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Members of the CERN team

• Mike Seymour
• Alberto Ribon
• Lars Sonnenschein
• Andrzej Siódmok
• Alexander Flossdorf
• Michal Deak

Also at CERN

• Stefano Frixione
• Michelangelo Mangano

The CERN team

The CERN team is based in CERN's recently-combined Physics Department, incorporating the Theoretical Physics, Experimental Physics and Software groups. In the run-up to the LHC and the anticipated first years of data-taking that coincide with the period of this network, CERN will be the hub of European particle physics. It is a major crossroads for the experimental and theoretical physicists that make up our user base, as well as theorists developing ideas of direct relevance to our projects and software developers working on a variety of related projects. The physics analysis groups of ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are all centred around CERN and meet regularly there. The Geant4 project and LHC Computing Grid (LCG)'s Generator Services (GENSER) project are both based at CERN. The Theoretical Physics group is well known for running long-term workshops on the physics and exploitation techniques of CERN's experiments - six extended workshops were held on LEP physics during the LEP era, three have already been held on LHC physics, including one dedicated to Monte Carlo event generators, and several more are currently planned. Besides the team members, the Theoretical Physics group includes Michelangelo Mangano and several Fellows whose expertise and input would be of benefit to the resident short-term ESRs and other network members.

CERN provides a huge range of training opportunities in high energy particle physics, from the introductory Summer Student lecture programme, through the Academic Training lectures, specifically aimed at graduate students, and CERN-wide and department-wide colloquia, to specialized research seminars. The Theoretical Physics group has a weekly seminar covering the full range of its research activities (phenomenology, model building, formal field theory, string theory, cosmology, lattice QCD and heavy ion physics), and weekly seminars and discussion sessions on particular aspects of phenomenology. CERN also runs training courses in software development and design. CERN will be the base for more specialized training sessions in event generator physics and techniques, tailored to the needs of new members of the network, and also annual tutorial sessions aimed at the user community.