Matthias Kasemann worked from 2003 until his retirement as Leading Scientist at DESY in the field of experimental particle physics. The subject of his research is the examination of the Standard Model of particle physics with experiments at the largest accelerator facilities LEP, HERA, Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider LHC in Geneva. This comprises the construction and operation of particle detectors as well as data evaluation. These analyses require globally coordinated efforts due to the enormous data volume. An analysis using a dedicated Grid Computing was first performed at the Tevatron experiments Fermilab at a large extent, where Matthias Kasemann was the head of computing before moving to DESY. Today, the complex LHC data analyses are realised at more than 100 data centres worldwide. The successful establishment and the start-up of this globally distributed computing infrastructure has played a significant role in the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Matthias Kasemann has played an important role in the coordination of the CMS experiment at CERN in the recent years. Before he was active in the ZEUS experiment as well as NA31 and ALEPH.
The symposium will comprise talks from his long-time colleagues Günter Quast (KIT), Paris Sphicas (Athens and CERN), and Patricia McBride (Fermilab).
There will be some refreshments after the symposium - please register to help us with the planning.
