On Monday afternoon, I attended the Calice Workshop in Shuster Hall, Manchester University. This was a gathering of the world's top nuclear physicists who were
reporting progress in particle detection systems for the new Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
It is twenty five years since I attended a scientific conference. However science is science and usually comes down to the basic problem of fitting data to a
theoretical curve. While I wasn't up to speed on the physics, I did understand the analysis of the results and even asked a couple of questions.
You can sense the difference between good science and instances where boundaries of credibility are being pushed.
Participants
Jean-Claude Brient LLR-Ecole Polytechnique
Matthew Wing UCL/DESY/UHH
Felix Sefkow DESY
Marc Anduze LLR Ecole Polytechnique CNRS/IN2P3
Tohru Takeshita Shinshu Univ
David Ward University of Cambridge
Marcel Reinhard LLR-Ecole polytechnique
Niels Meyer DESY
Andy White University of Texas Arlington
John Black
The Scottish Jacobite Party
Maurice Goodrick
University of Cambridge
Andrea del Rocio Vargas Trevino
DESY
Cahtherine Adloff
Lapp-IN2P3/CNRS/ Univ Savoie
Imad Laktineh
ipnl
Vincent Boudry
LLR, Ecole polytechnique
Roman Poeschi
LAL
Christophe de la Taille
Omega/IN2P3
Barbara Jacak
Stony Brook Univ
Frank Simon
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik
Alexander Tadday
University of Heidelberg
Vishnu Vikhyat Zutshi
Northern Illinois University
Francois Corriveau
IPP/McGill
Mikhail Danilov
Inst for Theoret & Exptl Phys (ITEP)
Mathias Reinecke
DESY
Jaroslav Zalesak
Inst of Physics, Acad of Sci, Czech Rep
Graham Wilson
Kansas University
Jose Repond
Argonne National Laboratory
Fabrizio Salvatore
Royal Holloway - Univ of London
Paul Dominic Dauncey
Imperial College
Niels Meyer
DESY
Shaojun Lu
MPI Munich
Julien Fleury
IN2P3/Omega-LAL Orsay
Wei Shen
SPIROC
Laurent Royer
LPC Clermont
Fatah Rarbi
LPSC Grenoble
Remy Cornat
LLR
Remi Jean Noel Cornat
LLR/IN2P3/CNRS
Aboud Falou
LAL
Denis Grondin
LPSC
David Bailey
Univ Manchester
Franck Gastaldi
LLR Ecole polytechnique
Matthew Warren
University College London
Valeria Bartsch
University College London
Tao Wu
Royal Holloway College
Takuma Goto
University of Cambridge
Sebastian Richter
University of Hamburg
Angela Lucaci-Timoce
FLC, CALICE, DESY
Shaojun Lu Lu
MIP Munich
If any of the participants are wondering what fish and chips have to do with the Large Hadron Collider, ask Mikhail Danilov!
Chance encounters, a Scottish variant of
the Chinese butterfly wings of Chaos Theory.
