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 - Michael Riordan Chris Llewellyn Smith
Introductory remarks
- Michael Riordan
- Chris Llewellyn Smith
09:05 - 09:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:15 Opening Keynote - John Krige
Opening Keynote
- John Krige
09:15 - 09:40
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:40 Opening Keynote - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Opening Keynote
- Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
09:40 - 10:05
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:15 Establishing the standard model as a quantum field theory
10:15 - 17:50
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

14:15 The rise of perturbative QCD: deep inelastic scattering at HERA - Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)

14:35 Theoretical Tools: perturbative QCD as a quantitative tool - Richard Keith Ellis (University of Durham (GB))

15:00 Parton shower Monte Carlo Simulations - Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge (GB))

15:50 Third generation of quarks and leptons: Upsilon spectroscopy and B-meson mixing - David Cassel (Cornell University)

16:10 Discovery of the top quark - Paul Grannis (Stony Brook University (US))

16:30 Comments from moderators and discussion - Kent Staley Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))
19:00 Evening Discussion:
19:00 - 20:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

19:00 Science citizenship: roles and duties in society - Kostas Gavroglu
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
09:00 Accelerator developments: 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 (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

12:20 Comments from moderators and discussion - Catherine Westfall Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))
14:00 Detector developments: 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))

14:30 Central trackers - Dave Nygren

14:55 Calorimetry in particle physics in the 80s and 90s - Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

15:20 Particle identification - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))

16:10 Neutrino Detectors - Lucie Linssen (CERN)

16:35 Cryogenic detectors - Leo Stodolsky

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 - Kostas Gavroglu Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
19:30 Conference dinner at Restaurant 1
Conference dinner at Restaurant 1
19:30 - 22:00
Memories of Herwig Schopper
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
09:00 Collision course: Collision course
Collision course
09:00 - 14:20
Contributions

09:05 The CERN proton-antiproton collider - Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))

09:35 ISABELLE and RHIC - Robert Crease

10:05 The SLAC B factory - Jonathan Dorfan

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

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

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

13:20 HERA - Ferdinand Willeke

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 - Kurt Hubner (CERN) Will Thomas
14:20 Quests for new physics: Quests for new physics
Quests for new physics
14:20 - 19:00
Contributions

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

14:55 GUTs - Savas Dimopoulos

15:25 Strings - Wolfgang Lerche

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 - Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Richard Dawid

17:30 End of session
19:00 Evening Discussion:: Evening Discussion:
Evening Discussion:
19:00 - 20:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

19:00 Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement - Roger Highfield
Thursday, 13 November 2025
08:30 Particle astrophysics and cosmology: Particle astrophysics and cosmology
Particle astrophysics and cosmology
08:30 - 12:45
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 - Jaco de Swart (University of Cambridge)

10:20 Kamiokande and SuperK - Takaaki Kajita

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

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

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

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

12:25 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Antonis Antoniou (Kapodistrian University of Athens) Barry Barish
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 13:45
13:45 Going International: Going International
Going International
13:45 - 17:50
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

13:45 The HERA model - Albrecht Wagner

14:10 Gran Sasso experiments - Enzo Iarocci (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

14:25 Second thoughts on the Supercollider - Edward Michael Riordan

14:55 The political history of the LHC - Chris Llewellyn Smith

15:40 Impact of the Web: CERN - Walter Hoogland

15:55 Impact of the Web: going global - Bebo White

16:10 Demographic shifts in particle physics - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

16:20 The Experience of Poland in the Transition to CERN Membership - Agnieszka Zalewska (H.Niewodniczanski Inst. of Nuclear Physics in Cracow)

16:35 Post 1980s Diaspora of Russian Particle Physicists - Vladimir Shiltsev

16:50 Japan and World HEP - Hirotaka Sugawara

17:05 The rise and internationalization of particle physics in China - Jinyan Liu

17:20 Comments from moderators followed by questions, discussion and contributions from the floor - Barry Barish
17:50 Closing session - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) Barry Barish (Caltech)
Closing session
- Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
- Barry Barish (Caltech)
17:50 - 18:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
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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18:40 - 18:45