Remembering Bj: a Symposium in Honor of James Bjorken
Date:
November 9, 2024
Location:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Overview:
James D. Bjorken (1934-2024) was a giant of theoretical physics. Beyond his original contributions to all aspects of particle physics, Bj personified the idea that progress in physics is driven by the pure joy of exploration. This symposium brings together many of Bj's friends and colleagues to review his life and work.
Please note that, on the previous day, Nov. 8, SLAC hosted a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the J/psi discovery.
Program Committee:
- Lance Dixon
- Jonathan Dorfan
- Chris Quigg
- Helen Quinn
- Michael Peskin
Speakers:
- Helen Quinn
- Fred Gilman
- Stan Brodsky
- Chris Quigg
- Sekazi Mtingwa
- Cyrus Taylor
- Davison Soper
- Larry McLerran
- Natalia Toro
- members of Bj's family
| Presentations | Presenters |
|---|---|
| Welcome and introductions | Lance Dixon (SLAC) |
| Bj as a thesis advisor (no PDF available) | Helen Quinn (SLAC) |
| Bj as SLAC in the 1960's (PDF) | Frederick Gilman (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Bj at SLAC in the 1970's (PDF) | Stanley Brodsky (SLAC) |
| BJ at Fermilab and Fermilab's future (PDF) | Chris Quigg (Fermilab) |
| Bj and strongly focused beams (PDF) | Sekazo Mtingwa (North Carolina A&T, emeritus) |
| Bj the experimenter (PDF) | Cyrus Taylor (Case Western Reserve University) |
| Bj and perturbative QCD (PDF) | Davison Soper (University of Oregon) |
| Bj and the quark-gluon plasma (PDF) | Larry McLerran (University of Washington) |
| Bj searching for hidden sectors (PDF) | Natalia Toro (SLAC) |
| Open mic | Contributors: |
| BJ Slideshsow (PDF) Hight ET and Pomerons (PDF) | Michael Albrow (Fermilab), Andrew Brandt (University of Texas Arlington), Michael Peskin (SLAC), Casey Hartman |
| Bj and his family | Johanna Bjorken et al. |
| Plant a tree | Lance Dixon (SLAC) |
Slideshow
Photo History of Bj's Life and Career
View the entire photo collection from the event honoring Dr. Bj Bjorken on Flickr.
Participant List
| First Name | Last Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel | Akerib | SLAC |
| Michael | Albrow | Fermilab |
| Jonathan | Bagger | APS |
| Timothy | Barklow | SLAC |
| Rainer | Bartoldus | SLAC |
| Irene | Beardsley | |
| Bruce | Berger | |
| EDMOND | BERGER | Retired |
| Johanna | Bjorken | Daughter |
| Sebastian | Bjorken-Reinert | Family |
| Elliott | Bloom | SLAC Emeritus |
| Dimitri | Bourilkov | UF |
| Gary | Bower | SLAC - retired |
| Andrew | Brandt | University of Texas, Arlington |
| Martin | Breidenbach | SLAC |
| Stanley | Brodsky | SLAC |
| Maxwell | Chertok | UC Davis |
| Mary | Convery | Fermilab |
| Ray | Cowan | MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science |
| David | Coward | SLAC |
| Matteo | Crismani | |
| Lance | Dixon | |
| Jonathan | Dorfan | SLAC |
| Persis | Drell | Stanford |
| Isi | Dunietz | |
| Casey | Durandet | Fermilab |
| Robin | Erbacher | UC Davis |
| Rouven | Essig | Stony Brook University |
| Gary | Feldman | Harvard University |
| Jonathan | Feng | UC Irvine |
| henry | frisch | University of Chicago |
| Priscilla | Frisch | |
| Miguel | Furman | LBNL |
| Susan | Gardner | University of Kentucky |
| Giorgio | Gratta | Physics Department, Stanford University |
| David | Gustavson | SLAC retiree |
| Howard | Haber | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| casey | hartman | |
| Anna | Haukness | Stanford family member |
| Charles | Herz | Retired, former General Counsel of NSF |
| JoAnne | Hewett | Brookhaven National Lab |
| David | Hitlin | Caltech |
| Robert | Jaffe | MIT |
| John | Jaros | Retired |
| Inga | Karliner | University of Illinois |
| Brenda | Kirk | |
| Thomas B.W. | Kirk | |
| Shayarneel | Kundu | SLAC |
| Kenneth | Lane | Boston University |
| Willem | Langeveld | Verified Logic |
| Zoltan | Ligeti | LBL |
| KEHFEI | LIU | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| Harvey | Lynch | SLAC (retired) |
| David | MacFarlane | SLAC |
| Phavantha | Mao | Phavantha Mao |
| Thomas | Markiewicz | SLAC |
| Larry | McLerran | INT University of Washington |
| Anthony | Morales | SLAC |
| Sekazi | Mtingwa | US Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| Fred | Murphy | SLAC (ret) |
| Mel | O'Keefe | SLAC |
| Allen | Odian | |
| Ian | Padilla-Gay | SLAC |
| STEPHEN | Parke | Fermilab |
| Richard | Partridge | SLAC |
| Jogesh | Pati | SLAC Theory Group, Stanford University |
| Michael | Peskin | SLAC |
| Charles | Prescott | SLAC retired |
| Chris | Quigg | Fermilab |
| Dan | Quinn | SLAC |
| Helen | Quinn | SLAC |
| Petros | Rapidis | Retired |
| Blair | Ratcliff | SLAC |
| Stephen | Reinert | Family |
| Michael | Riordan | UC Santa Cruz |
| Jennifer | Rittenhouse West | |
| Thomas | Rizzo | SLAC |
| Peter | Rowson | SLAC |
| Hartmut | Sadrozinski | SCIPP UC Santa Cruz |
| Gavin | Salam | University of Oxford, Department of Physics and All Souls College |
| John | Sarrao | SLAC |
| Peter | Scharbach | |
| Philip | Schuster | SLAC |
| Ariel | Schwartzman | SLAC |
| Toshi-Aki | Shibata | Nihon University |
| Robert | Shrock | Stony Brook University |
| Dennis | Sivers | |
| Davison | Soper | University of Oregon |
| David | Stoker | UC Irvine |
| Dong | Su | SLAC |
| Cyrus | Taylor | Case Western Reserve University |
| Shafeeq Rahman | Thottoli | |
| Natalia | Toro | SLAC |
| Arkady | Vainshtein | University of minnesota |
| Jerry | Vavra | SLAC |
| Caterina | Vernieri | SLAC |
| Dieter | Walz | SLAC |
| Marvin | WEINSTEIN | Emeritus |
| Sebastian | White | U. Virginia |
| Mark | Wise | Caltech |
| John | Yoh | Fermilab (retired) |
| Charles | Young | SLAC |
| Wenbin | Zhao | |
| Zhi | Zheng | SLAC |
| Bei | Zhou | Fermilab & KICP |
