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Sunday, 10 September 2006 - 17:00
WELCOMING RECEPTION
 
 
Monday 11, September 2006
Registration and Gathering  
09:00

Morning Session of AbeFest:
Experiences with Past Tracking Systems
10:00 From Mark3 to Super Babar Francesco Grancagnolo
10:20 Lessons Learned with the Mark II Drift Chamber Alan Weinstein
10:40 Linear Collider Vertex Detectors from SLD to SiD Martin Breidenbach
11:00 LPS Nicolo Cartiglia
11:20 Break
11:50 The Importance of the Silicon Tracker to the BaBar Physics Program Robert Cahn
12:10 Silicon Detectors and the SSC Gil Gilchriese
12:30 Silicon Tracking Detectors and Electronics – How We Got Here and Where We're Going Helmuth Spieler
LUNCH  

Afternoon Session of AbeFest:
Future Tracking Detector Systems  
14:00 The ATLAS Experiment Looks Forward to Physics Howard Gordon
14:20 The development of the ATLAS SCT Mike Tyndel
14:40 SLHC Phil Allport
15:00 Science Planning Robin Staffin
15:20 Break
15:50 The International Linear Collider: Opportunities and Challenges Barry Barish
16:20 Semiconductor Tracking Detectors at the International Linear Collider
Jim Brau
16:40 Why Silicon Tracking is Best (And How to Make it Better)
Bruce Schumm
17:00 Future Detectors for Astrophysics: Some valuable lessons learned from GLAST
Peter Michelson
17:20 Future Application of Semiconductor Detectors in Space Science
Tad Takahashi
Banquet - Rancho Canada Golf Club  
18:30
Tuesday 12 September 2006
Morning Session: Manufacturing and Wafer Type
08:30 Semiconductor device simulation of silicon radiation detectors
Rainer Richter
08:50 Technology of p-type microstrip detectors with radiation hard p-spray, p-stop and moderate p-spray insulations
Giulio Pellegrini
09:10 SMART Detector Project: recent results from the SMART experiment
Donato Creanza
09:30 P-type Sensor Development and Irradiation
Yoshinobu Unno
09:50 Development of Microstrip Detectors Made on P-type Silicon Substrates for Tracking at the SLHC
Gianluigi Casse
10:10 Break (Poster Session)
10:40 Status of the development of 3D silicon detectors at ITC-irst
Claudio Piemonte
11:00 3D active edge silicon sensor test results
Cinzia DaVia
11:20 Czochralski silicon as detector material
Jaakko Haerkoenen
11:40 Fabrication of CCDs
Steve Holland
12:00 Monolithic integration of detectors and transistors on high-resistivity silicon
Gian Franco Dalla Betta
LUNCH  
 

Afternoon Session: Pixel Technology
14:00 The ATLAS Pixel Detector Overview and Present Status
Reiner Klingenberg
14:20 The CMS Pixel Detector
Daniela Bortoletto
14:40 LCFI Status Report: Development of the ILC Vertex Detector
Andrei Nomerotski
15:00 Backthinning of CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
Marco Battaglia
15:20 Break (Poster Session)
15:50 DEPFET, a monolithic active pixel sensor for the ILC
Jaap Velthuis
16:10 3D Integration of Detectors and Electronics
Ron Lipton
16:30 Advances and Optimizations of CMOS sensors for Charged-Particle Imaging Stuart Kleinfelder
16:50 Monolithic Pixel Detector in a 0.15um FD-SOI Technology
Yasuo Arai
17:10 Deep-submicron FD-SOI for front-end application
Hirokazu Ikeda
Wine Tasting  
18:30
   
Wednesday 13 September 2006
Morning Session: Silicon Strip Detectors
08:30 Life on the Critical Path: Constructing Silicon Detectors for High Energy Physics
Joe Incandela
09:00 Design and Performance of the Layer 0 Detector for D0
Marvin Johnson
09:20 Status and Performance of the CDF Run II Silicon Detector
Tuula Maki
09:40 Status of the Belle Silicon Vertex Detector and its Development for Operation at a Super B-Factory
Samo Stanic
10:00 The CMS Silicon Strip Tracker
Carlo Civinini
10:20 Lessons learned during CMS Tracker End Cap Construction
Katja Klein
10:40 Break (Poster Session)
11:10 the ATLAS SCT
Uli Parzefall
11:30 The ALICE Inner Tracking System
Paolo Giubellino
11:50 Design and Production of the LHCb Silicon Tracker
Olaf Steinkamp
12:10 The SiD Silicon Tracker for the ILC
Richard Partridge
LUNCH
Afternoon Excursion to Point Lobos
14:00  
Thursday 14 September 2006
Morning Session: Radiation Hardness and Non-Si Materials
08:30 Development of ultra-radiation-hard tracking detectors for SuperLHC
Mara Bruzzi
09:00 Annealing of effective trapping times in irradiated silicon detectors
Gregor Kramberger
09:20 The LHCb vertex locator: present and future
Martin van Beuzekom
09:40 Cryogenic Si detectors for Ultra Radiation Hardness in SLHC Environment
Zheng Li
10:00 Systematic Study of Micro-Discharge Characteristics of ATLAS Silicon Microstrip Modules
Kuzuhiko Hara
10:20 Break (Poster Session)
10:50 Diamond Tracking Detectors
Harris Kagan
11:10 Developments of Si and CdTe Semiconductor Imaging Detectors and their Application to Compton Cameras
Shin Watanabe
11:30 Germanium-based detectors for gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy
Mark Amman
11:50 Radiation hardness studies of VCSELs and PINs for the opto-links of the Atlas SemiConductor Tracker
Suen Hou
LUNCH  

Afternoon Session: System Issues
 
14:00 A Study of Large Area Integrated Silicon Tracking Elements for the LHC Luminosity Upgrade
Carl Haber
14:30 Mechanical and Thermal Management for Silicon Tracker Systems
Bill Miller
14:50 ATLAS SCT Real-Time Alignment & Initial Survey
Richard Nickerson
15:10 Silicon Micro-pore X-Ray Optics
Yuichiro Ezoe
15:30 Break (Poster Session)
16:00 Current and Future Directions in Hybridization for Pixelated Particle Detectors
Alan Huffman
16:20 Challenges and Benefits of Designing Readout ASICs in Advanced Technologies
Wladek Dabrowski
16:40 Data Acquisition System Issues for Large Experiments
Eric Siskind
17:00 Serial powering of ATLAS silicon strip sensors
Marc Weber
17:20 Commissioning of the ATLAS SCT
Allan Clark

Dinner Lugano Swiss Bistro

18:00
Friday 15 September 2006
Morning Session: Space Applications  
08:30 Overview
Robert Johnson
09:00 The SNAP space mission: Space and Astrophysics Applications
Chris Bebek
09:20 The 3.2 Gpixel Camera on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
Steve Kahn
09:40 Gas pixel detectors for X-Ray polarimetry applications
Alessandro Brez
10:00 Break
10:30 Massive semiconductor detectors at very low temperatures for dark matter search: CDMS
Nader Mirabolfathi
10:50 Development of a large format charge-coupled device (CCD) for X-ray use in near future
Hiroshi Tsunemi
11:10 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory High-Resistivity CCDs in Ground Based Astronomy
Richard Stover
11:30 New Directions in Semiconductor Tracking Detectors
Veljko Radeka
LUNCH

Afternoon Session: Medical / Biological / CM Applications  
14:00 Medical Applications of Silicon Detectors
Peter Weilhammer
14:20 High-DQE Active Pixel Sensors for Electron Microscopy
Peter Denes
14:40 A single photon counting pixel detector system for synchrotron radiation applications
Hidenori Toyokawa
15:00 Analog Pixel Array Detectors for Time-Resolved X-ray Applications
Sol Gruner
15:20 Large Scale Multielectrode Recording and Stimulation of Neural Activity
Alexander (Sasha) Sher
15:40 Using Optical Metrology to Reconstruct Sound Recordings
Vitaliy Fadeyev