October 4–6, 2023
2021
Brookhaven Forum 2021
Opening New Windows to the Universe (BF2021)
Dates: November 3–5, 2021
This meeting will be held as a virtual event.
Motivation
After decades of intense theoretical and experimental effort, a number of fundamental questions remain open in particle physics and cosmology. The BF2021 scientific program will aim to explore new conceptual frameworks and experimental methods that can help establish innovative approaches to addressing those questions and arriving at a deeper understanding of Nature, in the coming years. Talks will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions, on virtual platforms.
If you would like to present a parallel talk (15+5 minutes), you'll have a chance to provide a title or topic in the registration form. Further event notifications will be sent once plenary speakers are confirmed and parallel sessions are formulated. The final event agenda and URL will be sent to all registrants directly closer to the start of the event.
Plenary Speakers (partial listing)
- Stephon Alexander (Brown, NSBP)
- Gregory Ciezarek (CERN, LHCb)
- Bonnie Fleming (Yale)
- Anna Grassellino (FNAL)
- Jochen Jens Heinrich (Oregon, ATLAS)
- Tongyan Lin (UC San Diego)
- Niall MacCrann (Cambridge, DES)
- Matthew McCullough (CERN)
- Tsutomu Mibe (KEK)
- Bernhard Mistlberger (SLAC)
- Irina Mocioiu (Penn State)
- Sherry Suyu (MPA/TUM, Germany)
- Konstantinos Theofilatos (Athens, CMS)
Topical Reviews
Topical reviews, to complement the parallel program, will be presented by:
- Anna Ijjas (Albert Einstein Institute)
- Felix Kling (SLAC)
- Samuel McDermott (Fermilab)
BNL Public Lecture
Speaker: Sara Seager (MIT)
Title:
Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Date:
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Time:
4:00 p.m.
Organizing Committee
- Kétévi Assamagan (BNL)
- Elizabeth Brost (BNL)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, co-chair)
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
- Peter Denton (BNL, co-chair)
- Katrin Heitmann (ANL)
- Patrick Meade (SBU)
- Xin Qian (BNL)
- Tracy Slatyer (MIT)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL)
- Robert Szafron (BNL)
Event ID: 0000003662
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2019
Brookhaven Forum 2019
Particle Physics and Cosmology in the 2020's
Dates: June 8–11, 2019
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
Brookhaven Forum 2019 (BF2019): Particle Physics and Cosmology in the 2020's, will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, September 25–27, 2019. The BF2019 agenda will cover the current status, as well as prospects and opportunities for the next decade, of theory and experiment in particle physics and cosmology. Talks will be arranged in plenary and parallel sessions.
Plenary Speakers
- Katerina Chatziioannou (Flatiron Institute)
- Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (Stony Brook University)
- Sven Dildick (Rice University/CMS)
- Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University)
- Francis Halzen (U Wisconsin-Madison/IceCube)
- Hassan Jawahery (U Maryland/LHCb)
- Luchang Jin (U Connecticut)
- Matthew Leblanc (U Arizona/ATLAS)
- Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton)
- Alysia Marino (U Colorado-Boulder/DUNE)
- Ian Shoemaker (Virginia Tech)
Organizing Committee
- Ketevi Assamagan (BNL)
- Viviana Cavaliere (BNL)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-chair)
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
- Peter Denton (BNL)
- Claudia Frugiuele (CERN)
- Marilena Loverde (SBU)
- Patrick Meade (SBU)
- Christopher Sheehy (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-chair)
- Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)
Conference Location
Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall
Directions
Special Events
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Presented by: Sheperd Doeleman (Harvard/Director, Event Horizon Telescope)
Title: Seeing the Unseeable: Making the First Image of a Black Hole
Hosted by: Christie Nelson (BNL)
Location: Berkner Hall Auditorium
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Time: 4:00 PM
Refreshments will follow (courtesy of BSA). All are invited to attend. This lecture is open to the public. Visitors 16 and older must carry a photo ID while at BNL. Directions
Thursday Night Dinner
Majestic Gardens
420 Route 25A,
Rocky Point, NY 11778
631-744-9500
Thursday, September 26, 2019
View Map
Transportation will be provided to registered participants. Coach buses will be provided by Hampton Jitney. Please arrive about 10-minutes prior since the bus will depart promptly from Berkner Hall at 6:00 PM and depart Majestic Gardens at 9:00 PM.
Event ID: 40375
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2017
Brookhaven Forum 2017
In Search of New Paradigms
Dates: October 11–13, 2017
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
"Brookhaven Forum 2017 (BF2017): In Search of New Paradigms" will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, October 11–13, 2017. The scientific program will cover the latest developments in particle physics and cosmology, on both the theoretical and experimental fronts. Talks will be arranged in plenary and parallel sessions.
Plenary Speakers
- Monika Blanke (Karlsruhe)
- Pasquale Di Bari (U Southampton)
- Simone Pagan Griso (ATLAS, LBL)
- Christophe Grojean (DESY)
- Katrin Heitmann (Argonne)
- Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)
- Markus Klute (CMS, MIT)
- Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)
- Joseph Lykken (Fermilab)
- Aaron Manalaysay (UC Davis)
- Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton)
- Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford)
Organizing Committee
- Ketevi Assamagan (BNL)
- Michael Begel (BNL)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-chair)
- Rouven Essig (SBU)
- Eder Izaguirre (BNL)
- Marilena Loverde (SBU)
- Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-chair)
- Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)
Conference Locations
Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall
Directions
Special Events
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Presented by: Prof. Nergis Mavalvala
(MIT, LIGO)
Title: The Warped Universe: the one hundred year quest to discover Einstein's gravitational waves
Hosted by: Peter Wanderer (BNL)
Location: Berkner Hall
Auditorium
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM
Refreshments will follow (courtesy of BSA). All are invited to attend. This lecture is open to the public. Visitors 16 and older must carry a photo ID while at BNL. Directions
Thursday Night Dinner
Majestic Gardens
420 Route
25A, Rocky Point, NY 11778
631-744-9500
October 12, 2017
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Transportation will be provided to registered participants. Coach buses will be provided by Hampton Jitney. Please arrive about 10-minutes prior since the bus will depart promptly from Berkner Hall at 6:00 PM and depart Majestic Gardens at 9:00 PM.
Event ID: 37092
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2015
Brookhaven Forum 2015
Great Expectations, a New Chapter
Dates: October 7–9, 2015
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
"Brookhaven Forum 2015 (BF2015): Great Expectations, a New Chapter" will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, October 7-9, 2015. The scientific program will be devoted to new developments in high energy physics, with an emphasis on the latest data from the LHC. Part of the agenda will be dedicated to topics in cosmology and astrophysics, as well as physics at the intensity frontier. Talks will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions.
Three years after the landmark discovery of the Higgs boson in Run I at the LHC, 2015 marks the start of Run II and we are all eagerly awaiting the findings at 13 TeV LHC, in its ongoing exploration of the Tera scale.
Plenary Speakers
- A. Arce (Duke, ATLAS)
- J. Bartlett (JPL, PLANCK)
- L. Baudis (U. Zurich)
- R. Boughezal (Argonne)
- E. Charles (KIPAC/SLAC, FERMI)
- J. P. Chou (Rutgers, CMS)
- T. Han (Pittsburgh)
- A. Linde (Stanford)
- A. Pomarol (U. Autonoma de Barcelona)
- J. McMahon (U. Michigan)
- Y. Semertzidis (CAPP/IBS, KAIST)
- J. Strait (Fermilab)
- F. Teubert (CERN, LHCb)
Organizing Committee
- Ketevi Assamagan (BNL)
- Michael Begel (BNL)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-chair)
- Rouven Essig (SBU)
- Patrick Meade (SBU)
- Ethan Neil (U. Colorado/RBRC)
- Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)
- George Redlinger (BNL)
- Anze Slosar (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-chair)
- Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)
Special Events
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Presented by: Andrei Linde (Stanford)
Title: Universe or Multiverse?
Hosted by: Peter Wanderer (BNL)
Location: Berkner Hall
Auditorium
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM
A reception of light refreshments will follow. All are invited to attend. This lecture is open to the public. Visitors 16 and older must carry a photo ID while at BNL. Directions
Thursday Night Dinner
Majestic Gardens
420 Route 25A
Rocky Point, NY
631-744-9500
October 8, 2015
View Map
Transportation will be provided to registered participants. Coach buses will be provided by Hampton Jitney. Please arrive about 10-minutes prior since the bus will depart promptly from Berkner Hall at 6:00 PM and depart Majestic Gardens at 9:30 PM.
Conference Locations
Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall
Directions
Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Directions
Event ID: BF2015-100709
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2013
Brookhaven Forum 2013
Exploring Fundamental Interactions in the Higgs Era
Dates: May 1–3, 2013
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
Brookhaven Forum 2013 (BF2013) will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, May 1-3, 2013. With the recent discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the LHC, the determination of the last unknown mixing angle in the neutrino sector, and the ongoing exploration of the Tera scale, we look forward to an exciting scientific program.
Talks will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions, covering the latest developments at the LHC, as well as topics in cosmology, astrophysics, and the intensity frontier.
Plenary Speakers
- Gregorio Bernardi (U. Paris, D0, Tevatron)
- Suvadeep Bose (U. Nebraska, CMS)
- Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)
- Tim Gershon (U. Warwick, LHCb)
- Lloyd Knox (UC Davis, Planck)
- Elliot Lipeles (U. Penn, ATLAS)
- Juan Maldacena (IAS)
- Daniel McKinsey (Yale, LUX)
- Philip Schuster (Perimeter, APEX)
- Tracy Slatyer (IAS)
- Alessandro Strumia (INFN)
- Lisa Whitehead (U. Houston, MINOS)
Organizing Committee
- Michael Begel (BNL)
- Mary Bishai (BNL)
- Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-chair)
- Rouven Essig (Stony Brook)
- Patrick Meade (Stony Brook)
- Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)
- Erin Sheldon (BNL)
- Anze Slosar (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-chair)
Special Events
BSA Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN
Title: Research at CERN - From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles
Hosted By: Peter Wanderer
Lecture will be held at Berkner Hall Auditorium on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM. A reception of light refreshments will follow. Directions
Conference Dinner: Dinner will be held on-site at the Brookhaven Center, South Room on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Directions
Conference Location
Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall
Directions
Event ID: BF2013-050103
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2011
Brookhaven Forum 2011
A First Glimpse of the Tera Scale
Dates: October 19–21, 2011
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
Brookhaven Forum 2011 (BF2011) will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, October 19-21, 2011. The scientific program, entitled "A First Glimpse of the Tera Scale," will be devoted to new developments in high energy physics, with an emphasis on the latest data from the LHC and the Tevatron experiments. A significant portion of the agenda will be dedicated to topics in cosmology and astrophysics, and their relation with outstanding questions in particle physics. Talks will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions.
Plenary Speakers
- Henri Bachacou (Saclay/ATLAS)
- Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern)
- Albert de Roeck (CERN, CMS)
- Tony Gherghetta (Melbourne)
- Amnon Harel (Rochester/CERN, D0)
- Antonio Melgarejo Fernandez (Columbia, Xenon100)
- Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins)
- Simona Murgia (SLAC, Fermi)
- Roman Scoccimarro (NYU)
- Sheldon Stone (Syracuse, LHCb)
- Scott Thomas (Rutgers)
- Kathryn Zurek (Michigan)
Organizing Committee
- Michael Begel (BNL)
- Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia)
- Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-Chair)
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
- Patrick Meade (Stony Brook)
- Frank Paige (BNL)
- Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)
- Anze Slosar (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-Chair)
Special Events
BSA Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
"Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron
Collider"
Hosted by Peter Wanderer
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 4:00 p.m. at Berkner Hall Auditorium. There will
be coffee/tea before the lecture and light refreshments following the lecture -
Directions
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held on-site at the Brookhaven Center (Bldg. 30) on
October 20, 2011 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Directions
Conference Location
Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall
Directions
LHC Accelerator Header Image: Courtesy CERN
Event ID: BF2011-101921
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2010
Brookhaven Forum 2010
A Space-Time Odyssey
Dates: May 26–28, 2010
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
Brookhaven Forum (BF) 2010 will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, May 26-28, 2010. Assessment of the status of the LHC experiments and the early data from them will be one of the main purposes of this event. Key results from Fermilab will also be reviewed. A substantial part of the agenda will be devoted to new developments in laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations that are relevant to outstanding questions in cosmology.
Talks will be scheduled in both plenary and parallel sessions. We hope that the discussions at BF2010 will be a prelude to a new era of scientific discoveries that will revolutionize and deepen our understanding of Nature.
Plenary Speakers
- Charalampos Anastasiou (Zurich, ETH)
- Robin Erbacher (UC Davis, CMS Collaboration)
- Beate Heinemann (UC Berkeley, ATLAS Collaboration)
- Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine)
- Joseph Lykken (Fermilab)
- Matthias Neubert (Mainz)
- Uwe Oberlack (Rice, Xenon100 Collaboration)
- Piermaria Oddone (Fermilab)
- Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg)
- Alexei Smirnov (ICTP, Trieste)
- Diego Tonelli (Fermilab, CDF Collaboration)
- Brian Winer (Ohio State, Fermi Collaboration)
- Lidija Zivkovic (Columbia, D0 Collaboration)
Organizing Committee
- Michael Begel (BNL)
- Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia)
- Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-Chair)
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
- John Hobbs (Stony Brook)
- Patrick Meade (Stony Brook)
- Frank Paige (BNL)
- Anze Slosar (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-Chair)
Special Events
Welcome reception on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The reception is included in the conference registration for all attendees.
Banquet dinner on Thursday, May 27, 2010. Dinner is included in the conference registration for all attendees. However, there will be an added dinner fee for all guests.
Public lecture by Dr. John Ellis following the reception on
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
BSA
Distinguished Lecture
Dr. John Ellis, CERN
"Answering Gauguin's questions in particle physics: Where are we coming
from? What are we? Where are we going?"
Hosted by Peter Wanderer
7:00 PM, Berkner Hall
Auditorium - directions
Conference Location
Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Directions
Event ID: BF2010-050103
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2008
Brookhaven Forum 2008
Terra Incognita: From LHC to Cosmology
Dates: November 6–8, 2008
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
Brookhaven Forum 2008 (BF2008) will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, USA, November 6-8, 2008. The theme of BF2008 is "Terra Incognita: From LHC to Cosmology." As 2008 witnesses the dawn of the LHC era, the emphasis of this year's agenda will be LHC physics. However, part of the BF2008 program will be devoted to related cosmological and astrophysical questions, both in theory and experiment. Presentations will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions.
Plenary Speakers
- Tom Appelquist (Yale University)
- Tom Banks (Rutgers University and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics)
- James Cochran (Iowa State University)
- Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)
- Alan Guth (MIT)
- Filip Moortgat (ETH, Zurich)
- Frank Petriello (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Tilman Plehn (University of Edinburgh)
- Lisa Randall (Harvard University)
- Simona Rolli (Tufts University)
- Christopher Stubbs (Harvard University)
- Liantao Wang (Princeton University)
Organizing Committee
- Michael Begel (BNL)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-Chair)
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
- Alexander Mitov (YITP/SUNY-Stony Brook)
- Frank Paige (BNL)
- Gilad Perez (Weizmann/YITP/SUNY-Stony Brook)
- Erin Sheldon (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-Chair)
- George Sterman (YITP/SUNY-Stony Brook)
Special Events
Public Lecture by Professor Alan Guth following Reception
Thursday, November 6, 2008
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Alan Guth, MIT
"Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?"
Hosted by Peter Wanderer
7:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
Conference Location
Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Directions
Event ID: BF2008-110608
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
2007
Brookhaven Forum 2007
New Horizons at Colliders
Dates: May 30–June 1, 2007
Hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory
Motivation
The first Brookhaven Forum will convene at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, May 30-June 1, 2007. This event aims to provide an interactive environment in which to present and discuss theoretical as well as experimental developments at the forefront of high energy physics, including its applications in cosmology and astrophysics. Presentations will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions. In anticipation of the LHC era, the theme of the 2007 Brookhaven Forum will be "New Horizons at Colliders."
Organizing Committee
- Ketevi Assamagan (BNL)
- Kyle Cranmer (BNL)
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-Chair)
- Sally Dawson (BNL)
- Bill Kilgore (BNL)
- Frank Paige (BNL)
- Gilad Perez (SUNY-SB)
- Leonardo Rastelli (SUNY-SB)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-Chair)
Conference Location
Physics Department (Bldg. 510), Large Seminar Room
Directions
Special Events
Public Lecture by Professor Lawrence Krauss following reception
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
BSA
Distinguished Lecture
Lawrence Krauss, Case-Western University
"Einstein's Biggest Blunder?: A Cosmic Mystery Story"
Hosted by Peter Wanderer
7:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
Event ID: BF2007-05300601
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).