SM@50

1 Jun 2018, 01:50 → 4 Jun 2018, 14:10 US/Eastern

Case Western Reserve University

Bryan Lynn , Glenn David Starkman (Case Western Reserve University (US))

The Standard Model  at 50 Years: A Celebratory Symposium

Physics Department, Case Western Reserve University,

Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 

Conference Website: http://artsci.case.edu/smat50/

 

Friday, 1 June

13:00 → 17:40 Afternoon session: Origins

Convener: Robert Brown

13:00 Welcome

Speakers: Cyrus Taylor, Glenn D. Starkman, Kathleen Kash

13:10 Discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC (after a 50-year search!)

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

Butterworthpptx.pptx

13:50 Neutrino Oscillations

Speaker: Takaaki Kajita

kajita.pdf

14:30 Origins of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 Quarks

Speaker: Jerome I. Friedman

Friedman.pptx

Saturday, 2 June

09:00 → 12:50 Morning session: Vindication of the Quantum-loop Structure of the Standard Model

Convener: Kurt Hinterbichler

09:00 High-precision electro-weak theory

10:20 Today’s Technology, Engineering and applied Mathematics is Yesterday’s Science

Speaker: Bennie F.L. Ward

Ward.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Renormalization and unitarity of spontaneously broken gauge theories

Speaker: Gerard ‘t Hooft

12:10 Nuclei in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Ubirajara van Kolck

vanKolck.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:50 Afternoon session: “The Core Theory:” Standard Model + Neutrino Masses + General Relativity

Convener: Karsten Eggert

14:00 The role of particle accelerators

Speaker: Carlo Rubbia

14:40 Heavy quark physics, Tetra-quarks

Speaker: Mark Wise

Wise.pdf

15:20 Coffee Break

15:50 Lattice gauge theories

Speaker: Norman Christ

Christ.pdf

16:30 The discovery of the gluon

Speaker: Sau Lan Wu

Wu.pdf

17:10 Doorways to New Physics

Speaker: Pavel Fileviez Perez

Talk-PFP-SM50.pdf

Sunday, 3 June

09:00 → 12:50 Morning session: Modern Challenges

Convener: Cyrus Taylor

09:00 High-precision electro-weak experiments

Speaker: Alain Blondel

Blondel.pdf

Blondel.pptx

09:40 Baryo-genesis

Speaker: Rocky Kolb

Kolb.pdf

10:20 Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: George Smoot

Smoot.pdf

Smoot.pptx

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Expansion of the universe

Speaker: Alexei V. Filippenko

12:10 CP violation

Speaker: Helen Quinn

Quinn.pptx

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 Afternoon session: The Core Theory (continued)

14:00 Welcome to CWRU

Speakers: Barbara Snyder (President, CWRU), James Wyant (Chair, Board of Trustees)

14:10 The alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Speaker: Samuel C. C. Ting

14:50 Core Theory Cosmology

Speaker: Glenn D. Starkman

15:30 The problems of quantum mechanics

Speaker: Steven Weinberg

16:10 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:30 Public lecture: The Standard Model and Beyond

Convener: Evalyn Gates

17:00 The Standard Model and Beyond (Public Lecture)

Speaker: David Gross

18:00 Book Signing

18:30 → 22:00 Symposium Reception at Cleveland Museum of Art

Monday, 4 June

09:00 → 11:00 Morning session: New Developments

Convener: Glenn D. Starkman

09:00 The quark-gluon plasma

Speaker: Jurgen Schukraft

Schukraft.pdf

Schukraft.pptx

09:40 Unity from Amplitudes: Gravitons to Gluons to Pions

Speaker: Clifford Cheung

Cheung.pdf

10:20 Gravitational waves: from idea to discovery

Speaker: Daniel Sigg

Sigg.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 12:40 Concluding reamarks

Convener: Glenn D. Starkman

11:20 Searching for New Physics without colliders

Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos

Dimopoulos.pdf

12:00 The conceptual basis of the Standard Model

Speaker: Steven Weinberg