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4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics

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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Dedicated to the memory of Herwig Schopper 1924-2025

 

Following in the mould established by precursors at Fermilab and SLAC, the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics will bring together leading physicists who have worked in the field with historians, philosophers and other scholars of science who study the discipline. The focus of this symposium will be upon the important discoveries and intellectual currents of the 1980s and 1990s — a period in which Europe and especially CERN became the acknowledged center of gravity in particle physics. Theoretical, experimental and accelerator physics developments will be examined, as well as the marriage of particle physics with cosmology and astrophysics. This symposium will occur at CERN on 10-13 November 2025.

 

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  • Monday 10 November
    • 1
      Welcome 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
    • 2
      Introductory remarks
      Speakers: Chris Llewellyn Smith, Michael Riordan
    • 3
      Opening Keynote
      Speaker: John Krige
    • 4
      Opening Keynote 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • Establishing the standard model as a quantum field theory 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Ugo Amaldi and Kent Staley

      • 5
        Electroweak Gauge Bosons and the observations of jets at the SPS collider
        Speaker: Peter Jenni (University of Freiburg and CERN)
      • 6
        Electroweak Gauge Bosons and the observations of jets at CDF and D0
        Speaker: Mel Shochet (University of Chicago (US))
      • 10:50
        Coffee beak
      • 7
        Physics at LEP1 and LEP2
        Speaker: Monica Pepe-Altarelli (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
      • 8
        Electroweak physics at the SLD
        Speaker: Morris Swartz (Johns Hopkins University (JHU))
      • 9
        QCD at LEP
        Speaker: Siegfried Bethke (Max-Planck-Institute of Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute), Garching)
      • 12:20
        Lunch
      • 10
        The rise of perturbative QCD: deep inelastic scattering at HERA
        Speaker: Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)
      • 11
        Theoretical Tools: perturbative QCD as a quantitative tool
        Speaker: Richard Keith Ellis (University of Durham (GB))
      • 12
        Parton shower Monte Carlo Simulations
        Speaker: Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge (GB))
      • 15:10
        Coffee break
      • 13
        Third generation of quarks and leptons: Upsilon spectroscopy and B-meson mixing
        Speaker: David Cassel (Cornell University)
      • 14
        Discovery of the top quark
        Speaker: Paul Grannis (Stony Brook University (US))
      • 15
        Comments from moderators and discussion
        Speakers: Kent Staley, Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))
    • Evening Discussion: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      • 16
        Science citizenship: roles and duties in society

        Moderator: Kostas Gavroglu

        Katie Yurkewicz: communicating through adversity
        Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill: diversity and inclusion
        Ugo Amaldi: the professionalisation of knowledge transfer
        Neil Calder: towards strategic communications

        Speaker: Kostas Gavroglu
  • Tuesday 11 November
    • Accelerator developments 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Lyn Evans and Catherine Westfall

      • 17
        The development of superconducting cable
        Speaker: Martin Wilson
      • 18
        Cryogenics and the use of superfluid helium
        Speaker: Philippe Lebrun (European Scientific Institute (FR))
      • 19
        Superconducting magnet development from the ISR to the LHC
        Speaker: Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
      • 10:35
        Coffee break
      • 20
        Superconducting cavity development
        Speaker: Hasan Padamsee
      • 21
        Contributions from Novosibirsk
        Speaker: Alexander Skrinsky (BINP)
      • 22
        Superconducting magnets for detectors
        Speaker: Akira Yamamoto (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
      • 23
        Comments from moderators and discussion
        Speakers: Catherine Westfall, Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))
      • 12:40
        Lunch
    • Detector developments 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Michel Spiro and Kostas Gavroglu

      • 24
        Silicon vertex detectors
        Speaker: Robert Klanner (Hamburg University (DE))
      • 25
        Central trackers
        Speaker: Dave Nygren
      • 26
        Calorimetry in particle physics in the 80s and 90s
        Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
      • 27
        Particle identification
        Speaker: Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))
      • 16:05
        Coffee break
      • 28
        Neutrino Detectors
        Speaker: Lucie Linssen (CERN)
      • 29
        Trigger and DAQ
        Speaker: Hans Von Der Schmitt (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut))
      • 30
        Electronics
        Speaker: Veljko Radeka
      • 31
        Software tools
        Speaker: Rene Brun
      • 32
        Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
        Speakers: Kostas Gavroglu, Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
    • 33
      Conference dinner

      Memories of Herwig Schopper

  • Wednesday 12 November
    • Collision course 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Kurt Hubner and Will Thomas

      • 34
        The proton-antiproton collider
        Speaker: Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))
      • 35
        ISABELLE and RHIC
        Speaker: Robert Crease
      • 36
        Fermilab and the Tevatron
        Speaker: Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)
      • 10:35
        Coffee break
      • 37
        The SLAC Linear Collider and R&D
        Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
      • 38
        Particle physics in the Soviet Union and Russia
        Speaker: Viktor Matveev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))
      • 39
        HERA
        Speaker: Ferdinand Willeke
      • 12:05
        Lunch
      • 40
        The SLAC B factory
        Speaker: Jonathan Dorfan
      • 41
        TRISTAN and KEK B
        Speaker: Taka Kondo (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
      • 42
        Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
        Speakers: Kurt Hubner (CERN), Will Thomas
    • Quests for new physics 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Luciano Maiani and Richard Dawid

      • 43
        The search for the Higgs and the BEH mechanism
        Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)
      • 44
        GUTs
        Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos (Unknown)
      • 45
        Strings
        Speaker: Wolfgang Lerche
      • 15:50
        Coffee break
      • 46
        SUSY
        Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (Scuola Normale Superiore)
      • 47
        SUSY searches at LEP
        Speaker: Christoph Rembser (CERN)
      • 48
        Axions
        Speaker: Helen Quinn (SLAC)
      • 49
        Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
        Speakers: Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)), Richard Dawid
      • 50
        End of session
    • Evening Discussion: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      • 51
        Reaching out and making a difference – the growth of formal and informal engagement

        Moderator: Roger Highfield

        Marge Bardeen: educational initiatives
        Paola Catapano: visits and exhibitions
        Lucy Hawking: the role of popular writing
        Michael Riordan: the role of in-house magazines

        Speaker: Roger Highfield
  • Thursday 13 November
    • Particle astrophysics and cosmology 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      CERN

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Barry Barish and Antonis Antoniou

      • 52
        Inflation
        Speaker: Alan Guth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
      • 53
        Particle dark matter
        Speaker: Michael Turner
      • 54
        Cosmological particle physics
        Speaker: Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)
      • 55
        Observations on the emergence of the new field of particle cosmology
        Speaker: Jacobus de Swart
      • 10:05
        Coffee break
      • 56
        Kamiokande and SuperK
        Speaker: Takaaki Kajita
      • 57
        Solving the solar neutrino problem
        Speaker: Alexei Smirnov (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (IT))
      • 58
        Neutrino telescopes and high energy cosmic rays
        Speaker: Alan Watson (University of Leeds)
      • 59
        Panel discussion: Rare searches
        Speakers: Prof. Lawrence R Sulak, Alessandro Bettini (INFN), Frank Avignone (UNiversity of South Carolina), Leo Stodolsky
      • 60
        Observations on the evolution of cosmic ray research and astroparticle physics
        Speaker: Luisa Bonolis
      • 61
        Comments from moderators followed by questions and discussion
        Speakers: Antonis Antoniou (Kapodistrian University of Athens), Barry Barish
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • Going International 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Moderators and Discussion Leaders: Barry Barish and Ulrike Felt

      • 62
        The HERA model
        Speaker: Albrecht Wagner
      • 63
        Gran Sasso experiments
        Speaker: Enzo Iarocci (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))
      • 64
        Second thoughts on the Supercollider
        Speaker: Michael Riordan
      • 65
        The political history of the LHC
        Speaker: Chris Llewellyn Smith
      • 15:25
        Coffee break
      • 66
        Impact of the Web: CERN
        Speaker: Walter Hoogland
      • 67
        Impact of the Web: going global
        Speaker: Bebo White
      • 68
        Demographic shifts in particle physics
        Speaker: Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)
      • 69
        The Experience of Poland in the Transition to CERN Membership
        Speaker: Agnieszka Zalewska (H.Niewodniczanski Inst. of Nuclear Physics in Cracow)
      • 70
        Post 1980s Diaspora of Russian Particle Physicists
        Speaker: Vladimir Shiltsev
      • 71
        Japan and World HEP
        Speaker: Hirotaka Sugawara
      • 72
        The rise and internationalisation of particle physics in China
        Speaker: Jinyan Liu
      • 73
        Comments from moderators followed by questions, discussion and contributions from the floor
        Speaker: Barry Barish
    • 74
      Closing session
      Speakers: Barry Barish (Caltech), Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
    • 75
      Thanks and closing remarks
      Speaker: Chris Llewellyn Smith
    • 76
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