2009 SLUO LHC Workshop Agenda - July 16th - 17th, 2009 (Tentative Agenda, without slides)
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| 7:30 | Arrival and Coffee/Tea | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Introduction |
Gerard Bonneaud, LPNHE Paris (Session Chair) |
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| Organization of the Workshop | Gerard Bonneaud, SLUO Chair |
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| Welcome |
Persis Drell, SLAC Director |
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| The US ATLAS Program |
Mike Tuts, Columbia U. Howard Gordon, BNL |
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| The ATLAS Collaboration |
Andy Lankford, UC Irvine |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | Near-Term ATLAS Physics
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Anna Goussiou, U. of Washington Ariel Schwartzman, SLAC (Session Chairs) |
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| Introduction |
Anna Goussiou, U. of Washington Ariel Schwartzman, SLAC |
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| Standard Model Physics with Early Data |
Jason Nielsen, UCSC |
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| Top Physics |
Andrei Gaponenko, LBNL |
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| Jets/JES/MET |
Ariel Schwartzman, SLAC |
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| Taus and Physics with Taus |
Anna Goussiou, U. of Washington, Dugan O'Neil, SFU & Eric Torrence, Oregon U. |
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| Long-lived-neutral particles in ATLAS | Henry Lubatti, U. of Washington |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Near Term ATLAS Physics Analysis (con't) |
Anna Goussiou, U. of Washington Ariel Schwartzman, SLAC (Session Chairs) |
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| TRIUMF and the ATLAS Physics Effort in Canada | Isabel Trigger, TRIUMF |
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| Collaboration with Latin America | Ricardo Piegaia, Argentina |
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| 11:30 - 12:10 | LHC Theory | Michael Peskin, SLAC (Session Chair) | |
| Introduction | Michael Peskin, SLAC |
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| Perspective of a Phenomenological Theorist | Tim Tait, UC Irvine |
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| Perspective of a Theoretical Theorist | Michael Dine, UCSC |
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| BlackHat Collaboration | Zvi Bern, UCLA |
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| 12:10 - 13:00 | Commissioning and Operations | Emlyn Hughes, Columbia U. (Session Chair) | |
| LHC Luminosity Monitors at ATLAS and CMS | Alex Ratti, LBNL |
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| Commissioning with Cosmics | Lauren Tompkins, LBNL |
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| Analysis Model, Resources and Commissioning | Jim Cochran, Iowa State |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Simulation Tools and Projects at the LHC |
Bill Lockman, UCSC & Dennis Wright, SLAC (Session Chairs) |
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| Introduction |
Bill Lockman, UCSC & Dennis Wright, SLAC |
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| A Sampling of ATLAS Simulation Efforts | |||
| 1. Simulation Tools |
Norman Graf, SLAC |
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| 2. Cavern Background |
David Brown, U. of Louisville |
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| 3. Pileup and Event Overlay in ATLAS Simulation |
Bill Lockman, UCSC |
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| Discussion with Users | Dennis Wright, SLAC |
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| 1. Opportunities for Getting Involved | |||
| 2. Getting User Imput | |||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:30 – 18:30 | Super-LHC & Accelerator R&D - SLAC's Role in LARP |
John Corlett, LBNL, Tom Markiewicz, SLAC & Uli Wienends, SLAC (Session Chairs) |
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| Introduction |
Uli Wienands, SLAC |
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| LHC Status & Upgrades |
Verena Kain, CERN |
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| Accelerator R&D at SLAC |
Tor Raubenheimer, SLAC |
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| LHC Upgrades and LARP |
Alex Ratti, LBNL |
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| Collimator Upgrades for LHC |
Jeff smith, SLAC |
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| Discussion | |||
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Physics at the Terascale: The DESY Experience |
Wolfgang Ehrenfeld, DESY |
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| Friday July 17, 2009 | |||
| 7:30 | Arrival and Coffee/Tea | ||
| 8:00 - 10:30 | LHC Upgrade & Detector R & D |
Abe Seiden, UCSC and Su Dong, SLAC (Session Chairs) |
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| Introduction to Upgrade Program | Abe Seiden, UCSC |
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| Status of New Layouts #1 | Charlie Young, SLAC |
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| Status of New Layouts #2 | Richard Partridge, SLAC |
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| IBL and Pixel Upgrades | Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, LBNL |
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| Strip Upgrades and Trigger | Carl Haber, LBNL |
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| Rod and Data Challenges | Rainer Bartoldus, SLAC |
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| Discussion | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | LHC Computing |
Tom Glanzman and Richard Mount, SLAC Gordon Watts, U. of Washington (Session Chairs) |
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| Introduction | Richard Mount, SLAC |
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| Summary of Physics Analysis Perspectives and Detector Performance Interests of the SLUO Community | Peter Loch, Arizona U. |
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| University User Perspectives of the Ideal Computing Environment and SLAC's Role | Bill Lockman, UCSC |
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| SLAC's Goals and Its Role in LHC Computing | Richard Mount, SLAC |
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| Discussion | |||
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Closing Remarks | David MacFarlane, SLAC |
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