
SLUO LHC Workshop
SLAC July 16 & 17
Redwood Rooms, Building 48
Conference Call: 510-665-5437, Meeting ID: 2009
Tentative Agenda
Thursday July 16
8:00 9:00 AM
Ψ Organization of the Workshop 5 Gιrard Bonneaud (SLUO Chair)
Ψ Welcome 5 Persis Drell (SLAC)
Ψ The US ATLAS program 25 Mike Tuts (Columbia) & Howard Gordon (BNL)
Ψ The ATLAS Collaboration 25 Andy Lankford (UCI)
9:00 10:30 AM
Ψ Introduction 15 Anna Goussiou (UW) & Ariel Schwartzman (SLAC)
Ψ Standard Model physics with early data 15 Jason Nielsen (UCSC)
Ψ Top physics 15 Andrei Gaponenko (LBNL)
Ψ Jets/JES/MET 15 Ariel Schwartzman (SLAC)
Ψ Taus and physics with taus 15 Anna Goussiou (UW) (+ Dugan ONeil (SFU) & Eric Torrence (Oregon U))
Ψ Long-lived-neutral particles in ATLAS 15 Henry Lubatti (UW)
10:30 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 11:30 AM
Ψ TRIUMF and the ATLAS physics effort in Canada 15 Isabel Trigger (TRIUMF)
Ψ Collaboration with Latin America 15 Ricardo Piegaia (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
11:30 AM 12:10 PM
Ψ Introduction 10 Michael Peskin (SLAC)
Ψ Perspective of a phenomenological theorist 10 Tim Tait (UCI)
Ψ Perspective of a theoretical theorist - 10 Michael Dine (UCSC)
Ψ The BlackHat Collaboration 10 Zvi Bern (UCLA)
12:10 1:00 PM
Ψ LHC luminosity monitors at ATLAS and CMS 20 Alex Ratti (LBNL)
Ψ Commissioning with cosmics 20 Lauren Tompkins (LBNL)
Ψ Analysis model, resources and commissioning 10 Jim Cochran (Iowa State)
1:00 2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 4:00 PM
Ψ Introduction 25 Bill Lockman (UCSC) & Dennis Wright (SLAC)
Ψ A sampling of ATLAS simulation efforts
1. Simulation tools 25 Norman Graf (SLAC)
2. Cavern background 25 David Brown (U. of Louisville)
3. Pileup and event overlay in ATLAS simulation 25 Bill Lockman (UCSC)
Ψ Discussion with Users 20
1. Opportunities for getting involved
2. Getting user input
4:00 4:30 PM Coffee Break
4:30 6:30 PM
Ψ Introduction 10 Uli Wienands (SLAC)
Ψ LHC status & upgrades 25 Verena Kain (CERN)
Ψ Accelerator R&D at SLAC 25 Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
Ψ LHC upgrades and LARP 25 Alex Ratti (LBNL)
Ψ Collimator upgrades for LHC 25 Jeff Smith (SLAC)
Ψ Discussion 10
6:30 7:00 PM
Friday July 17
8:00 10:30 AM
Ψ Introduction to upgrade program 10 A. Seiden (UCSC))
Ψ Status of new layouts#1 20 Ch. Young (SLAC)
Ψ Status of new layouts#2 20 R. Partridge (SLAC)
Ψ IBL and pixel upgrades 35 M. Sciveres (LBNL)
Ψ Strip upgrades and trigger 35 C. Haber (LBNL)
Ψ ROD and data challenges 25 Rainer Bartoldus (SLAC)
Ψ Discussion 5
10:30 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM 12:30 PM
Ψ Introduction 5 Richard Mount (SLAC)
Ψ Summary of physics analysis perspectives and detector performance interests of the SLUO community 30 Peter Loch (Arizona U.)
Ψ University user perspectives of the ideal computing environment and SLAC's role 30 Bill Lockman (UCSC)
Ψ SLAC's goals and its role in LHC computing 20 Richard Mount (SLAC)
Ψ Discussion 5
12:30 12:45 PM
Updated: July 15, 2009