Bulletin no. 31

February 16, 2016 to March 15, 2016
Please consult the indicated INDICO pages for agendas, connections, and other details. In case of questions, please contact the LPC Coordinators:

Meenakshi Narain - narain at hep.brown.edu
Boaz Klima - klima at fnal.gov

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February 2016
Topic of the Week (February 16, 2016. 3 pm) - Info
    "Boosting the search for new physics: jet substructure and SUSY searches in Run 2 and
    beyond" - David W. Miller (U. of Chicago)
Wine and Cheese Seminar (February 19, 2016. 4 pm) - Info
    "Standard but not boring - the latest Standard Model measurements for CMS" - Regina
    Demina (Rochester)
Run2 Discussion Groups (February 22, 2016. 12 pm) - Indico Agenda
    "Jets (including substructure), Missing Et, pileup" - Jordan Damgov (Texas Tech U.), Ben
    Kreis (Fermilab), Salvatore Rappoccio (SUNY Buffalo)
Run2 Discussion Groups (February 26, 2016. 2 pm) - Indico Agenda
    "Triggers, lepton ID (e/mu/tau)" - Edward Laird (Brown), Lovedeep Saini (KSU), Si Xie
    (Caltech), Leonard Spiegel (Fermilab)
Run2 Discussion Groups (February 29, 2016. 12 pm) -
    "b/t/H/W/Z tagging" - James Dolen (SUNY Buffalo), Caterina Vernieri (Fermilab), Meenakshi
    Narain (Brown)

March 2016
Topic of the Week (March 2, 2016. 3 pm) - Info
    "The status of dark matter" - Edward W. Kolb (U. of Chicago)
Physics Forum (March 3, 2016. 3 pm) - Info
    "Big data tools in HEP (DIANA)" - Jim Pivarski (Princeton)
    "Uses of fast timing in high pileup" - Lindsey Gray (Fermilab)
Run2 Discussion Groups (March 7, 2016. 12 pm) - Indico Agenda
    (Cancelled due to preparations for Moriond)
    "Jets (including substructure), Missing Et, pileup" - Jordan Damgov (Texas Tech U.), Ben
    Kreis (Fermilab), Salvatore Rappoccio (SUNY Buffalo)
Topic of the Week (March 8, 2016. 3 pm) - Info
    "Axion searches and measurements of neutrino mass" - Gray Rybka (U. of Washington)
Special Seminar (March 9, 2016. 1 pm) - Info
    "Careers in Data Science and Data Engineering" - Kathy Copic (Insight Data Science)
Topic of the Week (March 10, 2016. 3 pm) - Info
    "Searches for Dark Matter and Supersymmetry at 13 TeV with CMS" - Dominick Olivito
    (UCSD)
Run2 Discussion Groups (March 14, 2016. 12 pm) - Indico Agenda
    "b/t/H/W/Z tagging" - James Dolen (SUNY Buffalo), Caterina Vernieri (Fermilab), Meenakshi
    Narain (Brown)

Editor - Jesus Orduna - (jjesus at fnal dot gov)