2009 CHIPP Plenary Meeting

24 Aug 2009, 09:30 → 25 Aug 2009, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

Seminarhotel Appenberg (Schulhaussaal)

Ueli Straumann (UniZH)

Annual plenary meeting of CHIPP in 2009

Monday 24 August

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 10:05 Welcome by the CHIPP Chair

Speaker: Ueli Straumann (UniZH)

10:05 → 10:10 Administrative and organisational set-up

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Ruder

10:10 → 12:30 Collider based high energy physics

10:10 The future of Cern

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

Slides bertolucci.pdf bertolucci.ppt

10:50 Preparation for LHC beam: ATLAS

Speaker: William H Bell (UniGE)

Slides ATLAS-20090824.pdf ATLAS-20090824.pptx

11:10 Preparation for LHC beam: CMS

Speaker: Lea Caminada (PSI)

Slides chipp.ppt CMS_chipp.pdf

11:30 Preparation for LHC beam: LHCb

Speaker: Jeroen van Tilburg (UniZH)

Slides LHCbStatus.pdf LHCbStatus.ppt

11:50 Progress in the calculation of collider processes

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Becher (UniBE)

Slides becher_CHIPP.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 16:30 Basic properties of neutrinos

13:45 Neutrino physics: general framework and open problems

Speaker: Prof. Fabio Zwirner (Padua)

Slides CHIPP09_FZ.pdf

14:20 0nu2beta Experiments

Speaker: Razvan Gornea (UniBE)

Slides appenberg_gornea_2009.pdf appenberg_gornea_2009.ppt

14:40 Status report from T2K

Speaker: Andrea Ferrero (UniGE)

Slides ferrero.pdf ferrero.pptx

15:00 Status and results from OPERA

Speaker: Tomoko Ariga (UniBE)

Slides CHIPP2009_OPERA.pptx

15:20 MICE

Speaker: Jean-Sebastian Graulich (UniGE)

Slides graulich_MICE_CHIPP09.ppt.pdf graulich_MICE_CHIPP09.ppt.ppt

15:40 Tea

16:00 Swiss prospects on neutrino physics

Speaker: Antonio Ereditato (UniBE)

Slides AE-CHIPP-240809.pdf

16:30 → 17:10 Towards a large underground detector

16:30 Results and plans for LAr R&D in Switzerland

Speaker: Filippo Resnati (ETHZ)

Slides CHIPPMeeting2009FResnati.pdf CHIPPMeeting2009FResnati.ppt

16:50 LAGUNA

Speaker: Andre Rubbia (ETHZ)

Slides CHIPP_LAGUNA_Rubbia.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 CHIPP Board meeting, part I

19:15 → 21:15 Dinner

Tuesday 25 August

09:00 → 09:45 CHIPP

09:00 Report on CHIPP activities

Speaker: Ueli Straumann (UniZH)

Slides chipp_activities_straumann.pdf

09:15 CHIPP Outreach

Speaker: H.P. Beck (UniBE)

Slides HP_Beck_CHIPP_Outreach.pdf HP_Beck_CHIPP_Outreach.ppt

09:30 CHIPP computing board activities

Speaker: Christoph Grab (ETHZ)

Slides CHIPP_aug09_grab.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Report from committees

09:45 CERN council

Speaker: Ueli Straumann (UniZH)

Slides cern_council_activities_straumann.pdf

09:55 ACCU

Speaker: Michele Weber (UniBE)

Slides ACCUreport-appenberg.pdf

10:05 ECFA

Speaker: Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)

Slides ECFA_TN.pdf ECFA_TN.pptx

10:15 APPEC

Speaker: Maurice Bourquin (UniGE)

Slides Report_on_ApPEC_Aug_2009.pdf Report_on_ApPEC_Aug_2009.ppt

10:30 → 10:40 CHIPP Elections

10:40 → 10:55 Coffee

11:00 → 11:30 CHIPP prize and presentation

11:00 Little Higgs model

Speaker: Pedro Schwaller (UniZH)

Slides chipp-pedro.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Activities at PSI

11:30 Low Energy fundamental precision experiments

Speaker: Andreas Knecht (PSI)

Slides AK_low_energy_PSI.pdf AK_low_energy_PSI.ppt

11:50 CLOUD: The influence of cosmic rays on clouds and climate

Speaker: Urs Baltensperger (PSI)

Slides Baltensperger_CHIPP09.pdf

12:10 The SwissFEL project at PSI and possible applications in fundamental physics

Speaker: Thomas Schietinger (PSI)

Slides Schietinger_SwissFEL.odp Schietinger_SwissFEL.pdf

12:40 → 13:55 Lunch

14:00 → 16:13 Astroparticle Physics

14:00 Direct Dark Matter Searches - an Overview

Speaker: Laura Baudis (UniZH)

Slides baudis_chipp09.pdf

14:30 Status and results from ICECUBE

Speaker: Levent Demirors (EPFL)

Slides CHIPP_Appenberg_AUG_2009.pdf

14:50 Status and results from MAGIC

Speaker: Isabel Braun (ETHZ)

Slides CHIPP2009IBraun_koo.pdf

15:10 CTA: Actiivities and plans at ISDC

Speaker: Roland Walter (ISDC)

Slides 20090825_CHIPP_Appenberg_Walter.pdf.pdf

15:30 CTA design study: Swiss hardware contributions

Speaker: Isabel Braun (ETHZ)

Slides CHIPP2009IBraun2oo.pdf

15:50 Cosmic rays: AMS and PEBS

Speaker: Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)

Slides AMS-PEBS.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Tea

16:30 → 18:00 CHIPP Board meeting, part II