Workshops, Conferences and Symposia organized by Members of the Particle Physics Group

2019 "Precision Physics at the LHC" has been chosen as topic.

The 15th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory takes place from Nov 28^th to Nov 29^th at the TUtheSky Meeting Hall, Getreidemark 9, 1060 Vienna, Austria.

Public Lecture (Nov 28 18:30 - 20:00; free entry to the lecture):

Constructing the universe (Poster)
Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)

The third workshop on “MCEGs for future ep and eA facilities” will take place at the Erwin-Schrödinger-Institute in Vienna, Austria. The workshop will start on November 20, 2019,  after lunch and will end on November 22, 2019, before lunch). The workshop series aims to discuss:

• Requirements and R&D needs for the MCEGs for (ep) and lepton-nucleus (eA) collision measurements
• Roadmap for developments of MCEGs for upcoming ep and eA facilities 

and will focus in November on  MCEGs for eA processes at the Electron-Ion Collider, discussing both measurements with light and heavy ions.

Vienna, 25 to 29 March 2019

This workshop will focus on effects of Multi-Parton Interactions, colour reconnection and hadronization on the Central Jet Veto in VBS and VBF processes. The goal of the workshop is to kick-off a comprehensive study, comparing different models with the goal of quantifying uncertainties within typical VBS and VBF selections.

Link: indico.cern.ch/event/806009/

The second workshop on “MCEGs for future ep and eA facilities” will take place at DESY Hamburg on February 20 (after lunch) - 22 (before lunch), 2019. We will review recent R&D on Monte Carlo Event Generators (MCEGs) for lepton-proton (ep) and lepton-nucleus (eA) collisions and will discuss the requirements and R&D needs for the MCEGs for the future EIC, LHeC, and VHEeP facilities.

The workshop is organized by scientists working on the EIC, E.-C. Aschenauer (BNL), A. Bressan (INFN, Trieste) and M. Diefenthaler (JLab), and scientists from the MCnet community, H. Jung (DESY) S. Plätzer (Vienna) and S. Prestel (Lund). The meeting will follow the "Rivet ep preservation meeting" at DESY Hamburg.

Link:https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/22030/

Vienna, November 30 - December 1, 2018

Global and Local Symmetries

The 14th Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory (VCES) on "Global and Local Symmetries" on Nov 30 and Dec 01 2018 will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Nov 30) and at the TU Wien (Dec 01).

VCES will share the day of Nov 30 with the Discrete 2018 conference, an independent international meeting on discrete symmetries in particle physics. On Dec 01, VCES will cover topically complementary aspects. 

VCES is jointly organized by the Theoretical Physics Departments of the University of Vienna and TU Wien, as well as by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and supported by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, the FWF doctoral school Particles and Interactions and the EU COST Network Connecting insights in fundamental physics.

Public Lecture on Friday, 18:00 at the Austrian Academy of sciences (free entry to the lecture)

Black Holes, Fundamental Physics and the Information Paradox (Poster)
Malcolm Perry (Cambridge)

Website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/712873/

Lund, 4 to 8 June 2018

The aim of the PSR workshop is to bring together the QCD communities involved in analytic resummations and parton shower event generators. In particular, it will cover the following topics:

• Different resummation techniques and their relations
• Different parton-shower formalisms and their relations
• The connection between parton showers and resummation
• Matching of showers and resummations with fixed-order results

The workshop will continue the successful series of meetings at DESY Hamburg (2009, 2012), Manchester (2010), Durham (2013), Munster (2014), Krakow (2015) , Paris (2016) and Cambridge (2017).

Website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/699507/

Regensburg, 22 and 23 March 2018

The “8th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an ElecTron-Ion-Collider” (POETIC-8) is an ideal opportunity to discuss Monte Carlo Event Generators (MCEGs) for upcoming ep and eA colliders, such as the EIC, LHeC and VHEeP facilities. A satellite workshop “MCEGs for future ep and eA facilities” will be held on March 22-23 2018 at University of Regensburg, Germany, to review the MCEGs for ep and eA processes and discuss the requirements and developments for the MC-EGs for the science program at the EIC, LHeC, and VHEeP. The workshop is organized by scientists working on the EIC, E.C. Aschenauer (BNL) and M. Diefenthaler (JLab), and scientists from the MCNET community, S. Plätzer (Vienna) and S. Prestel (FNAL).

Website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/663878/timetable/#20180323.detailed

November 30 - December 1, 2017

Indirect Searches for New Physics: Fifth Forces, Scalars and Massive Neutrinos

The 13th Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory, November 30 - December 1, 2017 at the University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria, will be dedicated to the topic Indirect Searches for New Physics: Fifth Forces, Scalars and Massive Neutrinos.

The meeting is jointly organized by the University of Vienna, HEPHY and TU Wien, and supported by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, and the FWF doctoral school Particles and Interactions.

Venue
This year's venue will be the SKY Lounge of the University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

Public Lecture (Nov 30 18:30; free entry to the lecture):

Gravity, Information and the Dark Side of the Cosmos (Poster)
Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam)

Website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/654343/

RADCOR 2017

RADCOR 2017

24-29 September 2017 St. Gilgen

The main theme of the conference is the application of quantum field theory calculations to particle physics phenomenology focused on making high-precision predictions in the high-energy regime covering collider and flavor physics relevant for the LHC era and experiments in the future. Recent developments in theoretical studies of radiative corrections in the framework of the Standard Model and its extensions will be discussed as well as how these results impact the interpretation of available experimental data. Along with this, recent computer-algebraic, combinatorial and mathematical innovations to perform these calculations will be discussed.

Link: RADCOR 2017

2016 "Physics of LHC Run-2" has been chosen as topic.

The twelfth Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory takes place from Dec 1^st to Dec 2^nd at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Maria-Theresien Platz, 1010 Vienna, Austria. Participants will have free access to the Museum’s exhibitions.

At the time of the seminar there is the special exhibition "Wie alles begann. Von Galaxien, Quarks und Kollisionen" covering particle physics and cosmology topics prepared for the public.

Public Lecture (Dec 01 18:30 - 20:00; free entry to the lecture):

Cosmic ripples from black holes and the big bang (Poster)
Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)

2015 Quantum and Gravity has been chosen as topic.

The11^th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory takes place at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, from Friday November 27^th to Saturday November 28^th, 2015.

Public Lecture (Nov 27 18:15 - 20:00; free entry to the lecture):

Memorable Events in Fields, Gravity and Strings (Poster)
Soo-Jong REY (Seoul National University & Institute For Basic Science)

EPS-HEP 2015

EPS-HEP 2015

22. - 29. July 2015

The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) is one of the major international conferences that reviews the field every second year since 1971 organized by the High Energy and Particle Physics Divison of the European Physical Society.

In 2015 the EPS-HEP will take place in Vienna, Austria between 22 to 29 July. The conference 2015 is organized by the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, Vienna University of Technology and the Stefan-Meyer Institute (SMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

November 28 - November 29 2014

After a break of one year this seminar series is continued under the auspices of the Doctoral Program "Particles and Interactions."

This year the topic of new developments in cosmology, inflation and dark matter has been chosen. The talks address the status of cosmological models and discuss possible dark matter candidates from theoretical and experimental perspectives.

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CKM 2014

CKM 2014

Das International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM2014) findet von Montag, 8. bis Freitag 12.September 2014 an der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Wien statt.

Die CKM-Serie ist eine gut etablierte Treffen im Bereich der Quark-Flavour Physik und bietet einen Ort sowohl für Experimental- als auch für theoretische Physiker. Auf der experimentellen Seite überbrücken wir die Grenzen zwischen Neutronen-, Kaon-, Charme- und B-Meson-Physik. Das Theorie-Programm versucht, ein breites Spektrum von Ansätzen abzudecken. Wir werden diskutieren, wie die Kombination von Experiment und Theorie die Suche nach Physik jenseits des Standardmodells ermöglichen kann und betrachten das Wechselspiel zwischen dem Quark-Flavour-Feld und der High-pT Suche nach neuer Physik.

Ähnlich wie in früheren Ausgaben, wird das Workshop ein Höhepunkt der Bemühungen der verschiedenen Arbeitsgruppen sein. Es wird auch zum Eröffnungs- und Zusammenfassung-Plenarsitzungen geben.

ESI Program on Jets and Quantum Fields for LHC and Future Colliders

ESI Program on Jets and Quantum Fields for LHC and Future Colliders

Jets are one of the most common objects observed in high energy particle collider experiments. They consist of a number very energetic collimated stable hadrons and their distribution and shape can be used to learn about the high-energy process that took place when the initial particles collided. A good understanding of jets is the basis of carrying out measurements at all modern collider experiments such as the Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC) currently taking data at CERN, at B-factories or a future Linear Collider. The intention of the workshop is to have an "Aspen"-type meeting with physicists having a strong theoretical interests in both conceptual and phenomenological aspects of jets.

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Friday, November 30 - Sunday, December 2

Dark matter, dark energy, black holes and quantum aspects of the universe

The ninth Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory will take place at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, from Friday November 30^th to Sunday December 2^nd, 2012. This year, dark matter, dark energy, black holes and quantum aspects of the universe, has been chosen as subject.

Public Lecture (Nov 30 19:00 - 20:00; free entry to the lecture):

Dark Energy, Dark Matter, And Black Holes, As Essential Ingredients Of A New Cyclic Theory Of The Universe (Poster)
Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford)

November 25 - 27, 2011

2011 Particle Physics and the LHC has been chosen as topic.

The 8th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory takes place at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, from Friday November 25th to Sunday November 27th, 2011.

Boltzmann-Lecture (Nov 25 18:15 - 20:00; free entry to the lecture):

Quantum Beauty: Real and Ideal (Poster)
Frank Wilczek (MIT)

Workshop on Precision Measurements of alpha_S

Workshop on Precision Measurements of alpha_S

9-11 February 2011
Max Planck Institut für Physik

The idea of this workshop at MPI für Physik is to explore and discuss in depth the determinations of alpha_S(m_Z) in the MSbar scheme from all the key categories where high precision measurements are currently being made. Since alpha_S is important for certain LHC measurements and since there are discrepancies in some determinations, such a workshop certainly seems in order.

Proceedings: http://inspirehep.net/record/981693

November 26 - 28, 2010

2010 Complex Stochastic Dynamics has been chosen as topic.

The 7th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory takes place at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, from Friday November 26th to Sunday November 28th, 2010.

Public Lecture (Nov 26 18:15 - 20:00; free entry to the lecture):

Complex Networks
Frank Wilczek (MIT)