Agenda of the West Coast LHC Theory meeting

This is the program of the West Coast LHC Theory meeting hosted by the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at UC Santa Cruz on May 21, 2010. The meeting will run from 9:30 am to 6:15 pm. All talks and refreshments/coffee breaks will take place in Room 102 of the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB). Lunch will take place in the courtyard in front of ISB.

• 9:30 - Refreshments provided prior to the start of the meeting.
• 10:00 - Andy Haas (SLAC) - Current status of LHC and ATLAS and prospects for the 2010 - 2011 run
• 10:45 - Ian Hinchliffe (LBNL)- Rediscovery of the Standard Model in the 2010-11 run
• 11:30 - Tim Tait (UC Irvine) - Prospects for Z', 4th generation, and other exotica in 2010-11 run
• 12:15 - lunch and networking
• 2:00 - Howard Haber (SCIPP) - Highlights of the MCTP Symposium on Higgs Boson Physics
• 2:15 - Andre Lessa (University of Oklahoma) - Prospects for the Discovery of supersymmetry (mSUGRA) in the 2010-11 run
• 3:00 - Harald Ita (UCLA) - Recent results on NLO QCD from BlackHat
• 3:30 - Matthias Neubert (Mainz University) - Renormalization-Group Improved Predictions for Top-Quark Pair Production at the LHC
• 4:00 - coffee break
• 4:30 - short contributions
  • 4:30 - Herbi Dreiner (University of Bonn and SCIPP) - SUSY Parameter Determination at the LHC
  • 4:50 - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC) - PMSSM at the LHC
  • 5:10 - Jack Gunion (UC Davis) - Prospects for detecting the light NMSSM CP-odd Higgs Boson
  • 5:30 - Sebastian Grab (SCIPP) - Discovery Potential for Slepton LSPs in R-Parity-Violating SUSY
  • 5:50 - Linda Carpenter (UC Irvine) - 4th Generation Neutrinos at the LHC

For any questions or further information about the workshop, please contact Howard Haber (Chair of the meeting).

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