The workshop will be opened by the Wits DVC research, Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi, Dr. Daniel Adams from the DST, Prof. Azwinndini Muronga, President of the SAIP, Prof. Jean Cleymans, Chair of the SA-CERN consortium, and the Head of the School of Physics, Prof. Joao Rodrigues. Following the opening we will have lectures on Quantum Field Theory by Dr. Will Horowitz, on data analysis with ROOT by Dr. Deepak Kar and statistics by Prof. Eilam Gross. Prof. Eilam Gross was a convenor of the Higgs group of the ATLAS experiment when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.
The remaining two days will be devoted to presentations by students and young researchers.
For more details you can go to the workshop’s website
http://hep.wits.ac.za/HEPPW2016.php
The agenda is available at
https://indico.cern.ch/event/471180/other-view?view=standard
