Sid Drell Symposium

Sid Drell smiling with physics equations overlaid the background
(Terry Anderson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Symposium Name:

Symposium on Fundamental Physics in Memory of Sidney Drell

Date: 

Friday, January 12th, 2018

Location:

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Panofsky Auditorium

About:

This symposium will review the current state of issues in fundamental physics that Sid initiated and developed during his career and will discuss his broader influence on the physics community.

Program Committee:

  • T. Appelquist 
  • M. Chanowitz
  • M. Peskin
  • J. Primack

Speakers:

  • J. Bjorken
  • J. Butterworth 
  • D. DeMille 
  • L. Dixon 
  • A. Guth 
  • L. Harland-Lang 
  • D. Hertzog
  • D. Holloway
  • R. Jaffe 
  • R. Jeanloz 
  • A. Nelson 
  • J. Primack
  • J. Sapirstein

Agenda:

Quantum Electrodynamics and the Leptons
Presentation Speaker
The precision verification of QED (PDF)Jonathan Sapirstein (University of Notre Dame)
The magnetic moment of the muon (PDF)David Hertzog (University of Washington)
The electric dipole moment of the electron (PDF)David DeMille (Yale University)
Sid's Students (+1) Today
PresentationSpeaker
Then and Now (PDF)  Then and Now Text (PDF)James Bjorken (SLAC)
The structure of the universe (PDF)Joel Primack (U C Santa Cruz)
The beginning of time (PDF)Alan Guth (MIT)
Teaching the physics of energy (PDF)Robert Jaffe (MIT)
Substructure
PresentationSpeaker
Drell-Yan and other tools for proton structure from the LHC (PDF)Lucian Harland-Lang (Oxford)
Quark and lepton scattering at the highest energies (PDF)Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)
Substructure of quarks, leptons, and Higgs bosons (PDF)Ann Nelson (University of Washington)
Beyond the Blackboard
PresentationSpeaker
Physics of nuclear weapons (PDF)Raymond Jeanloz (U C Berkeley)
Drell and Sakharov (PDF) David Holloway (Stanford)
SLAC's theoretical physics tradition (PDF)Lance Dixon (SLAC)
Video
First Session:  Quantum Electrodynamics and the Leptons
Video
Second Session: Sid's Students (+1) Today
Video
Third session: Substructure
Video
Fourth Session: Beyond the Blackboard
Participant List
Last NameFirst NameInstitution
AbelTomKIPAC
AdlerRonaldKIPAC
AgueroDennisSLAC
AkeribDanSLAC
AllenMatthewSLAC
AnkowskiArturSLAC
BaggerJonathanTRIUMF
BardeenWilliamFermilab - Emeritus
BardeenMargeFermilab
BarklowTimothySLAC
BarteltJohnSLAC
BergerEdmondArgonne National Laboratory
BergerBruce 
BlandfordRogerKIPAC
BlinovNikitaSLAC
BloomElliottSLAC
BorglandAnders W.SLAC
BrauJamesUniversity of Oregon
BreidenbachMartinSLAC
BrodskyStanley J.SLAC
BudnitzRobertLBNL
BurkeDavidSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
ButterworthJonathanUCL
ByerRobert 
CahnRobertLBNL
CameronRobertKIPAC, SLAC
ChanowitzMichaelLBNL
Chen LinXinyiStanford
ChertokMaxwellUC Davis
ChiangJamesSLAC
ChuGilbertStanford
ClarkeChristineSLAC
ClausRachelSU Emirita (General Counsel for SLAC)
ClendeninJymSLAC Retiree
DalbyChipSLAC
de BelsunceRogerKAVLI
de BelsunceRogerSLAC Theory
DiamondMiriamSLAC
DineMichaelUniversity of California Santa Cruz
DixonLanceSLAC
DorfanJonathanSLAC
DrellPersisStanford
DulatFalkoSLAC
DuroMarsha 
EcklundStanSLAC - Retired
EinhornMartinKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
EllisSebastianSLAC
EricksonRogerSLAC
FieldCliveSLAC
FontesNunoBoehringer Ingelheim
FoxJohnSLAC/Stanford
FriedCaroleSLAC
GalasDavidPacific Northwest Research Institute
GillMandeepKIPAC
GlanzmanTomSLAC
GlassmanRita 
GnidaManuelSLAC
GodfreyGarySLAC-retired
GolanPaulDepartment of Energy
GoldhaberAlfred ScharffStony Brook University, and also SLAC
GrattaGiorgioPhysics Dept, Stanford
GustavsonDavidSLAC Retiree
HaberHowardUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
HAIMSONJAKEMIT/HRC RETIRED
HartmanNicoleSLAC
HastCarstenSLAC
HatoyaRikakoDe Anza College
HeileFrankGrad student at SLAC in the 1970s
HemsingErikSLAC
HerrmannEnricoSLAC
HerrmannsfeldtWilliamSLAC, retired
HERTZOGDavidUniversity of Washington
HesterLarryLawrence Capital Management
HewettJoAnneSLAC, Stanford University
HitlinDavidCaltech
HoecheStefanSLAC
HolmesRichardThe Boeing Company
HoltkampNorbertSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
HuangZhirongSLAC
HuangTaoIHEP,China
HurstAlecia 
IgnarraChristinaSLAC
InnesWaltSLAC
JaffeRobertMIT
JarosJohnSLAC
JarosJoSpouse
JohnsonRobertU.C. Santa Cruz
JohnsonChristianUC Santa Cruz
JungSunghoonSeoul National University
KahnStevenStanford/SLAC
KalloshRenataStanford University
KaoChi-ChangSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
KaufmanLisaSLAC
KimPeterSLAC
KokronNickolasStanford University
KuttimalaiSilvanSLAC
LanderRicharadUniv. California, Davis
LangeveldWillemRapiscan Laboratories, Inc.
LeeMelindaSLAC
LenskyYuriStanford
LepagePeterCornell University
LiShirleySLAC
LindauIngolfSLAC/Stanford
LindeAndreiStanford University
LoewGregorySLAC
LongSharonStanford University
LowdonPeterSLAC
LuitzSteffenSLAC
LuthVeraSLAC
LynchHarveySLAC Retired
MacFarlaneDavidSLAC
MadejskiGrzegorz (Greg)SLAC
MajumdarArunStanford University
MarkiewiczThomasSLAC
MaruyamaTakashiSLAC
MermingaLiaSLAC
MonzaniMaria ElenaSLAC
MorenoOmarSLAC
MukhopadhyayPayelStanford University
MungerCharlesformer SLAC post-doc
MurphyFredSLAC (ret.)
NakibMayishaUIUC
NielsenMarinaSLAC
NovokhatskiAlexanderSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
OttoFredaFriend of Sid and Stanford graduate
OttoDouglasLBCC: Long Beach Community College (Trustee)
PalmerDennisINFN- LNF
ParkeStephenFermilab
PartridgeRichardSLAC
PatersonEwanSLAC
PellegriniClaudioSLAC
PeskinMichaelSLAC
PhinneyNanSLAC
PitthanRainerSLAC
PrepostRichardUniversity of Wisconsin
PrescottCharlesSLAC
QuinnHelenSLAC
RizzoThomasSLAC
RochesterLeonSLAC
RokniSayedSLAC
RoodmanAaronSLAC
RoseBonnieSLAC Retiree
RosnerJonathanUniversity of Chicago
RosnerJoyUniversity of Chicago (spouse)
RowsonP.C.SLAC
SadrozinskiHartmutSCIPP- UC Santa Cruz
SapirsteinJonathanUniversity of Notre Dame
ScargleJeffNASA Ames Research Center
SchindlerRafeSLAC/Stanford
SchwartzmanArielSLAC
SchwobPierreContextU
SebekJimSLAC
SeemanJohnSLAC
ShiZhaozhongMIT
ShuttTomSLAC
SimonHorstDeputy Lab Director - LBNL
SpencerCherrillSLAC (retired)
SpencerJamesSLAC
StubbsChristopherHarvard Physics
SuDongSLAC
SullivanMichaelSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
ThompsonKathleenSLAC retired
ThompsonJedidiahStanford
TurnerMichaelKICP at the University of Chicago
VavraJerrySLAC
WagonerBobStanford Dept. of Physis & KIPAC
WaliKameshwar C.Physics Dept. Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
WalzDieterSLAC
WarnockRobertSLAC
WeidemannAchim 
WhiteGlenSLAC
WilliamsStephenSlac/retired
WisniewskiBillSLAC
WitherellMikeLab Director - LBNL
WojcikGeorgeSLAC
WongPatrick 
WoodsMikeSLAC
WuJuhao 
YellinStevenStanford
YonedaChuckSLAC
YoonJongminSLAC
ZylaPiotrLBNL