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25.08.2014
Particle physicists meet in Hamburg
PANIC 2014 conference presents public talk on 50 years of particle physics in Hamburg
Elementary particles as the Nobel Prize winning Higgs boson are in the focus of this week’s Particles and Nuclei International Conference PANIC 2014. About 300 scientists meet from 25 to 29 August at the University of Hamburg to exchange the newest findings on particle and nuclear physics and discuss future research programmes. The Particles and Nuclei International Conference takes place every three years and this year it is jointly organised by DESY and the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg. This Wednesday, a public talk (in German) will highlight 50 years of particle physics in Hamburg.
Conference participants in front of the venue, the main building of the University of Hamburg. Photo: Lars Berg/DESY
“Particle physics is now going through a very exciting phase,” DESY director in charge of particle physics research Professor Joachim Mnich points out. “After the discovery of the Higgs particle two years ago, the world’s largest particle accelerator LHC is currently being upgraded to so far unprecedented energies. We are eagerly awaiting to see what the large LHC experiments, carried out with a substantial DESY participation, will observe in this unexplored field of research.”
The conference programme includes an invitation to a public talk in German presented by DESY and the University of Hamburg on this Wednesday, with the title „50 Jahre Teilchenphysik in Hamburg“. It will be given by Professor Albrecht Wagner, former director of DESY and provide an exciting overview from the beginning of DESY up to today’s elementary particle physics questions. The public talk takes place on Wednesday, 27 August at 7 p.m. (admission is free and starts from 6.30 p.m.) in the large auditorium of the main building of the University of Hamburg (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1).
More information
Conference homepage: http://panic2014.desy.de.
The president of the University of Hamburg, Prof. Dieter Lenzen, during the opening ceremony of the conference. Photo: Lars Berg/DESY
