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Welcome to the 2015 CHIPP Plenary First CHIPP Plenary meeting during an SPS annual meeting First edition of the PhD/postdoc days In January 2013, the CHIPP board agreed to the format of organizing the PhD student and PostDoc meeting

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

Welcome to the 2015 CHIPP Plenary

First CHIPP Plenary meeting during an SPS annual meeting First edition of the PhD/postdoc days

  • In January 2013, the CHIPP board “agreed to the

format of organizing the PhD student and PostDoc meeting every second year in connection with the SPS Annual Meeting in Switzerland, starting in 2014”

Special feature this year:

➡ 60th anniversary of CERN

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

The Swiss CERN60 event

These three days are an excellent opportunity to make particle physics more visible within the Swiss physics community and beyond

  • 15 historic posters prepared by CHIPP members, showing the

scientific contributions of Swiss institutes to CERN experiments

  • Interactive LHC tunnel
  • Public lecture tonight on Higgs boson by Fabiola Gianotti
  • Speech from Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, and panel

discussion with special Swiss guests on Wednesday Many thanks to

  • A. Schopper, H.P. Beck, M. Türler for the organization
  • all who prepared posters or signed up for “tunnel shifts”

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

PhD/Postdoc days

Format:

  • Morning: SPS plenary talks, prize ceremony (incl. CHIPP prize), …
  • Afternoon: TASK sessions (TASK = Kern-, Teilchen- und Astrophysik)

TASK programme

  • Put together by Hans Peter Beck, Marc Türler and OS
  • Many abstracts received from CHIPP members

➡ we decided to accept all of them, making parallel TASK sessions

  • In total: 50 talks and 8 posters
  • Please upload your contribution at http://indico.cern.ch/e/CHIPP2014

Many thanks to all contributors

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

CHIPP Executive Board

Composition in 2014:

  • Olivier Schneider (Chair)

2nd term until end 2015

  • Gilberto Colangelo

2nd term, stepping down at end 2014

  • Teresa Montaruli

1st term until end 2014

  • Rainer Wallny

1st term until end 2015 Composition in 2015 (decided this morning by CHIPP Board):

  • Olivier Schneider (Chair)
  • Adrian Signer

elected for 1st term for 2015 & 2016

  • Teresa Montaruli

re-elected for 2nd term for 2015 & 2016

  • Rainer Wallny

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

CHIPP Executive Board

Adrian Signer

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Employment

since Feb 13 : Extraordinary Professor (at 20% level) at Physik-Institut, University of Z¨ urich; since Mar 12 : Senior Scientist at PSI Villigen, Switzerland; Oct 08 – Feb 12 : Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics, IPPP, Durham University; Jan 99 – Sep 08 : Lecturer at the Department of Physics, IPPP, Durham University; Sep 97 – Dec 98 : Research Associate Fellowship at CERN; Oct 95 – Jun 97 : Postdoc at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center;

Education and Training

May 91 – Sep 95 : PhD at the Institute of Theoretical Physics ETH-Z¨ urich under the supervision of Prof. Z. Kunszt; Oct 86 – Apr 91 : Undergraduate studies at ETH-Z¨ urich and master degree in theoretical physics;

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CHIPP Board

CHIPP and CHAPS (College of Helvetic Astronomy ProfessorS) decided to exchange observers:

  • Teresa Montaruli (Uni GE), CHIPP observer in CHAPS
  • Alexandre Refregier (ETHZ), CHAPS observer in CHIPP Board

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

CHIPP administrator

Jean-Pierre Ruder retired at the end of 2013 Marc Türler took over in January 2014

  • Marc regrets not to be here due to an unfortunate clash of dates

with the beginning of the EWASS 2014 conference in Geneva

  • Many thanks to Jean Pierre for replacing Marc during this meeting

(minutes, …)

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Some recent CHIPP activities

  • Delivered mid-term report on the status of particle physics in

Switzerland to ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators): http://www.chipp.ch/documents/131121_PECFA_final.pdf

  • Provided SERI (Secretariat of Education, Research and

Innovation) with CHIPP inputs for the Update of the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2017–2020

  • Collected inputs for the CHIPP long-term financial tables

reflecting the Swiss involvement in international projects

  • Participated actively in meetings with our Swiss partners

(“Round Table International”, SCNAT, SNSF/FLARE)

  • See also the CHIPP 2013 annual report at

http://www.chipp.ch/documents/AnnualReport_2013_final.pdf

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News from Board and Executive Board

Meetings and workshops supported by CHIPP since June 2013

  • eXtreme QCD13, 5-7 Aug 2013, Univ. of Bern
  • PSI 2013: 3rd Workshop on the Physics of Fundamental

Symmetries and Interactions at low energies and the precision frontier, 9-12 Sep 2014, PSI

  • 2nd CHIPP workshop on detector R&D, 12-13 Sep 2014, PSI
  • SWAPS 2014: Strategy Workshop on AstroParticle in Switzerland,

11-13 June 2014, Cartigny (GE) Future events

  • Zuoz summer school, 17-23 Aug 2014, Zuoz
  • 2015 CHIPP winter school, 18-23 Jan 2015, Gindelwald
  • 2015 CHIPP Plenary, dates (June 2015) and place to be defined

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Zuoz Summer School

  • 17. – 23. August 2014

deadline for registration: 4. August http://www.psi.ch/particle-zuoz-school

  • Intro to ET (J.F. Donoghue)
  • ET for Higgs Physics (R. Contino)
  • Higgs Properties (M. Donega)
  • ET for High- and Low-Energy Preci-

sion Tests (G. Isidori)

  • Precision Tests in Collider Physics

(M. Pierini)

  • Precision

Measurements at Low Energies (D. Bryman)

  • ET for Gravity (J.F. Donoghue)
  • Proton Radius (F. Kottmann)
  • Visions and Future Experimental Op-

tions (T. Nakada)

  • Strings (N. Beisert)
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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

Nomination of a Swiss representative in the ACCU

  • ACCU = Advisory Committee of CERN Users

http://cern.ch/ph-dep-accu

  • Terms of reference:

“The task of ACCU is to advise the Director General on the practical measures to be taken and administrative internal arrangements to be made by the CERN Management for the utilization of the CERN facilities for research. This concerns in particular the working conditions and the arrangements for technical support to the CERN Users for their activity at the CERN Laboratory.”

  • ACCU membership includes one user from Switzerland,

nominated by CHIPP

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Nomination of a Swiss representative in the ACCU

  • The nomination of the Swiss representative in ACCU belongs

to the CHIPP Plenary, on the basis of a recommendation by the Board.

  • Michele Weber has served for three two-year terms as ACCU

representative (2009–2014) and is not standing for re-election.

  • The call for nominations among all CHIPP members has

resulted in only one candidate, Michael Dittmar, who is ready to serve in this function for the years 2015–2016.

  • This morning, the Board recommended to the Plenary the

election of Michael Dittmar for a first two-year term (2015– 2016) as ACCU representative.

Base: Article 19, litt. E; simple majority

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  • Brief CV of Michael Dittmar
  • Study, diploma and PhD thesis in Hamburg and DESY
  • 1985-1987 CERN Fellowship in the OPAL experiment (LEP)
  • 1988-1993 Working as a postdoc for UC Riverside and in the

OPAL experiment at CERN

  • 1993-till now at ETH Zurich in the group of Wallny, Dissertori and

Pauss at CERN (in L3 and CMS) ➡ The Plenary is requested

  • to elect Michael Dittmar for a first two-year term (2015–2016) as

ACCU representative.

CHIPP Status base: Article 19.3 litt. e; simple majority

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CHIPP Plenary 2014, 30 June 2014

Agenda Plenary 2015

Several reports

  • CHIPP computing Sigve Haug
  • CHIPP outreach

Hans Peter Beck

  • CERN Council

Olivier Schneider

  • ACCU

Michele Weber

  • ECFA

Lenny Rivkin

  • NuPECC

Bernd Krusche

  • ApPEC

Teresa Montaruli

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