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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
AM
09:00 Welcome - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)  
09:05 Introductory remarks - Michael Riordan Chris Llewellyn Smith  
09:15 Opening Keynote - John Krige  
09:40 Opening Keynote - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:15
Establishing the standard model as a quantum field theory (until 17:50)
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))  
11:05 --- Coffee beak ---
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 - Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT)) Kent Staley  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
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))  
15:25 --- Coffee break ---
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 - Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT)) Kent Staley  
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 - Prof. Akira Yamamoto (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
12:20 Comments from moderators and discussion - Catherine Westfall Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))  
12:40 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Collision course (until 14:20)
09:05 The CERN proton-antiproton collider - Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:35 ISABELLE and RHIC - Robert Crease   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:05 The SLAC B factory - Jonathan Dorfan   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:25 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Fermilab and the Tevatron - Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:15 The SLAC Linear Collider and R&D - Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:40 Particle physics in the Soviet Union and Russia - Viktor Matveev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:05 --- Lunch ---
13:20 HERA - Ferdinand Willeke   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
13:40 TRISTAN and KEK B - Taka Kondo (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:00 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Will Thomas Kurt Hubner (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
08:30
Particle astrophysics and cosmology (until 12:45)
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)  
10:05 --- Coffee break ---
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 - Leo Stodolsky Lawrence R Sulak Frank Avignone (UNiversity of South Carolina) Alessandro Bettini (INFN)  
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  
PM
19:00
Evening Discussion: (until 20:00)
19:00 Science citizenship: roles and duties in society - Kostas Gavroglu  
14:00
Detector developments (until 18:20)
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 - Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
15:20 Particle identification - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
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 Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
19:30 Conference dinner at Restaurant 1  
14:20
Quests for new physics (until 19:00)
14:25 The search for the Higgs and the BEH mechanism - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:55 GUTs - Savas Dimopoulos   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:25 Strings - Wolfgang Lerche   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 SUSY - Riccardo Barbieri (Scuola Normale Superiore)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30 SUSY searches at LEP - Christoph Rembser (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:50 Axions - Helen Quinn (SLAC)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:10 Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion - Richard Dawid Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:30 End of session  
19:00
Evening Discussion: (until 20:00)
19:00 Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement - Roger Highfield  
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Going International (until 17:50)
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 - Dr Edward Michael Riordan  
14:55 The political history of the LHC - Chris Llewellyn Smith  
15:25 --- Coffee break ---
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)  
18:30 Thanks and closing remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith  
18:40 END