ICFA Seminar Agenda
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| October 28 | Start | Duration | Speaker | Title |
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| Session1 - Overview Chair: Natalie Roe (LBNL) |
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| 8:20 AM | 5 mins | Persis Drell (SLAC) | Welcome |
| 8:25 AM | 5 mins | Albrecht Wagner (ICFA) | Introductory remarks by ICFA |
| 8:30 AM | 40 mins | Hitoshi Murayama (IPMU Tokyo & UC Berkeley) | Physics highlights & perspectives |
| 9:10 AM | 25 mins | Karlheinz Meier (Heidelberg) | European regional report: status, developments and plans |
| 9:35 AM | 25 mins | Mitsuaki Nozaki (KEK) | Asian regional report: status, developments and plans |
| 10:00 AM | 25 mins | Mel Shochet (Chicago) | North American regional report: status, developments and plans |
| 10:30 AM | 30 mins | Break | |
| Session 2 - LHC Chair: Robert Aymar (CERN) |
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| 11:00 AM | 30 mins | Lyn Evans (CERN) | LHC commissioning & status |
| 11:30 AM | 30 mins | Karl Jakobs (Freiburg) | ATLAS status & early physics prospects |
| 12:00 PM | 30 mins | Jordan Nash (IC London) | CMS status & early physics prospects |
| 12:30 PM | 15 mins | Ulrik Egede (IC London) | LHCb status & early physics prospects |
| 12:45 PM | 15 mins | Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN) | ALICE status & early physics prospects |
| 12:55 PM | 65 mins | Lunch | |
| Session 3 - Neutrino Physics Chair: Eugenio Coccia (Gran Sasso) |
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| 14:00 PM | 25 mins | Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern) | Overview of neutrino physics issues and opportunities |
| 14:25 PM | 25 mins | Giorgio Gratta (Stanford) | Existing and future neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments |
| 14:50 PM | 25 mins | Yifang Wang (IHEP Beijing) | Existing and future reactor oscillation experiments |
| 15:15 PM | 30 mins | Mark Messier (Indiana) | Existing and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments |
| 15:45 PM | 25 mins | Ed Kearns (Boston) | Future neutrino projects beyond theta_13 |
| 16:10 PM | 20 mins | Break | |
| Session 4 - Collaboration issues in HEP | |||
| 16:30 PM | 45 mins | Moderator: Vera Luth | Round Table: Assessment of achievement by scientists in large collaborations |
| Publications and authorship in large HEP collaborations, Vera Luth (SLAC) | |||
| Assessment of individual achievements in large HEP collaborations, Patricia McBride (Fermilab) | |||
| Assessment of individual achievements in large astrophysics collaborations, Eduardo do Couto e Silva (SLAC) | |||
| Comments from young scientists: Yury Kolemensky (LBNL), Tim Gershon (Warwick), Gabriele Simi (Maryland) | |||
| 17:15 PM | 45 mins | Moderator: Jonathan Dorfan | Round Table: Relaxing the proprietary ownership protocols for HEP data |
| Towards the legacy of HERA: combining H1 and ZEUS data, Tobias Haas (DESY) | |||
| Preserving and expanding access to legacy HEP data sets, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann (SLAC) | |||
| Discussion | |||
| October 29 | Start | Duration | Speaker | Title |
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| Session1 - Intensity-Frontier Facilities I Chair: Masa Yamauchi (KEK) |
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| 8:30 AM | 40 mins | Luca Silvestrini (Rome) | Flavor physics opportunities at the intensity frontier |
| 9:10 AM | 20 mins | Marica Biagini (Frascati) | European SuperB status and prospects |
| 9:30 AM | 20 mins | Toru Iijima (Nagoya) | SuperKEKB status and prospects |
| 9:50 AM | 20 mins | Chen Hesheng (IHEP Beijing) | BEPC II status and prospects |
| 10:10 AM | 20 mins | Sasha Skrinsky (BINP) | Plans for a tau/charm factory at BINP |
| 10:30 AM | 30 mins | Break | |
| Session 2 - Intensity-Frontier Facilities II Chair: Sergio Bertolucci (Frascati) |
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| 11:00 AM | 30 mins | Mark Chen (Queens) | Underground lab planning and development |
| 11:30 AM | 20 mins | Kevin Lesko (LBNL) | Planning for DUSEL |
| 11:50 PM | 25 mins | Shoji Nagamiya (J-PARC) | JPARC status and plans |
| 12:15 PM | 25 mins | Giorgio Apollinari (FNAL) | Concept and R&D plans for ProjectX |
| 12:40 PM | 60 mins | Lunch | |
| Session 3 - Hadron Colliders Chair: Pier Oddone (Fermilab) |
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| 13:40 PM | 20 mins | Roger Dixon (FNAL) | Tevatron status and recent improvements |
| 14:10 PM | 20 mins | Paul Grannis (SUNY Stony Brook) | Tevatron physics prospects |
| 14:30 PM | 25 mins | Lyn Evans (CERN) | LHC accelerator upgrade plans |
| 14:55 PM | 20 mins | Gian Luca Sabbi (LBNL) | R&D for high field magnets |
| 15:15 PM | 20 mins | Max Klein (Liverpool) | Concept for an e-p/A upgrade to the LHC |
| 15:25 PM | 20 mins | Steinar Stapnes (Oslo/CERN) | Challenges for detector upgrades at superLHC |
| 15:45 PM | 30 mins | Break | |
| Session 4 -
Roundtable: Maintaining Vibrant Accelerator Laboratories
across the Globe Moderator: Albrecht Wagner (DESY) |
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| 16:15 PM | 5 mins | Albrecht Wagner (DESY) | Introduction |
| 16:20 PM | 25 mins | Maury Tigner (Cornell) | HEP accelerator R&D in the age of globalization |
| 16:45 PM | 25 mins | Mathias Clausen (DESY) | Global collaboration on accelerator operations and experiments |
| 17:10 PM | 20 mins | Burton Richter (SLAC) | HEP labs without HEP accelerators: is there a Plan B? |
| 17:30 PM | 15 mins | John Womersley (STFC UK) | Accelerator R&D in the UK |
| 17:45 PM | 20 mins | Discussion | |
| Reception at Fogarty's Winery, beginning at 7:30pm (busses provided at 6:45) | |||
| October 30 | Start | Duration | Speaker | Title |
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| Session1 - TeV-scale Lepton Colliders Chair: Barry Barish (Caltech) |
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| 8:30 AM | 40 mins | Ewan Paterson (SLAC) | ILC technical design, R&D plan and status |
| 9:10 AM | 35 mins | Roberto Corsini (CERN) | X-band high-gradient and CLIC R&D for future colliders |
| 9:45 AM | 30 mins | Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tohoku) | Detectors for a linear collider: concepts and R&D plans |
| 10:15 AM | 30 mins | Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC) | New physics scenarios and roadmap for future linear collider |
| 10:45 AM | 30 mins | Break | |
| Session 2 - Very High Energy Future Colliders Chair: Fumihiko Takasaki (KEK) |
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| 11:15 AM | 30 mins | Vladimir Shiltsev (FNAL) | Neutrino factory and muon collider R&D |
| 11:45 AM | 20 mins | Elena Wildner (CERN) | Concepts and R&D for beta beam facilities |
| 12:05 PM | 30 mins | Chan Joshi (UCLA) | Issues for plasma wakefield and laser accelerator for future collider applications and R&D plans |
| 12:35 PM | 65 mins | Lunch | |
| Session 3 -
Frontiers of Data Exploitation Chair: Sachio Komamiya (Tokyo) |
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| 13:40 PM | 35 mins | Andreas Bechtolsheim (SUN) | The solid state storage revolution |
| 14:15 PM | 35 mins | Miron Livny (Wisconsin) | Some thoughts on HEP computing in the era of Grids and Clouds |
| 14:50 PM | 35 mins | Dennis Gannon (Microsoft) | The Computational Data Center: Building Science Clouds |
| 15:30 PM | 30 mins | Break | |
| Session 4 - Light sources & other applications of accelerators Chair: Steve Holmes (Fermilab) |
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| 16:00 PM | 20 mins | Albrecht Wagner (DESY) | Development and plans for FLASH |
| 16:20 PM | 30 mins | Leonid Rivkin (PSI/Lausanne) | x-ray sources and accelerator technology: plans and R&D |
| 16:50 PM | 20 mins | Paul Emma (SLAC) | Commissioning status of the LCLS |
| 17:10 PM | 25 mins | Hartmut Eickhoff (GSI) [video] | Accelerators and instrumentation for medical applications |
| 17:35 PM | 25 mins | Bob Hamm (R&M Technical Enterprises) | Accelerators and instrumentation for industrial applications |
| October 31 | Start | Duration | Speaker | Title |
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| Session1 - Dark Matter and Dark Energy Chair: Ursula Bassler (CEA Saclay) |
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| 8:30 AM | 40 mins | Andreas Albrecht (UC Davis) | Dark Energy: the problem, models and distinctions, and measurement of cosmological parameters |
| 9:10 AM | 40 mins | Richard Gaitskell (Brown) | Dark matter: experimental approaches and prospects for direct and indirect detection |
| 9:50 AM | 30 mins | Daniel Tovey (Sheffield) | Dark matter: direct detection, indirect detection, colliders and joint analysis |
| 10:20 AM | 30 mins | Break | |
| Session 2 - UHE cosmic rays Chair: Won Namkung (Pohang) |
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| 10:50 AM | 35 mins | Angela Olinto (Chicago) | Ultra-high energy astroparticle physics |
| 11:25 AM | 20 mins | Anders Borgland (SLAC) | Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope: status and prospects |
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Session 3 - Outlook Chair: Steve Kahn (SLAC) |
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| 11:45 PM | 40 mins | Atsuto Suzuki (KEK) | Outlook: accelerator science |
| 12:25 PM | 40 mins | Rolf Heuer (DESY/CERN) | Outlook: enhancing world collaboration |
| 13:05 PM | 75 mins | Lunch | |
| Afternoon - Site Tour | |||
| 14:00 PM | 120 mins | Linac gallery, LCLS, LCLS injector, ESB and ILC, SSRL, PEP-II and BABAR | |