2008 CHIPP Annual Plenary Meeting

from Monday 8 September 2008 (11:00) to Tuesday 9 September 2008 (23:59)
EPFL/LPHE (Cubotron I)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Sept 2008
9 Sept 2008
AM
11:00 Welcome by the head of Physics of Particle and Energy - Prof. Prof. Minh Quang Tran (EPFL)  
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11:05
LHC status and upgrade plan (until 12:30)
11:05 Status and upgrade plan of LHC - Lyn Evans (CERN)  
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11:40 ATLAS - Sigve Haug (Uni Bern)  
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11:55 CMS - Lotte Wilke (Uni Zuerich)  
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12:10 LHCb - Frederic Henry Blanc (EPFL)  
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09:00
CHIPP Activities (until 09:40)
09:00 A new ASIC design centre at PSI - Dr Roland Horisberger (PSI)  
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09:10 News from CHIPP Board and EB - Ulrich Straumann (Uni Zuerich)  
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09:25 Vote on change of constitution  
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09:30 News from CHIPP Computing Board - Christoph Grab (ETHZ)  
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09:40
Report from Committees (until 10:25)
09:40 ECFA summary - Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)  
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09:55 News from CERN council - Ulrich Straumann (Uni Zuerich)  
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10:05 News from ACCU - Klaus Freudenreich (ETHZ)  
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10:15 Election: New ACCU delegate - Ulrich Straumann (Uni Zuerich)  
10:25
CHIPP Prize Award (until 10:45)
10:25 CHIPP Prize Award  
10:30 Presentation of prize winner: Discovery of pulsed VHE gamma Rays from CRAB with MAGIC, using a new trigger - Michael Rissi (ETH Zuerich)  
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10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:05
Accelerator R&D (until 11:35)
11:05 Accelerator R&D - Prof. Leonid Rivkin (PSI & EPFL)  
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11:20 MICE - Alain Blondel (Uni Geneve)  
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11:35
Astroparticle Physics (until 13:00)
11:35 ASPERA and Appec - Maurice Bourquin (Uni Geneve)  
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11:50 LAGUNA - Andre Rubbia (ETHZ)  
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12:00 R&D on LAr TPCs for neutrino and DM experiments - Alberto Marchionni (ETHZ)  
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12:20 Magic and the CTA design study - Isabel Braun (ETHZ) Adrian Biland (ETHZ)  
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12:40 Results and prospects of direct dark matter detection - Laura Baudis (Uni Zuerich)  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Theory preparations for LHC analysis - Babis Anastasiou (ETHZ)  
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14:25
Technology Transfer and Outreach (until 15:40)
14:25 Technology Transfer - Gabriel Clerc (EPFL)  
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15:15 Communication network and outreach plans - Beat Gerber (ETHZ)  
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15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Low Energy Precision Experiments (until 17:00)
16:00 Experiments at MAMI, ELSA and Panda - Bernd Krusche (Uni Basel)  
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16:20 Particle physics experiments at PSI - Stefan Ritt (PSI)  
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16:40 Thoughts on possible future muon experiments at PSI - Andries van der Schaaf (Uni Zuerich)  
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17:00
Neutrino (until 17:50)
17:00 Operation of and results from OPERA - Ciro Pistillo (Uni Bern)  
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17:20 Preparation for the T2K experiment - Melody Ravonel (Uni Geneve)  
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17:30 The EXO experiment - Razvan Gornea (Uni Neuchatel)  
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17:40 The GERDA experiment - Francis Froborg (Uni Zuerich)  
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18:00
CHIPP Board Meeting (until 19:00) (BSP626)
19:15 --- Dinner ---