Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, L Course, 2010
Developments in particle physics from a 50 year perspective of the Cracow School

June 9-19, 2010

Wednesday, June 9 - arrival in the evening
Monaday, June 14 - free day
Saturday, June 19 - departure after breakfast

Place: Zakopane (Tatra Mountains), Poland

Topics include:

1. Particle physics at the dawn of the LHC
   • status of the LHC
   • status of the Standard Model
   • Higgs production
   • Theory of high energy scattering
2. Quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions and in early universe
   • Recent results from RHIC
   • Quark-gluon plasma
   • Femtoscopy
3. Recent puzzles in particle physics
   • Experimental results from BaBar and Belle
   • Hadron spectroscopy
   • Tests of QCD in exclusive reactions

Special sessions: 50 years of the Cracow School

The School is organized by

• Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University (Cracow)
  in collaboration with
• Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cracow)
• Institute of Nuclear Physics (Cracow)
• AGH University of Science and Technology (Cracow)
• Polish Academy of Sciences (Komitet Fizyki PAN) (Warsaw)