Symposium Celebrating the Scientific Career of Bill Willis

Friday 26 Apr 2013, 09:00 → 20:30 US/Eastern

Physics Dept. - Large Seminar Room (BNL)

Bob Palmer's Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/57414934@N06/

Charlie Baltay and Nick Samios D6900413.jpg

Discussion during a break D6910413.jpg

Video of the Testamonials http://www.bnl.gov/video/index.php?v=378

Willis Family, Speakers and Chairs D6930413.jpg

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1 - Chair Howard Gordon

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Berndt Mueller (BNL)

09:10 Logistics

Slides Logistics.pptx

09:20 The Early Years

Speaker: Nick Samios (TBC)

Slides Samios_-_Willis_Presentation_April_26_2013.pdf

09:55 Detector Development - Common Threads

Speaker: Veljko Radeka (BNL)

Slides Radeka_Willis_Symposium_2013.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:10 Session 2 - Chair Barbara Jacak

11:00 CERN Years

Speaker: Chris Fabjan (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Slides Fabyan_Willis_Symposium.pptx

11:35 The Birth of Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments

Speaker: Bill Zajc (Columbia)

Slides ZajcWillisSymposiumNew.pdf ZajcWillisSymposiumNew.pptx

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:15 Session 3 - Chair Charlie Baltay

13:30 SSC: GEM

Speaker: Barry Barish (ILC + LIGO)

Slides Barish_Willis_Symposium_04-13.ppt

14:05 LHC: ATLAS

Speaker: Howard Gordon (BNL)

Slides Gordon_-_Willis_Symposium.ppt

14:40 Accelerator Physics

Speaker: Bob Palmer (BNL)

Slides Palmer_1304-willis-v2.pdf

15:15 → 15:35 Coffee

15:35 → 17:40 Session 4 - Chair David Lissauer

15:35 Neutrinos

Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Yale)

Slides BillWillisSymposium_BTF.pptx.pptx

16:10 Outreach and International Activities

Speaker: Jeremy Dodd (Columbia)

Slides Jeremy_Dodd_BillInternationalandOutreach.pdf

16:30 Individual Testimonials

17:40 → 18:30 Reception

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

South Room of BNL Center