March 29-31, 2018

Scientific Program

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Thursday, March 29 (afternoon)

Time Location Event Speaker
04:05 pm NPB-1002 Celebration Colloquium: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and a New Science  (watch live!) Barry Barish

Friday, March 30 (morning)

  Chairperson: Darin Acosta
Time Location Event Speaker
8:50 am NPB-2205 Opening Remarks David Norton, Vice-President for Research
9:00 am NPB-2205 Search for Rare Higgs Decays at ATLAS Dmitri Tsybychev
9:25 am NPB-2205 Towards understanding of epigenetic control of gene expression Mikhail Bilenky
9:50 am NPB-2205 Search of Radiation Tolerant Semiconductor Detectors for HEP and a way of Lithuania to the Associate Membership of CERN Juazas Vaitkus
10:15 am Break
10:35 am NPB-2205 Measurement of pion Compton Effect and Charged Pion Polarizability Aleksander Olshevsky (remote)
11:00 am NPB-2205 Searches for Sterile Neutrinos at the DANSS experiment Mikhail Danilov (remote)
11:25 am NPB-2205 Neutrino oscillations: from early Dubna times to the present status Samoil Bilenky
11:50 pm Break for lunch

Friday, March 30 (afternoon)

  Chairperson: David Tanner
Time Location Event Speaker
1: 45 pm NPB-2205 Tevatron Legacy Dmitri Denisov
2:10 pm NPB-2205 True Measurements, False Discoveries Tiziano Camporesi
2:35 pm NPB-2205 LIGO Then and Now: UF's role in LIGO Over the Past Two Decades and LIGO's Plans for the Near Future David Reitze
3:00 pm NPB-2205 Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves Keith Riles
3:25 pm Break
3:45 pm NPB-2205 Searches for gravitational wave bursts with LIGO Sergey Klimenko
4:10 pm NPB-2205 Comprehensive Multisensory Multimodal Integration in Astrophysics Szabi Marka
4:35 pm NPB-2205 Beyond Advanced LIGO: the third generation detectors Rana Adhikari
5:00 pm End
6:30 pm Thomas Center Dinner Venue

Saturday, March 31 (morning)

  Chairperson: Andrey Korytov
Time Location Event Speaker
9:00 am NPB-2205 CMS: why and how it came to be what it is Paris Sphicas
9:25 am NPB-2205 Guenakh and the Incredible Endcap Muon Detector at CMS Jay Hauser
9:50 am NPB-2205 The Higgs Boson Discovery Andrey Korytov
10:15 am Break
10:35 am NPB-2205 Studying the Higgs Boson: Experimental probing with leptons and top quarks Aurelius Rinkevicius
11:00 am NPB-2205 Search for Sterile Neutrinos at the LHC with the CMS detector Didar Dobur
11:25 am NPB-2205 Higgs Boson and the Hidden Worlds of the Universe Alexei Safonov
11:50 am NPB-2205 From imaging of particle collisions to imaging the Universe with LSST Andrei Nomerotski
12:15 pm End