Special Event

1973 : Neutral currents<BR>1983 : W & Z Bosons<BR>The anniversary of CERN's discoveries and a look into the future

Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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MORNING SESSIONS
9:00 Welcome by Luciano Maiani

First session chaired by Professor Antonino Pullia
9:10 The making of the Standard Model by S. Weinberg
9:55 CERN's contribution to accelerators and beams by G. Brianti
10:25 The discovery of neutral currents by D. Haidt
10:55 Coffee break

Second session chaired by Professor Samuel C.C. Ting
11:30 The discovery of the W & Z, a personal recollection by P. Darriulat
12:10 W & Z Physics at LEP by P. Zerwas
12:40 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Third session chaired by Professor Luciano Maiani
14:00 Physics at the LHC by J. Ellis
14:30 Challenges of the LHC:
-The accelerator challenge of the LHC by L. Evans
-The detector challenge of the LHC by J. Engelen
-The computing challenge of the LHC by P. Messina

Fourth session chaired by Professor Sheldon Glashow
15:30 Particle detectors and society by G. Charpak
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 The future for CERN by L. Maiani

Panel discussion chaired by Professor Carlo Rubbia
17:00 Future of particle physics, with Robert Aymar, Georges Charpak, Pierre Darriulat, Luciano Maiani, Simon van der Meer, Lev Okun, Donald Perkins, Carlo Rubbia, Martinus Veltman, and Steven Weinberg.

Note: Retransmission in AB Auditorium II (bldg 864) in Prevessin, IT Auditorium (bldg 31), AT Auditorium (bldg 30).
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