2009 CHIPP Plenary Meeting

from Monday 24 August 2009 (09:30) to Tuesday 25 August 2009 (20:00)
Seminarhotel Appenberg (Schulhaussaal)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Aug 2009
25 Aug 2009
AM
09:30 Coffee  
10:00 Welcome by the CHIPP Chair - Ueli Straumann (UniZH)  
10:05 Administrative and organisational set-up - Jean-Pierre Ruder  
10:10
Collider based high energy physics (until 12:30)
10:10 The future of Cern - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)  
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10:50 Preparation for LHC beam: ATLAS - William H Bell (UniGE)  
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11:10 Preparation for LHC beam: CMS - Lea Caminada (PSI)  
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11:30 Preparation for LHC beam: LHCb - Jeroen van Tilburg (UniZH)  
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11:50 Progress in the calculation of collider processes - Prof. Thomas Becher (UniBE)  
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09:00
CHIPP (until 09:45)
09:00 Report on CHIPP activities - Ueli Straumann (UniZH)  
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09:15 CHIPP Outreach - H.P. Beck (UniBE)  
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09:30 CHIPP computing board activities - Christoph Grab (ETHZ)  
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09:45
Report from committees (until 10:30)
09:45 CERN council - Ueli Straumann (UniZH)  
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09:55 ACCU - Michele Weber (UniBE)  
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10:05 ECFA - Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)  
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10:15 APPEC - Maurice Bourquin (UniGE)  
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10:30 CHIPP Elections  
10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:00
CHIPP prize and presentation (until 11:30)
11:00 Little Higgs model - Pedro Schwaller (UniZH)  
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11:30
Activities at PSI (until 12:30)
11:30 Low Energy fundamental precision experiments - Andreas Knecht (PSI)  
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11:50 CLOUD: The influence of cosmic rays on clouds and climate - Urs Baltensperger (PSI)  
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12:10 The SwissFEL project at PSI and possible applications in fundamental physics - Thomas Schietinger (PSI)  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Basic properties of neutrinos (until 16:30)
13:45 Neutrino physics: general framework and open problems - Prof. Fabio Zwirner (Padua)  
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14:20 0nu2beta Experiments - Razvan Gornea (UniBE)  
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14:40 Status report from T2K - Andrea Ferrero (UniGE)  
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15:00 Status and results from OPERA - Tomoko Ariga (UniBE)  
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15:20 MICE - Jean-Sebastian Graulich (UniGE)  
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15:40 --- Tea ---
16:00 Swiss prospects on neutrino physics - Antonio Ereditato (UniBE)  
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16:30
Towards a large underground detector (until 17:10)
16:30 Results and plans for LAr R&D in Switzerland - Filippo Resnati (ETHZ)  
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16:50 LAGUNA - Andre Rubbia (ETHZ)  
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17:30
CHIPP Board meeting, part I (until 19:00) (Schulstube)
19:15 --- Dinner ---
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Astroparticle Physics (until 16:13)
14:00 Direct Dark Matter Searches - an Overview - Laura Baudis (UniZH)  
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14:30 Status and results from ICECUBE - Levent Demirors (EPFL)  
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14:50 Status and results from MAGIC - Isabel Braun (ETHZ)  
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15:10 CTA: Actiivities and plans at ISDC - Roland Walter (ISDC)  
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15:30 CTA design study: Swiss hardware contributions - Isabel Braun (ETHZ)  
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15:50 Cosmic rays: AMS and PEBS - Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)  
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16:15 --- Tea ---
16:30
CHIPP Board meeting, part II (until 18:00) (Schulstube)