2nd KSETA Plenary Workshop 2015

Mar 4, 2015, 9:30 AM → Mar 6, 2015, 6:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Best Western Hotel Vierjahreszeiten

Johannes Blümer (KIT), Ulrich Nierste (KIT)

All Fellows and Principal Investigators are cordially invited to participate in the second plenary workshop of the whole school. The aim of the workshop is to learn more about all the research fields in KSETA and to strenghten cooperation and team building.

Wednesday, March 4

9:00 AM Arrival and registration

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Nierste (Institut fuer Theoretische Teilchenphysik, KIT CS)

2 Nuclear input for supernova and explosive nucleosynthesis calculations

Speaker: Prof. Karl-Heinz Langanke (GSI Darmstadt)

12:30 PM Lunch

3 News from KSETA and KIT

Speaker: Prof. Johannes Blümer (KIT)

KSETA Fellows

4 Mechanism for a bounded and discrete mass spectrum of fermions

Speaker: Lu Yang (ITP)

5 Simulation of multi-jet events

Speaker: Johannes Bellm (TTP)

4:00 PM Coffee break

6 Detector development

Speaker: Frank Hartmann (KIT)

KSETA Fellows

7 Shielding concepts for next generation DM experiments

Speaker: Geertje Heuermann (IKP)

8 A High-Performance Smart Camera platform for Scientific Applications

Speaker: Uros Stevanovic (IPE)

6:30 PM Dinner

9 Intercultural communication (cancelled)

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Müller-Jacquier (Univ. Bayreuth)

Thursday, March 5

10 Probing Cosmological Models with the Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Prof. Jochen Weller (Univ. Munich, Sternwarte)

Abstract KSETA_2015_Abstract_Cosmology_Weller.pdf

KSETA Fellows

11 Higgsbosonmassen in Supersymmetrie

Speaker: David Kunz (TTP)

12 CMS Level 1 Track Trigger – An FPGA Approach

Speaker: Tanja Harbaum (ITIV)

11:00 AM Coffee break

13 Neutrino mass and cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Kai Zuber (TU Dresden)

12:30 PM Lunch

KSETA Fellows

14 Jet Production in Top-Quark Pair Events Measured with CMS

Speaker: Alexis Descroix (IEKP)

15 Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: the discovered and yet unknown

Speaker: Alexander Schulz (IKP)

16 CMOS Sensors

Speaker: Prof. Ivan Peric (KIT)

Abstract KSETA_Abstract_Peric.pdf

4:00 PM Coffee break

17 Parallel working groups on "KSETA 2.0"

6:00 PM Dinner

Parallel meetings: PI meeting

Parallel meetings: Plenum of doctoral researchers

Friday, March 6

18 Methods for precision calculations

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zürich)

KSETA Fellows

19 Work function studies of gold surfaces for the Rear Wall of the KATRIN experiment

Speaker: Kerstin Schönung (TLK)

20 CMS Pixel Upgrade

Speaker: Stefan Heindl (IEKP)

11:00 AM Coffe break

21 Beautiful ways to new physics

Speaker: Prof. Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (Univ. Heidelberg)

Abstract KSETA_2015_Abstract_NewPhysics_Menzemer.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch

KSETA Fellows

22 Belle II-PXD Hit-Recovery by Online-Cluster-Analysis on FPGAs

Speaker: Steffen Bähr (ITIV)

23 Analysis of Higgs to Tau-Tau events with the CMS detector

Speaker: Thomas Müller (IEKP)

24 Computing and data handling for weather forecast

Speaker: Prof. Gerhard Adrian (DWD)

Abstract KSETA_2015_Abstract_Adrian.pdf

4:00 PM Departure