PROGRAM OF PARTICLE PHYSICS DAY

Friday 24.11. 2006

Session on Astrophysics & Cosmology:

Lecture hall B123 in Exactum:

chairman: Matts Roos

10.00-10.05 Kenneth Österberg: Welcome

10.05-10.25 Juha Peltoniemi: New Experiments in neutrino astrophysics

10.25-10.45 Janne Riitinen: Landau-Zener problem in a three-level neutrino system with non-linear time dependence

10.45-11.05 Juho Sarkamo: Measuring cosmic-ray composition with the EMMA-experiment

11.05-11.25 Reijo Keskitalo: Constraining isocurvature modes in the primordial perturbations using WMAP 3 year data

11.25-11.45 Tomi Koivisto: Accelerating Cosmologies in String-Generated Gravity Models

11.45 – 12.15 Coffee + Sandwich

Session on Detectors:

Lecture hall CK112 in Exactum:

chairman: Risto Orava

12.15-12.35 Timo Hilden: Construction of the TOTEM T2 telescope

12.35-12.55 Panja Luukka: Latest developments of radiation hard silicon particle detectors in HIP CMS Tracker project

12.55-13.15 Matti Kalliokoski: Parameterized Model for Simulation of Charge Deposition in Silicon Detectors of CDF

13.15 – 14.45 Lunch (not offered)

14.15 – 14.45 Coffee

Session on Phenomenology & Simulation:

Lecture hall CK112 in Exactum:

chairman: Paul Hoyer

14.45-15.05 Emidio Gabrielli: Searches for a Higgs boson in association with a photon and two forward jets

15.05-15.25 Ritva Kinnunen: CMS physics simulation studies in HIP and preparation to analysis

15.25-15.45 Jonna Koponen: Energies and radial distributions of B_s mesons on a lattice

15.45 Closure of Particle Physics Day