We
are very glad to announce that APCTP 2008 LHC Physics Workshop
at Korea will be held on 19-21, August, 2008, at Konkuk University,
Seoul, Korea. Under the auspice of APCTP, one of the internationally
recognized research agencies located in Asia, this workshop
would serve as the launching pad for organizing the efforts
of Korean high energy physicists to contribute to the scientific
objectives of LHC.
**THE CMS MINI WORKSHOP AND THE 2008 CHEP SUMMER SCHOOL WILL
JOINTLY BE HELD**
The
CMS mini workshop will be merged with the present workshop.
Also, the 2008 CHEP Summer School will be overlapped by
the present workshop, as the tutorial session of the summer
school will be included.
Prof. HyangKyu Park (CHEP, KNU) will preside the tutorial
session.
He will teach a limited number of participants how to use
the software tools to retrieve LHC data from Tier centers
down to his/her own PC, to analyze and manipulate them,
and to obtain simulations.
To be specific, CMS software will be installed and used.
The tutorial session will be held in the Thursday afternoon
till 18:00 at a PC room in a different building.
A small souvenir will be presented to each participant at
the CHEP Summer School.
Other notifications will be provided, if necessary, on site.
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As
the completion of the LHC is approaching, the international
experimental collaborations such as CMS and ALICE are preparing
to perform one of the most desired and anticipated high energy
physics experiments that can be foreseen within the forthcoming
decades. The experiments at LHC are such a rare opportunity
for the high energy communities around world, including Korea
as well.
Recognizing the importance, Ministry of Education, Science
and Technology, former MOST, have organized the Korea-CERN
cooperative program, established a Korean project for ALICE
and another for CMS in parallel, and launched in April 2007
the Korea ALICE experiment team and the Korea CMS experiment
team. Altogether, more than 30 physicists are involved in
the two teams. The members of these two teams are now performing
the experiments at CERN. Their primary activities will be
without doubt involvement in the huge international collaborations
and responsible participation in the LHC experiments.
This is not the first workshop held in Korea of its kind,
but there have been several heralding workshops before. As
recent as last December, Busan Particle physics Workshop,
held on 13-15, December, 2007, at PNU, Pusan, Korea, has focused
the LHC physics as one of its main topics. It was the joint
activity with Korea-CERN theoretical physics workshop, organized
by D. K. Hong (PNU), which has offered fruitful discussions
mainly from the theoretical point of view.
In 2005, KIAS, Seoul and KNU, Daegu have jointly inaugurated
a new workshop, the Korea Hadron Collider Workshop, initiated
by D H Kim (KNU) and P Ko (KIAS), which has been mainly aimed
for Korean high energy physicists, both experimental and phenomenological,
to review Korean activities in the existing hadronic collider
experiments and to prepare the forthcoming LHC experiments.
Also, CHEP, at KNU, Daegu, has annually summer schools, which
many times have dealt with LHC physics.
It is not our intention to swallow these workshops and merge
them into a single workshop. Nevertheless, it is quite desirable
to organize this kind of workshop within the aegis of an international
agency, APCTP, to make it officially recognized and supported
by the community both domestic and international at large.
Also, through the proposed workshop it would be desirable
to invite a number of key figures in the organizational body
of CERN with liaison to Korea and to show them the Korean
activities with regards to high energy experiments at LHC.
The proposed workshop would serve as a platform for promoting
the international relationship between Korean high energy
communities and world leading organizations of the sort. |
