New Perspectives 2001
June 12-13, 2001


New Perspectives is a conference organized by the Graduate Student Association at Fermilab and endorsed by the American Physical Society and the Division of Particles and Fields. The conference is sponsored by Fermilab and the Universities Research Association.

The NP Conference is an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students that work at Fermilab to present their work. The conference includes talks on all physics subjects studied at Fermilab (QCD, Heavy Flavor, CP Violation, Tests of the Standard Model, Beyond the Standard Model, Searches for New Particles, Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology, Theoretical Developments, Detector Developments, Accelerator Technology, Ideas in Data Acquisition).

The GSA will like to encourage undergraduate students to present their work in all the NP 2001 sessions.

THE NP 2001 POSTER SESSION
On June 12th, 5:30 p.m. The NP2000 poster session is being held together with the Annual Users Meeting reception.  The posters will be judged for the "George Michail Memorial Poster Award" which is sponsored by the URA. The three best posters will be awarded the amount of $250 (first), $150 (second) and $100( third). The members of the judging committee are Bill Foster (chair), Aesook Byon-Wagner, Bob Tschirhart, Joe Incandela and Andreas Kronfeld.

Online submission of abstracts for a talk and/or poster is available at the registration page.

THE TALK SESSIONS
Talks will be held on June 13th from 9AM to 3:00PM in One West, and from 3:30PM to 5:30 PM in Wilson Hall 1N. The keynote address this year will be given by Michael Witherell. The talk sessions will consist of presentations from students and from our invited speakers, Martin Schmaltz and Henry Frisch.

Tuesday, June 12

5:30 - 8:00 pm Poster Session / Users Meeting Reception (WH 1st Floor Atrium)

Supernova Detection with MiniBooNE [M. Sharp (Columbia Univ.)]
MiniBooNE [K. Crews, C. Bomba, P. Marcus, W. Schroeder (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Bucknell University / E898)]
Direct Search for Magnetic Monopoles [M. Mulhearn (MIT / CDF)]
Neural Reco [A. Hass (Washington Univ. / D0)]
Collider Searches for Microscopic Black Holes [B. Liubo (Columbia Univ. / Theory)]
A Device for Critical Current Measurements of Superconducting Cables [M. Fratini (FNAL / TD Superconductors R&D)]
Charmonium at E835 [M. Graham (Univ. of Minnesota / E835)]
The Forward Proton Detector at D0 [M. Strang (Univ. of Texas at Arlington / D0)]
D0 Forward Proton Detector - Fiber Detectors [P. Krivkova (Univ. of Texas at Arlington / D0)]

Wednesday, June 13

8:30 am Participant Check-in

9:00 am Opening Address [M. Witherell (FNAL)]

9:30 am Presentation of the George Michail Poster Awards [B. Foster (FNAL)]

9:45 am - 10:30 am Session I: Run I. (WH1W)

9:45 am Analysis of the Rare Decay K(L) -> e e mu mu [J. Hamm (Univ. of Arizona / KTeV)]
10:00 am CDF Isolated Photon Cross Section at 1800 and 630 GeV [D. Partos (Brandeis Univ. / CDF)]
10:15 am A Search for Leptoquarks with the 2 Jets + Missing ET Final State [C. Hays (Columbia Univ. / D0)]

10:30 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Session II: Detectors. (WH1W)

11:00 am CMS Forward Pixel Detector [C. Rott (Purdue Univ. / CDF)]
11:15 am Intercalibration of Longitudinally Segmented Calorimeters [O. Lobban (Texas Tech Univ. / CDF)]
11:30 am An Online Monitoring Tool for Detector Calibrations at CDF [K. Carrell (Texas Tech Univ. / CDF)]
11:45 am MiniBooNE: A Search for Neutrino Oscillations [M. Sorel (Columbia Univ. / E898 (BooNE)]

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Invited Talk: Quark and Lepton Masses from Extra Dimensions [M. Schmaltz (FNAL)]

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Session III: Run II. (WH1W)

2:00 pm Neural Network b-tagging at CDF Run II [C. Neu (Ohio State Univ. / CDF)]
2:15 pm Run II Secondary Vertex b-tagging at D0 [A. Schwartzman (FNAL, Univ. of Buenos Aires / D0)]
2:30 pm Measuring the Top Mass in the Dilepton Channel [M. Coca (Univ. of Rochester / CDF)]
2:45 pm WWgamma Coupling at CDF in Run II [M. Kirby (Duke Univ. / CDF)]
3:00 pm Low Momentum Tracks [S. Demers (Univ. of Rochester / CDF)]

3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Session IV: Run II. (WH1N)

3:30 pm Jet Studies with Higgs Events [S. Grinstein (Univ. of Buenos Aires / CDF)]
3:45 pm High ET Jets - The True Energy Frontier [G. Davis (Univ. of Rochester / D0)]
4:00 pm Direct Search for Magnetic Monopoles [M. Mulhearn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology / CDF)]
4:15 pm A First Look at Electrons at CDF in Run II [G. Veramendi (Univ. of California, Berkeley / CDF)]

4:30 pm Invited Talk: What I (Think I) Learned from Alvarez, Feynman, Bob Wilson, Segre, and My Dad [H. Frisch (Univ. of Chicago)]

6:00 pm Barbecue at the Barn