Confirmed speakers: Richard Healey (Tucson, Arizona): Interpretation of physical formalisms is a professor of philosophy specialized on investigating the intersections between philosophy of physics and metaphysics. He has won particular acclaim for his work on the interpretation of quantum and gauge theories. In 2011, his book "Gauging What's Real" won the Lakatos Prize, the highest recognition a book in philosophy of science can get. Gia Dvali (Munich and New York): Composition of space-time is a professor of theoretical physics and highly renowned for his work in the disciplines of string theory, elementary particle physics as well as cosmology and astrophysics. He was awarded a Humboldt Professorship in 2008, one of Germany’s most highly endowed research awards. Dvali is best known for the idea of possible large additional space-dimensions which he proposed together with Nima Arkani-Hamed and Savas Dimopoulos in 1998. Gino Isidori (Frascati): Ideas beyond the Standard Model is a theoretical particle physicist and INFN research director at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy. His work deals with phenomena right at the border of the Standard Model and theories beyond it. It is therefore perfectly related to the main theme of the school. His contributions to flavor physics are among the most influential papers in that field. Most recently, his work on the stability of the Higgs potential in the light of the recent discovery of this particle at the LHC has raised great attention also in the public media. Margaret Morrison (Toronto): The role of unification is a professor for the philosophy of science, specialized on the philosophy and history of physics. Her work on models as mediators, as well as on the concept of unication, have guided discussions in the philosophy of science for over a decade. Arianna Borrelli (Wuppertal): History of the Standard Model and beyond is a historian of science and member of the research collaboration "Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider". Her projects within our research collaboration about model preferences in particle physics received much attention in both the philosophy and the physics community. Jan Lacki (Geneva): History of particle physics is a professor for the history of physics at the University of Geneva and close collaborator of the REHSEIS group. He has worked, among others, on the history of of quantum mechanics, in particular its axiomatization and alternative formalisms in the 1920s. In joint work with A. Sanchez Varela he has investigated a rather recent episode of the history of particle physics, the debates around the closing of the LEP experiment at CERN. Peter Mättig (Wuppertal): Advancing Particle Physics is a professor for experimental particle physics and member of the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and previously of the OPAL collaboration at LEP. His group was involved in the design and construction of the ATLAS detector and now analysis LHC data, in particular with respect to top quark physics. He is a founding member of the research collaboration "Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider". Laura Covi (Göttingen): Cosmology is a professor for theoretical physics. She is best known for her seminal contributions to the origins of the matter/anti-matter asymmetry, CP violation, and Dark Matter. An important component of her work is the relation of cosmological and astrophysical observations to collider experiments. Michael Krämer (Aachen): Higgs and (no) supersymmetry at the LHC is a professor for theoretical physics and a member of the research collaboration "Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider". His most important scientic contributions are in the eld of collider phenomenology, ranging from cutting-edge calculations for Higgs physics, to global ts of experimental data to predictions in supersymmetric theories. Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg): Planck and the Standard Model of Cosmology is a professor of theoretical astronomy, with close contact to experimental observations. He will introduce and comment on the recent observations of the AMS-2 and the WMAP experiments. |