100th meeting of the DESY Physics Research Committee (PRC100)

by Albrecht Wagner (DESY), Joachim Mnich (CERN), Phil Burrows (Oxford), Ties Behnke (DESY), Ulrich Husemann (DESY)

Tuesday 11 Nov 2025, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (DESY)

We are celebrating the 100th session of the PRC! Today the acronym “PRC” stands for “Physics Research Committee” - but the committee has come a long way: It was in fact founded in the 1970s as the “PETRA Research Committee”, at a time when the PETRA e⁺e^- machine was envisaged as the next high-energy particle collider. At this colloquium, previous DESY directors and PRC chairs - Albrecht Wagner, Joachim Mnich and Phil Burrows (U Oxford) - will give you an entertaining overview of the history of the committee and, with that, of particle physics at DESY during the past 5 decades.

- Introduction and welcome by Ulrich Husemann and Ties Behnke (DESY)
- From the PETRA Research Committee to the Physics Review Committee: Albrecht Wagner (DESY)
- From HERA to the LHC: Joachim Mnich (CERN)
- The modern PRC: Phil Burrows (Oxford)

We invite you to attend the presentation in person at the DESY Auditorium. We will also offer a webcast to this colloquium.

https://desy.zoom.us/j/99616528733

Meeting ID: 996 1652 8733 
Meeting Password: 733220