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Welcome to Madison Wesley H. Smith U. Wisconsin Madison US LHC Users Organization Meeting November 7, 2013 Pyle Center Welcome to Madison - 1 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013 Wisconsin People @ the Large Hadron Collider


  1. Welcome to Madison Wesley H. Smith U. Wisconsin – Madison US LHC Users Organization Meeting November 7, 2013 Pyle Center Welcome to Madison - 1 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  2. Wisconsin People @ the Large Hadron Collider Two experiments: CMS & ATLAS, both joined in 1993: University of Wisconsin CMS Group Professors: D. Carlsmith, S. Dasu, M. Herndon, W. H. Smith Ph. D. Physicists: M. Cepeda, S. Djuric, E. Friis , P. Klabbers, A. Lanaro, R. Loveless, A. Mohapatra, A. Savin, T. Sarangi Graduate Students: A. Belknap, L. Dodd , A. Levine, I. Ojalvo, T. Perry, D. Taylor, N. Woods Undergraduate Students: J. Beres, S. Cooperstein Engineering Staff: M. Blake, D. Bradley, R. Fobes, T. Gorski, J. Tikalsky Physical Sciences Laboratory Engineers: F. Feyzi, L. Greenler, P. Robl, D. Wenman University of Wisconsin ATLAS Group Professor Sau Lan Wu Welcome to Madison - 2 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  3. Wisconsin ATLAS People Professors Sau Lan Wu and Professors Sau Lan Wu and Miron Livny at CERN, 2010 Peter Higgs at CERN, July 4 2012 Prof. Wu: "I have been looking for you for over 20 years” Prof. Higgs: "Now you have found me!” Welcome to Madison - 3 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  4. Wisconsin CMS People 2010-2012 4 Faculty, 1 Emeritus 5 Scientists, 2 Alumni 2 Postdocs, 1 Alumnus 5 Students, 7 Recent Ph.D.s 4 Support Staff, 2 Alumni Welcome to Madison - 4 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  5. UW Engineered Disks Instrumented with CSC chambers PIs: Dick Loveless, Matt Herndon, Duncan Carlsmith with Armando Lanaro, Farshid Feyzi & P hysical S ciences L ab Welcome to Madison - 5 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  6. UW Engineered Calorimeter Trigger Electronics Joe Lackey, Tom Gorski, Pam Klabbers Evan Friis, Maria Cepeda, Sridhara Dasu Bob Fobes, Matt Jaworski, … Ten Graduate Students and counting! PI: Wesley Smith Welcome to Madison - 6 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  7. UW Tier-2 Computing Center Dan Bradley, Ajit Mohapatra, Tapas Sarangi, Will Maier, Steve Rader, 5 Graduate and UG Students and counting! PI: Sridhara Dasu Welcome to Madison - 7 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  8. Michalis Bachtis, Ph.D., 2012 Advisor: Sridhara Dasu Heavy Neutral Particle Decays to Tau Pairs at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with CMS at the Large Hadron Collider Defined the program for Higgs decays to tau pairs Won 2012 CMS Best Thesis Award Welcome to Madison - 8 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  9. Joshua Swanson, Ph.D., 2013 Advisor: Wesley Smith Search for a Neutral Higgs Boson Decaying to Tau Leptons using CMS at the LHC Welcome to Madison - 9 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  10. Haichen Wang, Ph.D., 2013 Advisor: Sau Lan Wu Discovery of a New Boson in the Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in the DiPhoton Final State with the ATLAS Detector Welcome to Madison - 10 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

  11. Wisconsin HEP HEP @ Wisconsin: 60 Year Program LHC Experimental Program: • ATLAS & CMS Theory programs: • Cosmology, Phenomenology, String Theory Graduating Students: • 105 Ph.D.s awarded 1999 – 2012 • 13 in 2011, 12 in 2012, 7 in 2013 so far Excited to be hosting USLUO in Madison! Again…Welcome! Welcome to Madison - 11 Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin, November 7, 2013

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