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32nd Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies Program

HUGS 2017
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
May 30 - June 16, 2017

Program

All activities will be held in the Applied Research Center (ARC Bldg.) unless otherwise noted. All lectures will be held in Room 231/233.

Monday, May 29

Students arrive    
 

Tuesday, May 30

08:00-08:30 Welcome Breakfast CEBAF Center Quark Cafe
08:30-09:00 Welcome to HUGS 2017 Alberto Accardi (Hampton U./JLab)
09:00-09:40 Bullying/Harassment Guidelines for Students Rhonda Barbosa (JLab) - SSC 72 (VARC)
09:40-09:55 Residence Facility Rules and Expectations Melissa Hicks (ResFac) - SSC 72 (VARC)
09:55-11:30 Check-in at Support Center Front Desk SSC 47 (VARC)
11:30-12:30 Overview of JLab's Physics Program Rolf Ent (JLab) - CEBAF F113
12:30-01:45 Lunch
02:00-03:00 Overview of JLab's Safety Program Bert Manzlak (JLab) - CEBAF F113
03:00-03:30 Photo Session and Break CEBAF Center Quark Cafe Patio
03:30-04:30 Overview of JLab's Computer Facilities Christopher Williamson (JLab) - CEBAF F113
 

Wednesday, May 31 - Room: ARC 231/233

09:00-10:00 Introduction to QCD (1) Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Introduction to QCD (2) Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch  
01:30-02:30 Hadron Spectrum (1) Michael Pennington (Glasgow U.)
02:30-02:45 Break  
02:45-03:45 Hadron Spectrum (2) Michael Pennington (Glasgow U.)
03:45-04:15 Informal Discussion  
04:30-06:30 HUGS Social Residence Facility Great Room

Thursday, June 1 - ROOM: CEBAF F113

09:00-10:00 Introduction to QCD (3) Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Introduction to QCD (4) Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch  
01:30-02:30 Hadron Spectrum (3) Michael Pennington (Glasgow U.)
02:30-02:45 Informal Discussion  
02:45-03:15 Break  
03:45-04:15 Topical seminar - "Why is the proton radius smaller in Virginia?" Douglas Higinbotham (JLAB)
 

Friday, June 2 - ROOM: CEBAF F113

09:00-11:30 JLab Tour Mike Robbins (JLab)
11:30-01:00 Lunch  
01:00-02:00 Introduction to QCD (5) Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
02:00-02:15 Break  
02:15-03:15 Introduction to QCD (6) Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
03:15-03:30 Break  
03:30-04:30 Hadron Spectrum (4) Michael Pennington (Glasgow U.)
04:40-05:00 Informal Discussion  
 

Saturday, June 3

Excursion TBA    
 

Monday, June 5 - ROOM: F113 (9:00-11:30, 12:30-4:15) F326/327 (11:30-12:30)

09:00-10:00 Hadron Spectrum (5) Michael Pennington (Glasgow U.)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Hadron Spectrum (6) Michael Pennington (Glasgow U.)
11:15-11:30 Break  
11:30-12:30 Statistical Methods and Applications to Analyses of the NN Potential (1) Enrique Ruiz Arriola (U. Granada)
12:30-02:00 Lunch  
02:00-03:00 Statistical Methods and Applications to Analyses of the NN Potential (2) Enrique Ruiz Arriola (U. Granada)
03:00-03:15 Informal Discussion  
03:15-04:15 Topical Seminar - Introduction to High Performance Computing Part I Balint Joo

Tuesday, June 6 - ROOM: F113 (9:00-1:30) Auditorium (1:30-5:15)

09:00-10:00 Statistical Methods and Applications to Analyses of the NN Potential (3) Enrique Ruiz Arriola (U. Granada)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Statistical Methods and Applications to Analyses of the NN Potential (4) Enrique Ruiz Arriola (U. Granada)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch
01:30-02:30 Nuclear Structure Studies and Short-Range Correlations (1) Or Hen (MIT)
02:30-02:45 Break  
02:45-03:45 Nuclear Structure Studies and Short-Range Correlations (2) Or Hen (MIT)
03:45-04:45 Topical Seminar - Introduction to High Performance Computing Part II Balint Joo
04:45-05:15 Informal Discussion  
 

Wednesday, June 7 - ROOM: F113 all day

09:00-10:00 Statistical Methods and Applications to Analyses of the NN Potential (5) Enrique Ruiz Arriola (U. Granada)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Science and Technology of the Electron-Ion Collider (1) Rik Yoshida (JLab)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
11:45-01:15 Lunch
01:15-02:15 Nuclear Structure Studies and Short-Range Correlations (3) Or Hen (MIT)
02:15-02:30 Break
02:30-03:30 Nuclear Structure Studies and Short-Range Correlations (4) Or Hen (MIT)
03:30-04:00 Informal Discussion + Break  
04:00-05:00 Physics seminar: Electrophobic Scalar Boson and Muonic Puzzles  Gerald “Jerry” Miller (U. of Washington) (CEBAF auditorium) 
05:00-06:30  HUGS Social Residence Facility Great Room
 

Thursday, June 8 - ROOM: F113 all day

09:00-10:00 Science and Technology of the Electron-Ion Collider (2) Rik Yoshida (JLab)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Science and Technology of the Electron-Ion Collider (3) Rik Yoshida (JLab)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch
01:30-02:30 Nuclear Structure Studies and Short-Range Correlations (5) Or Hen (MIT)
02:30-02:45 Break
02:45-03:45 Nuclear Structure Studies and Short-Range Correlations (6) Or Hen (MIT)
03:45-04:15 Informal Discussion  
04:15-05:15 "Why is the proton radius smaller in Virginia?" part II (pptx / github link) Douglas Higinbotham (JLAB)
 

Friday, June 9 - ROOM: F113 all day

09:00-10:00 The Science and Technology of the Electron-Ion Collider (4) Rik Yoshida (JLab)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 The Science and Technology of the Electron-Ion Collider (5) Rik Yoshida (JLab)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch
01:30-02:30 Electron Scattering Experiments (1) Wouter Deconinck (W&M)
02:30-02:45 Break
02:45-03:45 Electron Scattering Experiments (2) Notes Wouter Deconinck (W&M)
03:45-04:15 Informal Discussion  
04:15-05:15 Topical Seminar - Intro to Lattice QCD Part I Bipasha Chakraborty (JLAB)
 

Saturday, June 10

Excursion TBA    
 

Monday, June 12 - ROOM: 1:30 - 4:30pm, F113.

09:00-10:00 Fragmentation Functions and Global QCD Fits (1) Emanuele Nocera (Oxford U.)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Fragmentation Functions and Global QCD Fits (2) Emanuele Nocera (Oxford U.)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
11:45-12:45 Lunch  
12:45-06:00 Physics Careers Workshop
B. Chakraborty, E. McClellan,
A. Accardi (Chairs)
12:45-04:15 Room F113  
04:30-6:00 Theory + exp - F224 (follow Alberto Accardi)
NASA + industry - F228 (follow Bipasha Chakraborty)
Data science (John) - L207
 
 

Tuesday, June 13 ROOM: ARC 231/232

09:00-10:00 Electron Scattering Experiments (3) Wouter Deconinck (W&M)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Electron Scattering Experiments (4) Wouter Deconinck (W&M)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch  
01:30-02:30 Fragmentation Functions and Global QCD Fits (3) Emanuele Nocera (Oxford U.)
02:30-02:45 Break  
02:45-03:45 Fragmentation Functions and Global QCD Fits (4) Emanuele Nocera (Oxford U.)
03:45-04:00 Break  
04:00-05:00 Topical Seminar - Intro to Lattice QCD Part II Bipasha Chakraborty (JLAB)

Wednesday, June 14 ROOM: ARC 231/232

09:00-10:00 Electron Scattering Experiments (5) Wouter Deconinck (W&M)
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:15 Electron Scattering Experiments (6) Wouter Deconinck (W&M)
11:15-11:45 Informal Discussion  
12:00-01:30 Lunch  
01:30-02:30 Fragmentation Functions and Global QCD Fits (5) Emanuele Nocera (Oxford U.)
02:30-02:45 Break  
02:45-03:45 Fragmentation Functions and Global QCD Fits (6) Emanuele Nocera (Oxford U.)
03:45-04:15 Informal Discussion  
04:15-05:15 Topical Seminar - TBA TBA
 

Thursday, June 15 ROOM: ARC 231/232

09:00-09:15 Lead 208 Radius Experiment Victoria Owen
09:15-09:30 Photoproduction of the Cascades using the GlueX Detector at JLab Ashley Ernst
09:30-09:45 Beam Asymmetry Measurements in Lambda(1520) Photoproduction at the GlueX Experiment Peter Pauli
09:45-10:00 Break  
10:00-10:15 Measurement of Double Polarization Asymmetries in Proton Knockout from Carbon Nuclei Tim Kolar
10:15-10:30 Introduction to Lattice QCD and Hadron Spectroscopy Christopher Johnson
10:30-10:45 Hadron Spectroscopy from Lattice QCD Colin Egerer
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00:11:15 Contact Interactions in Nuclei Reynier Cruz Torres
11:15-11:30 Transverse Momentum Distribution of Pion Electroproduction Anashe Bandari
11:30-11:45 Signal and Background Analysis at Seaquest Jason Dove
11:45-12:45 Lunch  
12:45-1:00 Event Generator Tuning using Bayesian Optimization Yunjie Yang
1:00-1:15 J/Psi Photoproduction Near Threshold Joseph Newton
1:15-1:30 Neutron Skin Determination of 208Pb and 48Ca using PVeS at JLab Devi Lal Adhikari
1:30-1:45 Quantitative Study of the Variation of the Efficiency NaI(Tl) Detector Omon Yves
1:45-2:00 Break  
2:00-2:15 Where do Transverse Momenta Come from? Fulvio Piecenza
2:15-2:30 CLAS EG6: Particle ID, Event Selection and Raw Asymmetries for Deep Coherent Processes Frank Cao
2:30-2:45 Deep Virtual Production of Pion Pairs Dilini Bulumulla
2:45-3:00 Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Hall A JLab Bishnu Karki
3:00-3:15 Break  
3:15-3:30 Precision Measurement of GMn in JLab Hall A Siyu Jian
3:30-3:45 Hadron Resonances from Lattice QCD Ruairi Brett
3:45-4:00 Spectroscopy using Lattice QCD Archana Radhakrishnan
4:00-4:15 Charmonium and Bottomonium Spectra with a Dirac Potential Model in the Momentum Space David Julian Molina Beltrán
4:15-6:30 Farewell Picnic (Residence Facility Great Room)
 

Friday, June 16 ROOM: ARC 231/232

9:00-9:15 Hall A MARATHON Experiment Hanjie Liu
9:15-9:30 NLP Corrections on Quarkonium Productions Kyle Lee
9:30-9:45 Parity Violating Electron Scattering Cameron Clarke
9:45-10:00 g2p Structure Function Measurement and Acceptance Study David Ruth
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-10:30 High Threshold Cherenkov Counter Achyut Khanal
10:30-10:45 Electro-Scattering from a Bound Nucleon on the Light-Front Frank Vera
10:45-11:00 Electron Form Factors with BLFQ Approach Shuo Tang
11:00-11:15 Two Photon Exchange Contribution to Elastic Electron Nucleon Scattering Wayne Morris
11:15-11:30 Break  
11:30-11:45 On Automorphisms of Unitary Groups of B(H) and Norm Attainable Elementary Operators Esther Otieno
11:45-12:00 Refinement of the Pion PDF Implementing Drell-Yan Experimental Data Patrick Barry
12:00-12:15 Pion Form Factor Simulations for E09-11-02 at Jefferson Lab 12GeV Salina Ali
12:15-12:30 Performance of the GEM detectors in the DarkLight experiment at LERF Jesmin Nazeer
12:30-2:30 Lunch  
2:30-2:45 Summary and Farewell A. Accardi
2:45-3:00 School Certificates handout  
3:00-3:15 Best talk prize announcement  
3:15-3:30 Group picture  
3:30-4:30 Graduate Student Issues Discussion/Planning  
 

Saturday, June 17

Students Depart