BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Welcome from FNAL Director DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T193700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T194500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-1@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: PIERRE ODDONE ()\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/contribution Display.py?contribId=1&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=1&confId=43822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Introduction DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T193500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-0@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: JOE/MARIA ()\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisp lay.py?contribId=0&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=0&confId=43822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Closing in on the Higgs particle with Tevatron Data DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T201500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T204000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-3@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: DMITRI DENISOV (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATOR Y) ()\nThe Higgs boson is a cornerstone ingredient in the standard model o f particles and their forces. It is expected to explain a curious mechanis m that kicked in at an early moment in the life of the universe: the W and Z bosons (the carriers of the weak force) became endowed with mass while the photon (the carrier of the electromagnetic force) did not. This talk w ill present the latest results and future expectations by the CDF and DZer o experiments for subatomic processes involving these bosons\, including t he search for the Higgs boson.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/contributionDispla y.py?contribId=3&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=3&confId=43822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Discoveries with the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T194500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T201000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-2@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: JACOBO KONIGSBERG (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA) ()\nThe Te vatron collider at Fermilab has been operating at the energy frontier in p article physics\, through proton-antiproton collisions\, for nearly 25 yea rs. Scientists are pouring over the very large datasets now available. Thi s talk will present the latest results from measurements and observations made by the CDF and DZero experiments\, and will highlight the perspective s for further discovery\, including exotic phenomena and the possibility o f finding evidence for the elusive Higgs boson.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/c ontributionDisplay.py?contribId=2&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=2&confId=43822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T211000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T213500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-5@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: MARZIO NESSI (CERN) ()\nATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Appara tuS) is one of the particle detector experiments constructed to study the proton-proton collisions that the LHC will produce. ATLAS is 44 metres lo ng and 25 metres in diameter and weighs about 7\,000 tonnes. The full ATLA S Experiment has been operational and taking cosmic ray data since Septemb er 2008\, and is preparing for the high-energy collisions scheduled for la te summer 2009. It also acquired and analyzed the so-called “splash eve nts” that occurred as the LHC beams were successfully circulated at the LHC on 10 September 2008. The ATLAS detector will search for new discover ies in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. A TLAS is expected to provide understanding about the basic forces that have shaped our universe since the beginning of time and that will determine i ts fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass\, extra dimens ions of space\, microscopic black holes\, and evidence for dark matter can didates in the universe.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?c ontribId=5&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=5&confId=43822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T204500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T211000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-4@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: LYN EVANS (CERN) ()\nThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy accelerator and the most ambit ious and complex scientific undertaking ever attempted. It was built by t he European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in a tunnel 27 kilome tres (17 mi) in circumference\, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva\, Switzerland. The study of the very high energy proton-proton collisions is expected to extend unprecedentedly our understanding of the Universe and point to the solutions of puzzles such as the dark matter of the universe and the origin of matter. The science a nd technology work towards the first successful circulation of proton beam s on September 10 2008 and towards the first high energy collisions in 200 9 are detailed in this talk.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay. py?contribId=4&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=4&confId=43822 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T213500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090215T220000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T234252Z UID:indico-contribution-43822-6@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Speakers: TEJINDER VIRDEE (CERN & IMPERIAL COLLEGE) ()\nThe 12 \,500-tonne Compact Muon Solenoid experiment (CMS) in Cessy\, France\, use s key information about particles emerging from high-energy proton collisi ons in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to unearth nature’s secrets. CMS ’s method of construction is original and unique in that “slices” o f detector weighing as much as 2000 tonnes were fully constructed and tes ted with the acquisition and analysis of cosmic ray data on the earth's su rface and then lowered 100 metres into the cavern\, ready-made. CMS has be en fully operational\, recording and analyzing large volumes of cosmic ra y data as well as the data from the circulation of the the first LHC beams on Sept 10 2008. It intends to make discoveries that will assist in the d escription and characterization of the composition of the Universe\, its b eginning\, evolution and its intricate works.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/con tributionDisplay.py?contribId=6&confId=43822 LOCATION:Chicago\, IL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=6&confId=43822 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR