ICHEP’14

It must be Manchester

Particle Physics - Past

• Rutherford split the atom

• Rochester and Butler discovered the Strange Particles

Particle Physics – Present and Future

FP420

Theory – Experiment - Accelerators

The Town

Architecture, art galleries, restaurants, shopping, music…

The country

Lots of excursions at the weekend

Getting there

Manchester Airport is transatlantic international hub

Manchesterand LiverpoolAirports servedby manybudgetAirlines from Europe

Also many roadand rail connections

Support from

Financial support anticipated from• Research Council• City Council• Tourist board • Institute of Physics

Participation from• The Cockcroft Accelerator Institute at Daresbury• Other nearby universities• And the rest of the UK community

Facilities

1000 seat UniversityAuditorium

or concert hall with 1875

seatsMany adjacent university lecture theatres for parallel sessions

Accomodation

• Student halls (high standard, developed for conferences)

• University-run hotel• Budget hotels • Higher standard (and price)

hotels

Tourist board will provide booking service

All within a few minutes walk of the auditorium

Track record

EPS conference 2007

~600 delegates

Enthusiastic local organisation

Great success

Low conference fee

Made a nice profitCheck out the website and see the

photographs

And it’s time!

Every 20 years ICHEP comes to Britain

ICHEP XVII London 1974

ICHEP XXVII Glasgow 1994

ICHEP XXXVII Manchester 2014