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The Photon: its First Hundred Years and the Future

from Tuesday, 30 August 2005 (09:00) to Friday, 9 September 2005 (12:00)
Warsaw and Kazimierz, Poland

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
30 Aug 2005
31 Aug 2005
1 Sept 2005
2 Sept 2005
3 Sept 2005
4 Sept 2005
5 Sept 2005
6 Sept 2005
7 Sept 2005
8 Sept 2005
9 Sept 2005
AM
09:10
The Centenary of the Photon (until 18:50)
09:15 Welcome address - Rector of Warsaw University, Dean Jan Bartelski  
09:25 Chair: Andrzej Wroblewski (Warsaw U.)  
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09:30 Einstein's Revolutionary Light-Quantum Hypothesis - Roger H. Stuewer (U. of Minnesota)  
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10:00 Nobel Story(ies) - Cecilia Jarlskog (Lund U.)  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Chair: Andrzej Trautman (Warsaw U.) - Let There be Light: Photons in Cosmology - Helge Kragh (U. of Aarhus)  
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11:30 Multiwavelength Universe - Andrew Lawrence (Edinburgh U.)  
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12:00 Photons, Twistors and Strings - Sir Roger Penrose (Oxford U.)  
12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:30 Chair: Iwo Bialynicki-Birula (Warsaw U.) - The modern version of the Einstein-Bohr Photon Box: exploring the quantum with atoms and photons in a cavity - Serge Haroche (CF and ENS, Paris)  
15:00 From Einstein's Photon to Quantum Information - Anton Zeilinger (U. of Vienna)  
15:30 Research with Free Electron Lasers for Soft and Hard X-rays - Jochen Schneider (DESY)  
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16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Chair: Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw U.) - CERN and the physics of the photon and its weak partners - Wolf-Dieter Schlatter (CERN)  
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17:00 The two faces of the Photon - Albrecht Wagner (DESY)  
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17:30 Einstein and the Quest for Unification - David Gross (KITP)  
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18:30 --- End of sessions at the Faculty of Physics ---
09:00
PHOTON2005 (until 18:50)
09:00 Session Ia: Photon: properties and interactions - the historical evolution - Conveners: A. J. Buras (Munich, Tech. U.), V. Fadin (INP Novosibirsk), P. M. Zerwas (DESY) - - Photon and QED  
10:35 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Session Ib: Photon: properties and interactions - the historical evolution - Conveners: A. J. Buras (Munich, Tech. U.), V. Fadin (INP Novosibirsk), P. M. Zerwas (DESY) - - Hadronic structure of the photon  
12:55 --- lunch break ---
14:40 Session IIa: Structure functions - Conveners: H. Abramowicz (Tel Aviv U.), A. Finch (Lancaster U.), - K. Sasaki (Yokohama Natl. U.), A. Vogt (Durham U. IPPP)  
16:20 --- coffee break ---
16:50 Session IIb: Structure functions - Conveners: H. Abramowicz (Tel Aviv U.), A. Finch (Lancaster U.), - K. Sasaki (Yokohama Natl. U.), A. Vogt (Durham U. IPPP)  
18:30 --- End of sessions at the Faculty of Physics ---
09:00
PHOTON2005 (until 19:50)
09:00 Session III: DVCS and prompt photons - Conveners: M. Fontannaz (Orsay, LPT), L. Szymanowski (SINS Warsaw/Univ. de Liege), - J. Turnau (INP, Cracow)  
10:40 --- coffee break ---
11:10 Session IV: Jets and inclusive hadronic processes - Conveners: M. Klasen (IPSC, Grenoble), M. Klein (DESY), A. Levy (Tel Aviv U.) -  
12:50 --- lunch break ---
14:30 Session V: Heavy flavours production - Conveners: J. Chyla (Prague, Inst. Phys.), U. Karshon (Weizmann I.), M. Wing (UCL, London)  
16:20 --- coffee break ---
16:50 Session VIa: Total cross sections and diffraction - Conveners: L. Gorlich (INP, Cracow), H. Kowalski (DESY), R. Godbole (IIS, Bangalore)  
18:00 --- End of sessions ---
19:30 Conference Dinner - Place: The Royal Castle in Warsaw  
09:00
PHOTON2005 (until 19:50)
09:00 Session VII: Astrophysics - Conveners: S. Bajtlik (CAMK, Warsaw), A. Djouadi (LPT, Orsay), B. Paczynski (Princeton U.)  
10:40 --- coffee break ---
11:10 Session VIIIa: Related topics (QED and Quantum Optics) - Conveners: F. Kapusta (Paris U. VI-VII), M. Krawczyk (Warsaw U.), V. Serbo (Novosibirsk U.)  
12:50 --- lunch break ---
14:40 Session VIb: Total cross section and diffraction - Conveners: L. Gorlich (INP, Cracow), H. Kowalski (DESY), R. Godbole (IIS, Bangalore)  
16:30 --- free afternoon ---
18:00 Cocktail given by Mayor of Warsaw - Venue: Foyer of the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall  
19:30 Symphonic Concert - The opening concert of the International Festival "Chopin and His Europe" - Venue: The Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall  
09:00
PHOTON2005 (until 19:10)
09:00 Session IXa: Resonances and exclusive processes - Conveners: M. Kienzle (Geneva U.), L. Mankiewicz (CFT, Warsaw), - S. Maxfield (Liverpool U.), M. Pennington (Durham U.)  
10:40 Extra Session: Scales  
11:10 Session IXb: Resonances and exclusive processes - Conveners: M. Kienzle (Geneva U.), L. Mankiewicz (CFT, Warsaw), - S. Maxfield (Liverpool U.), M. Pennington (Durham U.)  
12:50 --- lunch break ---
14:40 Session VIIIb: Related topics - Conveners: F. Kapusta (Paris U. VI-VII), M. Krawczyk (Warsaw U.), V. Serbo (Novosibirsk U.)  
16:20 --- coffee break ---
16:50 Summary - Chair: A. Bialas (Jagellonian U.)  
18:50 --- End of sessions ---
09:00
Excursions and departure to Kazimierz (until 18:00)
09:00 Warsaw sightseeing tour  
12:30 --- Lunch break in the Old Town ---
15:00 Maria Sklodowska-Curie tour  
17:00 --- Departure to Kazimierz (PLC2005) ---
09:00
PLC2005 (until 20:00)
09:00 Session P1: Introductory session - Chair: R. Sosnowski (SINS, Warsaw)  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Session P2: Linear Collider - Chair: P. Zerwas (DESY)  
12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:30 Session P3: QED processes - Chair: I. Ginzburg  
14:35 Kazimierz Lectures L1+L2 - Chair: A. Szymacha and D. Kisielewska  
16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Session P4: QCD processes - Chair: S. Soldner-Rembold (U. of Manchester)  
16:35 Kazimierz Lectures L3+L4 - Chair: H. Kowalski  
18:00 --- End of sessions ---
19:00 Reception - Place: Dom Architekta  
09:00
PLC2005 (until 20:50)
09:00 Session P5: Signal of New Physics - Chair: R. Godbole (IIS, Bangalore)  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Session P6: SM and Beyond - Chair: J. Kalinowski (Warsaw U.)  
12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:30 Session P7: Higgs - Chair: I. Watanabe (Akita Keizaihoka U.)  
14:35 Kazimierz Lectures L5+L6 - Chair: A. Levy  
16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Session P8: Higgs - Chair: A. Nikitenko (Imperial College, London/ITEP, Moscow)  
16:35 Kazimierz Lectures L7+L8 - Chair: M. Demianski  
18:00 --- End of sessions ---
20:30 Evening session - Gamma Ray Bursts - G. Wrochna (SINS, Warsaw)  
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09:00
PLC2005 (until 20:50)
09:00 Session P9: SUSY - Chair: J. Wudka (UC Riverside)  
09:05 Kazimierz Lectures L9+L10  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Session P10: Free time  
11:05 Kazimierz Lectures L11+L12  
12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:15 Session P11: LHC/ILC - Chair: E. Rondio (SINS, Warsaw)  
16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Session P12: Cosmic connections - Chair: L. Okun (ITEP Moscow)  
18:00 --- End of sessions ---
20:30 Conference Dinner including DJM Fest - Venue: Restaurant Kwadrans  
09:00
PLC2005 (until 21:00)
09:00 Session T1 and T2: Accelerator, Interaction Point and Laser - Chair: R.-D. Heuer (DESY)  
09:05 Kazimierz Lectures L13+L14 - Chair: G. Gounaris (U. of Thessaloniki)  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Session T1 and T2: Accelerator, Interaction Point and Laser - Chair: J. Gronberg (LLNL)  
12:00 Summary session - Chair: D. J. Miller (U. College London)  
13:00 --- lunch break ---
16:00 Excursions  
18:00 --- Supper at the Dom Architekta ---
20:00 Organ Concert - Venue: Fara, Kazimierz  
09:00
Return from Kazimierz to Warsaw (until 12:00)
PM
19:30
Public lecture (until 22:00)
19:30 Chair: Marek Demianski (Warsaw U.) - Public lecture: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in Modern Physical Theories - Sir Roger Penrose (U. of Oxford)  
20:30 --- Reception at Casimir Palace, Main Campus of Warsaw U. ---
20:00
Public lecture (until 21:00)
20:00 Public lecture: The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics - David Gross, 2004 Nobel Prize Laureate (KITP)