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    New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy

    While breakthrough results over the past few years have garnered headlines proclaiming the dawn of quantum supremacy, they have also masked a nagging problem that researchers have been staring at for decades: Demonstrating the advantages of a quantum computer is only half the battle;… Read More
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    Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal

    University of Maryland Professor Cheng Gong (ECE), along with his postdocs Dr. Ti Xie, Dr. Jierui Liang and collaborators in Georgetown University (Professor Kai Liu group), UC Berkeley (Professor Ziqiang Qiu), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Professor David Mandrus group) and UMD Physics (Professor Victor M. Yakovenko), have made… Read More
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    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun

    Flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe uncovered a new source of energetic particles near Earth’s star, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers.  Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on May 29, 2025,… Read More
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    Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase

    Our world only exists thanks to the diverse properties of the many materials that make it up. The differences between all those materials result from more than just which atoms and molecules form them. A material’s properties also depend on how those basic building… Read More
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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
  • 1 New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy
  • 2 Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal
  • 3 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun
  • 4 Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase
  • 5 Mysteriously Mundane Turbulence Revealed in 2D Superfluid
  • 6 A New Piece in the Matter–Antimatter Puzzle
  • 7 Researchers Play a Microscopic Game of Darts with Melted Gold
  • 8 IceCube Search for Extremely High-energy Neutrinos Contributes to Understanding of Cosmic Rays
  • 9 Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

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Department News

  • Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award Mohammad Hafezi has received a Humboldt Research Award, which acknowledges his history of impactful research and supports visiting Germany to collaborate with colleagues there. Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation gives the award, which is supported by the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of… Read More
  • Sasha Philippov Named Outstanding Young Scientist Assistant Professor Sasha Philippov has received the 2025 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist (OYS) award. The OYS award program was established in 1959 to recognize and celebrate extraordinary contributions of young Maryland scientists. In 1988 the Outstanding Young Engineer (OYE) award was established to recognize contributions in engineering. Both… Read More
  • Chandra Turpen Cited for Mentorship Chandra Turpen has been named a University of Maryland Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year for 2025. The award recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to a student’s graduate experience. It both acknowledges outstanding mentoring provided by individual faculty and reminds the university… Read More
  • Brenda Dingus Elected to National Academy of Sciences Visiting Research Scientist and alumna Brenda Dingus (M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’88, physics) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her pioneering work in gamma-ray astrophysics.  Dingus is one of 120 members and 30 international members elected by their peers in 2025, joining… 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
 Dinner



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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  • 15:45 - 16:15
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
Discussion


  • 17:15 - 18:00
End of Day Discussion


  • 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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Heavy Resonance searches at CMS - Kerstin Hoepfner (RWTH, III. Physik. Inst. A)
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  • 12:00 - 12:30
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  • 12:30 - 13:30
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  • 13:30 - 13:50
Discussion on Top A_FB - initiated by George Sterman (Stony Brook)

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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
Coffee and Tea


  • 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


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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)