Name: HQL 2016
Start: 2016-05-22T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-05-27T18:25:00-04:00
Location: Inn at Virginia Tech

Monday, May 16, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016

6:00 PM Welcome Reception and Registration
Welcome Reception and Registration
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Latham Ballroom B

Monday, May 23, 2016

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 8:55 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome by the chair of the Physics Department - Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

8:39 AM Welcome by the Dean of the College of Science - Lay Nam Chang (Virginia Tech)

8:47 AM Welcome by the Vice President for Research and Innovation - Theresa Mayer (Virginia Tech)
8:55 AM
8:55 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

8:55 AM Neutrino Phenomenology - Pilar Coloma (Virginia Tech)

9:15 AM Results from the T2K Experiment - Jeremy Lopez (Colorado State)

9:35 AM Results from the NOvA Experiment - Kanika Sachdev (FNAL)

9:55 AM Results from the MINOS Experiment - Gregory Pawloski (U Minnesota)

10:10 AM Atmospheric and solar neutrino results from the Super-Kamiokande experiment - Erin O'Sullivan (Duke U)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

10:50 AM The Borexino & SOX Experiments - David Bravo Berguno (Virginia Tech)

11:10 AM The SuperK-gadolinium project - Luis Labarga (U A Madrid)

11:25 AM The meaning of Delta m^2_ee - Stephen Parke (FNAL)

11:40 AM Neutrino mixing and sterile-nu search at Daya Bay - Thomas Langford (Yale U)

12:00 PM Latest results of Double Chooz - Stefan Schoppmann (RWTH Aachen)

12:20 PM New results from RENO and the future RENO-50 project - Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul Natl U)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:05 PM
Room: Latham A
2:05 PM
2:05 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

2:05 PM Sterile Neutrino Review - Peter Ballett (U Durham)

2:25 PM The GERDA Experiment - Andrea Lazzaro (T U Munich)

2:45 PM The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR search for neutrinoless double beta decay - Clara Cuesta (U Washington)

3:05 PM The CUORE Experiment - Jon Ouellet (MIT)

3:25 PM The EXO-200 Experiment - Manuel Weber (Stanford U)
3:45 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
4:05 PM
4:05 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

4:05 PM Direct neutrino mass measurement in the Katrin experiment - Philipp Ranitzsch (U Muenster)

4:25 PM Direct neutrino mass measurement in the Project8 experiment - Brent VanDevender (PNNL)
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

4:45 PM The mu2e experiment at Fermilab - Aji Daniel (U Houston)

5:10 PM The COMET Experiment - Hisataka Yoshida (Osaka U)

5:35 PM Final results form the MEG experiment and the status of MEG-II - Francesco Renga (INFN Roma 1)
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

8:40 AM Spectroscopy theory - Estia Eichten (FNAL)

9:20 AM Production of quarkonium and heavy flavour in ATLAS - Maximiliano Sioli (Bologna / INFN)

9:45 AM Studies of e+ e- processes at and near the Y(5S) at Belle - Todd Pedlar (Luther College)
10:10 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

10:30 AM Study of charmonia and charmed baryons at Belle - Yuji Kato (Nagoya U)

10:55 AM Study of transitions and decays of bottomonia at Belle - Saurabh Sandilya (U Cincinnati)

11:20 AM Dalitz plot analyses and charmonium production at BaBar - Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)

11:45 AM Hadron spectroscopy at BES III - Xinkun Chu (Peking U)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: Latham A
1:40 PM
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

1:40 PM New heavy flavor resonances and Z_b states at D0 - Bob Hirosky (U Virginia)

2:05 PM Exotic spectroscopy at LHCb - Marcello Rotondo (Padova / INFN)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

2:30 PM Kaon theory - Emilie Passemar (Indiana U)

2:55 PM Kaons on the lattice - Norman Christ (Columbia U)
3:20 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

3:40 PM Recent results from NA48/2 (LFV etc) and NA62 (neutral pion form factor) - Nicolas Lurkin (U Birmingham)

4:05 PM Search for heavy neutrinos in kaon decays at BNL E949 - Laurence Littenberg (BNL)

4:30 PM Search for K+ to pi+ nu nubar at the NA62 experiment at CERN - Marco Mirra (Naples / INFN)

4:55 PM Status of the TREK/E36 experiment at J-PARC - Haiyan Lu (U Iowa)

5:20 PM The KLOE-2 experiment at DAFNE - Wojciech Wislicki (NCBJ)
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Review of top quark production at LHC and Tevatron - Kentaro Kawade (Nagoya U)

8:55 AM Review of top quark properties - Javier Cuevas Maestro (U de Oviedo)

9:20 AM New physics searches with t and b quarks at ATLAS and CMS - Sophio Pataraia (U Wuppertal)

9:45 AM Top Quark Theory - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State U)
10:10 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

10:30 AM Experimental low energy tests of lepton universality - Dinko Pocanic (U Virginia)

10:55 AM Initial results from the PIENU experiment - Tristan Sullivan (U British Columbia)
12:00 PM Excursion (with box lunch)
Excursion (with box lunch)
12:00 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Banquet
Banquet
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, May 26, 2016

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM CPV theory - Amarjit Soni (BNL)

8:55 AM Mixing and CPV in the Bd and Bs systems at ATLAS - Eva Bouhova-Thacker (Lancaster U)

9:20 AM Heavy flavour results from CMS - Keith Jarid Rose (U Tennessee)

9:45 AM Bs CP-odd lifetime in Bs -> J/psi f0 and A_fb for baryons at D0 - Bob Hirosky (U Virginia)
10:10 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

10:30 AM Charm mixing and CPV at LHCb - Artur Ukleja (Warsaw-NCBJ)

10:55 AM CPV in B0-B0bar mixing with semileptonic decays at LHCb - Matthew Kelsey (Syracuse U)

11:20 AM Recent results on CPV and hadronic decays of B mesons at Belle - Mikihiko Nakao (KEK)

11:45 AM Search for CPV in D0 decays to radiative and hadronic decays at Belle - Tara Nanut (U Ljubljana)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: Latham C
1:40 PM
1:40 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

1:40 PM Rare decay theory - Enrico Lunghi (Indiana U)

2:05 PM b -> s l l and b -> s gamma at Belle - Akimasa Ishikawa (Tohoku U)

2:30 PM B- > K tau tau, B - >K pi pi gamma and B -> K* l l at BaBar - Benjamin Oberhof (INFN Frascati)

2:55 PM Rare b and c decays a LHCb - Maximilian Schlupp (Dotrmund T U)
3:20 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

3:40 PM B_{d/s} to mu mu in ATLAS - Jaroslav Guenther (U Innsbruck)

4:05 PM Dark sector search at BES III - Mihajlo Kornicer (U Hawaii)

4:30 PM Charmless b-meson and b-baryon decays at LHCb - Adam Morris (U Edinburgh)

4:55 PM Charmless Bs decays at Belle - Bilas Pal (U Cincinnati)
5:20 PM
5:20 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

5:20 PM CPV in D+ to pi+ pi0 and D0-D0bar mixing in D0 to pi+ pi- pi0 at BaBar - Giulia Casarosa (Pisa / INFN)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 304
Friday, May 27, 2016

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

8:30 AM Extraction of Vub and Vcb (theory) - Ben Grinstein (UCSD)

8:55 AM Lattice QCD results for semileptonic form factors - Ran Zhou (FNAL)

9:20 AM Charm decays and CKM matrix measurements at BES III - Jianming Bian (U Minnesota)

9:45 AM Semileptonic decays of b-baryons at LHCb - Svende Braun (U Heidelberg)
10:10 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

10:30 AM Tree-level new physics searches in semileptonic B decays at Belle - Christoph Schwanda (HEPHY)

10:55 AM Test of lepton flavour universality with semi-tauonic decays of b-hadrons at LHCb - Anna Lupato (Padova / INFN)
11:20 AM
11:20 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

11:20 AM SuperKEKB and Belle II - Chunhua Li (U Melbourne)

11:45 AM LHCb upgrade and beyond - Tomasz Szumlak (Cracow-UGH)

12:10 PM International Linear Collider - Paul Grannis (Stony Brook U)
12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Latham C
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

2:00 PM SBND - Serhan Tufanli (Yale U)

2:25 PM DUNE - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

2:50 PM HyperK - Masaki Ishitsuka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

3:15 PM The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory - Marco Grassi (IHEP)
3:40 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall
Contributions

4:00 PM nEXO - Brian Mong (SLAC)

4:25 PM SNO+ - Szymon Manecki (Queens U)

4:50 PM SHiP: a new facility with a dedicated detector to search for new long-lived neutral particles and studying tau neutrino properties - Antonia Di Crescenzo (Napoli / INFN)
5:15 PM

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Alumni Assembly Hall