Over the past years the multipurpose detectors of CMS and ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider have gathered an enormous amount of data. This data has been, and continues to be, meticulously analyzed to extract precision parameters that characterize the inner workings of the Standard Model, and also to probe for theories beyond that of the Standard Model.  While to this day the discovery of new physics is eluding these experiments, there are a some interesting hints emerging from the LHCb, Belle and BaBar experiments.  In this talk I will describe some of the new directions we are taking on the search for new physics at the LHC, and on some aspects of the technical upgrade of the CMS detector to extend the sensitivity of the data we will collect in the years to come. 

Bio: Dr. Ricardo Eusebi is a professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, and a member of the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at the same university.  He has previously earned his Ph.D in Physics in the University of Rochester, done postdoctoral work in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and also held a Lederman Fellowship at the same institution.  Dr. Eusebi is a particle physicist whose research is carried at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN as part of the CMS collaboration.  He is an expert on the identification and calibration of jets arising from the hadronization process of quarks and gluons.  His research interests include the mechanism of electro-weak symmetry breaking that is responsible for giving mass to the fundamental particles, and searches for physics beyond the SM such as new gauge bosons. He has also been a strong contributor to some of the hardware upgrades for the CMS detector.