The dawn of the standard revolution

15:30 - 16:20: Lecture by Alvaro de Rujula (followed by 20 minutes of questions) Abstract In the few years around November 1974, particle physics changed very significantly and at a frantic pace. Practitioners began to get accustomed to the successful predictions of the Standard Model, which did not have many believers at that time. I shall recall the main experimental and theoretical advances, concerning in particular quarks as partons, the asymptotic freedom of QCD, charmonia and the first openly charmed particles. Career Alvaro de Rújula was at Harvard University during the Standard Model revolution. Before and after, amongst many other places, he worked at CERN. 16:40 - 17:00: Coffee break 17:00 - 17:50: Lecture by Luigi di Lella: Experiments at CERN in the decade 1964-1974 (followed by 20 minutes of questions) Abstract I will present the most significant physics results obtained by CERN experiments in the decade 1964-1974. These include the discovery of neutral current neutrino interactions, studies of CP violation, searches for new hadronic states, studies of two-body processes at high energies with and without polarized proton targets, and the results obtained in the first years of operation of the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), which was the first hadron collider ever built. The precise measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment in three consecutive experiments will also be reviewed. Career Luigi di Lella studied physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, and obtained a degree in physics from the University of Pisa in 1959. He came to CERN as a fellow in 1961, and then as a research physicist until the end of 1968. He was then a visiting associate professor of physics at Columbia University, New York (1969-70), and finally a senior research physicist at CERN until his retirement at the end of 2002. He is presently associated with the Physics Department of the University of Pisa. Luigi di Lella has taken part in many experiments covering a variety of subjects: muon capture and decay; high-energy hadron scattering on polarized protons; studies of proton-proton collisions at the CERN ISR, and of proton-antiproton collisions at the CERN proton-antiproton collider; neutrino oscillations; solar axions; decays of charged K-mesons. He is the co-author of more than 100 publications, including review papers and invited talks at international conferences.