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

HQL 2016

from Sunday, May 22, 2016 (5:00 PM) to Friday, May 27, 2016 (6:25 PM)

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

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