Fall 2009

Month Day Note Presenter Title Host


August
31 Mon Daniel Goldin
(SMU/Texas A&M)
My work at SMU: monopoles at ATLAS and other projects [ppt]


September
28 Mon Marco Guzzi
SMU
Axions at the LHC [pdf]
30 Wed
9am
Rm 202 Azeddine Kasmi
SMU
Searches for continuum and resonant production of Z boson pairs using the ATLAS Detector [pdf]


October
5 Mon Fred Olness
SMU
QCD puzzles, predictions, and prognosis
12 Mon Fall break
19 Mon Bob McElrath
CERN
Polynomial systems for determination of masses in LHC events with missing energy [abstract][pdf] Cooley
26 Mon Lisa Kaufman
Jefferson Laboratory
A miner challenge: searching for double beta decay in xenon 2150 ft underground in New Mexico [abstract][pdf] Cooley


November
9 Mon Tom Coan
SMU
NOvA Neutrino Experiment [pdf]
16 Mon Eugene Galyaev
UT Dallas
Commissioning and Status of the ATLAS pixel detector at the LHC [abstract] Cooley
23 Mon Jaehoon Yu
UT Arlington
Development of GEM Digital HCAL for the ILC and the Use of GEM Technology Beyond HEP [abstract][Dr. Yu's brief CV] [pdf] Kehoe
30 Mon Rm 202
Via VRVS
Alexander Pronko
Fermilab
Diboson production at CDF [pdf] Nadolsky


December
7 Mon Arjun Menon
Illinois Institute of Technology
Electroweak baryogenesis according to minimal supersymmetry [pdf] Nadolsky
10 Thur
4pm
Rm 202
(tbc)
Arjun Menon
Illinois Institute of Technology
B-physics, Higgs physics, and dark matter constraints on supersymmetry [pdf] Nadolsky
15 Tue
2pm
Rm 202
By video
Sami Kama
DESY
Operational monitoring of ATLAS trigger and automatic MC tuning for minimum bias events at the LHC [pdf]     Kehoe