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    Mysteriously Mundane Turbulence Revealed in 2D Superfluid

    Despite existing everywhere, the quantum world is a foreign place where many of the rules of daily life don’t apply. Quantum objects jump through solid walls; quantum entanglement connects the fates of particles no matter how far they are separated; and quantum objects may Read More
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    A New Piece in the Matter–Antimatter Puzzle

    aOn March 24, 2025 at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. In its analysis of large Read More
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    Researchers Play a Microscopic Game of Darts with Melted Gold

    Sometimes, what seems like a fantastical or improbable chain of events is just another day at the office for a physicist. In a recent experiment by University of Maryland researchers at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, a scene played out that would be right Read More
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    IceCube Search for Extremely High-energy Neutrinos Contributes to Understanding of Cosmic Rays

    Neutrinos are chargeless, weakly interacting particles that are able to travel undeflected through the cosmos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole searches for the sources of these astrophysical neutrinos in order to understand the origin of high-energy particles called cosmic rays and, Read More
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    Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

    It’s hard to tell when you’re catching some rays at the beach, but light packs a punch. Not only does a beam of light carry energy, it can also carry momentum. This includes linear momentum, which is what makes a speeding train hard to Read More
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    Repurposing Qubit Tech to Explore Exotic Superconductivity

    Decades of quantum research are now being transformed into practical technologies, including the superconducting circuits that are being used in physics research and built into small quantum computers by companies like IBM and Google. The established knowledge and technical infrastructure are allowing researchers to harness quantum technologies in Read More
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    New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction

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    HAWC Finds High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emissions from Microquasar V4641 Sagittarii

    A new study in Nature, “Ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble around microquasar V4641 Sgr,"   has  revealed a groundbreaking discovery by researchers from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory:  TeV gamma-ray emissions from V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr), a binary system composed of a black hole and a main sequence Read More
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  • 1 Mysteriously Mundane Turbulence Revealed in 2D Superfluid
  • 2 A New Piece in the Matter–Antimatter Puzzle
  • 3 Researchers Play a Microscopic Game of Darts with Melted Gold
  • 4 IceCube Search for Extremely High-energy Neutrinos Contributes to Understanding of Cosmic Rays
  • 5 Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick
  • 6 Repurposing Qubit Tech to Explore Exotic Superconductivity
  • 7 New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction
  • 8 HAWC Finds High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emissions from Microquasar V4641 Sagittarii
  • 9 Nobel Prize Celebrates Interplay of Physics and AI

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  • World Quantum Day "Capital of Quantum" illustration by Valerie Morgan Happy Quantum Day! If that’s a salutation you’re unfamiliar with, this might not be the last time you encounter it. Celebrated every April 14, World Quantum Day seeks to boost understanding and appreciation of quantum science and technology. Read More
  • Breakthrough Prize Awarded to CERN Experiments On April 5, 2025, the CMS, LHCb, ALICE and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns Read More
  • Moille Awarded Distinguished Research Scientist Prize Associate Research Scientist Grégory Moille has received the Distinguished Research Scientist Prize from the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland. The award comes with a $5,000 prize and celebrates his research excellence.  “I'm deeply honored and grateful for this recognition,” Read More
  • Sclafani Cited for Dissertation Work Post-doctoral Associate Stephen Sclafani has been selected for the American Physical Society’s Ceclia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award, which recognizes doctoral thesis research in astrophysics and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results.    Sclafani was cited for performing the first observation of diffuse high-energy neutrinos from Read More
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The entire workshop will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union.  Please see the Transportation page for directions.

Please note: since the building is closed with the exception of the SEARCH conference, only three doors will be open.   These are: 1. the main “front door” on Campus Drive where the front desk is and the banners are on the outside, 2. The door just east of the front door, also on Campus Drive that leads directly into the stairs to the Grand Ballroom, 3. The upper side door on Union Lane, across from the Parking Garage.


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Saturday 17 March 2012

  • 08:00 - 08:55
Breakfast 



  • 08:55 - 09:00
Welcome by Dean of College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Jayanth Banavar



  • 09:00 - 09:20
Workshop Introduction -- R. Sundrum (Maryland)
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  • 09:20 - 09:50
Search for Low-Mass SM Higgs at ATLAS -- Bertrand Brelier (U. Toronto)
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  • 09:50 - 10:20
Search for SM Higgs at CMS - Albert De Roeck (CERN)


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  • 10:20 - 10:50
Search for high-mass SM Higgs at ATLAS -- Sylvie Brunet (Indiana University)
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  • 10:50 - 11:35
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  • 11:35 - 12:05
Search for Beyond SM Higgs bosons at ATLAS -- Jochen Christian Dingfelder (U. Bonn)

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  • 12:05 - 12:35
Searches for Beyond SM Higgs at CMS - Sanjay Padhi (UC San Diego)

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  • 12:35 - 13:30
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  • 13:30 - 14:00
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  • 14:00 - 14:30
Searches for heavy fourth generation quarks at CMS - Ricardo Vasquez Sierra (UC Davis)
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  • 14:30 - 15:00
Searches for exotic heavy quarks and ttbar resonances in ATLAS - Aurelio Juste (ICREA/IFAE, Barcelona) 
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  • 15:00 - 15:45
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  • 15:45 - 16:15
Coffee and Tea



  • 16:15 - 16:45
SUSY searches with b's, photons and MET at CMS - Joshua Thompson (Cornell University)
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  • 16:45 - 17:15
Searches for 3rd generation squark production at ATLAS -- Stephanie Majewski (BNL) 30'


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  • 17:15 - 18:30
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  • 18:30 - 20:45
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Sunday 18 March 2012

  • 08:30 - 09:00
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  • 09:00 - 09:30
Search for strong R-parity conserving SUSY production at ATLAS -- Chris Young (Oxford)
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  • 09:30 - 10:00
SUSY searches in Jets + MET at CMS - Leonardo Sala (ETH Zürich)
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  • 10:00 - 10:45
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  • 10:45 - 11:15
Single-lepton and opposite-sign dilepton SUSY searches at CMS - Benjamin Henry Hooberman (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)


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  • 11:15 - 11:45
Searches for gaugino production at ATLAS -- Christophe Clement (Stockholm University)
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  • 11:45 - 12:30
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  • 12:30 - 13:30
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  • 13:30 - 14:00
Searches for new particles with lepton final states at ATLAS -- Martina Hurwitz (LBNL)

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  • 14:00 - 14:30
Same-sign dilepton SUSY searches and multilepton searches at CMS - Slava Krutelyov (UC Santa Barbara)
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  • 15:15 - 15:45
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Searches of new particles in multilepton and diboson channels at ATLAS -- Koji Terashi (U. Tokyo, ICEPP)
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  • 16:15 - 16:45
Searches for R-parity violating SUSY signatures at ATLAS -- Shimpei Yamamoto (U. Tokyo, ICEPP)
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  • 16:45 - 17:15
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  • 17:15 - 18:00
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  • 18:00 - 18:45
Buses back to hotel to freshen up



  • 18:45 - 21:45
Buses leave for Dinner in Annapolis (Annapolis ( Stamp Union Ballroom ) )




Monday 19 March 2012

  • 09:00 - 09:30
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  • 09:30 - 10:00
Hadronic Exotica searches at CMS - Dinko Ferencek (Rutgers University)
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  • 10:00 - 10:30
Searches for jet + X resonances at ATLAS -- Antonio Boveia (U. Chicago)
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  • 10:30 - 11:00
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  • 11:00 - 11:30
Searches for Heavy Resonances Decaying to Top Quarks at CMS - Petar Maksimovic (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
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  • 11:30 - 12:00
Heavy Resonance searches at CMS - Kerstin Hoepfner (RWTH, III. Physik. Inst. A)
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  • 12:00 - 12:30
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  • 13:30 - 13:50
Discussion on Top A_FB - initiated by George Sterman (Stony Brook)

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  • 13:50 - 14:20
Searches for long-lived particles at CMS - Jie Chen (Florida State Univ.)
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Searches for long-lived particles at ATLAS --- Gordon Watts (U. Washington)
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  • 15:20 - 15:50
Extra Dimension searches (monojet, monophoton, dilepton, diphoton) at CMS - Alexey Ferapontov (Brown Univ.)
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  • 15:50 - 16:15
Discussion/(CMS Fermiophobic Higgs)



  • 16:15 - 16:45
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  • 16:45 - 18:00
Panel Discussion/Interviews on where LHC physics is headed - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS), Michael Peskin (Stanford), Riccardo Rattazzi (EPFL, Lausanne), Gavin Salam (CERN, Princeton University and LPTHE/CNRS), Matt Strassler (Rutgers) 1h15'
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  • 18:00 - 18:30
END OF WORKSHOP



  • 18:30 - 20:30
Quick Dinner for those with time before their departure



SEARCH Workshop

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From March 17-19, 2012 the SEARCH workshop will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD in the Grand Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union. It will bring together theorists and experimentalists from both ATLAS and CMS. The workshop will be focused on the 5/fb results from the SUSY, Exotics, and Higgs groups from both ATLAS and CMS.

Participation is by invitation only.

The workshop has been organized with the help of many theorists and experimentalists listed below:

 

Advisors - Theory

Nima Arkani-Hamed
Sally Dawson
Keith Ellis
Patrick Meade*
Kirill Melnikov
Michele Papucci*
Michael Peskin
Gavin Salam
Raman Sundrum*
Jay Wacker
Bryan Webber


*=Organizer

 

Advisors - Experimental

Henri Bachacou
Erez Etion
Eliam Gross
Richard Hawkings
Christopher Hill
Andreas Hoecker
Joe Incandela
Sandra Kortner
Greg Landsberg
Bill Murray
Aleandro Nisati
Sanjay Padhi
Pascal Pralavorio

 


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SEARCH Sponsors

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This material is based on work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0910467

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF)