IMPRS Young Scientist Workshop at Ringberg Castle

17 Jul 2017, 09:00 → 21 Jul 2017, 14:35 Europe/Berlin

Monday, 17 July

09:00 → 10:30 Departure from Munich

10:30 → 11:30 Tea & Coffee in the Gartenzimmer

11:30 → 12:00 Welcome & Introduction Round

12:00 → 12:30 DARK MATTER PHYSICS I

Convener: Tanja Geib

12:00 Data Analysis for CRESST

Speaker: Philipp Bauer

Slides Ringberg_PBauer.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 ATLAS PHYSICS I

Convener: Katharina Ecker

14:00 HZZ Tensor structure measurements in the pp -> H -> ZZ-> 4l channel with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Verena Walbrecht

Slides YSW_Walbrecht.pdf

14:25 Searches for diboson resonances with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Andreas Hönle

Slides YSW_ahoenle.pdf

14:50 Search for displaced dileptons with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Dominik Krauss

Slides presentation.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 16:35 THEORY

Convener: Sebastian Greiner

15:45 Heavy quark potentials in effective string theory

Speaker: Sungmin Hwang

Slides HWANG_SUNGMIN_YSW_2017.pdf

16:10 Intro to AdS/CFT

Speaker: Nina Miekley

Slides main.pdf

16:35 → 17:25 MAGIC PHYSICS

Convener: Ludovic Scyboz

16:35 Pulsars at very high energy with MAGIC and the SumTrigger-II

Speaker: Giovanni Ceribella

Slides Slides from Giovanni's talk.

Video Animation of a smiling hadronic shower seen by MAGIC. An early muon arc followed by some later component (possibly EM subshowers) can be seen.

17:00 Improvement of energy reconstruction by using machine learning algorithms in MAGIC

Speaker: Kazuma Ishio

17:25 → 18:30 Guided Tour by Jochen Essl

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 18 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:25 STRING THEORY

Convener: Daniela Herrschmann

09:00 Introduction to Double Field Theory

Speaker: Pascal du Bosque

09:25 → 10:15 RARE EVENT PHYSICS

Convener: Anna Pollithy

09:25 Neutron background measurement for rare-event underground experiments

Speaker: Quiang Du

09:50 Characterization of the detector dead layer for a sterile neutrino search with KATRIN

Speaker: Tim Brunst

Slides Brunst_Tim_YSW_2017.pdf

10:15 → 10:40 DETECTOR PHYSICS I

Convener: Viktor Papara

10:15 Future High Energy e+e- - Experiments

Speaker: Christian Graf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:30 DARK MATTER PHYSICS II

Convener: Tanja Geib

11:10 keV dark matter and structure formation

Speaker: Max Totzauer

Slides Ringberg_YSW2017_MTotzuer.pdf

Video dla_credited.mp4

11:40 Theoretical Foundations of Dielectric Haloscopes

Speaker: Alexander Millar

12:05 Searching for Dark Matter Axions with a Dielectric Haloscope

Speaker: Stefan Knirck

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:50 ATLAS PHYSICS II

Convener: Matteo Capozi

14:00 Search for dark matter in association with hadronic vector boson decays

Speaker: Philipp Gadow

14:25 Search for dark matter in the mono-Higgs channel

Speaker: Rainer Röhrig

Slides Roehrig_Rainer_YSW_2017.pdf

14:50 → 15:20 SPECIAL SEMINAR

Convener: Frank Steffen

14:50 Ensuring good scientific practice, what does this mean?

Speaker: Dr Bela Majorovits

Slides good_sci_pract_170718.pdf

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 16:15 DETECTOR PHYSICS II

Convener: Viktor Papara

15:50 The Belle II Pixel Vertex Detector - Mainproduction Module Tests

Speaker: Philipp Leitl

Slides The-Belle-II-Pixel-Vertex-Detector_Leitl_2017-07-18-adobe.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 JOB OPPORTUNITIES I

Convener: Frank Steffen

16:15 Job advice: Unconventional Career Paths

Speaker: Prof. Nikolas Akerblom (Hochschule Heilbronn / Heilbronn University)

16:45 → 17:30 IMPRS DISCUSSIONS I

Convener: Andreas Hönle

slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TK0f8pZT1dRCrulfUerhqFfMJfwEedVIMZ_LDUzJ_B0/edit?usp=sharing

17:30 → 19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 19 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:15 BELLE PHYSICS I

09:00 The Belle II / SuperKEKB Commissioning Detector - Results from the First Commissioning Phase

Speaker: Miroslav Gabriel

09:25 CLAWS Phase 2: Beam background monitoring in the commissioning of SuperKEKB

Speaker: Daniel Heuchel

09:50 Scintillator tiles with SiPM readout for fast timing in SuperKEKB commissioning

Speaker: Hendrik Windel

Slides presentation_ringberg2017.pdf

10:15 → 11:10 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Convener: Otmar Biebel

10:15 A Global Bayesian Analysis of Neutrino Mass Data

Speaker: Dr Alexander Merle

Slides Merle_Ringberg_2017.pdf

11:10 → 18:30 SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

18:30 → 19:45 BAVARIAN BUFFET

19:45 → 20:35 JOB OPPORTUNITIES II

Convener: Frank Steffen

19:45 MedAustron - Cancer Treatment with Particle Therapy

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Nowak (MedAustron)

Thursday, 20 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:15 BELLE PHYSICS II

Convener: Lorenz Emberger

09:00 Time dependent CP-violation studies at Belle II

Speaker: Fernando Abudinen

Slides 2017_07_20RINGBERG.pdf

09:25 Track vertex reconstruction with neural networks at the first level trigger of Belle II

Speaker: Sara Pohl

Slides Pohl_Sara_YSW_2017.pdf

09:50 Background suppression with neural networks at the Belle II Trigger

Speaker: Sebastian Skambraks

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:35 STRING COSMOLOGY

Convener: Daniela Herrschmann

10:45 Stringy Axion Inflation

Speaker: Florian Wolf

Slides Wolf_Florian_YSW_2017.pdf

11:10 Quantum Gravity Constraints on Large Field Inflation

Speaker: Daniel Kläwer

Slides Talk.pdf

11:35 → 12:30 ATLAS OJECT RECONSTRUCTION

Convener: Korbinian Schmidt-Sommerfeld

11:35 Finding tau leptons originating from highly energetic particle decays

Speaker: Marian Rendel

12:00 Understanding the performance of the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Johannes Junggeburth

12:30 → 15:15 Lunch break

15:15 → 16:00 ATLAS PHYSICS III

Convener: Stefan Maschek

15:15 Search for top squarks with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Nicolas Köhler (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (DE))

Slides koehler170720.pdf

15:40 Search for top squarks with the ATLAS detector - aided by machine learning

Speaker: Jonas Graw

Slides RingbergGraw.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 JOB OPPORTUNITIES III

Convener: Frank Steffen

16:30 Becoming a Patent Attorney

Speaker: Dr Johannes Held

17:00 From Cosmology to Investment Banking IT

Speaker: Dr Philipp Kostka (European Bank for Financial Services GmbH (ebase®))

17:30 → 18:30 IMPRS DISCUSSIONS II

Convener: Andreas Hönle

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 POWERPOINT KARAOKE

Friday, 21 July

08:00 → 09:15 Breakfast & Check out

09:15 → 10:30 GERMANIUM DETECTOR PHYSICS

Convener: Mitja Predikaka

09:15 Characterization of a segmented BEGe Detector

Speaker: Martin Schuster

Slides char_imprs_210717.pdf

09:40 Influence of the Metallization on the Charge Collection Efficiency of Segmented Germanium Detector

Speaker: Lukas Hautermann

10:05 Development of novel pulse shape discrimination algorithms for Gerda

Speaker: Philipp Holl

Slides Ringberg_2017-07-21.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:15 AWAKE PHYSICS

Convener: Stephan Jahn

11:00 Plasma-based diagnostic for the SMI in AWAKE

Speaker: Anna-Maria Bachmann

11:25 Interferometer-based white light measurement of neutral rubidium density for the AWAKE experiment at CERN

Speaker: Fabian Batsch

11:50 A SMI seeding concept for AWAKE Run 2

Speaker: Mathias Hüther

12:15 → 12:30 CLOSING REMARKS & GROUP PHOTO

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch & Return to Munich