Higgs-Maxwell Particle Physics Workshop

Wednesday Feb 10, 2010, 10:30 AM → 4:30 PM Europe/London

A one-day meeting to review the current status of particle and astro-particle physics and the prospects for future discoveries. The meeting is organised by the Universities of Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lancaster.

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Registration/coffee

11:00 AM → 11:05 AM Welcome

Speaker: Peter Ratoff (Lancaster)

11:05 AM → 11:45 AM The Search for Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Jim Hough (Glasgow)

Slides EboroFeb.pdf

11:50 AM → 12:30 PM High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Alan Watson (Leeds)

Slides Watson_Higgs_Maxwell_Workshop_100210.ppt

12:35 PM → 12:55 PM Developments in Inflationary Cosmology

Speaker: Arjun Berera (Edinburgh)

Slides berera.pdf.pdf

1:00 PM → 1:50 PM lunch

1:50 PM → 2:10 PM Eulogy for our friend and colleague Thomas Binoth

Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt (ETH)

Slides EdinburghBinoth.pdf

2:10 PM → 2:30 PM Neutrino masses and cosmology

Speaker: Elise Jennings (Durham)

Slides HiggsMaxwell.pdf

2:35 PM → 2:55 PM The quantum origin of cosmic structure: Theory and observations

Speaker: Kostas Dimopoulos (Lancaster)

Slides vecsem4.ppt

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM How close are we to a direct detection of Dark Matter?

Speaker: Alex Murphy (Edinburgh)

Slides talk-light.pdf

3:25 PM → 3:50 PM coffee/tea

3:50 PM → 4:30 PM News from the LHC

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Slides deroeck.ppt.ppt