BU Festschrift Oct. 21 & 22, 2005

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Subject:        Festschrift
Date:   Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:09:02 -0400
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Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2005
A Festschrift and Conference on
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS AND ITS LEGACY
Boston University
Co-hosts: Prof. Sheldon Glashow and Dr. John R. Silber, President emeritus

Friday, October 21, 2005
9:00 - 9:15
Shelly Glashow: Introduction
Aram Chobanian *: Welcome by the John I. Sandson Distinguished Professor 
of Health Sciences, past President, Boston University
CP Violation...Hadrons, then Leptons?     Sam Ting, chairman
9:15 - 9:40: Lev Okun: The Problem of Mass: Is it about to be solved?
9:45 - 10:10: Lincoln Wolfenstein: The Surprising Neutrino: Only those 
who wager can win.
Grand Unification, Proton Decay, Neutrino Oscillations etc.     Val 
Fitch,* chairman
11:00 - 11:25: Bruce Cortez: The Birth of the Imaging Water Cherenkov 
Detector
11:30 - 11:50: Witold Kozanecki: International Linear Collider: The 
Post-LHC Future in the US
12:00 - 12:15: Norman Ramsey: Searching for the Electric Dipole Moment 
of the Neutron
The Elusive Energy Scale beyond the Standard Model     Jerry Friedman, 
chairman
2:00 - 2:25: Roy Aleksan*: Post-Large Hadron Collider (LHC): Potential 
New Accelerators and Detectors in Europe
2:30 - 2:55: Alvaro DeRujula: Cosmic Rays: A century old conundrum
3:00 - 3:25: Andre Rosowsky: Finding SUSY: From bizarre idea to 
Calorimetry at the LHC
The Discovery of Neutral Currents     Jack Steinberger, chairman
4:00 - 4:25: Jim Strait: From Early Calorimetry into the Future: A 
Massive Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
4:30 - 4:55: Francis Farley: How can we do ten times better on the muon 
g-2?
5:00 - 5:25: Steve Weinberg*: TBA

Saturday, October 22, 2005
Role of Innovative Detectors     Frank Wilczek,* chairman
9:00 - 9:25: Mike Levi: IS THERE REALLY A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT?
9:30 - 9:55: Bill Foster: The Future of U.S. Particle Accelerators: 
Beyond the Standard Model
10:00 - 10:25: John LoSecco: The History of  "Anomalous" Atmospheric 
Neutrino Events
History and Sociology of Particle Physics     Shandor Szalay, chairman
11:00 - 11:25: David Casper: HOW WILL WE SEE LEPTONIC CP VIOLATION?
11:30 - 11:40: Gerry Holton: History of Science: Ascent and Morphosis
11:45 - 12:10: Tune Kamae: Turning the Cosmos into a Particle Physics 
Laboratory
Is particle physics useful outside the lab?     Bert Halperin*, chairman
2:00 - 2:25: Charling Tao: From Physics Graduate Student in the '70s to 
Observing Supernovae Today
2:30 - 2:55: Bill Worstell: FROM NOVEL G-2 FAST CALORIMETRY TO A 
SUPERIOR PET SCANNER
3:00 - 3:25: Ian Affleck: WHAT WILL WE UNDERSTAND NEXT IN NANOSCIENCE?
Is there a future for particle physics?     Shelly Glashow, chairman
4:00 - 4:25: TBA: TBA
4:30 - 5:00: Ed Witten: Proton Decay in String Theory