Vienna Conference on Instrumentation First Wire Chamber Conference

Vienna Conference on Instrumentation • First Wire Chamber Conference in February 1978 with 175 participants • Then 1980 >> 1983, 1986 etc. • Since 1986 subtitle Recent Trends and Alternative Techniques • Before 1995 only a review talk on Semiconductor Detectors (because of the Munich Conference the week after the WCC) • Since 1995: Semicond. det. included (also reflecting the future plans of our institute) • 2001: 230 participants only (late consequence of the EU – sanctions); Change of the name to “Vienna Conference on Instrumentation”

• Proceedings of all conferences: “ Nuclear Instruments and Methods” • Paper Selection: 10 Memb. of the Intern. Sc. Adv. C. plus the 5 Members of the O. C. 10 th (Jubilee) Conference • 290 applications >> after paper selection >> 261 participants • Industrial exhibition: 10 exhib. (no fee (!), but 2 registered participants) • New: 3 introductory lectures; 10 Invited Talks: 180 (!)submitted papers • Topics: Gaseous det. , semiconduct. det, det. concepts for future accel. , non – accel. based exp. (space, underground, neutrino sea/ice…, medical appl. . ). • Cost: 100 000 EUR/ Income: 85 000 EUR General remarks: Lifely Conference b e y o n d LHC

7 th European Particle Accelerator Conference (Jun 26 – 30, 2000) During the years discussions concerning hosting an International Accelerator based Research Center in Austria we applied for the EPAC. The only large conference our institute had organized before then was the “Rochester Conference” 1968. The choice of the Conference Center was between the Hofburg and the modern Austria Center near the UN – City. The much more modern Austria Center was chosen as it offered also sufficient very central space for the Industrial Exhibition which is an essential contribution to the conference financing. After systematic contacts with the exhibition in Stockholm at the EPAC 1998 and the American “PAC” 1999 in New York about 40 companies rent a booth. The Local Organizer consisted of only one institute (HEPHY), which, for the EPAC, was quite unusual, and the LOC consisted of 5 people only.

With the “Vienna Bonus” we expected 800 participants, but the meeting was strongly hit by the EU - Sanctions. In April before the meeting we had 80 registered participants, and it was not so clear whether we should go ahead. After a lot of (also humiliating) diplomatic activities we finally decided to continue, and, in the end, more than 700 participants attended the conference, among them 100 participants from the United States. After all the meeting was also a financial success to the benefit of the European Physical Society. 800 scientific contributions had been submitted, and most of them could be accepted. (For the 700 posters the check of the scientific quality was not so severe as e. g. for the Vienna Conference of Instrumentation, as the proceedings were not published in a referenced Journal. ) The most challenging part for the local organizers was the installation of the proceedings office with in total 24 people (among them even a Ph. D – student from St. Petersburg). The Web – Proceedings were ready after 10 weeks only, which, at that time was a new record! The Saturday folowing the EPAC I organized a meeting on Medical Accelerators at the University of Technology (the small budget was covered by the “AUSTRON Association”) which was attended by more than 200 scientists.

Fourth International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum Wien, 3. – 8. Juli 2000 Austrian Academy of Sciences Chair: Wolfgang LUCHA Sponsors Austrian Airlines Aviation Group Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture Austrian Science Fund Bank Austria Creditanstalt Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Vienna University of Technology Nu. HEP Research Center, Hampton University (U. S. A. ) City of Vienna Verein der Freunde der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Vienna Convention Bureau

80 Participants 24 Invited Plenary Lectures 4 Parallel Sessions: Vacuum Structure of QCD and Mechanism of Confinement Light Quarks (and Gluons) Heavy Quarks (and Gluons) Deconfinement Poster Session (organized by Howard GEORGI) Proceedings: Editors: Wolfgang LUCHA & Khin MAUNG World Scientific, Singapur, 386 S. Previous Meetings in this Series of Conferences: 1994 & 1996: Como, Italien (Chair: Giovanni M. PROSPERI) 1998: CEBAF, TJNAF, U. S. A. (Chair: Nathan ISGUR)

General Information The conference is dedicated to physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN, the European Organization for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. Topics will include: • • • Standard Model Higgs physics Supersymmetry Beyond the Standard Model Beauty physics Heavy-ion physics The panorama picture of Stephansplatz in the title graphics is by courtesy of the Viennese photographer Franz Pfluegl.

The conference is hosted by the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. It will be held on the central premises of the Academy, in the historic baroque building of the first university in Vienna. Stephan's Cathedral, the Graben district, the Opera House and famous Kärntner Straße are only a few steps away. Conference venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences Contact address: e-mail: phlhc@hephy. oeaw. ac. at We gratefully acknowledge support by: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, Vienna, Austria European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

CERN School of Computing 2003, Krems an der Donau • Krems, 24. 8. 2003 -6. 9. 2003 • Organized by HEPHY in cooperation with CERN and Donau-Universität Krems • Director: F. Fluckiger (CERN) • Chairman LOC: R. Frühwirth (HEPHY) • 68 students from 25 nations, 4 from Austria • 12 lecturers, 5 from Austria

CERN School of Computing 2003, Krems an der Donau • Three major topics: v. Software technologies v. Algorithms v. Grid technologies • 47+5 (optional) hours of lectures and exercises, 2 evening lectures • Final examination, passed by 53 out of 60 • Total score: 3. 58 out of 4, second best ever

CERN Accelerator School 2004 Introductory level September 2004 in Hotel Schloss Weikersdorf Baden bei Wien, AUSTRIA (the same place as the 1994 course) 80 to 100 participants expected Local Organizer: Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Sponsors: The Governor of Lower Austria: Cocktail The Major of Baden: Conference Dinner

CERN: Organization, lecturers etc. Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (pending) UNIQA: Support for students from new EU – Member States Accel: Support for local students Additional Sponsors welcome!!! Special fee for local students

European School for High Energy Physics 2005 • Austria*, 21. 8. 2005 -3. 9. 2005 • Organized by HEPHY and UIBK in cooperation with CERN and JINR • Director: E. Lillestøl (CERN) • Chairman LOC: L. Widhalm (HEPHY) • up to 100 students expected • usually 10 -15 lecturers * location (Kitzbühel, Baden, Schlaining, Wien) will be chosen next month

European School for High Energy Physics 2005 • 1 st CERN School of Physics 1962 in Switzerland • since 1970 jointly organized with JINR • recent schools in Greece (2002), Armenia (2003), Spain (2004) • Typical topics include: v. Standard Model & beyond (QCD, Flavour Physics, CP Violation, etc. ) v. Accelerators v. Cosmology & Astrophysics

2005 CERN School of Physics in Austria August 21 – September 03, 2005 Kitzbühel, Tirol Schlosshotel Weikersdorf, Baden Burg Schlaining, Burgenland Hotel Akademia, Wien