The Vernon Willard Hughes Memorial Symposium held November 2003

November 1, 2003

A Memorial Symposium in honor of Vernon Willard Hughes will be held November 14-15, 2003 at Sloane Physics Laboratory hosted by Francesco Iachello, Josiah W. Gibbs Professor of Physics and Professor of Chemistry. Some speakers will be:

Session I

  • Charles Baltay, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy, Yale University (Session Chairman)
  • Norman Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus, Harvard University, “the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment”
  • Theodor W. Haensch, Professor of Physics, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, “Ultra Precise Optical Spectroscopy”
  • Francis Farley, Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Yale University, “The 46 years of muon (g-2)”
  • Jack Steinberger, Staff member, CERN (retired), “Vernon Hughes: Valued colleague & friend”

Session II

  • Jack Sandweiss, Donner Professor of Physics, Yale University (Session Chairman)
  • Samuel Ting, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment on the International Space Station”
  • Richard Prepost, Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, “Discovery of Muonium - The Early Experiments”
  • William J. Marciano, Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Muonium Lifetime and Heavy Quark Decays”
  • Toichiro Kinoshita, G. Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus, Cornell University, “Recent Theoretical Developments in Muon and Electron (g-2)”
  • Gisbert zu Putlitz, Professor of Physics, University of Heidelberg, “On Vernon Hughes”

Session III

  • Thomas W. Appelquist, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University (Session Chairman)
  • Robert L. Jaffe, Morningstar Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Spin of the Proton”
  • Gordon D. Cates, Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, “The Spin Structure of the Nucleon: A Hughes Legacy”
  • Ernst Sichtermann, Division Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Muon g-2: The Last Word?”
  • Klaus P. Jungmann, Professor of Physics, University of Groningen, “The Past, Present and Future of Muonium”

Session IV

  • Michael Zeller, Henry Ford II Professor of Physics, Yale University (Session Chair)
  • Emlyn W. Hughes, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, “Parity Violation in Moller Scattering”
  • Abhay L. Deshpende, RIKEN Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Exploring the Nucleon Spin: The Next Decade”