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2012
CHIPP PhD Winter School 2012, Engelberg, 22-27
January, 2012
PSI Zuoz Summerschool on Particle Physics 19-25 August 2012
2011
- The updated ‘European Roadmap for Astroparticle Physics’ produced
by the Science Advisory Committee of ASPERA-2 will be presented and
discussed on
November 21-22, 2011 in Paris. Details and registration see here.
- 2011 CHIPP Prize for
the best PhD student in Experimental or Theoretical Particle
Physics. Mrs Lesya Shchutska.
- The CHIPP
Plenary session 2011, September
01-02,
2011, Leysin
- NuFact11 - August 1 to 6, 2011, Geneva
- International
Neutrino Summer School 2011 - July 18 to 30, 2011, Geneva
- Workshop on LHC activities in Switzerland on July 28 and 29, 2011
(noon to noon) at University Zurich-Irchel (purpose, programme, summary)
- The Annual Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society has taken place on June
15-27, Lausanne (summary)
- Convened by the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences scnat, the second "Round
Table regarding the Swiss Representation in International Bodies" has
taken place on May 26, 2011 in Bern (draft minutes)
- After having acquired legal personality by transforming itself
into an Association according to Swiss law, CHIPP had submitted
a membership application to the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences SCNAT.
On 20 May
2011, the SCNAT Delegate Assembly has discussed this application
and has unanimously accepted CHIPP as a new member of the Academy. Within
the Academy, CHIPP will be attributed to the ‘Platform
Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics MAP’. The CHIPP Chairman, Prof. Martin Pohl,
was very pleased with this decision and is looking forward to contribute
in a substantial and constructive way to the work of the MAP and
the SCNAT. In exchange, he expects CHIPP to be more and better involved
in
the dialogue about science policy and the preparation of national
science policy decisions by providing input on issues of importance and
concern
to Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics.
- 2011 CHIPP Prize for the
best PhD student in Experimental or Theoretical Particle Physics.
- CHIPP has acquired legal personality by transforming itself into
an Association according to Swiss law. The Association is not-for-profit.
The decision of principle had been taken on 23 August 2010 at the Board
meeting in Gersau (SZ), whereas the statutes
and bylaws entered
into force on 26 January 2011, the day of the official ‘Gründungsversammlung’ required by Swiss law. This step is a milestone in CHIPP’s history, since it allows the Association to conclude employment contracts and sign other legal documents. Further, acquiring legal personality is a prerequisite to become a member of the Swiss
Academy of Natural Sciences SCNAT. After the Board’s decision on 26 January, the membership application has been submitted to SCNAT.
- The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Division of the European
Physical Society (EPS) is calling for nominations for the EPS
HEPP Prizes in 2011. Deadline for nominations is March 15,
2011. ( more)
2010
- Summary Slide of
the Physics of Symmetries and Interactions at low energies and the precision
frontier,
11-14 October 2010, PSI
- Workshop on Dark Matter in the Sky and Underground, 22-24 September
2010
at the ITP, University of Zurich (room 36K08) (more)
- CHIPP Prize 2010
Alexander Kish from University Zurich has received the CHIPP Prize 2010 for the best PhD student in experimental particle physics (more).
- ICHEP2010,
21 to 28 July, Palais des Congrès, Paris (poster)
- The 6th Patras Workshop on
Axions, WIMPs and WISPs (AXION-WIMP 2010) will be held at the University
of Zurich on 5-9 July 2010
- School on Flavour
Physics, University of Bern, June 21 - July 2,
2010
- The next annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society SPS will
be held from 21 to 23 June 2010 in Basel (click here for
more details).
- The CHIPP Chairman has met the President
of SCNAT and his Secretary General on 1 June 2010 to discuss
a possible membership of CHIPP in SCNAT (short
report)
- Convened by CHIPP, the first "Round Table regarding
the Swiss Representation in International Bodies" has
taken place on April 30, 2010 in Bern. A short summary
can be found here.
- The Swiss Universities of Zurich, Berne and Geneva as well as the
ETH Zurich participate in the European Physics Masterclasses for High
School Students on 15 February to 5 March 2010 (click here for more
details: Europe or Switzerland)
- The CHIPP PhD School 2010 has taken place in from 17 - 24 January
2010 in Ascona and had the following topics: neutrino physics, experimental
methods and detectors). The School was well attended with some 50 participants
(10% foreign students) and has been very successfully concluded on
24 January (click here for
more details).
- A new CHIPP Executive Board composed of L. Baudis (ZH), K. Kirch
(PSI), T. Nakada (EPFL) and M. Pohl (GE, chair) has started on 1 January
2010.
2009
- Presentation of
U. Straumann to the Secretary of State, Dell'Ambrogio on a new funding
line FOLIS for astroparticle and neutrino physics (executive
summary).
- The revised and completed ProDoc application for PhD students was
approved by the SNF in fall 2009. With its research and educational
modules at PhD level, it complements nicely the C-15 project. As an
immediate effect, each of the partnering institutes has nominated a
ProDoc coordinator (GE: A. Hamilton, BE: HP. Beck, ZH: U. Straumann,
EPFL: O. Schneider, ETHZ: G. Dissertori) and some institutes have already
hired PhD students under this scheme. Other are in the planning stage
and will implement the programme in the next months.
- In late summer 2009, 3 additional PostDocs with strong interest
in LHC physics and detector hard- and software, plus a strong know-how
in IT have been hired in the context of the C-15 SUK grant ‘Swiss
Centre of Advanced Studies in particle Physics in the LHC Era’.
They were selected from one international call for applications resulting
in 54 candidates. The selected candidates are attached to University
of Geneva (jointly with University of Berne), EPFL (jointly with
University of Zurich), and ETHZ. They started their work in the second
half of
2009 with the three LHC experiments concerned (ATLAS, CMS and LHCb).
- The next Swiss Physical Society annual meeting will be held
jointly with the Austrian society at the University of Innsbruck
on 2.-4. September 2009 Click
here
for more details. Note, that the
particle and nuclear physicists already meet a day earlier, on Sep. 1.
- In August 2009, the CHIPP Board has elected H.-P. Beck (BE) as
new CHIPP outreach coordinator succeeding G. Dissertori (ETHZ). In
order to better coordinate and harmonise the Swiss LHC outreach activities
he has set up a small committee with representatives active in outreach
from all universities.
- In August 2009, the 2008 CHIPP Prize for the best PhD student in
Experimental or Theoretical Particle Physics was awarded to Pedro Schwaller
from University of Zurich with the following laudatio: “For his
deep understanding of quantum field theory and his original and important
contributions in theoretical particle physics.“;
- A Workshop on Astroparticle Physics has taken place on 2/3 June
2009 at EPFL: The two-day CHIPP Workshop on Astroparticle Physics covered
the area of astroparticle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and interlinked
to high-energy particle physics. The event attracted mostly participants
from Swiss institutes, including doctoral students, and provided an
excellent opportunity to learn the objectives, updated status and future
plans of the field. Scientific cross feeding with the physics at LHC
was a particularly interesting issue.
- The restricted European Committee for Future Accelerator (R-ECFA)
has reviewed the situation of particle physics in Switzerland (March
2009, EPFL). The committee evaluated very positively the role of CHIPP
coordinating the particle physics programme in Switzerland and the
strong support to CERN by the Swiss government. The outreach effort
was considered to be the area where further support would be needed.
- In January 2009, a Workshop on Higgs Boson Phenomenology has been
held at University of Zurich: The Center for Theoretical Studies in
Zürich has organised this workshop with the aim to bring together
all the specialists in order to prepare the community for the challenges
which will be posed in the search for Higgs boson(s) and the understanding
of experimental results amid their discovery. The WS was attended by
some 60 students (15% from abroad) listening to talks and lectures
from 37 speaker (5% from abroad).
- After having worked with limited resources already in 2008, J.-P.
Ruder has fully taken up his new duties as CHIPP Administrator and
Administrative Project Leader for the C15 project (‘Swiss Centre
of Advanced Studies in particle Physics in the LHC Era’) in January
2009.
Access to years 2008, 2007,
2006, 2005
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Lesya Shchutska


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