SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

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(February 20, 2002)

Monday, March 4th

Session I – Astrophysics and Cosmology 

1.Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows (Kev Abazajian, Fermilab)
2.Physics Results from AMS (Roberto Battiston, Perugia)
3.New results on CMB (Francesco Piacentini, Roma
4.Baryonic Dark Matter (Philippe Jetzer, Zurich)
5.GRB Signatures (Alvaro de Rujula, CERN)
6.Cosmological Antimmater (Alexander Dolgov, Ferrara)

Session II - Neutrino Physics 

1.Results from SNO (Kate Frame, Oxford)
2.New Results from K2K (Takanobu Ishii, KEK)
3.The Neutrino Physics Program at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Alessandro Bettini, LNGS)
4.MINOS (Bob Webb, Texas A&M)
5.The MSW effect in moving and polarized matter (Alexander Studenikin, Moscow)

Tuesday, March 5th

Session II – Neutrino Physics (continued)

6.MiniBoone (Morgan Wascko, Lousiana State) 
7.Neutrino under ice (ICE3/Amanda, speaker TBC)
8.Theory on neutrino masses and mixing (Samoil Bilenky, Dubna)

Session III – Heavy Ions 

1.Heavy Ions at RHIC (Kenneth Barish, Riverside)
2.Results in Pb-Pb Collisions at CERN (Pietro Cortese, Alessandria)
3.The Physics of Heavy Ions (speaker TBC)

 

Session IV - Standard Model Physics and Higgs Boson 

1.Departure from EW Predictions at the NuTeV Experiment (Kevin Mc Farland, Rochester)
2.Search for the SM Higgs at LEP (Fabio Cerutti, CERN)
3.Precision tests of the SM at LEP (Alessandra Tonazzo, Milano)
4.W Physics at LEP (Arno Straessner, CERN)
5.Extra Generations and Discrepancies of EW Data (Victor Novikov, Moscow)
6.The Muon g-2 Revisited (Eduardo de Rafael, Marseille)
7.New Results on Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders (Stefano Catani, CERN)

Wednesday, March 6th

Session V-CP Violation, and Rare Decays 

1.New Measurement of Re(e’/e)  by the NA48 experiment at CERN (Frederic Derue, Marseille)
2.Results ofKTeV on e’/e (Sasha Glazov, Chicago)
3.Recent Results from the KLOE Experiment (Cesare Bini, Roma)
4.Results of NA48 on rare decays (Roberto Sacco, Edinburgh
5.Results ofKTeV on rare decays (Elliott Cheu, Tucson)
6.Results and Perspectives from K Rare Decays at Brookhaven (Milind Diwan, Brookhaven)
7.Rare Decays and CP violation: from the SM to New Physics?(Antonio Masiero, Trieste)
8.BELLEresults on CP violation (Masashi Yokoyama, Tokyo)
9.BaBar results on CP violation in the B Sector (Francesco Forti, Pisa)

Physics and Society 

1.Role of Science Communication (Stefano Fantoni, Trieste)
2.Global Communication Strategies for High Energy Physics (Judith Jackson, Fermilab

 

Thursday, March 7th

 

Session VI–Heavy Flavour Physics 

1.Semileptonic and Hadronic B decays at BaBar (Stefania Xella, Rutherford)
2.Rare B Decays with the BaBar Detector (Anders Borgland, Berkeley)
3.Rare Decays of B Mesons and CKM matrix elements study at BELLE (Henryk Palka, Krakow)
4.New J/psi Physics Results from BES (Xiaobin Ji, Beijing)
5.Update of Tevatron Run I Beauty Physics  (Jeff Tseng, Fermilab )
6.B Physics with the CLEO II Detector(Alan Weinstein, CalTech)
7.B Physics at LEP (Marta Calvi, Milano)
8.B0s oscillations at LEP (Duccio Abbaneo, CERN)
9.Open problems in heavy quark production (Matteo Cacciari, Parma)

 

17.00-19.30

Round Table: A Picture of High Energy Physics in the LHC Era 

Guido Altarelli (CERN/Roma), Giorgio Bellettini (Pisa), Roger Cashmore (CERN), Peter Limon (Fermilab), Albrecht Wagner(DESY)

Friday, March 8th

 

Session VII–QCD 

1.Recent QCD Results at LEP (Fabrizio Fabbri, Bologna)
2.SM Physics atHERA (Ian C. Brock, Bonn)
3.New QCD results from Tevatron RunI Data (Don Lincoln, Fermilab
4. Recent Spin Physics Results from HERMES (Jochen Volmer, DESY)
5.R Measurement Results at BES (Haiming Hu, Beijing)
6.Progress in small-x Physics (Victor Fadin, Novosibirsk )
7.Thermalisation in High Energy Hadron Collisions (Alexei Sisakian, Dubna)

 

Session VIII–Searches for Physics Beyond the SM 

1.Study of the HF content of Jets in the W+jets sample at the Tevatron (Giorgio Apollinari, Fermilab)
2.Searches for New Physics at DESY (Juergen Scheins, DESY)
3.Search for SUSY, extra-dimensions and exoticaat LEP (Gabriella Pasztor, CERN)
4.Production of Z Pairs at LEP2 and Neutral Anomalous Couplings (Begona de la Cruz, CIEMAT)
5.Searches for New Physics in Tevatron Run I Data (John Zhou, Fermilab)
6.Searches for Extra Dimensions with the Linear Collider (JoAnne Hewett, UCLA)
7.Chances for SUSY Precision Measurements at the Linear Collider (Clem Heusch, UCLA)
 

Friday, March 9th

 

Session IX–Perspectives 



1.Higgs at LHC (Guenakh Mitselmakher, Gainesville)

2.The Start of the Tevatron and of D0 in Run II (Sabine Crepet-Renaudin, Grenoble)

3.The Start of Run II Physics with CDF(Simona Rolli, Tufts)

4.The CLEO-c Physics Programme (Thomas Coan, Dallas)

5.Threats To Life From Outer Space (Arnon Dar, Haifa)