IMPRS/GK Young Scientist Workshop at Ringberg Castle

26 Jul 2010, 09:00 → 30 Jul 2010, 16:00 Europe/Berlin

Ringberg Castle (www.schloss-ringberg.de)

Frank Daniel Steffen (MPP), Otmar Biebel (LMU)

Monday, 26 July

09:00 → 10:30 Departure from Munich

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

11:30 → 12:00 Welcome

Speaker: Jochen Essl (Ringberg Castle)

12:00 → 12:30 Session: HERA Physics

12:00 Study of neutral current e-p interactions with the ZEUS detector at HERA

Speaker: Ritu Aggarwal (MPP)

Slides Aggarwal_Ritu_YSW_2010.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session: BELLE Physics

14:00 Introduction to the Belle / Belle II Experiment

Speaker: Andreas Moll (MPP)

Slides Ringberg2010_Moll.pdf

14:15 Branching Ratio Measurements for Dummies

Speaker: Kolja Prothmann (MPP)

Slides Prothmann_Kolja_YSW_2010.pdf

14:40 Background at the Belle Experiment

Speaker: Elena Nedelskovska (MPP)

Slides RinbergYSW.pdf

15:05 Construction of the Belle II Pixel-Vertex Detector

Speaker: Martin Ritter (MPP)

Slides Martin_Ritter_YSW_2010.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: Condensed Matter Physics

16:00 Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality

Speaker: Patrick Kerner (MPP)

Slides Kerner_Patrick_YSW_2010.pdf

16:30 Applications of AdS/CFT Methods of Quantum Criticality in Condensed Matter Physics

Speaker: Steffen Mueller (MPP)

Slides Mueller_Steffen_YSW_2010.pdf

17:00 Edge States and the Luttinger Liquid in M-Theory

Speaker: Constantin Greubel (MPP)

Slides Greubel_Constantin_YSW_2010.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Session: Flavor Physics

17:30 Flavor Symmetry in the Lepton Sector

Speaker: Andreas Joseph (LMU)

Slides Joseph_Andreas_YSW_2010.pdf

18:00 Two-Higgs-doublet Models with Minimal Flavor Violation

Speaker: Maria Valentina Carlucci (TUM)

Slides Carlucci_MariaValentina_YSW_2010.pdf

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 27 July

08:00 → 09:15 Breakfast

09:15 → 10:30 Lecture

09:15 W/Z Physics at the Tevatron and the LHC

Speaker: Thomas Nunnemann (LMU)

Slides Nunnemann_Thomas_YSW_2010.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Session: LHC Physics with the ATLAS Detector

11:00 Z to tau tau Analysis with the ATLAS Detector with Early Data

Speaker: Daniele Capriotti (MPP)

Slides Capriotti_Daniele_YSW_2010.pdf

11:30 Measurement of the Zbbbar Cross Section with ATLAS

Speaker: Dan Vladiou (MPP)

Slides Vladoiu_Dan_YSW_2010.pdf.pdf

12:00 Alpha_s Determination via the Differential 2-Jet Rate with ATLAS

Speaker: Markus Lichtnecker (LMU)

Slides Lichtnecker_Markus_YSW_2010.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session: Supersymmetry Phenomenology

14:00 Supersymmetry and the W-Boson mass

Speaker: Jan Germer (MPP)

Slides Germer_Jan_YSW_2010.pdf

14:30 Higgs and Electroweak Physics

Speaker: Ananda Landwehr (MPP)

Slides Landwehr_Ananda_YSW_2010.pdf

15:00 Strange Squarks at CLIC

Speaker: Lars Weuste (MPP)

Slides Weuste_Lars_YSW_2010.key

slides Weuste_Lars_YSW_2010.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: Detector Physics I

16:00 Highly efficient SiPMs with bulk integrated quench resistor - concept and characterization

Speaker: Christian Jendrysik (MPP)

Slides Jendrysik_Christian_YSW_2010.pdf

16:30 LAr based anti-compton veto with SiPMs

Speaker: Hossein Aghaei (MPP)

Slides aghaei_hossein_YSW_2010.pdf

17:00 Gemanium Detectors and Low Temperatures

Speaker: Oleksandr Volynets (MPP)

Slides Volynets_Oleksandr_YSW_2010.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Tour of Castle Ringberg

Speaker: Jochen Essl (Ringberg Castle)

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 28 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 Session: Inflation and Leptogenesis

09:00 Gauge Non-Singlet Inflation in SUSY GUTs

Speaker: Jochen Baumann (MPP)

Slides Baumann_Jochen_YSW_2010.pdf

09:30 Inflation & Leptogenesis in a Particle Physics Context

Speaker: Valerie Domcke (MPP)

Slides Domcke_Valerie_YSW_2010.pdf

10:00 Why String Theory Inflation?

Speaker: Sebastian Halter (MPP)

My Slides Halter_Sebastian_YSW_2010.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Lecture

11:00 Particle Physics and Gravity at 10^{-17} cm and Below

Speaker: Georgi Dvali (MPP/LMU)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Session: Model Building

14:00 From Flavour to SUSY Flavour

Speaker: Vinzenz Maurer (MPP)

Slides Maurer_Vinzenz_YSW_2010.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Lecture

14:30 Missing E_T and Calorimetry in Particle Physics

Speaker: Frank Simon (MPP)

Slides CalorimetryMET.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Calorimetry

16:00 The Timing of Hadronic Showers in a Highly Granular Scintillator-Tungsten Calorimeter

Speaker: Christian Soldner (MPP)

Slides Soldner_Christian_TimingInAScintiTungstenCal_2010.pdf

16:30 Software Compensation in a Highly Granular Calorimeter

Speaker: Katja Seidel (MPP)

Slides Seidel_Katja_YSW_2010.pdf.pdf

17:00 → 18:30 String Theory

17:00 Strings at the TeV scale

Speaker: Daniel Haertl (MPP)

Slides Haertl_Daniel_YSW_2010.pdf

17:30 Flux Compactifications in String Theory

Speaker: Johannes Held (MPP)

Slides Held_Johannes_YSW_2010.pdf

18:00 Aspects in F-Theory Model Building

Speaker: Benjamin Jurke (MPP)

Slides Jurke_Benjamin_YSW_2010.pdf

18:30 → 19:30 Bavarian Buffet

Thursday, 29 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 Session: Detector Physics II

09:00 Radiation Hardness of DEPFET Pixels

Speaker: Andreas Ritter (MPP)

Slides Ritter_Andreas_YSW_2010.pptx

09:30 Simulation of a DEPFET Pixel Detector

Speaker: Christian Koffmane (LMU)

Slides Koffmane_Christian_YSW_2010.pptx

10:00 Scintillator Hodoscope for Environments with High Radiation Backgrounds

Speaker: Stefanie Adomeit (LMU)

Slides Adomeit_Stefanie_YSW_2010.pdf

10:30 → 18:30 Social Activities

10:30 Get a lunch packet

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Friday, 30 July

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:45 Lecture

09:00 alpha_S Determination with e+e- Data

Speaker: Jochen Schieck (LMU)

Slides LectureRingberg.pdf

09:45 → 10:45 Job Opportunities I

09:45 Energy Markets

Speaker: Arne Weber (RWE Supply & Trading GmbH)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 Job Opportunities II

11:15 (Electro-) Mobility and more

Speaker: Cailin Farrell (Bosch Engineering GmbH)

12:15 → 12:30 Group Photo

12:30 → 16:00 Lunch & Return to Munich