Physics
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Mar 2008
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 110, Issue 00, pp. 001001 (2008).
Physics
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HEPP2007, the EPS High Energy Particle Physics Conference, was held in Manchester from July 19-26 2007. It brought together 580 delegates across the whole subject: from string theorists to detector technologists, from young postgraduate students to senior professors. Geographically they came from the UK, from the rest of Europe, from North America, and from the rest of the world. It covered the whole spectrum of the subject, not only accelerator-based experiments but also its astrophysical and cosmological aspects. The parallel and plenary talks can be found in these proceedings.
A key feature of the conference, as always, was the award of the prizes: this year the EPS prize was awarded to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for their explanation of CP violation with a 6 quark model—Kobayashi came to accept it in person. The Gribov medal went to Niklas Beisert, the outreach prize to Richard Jacobsson and Charles Timmermans and the Young Physicist prizer to I Furic, G Gomez-Ceballos and S Menzemer.
Parallel sessions were held in Manchester University, and plenary talks were held in the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester Town centre, a magnificent modern venue whose positive and co-operative staff enabled the conference to make the most of the impressive surroundings. We were able to put the hall to its proper purpose one evening with a concert by the Fairey Band—one of the distinctive brass bands who form part of the rich musical tradition of the North of England, and came as something new and different to many of the delegates.
The conference ran smoothly and successfully, thanks largely to hard work by the local organising committee who devoted a lot of time to planning, producing ideas, and anticipating potential problems. Many of them were not from Manchester itself but from other universities and laboratories in the North of England, so their dedication was especially appreciated. The EPS committee also played a major part, by the selection of plenary speakers to produce a schedule which was not only balanced but also stimulating and exciting. The speakers themelves, in both the plenary and parallel sessions, not only gave us a fine selection of interesting talks but also kept to their allotted times.
Photos of many of the events can be found on the web page, http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/HEP2007
The biennial EPS HEPP conference has a long tradition as one of the major international conferences in particle physics. We were proud to be following in the succession of notable conferences, most recently at Aachen in 2003 and Lisbon in 2005: proud and also somewhat apprehensive as to whether we would come up to their high standard. With hindsight we can claim that we did just that, both in the standards of the scientific sessions and in the smooth running of an enjoyable conference. We achieved our goal of a conference that was memorable—for the right reasons.
The next EPS HEPP conference is in Krakow in 2009, and is eagerly anticipated by all those who were at Manchester. We wish the organisers well.
Roger Barlow Editor
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