SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

(March 1st, 1998)

 

 

MONDAY, MARCH 2

 

8.30-11.30

SESSION I IN MEMORY OF DAVID SCHRAMM

 

1. Remembering David Schramm (Arnon Dar, Haifa)

2. Observation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Bursts (Enrico Costa, IAS-Roma)

3. Understanding High Energy Gamma-Ray Bursts (Mario Vietri, Roma III) Fig.1Fig.2Fig.3

4. Origin of Gamma Ray Bursts and Cosmic Rays (Arnon Dar, Haifa)

5. The LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector (William Kells, CalTech)

6. The Cosmological Model (James E. Peebles, Princeton)

 

16.30-19.30

SESSION II MASSIVE NEUTRINOS?

 

1. Results from Reactor Experiments (Gianrossano Giannini, Trieste)

2. Results from the Superkamiokande Experiment (Jeff Wilkes, Washington)

3. Results from CHORUS (Saverio Simone, Bari)

4. Results from NOMAD (Roberto Petti, Pavia)

5. Results from the CCFR and NuTeV Experiments (Panagiotis Spentzouris, Columbia)

6. Neutrino Oscillations at LSND after 5 Years of Running (Ion Stancu, Riverside)

7. Are Neutrinos Massive? (Samoil Bilenky, JINR)

 

TUESDAY MARCH 3

 

8.30-11.30

SESSION III THE PARAMETERS OF THE STANDARD MODEL

 

1. W Mass and Width at TEV 1 (Michael Rijssenbeek, SUNY)

2. W Pair Production and W Mass at LEP II (Franco Ligabue, Pisa)

3. Anomalous ZZ?/Z?? a Couplings with the L3 Detector (Eusebio Sanchez Alvaro)

4. WW Production, and Bose-Einstein Correlations (Jochen Schieck, Heidelberg/CERN)

5. High x, High Q2 Physics at HERA (Fabio Ferrarotto, Roma I)

6. Polarized Structure Functions and Quark Distributions at HERA (Armand Simon, Freiburg)

7. Charged Lepton G-2 and Constraints on New Physics (Alexander Studenikin, Moscow)

 

16.30-19.30

SESSION IV ROUND TABLE

"WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENTS?"

Massimilla Baldo-Ceolin, Padova; Riccardo Barbieri, Pisa; Yves Declais, IPN-Lyon; Francesco Pietropaolo 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

 

8.30-10.00

SESSION V THE TOP QUARK

 

1. D0 Findings on the Top Quark (Boaz Klima, FNAL)

2. CDF Findings on the Top Quark (George Velev, Pisa)

3. Interconnection Effects in WW/ttbar Production (Valery Khoze, LNF)

 

10.00 - 11.30

SESSION VI SEARCHES FOR NEW PHENOMENA

 

1. Muon Colliders, Narrow Resonances and Frontier Energies (Bruno Autin, CERN)

2. R-Parity Violating SUSY Signals at Existing Colliders (Jan Kalinowski, Warsaw)

3. SUSY/Higgs Searches at LEP (Andrei Kounine, MIT)

 

16.30 - 19.30

SESSION VI SEARCHES FOR NEW PHENOMENA (CONTINUED)

 

4. D0 Searches for New Phenomena (Jianming Qian, Michigan)

5. CDF Searches for New Phenomena (Dave Toback, Chicago)

6. Limits on SUSY from Cosmology (Richard Arnowitt, Texas A&M)

7. Hints for SUSY? (Antonio Masiero, Trieste)

8. Prospects of SM Higgs Searches at LEP II (Eilam Gross, Weizmann)

 

SESSION VII PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF HEAVY FLAVOURS

18.30 -19.30

 

1. Charmonium States with E835 (Claudia Patrignani, Genova)

2. Beauty Physics at LEP I (Lucia Di Ciaccio, Roma II)

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

 

8.30-11.30

SESSION VII PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF HEAVY FLAVOURS (CONTINUED)

 

3. Beauty Physics at CDF (Prem Singh, Urbana- Champaign)

4. Theory and Phenomenology of Heavy Quarkonia (Matteo Cacciari, LPTHE-Orsay)

5. Physics with CLEO (Andreas Wolf, Ohio State)

6. Heavy Flavours, Photon and Proton Structure at HERA (Alex Prinias, Imperial College)

7. B-Barion Lifetimes and Decay (Paolo Spagnolo, Imperial College)

8. Theory of Heavy Flavour Production (Paolo Nason, CERN)

 

16.30-18.00

SESSION VIII PHYSICS AND SOCIETY

 

1. How to Spread a HEP Culture (Alessandro Pascolini, Padova)

2. Status of Hadrontherapy, and the CNAO Project (Furio Gramatica, TERA Foundation)

3. Radioactive Waste Disposal with the Energy Amplifier (Stefano Atzeni, ENEA-Frascati)

 

18.00-19.30

SESSION IX HADRON PHYSICS

 

1. Jets and Hadronic Final State at HERA (Stephen Maxfield, Liverpool)

2. Diffraction Studies at HERA (Roberto Sacchi, Torino)

3. Diffraction Studies at TeV 1 (Sharon Hagopian, Florida State)

4. Progress in Understanding Structure Functions (James Stirling, Durham)

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

 

8.00-11.30

SESSION IX HADRON PHYSICS (CONTINUED)

 

5. QCD Studies at LEP (Stan Bentvelsen, CERN)

6. Power Corrections in Hard QCD Observables (Giuseppe Marchesini, Milano)

7. QCD in Exclusive Processes (Dave Robertson, North Carolina)

8. Results from SLD (Charles Baltay, Yale)

9. The String Tension in Massive QCD2 (Yitzhak Frishman, Weizmann)

10. Fermi-Dirac Distributions for Partons (Franco Buccella, Napoli)

 

11.00-11.30

SESSION X THE ORIGIN OF CP VIOLATION

 

1. CP Violation, Where to Look ? (Isard Dunietz, FNAL)

 

16.30-19.30

SESSION X THE ORIGIN OF CP VIOLATION (CONTINUED)

 

2. Results of NA48 at CERN (Flavio Costantini, Pisa)

3. Results of KTeV at Fermilab (Peter Shanahan, FNAL)

4. CP Violations with the BaBar Experiment (Stephan Plaszczynski, LAL-Orsay)

5. CP Effects in Decay of Kaons into 3 Pions (Evgueni Shabalin, ITEP)

6. Progress report of the DAPHNE F-Factory at Frascati (Susanna Guiducci, LNF)

7. Progress in KLOE Experiment (Fabrizio Murtas, LNF)

8. Progress and Prospects at HERA B(Thorsten Oest, Hamburg)

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

8.00-11.00

SESSION XI FUTURE PROSPECTS

 

1. The TOTEM Experiment at LHC (Giorgio Matthiae, Roma II)

2. The FELIX Experiment at LHC (Karsten Eggert, CERN)

3. Progress of the Pierre Auger Project (Jim Cronin, Chicago)

4. Prospects at Linear e+e- Colliders (David Burke, SLAC)

5. Physics Potential of an ee Collider (Clemens Heusch, Santa Cruz)

6. String Cosmology and the Beginning-of -Time Myth (Gabriele Veneziano, CERN)

 

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