Welcome and Goals of the School

• Gigi Rolandi (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)

Practicalities

• Fabrizio Palla (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)

CMS status and its future

• Roberto Carlin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

CMS has just finished an exceptional year of data taking, and began a two-year long shutdown for the upgrade of the detector and of the LHC accelerator. The talk will present a short status summary, and the outlook of the present upgrade that will bring us to "Run 3" and of the much more challenging upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC phase that will follow.

CMS Physics with Run2 data and prospects

• Shahram Rahatlou (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

The LHC Run2 just ended with CMS recording almost 160 fb-1 of data. I will discuss some of the most important achievements of CMS with the collected data and the physics program and prospects for the analysis of the complete dataset in the next 2 years.

Standard Model or Standard Theory? The many ways beyond the SM

• Riccardo Barbieri (Dipartimento di Fisica)
• Riccardo Barbieri (SNS)

In spite of its extraordinary empirical success, one can still wonder why the SM works better than expected even by (some of) those people who have invented it. Given the many things that we still do not understand, a question like this one remains as a valid motivation for the multiple directions that are taken in exploring Beyond the Standard Model physics. A brief summary of these directions is attempted.

Introduction to the CMS offline and analysis tools

• Tommaso Boccali (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

The Pisa computing environment

• Enrico Mazzoni

Room: 131