UK HEP Forum 2024: Sustainable future for HEP - challenges, solutions, opportunities

25 Nov 2024, 20:00 → 27 Nov 2024, 19:05 Europe/London

Rodrigo Alonso (Durham), Stefania Ricciardi (STFC RAL)

The UK HEP Forum 2024 will take place on 26-27 November 2024 at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and via Zoom.

This year’s forum focuses on the challenges and opportunities in creating a sustainable future for research in particle physics. It aims to:

• examine current practices, challenges, and emerging solutions for reducing environmental impacts associated with particle physics research. This includes integrating sustainable principles into the experimental design and operation of particle accelerators and detectors, as well as the utilization of large-scale computing.
• discuss the impact of the UKRI/Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) net-zero commitment on HEP research activities.
• provide best-practice examples and sustainability initiatives from universities and research centres in the UK and overseas.

In-depth presentations will be given by invited speakers, including experimentalists, theorists, and policy makers. The scientific programme will include topics such as:

• computing and AI
• future accelerator and detector technologies
• reinterpretation of measurements and reproducible research

In addition, the forum will feature a session of short talks giving UK PhD students the opportunity to present their work in all areas of HEP. Interested students are encouraged to submit a talk via the registration form.

The forum is sponsored by the IPPP and STFC. There is no registration fee. Accommodation will be free of charge for all UK attendees. Travel expenses within the UK (ground transport only) will be reimbursed to students who present a talk.

Registration is required and is open to participants with UK affiliation only. In the spirit of this year's Forum, we encourage travel to/from the venue by public transport or ride-sharing. This calculator can help plan your journey: https://routezero.world/.

We look forward to welcoming you.

UK HEP Forum Organising Committee [R. Alonso (co-Chair), T. Cornford, D. Croon, S. Dixon, J. Ellis, J. Linacre, D. van Dyk, S. Ricciardi (co-Chair), M. Wielers]

Email: UKHEPForum@stfc.ac.uk

UK HEP Forum Poster 2024.pdf

Monday, 25 November

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 26 November

10:00 Registration and coffee

1 Welcome

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Edinburgh)

2 Sustainable Future for HEP - Challenges in Physics and Environmental Impact

Speaker: Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway University of London)

3 FCC: More than just Higgs Physics

Speaker: Sophie Renner (Glasgow)

4 Sustainability at CERN: now and future

Speaker: Roberto Losito (CERN)

12:50 Lunch

5 STFC commitment to net-zero and impact on HEP

Speaker: Jo Colwell (STFC)

6 Perspectives from grassroots initiatives

Speaker: Pete Millington (Manchester)

Student talks: 1

7 Using flavour to simplify running in the LEFT

Speaker: Ben Smith (University of Glasgow)

8 Multi-Higgs Production: Implications for Electroweak Phase transitions and Future Collider Prospects

Speaker: Wrishik Naskar (University of Glasgow)

9 Fractionally charged particles of the Standard Model

Speaker: Despoina Dimakou (IPPP, Durham University)

10 Accelerating Monte Carlo Event Generation with GPUs

Speaker: Siddharth Sule (The University of Manchester (UK))

11 Machine Learning for Approximation of Ground States

Speaker: Mr Timur Sypchenko (iPPP)

16:15 Coffee break

Student talks

12 Interpretable Machine Learning for Dissolved Oxygen Forecasts

Speaker: Hankun He (Centre for Complex Systems, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London)

UK_HEP_Hankun.pptx

13 "Real world" energy growth in complex EFT fits

Speaker: Caley Yardley (University of Sussex)

14 Quasi-Dirac neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Noor Oudjema

15 Non-decoupling scalars at future colliders

Speaker: Graeme Crawford (University of Glasgow)

16 Hot Leptogenesis

Speaker: Ansh Bhatnagar (IPPP)

17 Future accelerator technologies

Speaker: Jim Clarke (STFC/ASTEC)

18 AI: challenges and opportunities

Speaker: Sven Krippendorf (Cambridge)

19:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 27 November

19 Environmental impact of FCC

Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))

20 How will future detectors address environmental issues?

Speaker: Chris Parkes (University of Manchester (GB) & CERN)

10:45 Coffee break

21 Computing challenges and theory initiatives

Speaker: Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)

22 Greening the Grid

Speaker: David Britton (Glasgow)

12:45 Lunch

23 Reinterpretation of current and future measurements

Speakers: Andy Buckley (IPPP, Durham University), Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))

24 Analysis preservation in HEP - it matters and we can do better

Speaker: Nicole Skidmore (Warwick)

25 Farewell