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 10 November 2025 (09:00) to Thursday 13 November 2025 (19:00)

Monday 10 November 2025
09:00 Welcome - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
Welcome
- Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
09:00 - 09:05
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:05 Introductory remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith Michael Riordan
Introductory remarks
- Chris Llewellyn Smith
- Michael Riordan
09:05 - 09:10
09:10 Opening Keynote - John Krige
Opening Keynote
- John Krige
09:10 - 09:35
09:35 Opening Keynote - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Opening Keynote
- Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
09:35 - 10:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:00
10:00 - 17:35
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:05 Electroweak Gauge Bosons and the observations of jets at the SPS collider - Peter Jenni (University of Freiburg (DE))

10:30 Electroweak Gauge Bosons and the observations of jets at CDF and D0 - Mel Shochet (University of Chicago (US))

11:15 Physics at LEP1 and LEP2 - Monica Pepe-Altarelli (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

11:45 Electroweak physics at the SLD - Morris Swartz (Johns Hopkins University (JHU))

12:00 QCD at LEP - Siegfried Bethke (Max Planck Society (DE))

14:00 The rise of perturbative QCD: deep inelastic scattering at HERA - Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)

14:20 Theoretical Tools: perturbative QCD as a quantitative tool - Richard Keith Ellis (University of Durham (GB))

14:45 Parton shower Monte Carlo Simulations - Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge (GB))

15:35 Third generation of quarks and leptons: Upsilon spectroscopy and B-meson mixing - David Cassel (Cornell University)

15:55 Discovery of the top quark - Paul Grannis (Stony Brook University (US))

16:15 Comments from moderators and discussion

16:35 End of session
19:00

19:00 - 20:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Tuesday 11 November 2025
09:00 Accelerator developments
Accelerator developments
09:00 - 14:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:05 The development of superconducting cable - Martin Wilson

09:35 Cryogenics and the use of superfluid helium - Philippe Lebrun (European Scientific Institute (FR))

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

11:00 Superconducting cavity development - Hasan Padamsee

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

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

12:20 Comments from moderators and discussion
14:00 Detector developments
Detector developments
14:00 - 18:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:05 Silicon vertex detectors - Robert Klanner (Hamburg University (DE))

14:35 Central trackers - Dave Nygren

15:05 Calorimeters - Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

15:35 Particle identification - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))

16:30 Neutrino Detectors - Lucie Linssen (CERN)

17:00 Trigger and DAQ - Hans Von Der Schmitt (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut))

17:20 Electronics - Veljko Radeka

17:40 Software tools - Rene Brun

18:00 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
19:30 Conference dinner with pre-dinner talk on the genesis of LEP by Herwig Schopper
Conference dinner with pre-dinner talk on the genesis of LEP by Herwig Schopper
19:30 - 22:00
Wednesday 12 November 2025
09:00 Collision course
Collision course
09:00 - 14:20
Contributions

09:05 p-pbar colliders - Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))

09:35 ISABELLE and RHIC - Robert Crease

10:05 Fermilab and the Tevatron - Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)

10:55 The SLAC Linear Collider and R&D - Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

11:20 Particle physics in the Soviet Union and Russia - Viktor Matveev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

11:45 HERA - Ferdinand Willeke

13:20 The SLAC B factory - Jonathan Dorfan

13:40 TRISTAN and KEK B - Taka Kondo (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

14:00 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
14:20 Quests for new physics
Quests for new physics
14:20 - 19:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:25 The search for the Higgs and the BEH mechanism - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)

14:55 GUTs - Savas Dimopoulos (Unknown)

15:25 Strings - Michael Green (Departm.of Physics(QMW-Coll.))

16:10 SUSY - Riccardo Barbieri (Scuola Normale Superiore)

16:30 SUSY searches at LEP - Christoph Rembser (CERN)

16:50 Axions - Helen Quinn (SLAC)

17:10 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion

17:30 End of session
19:00 Evening Discussion: Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement
Evening Discussion: Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement
19:00 - 20:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Thursday 13 November 2025
08:30 Particle astrophysics and cosmology
Particle astrophysics and cosmology
08:30 - 12:50
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

08:35 Inflation - Alan Guth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:00 Particle dark matter - Michael Turner

09:25 Cosmological particle physics - Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)

09:50 Observations on the emergence of the new field of particle cosmology - Jacobus de Swart

10:25 Solar neutrinos - Aleksei Smirnov (Gran Sasso Science Institute (IT))

10:50 Neutrino telescopes and high energy cosmic rays - Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

11:10 Kamiokande and SuperK - Takaaki Kajita

11:40 Panel discussion: Rare searches - Lawrence R Sulak Alessandro Bettini (INFN) Elena Aprile Frank Avignone (UNiversity of South Carolina)

12:15 Observations on the evolution of cosmic ray research and astroparticle physics - Luisa Bonolis

12:30 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
13:50 Going International
Going International
13:50 - 17:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

13:55 The HERA model - Albrecht Wagner

14:20 Gran Sasso experiments - Enzo Iarocci (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

14:35 Second thoughts on the Supercollider - Michael Riordan

15:05 The political history of the LHC - Chris Llewellyn Smith

15:55 Impact of the Web: CERN - Francois Fluckiger

16:15 Impact of the Web: going global - Bebo White

16:30 Demographic shifts in particle physics - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

16:40 Impact of the end of the cold war on the Russian and eastern European diaspora - Vladimir Shiltsev

16:55 Japan and World HEP - Hirotaka Sugawara

17:10 The rise and internationalisation of particle physics in China - Jinyan Liu

17:25 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
17:50 Closing session - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) Barry Barish (Caltech)
Closing session
- Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
- Barry Barish (Caltech)
17:50 - 18:30
18:30 Thanks and closing remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith
Thanks and closing remarks
- Chris Llewellyn Smith
18:30 - 18:40
18:40 END
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