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 Registration/coffee

1 Welcome

Speaker: Peter Ratoff (Lancaster)

2 The Search for Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Jim Hough (Glasgow)

Slides EboroFeb.pdf

3 High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Alan Watson (Leeds)

Slides Watson_Higgs_Maxwell_Workshop_100210.ppt

4 Developments in Inflationary Cosmology

Speaker: Arjun Berera (Edinburgh)

Slides berera.pdf.pdf

13:00 lunch

5 Eulogy for our friend and colleague Thomas Binoth

Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt (ETH)

Slides EdinburghBinoth.pdf

6 Neutrino masses and cosmology

Speaker: Elise Jennings (Durham)

Slides HiggsMaxwell.pdf

7 The quantum origin of cosmic structure: Theory and observations

Speaker: Kostas Dimopoulos (Lancaster)

Slides vecsem4.ppt

8 How close are we to a direct detection of Dark Matter?

Speaker: Alex Murphy (Edinburgh)

Slides talk-light.pdf

15:25 coffee/tea

9 News from the LHC

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Slides deroeck.ppt.ppt