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)
CERN (500/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

10 Nov 2025

11 Nov 2025

12 Nov 2025

13 Nov 2025

09:00	Welcome - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
09:05	Introductory remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith Michael Riordan
09:10	Opening Keynote - John Krige
09:35	Opening Keynote - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
10:00	Establishing the standard model as a quantum field theory (until 17:35)
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))
10:50	--- Coffee beak ---
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))
12:20	--- Lunch ---
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))
15:10	--- Coffee break ---
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

09:00	Accelerator developments (until 14:00)
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))
10:35	--- Coffee break ---
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
12:40	--- Lunch ---

09:00	Collision course (until 14:20)
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)
10:35	--- Coffee break ---
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
12:05	--- Lunch ---
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

08:30	Particle astrophysics and cosmology (until 12:50)
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
10:05	--- Coffee break ---
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 - Prof. Lawrence R Sulak Frank Avignone (UNiversity of South Carolina) Alessandro Bettini (INFN) Elena Aprile
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

19:00

Evening Discussion: Science citizenship: roles and duties in society (until 20:00)

14:00	Detector developments (until 18:20)
14:05	Silicon vertex detectors - Robert Klanner (Hamburg University (DE))
14:35	Central trackers - Dave Nygren
15:05	Calorimeters - Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
15:35	Particle identification - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))
16:05	--- Coffee break ---
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

14:20	Quests for new physics (until 19:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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.))
15:50	--- Coffee break ---
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 (until 20:00)

12:50	--- Lunch ---
13:50	Going International (until 17:45)
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
15:35	--- Coffee break ---
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)
18:30	Thanks and closing remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith
18:40	END

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