The state of particle physics at the end of LHC's first run.

The Latsis Symposium of ETH Zurich is a prestigious annual event under the auspices of the Latsis foundation. The 2013 symposium is a four days event that brings together leading experts from the world of particle physics to discuss the fundamental laws of nature at the new energy frontier explored by the Large Hadron Collider. It is organized by the ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute and the Pauli Center.

public lecture

Nature at the Energy Frontier

Prof. David Gross

University of California, Santa Barbara.
2004 Nobel prize winner in Physics.

8pm, Monday 3rd of June 2013,
Auditorium Maximum, HG F30, ETH Zurich
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Symposium program [in pdf]

Monday, June 3
9:30 - 10:30
Registration and coffee
10:30 - 10:40
Welcome from the organizers
10:40 - 10:50
Address from the ETH president
Ralph Eichler
ETH president
10:50 - 11:00
Address from the Latsis foundation
Dusan Sidjanski
Member of the council of the Latsis foundation & U. of Geneva
11:00 - 11:45
The LHC accelerator: challenges, achievements and the future.
Stephen Myers
CERN
11:45 - 12:30
The quest for the Higgs boson at the LHC: highlights and future perspectives.
Tejinder Virdee
Imperial College
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15
New physics searches at the LHC: the SUSY perspective
Paris Sphicas
U. Athens & CERN
15:15 - 16:00
Beyond the Standard Model searches at the LHC
Henri Bachacou
Saclay
16:00 - 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30
Theory evaluation of LHC data for Physics beyond the Standard Model
Riccardo Rattazzi
EPFL
17:30 - 18:15
The LHC detectors: challenges, achievements and the future
Roland Horisberger
PSI
20:00 - 21:00
Public Lecture
Nature at the energy frontier
David Gross
UC Santa Barbara
Tuesday, June 4
9:00 - 9:45
Low energy precision experiments
David Hertzog
U. Washington
9:45 - 10:30
From low to high energies
Andrzej Czarnecki
U. Alberta
10:30 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:10 - 12:30
Young Scientist forum
11:10 - 11:30
The CMS Particle Flow Algorithm
Boris Mangano
ETH Zurich
11:30 - 11:50
Angular analysis in B->K* mu mu decays with LHCb
Michel De Cian
U. Heidelberg
11:50 - 12:10
ATLAS Luminosity measurements
Kristof Kreutzfeldt
U. Giessen
12:10 - 12:30
Recent results from the MEG experiment
Angela Papa
PSI
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15
Probing the Standard Model at the LHC
Kevin Einsweiler
LBNL
15:15 - 16:00
Perturbation theory at the LHC
Kirill Melnikov
J. Hopkins
16:00 - 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30
Event simulation at the LHC
Bryan Webber
U. Cambridge
17:30 - 18:15
Theory perspectives on future accelerators
Michelangelo Mangano
CERN theory
20:00 - 23:00
Symposium dinner
Wednesday, June 5
9:00 - 9:45
Neutrino physics: Status and prospects
Alexei Smirnov
ICTP Trieste
9:45 - 10:30
Heavy Ion physics
Urs Wiedemann
CERN theory
10:30 - 11:10
Coffee break
11:10 - 12:30
Young Scientist Forum
11:10 - 11:30
Event by event weighting at NLO
Ciaran Williams
Fermilab
11:30 - 11:50
Jet production at the LHC in NNLO QCD
Joao Pires
ETH Zurich
11:50 - 12:10
Precision predictions for Higgs production
Claude Duhr
ETH Zurich
12:10 - 12:30
Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen and the proton radius
Aldo Antognini
ETH Zurich
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15
Connecting inner space and outer space: LHC and the Universe
Subir Sarkar
U. Oxford
15:15 - 16:00
Direct searches for DM: status and future
Elena Aprile
Columbia
16:00 - 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30
Young Scientist forum
16:45 - 17:05
Dark Matter Search with the XENON100 Experiment
Alex Kish
U. Zurich
17:05 - 17:25
A cautionary tale of dark matter indirect searches
Phillipp Mertsch
SLAC
17:25 - 18:15
The future of the high energy frontier
Peter Jenni
CERN
Thursday, June 6
9:00 - 9:45
Heavy flavor physics at the LHC
Ulrik Egede
Imperial College
9:45 - 10:30
Flavor physics
Martin Beneke
T.U. München
10:30 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15
A Knot's Tale
U. Edinburgh


12:15 - 12:20
Group photo for the Symposium
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15
Exact, broken and approximate symmetries
Anthony Zee
UC Santa Barbara
15:15 - 16:00
The dream of Grand Unified Theories and the LHC
Graham Ross
U. Oxford
16:00 - 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30
String Theory and the Future of Particle Physics
Erik Verlinde
U. Amsterdam
17:30 - 18:15
Guiding principles for building a theory of elementary particles.
Nima Arkani-Hamed
IAS Princeton
18:15 - 18:30
Closing statement

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