Fall Bonn HEP Meeting 2024: Embracing Diversity in High Energy Physics

7 Oct 2024, 08:30 → 9 Oct 2024, 16:30 Europe/Berlin

Wegelerstr. 10 - Seminar Room 2.019 - 53115 Bonn (Bethe Center)

Poster_Fall Bonn HEP 2024_Forum.pdf

Monday, 7 October

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 10:30 Pedagogical talk

Speaker: Ruth Britto

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Short talks

11:00 Short talk

Speaker: Sara Ditsch

11:25 Short Talk

Speaker: Gaia Fontana

11:50 Short talk

Speaker: Sara Maggio

12:15 Short talk

Speaker: Nathan Moynihan

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 The tragic destiny of Mileva Marić Einstein

What were Albert Einstein's first wife’s contributions to his extraordinary productivity in the first years of his career? A first biography of Mileva Marić Einstein was published in Serbian in 1969 but remained largely unknown despite being translated first in German, then in French in the 1990’s. The publication of Mileva and Albert’s love letters in 1987 revealed how they lived together while two recent publications shed more light on Mileva Marić’s life and work. I will review this evidence in its social and historical context to give a better idea of her contributions. In this presentation, I avoid all type of speculation and do not attack Albert Einstein personally, but rather strictly stick to facts. The audience will be able to appreciate why such a talented physicist has been so unkindly treated by history.

Speaker: Pauline Gagnon

15:00 → 16:00 Talk

Speaker: Sophia Borowka

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break + group photo

16:30 → 18:00 Poster session and reception

Tuesday, 8 October

09:00 → 10:00 Pedagogical talk

Speaker: Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 13:00 Short talks

10:30 Inclusive Semileptonic Decay of the $D_s$ Meson from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Christiane Gross

11:20 Short talk

Speaker: Samrangy Sadhu

11:45 Short tlak

Speaker: Rhitaja Sengupta

12:10 Short talk

Speaker: Sam Teale

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Talk

Speaker: Andrea Bossmann

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Talk

Speaker: Juliane von Scherpenberg

17:00 → 18:00 What's wrong with me?

Why are sexism, homophobia and racism still so prevalent in physics? I start from my personal experience to demonstrate that in fact the personal is political. CERN, the largest physics laboratory in the world, welcomes scientists from 112 nationalities but still about 80% of them are white and 80% are male. I examine why people from so many various groups have been historically excluded from physics and suggest a series of easily applicable measures that could greatly improve diversity in physics. These measures would benefit all scientists, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, physical ability or religion. It has been established that diversity benefits science by increasing the creativity potential, a key ingredient in scientific research.

Speaker: Pauline Gagnon

20:00 → 22:00 Movie screening: Picture a scientist

Wednesday, 9 October

09:00 → 10:30 Anti - discrimination workshop

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Anti - discrimination workshop

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Anti - discrimination workshop

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break and end of the Bethe Forum