1st Workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender

26 Sept 2018, 08:00 → 28 Sept 2018, 21:30 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Summary of the workshop: click here

This workshop will both focus on recent developments in theoretical high energy physics and cosmology, and discuss issues of gender and equal opportunities in the field.

In addition to talks on nuclear and string theory, SM and BSM phenomenology, lattice field theory and cosmology, each day talks and panel discussions will be dedicated to research on gender in academia, with an aim to further the development and implementation of action plans to support women and other minorities in physics.

Since any positive change needs the support of the whole community we encourage everyone, men and women, junior and senior scientists, to participate in this workshop.

 

Links to previous similar workshops:

1st Workshop on String Theory and Gender

2nd Workshop on String Theory and Gender 

3rd Workshop on String Theory and Gender

 

Report on Gender Activities of the COST Action MP1210:  Click here

 

Registration: There is no registration fee.  Applications to attend will be open until September 01, 2018, within constraints of available space. If you wish to give a short talk or poster please register by June 30, 2018.

Physics talks - confirmed speakers:

Ana Achucarro (Leiden U.) - Inflation

Agnese Bissi (Uppsala U.) - AdS/CFT correspondence

Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam U.) - Black hole entropy

Laura Covi (Goettingen U.) - Cosmology

JiJi Fan (Brown U.) - BSM Phenomenology

Elvira Gamiz (Granada U.) - Lattice QCD & flavour physics

Silvia Pascoli (Durham U.) - Neutrino Physics

Tracy Slatyer (MIT) - Dark Matter

Maria Ubiali (Cambridge U., DAMTP) - Parton distributions from high precision collider data

Eleni Vryonidou (CERN) - SM Effective Field Theory

Korinna Zapp (LIP, Lisbon & CERN) - Heavy Ion Physics

Gender talks - confirmed speakers:

Marieke van den Brink (Nijmegen U.)

Meytal Eran-Jona (Weizmann Inst.)

Julie Moote (UCL, London)

Yosef Nir (Weizmann Inst.)

Jessica Wade (Imperial College London)

Geneviève Guinot (CERN Diversity Office)

International Advisory Committee:

• Sonia Bacca (JGU Mainz)
• Anna Ceresole (INFN Turin)
• Valentina Forini (City, U. Of London and HU Berlin)
• Rohini M. Godbole (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
• Pilar Hernández (Valencia University, IFIC)
• Maria Lledo (Valencia University, IFIC)
• Prado Martin Moruno (Madrid University)
• Yosef Nir (Weizmann Institute)
• Michela Petrini (Paris, LPTHE)
• Laura Reina (Florida State University)
• Geraldine Servant (Universität Hamburg & DESY)

Organising Committee:

• Gian Giudice (CERN)
• Alessandra Gnecchi (CERN)
• Mariana Grana (CEA/Saclay)
• Gabriele Honecker (JGU Mainz)
• Yolanda Lozano (University of Oviedo)
• Silvia Penati (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Gavin Salam (CERN)
• Marika Taylor (University of Southampton)
• Andrea Thamm (CERN)
• Malgorzata Worek (RWTH Aachen University)

This workshop is supported by the CERN-TH Department, University of Milano-Bicocca, ERC Consolidator Grant 772408 "Deconstructing the string landscape", the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA DFG no. EXC 1098, the COST Network CA16201 PARTICLEFACE "Unraveling new physics at the LHC through the precision frontier", and CERN Diversity Office.

The COST Network CA16201 PARTICLEFACE "Unraveling new physics at the LHC through the precision frontier" provides a special grant to support a few PhD students and/or young postdocs working for an institute located in the following countries:  Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Eligibility is by location of your institution, not by nationality!  For more information and for submitting your application for the COST grant, please contact Malgorzata Worek (E-mail: worek@physik.rwth-aachen.de). The application deadline for the COST grant is 30 June 2018.

CostAction.docx

CostAction.pdf

Discussion1_2.pdf

Discussion1_2.pdf

Discussion1_2.pptx

Discussion1_2.pptx

Discussion-sessions.pdf

summary.pdf

Workshop poster

Wednesday 26 September

1 Welcome and introduction by the Organizing Committee

Speakers: Gian Giudice (CERN), Marika Taylor (University of Southampton)

2 Gender initiatives at CERN

Speaker: Genevieve Guinot (CERN)

GEN- HET - Diversity - GGuinot - Sept 2018.pdf

Recording

3 The COST initiative in String Theory

Speaker: Yolanda Lozano (University of Oviedo)

COST-CERN.pdf

Recording

4 AdS/CFT correspondence

Speaker: Agnese Bissi

CERN_2018.pdf

5 Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Korinna Christine Zapp (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

cern-HETgender_1809.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

6 BSM Phenomenology

Speaker: JiJi Fan (Brown University)

cern_gender_Fan_2018.pdf

7 Lattice QCD & Flavour physics

Speaker: Elvira Gamiz (University of Granada)

gamiz_CERN2018.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

8 Inflation Reloaded

Theory Colloquium

Speaker: Ana Achucarro (Univ. of Leiden / UPV-EHU Bilbao)

15:30 Coffee break

9 Understanding young women's science aspirations

Speaker: Julie Moote (Institute of Education, University College London)

Moote_Gender_Talk_25_09_18.pdf

Recording

Discussion session

Convener: Stephen James Brightwell (CERN)

BIAS.pdf

BIAS.pptx

Discussion_Questions.pdf

Thursday 27 September

10 Gender in academic recruitment and selection

Speaker: Marieke van den Brink (Radboud University)

Keynote CERN.ppt

Recording

11 Parton distributions from high precision data

Speaker: Maria Ubiali (University of Cambridge (GB))

ubiali_gender.pdf

12 Cosmology

Speaker: Laura Covi (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

CERN2018-Cosmology.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

13 Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB))

CERNGender2018_Pascoli.pdf

14 Dark Matter

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer

DarkMatter_Slatyer.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

15 “From Starbucks to the academy: Unconscious bias and what can we do about it?”

Speaker: Meytal Eran-Jona (Weizmann Institute)

UCB CERN mej last - for publication2.pdf

Discussion session

Convener: Sudeshna Datta Cockerill (CERN)

BIAS.pdf

BIAS.pptx

Discussion_Questions.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Young scientist session (talks are 7+3 mins)

16 High-dimensional neutrino masses

Speaker: Gaetana Anamiati

Anamiati.pdf

17 Can Chern-Simons Field or Rarita-Schwinger Field be a Volkov- Akulov Goldstone?

Speaker: Sukruti Bansal

Sukruti_HET_Conference_Presentation.pdf

18 On TMDs for multi-parton processes

Speaker: Marcin Bury

TMDs_MBury.pdf

19 D-branes in lambda deformations

Speaker: Sibylle Driezen

SibylleDriezen.pdf

20 Renormalons effects in top-mass sensitive observables

Speaker: Silvia Ferrario Ravasio

SilviaFerrarioRavasio.pdf

21 Stringy dark matter in the KL moduli stabilization scenario

Speaker: Thaisa Guio

Guio.pdf

22 Freeze-in of light scalars before and after electroweak symmetry breaking

Speaker: Saniya Heeba

Heeba_CERN_Sept2018 .pdf

23 Exploring doubly charged Higgs bosons collider signals in light of low energy LFV constraints

Speaker: Magdalena Kordiaczynska

cern_09_2018_kordiaczynska.pdf

24 Asymptotic expansions for highly boosted Higgs production through the loop-tree duality

Speaker: Judith Plenter

vortragHEPgender.pdf

25 Conference dinner - Auberge communale de Meyrin

Friday 28 September

26 On the road to equality

Speaker: Jessica Wade (Imperial College London)

JW_GenderHET_20180928.pdf

Recording

Young scientist session (talks are 7+3 mins)

27 String cosmological model in f(R,T) gravity

Speaker: Perbati Sahoo

28 Goldstone theorem in non-Hermitian QFT

Speaker: Seynaeve Dries

PresentationGoldstone.pdf

29 Radiative corrections to the reaction $e^+ e^- \to \pi^+ \pi^- \gamma$

Speaker: Szymon Tracz

Tracz.pdf

30 Equations of motion for the SMEFT: theory and application

Speaker: Anagha Vasudevan

vasudevan_cern2018.pdf

31 Analysing parton distributions in nuclei

Speaker: Marina Walt

MarinaWalt.pdf

32 Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional black strings

Speaker: Céline Zwikel

Zwikel.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

33 Black hole entropy

Speaker: Alejandra Castro

WHET-2018-BH.pdf

34 SM Effective Theory

Speaker: Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)

SMEFT_Vryonidou.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

35 Bibliometrics data about gender issues in fundamental theory

COMMENT FROM THE WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Alessandro Strumia applied to give a presentation on “Bibiliometrics data about gender issues in fundamental theory”. The committee was skeptical of his motivations but decided to allow him to give a scientific presentation on data analysis. The committee is deeply disappointed that the presentation, which had not been shared prior to its delivery, included attacks on individuals and was contrary to CERN’s values, as set out in the CERN Code of Conduct. CERN’s official statement on the matter can be found here: https://press.cern/press-releases/2018/09/updated-statement-cern-stands-diversity

Speaker: Alessandro Strumia (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

CERN statement

36 1+1+1+... Personal perspective on women in physics

Speaker: Yosef Nir (Weizmann Institute)

180928_gender_cern.pptx

Recording

15:30 Coffee break

Discussion session

Convener: Marika Taylor (University of Southampton, UK)

BIAS.pdf

BIAS.pptx

Discussion_Questions.pdf