ANNOUNCEMENT

The First School on Physics at the LHC (or LHCS for short) will be organized jointly by Hanoi University of Science (HUS) represented by its Laboratory of High Energy Physics and Cosmology, Faculty of Physics, and Institute of Physics (IOP) represented by its Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Hanoi from 5 - 10 January 2008.

More detailed and updated information can be found from the school website

http://www.iop.vast.ac.vn/activities/lhcs/08/

PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE SCHOOL

This LHCS will be one of the activities realizing the recently signed agreement between CERN and Vietnam represented by Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and a cooperation program (LIA) between scientific institutions of France and Vietnam in which both IOP and HUS are involved.

The purpose of the LHCS is training the manpower (young people) for an effective participation of Vietnamese physicists in cooperation programs of research with the LHC, specially, those with ATLAS and LHCb.

The school program will cover both theoretical background and basic experimental methods of physics at the LHC. It will consist of lectures and exercises including practices with computers. The lectures and exercises will be given and lead by experts from different laboratories in Europe, Japan and USA.

An interview and a selection (on the base of participation in the present school) of students who will be nominated for the next summer school at CERN will be organized.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a multi - TeV high energy particle accelerator located at CERN near Geneva. Being a complex of science and high technology attracting the widest international cooperation, the LHC is the biggest and most expensive scientific facility ever made by human. The LHC is expected to do experiments looking for new particles, specially, Higgs; supersymmetry; extra dimensions and other new physics. The LHC may reveal a new view to particle physics, cosmology in particular and science and technology in general.