Celebrating 20 years of TP1

Thursday 19 Oct 2023, 12:00 → 22:00 Europe/Berlin

D-114 (Emmy Noether Campus)

Tobias Huber (University of Siegen)

We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the TP1 group at the University of Siegen with our friends and alumni on October 19, 2023. TP1 alumni will report in short presentations on their careers in academia or the private sector. Subsequently Prof. Dr. Michael Kraemer will complement the celebration with a colloquium. 

13:00 → 14:00 Registration, Coffee and Tea

14:00 → 16:00 Alumni

8 talks each 10+5 min

14:00 From Particles to Showers

Speaker: Robert Feger

14:15 My journey from theoretical physics to practical software development

Speaker: Rebecca Klein

14:30 Automation and algorithms for the lumber industry:Peculiarities and challenges

Speaker: Sascha Turczyk

14:45 Application Analysis in High-Performance Computing

Speaker: Christian Weiss

15:00 Remaining in theoretical particle physics

Speaker: Martin Jung

15:15 From particle physics to innovation management in the identity industry

Speaker: Susanne Kränkl

15:30 Switching gears: The Twisting Road from Physics to Payments

Speaker: Marco Sekulla

15:45 d-fine

Speaker: Kevin Olschewsky

16:00 → 17:00 Coffee and Tea

17:00 → 18:30 Colloquium

17:00 20 years TP1

Speaker: Thomas Mannel (Siegen University)

17:15 Particle Theory in a Data-Driven Era

Theory has played a crucial role in the development of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and in formulating the questions that point to physics beyond the SM, such as the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking or the particle nature of dark matter. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is CERN's flagship particle accelerator and one of the key instruments for exploring the physics of the SM and new phenomena. In the first phase of the LHC, many searches for physics beyond the SM were driven by specific new physics models that would address some of the shortcomings of the SM. However, in the absence of conclusive evidence for new physics, more model-independent approaches are being pursued, such as effective field theories or the search for anomalies using machine learning methods. I will try to clarify the role of theory for the discovery of physics beyond the SM in this data-driven era of LHC physics, and highlight the challenges and opportunities for the next decade.

Speaker: Michael Kraemer (RWTH Aachen University)

19:30 → 22:00 Dinner (by invitation)