Invitation
DESY Science Day 2020
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Dear colleagues,
At this year's Science Day we present the scientific DESY highlights 2020 and honour special achievements of our scientists. Every DESY colleague is key to creating the conditions for excellent top-level research. That is why we also honour long-standing personal achievements with a special award. Due to the current pandemic situation, this year's Science Day will be an online event with livestream. Further information will follow in a separate e-mail a few days before the event.
Morning
10:00 – 12:15 | Scientific Colloquium (in English)
Chair: Wilfried Buchmüller – Lead Scientist at DESY and Board of the VFFD
Five short talks by our young scientists Caroline Arnold, Valeria Botta, Gregor Loisch, Roland Mainz and Martin Roelsgaard from the research fields of Accelerators, Photon Science and Particle Physics
10:00 – 10:05 Welcome and Introduction
Wilfried Buchmüller
10:05 – 10:30 Laser pulses shorter than one light-field oscillation + Discussion
Roland Mainz
10:30 – 10:55 Molecules in motion - ultrafast dynamics of liquid water + Discussion
Caroline Arnold
10:55 – 11:20 Watching ultrafast films grow at atomic scale + Discussion
Martin Roelsgaard
11:20 – 11:45 Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration + Discussion
Gregor Loisch
11:45 – 12:10 Getting to know the Higgs particle + Discussion
Valeria Botta
12:10 – 12:15 Closing Remarks and End of the Event
Wilfried Buchmüller
Afternoon
14:00 | Welcome
Helmut Dosch – Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors
Kerstin Straub – Head of the DESY Press and Public Relations Department
Corona research at DESY
Alke Meents – Group Leader BMX (CFEL)
Awards
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Rainer Gehrke, Hans Henschel, Jens-Peter Jensen, Ingolf Meier, Bruno Moldenhauer, Bernd Reime, Wolfgang Schneider, Bernhard Schmidt
Award of the Association of the Friends and Sponsors of DESY (VFFD)
Award Winners: Valeria Botta and Gregor Loisch
Laudator: Wilfried Buchmüller
Bjørn H. Wiik Award
Award Winner: Melanie Schnell
Laudator: Jörg Rossbach
Silver Badge of Honour
Amber Boehnlein, Olga Botner and Martin Steinacher
James D. Stephenson Distinguished Visitors
Michael F. Toney, Kiyoshi Ueda and Zhijiang Chen
New Lead Scientists at DESY
Riccardo Bartolini, Jochen Küpper, Katerina Lipka, Rafael Porto and Holger Sondermann
