Conferences 2009

• Miami 2009 - A topical conference on elementary particles, astrophysics and cosmology
  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  December 15-20, 2009
  The LHCb Experiment at the LHC: Status and Physics plans : Elie Aslanides (Marseille)

• Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics, 3rd general meeting
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  December 14-15, 2009
  Status of the LHCb Upgrade : Sheldon Stone (Syracuse)
  CPV@LHC : Yuehong Xie (Edinburgh)

• Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP 2009)
  Evian, France
  November 16-20, 2009
  LHCb Detector Global Status : Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)
  LHCb Tracking Commissioning: Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (Heidelberg)
  Indirect Searches in B Physics (covering all LHC experiments) : Olivier Schneider (Lausanne)

• Nuclear Science Symposium Medical Imaging Conference
  Orlando, USA
  October 25-31, 2009
  A sub-system of the LHCb experiment / The Calorimeter ReadOut Card (CROC) : Olivier Duarte (Orsay)
  LHCb Cross Talk Study to the Single Photon Response of a Flat Panel PMT for the RICH Upgrade at LHCb : Gianluigi Pessina (Milano) - poster session

• 12th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (2009 ICALEPCS)
  Kobe, Japan
  October 12-16, 2009
  Monitoring the LHCb Experiment Computing Infrastructure with NAGIOS : Enrico Bonaccorsi (CERN) - poster session
  Bringing the power of dynamic languages to hardware control systems : Juan Manuel Caicedo Carvajal (CERN)
  Management of the LHCb Online Network Based on SCADA System : Guoming Liu (Ferrara)
  The LHCb RICH Detector Control System : Antonis Papanestis (Didcot) - poster session
  Software Management in the LHCb Online System : Niko Neufeld (CERN) - poster session
  Implementing High Availability with Cots Components and Open-Source Software : Rainer Schwemmer (CERN)

• 11th ICATPP Conference
  Como, Italy
  October 5-9, 2009
  Cherenkov Light Detection for the LHCb RICH Updgrade : Erica Fanchini (Milano)
  Performance of the LHCb Silicon Tracker with first data : Matthew Needham (EPFL)
  Results from the first LHC beam reconstructed tracks in the LHCb Vertex Locator : Eduardo Rodrigues (Glasgow)

• 9th International Conference on Large Scale Applications and Radiation Hardness of Semiconductor Detectors (RD09)
  Florence, Italy
  September 30-October 2, 2009
  Commissioning of the LHCb Silicon Tracker with the LHC injection tests: Matthias Knecht (EPFL)

• Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP'09)
  Paris, France
  September 21-25, 2009
  A 40 MHz Trigger-free Readout Architecture for the LHCb experiment at CERN: Federico Alessio (Marseille) - poster session
  Plans for Experiment Protection at LHC : Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)
  LHCb: Hardware Data Injector: Jean Christophe Garnier (CERN) - poster session

• 22nd International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN'09)
  Relais San Clemente, Italy
  September 14-19, 2009
  Flavour physics at the LHC : Jaap Panman (CERN)

• 12th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines (Beauty 2009)
  Heidelberg, Germany
  September 7-11, 2009
  LHCb Radiative decays : Vanya Belyaev (Nikhef)
  LHCb Charmless B decays (eg. B->hh and ->hhh) : Laurence Carlson (Glasgow)
  LHCb Upgrade - Physics case and high luminosity option : Paula Collins (CERN)
  LHCb Production: onia, bbbar xsections, correlations : Yuanning Gao (Tsinghua)
  Expected Performance of LHCb PID and Tracking : David Hutchcroft (Liverpool)
  LHCb detector commissioning results with cosmics and first beam : Malcolm John (Oxford)
  Bs->Jpsi phi and Bs->phiphi : Olivier Leroy (Marseille)
  LHCb Charm physics : Javier Magnin (Rio de Janeiro-CBPF))
  Bs->mumu LHCb/ATLAS/CMS : Diego Martinez Santos (Santiago de Compostela)
  LHCb first physics with the first 10-20 pb-1 : Raluca Muresan (Lausanne)
  Bd->K*mumu and related decays LHCb/ATLAS : William Reece (Imperial College)
  LHCb Tree-level gamma determination : Stefania Ricciardi (RAL)
  Expected Performance of LHCb Trigger : Leandro Salazar de Paula (Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ)

• The 9th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity
  2nd School and Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry
  Corfu, Greece
  August 30-September 20, 2009
  LHCb Status and Physics Prospects : Monica Pepe-Altarelli (CERN)

• Seventh International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductors Tracking Detectors
  International Conference Center
  Hiroshima, Japan
  August 29-September 1, 2009
  LHCb Upgrade - A Vertex Detector for High Luminosity : Paula Collins (CERN)
  First Operational Experience from the LHCb Silicon Tracker : Abraham Gallas (Santiago de Compostela)

• 4th High-Energy Physics Conference in Madagascar (HEP-MAD 09)
  Antananarivo, Madagascar
  August 21-28, 2009
  Status of LHCb and physics prospects : Andreas Schopper (CERN)
  Search for new physics with rare decays at LHCb : Victor Egorychev (Moscow-ITEP)
  Prospects for CP Violation Studies at LHCb : Stephane Poss (Marseille)

• XIVth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics
  Moscow, Russia
  August 19-25, 2009
  Status and physics potential of the LHCb Experiment : Walter Bonivento (Cagliari)
  Trees, penguins and boxes at LHCb - Prospects for CP Violation measurements at LHCb: Tristan du Pree (Nikhef)
  Prospects for rare B decays at LHCb : Nicola Serra (Nikhef)

• XXIV International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies
  (Lepton Photon 2009)
  Hamburg, Germany
  August 17-22, 2009
  Invited Plenary talk : Andrey Golutvin (CERN)
  Radiative decays : Fatima Soomro (Imperial College) - Poster session

• 65th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics - LHC Physics
  St-Andrews, Scotland, UK
  August 16-29, 2009
  LHCb: Measuring B to mu mu K : Michel De Cian - Poster Session
  B^0_s -> mu^+ mu^- gamma decay in LHCb : Francesco Dettori - Poster Session
  RICH High Voltages & PDF Analysis @ LHCb : Erica Fanchini - Poster Session
  $B_{s}\to J/\psi ~\phi$ at LHCb : Conor Fitzpatrick - Poster Session
  Flavour Tagging at LHCb : Marc Grabalosa Gandara (Barcelona) - Poster Session
  Electromagnetic Calorimeter Calibration with pi^0 : Albert Puig Navarro - Poster Session

• Advanced Studies Institute - Symmetries and Spin
  Praha, Czech Republic
  July 26 - August 2, 2009
  LHCb status and early physics prospects : Giovanni Passaleva (Firenze)
  LHCb prospects for new physics in CP violation: Christoph Langenbruch (Heidelberg-PI)
  Prospects for Rare B Decay Studies at LHCb : Alessio Sarti (Frascati)

• 2009 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (DPF 2009)
  Detroit, USA
  July 26-31, 2009
  LHCb Prospects for Rare Decays : Marc-Olivier Bettler (Lausanne)
  Searching for New Physics in CP-violation measurements at LHCb : Steven Blusk (Syracuse)
  Production measurements at LHCb with the first data : Francesco Dettori (Cagliari)
  The LHCb detector : Eddy Jans (Nikhef)

• The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (HEP 2009)
  Krakow, Poland
  July 16-22, 2009
  Commissioning the LHCb Vertex Detector : Themis Bowcock (Liverpool)
  Measurement of the CP violation and CKM matrix at LHCb : Marta Calvi (Milano)
  Measurement of the CKM Angle gamma at LHCb : Marco Gersabeck (Glasgow) - poster session
  Plenary talk - Status of the LHCb experiment : Andrei Golutvin (CERN)
  V0 particle production studies at LHCb : Mathias Knecht (EPFL) - poster session
  The LHCb upgrade : Marcin Kucharczyk (Syracuse)
  Bc mass and lifetime at LHCb : Wenbin Qian (Orsay)
  Charmonia and bottom production measurements with J/psi events at LHCb : Giovanni Sabatino (Frascati) - poster session
  Search for new physics at LHCb: CP violation in Charm sector and rare decays of B hadrons : Marie-Helene Schune (Orsay)
  Studies of W and Z production with LHCb : Tara Shears (Liverpool)
  The High Level Trigger for Rare Decays at LHCb : Kim Vervink (CERN)

• 15th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 2009)
  DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  July 6-10, 2009
  Search for New Physics in rare decays of B mesons at LHCb : Giampiero Mancinelli (Marseille)
  Searching for New Physics in CP-violation measurements at LHCb : Peter Clarke (Edinburgh)

• 13th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering (EDS'09)
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  June 29-July 3, 2009
  Low-x QCD with forward jets in Atlas, CMS & LHCb: David Garcia de Enterria Adan (Barcelona)

• 11th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (iWoRiD2009)
  Prague, Czech Republic
  June 28 - July 2, 2009
  The RICH detectors of the LHCb Experiment: Carmelo D'Ambrosio (CERN)

• Workshop soft diffractive physics at LHC
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  June 26, 2009
  Prospects for Forward-Physics with LHCb : Michael Schmelling (MPI Heidelberg)

• XXIemes Rencontres de Blois - Windows on the Universe
  Chateau de Blois, France
  June 21-26, 2009
  LHCb Commissioning and Potential Early Results : Marc Deissenroth (Phys. Inst. Heidelberg)

• 10th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications
  Jeju, Korea
  June 8-12, 2009
  The LHCb calorimeter performance and its expected radiation induced degradation: Sergey Barsuk (Orsay)

• International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurements Methods and their Applications (Animma 2009)
  Marseille, France
  June 7-10,  2009
  Conception and validation software tools for the level 0 muon trigger of LHCb : Pierre-Yves Duval (Marseille)

• 17th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions (Susy 09)
  Boston, USA
  June 5-10,  2009
  b Physics at the LHC (Parallel) : Marco Gersabeck (Glasgow)

• Beyond the Standard Model Physics and LHC Signatures  (BSM-LHC)
  Boston, USA
  June 2-4, 2009
  b Physics at the LHC (Plenary) : Vladimir Gligorov (Glasgow)

• Flavor Physics and CP Violation 2009 (FPCP 2009)
  Lake Placid, NY, USA
  May 27-June 1, 2009
  Search for the B0s to mu+ mu- : Marc-Olivier Bettler (Lausanne ) - poster session
  2\beta_s measurement at LHCb : Geraldine Conti (Lausanne) - poster session
  Flavor Physics Techniques and Sensitivities at LHCb : Olivier Deschamps (Clermont-Ferrand)
  The LHCb Upgrade  : Pierluigi Campana (Frascati)
  DAQ Systems and Technologies for Flavour Physics : Beat Jost (CERN)
  LHCb VO decays with first data : Bodgan Popovici (Bucarest) - poster session

• Tenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2009)
  Torrey Pines Hilton, San Diego, USA
  May 26-31, 2009
  Flavor Physics at the LHC : Thomas Blake (Imperial College)

• 11^th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors
  La Biodola, Isola d'Elba (Italy)
  May 24 - 30, 2009
  The LHCb Muon detector commissioning and first running scenarios : Sara Furcas (Frascati) and Alessio Sarti (Frascati) - poster session
  LHCb RICH Online-Monitor and Data-Quality : Ulrich Kerzel (Cambridge) - poster session
  Overview of the LHCb Calorimeter System : Frédéric Machefert (CERN)

• 3rd International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2009)
  Leimen, Germany
  May 20-22, 2009
  Status of LHCb,c : Sergey Barsuk (Orsay)

• Journees de l'Ecole Doctorale "Physiques et Sciences de la Matiere"
  Marseille, France
  May 18-19, 2009
  Upgrade of the Timing and Fast Control System of the LHCb experiment at CERN : Federico Alessio (CERN) - poster session

• 16th IEEE NPSS Real Time Conference 2009
  Beijing, China
  May 10-15, 2009
  A 40MHz Trigger-free Readout Architecture for the LHCb experiment : Federico Alessio (CERN), Zbigniew Guzik (Warsaw), Richard Jacobsson (CERN)
  Handling online information in the LHCb experiment : Maria Del Carmen Barandela Pazos (CERN) - poster session
  Management of the LHCb DAQ Network : Guoming Liu (CERN) and Niko Neufeld (CERN)
  LHCb Silicon Tracker DAQ and DCS Online Systems : Pablo Rodriguez (Santiago de Compostela) - poster session
  An Integrated Control System for the LHCb experiment : Alba Sambade Varela (CERN)
  Controlling a large CPU farm using industrial tools : Alba Sambade Varela (CERN)

• Berkeley Workshop on Physics Opportunities with the first LHC data
  Berkeley, USA
  May 6-8, 2009
  Early Physics in LHCb : Tomasz Skwarnicki (Syracuse)

• The Third Workshop of the APS Topical Group in Hadron Physics (GHP 2009)
  Denver, USA
  April 29-May 1, 2009
  Hadron Physics at LHCb : Thomas Ruf (CERN)

• XVII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2009)
  Madrid, Spain
  April 26-30, 2009
  Search for new Physics in the B-sector at the LHC : Johannes Albrecht (PI Heidelberg)
  Probing low-x with Drell-Yan events at LHCb : Jonathan Anderson (Zurich)
  First measurements with the LHCb experiment : Markward Britsch (MPI Heidelberg)
  Precise luminosity measurement using electroweak bosons and two-photon dimuon production with LHCb : Francesco De Lorenzi (Dublin)
  Measurement of Bc mass and lifetime at LHCb : Jibo He (Orsay)
  Charmonia & bottom production measurement with J/psi events at LHCb : Matthew Needham (Lausanne)
  Studies of W and Z boson production in the forward region with LHCb : Sara Traynor (Dublin)

• Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2009)
  Prague, Czech Republic
  March 21-27, 2009
  Alignment of the LHCb Detector with Kalman Filter Fitted Tracks : Jan Amoraal (Nikhef), Adlene Hicheur (EPFL), Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef), Matthew Needham (EPFL), Louis Nicolas (EPFL), Silvia Pozzi (INFN), Gerhard Raven (Nikhef) and Stefania Vecchi (INFN) - poster session
  DIRAC Secure Distributed Platform : Adrian Casajus Ramo (Barcelona) and Ricardo Graciani (Barcelona) - poster session
  DIRAC Secure Web User Interface : Adrian Casajus Ramo (Barcelona) and Matvey Sapunov (Marseille)
  LHCb Full Experiment System Test (FEST09) : Marco Cattaneo (CERN) - poster session
  Automated Testing Infrastructure for LHCb Software Framework : Marco Clemencic (CERN) - poster session
  Python-based Hierarchical Configuration of LHCb Applications : Marco Clemencic (CERN)
  Recent Developments in the Gaudi Software Framework : Marco Clemencic (CERN)
  Experience with LHCb alignment software on first data : Marc Deissenroth (Heidelberg) - poster session
  Event reconstruction in the LHCb Online : Markus Frank (CERN) and Albert Puig Navarro (Barcelona)
  The LHCb Run Control : Clara Gaspar (CERN)
  Pilot Framework and the DIRAC WMS : Ricardo Graciani Diaz (Barcelona), Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Marseille) and Adria Casajus (Barcelona) - poster session
  Statistical Comparison of CPU performance for LHCb applications on the Grid : Ricardo Graciani Diaz (Barcelona) - poster session
  Online testbench for LHCb High Level Trigger validation : Jean-Christophe Garnier (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN, Clara Gaspar (CERN), Guoming Liu (INFN-Ferrara), Niko Neufeld (CERN) and Alba Sambade Varela (CERN)
  The nightly build and test system for LCG AA and LHCb software : Karol Kruzelecki (CERN) - poster session
  The LHCb data bookkeeping system : Elisa Lanciotti (CERN) and Zoltan Mathe (Dublin) - poster session
  CASTORFS - A Filesystem to Access CASTOR : Alexander Mazurov (CERN) and Niko Neufeld (CERN) - poster session
  Monitoring the DIRAC Distribution System : Raja Nandakumar (RAL), Marcos Seco Miguelez (Santiago de Compostela) and Roberto Santinelli (CERN) - poster session
  Performance of Combined Production And Analysis WMS in DIRAC : Stuart Paterson (CERN)
  The LHCb tracking concept and performance : Eduardo Rodrigues (Glasgow) - poster session
  Overview of the LHCb Tracking System and its Performance on Simulation and on First Data : Manuel Schiller (Heidelberg), Thomas Ruf (CERN) and Eduardo Rodrigues (Glasgow)
  Machine assisted histogram classification : Peter Somogyi (CERN) - poster session
  Reliable online data-replica in LHCb : Daniel Sonnick (CERN)
  VETRA : Tomasz Szumlak (Glasgow)
  DIRAC - the new generation of the LHCb grid software : Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Marseille)
  Managing Large Data Productions in LHCb : Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Marseille) and Alexey Zhelezov (Heidelberg)- poster session

• Hints for New Physics in Flavor Decays
  Tsukuba, Japan
  March 20-21, 2009
  Prospects for NP search at LHCb : Neville Harnew (Oxford)

• VI Meeting on B Physics
  Ferrara, Italy
  March 19-20, 2009
  Prospects for the measurement of mixing induced CP violation in Bs->JpsiPhi at LHCb : Olivier Leroy (Marseille)

• Interplay between Collider and Flavour Physics
  CERN, Switzerland
  March 16-28, 2009
  LHCb New B physics ideas : Ulrik Egede (Imperial College)

• Hints for New Physics in Flavor Decays
  Tsukuba, Japan
  March 12-17, 2009
  Ageing Phenomena in the Straw Tube Tracker (Outer Tracker) of the LHCb experiment : Sebastian Bachmann (Heidelberg) - poster session
  LHCb Vertex Locator commissioning and results from the first LHC beam reconstructed tracks : Silvia Borghi (Glasgow)
  Design and performances of the LHCb Muon System : Perluigi Campana (Frascati) - poster session
  Installation and operation of the LHCb Silicon Tracker detector : Daniel Esperante (Santiago de Compostela) - poster session
  The RICH system of LHCb : Roger Forty (CERN)
  Installation and Commissioning of the Straw Tube Tracker for the LHCb : Antonio Pellegrino (Nikhef)
  The Front-End Electronics of the Straw Tube Tracker for the LHCb Experiment : Antonio Pellegrino (Nikhef)
  LHCb trigger : algorithms and performance : Hugo Ruiz Perez (Barcelona)
  Overview of the LHCb Calorimeter System : Andreas Schopper (CERN)
  Status of LHCb Experiment : Eric Thomas (CERN)
  Commissioning the LHCb calorimeters with cosmic rays : Xavier Vilasis-Cardona (Barcelona)
  The LHCb Front-end Electronics System : Ken Wyllie (CERN)

• The XLIIIth Rencontres de Moriond - QCD and High Energy Interactions
  La Thuile, Italy
  March 14-21, 2009
  Early Physics with LHCb : Yasmine Amhis (LAL Orsay)
  LHCb commissioning (including TED and 10 Sept events) : Stefano de Capua (CERN)

• The XLIVth Rencontres de Moriond - Electroweak interactions and Unified Theories
  La Thuile, Italy
  March 7-14, 2009
  Readiness of the LHCb experiment for first data : Adriano Lai (Cagliari)
  Looking for New Physics:Prospects of B-Physics at LHCb : Uli Uwer (Phys. Ins. Heidelberg)

• Les rencontres de physique de la vallee d'Aoste - Results and Perspectives in Particle Physics
  La Thuile, Italy
  March 1-7, 2009
  LHCb Status and Early Physics Prospects : Monica Pepe-Altarelli (CERN)

• Lake Louise Winter Institute 2009
  Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
  February 15-21, 2009
  LHCb commissioning and readiness for first data : H. Voss (MPI-Heidelberg)
  Prospects for Bs->mumu measurements at LHCb : Elias Lopez Asamar (Barcelona)
  Prospects for gamma measurements at LHCb : Ying Ying Li (Cambridge)

• Aspen Winter 2009 - Worshop on Physics at the LHC era
  Aspen, USA
  February 8-14, 2009
  General status of the LHCb experiment : Richard Jacobsson (CERN)
  LHCb physics potential : Marie-Noelle Minard (Annecy)

• XXXVII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics
  Benasque, Spain
  February 8-13, 2009
  The LHCb experiment: looking for New Physics in B decays : Frederic Teubert (CERN)

• International School on High Energy Physics (LISHEP 2009)
  Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  January 19-23, 2009
  LHCb new physics potential : Renaud Le Gac (Marseille)