Martin Perl Symposium

Friday 12 Feb 2016, 13:00 → 21:00 US/Pacific

Panofsky Auditorium, SUSB (Bldg 53) (SLAC)

David Burke (SLAC), John Jaros (SLAC), Michael Peskin, Patricia Burchat (Stanford University), Rafe Schindler (SLAC), Vera Luth (SLAC)

A symposium will be held to celebrate the scientific career of Martin Perl with contributions from those who knew and worked with him throughout his career.

Martin had a fascinating career: It began in New York in chemical engineering, evolved into doctoral research with Rabi on nuclear dipole moments, took a turn in the Mid-West to study hadronic interactions in Glazer’s bubble chambers, and moved on to a new lab on the West Coast to pursue his fascination with the nature of leptons, win a Nobel Prize for discovery of the third generation of fermions, and question the asymptotic freedom of quarks.

Along the way, Martin established a unique style as an experimentalist, mentored a generation of physicists, and reflected his social convictions and concerns as a founder of the APS Forum on Physics and Society.

Symposium Home Page

13:00 → 13:05 Welcome

13:05 → 13:50 Beginning and Early Career: Chemistry, Nuclear Moments, Hadrons

Convener: Samuel Ting (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology)

13:10 Rafe Schindler

Speaker: Rafe Schindler (SLAC)

13:30 Larry Jones

Speaker: Larry Jones (University of Michigan)

13:50 → 15:00 Beginnings at SLAC: Nature of Leptons and the Mark I Story

Convener: Richard Taylor (SLAC)

13:55 Burt Richter

Speaker: Burton Richter (SLAC)

14:25 Robert Cahn

Speaker: Robert Cahn (LBNL)

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15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:30 Mid Career at SLAC: The Tau and the Third Generation

Convener: Gail Hanson (University of California, Riverside)

15:35 Gary Feldman

Speaker: Gary Feldman (Harvard University)

16:05 Hinrich Meyer

Speaker: Hinrich Meyer (DESY/Wuppertal University)

16:30 → 17:00 Final Quest: Free Quarks and the Asymptotic Paradigm

Convener: Michael Peskin (SLAC)

16:35 Dinesh Loomba

Speaker: Dinesh Loomba (University of New Mexico)

17:00 → 17:30 Martin Perl: Portrait of a Scientist and Mentor

Speaker: Jonathon Dorfan (OIST)

17:30 → 19:00 Reception and Buffet Dinner

19:00 → 20:00 Recollections

Joseph Perl (SLAC)
Open microphone

Convener: John Jaros (SLAC)