Physics at the high energy frontier - the Large Hadron Collider project

16 May 2011, 09:00 → 17 May 2011, 17:00 Europe/London

The Royal Society

Monday, 16 May

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

Speakers: Prof. George Kalmus (Rutherford Appleton Lab), Dr Julie Maxton (The Royal Society)

09:10 → 10:05 The Standard Model

Speaker: Dr Tara Shears (Liverpool University)

Slides Standard_Model_(Shears).pdf Standard_Model_(Shears).ppt

10:05 → 11:00 Physics beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Prof. John Ellis (CERN)

Slides Beyond_the_SM_(Ellis).pdf Beyond_the_SM_(Ellis).pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:25 The LHC Machine

Speaker: Dr Lyndon Evans (CERN)

Slides LHC_Machine_(Evans).pdf LHC_Machine_(Evans).ppt

12:25 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:25 Machine operation and performance

Speaker: Dr Steve Myers (CERN)

Slides LHC_Performance_(Myers).pdf LHC_Performance_(Myers).pptx

14:25 → 15:20 Physics requirements for the design of ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Prof. Tejinder Virdee (Imperial College)

Slides ATLAS-CMS_Physics_aims_(Virdee).pdf

15:20 → 15:50 Tea

15:50 → 17:00 Characteristics of the ATLAS and CMS detectors

Speaker: Prof. Abe Seiden (UC, Santa Cruz)

Slides ATLAS-CMS_design_(Seiden).pdf ATLAS-CMS_design_(Seiden).ppt

Tuesday, 17 May

09:00 → 09:50 Matter-antimatter asymmetries and the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Prof. Valerie Gibson (Cambridge University)

Slides LHCb_(Gibson).pdf

09:50 → 10:40 Quark-Gluon plasma and the ALICE experiment

Speaker: Dr Jurgen Schukraft (CERN)

Slides ALICE_(Schukraft).pdf ALICE_(Schukraft).ppt

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 11:50 Early physics results

Speaker: Dr Peter Jenni (CERN)

Slides Early_physics_results_(Jenni).pdf Early_physics_results_(Jenni).ppt

11:50 → 12:30 The data acquisition and reduction challenge

Speaker: Dr Sergio Cittolin (CERN)

Slides Data_acquisition_(Cittolin).pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:15 The LHC and the computing GRID

Speaker: Dr Neil Geddes (Rutherford Appleton Lab)

Slides GRID_computing_(Geddes).pptx

14:15 → 15:00 Organisational and financial challenges

Speaker: Prof. Jos Engelen (NWO, Netherlands)

Slides Organisational_challenge_(Engelen).pdf Organisational_challenge_(Engelen).ppt

15:00 → 15:30 Tea

15:30 → 16:10 The future of LHC and CERN

Speaker: Prof. Rolf Heuer (CERN)

Slides Future_of_LHC_and_CERN_(Heuer).pdf Future_of_LHC_and_CERN_(Heuer).pptx

16:10 → 17:00 Lessons learned and summary

Speaker: Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (Oxford University)

Slides Lessons_learned_(Llewellyn_Smith).pdf Lessons_learned_(Llewellyn_Smith).pptx