Name: CERN History Days
Start: 2018-02-01T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-02-02T15:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

CERN History Days

from Thursday, February 1, 2018 (9:00 AM) to Friday, February 2, 2018 (3:00 PM)

Monday, January 29, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Thursday, February 1, 2018
9:00 AM Introduction to CERN - James Gillies (CERN)
Introduction to CERN
- James Gillies (CERN)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:40 AM Underground visit to ALICE / Visit to Synchrocyclotron and SM18
Underground visit to ALICE / Visit to Synchrocyclotron and SM18
9:40 AM - 12:30 PM
1st group: 09:40-09:45: The group walks to building 39 (CERN hotel reception) 09:45-10:00: The bus takes the group to SM18 10:00-11:00: SM18 visit 11:00-11:10 : The bus takes the group to ALICE 11:10-12:10: ALICE visit 12:10-12:30: The bus takes the group back to building 39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd group: 09:40-09:45: The group walks to building 39 (CERN hotel reception) 09:45-10:00: The bus takes the group to ALICE 10:00-11:10: ALICE visit 11:10-11:20: The bus takes the group to SC 11:20-12:05: SC visit 12:05-12:15: The group walks back to the main building.

12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Restaurant 1
1:30 PM Welcome - Opening Session
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome speech - CERN Director of International Relations - Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)

1:45 PM Introductory talks - Jurgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciences) Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens) Theodore Arabatzis (History of Science and Technology -National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
2:00 PM Institutional Histories of Laboratories
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction - Speakers' Presentation - Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)

2:15 PM General reflections on the importance of documenting the history of CERN - Herwig Schopper (former CERN DG, 1981 - 1988)

2:30 PM Reflections on Writing the History of CERN - John Krige (School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA)

2:45 PM Involvement in writing the history of the Fermilab - Lillian Hoddeson (American Physical Society)

3:00 PM Involvement in writing the history of ESA - A comparative analysis - Arturo Russo (University of Palermo, Italy)

3:15 PM Q & A
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
3:50 PM History and Philosophy in Discussion
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

3:50 PM The Epistemology of Experiment: The Higgs Boson and Gravity Waves - Allan Franklin (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA)

4:10 PM The interplay of theory and experiment in high-energy physics: a historical-epistemological perspective - Arianna Borrelli (Technical University - Berlin, Germany)

4:30 PM Statistics and uncertainty in high energy physics - Kent Staley (St. Louis University - Missouri, USA)

4:50 PM Q & A
5:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
5:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
5:20 PM History in Motion
5:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

5:20 PM Gender & diversity issues in high-energy physics - Sharon Traweek (Department of Gender Studies and History - University of California, LA, USA )

5:40 PM The role of history in the popularization of science - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

6:00 PM Historiography of recent Big Science: Biographical and other approaches - Helge Kragh (Emeritus Professor-Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
6:20 PM Closing Remarks

6:20 PM - 6:30 PM

8:00 PM Official Dinner

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Restaurant 2
Friday, February 2, 2018

8:15 AM Way to Ideasquare
Way to Ideasquare
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
The participants will head to the CERN Reception (building 33) where James Gillies and Emmanuel Tsesmelis will wait for them to guide them to Ideasquare. The participants, if they wish, can earlier have breakfast at the Restaurant 1 (right across the CERN hotel reception, building 39), however, a breakfast-buffet will be served from 8.30 in Ideasquare.

8:30 AM Breakfast buffet
Breakfast buffet
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Ideasquare

9:00 AM Synopsis of Day 1

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: IdeaSquare
9:10 AM Introduction - Harri Toivonen (CERN)
Introduction
- Harri Toivonen (CERN)
9:10 AM - 9:20 AM
9:30 AM Round table discussions - Working Groups / Production of a roadmap for the project
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: IdeaSquare
Contributions

9:30 AM First Round - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN) James Gillies (CERN) Matteo Castoldi (CERN) Matthew Chalmers (CERN) Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill (CERN)

10:30 AM Second Round (switch) - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN) James Gillies (CERN) Matteo Castoldi (CERN) Matthew Chalmers (CERN) Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill (CERN)
11:30 AM Plenary Session - Presentation of the reports

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: IdeaSquare

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ideasquare

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