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2017 ICFA Seminar

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2017 ICFA Seminar, Ottawa Ontario

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2017 ICFA Seminar

The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) will hold its triennial Seminar from November 6-9, 2017 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, Canada.

2017 Program Committee:

  • Halina Abramowicz
  • Jonathan Bagger
  • Genevieve Belanger
  • Alex Bondar
  • Beate Heinemann
  • Reiner Kruecken
  • Kenneth Long
  • David MacFarlane
  • Toshinori Mori
  • Mihoko Nojiri
  • Natalie Roe
  • Nigel Smith
  • Oliver Stelzer-Chilton
  • Yifang Wang

 

ICFA members:

  • J. Mnich, Chair and CERN Member States
  • G. Taylor, Chair-Elect, Australia
  • P. Bhat, Secretary, USA
  • H. Abramowicz, CERN Member States
  • F. Gianotti, CERN Member States
  • D. MacFarlane, USA
  • N. Lockyer, USA
  • N. Hadley, USA
  • S. Ivanov, Russia
  • A. Bondar, Russia
  • Y. Wang, China
  • E. Álvarez, Other Countries
  • V. Matveev, Other Countries
  • M. Cho, Other Countries
  • T. Mori, Japan
  • M. Yamauchi, Japan
  • M. Roney, Canada
  • J. Fuster, Chair of the IUPAP Commission on Particles and Fields (ex officio)
For more information
    • Opening Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)
      • 1
        Welcome to Canada
        Speaker: Andreas Warburton (McGill University/IPP)
        Slides
      • 2
        Introduction
        Speaker: Joachim Mnich (DESY)
        Slides
      • 3
        Americas Report
        Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (FERMILAB)
        Slides
      • 4
        Asia Report
        Speaker: George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University)
        Slides
      • 5
        Europe Report
        Speaker: Prof. Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IIHE)
        Slides
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break
    • Neutrinos Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Kenneth Long (Imperial College London/STFC)
      • 6
        Neutrino Theory
        Speaker: Raymond Volkas (University of Melbourne)
        Slides
      • 7
        Long Baseline Experiments
        Speaker: Mr Federico Sanchez (IFAE/BIST)
        Slides
      • 8
        Short Baseline Experiments
        Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)
        Slides
      • 9
        Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Mass Scale
        Speaker: Kunio Inoue (Tohoku University)
        Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Dark Matter Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Nigel Smith (SNOLAB)
      • 10
        Dark Matter Theory
        Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 11
        WIMP Dark Matter
        Speaker: Jodi Cooley (SMU)
        Slides
      • 12
        Axion Dark Matter
        Speaker: SungWoo Youn (IBS/CAPP)
        Slides
      • 13
        Dark Photons
        Speaker: Prof. Natalia Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 15:15
      Coffee Break
    • Rare Isotopes Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Jens Dilling (TRIUMF)
      • 14
        Advances in Nuclear Theory
        Speaker: Dr Jason Holt (TRIUMF)
        Slides
      • 15
        Nuclear Astrophysics
        Speaker: Prof. Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
      • 16
        Fundamental Symmetries with Rare Isotopes
        Speaker: Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)
        Slides
    • Applications Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF)
      • 17
        Big Data Overview
        Speaker: Kathy Copic (Insight Data)
        Slides
      • 18
        Big Data, Science to Industry
        Speaker: Dr Emanuel Strauss (Facebook)
        Slides
    • Reception Grand Hall (Canadian Museum of History)

      Grand Hall

      Canadian Museum of History

      • 19
        Remarks
        Speaker: Julie Payette (Governor General of Canada)
    • Quantum Chromodynamics Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Halina Abramowicz (Tel Aviv University)
      • 21
        Highlights in Heavy Ion Physics
        Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)
        Slides
      • 22
        Future of Deep Inelastic Scattering
        Speaker: Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)
        Slides
      • 23
        Precision QCD Processes at the LHC
        Speaker: Juan Rojo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/NIKHEF)
        Slides
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break
    • Flavour Physics Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Toshinori Mori (University of Tokyo)
      • 24
        Flavour Theory
        Speaker: Dr Emi Kou (LAL-IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 25
        Flavour and Precision at the LHC
        Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 26
        Status and Prospects for SuperKEKB and Belle II
        Speaker: Prof. Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)
        Slides
      • 27
        Dipole Moments and Lepton Flavour Violation
        Speaker: Dr Wataru Ootani (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)
        Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Cosmology Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Natalie Roe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
      • 28
        Cosmology Theory
        Speaker: Prof. Mark Trodden (University of Pennsylvania)
        Slides
      • 29
        Dark Energy
        Speaker: Prof. Ofer Lahav (University College London)
        Slides
      • 30
        Cosmic Microwave Background
        Speaker: Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)
        Slides
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break
    • New Approaches Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: David MacFarlane (SLAC)
      • 31
        Advanced Accelerators
        Speaker: Dr Arnd Specka (Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 32
        Particle Physics with Table-Top Experiments
        Speaker: Dr Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)
        Slides
      • 33
        Quantum Materials
        Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL/Berkeley)
        Slides
    • Applications Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Lia Merminga (SLAC)
      • 34
        Medical Isotopes
        Speaker: Dr Paul Schaffer (TRIUMF)
        Slides
      • 35
        Photons for Life Science
        Speaker: Zehra Sayers (Sabanci University)
        Slides
    • LCB/ICFA (closed) Le Salon (National Arts Centre)

      Le Salon

      National Arts Centre

    • Higgs and Electroweak Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Heather Logan (Carleton University)
      • 36
        Higgs and Electroweak Theory
        Speaker: Prof. Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)
        Slides
      • 37
        LHC Higgs
        Speaker: Dr Heather Gray (LBNL)
        Slides
      • 38
        LHC Electroweak
        Speaker: Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University)
        Slides
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break
    • Energy Frontier Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Kerstin Borras (DESY / RWTH Aachen University)
      • 39
        Theory in the LHC Era
        Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Feng (University of California, Irvine)
        Slides
      • 40
        LHC Searches for Supersymmetry
        Speaker: Isabell Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)
        Slides
      • 41
        LHC Searches for Exotic Phenomena
        Speaker: Prof. Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 42
        Prospects for HL-LHC and HE-LHC
        Speaker: Prof. Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)
        Slides
    • Group Photo Shaw Centre

      Shaw Centre

    • 12:20
      Lunch
    • Future Accelerators Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL)
      • 43
        e+e- Theory at Higgs and Top Threshold
        Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC/Stanford University)
        Slides
      • 44
        pp Theory at 80-100 TeV
        Speaker: Dr Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN)
        Slides
      • 45
        ILC Update
        Speaker: Prof. Shinichiro MICHIZONO (KEK)
        Slides
      • 46
        CLIC Update
        Speaker: Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 47
        CEPC/SPPC Update
        Speaker: Qing Qin (IHEP)
        Slides
      • 48
        FCC-ee/FCC-hh Update
        Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
        Slides
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break
    • New Technologies Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Brigitte Cros (CNRS LPGP)
      • 49
        Superconducting RF
        Speaker: Dr Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 50
        High Field Magnets
        Speaker: Frederick Bordry (CERN)
        Transparents
      • 51
        Detector Developments
        Speaker: Kiyotomo Kawagoe (Kyushu University)
        Slides
    • Applications Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia)
      • 52
        Accelerator Applications
        Speaker: Prof. John Womersley (European Spallation Source ERIC)
        Slides
      • 53
        Detector++ Applications
        Speaker: Dr Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 19:30
      Banquet Adams Room (Fairmont Chateau Laurier)

      Adams Room

      Fairmont Chateau Laurier

    • Keynote and Roundtable Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Jonathan Bagger (TRIUMF)
      • 54
        Keynote
        Speaker: Kate Young (Government of Canada - Parliamentary Secretary for Science)
      • 55
        Roundtable
        Speakers: Fabiola Gianotti (Director General of CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland), Genevieve Tanguay (Vice-President of NRC - National Research Council, Canada), John Womersley (Director General of ESS - European Spallation Source, Sweden), Paul Wells (Senior Writer, Maclean’s magazine), Yamauchi Masanori (Director General of KEK - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan), Zehra Sayers (Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee for SESAME - Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan)
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break
    • Closing Room 206/208 (Shaw Centre)

      Room 206/208

      Shaw Centre

      Convener: Pushpalatha BHAT (Fermilab)
      • 56
        Communicator Summary
        Speaker: Ian O'Neill (Science Communicator, Astroengine)
        Slides
      • 57
        Scientist Summary
        Speaker: Geoffrey Taylor (University of Melbourne)
        Slides
      • 58
        Closing
        Speaker: Dr Pushpalatha Bhat (Fermilab)
        Slides
    • FALC (closed) Tudor Room (Fairmont Chateau Laurier)

      Tudor Room

      Fairmont Chateau Laurier