Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics (CORFU2005)
Konstantinos N Anagnostopoulos, Ignatios Antoniadis, George Fanourakis, Alex Kehagias, Aurore Savoy-Navarro, Julius Wess, George Zoupanos · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2006
These are the Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics (CORFU2005) (http://corfu2005.physics.uoi.gr), which took place in Corfu, Greece from 4–26 September 2005. The Corfu Summer Institute has a very long, interesting and successful history, some elements of which can be found in http://www.corfu-summer-institute.gr. In short, the Corfu Meeting started as a Summer School on Elementary Particle Physics (EPP) mostly for Greek graduate students in 1982 and has developed into a leading international Summer Institute in the field of EPP, both experimental and theoretical, providing in addition a very rich outreach programme to teachers and school students. The CORFU2005 Summer Institute on EPP, although based on the general format that has been developed and established in the Corfu Meetings during previous years, is characterized by the fact that it was a full realization of a new idea, which started experimentally in the previous two Corfu Meetings. The successful new ingredient was that three European Marie Curie Research Training Networks decided to hold their Workshops in Corfu during September 2005 and they managed to coordinate the educational part of their meetings to a huge Summer School called `The 8th Hellenic School on Elementary Particle Physics' (4–11 September). The European Networks which joined forces to materialize this project and the corresponding dates of their own Workshops are: The Third Generation as a Probe for New Physics: Experimental and Technological Approach (4–11 September) The Quest for Unification Theory Confronts Experiment (11–18 September) Constituents Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe (20–26 September) To these Workshops has been added a Satellite one called `Noncommutative Geometry in Field and String Theory', and some extra speakers have been invited to complement the full programme of CORFU2005, some of whom have integrated into the Workshop's programme. The result was indeed very successful! An impressive aspect is that the CORFU2005 had the most massive participation so far attracting around 350 scientists. Among them around 200 young scientists (100 graduate students and 100 post doctoral scientists) and around 150 senior scientists. Therefore, among others, CORFU2005 hosted one of the largest Summer Schools in our field. Internationally leading scientists have been gathered in the CORFU2005 in the various Workshops and the School and have created a stimulating scientific atmosphere for themselves and for the young scientists. The contributions of all speakers can be found in http://corfu2005.physics.uoi.gr. Most of them have contributed to the present proceedings, while the contributions of the last week can be found in Fortsch. Phys. 54, Issue 5–6 (May 2006). In parallel to the main scientific programme a very interesting, rich and successful outreach programme was held in collaboration with the local Department of the Greek Physical Society and the Laboratory of Physical Science in Corfu (EKFE). The success of the CORFU2005 was the best advertisement concerning the long standing efforts to establish the `European Institute of Science and their Applications', which eventually was founded last spring in Corfu. The new Institute hopes to be the permanent extension of the Corfu Summer Institutes on EPP and has an additional aim to upgrade them in the sense that the attracted first class scientists would produce locally a significant research output. We would like to thank everybody very much who contributed to the success of CORFU2005. We would like specifically to thank all speakers and organizers, the conference secretary and the school officer (please consult http://corfu2005.physics.uoi.gr) and the group of graduate students who helped in various ways and contributed in a very significant manner in the success of CORFU2005. In addition we would like to thank our sponsors, whose contribution made possible the CORFU2005: European Research Training Network: The Third Generation as a Probe for New Physics: Experimental and Technological Approach; The Quest for Unification Theory Confronts Experiment; Constituents Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe Greek Ministry of Education Municipality of Corfu and the Municipal Development Enterprise (ANEDK) Latsis Institution National Technical University and Ionian University CERN DESY Max--Planck--Institute for Physics, Munich Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics National Center of Scientific Research ``Demokritos'' and the Greek Atomic Energy Commission Olympic Airlines The Companies: Educational Tetras, Infoware, Kleos, Terra Kerkyra The telecommunication companies OTE and FORTHNET Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Ignatios Antoniadis, George Fanourakis, Alexandros Kehagias, Aurore Savoy-Navarro, Julius Wess and George Zoupanos Editors