Conveners
Keynote talk: Science for Society: Connecting Physics, Education, and Communication Research
- Melanie M. Keller (IPN Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany)
Keynote talk: A Physicist’s Perspective on Plasma Catalysis: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Judith Golda (Ruhr University Bochum)
Keynote talk: Unethical Behavior in Academia: Forms, Causes, and Countermeasures
- Daniel Leising
- Daniel Leising (TU Dresden)
Keynote talk: Building Quantum Computing Systems
- Heike Riel (IBM Research – Europe, Switzerland)
Keynote talk: Bound to be discovered? The short-lived romance of the top quark.
- Katharina Behr (ATLAS (Fingerprint of the Vacuum))
Keynote talk: Searching for Long-Lived Particles at the LHC and Beyond
- Juliette Alimena (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches))
Physicists may not be exceptional – but they are the exception. Most people do not have an aca-demic background in science beyond their school years. Yet, science plays a vital role in all our lives. As scientists, we depend on public support to fund research, and as a society, we depend on scientific knowledge to address complex, so-called “wicked problems” like climate change or pandemics...
In light of the current climate crisis, scientists around the world are searching for innovative solutions that could play a major role in the electrification of the industry. A new focus in this field is the combination of plasmas with catalysis as a key process to store renewable energy in chemical resources. Plasma catalysis is an emerging interdisciplinary field at the intersection of...
Recent years have seen a steady flow of media reports about cases of unethical behaviour in academia. Such behaviour seems to be surprisingly common, often cause great damage, and typically remain unsanctioned. In my talk, I will first introduce a number of concepts that are relevant to the discourse on this topic (e.g., power, abuse of power). Then I will discuss some key factors that may...
The top quark holds a unique place in nature as the heaviest known elementary particle: with a mass comparable to that of a gold atom, it is the particle with the strongest coupling to the Higgs boson, which was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012. The top quark considered one of the most promising probes of phenomena beyond the SM, such as additional Higgs bosons or heavy...
Particles beyond the standard model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these long-lived particles (LLPs) can decay far from the interaction vertex of the primary proton–proton collision. Such LLP signatures are distinct from those of promptly decaying...
