Name: 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
Start: 2025-11-10T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-13T19:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics

from Monday, November 10, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, November 13, 2025 (7:00 PM)

Monday, November 10, 2025
9:00 AM Welcome - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
Welcome
- Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
9:05 AM Introductory remarks - Michael Riordan Chris Llewellyn Smith
Introductory remarks
- Michael Riordan
- Chris Llewellyn Smith
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM Opening Keynote - John Krige
Opening Keynote
- John Krige
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM
9:40 AM Opening Keynote - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Opening Keynote
- Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 5:50 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:20 AM Electroweak Gauge Bosons and the observations of jets at the SPS collider - Peter Jenni (University of Freiburg and CERN)

10:45 AM Electroweak Gauge Bosons and the observations of jets at CDF and D0 - Mel Shochet (University of Chicago (US))

11:30 AM Physics at LEP1 and LEP2 - Monica Pepe-Altarelli (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

12:00 PM Electroweak physics at the SLD - Morris Swartz (Johns Hopkins University (JHU))

12:15 PM QCD at LEP - Siegfried Bethke (Max-Planck-Institute of Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute), Garching)

12:40 PM Comments from moderators and discussion - Kent Staley Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))

2:15 PM The rise of perturbative QCD: deep inelastic scattering at HERA - Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)

2:35 PM Theoretical Tools: perturbative QCD as a quantitative tool - Richard Keith Ellis (University of Durham (GB))

3:00 PM Parton shower Monte Carlo Simulations - Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge (GB))

3:50 PM Third generation of quarks and leptons: Upsilon spectroscopy and B-meson mixing - David Cassel (Cornell University)

4:10 PM Discovery of the top quark - Paul Grannis (Stony Brook University (US))

4:30 PM Comments from moderators and discussion - Kent Staley Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

7:00 PM Science citizenship: roles and duties in society - Kostas Gavroglu
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
9:00 AM Accelerator developments
Accelerator developments
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:05 AM The development of superconducting cable - Martin Wilson

9:35 AM Cryogenics and the use of superfluid helium - Philippe Lebrun (European Scientific Institute (FR))

10:05 AM Superconducting magnet development from the ISR to the LHC - Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

11:00 AM Superconducting cavity development - Hasan Padamsee

11:30 AM Contributions from Novosibirsk - Alexander Skrinsky (BINP)

12:00 PM Superconducting magnets for detectors - Akira Yamamoto (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

12:20 PM Comments from moderators and discussion - Catherine Westfall Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))
2:00 PM Detector developments
Detector developments
2:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:05 PM Silicon vertex detectors - Robert Klanner (Hamburg University (DE))

2:30 PM Central trackers - Dave Nygren

2:55 PM Calorimetry in particle physics in the 80s and 90s - Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

3:20 PM Particle identification - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))

4:10 PM Neutrino Detectors - Lucie Linssen (CERN)

4:35 PM Cryogenic detectors - Leo Stodolsky

5:00 PM Trigger and DAQ - Hans Von Der Schmitt (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut))

5:20 PM Electronics - Veljko Radeka

5:40 PM Software tools - Rene Brun

6:00 PM Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Kostas Gavroglu Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
7:30 PM Conference dinner at Restaurant 1
Conference dinner at Restaurant 1
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Memories of Herwig Schopper
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
9:00 AM Collision course
Collision course
9:00 AM - 2:20 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:05 AM The CERN proton-antiproton collider - Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))

9:35 AM ISABELLE and RHIC - Robert Crease

10:05 AM The SLAC B factory - Jonathan Dorfan

10:45 AM Fermilab and the Tevatron - Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)

11:15 AM The SLAC Linear Collider and R&D - Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

11:40 AM Particle physics in the Soviet Union and Russia - Viktor Matveev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

1:20 PM HERA - Ferdinand Willeke

1:40 PM TRISTAN and KEK B - Taka Kondo (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

2:00 PM Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Kurt Hubner (CERN) Will Thomas
2:20 PM Quests for new physics
Quests for new physics
2:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:25 PM The search for the Higgs and the BEH mechanism - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)

2:55 PM GUTs - Savas Dimopoulos

3:25 PM Strings - Wolfgang Lerche

4:10 PM SUSY - Riccardo Barbieri (Scuola Normale Superiore)

4:30 PM SUSY searches at LEP - Christoph Rembser (CERN)

4:50 PM Axions - Helen Quinn (SLAC)

5:10 PM Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Richard Dawid

5:30 PM End of session
7:00 PM Evening Discussion:
Evening Discussion:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

7:00 PM Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement - Roger Highfield
Thursday, November 13, 2025
8:30 AM Particle astrophysics and cosmology
Particle astrophysics and cosmology
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

8:35 AM Inflation - Alan Guth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

9:00 AM Particle dark matter - Michael Turner

9:25 AM Cosmological particle physics - Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)

9:50 AM Observations on the emergence of the new field of particle cosmology - Jaco de Swart (University of Cambridge)

10:20 AM Kamiokande and SuperK - Takaaki Kajita

10:50 AM Solving the solar neutrino problem - Alexei Smirnov (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (IT))

11:15 AM Neutrino telescopes and high energy cosmic rays - Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

11:35 AM Panel discussion: Rare searches - Lawrence R Sulak Alessandro Bettini (INFN) Frank Avignone (UNiversity of South Carolina) Leo Stodolsky

12:10 PM Observations on the evolution of cosmic ray research and astroparticle physics - Luisa Bonolis

12:25 PM Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Antonis Antoniou (Kapodistrian University of Athens) Barry Barish
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Going International
Going International
1:45 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

1:45 PM The HERA model - Albrecht Wagner

2:10 PM Gran Sasso experiments - Enzo Iarocci (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

2:25 PM Second thoughts on the Supercollider - Edward Michael Riordan

2:55 PM The political history of the LHC - Chris Llewellyn Smith

3:40 PM Impact of the Web: CERN - Walter Hoogland

3:55 PM Impact of the Web: going global - Bebo White

4:10 PM Demographic shifts in particle physics - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

4:20 PM The Experience of Poland in the Transition to CERN Membership - Agnieszka Zalewska (H.Niewodniczanski Inst. of Nuclear Physics in Cracow)

4:35 PM Post 1980s Diaspora of Russian Particle Physicists - Vladimir Shiltsev

4:50 PM Japan and World HEP - Hirotaka Sugawara

5:05 PM The rise and internationalization of particle physics in China - Jinyan Liu

5:20 PM Comments from moderators followed by questions, discussion and contributions from the floor - Barry Barish
5:50 PM Closing session - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) Barry Barish (Caltech)
Closing session
- Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
- Barry Barish (Caltech)
5:50 PM - 6:30 PM
6:30 PM Thanks and closing remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith
Thanks and closing remarks
- Chris Llewellyn Smith
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM
6:40 PM END
END
6:40 PM - 6:45 PM

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