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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)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 11, 2025
Nov 12, 2025
Nov 13, 2025
AM
9:00 AM Welcome - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)  
9:05 AM Introductory remarks - Michael Riordan Chris Llewellyn Smith  
9:15 AM Opening Keynote - John Krige  
9:40 AM Opening Keynote - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:15 AM
Establishing the standard model as a quantum field theory (until 5:50 PM)
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))  
11:05 AM --- Coffee beak ---
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 - Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT)) Kent Staley  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
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))  
3:25 PM --- Coffee break ---
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 - Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT)) Kent Staley  
9:00 AM
Accelerator developments (until 2:00 PM)
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))  
10:35 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Superconducting cavity development - Hasan Padamsee  
11:30 AM Contributions from Novosibirsk - Alexander Skrinsky (BINP)  
12:00 PM Superconducting magnets for detectors - Prof. Akira Yamamoto (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
12:20 PM Comments from moderators and discussion - Catherine Westfall Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))  
12:40 PM --- Lunch ---
9:00 AM
Collision course (until 2:20 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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  
10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
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))  
12:05 PM --- Lunch ---
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 - Will Thomas Kurt Hubner (CERN)  
8:30 AM
Particle astrophysics and cosmology (until 12:45 PM)
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)  
10:05 AM --- Coffee break ---
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 - Leo Stodolsky Lawrence R Sulak Frank Avignone (UNiversity of South Carolina) Alessandro Bettini (INFN)  
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  
PM
7:00 PM
Evening Discussion: (until 8:00 PM)
7:00 PM Science citizenship: roles and duties in society - Kostas Gavroglu  
2:00 PM
Detector developments (until 6:20 PM)
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 - Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
3:20 PM Particle identification - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))  
3:45 PM --- Coffee break ---
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 Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
7:30 PM Conference dinner at Restaurant 1  
2:20 PM
Quests for new physics (until 7:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
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 - Richard Dawid Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
5:30 PM End of session  
7:00 PM
Evening Discussion: (until 8:00 PM)
7:00 PM Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement - Roger Highfield  
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Going International (until 5:50 PM)
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 - Dr Edward Michael Riordan  
2:55 PM The political history of the LHC - Chris Llewellyn Smith  
3:25 PM --- Coffee break ---
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 internationalisation 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)  
6:30 PM Thanks and closing remarks - Chris Llewellyn Smith  
6:40 PM END  
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