KSETA Plenary Workshop 2014

Feb 24, 2014, 10:00 AM → Feb 26, 2014, 6:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Hotel Schwarzwald Panorama

Johannes Blümer (KIT), Ulrich Nierste (KIT)

All Fellows and Principal Investigators are cordially invited to participate in this plenary workshop of the whole school. The aim of the workshop is to learn more about all the research fields in KSETA and to strenghten cooperation and team building.

Mon, February 24

Arrival

11:00 AM Coffee

Welcome and Introduction

Conveners: Prof. Johannes Blümer (IKP), Prof. Ulrich Nierste (TTP)

slides KSETA_Herrenalb2014_Bluemer.pdf

12:15 PM Lunch

1 Composition of space-time

Speaker: Gia Dvali (LMU)

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

2 High-precision activity monitoring of the KATRIN tritium source by beta induced x-ray spectrometry

Speaker: Marco Roellig (ITEP)

3 Radiation hard silicon detectors

Speaker: Martin Printz (IEKP)

3:45 PM Coffee

4 Discovery of a Higgs boson - The role of theory

Speaker: Robert Harlander (Univ. Wuppertal)

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

5 First evidence for Higgs decays into Tau leptons

Speaker: Joram Berger (IEKP)

6 CLARA - Enhancing the Sensitivity of Raman Spectroscopy for Tritium Gas Analysis

Speaker: Simone Rupp (ITEP)

6:15 PM Black Forest Games

We will walk about 15 minutes to the Albtal Arena and play some funny games typical for the Black forest region. Please see http://albtal-arena.de/

Tue, February 25

7 LHC Computing: Achievements and Outlook for the Future

Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

8 How helicopters help chasing cosmic rays

Speaker: Felix Werner (IKP)

9 Ultra fast X-ray imaging of dynamic processes in science with GPUs

Speaker: Mr Matthias Vogelgesang (IPE)

11:00 AM Coffee

10 Probing inflation with the cosmic microwave background

Speaker: Sarkar Subir (Oxford)

12:30 PM Lunch

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

11 The radio sound of cosmic rays

Speaker: Daniel Huber (IKP)

12 Importance of LHC data for interpreting air shower measurements

Speaker: Felix Riehn (IKP)

13 Particle detectors - trends for the future and lessons of the past (cancelled)

Speaker: Christoph Rembser

4:00 PM Coffee

Parallel working groups

10 - 12 doctoral researcher, 2 - 3 PI's
discussion on the work within KSETA, what is better with KSETA than without, what could be improved

6:30 PM Dinner

Meetings: PI+EB, General assembly of Fellows

Wed, February 26

14 Neutrino physics

Speaker: David Wark (Oxford)

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

15 Rare decays of B mesons

Speaker: Thomas Herrmann (TTP)

16 First measurements with the KATRIN cpectrometer

Speaker: Stefan Groh (IEKP)

11:00 AM Coffee

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

17 Stabilitaet des Grundzustands im Standardmodell

Speaker: Max Zoller (TTP)

18 The transition from a galactic to an extra-galactic origin of cosmic rays

Speaker: Sven Schoo (IKP)

12:30 PM Lunch

19 Astroparticle physics

Speaker: Christian Weinheimer (Univ. Münster)

Talks by doctoral researcher or PostDocs

20 The new data acquisition system for the EDELWEISS Dark Matter experiment

Speaker: Mr Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

21 Atmospheric Influence on Cosmic Ray Detection

Speaker: Stefanie Falk (IKP)

4:00 PM Coffee

22 Reporting on results of the working groups

Speaker: Rapporteurs

23 Farewell