Higgs-Maxwell Particle Physics Workshop

Wednesday 10 Feb 2010, 10:30 → 16:30 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 → 11:00 Registration/coffee

11:00 → 11:05 Welcome

Speaker: Peter Ratoff (Lancaster)

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

Speaker: Jim Hough (Glasgow)

Slides EboroFeb.pdf

11:50 → 12:30 High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Alan Watson (Leeds)

Slides Watson_Higgs_Maxwell_Workshop_100210.ppt

12:35 → 12:55 Developments in Inflationary Cosmology

Speaker: Arjun Berera (Edinburgh)

Slides berera.pdf.pdf

13:00 → 13:50 lunch

13:50 → 14:10 Eulogy for our friend and colleague Thomas Binoth

Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt (ETH)

Slides EdinburghBinoth.pdf

14:10 → 14:30 Neutrino masses and cosmology

Speaker: Elise Jennings (Durham)

Slides HiggsMaxwell.pdf

14:35 → 14:55 The quantum origin of cosmic structure: Theory and observations

Speaker: Kostas Dimopoulos (Lancaster)

Slides vecsem4.ppt

15:00 → 15:20 How close are we to a direct detection of Dark Matter?

Speaker: Alex Murphy (Edinburgh)

Slides talk-light.pdf

15:25 → 15:50 coffee/tea

15:50 → 16:30 News from the LHC

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Slides deroeck.ppt.ppt