RECFA visit to ISRAEL

10 Apr 2014, 08:55 → 11 Apr 2014, 14:00 Israel

Tel Aviv University

Aharon Levy (Tel Aviv University (IL)), Halina Abramowicz (Tel Aviv University (IL))

Restricted European Committee for Future Accelerators (RECFA) visit to ISRAEL, April 2014.

The meeting is organized in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem by
Tel Aviv University - TAU.

Thursday, 10 April

09:00 → 10:35 Opening session

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Yoav Henis (VP for Research, Tel Aviv University)

09:10 Basic Science Big Science and Higher Education in Israel

Speaker: Hagit Messer-Yaron (VC, MALAG)

Slides Hagit_April_10_2014.pptx

09:25 Academic research in Israel, through the eyes of the Israel Science Foundation

Speaker: Benny Geiger (Chair, ISF)

Slides מצגת_בני__אנרגיות_גבוהות_אפריל_2014.pptx

09:45 Status of Israeli HEP

Speaker: George Mikenberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides Overview_RECFA.pdf Overview_RECFA.ppt

10:20 HEP funding in Israel

Speaker: Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew University, Chair, ICHEP)

Slides RECFA_2014_Funding_Eliezer.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:35 Accelerator, theory and Dark Matter

11:00 Accelerator activities in Israel

Speaker: Dan Berkovits (SARAF)

Slides Berkovits_SARAF_for_RECFA__20140410_v6.pptx

11:25 HEP theory in Israel

Speaker: Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew University)

Slides RECFA_Eliezer_Theory_090414.ppt

11:50 HEP phenomenology in Israel

Speaker: Yael Shadmi (Technion)

Slides RECFA_shadmi_f.pdf

12:15 Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Ran Budnick (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides DM_in_Israel_2014.pdf

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch (+ visit TAU HEP lab)

14:00 → 15:35 LHC and detector R & D

14:00 Physics at LHC

Speaker: Shlomit Tarem (Technion)

Slides RECFA.pdf

14:25 Upgrade program for LHC

Speaker: Erez Etzion (Tel Aviv University)

Slides RECFA-Erez.pdf RECFA-Erez.pptx

14:50 Computing at LHC

Speaker: Lorne Levinson (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides ForRECFA_Apr2014.pdf ForRECFA_Apr2014.pptx

15:10 Detector R&D for HEP in Israel

Speaker: Yan Benhammou (Tel Aviv University)

Slides detector.pdf detector.pptx

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 16:45 Outreach and Student's presentation

16:10 Outreach

Speaker: George Mikenberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides Outreach_activities_in_Israel.pdf Outreach_activities_in_Israel.pptx

16:25 Student’s presentation

Speaker: Adi Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv University)

Slides RECFA_stdentsTalk.pdf RECFA_stdentsTalk.ppt

16:50 → 18:30 Discussion

16:50 Closed session

17:50 Discussion with the community

18:30 → 19:30 Public Lecture, 60 years of CERN

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (DG, CERN)

19:30 → 22:00 Dinner-Abu Gosh, Hotels-Jerusalem

Friday, 11 April

08:30 → 10:00 Closed RECFA session

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Closed RECFA session

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch