Program
For an overview of the scientific program see the Program Schedule
For plenary session talks and parallel sessions see below.
Plenary Sessions
All plenary sessions will be held in the Community Art Auditorium (see interactive Campus Map)
Click on "T" to download the talk (when available).
| Monday July 27th | |||
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| 8:30 am | Welcome to DPF-2009 | President Jay Noren (Wayne State University) |
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| 8:40 am | LHC Machine Status | Lyn Evans (CERN) | T |
| 9:10 am | ATLAS Detector Status | Jim Shank (BU) | T |
| 9:30 am | CMS Detector Status | Gregory Rakness (UCLA) | T |
| 9:50 am | Break | ||
| 10:10 am | LHC-b Detector Status | Eddy Jans (NIKHEF) | T |
| 10:30 am | ALICE Detector Status | John Harris (Yale) | T |
| 11:00 am | Experimenal Searches for Dark Matter | Sunil Golwala (Caltech) | T |
| 11:30 am | Interpretation of Possible Signals of Dark Matter | Aaron Pierce (Michigan) | T |
| 12:00 noon | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Parallel Sessions | ||
| 6:30 pm | Welcome Reception: Detroit Public Library | ||
| Tuesday July 28th | |||
| 9:00 am | Particle Astrophysics, High Energy Gamma-ray and Neutrino Astronomy | Angela Olinto (Chicago) | T |
| 9:30 am | Early Universe and Cosmology | Josh Frieman (FNAL) | T |
| 10:00 am | Higgs Searches | Mark Kruse (Duke) | T |
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am | Electroweak Physics | Heidi Schellman (Northwestern) | T |
| 11:30 am | Beyond SM Searches | Leo Bellantoni (FNAL) | T |
| 12:00 noon | Beyond SM Theory | Liantao Wang (Princeton) | T |
| 12:30 noon | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Parallel Sessions | ||
| Wednesday July 29th | |||
| 8:45 am | Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award | Ryan Patterson (Caltech) | |
| 9:00 am | Low Energy Searches for BSM Physics | Lee Roberts (BU) | T |
| 9:30 am | CP-violation | Tom Browder (Hawaii) | T |
| 10:00 am | Heavy Flavor Physics (Experiment) | David Hitlin (Caltech) | T |
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am | Heavy Flavor Physics (Theory) | Benjamin Grinstein (UCSD) | T |
| 11:30 am | Lattice QCD | Aida El-Khadra (Illinois) | T |
| 12:00 noon | Top Quark Physics | Mousumi Datta (FNAL) | T |
| 12:30 noon | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | DPF Business Meeting | ||
| 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Excursion/Conference dinner | ||
| Thursday July 30th | |||
| 9:00 am | QCD Theory | John Campbell (Glasgow) | T |
| 9:30 am | QCD Experiment | Don Lincoln (FNAL) | T |
| 10:00 am | Hadron Spectroscopy | Stephen Godfrey (Carleton) | T |
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am | Review of Heavy Ion Experiments | James Dunlop (BNL) | T |
| 11:30 am | Theoretical Review of Heavy Ion Physics | Larry McLerran (BNL) | T |
| 12:00 noon | Education and Outreach in HEP | Randal Ruchti (Notre Dame) | T |
| 12:30 noon | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 pm - 5:50 pm | Parallel Sessions | ||
| 6:00 pm | Public Lecture: Einstein's Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story |
Lawrence Krauss (ASU) | |
| Friday July 31st | |||
| 9:00 am | Neutrino Physics (Experiment) | Bonnie Fleming (Yale) | T |
| 9:30 am | Neutrino Physics (Theory) | Ernest Ma (UC Riverside) | T |
| 10:00 am | Recent Progress in Field and String Theory | Chris Herzog (Princeton) | T |
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am | Recent Progress in String Phenomenology | Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn) | T |
| 11:30 am | Latest Developments in Technologies for Detectors | James Brau (Oregon) | T |
| 12:00 noon | Future Accelerators | Pier Oddone (Fermilab) | T |
| 12:30 noon | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Parallel Sessions | ||
Parallel Sessions and Conveners
For an overview of the parallel sessions see the schedule of parallel sessions below
Click here for a schedule of talks. To send an e-mail to the conveners, please click on their names below.
Here is a schedule of parallel sessions please click here.