RECFA Meeting in Cyprus

25 Oct 2019, 10:00 → 26 Oct 2019, 12:10 Asia/Nicosia

The Open Session of RECFA will take place on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, in the  Senate Room 115 of the University of Cyprus Campus, "Anastasios G. Leventis Building", in Nicosia. The detailed program of presentations will follow (Start: 10:00, Finish: 18:30 ).

The Closed Session of RECFA will take place in the Palm Beach Hotel & Bungalows "Meeting Room​"​​​​​​ on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. The exact agenda will follow (Start: 09:00, Finish: 12:10).

Friday 25 October

10:00 → 10:05 Welcome Speech

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs

Speaker: Prof. Irene - Anna Diakidou (Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs) (Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs)

10:05 → 10:10 Welcome Speech

Speaker: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth)

10:10 → 10:15 Cyprus and Associate Membership as the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

Tsesmelis_Accession.pdf

10:15 → 10:20 Opening Talk

Speaker: Prof. Jorgen D' Hondt (Chairman of the European Committee for Future Accelerators)

10:25 → 10:40 Higher Education in Cyprus

Speaker: Dr Terpsa Constantinidou (Chairman of the CY-CERN National Committee)

2019-10-25-DHE PRESENTATION RECFA_Final.pdf

10:40 → 10:55 The Research and Innovation Foundation and its role in promoting research excellence and innovation.

Speaker: Antonis Ioulianos (ΙδΕΚ)

RIF RECFA presentation 25102019.pdf

10:55 → 11:20 Contribution of Cyprus to the Scientific Program of CERN

Speaker: Prof. Panos Razis (Scientific Delicate of Cyprus at CERN)

RECFA Cyprus 2019 Razis.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson with the CMS experiment at LHC

Speaker: Dr Jehad Mousa (University of Cyprus)

25102019_RECFA_JehadMousa.pdf

11:40 → 12:05 Coffee break

12:05 → 12:20 Higgs boson searches in hadronic final states with CMS at LHC and prospects for HL-LHC

Speaker: Dr Alexandros Attikis (University of Cyprus)

Attikis_REFCA_25Oct2019_v2.pdf

12:20 → 12:35 BSM searches with multileptons in CMS and Level 1 electron trigger for Phase 2

Speaker: Dr Halil Saka (University of Cyprus)

CyprusRECFA_HalilSaka.pdf

12:35 → 12:50 Effective Field Theory for New Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Eleni Vryonidou (CERN )

Vryonidou_RECFA.pdf

12:50 → 14:30 Group Photo & Lunch

14:30 → 14:45 Multi-wavelength observations and models for galaxies and their supermassive black holes

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Efstathiou (European University Cyprus)

Efstathiou_REFCA_meeting2019.pdf

14:45 → 15:00 Radiation-Hard Electronics and low-power, Mixed-signal High Performance Computing Elements

Speaker: Christos Sapsanis (University of Cyprus)

csapsanis_RECFA.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Visit the Library of the University

16:00 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 16:35 Medical Physics, Dosimetry and Radiation Safety

Speaker: Dr Evangelia Dimovasili (CERN)

RECFA_Dimovasili2019.pdf

16:35 → 16:50 Medical diagnostic systems and simulations

Speaker: Dr Irene Polycarpou (European University Cyprus)

polycarpou_Irene.pdf

16:50 → 17:05 High Performance Computing in Cyprus

Speaker: Dr Nikolaos Bakas (Neapolis University Pafos‎)

RECFA Bakas 2019.pdf

17:05 → 17:20 Nuclear Physics: Basic and Applied Research in Cyprus

Speaker: Prof. Yiannis Parpottas ( Frederick University)

RECFA Parpottas 2019.pdf