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- ICHEP2010, 21 to 28 July, Palais des Congrès, Paris (poster)
- 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 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.
- Presentation of
U. Straumann to the Secretary of State, Dell'Ambrogio on a new funding
line FOLIS for astroparticle and neutrino physics.
- 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.
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Updated : Catherine Blanchard, 17 February 2010
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