IMPRS Young Scientist Workshop at Ringberg Castle

22 Jul 2019, 09:00 → 26 Jul 2019, 17:15 Europe/Berlin

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Monday, 22 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 THEORY & PHENOMENOLOGY

Convener: Simone Zoia

12:00 Chiral-Scalar Perturbation Theory

Speaker: Christoph Müller

Slides Mueller_Christoph_YSW_2019.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 AWAKE PHYSICS

Convener: Jan Pucek

14:00 Introduction to AWAKE

Speaker: Livio Verra

14:15 Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Drive Bunch in Plasma

Speaker: Anna-Maria Bachmann

14:40 Micro-Bunching Phase Stability & Self-Modulation Studies in AWAKE

Speaker: Fabian Batsch

15:05 The Hosing Instability in AWAKE

Speaker: Mathias Hüther

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:40 ASTROPHYSICS

Convener: Tobias Stirner

16:00 A Sneak into Core Collapse Supernova

Speaker: Jakob Ehring

16:25 Unraveling the mysteries of blazars with the MAGIC telescopes

Speaker: Lea Alina Heckmann

Slides Heckmann_Lea_YSW_2019.pdf

16:50 X-ray observations of neutron stars and what to learn from it?

Speaker: Werner Becker

17:40 → 18:30 Guided Tour by Jochen Essl

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 23 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:40 STRING THEORY

Convener: Daniel Kläwer

09:00 An Introduction to String Theory

Speaker: David Osten

09:25 D-brane basics

Speaker: Max Brinkmann

09:50 D-branes and K-theory

Speaker: Matthias Traube

Slides Traube_Matthias_YSW_2019.pdf

10:15 Don't Panic! BRST Quantization, Ghosts and Tachyon Condensation in Closed Superstring Field Theory

Speaker: Lorenz Schlechter

Slides RinbergPres2.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:30 NEUTRINO PHYSICS

Convener: Georg Raffelt

11:10 First Neutrino Mass Measurement Campaign with KATRIN

Speaker: Lisa Schlüter

11:35 Neutrino physics from cosmology

Speaker: Steen Hannestad

Slides munich2019.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 BLOCK COURSE: AXION PHYSICS

Convener: Frank Steffen

14:00 Introducing the Axion and its Properties

Speaker: Javier Redondo

15:00 A Different Perspective on Strong CP & Axions

Speaker: Emmanouil Koutsangelas

Slides Koutsangelas_Emmanouil_YSW_2019.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:40 BELLE PHYSICS

Convener: Hendrik Windel

16:00 Kickstarting a Particle Accelerator

Speaker: Hendrik Windel

16:20 The Belle 2 Pixel Detector

Speaker: Markus Reif

16:40 The Belle II Neurotrigger Project

Speaker: Felix Meggendorfer

Slides imprs19_fmegg.pdf

17:00 Optimization of the z-Vertex Neural Network Trigger in the Drift Chamber of the Belle II Experiment

Speaker: Sara McCarney

Slides ringberg_neurotrigger_belleii_saramccarney(1).pdf

17:20 Measurement of Direct CP Violation in B -> K+ pi- with Belle II

Speaker: Benedikt Wach

17:45 → 19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 24 July

08:00 → 09:15 Breakfast

09:15 → 10:30 EXPERIMENTAL ASTROPARTICLE & NEUTRINO PHYSICS

Convener: Mitja Predikaka

09:15 Optical calibration & instrumentation for the ICECUBE Upgrade

Speaker: Felix Henningsen

09:40 Investigations on the Detector Response to Electrons of the TRISTAN Prototype Detectors

Speaker: Daniel Siegmann

10:05 Data Analysis in CRESST

Speaker: Dominik Fuchs

Slides Fuchs_Dominik_YSW_2019.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 BLOCK COURSE: AXION PHYSICS

Convener: Otmar Biebel

11:00 Axion Cosmology I

Speaker: Saikawa Kenichi

11:45 Axion Cosmology II

Speaker: Javier Redondo

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 JOB OPPORTUNITIES I

Convener: Frank Steffen

14:00 Data Science at Airbus Defence and Space

Speaker: Alexander Merle

15:00 → 15:30 SPECIAL SEMINAR

Convener: Frank Steffen

15:00 Womxn in Physics

Speaker: Sara McCarney

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:40 ATLAS PHYSICS

Convener: Ludovic Scyboz

16:00 Track propagation for different detector and magnetic field setups in ACTS

Speaker: Fabian Klimpel

Slides Klimpel_Fabian_YSW_2019

16:25 Update from diboson resonance searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Andi Hönle

16:50 Measurement of the HZZ Tensor Coupling in the pp->H->ZZ->4l Decay Channel with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Verena Walbrecht

17:15 Search for supersymmetry in multileptonic final states with ATLAS

Speaker: Marian Rendel

17:40 → 18:30 IMPRS DISCUSSIONS

Convener: Hendrik Windel

18:30 → 20:00 BAVARIAN BUFFET

Thursday, 25 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:15 BLOCK COURSE: AXION PHYSICS

Convener: Thomas Hahn

09:00 Introduction to MADMAX

Speaker: Lolian Shtembari

09:25 Axion Searches

Speaker: Javier Redondo

10:15 → 18:30 SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 JOB OPPORTUNITIES III

Convener: Frank Steffen

20:00 McKinsey Consulting

Speaker: Tanja Geib

Friday, 26 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast & Check out

09:00 → 10:15 FUTURE COLLIDERS AND DETECTORS

Convener: Christoph Dlapa

09:00 Future Collider Experiments

Speaker: Christian Graf

09:25 Energy Reconstruction in a Highly Granular Scintillator-Based Calorimeter

Speaker: Christian Winter

09:50 Application of Timing in Future High Energy Particle Physics Detectors

Speaker: Lorenz Emberger

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:25 LOW BACKGROUND EXPERIMENTS

Convener: Anna Pollithy

10:45 Low-Background Experiments: GERDA in a nutshell

Speaker: Felix Fischer

Slides FFischer-GERDA-ringberg-2019.pdf

11:10 Active background reduction methods in low background experiments

Speaker: Connor Hayward

Slides Hayward_Connor_YSW_2019.pdf

11:35 Germanium Detectors - Working Principle and Pulse Shape Analysis

Speaker: Martin Schuster

Slides RingbergYSW19.pdf

12:00 Development of Signal Readout Electronics for the LEGEND Experiment

Speaker: Frank Edzards

12:25 → 12:30 CLOSING REMARKS

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