Stanford Graduate Student Orientation
(SLAC Day Thurs Sep/16/2010)
This is part of the two day program for incoming new graduate students at Stanford starting Fall 2010. The Thursday Sep/16/2010 program will be hosted at SLAC, while the Friday Sep/17 program will be organized on campus.
| Time | Location | Program/Presentation | Speaker/organizer | talk files/ material |
| 8:50-- 9:00 | Departs from the Oval | Bus from campus to SLAC | ||
| 9:00--10:05 | LCLS/SSRL | Tours of LCLS/SSRL | Pat Kreitz | Tour schedule details |
| 10:05--10:15 | Kavli lobby/patio (bldg 51) | Refreshments | ||
| 10:15--10:25 | Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | General Introduction | Su Dong | ppt, pdf |
| 10:25--11:00 | Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | Accelerator physics and facilities | Eric Colby | |
| 11:00--12:30 | PULSE labs (bldg 40) | PULSE lab tours and photon science posters | Phil Bucksbaum | |
| 12:30--13:50 | ROB (bldg 48) patio | Lunch + Poster session 1 | Student posters on accelerator | |
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13:50--14:15 |
Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | Particle physics theory | Shamit Kachru | |
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14:15--14:35 |
Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | Accelerator based particle physics experiments | Su Dong | ppt, pdf |
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14:35--14:55 |
Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | Non-accelerator based particle physics experiment | Giorgio Gratta | |
| 14:55--15:45 | ROB (bldg 48) patio | Break + Poster session 2 | Student posters on astrophysics and cosmology / Particle physics expt+theory | |
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15:45--16:10 |
Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | Astrophysics and Cosmology (I) | Chao-Lin Kuo | |
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16:10--16:35 |
Kavli Auditorium (bldg 51) | Astrophysics and Cosmology (II) | Greg Madejski | |
| 16:35--17:50 | NLCTA | Accelerator tour at NLCTA | Eric Colby | Tour schedule details |
| 16:35--17:00 | Kavli Auditorium/patio (bldg 51) | continued individual conversations | ||
| 17:00 | 1st return with Marguerite to campus | |||
| 17:35 | Remaining students return to campus with the orientation event bus (Kavli stop) |
SLAC Particle and Particle
Astrophysics faculty graduate student program
Poster Session Contributions
| Lunch hour session: Accelerator | ||
| Student Author | Subject Area | Poster Title |
| Alex Bullitt | Accelerator | SPS E-cloud & TMCI: Feedback & Control Experimental Studies |
| Joel Frederico | Accelerator | Transverse Emittance Growth in Facet |
| Yi Jiao | Accelerator | PARAMETER SCALING AND PRATICAL DESIGN OF TME LATTICE |
| Mike Litos | Accelerator | EVALUATION OF TEMPORAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES FOR TWO-BUNCH FACET BEAM |
| Themis Mastoridis | Accelerator |
LHC Beam Diffusion Dependence on RF Noise: Models and Measurements |
| Chris McGuinness | Accelerator | Fabrication and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals for Direct Laser Acceleration |
| Derek Mendez | Accelerator | Accelerator Research and Development: Photonic Crystal Fibers |
| Daniel Ratner | Accelerator | Steady State Microbunching in a Storage Ring for Generation of Coherent Radiation |
| Muhammad Shumail | Accelerator | DEVELOPMENT OF RF UNDULATOR-BASED INSERTION DEVICES FOR STORAGE RINGS AND FREE ELECTRON LASERS |
| Ken Soong | Accelerator | Laser Induced Damage of Dielectric Materials from Ultrafast Infrared Pulses |
| Ozhan Turgut | Accelerator | Electron-Clouds & TMCI: Reduced Model and Identification of the Bunch Dynamics for Control System Design. |
| Dao Xiang | Accelerator | ECHO-ENABLED HARMONIC GENERATION FREE ELECTRON LASER |
| Afternoon break session: Astrophysics and Cosmology / Particle physics experiments and theory | ||
| Student Author | Subject Area | Poster Title |
| Conrad Hutcheson | DES | The Dark Energy Survey |
| Bart Butler (and Dan Silverstein) | ATLAS | New physics search with b jet and missingET signatures |
| Spencer Gessner (and Josh Cogan, David Miller) | ATLAS | LHC beam interaction region characterization in ATLAS |
| Katie Malone | ATLAS | Overlay of zero-bias data events to ATLAS simulation |
| Dan Silverstein (and Spencer Gessner, David Miller) | ATLAS | Pileup corrections for jet energy scale determination |
| Jose Benitez | BaBar | Observation of New Charm Resonances at BABAR |
| Jose Benitez | SuperB | Focusing DIRC R&D |
| Sho Uemura | Heavy Photon Search | Heavy Photon Search |
| Daniele Alves | HEP theory | Composite Dark Matter |
| Randy Cotta | HEP theory |
Signs of Supersymmetric Dark Matter in the High Energy Sky? |
| Bart Horn | HEP theory | Micromanaging de Sitter Holography |
| Eder Izaguirre | HEP theory | Prospects at the LHC in Jets and Missing Energy Searches |
| Andrew Larkoski | HEP theory | Top Quark Amplitudes with an Anomalous Magnetic Moment |
| My Phuong Le | HEP theory | Supersymmetry Without Prejudice at the LHC |
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Contacts:
SLAC PPA graduate student program manager: Prof. Dong Su (sudong@slac.stanford.edu) for research informationSLAC PPA graduate student office administration: Judy Meo (gradoffice@slac.stanford.edu) for general info and proceduresLast significant update: Sep-25 2001 J. Schwiening
Last minor update: Oct-17 2003 M. Masaniai
Last minor update: Feb-23 2010 Su Dong