run-I from the CMS Experiment - Dr Albert De Roeck (CERN/Wagon Lits)   ()
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13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session -Prof. Alan Cornell (National Institute for Theoretical Physics) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 The dynamics of Composite Higgses - Dr Giacomo Cacciapaglia (IPN Lyon)   ()
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15:00 Matrix Techniques for Higgs Studies - Prof. Guenakh Mitselmakher (University of Florida)   ()
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15:30 Vector-like multiplets, mixings and the LHC - Prof. Aldo Deandrea (IPNL - University Lyon 1)   ()
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16:00 Recent QCD Results from ATLAS - Dr Andrew Hamilton (UCT)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session -Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Searches for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector - Dr Ketevi Assamagan (BNL)   ()
15:00 Search for Dark Matter at CMS - Dr Nadir Daci (IIHE - VUB)   ()
15:30 Search for the Higgs Boson in Fermionic Channels Using the ATLAS Detector - Kazuya Mochizuki (CPPM)   ()
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16:00 Higgs Beyond-the-Standard Model Higgs Physics Using the ATLAS Detector - Mr Guillermo Hamity (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
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16:30 --- Tea Break ---
17:00
Plenary Session -Dr Siegfried Fortsch (iThemba LABS) (until 17:45) ()
17:00 Review of Strange Particle Production up to LHC Energies - Dr Helmut Oeschler (University of Heidelberg)   ()
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12:00
Plenary Session -Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) (until 13:30) ()
12:00 The Tsallis Distribution in High Energy Physics - Dr Airton Deppman (University of São Paulo)   ()
12:45 Review of (anti-)(hyper-)Nuclei Production and Search for Exotic Baryon States with ALICE at the LHC - Dr Natasha Sharma (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)   ()
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session -Dr Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Searching for P and CP odd effects in heavy ion collisions - Prof. Domenec Espriu (University of Barcelona)   ()
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15:00 Collectivity phenomena search in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Dr Stefania Bufalino (Inst. for Scint. Materials of Nat. Acad. of Science of Ukraine)   ()
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15:30 Charmonium production in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Dr Ionut Cristian Arsene (University of Oslo)   ()
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16:00 Low mass dilepton measurements with ALICE at the LHC - Dr Hongyan Yang (Utrecht University)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session -Dr William Horowitz (University of Cape Town) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Two-loop renormalisation in UED models - Prof. Alan Cornell (National Institute for Theoretical Physics)   ()
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15:00 Electroweak Results from CMS - Dr Simon de Visscher (CERN)   ()
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15:30 The LHCb Upgrade: Detector and Physics Programme - Dr Richard Jacobsson (CERN)   ()
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16:00 Upgrade of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter   ()
16:30 --- Tea Break ---
17:00
Plenary Session (until 17:45) ()
17:00 Search for Exotics and Higgs Physics beyond the Standard Model with the ATLAS Detector - Dr Kenji Hamano (University of Victoria)   ()
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12:00
Plenary Session -Dr Joerg Aichelin (SUBATECH) (until 13:30) ()
12:00 Dynamics of strongly interacting parton-hadron matter - Dr Elena Bratkovskaya (ITP, FIAS, Uni. Frankfurt)   ()
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12:45 Heavy ion physics at LHCb - Dr Katharina Mueller (University of Zurich)   ()
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13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session -Dr Sahal Yacoob (University of KwaZulu-Natal) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Recent Electroweak Results from ATLAS - Tiesheng Dai (University of Michigan)   ()
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15:00 Search for the Higgs Boson in the ttH Production mode using the ATLAS Detector - Giuseppe Salamanna (INFN Roma Tre)   ()
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15:30 Jet Nuclear Modification Factor from the AdS/CFT Correspondence - Dr Razieh Morad (University of Cape Town)   ()
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16:00 Single top quark production cross section using the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Dr Cunfeng FENG (Shandong university)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Bs into mumu Combination LHCb - Mr Maximilian Schlupp (TU Dortmund)   ()
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15:00 D meson reconstruction with ALICE: present results and future perspectives - Prof. Massimo Masera (INFN and University of Torino)   ()
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15:30 Performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter - Louise Heelan (University of Texas at Arlington)   ()
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16:00 The Physics of Heavy Quarks in Heavy-Ion Collisions - Dr Joerg Aichelin (SUBATECH)   ()
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16:30 --- Tea Break ---
17:00
Plenary Session (until 17:45) ()
17:00 The physics of heavy-ion collisions - recent insights and open questions - Prof. Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)   ()
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12:00
Plenary Session -Prof. John Harris (Yale University) (until 13:30) ()
12:00 Searches for New Physics in CP violating observables and rare heavy Quark decays at LHCb - Mr Donal Hill (University of Oxford)   ()
12:45 Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector at the LHC - Dr Christian Autermann (RWTH Aachen University)   ()
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13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session -Dr zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS) (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Top-Quark Production at CMS - Dr Silvia Costantini (University of Ghent)   ()
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15:00 Exclusive quarkonia production in the forward acceptance at the LHC - Dr Katharina Mueller (University of Zurich)   ()
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15:30 An Experiment to Search for Hidden Particles at the SPS (SHIP) - Dr Richard Jacobsson (CERN)   ()
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16:00 Quarkonium Production and Polarization in pp Collisions with the CMS Detector - Ilse Kratschmer   ()
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14:30
Student Session (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Energy momentum tensor associated with hard parton production in finite time - Mr Ben Meiring (University of Cape Town)   ()
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14:50 Calibration Hits in the ATLAS Calorimeter - Ms Claire Antel (University of Cape Town)   ()
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15:10 Large $A_t$ without the Desert - Mr Ammar Abdalgabar (Wits University, School of Physics, Johannesburg)   ()
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15:30 Measurements of W+- boson production in p-Pb collisions at the LHC with ALICE - Kgotlaesele Senosi (iThemba LABS (University of Cape Town))   ()
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15:50 Radiation hardness of plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Ms Harshna Jivan (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
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16:30 --- Tea Break ---
17:00
Plenary Session (until 17:45) ()
17:00 Standard Model Higgs Boson at CMS - Dr Olivier Bondu (CERN)   ()
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12:00
Plenary Session (until 13:30) ()
12:00 Results from the p-Pb Run at the LHC - Prof. John Harris (Yale University)   ()
12:45 CMS - Past, Present, and Future - Prof. Greg Landsberg (Brown University)   ()
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13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Searches for Massive Top and Bottom Quarks Partners at CMS - Prof. Andrew Ivanov (Kansas State University)   ()
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15:00 Search for New Massive Resonances at CMS - Dr Otman CHARAF (University of Alabama Tuscaloosa)   ()
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15:30 Searches for electroweak SUSY production in channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons at CMS - Dr David Morse (Northeastern University)   ()
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16:00 The Upgrade of the LHCb trigger system - Dr Johannes Albrecht (TU Dortmund)   ()
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14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at the CERN SPS NA61/SHINE experiment - Ludwik Turko (University Wroclaw)   ()
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15:00 Measurements of the Top-Quark Mass and Properties at CMS - Mr Marc Dunser (ETH Zurich)   ()
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15:30 Double Higgs boson production at FCC-he and prospects for measurements of the Higgs boson self-coupling - Dr Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
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16:00 NLO Heavy Quark Energy Loss in Strongly-Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasmas - Dr Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)   ()
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16:30 --- Tea Break ---
17:00
Plenary Session -Dr Siegfried Fortsch (iThemba LABS) (until 17:45) ()
17:00 Heavy Ion Physics: A view from 30,000 feet - Dr Jurgen Schukraft (CERN)   ()
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