Today, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is now providing collisions to all of its experiments at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV, almost double the collision energy of its first run. This marks the start of season 2 at the LHC, opening the way to new discoveries. The LHC will now run round the clock for the next three years.
The Invisibles15 Workshop follows Invisibles15 School, and it will be organized in collaboration with the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid) with scheduled meetings at both the IFT (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid campus, 2 full days) and the museum itself (3 full days).
The focus of the workshop will be on the interfaces between the physics of the visible and the invisible (neutrinos, dark matter and Beyond the Standard Model Physics) sectors:
Invisibles meets collider and Higgs physics
Invisibles meets CPV: axions and neutrino CP searches
Flavour interface: quarks, leptons and dark matter
The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS, formerly JENAM) is the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). With more than 20 years of tradition, it has imposed itself as the largest conference for European astronomy. In addition to plenary sessions and the award of prestigious prizes, the conference hosts many symposia held in parallel, as well as special sessions and meetings.
The EAS together with one of its affiliated societies, organises the annual EWASS conference to enhance its links with national communities, to broaden connections between individual members and to promote European networks.
The focus of this workshop will be on different aspects of modern theoretical cosmology, the challenge to be consistent with experimental data and the necessary connection of cosmological theories with the quantum nature of the vacuum.
Topics include:
Cosmological models: modified gravities, f(R) theories and the like, non-local models
Possibility of Observing Modified Gravity in an Astrophysical Level (Neutron Stars)
Quantum Gravity
Quantum Cosmology and Loop Quantum Cosmology
Quantum vacuum and the Casimir Effect
The cosmological constant problem
Mathematical physics techniques for quantum vacuum studies
The aim of the workshop is to bring together representatives of funding agencies (European and national) with facility and project managers to discuss what should be expected from scientific dissemination activities. Furthermore it should be a forum for PR and information officers to share experience of their work and gain insights into the expectations of funding bodies as well as from the general public.
The Invisibles15 School precedes Invisibles15 Workshop. In this edition the focus of the school will be collider physics, flavour and BSM phenomenology.
Lecture topics include:
Effective Field Theory – David B. Kaplan
Physics Beyond the Standard Model – Hitoshi Murayama
LHC Phenomenology – Gilad Perez
LHC Tools – Fabio Maltoni
LHC Experimental Aspects – Lydia Fayard
Flavour Physics – Yossi Nir
Tutorial sessions every day – Mattias Blennow, Concha Gonzalez-Garcia, Silvia Pascoli and Steve Parke.
Two special 1-hour lectures – Alvaro de Rújula, Concha Gonzalez-García.
Time is ripe for an in-depth look at the field in light of the new results from the Planck satellite mission and the beginning of an era of large surveys dedicated to dark energy research. No prior experience in cosmology is required as introductory courses will present the standard cosmological model and observational techniques. Topics to be covered include the cosmic microwave background, the early universe, large-scale structure, dark energy observations and theory, modified gravity, instrumental techniques. It will finish with a look to future prospects in major research areas. The present school is open to PhD students and post-docs working in the fields of cosmology, high energy astrophysics and particle physics.
Get prepared together! September 29/30, 2015 – Zagreb, Croatia
In September 2015 the Horizon 2020 work programs for the period 2017-2018 will be released by the European Commission. APPEC invites all interested astroparticle physicists, colleagues from neighboring scientific fields and companies interested in F&E cooperations to a community workshop.
After the APPEC Horizon 2020 workshops in November 2013 (Zeuthen) and February 2014 (Paris) with this third workshop APPEC wants to achieve the following:
Analyse and discuss the experience of the first two years of Horizon 2020 and give advice on how to prepare successful proposals in future calls.
Inform about the upcoming funding opportunities and support the community in preparing their proposals for the calls.
Prepare with the community astroparticle infrastructure related activities and collaborative actions to be discussed with the European Commission as topics of future work programs (2019 and beyond).
The program of the workshop will be composed by experts’ presentations on the various funding instruments – including individual grants – and open discussions. Furthermore, astroparticle groups can ask for dedicated sessions to setup and plan their strategy for collaborative projects.
Special emphasis shall be put on proposals for calls in the Future Emerging Technology (FET) and the Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies programs of Horizon 2020; representatives of companies interested in common R&D projects are welcome to participate in the workshop. The Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation program (“Teaming and Twinning”) as well as the Research Infrastructures program with focus on e-infrastructures and big data shall be covered.
PhD Workshop on Experimental Aspects of Rare Event Searches
June 18-19, University of Tübingen
The astro particle group of the Kepler Center at the University of Tübingen will host a PhD workshop on experimental aspects of rare event physics. The workshop will take place on 18 and 19 June.
The workshop is aimed at PhD students in general, particularly those working in astro or particle physics. PhD students from all faculties interested in current fundamental research are invited as well.
The workshop covers the practical aspects of research in this modern field. Experimental challenges and methods used in astro particle physics are explained, using the neutrinoless double beta decay as an example. Topics include signal processing, statistical analysis, detector electronics and a theoretical motivation.
Students from institutions on a low budget might be eligible for a grant to fund accommodation.
September 29-30, 2015 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
The first annual meeting of the programme “Matter and Universe” of the project oriented funding (PoF) research field Matter will take place at the research center Jülich.
The meeting at the Research Center Jülich brings together the different programme communities with activities in elementary particle physics, hadron physics, nuclear physics and astroparticle physics in order to strengthen the co-operation across the different programme topics.
