Talks

Talks at Conferences, Seminars and other Occasions.

AI

2025

  1. MLOps as Enabler for Trustworthy AI
    Meeting with DFKI, Winterthur, 2025
  2. Introduction
    IEEE Assessor Training, Winterthur, 2025
  3. Overview of the Centre for AI at ZHAW
    Greater Zurich Area and Amt für Wirtschaft ZH, Winterthur, 2025

2024

  1. Künstliche Intelligenz: Grundlagen, Einsatzmöglichkeiten, Forschung am CAI der ZHAW
    hawa, Winterthur, 2024
  2. Introduction to MLOps
    Migrosbank, Wallisellen, 2024
  3. Improving CBCT Image Quality with Deep Learning
    F&E Konferenz Industrie 4.0, ETH Zurich, 2024
  4. Research at ZHAWs Centre For AI & Mitigation of Motion Artifacts in CBCT with Deep Learning
    Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, 2024

2023

  1. Towards certification of AI systems
    Expert group AI Ethics, d+i Alliance, University of Zurich, 2023
  2. Improving CBCT Image Quality with Deep Learning
    AI+X Summit, Zurich, 2023

2022

  1. Deep Learning Applications in Medical Imaging
    ZHAW Digital Health Lab, Winterthur, 2022

Particle Physics

2012

  1. Top Quark Pair Production
    Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (Kyoto, Japan), 2012
    Plenary talk on behalf of the ATLAS,D0,CDF,CMS collaborations
  2. Top Quark Physics at the LHC
    3rd Workshop on QCD at LHC (East Lansing, Michigan, USA), 2012
    Invited talk
  3. Top Quark Physics with CMS
    Seminar, Univ. Goettingen (Germany), 2012

2011

  1. Top Quark Physics with CMS
    Joint EP/PP/LPCC Seminar, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), 2011

2010

  1. Top Quark Studies with first CMS Data
    Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (Toronto, Canada), 2010
    Plenary talk on behalf of the CMS collaboration
  2. CMS Standard Model Physics Results
    14th Annual RDMS CMS Collaboration Meeting (Varna, Bulgaria), 2010
    Invited talk

2009

  1. Top Quark Physics in Germany
    3rd annual workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance ’Physics at the Terascale’ (Hamburg, Germany), 2009
    Plenary summary talk
  2. Early Top Quark Cross section measurements at the LHC
    Workshop on Standard Model Discoveries with early LHC Data (London, UK), 2009
    Invited talk on behalf of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations

2008

  1. QCD and Top Physics at the LHC
    4th Conference on Physics at the LHC (Split, Croatia), 2008
    Plenary talk on behalf of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations

2007

  1. Early Electroweak and Top Quark Physics with CMS
    15th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, DIS 2007 (Munich, Germany), 2007
    On behalf of the CMS collaboration
  2. Update on Diffractive Parton Densities
    HERA-LHC Workshop (DESY, Germany), 2007
    With P. R. Newman

2006

  1. CMS Commissioning and Early Physics
    11th Intl. Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, BEAUTY 2006 (Oxford, UK), 2006
    On behalf of the CMS collaboration
  2. Diffractive DIS Cross Sections and Parton Distributions
    33rd Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2006 (Moscow, Russia), 2006
    On behalf of the H1 and ZEUS collaborations
  3. Track Based Alignment in CMS
    1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop (CERN), 2006
  4. The CMS Silicon Tracker: Track Reconstruction and Alignment (Poster)
    33rd Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics ICHEP 2006 (Moscow, Russia), 2006
  5. Diffractive DIS Cross Sections and PDFs from Rapidity Gap and Leading Proton Data
    HERA-LHC Workshop (CERN), 2006
  6. Track based Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker
    University of Karlsruhe (Germany), 2006
  7. Track Reconstruction Algorithms at CMS
    University of Hamburg (Germany), 2006

2005

  1. Hard Diffraction at ep and pp Colliders
    Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society DPG (Berlin, Germany), 2005
    Invited plenary talk
  2. Prospects of measuring B_s →μμwith the CMS detector
    10th Intl. Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, BEAUTY 2005 (Assisi, Italy), 2005
    On behalf of the CMS collaboration
  3. HERA Diffractive Structure Function data and Parton Distributions
    13th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, DIS 2005 (Madison, USA), 2005
    With P. Laycock
  4. HERA Diffractive Structure Function data and Parton Distributions
    HERA-LHC Workshop (DESY), 2005
    With P. R. Newman
  5. Hard Diffraction at ep and pp Colliders
    EP Seminar (CERN), 2005

2004

  1. Summary of Experimental Results on Diffraction
    12th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, DIS 2004 (High Tatras, Slovakia), 2004
    Plenary workshop summary talk
  2. D-PDFLIB/D-LHAPDF: Towards a library for diffractive parton distributions
    HERA-LHC Workshop (CERN), 2004
  3. Diffractive Dijets in Photoproduction and DIS
    HERA-LHC Workshop (CERN), 2004
  4. Measuring Diffractive Processes at HERA
    Diffraction at the LHC (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2004
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  5. Inclusive Diffraction at HERA: Diffractive pdf’s and QCD factorization tests
    Diffraction at the LHC (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2004
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  6. What can Diffraction at HERA offer the LHC? Part 1: Diffractive pdf’s and QCD factorization tests
    HERA-LHC Workshop (CERN), 2004

2003

  1. Diffractive Final States at H1
    Intl. Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS 2003 (Aachen, Germany), 2003
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  2. Small-x Physics and Diffraction – An Experimentalist’s Overview
    10. CTEQ Summer School on QCD Analysis and Phenomenology (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain), 2003

2002

  1. Inclusive Diffraction at HERA
    31st Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2002 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2002
    On behalf of the H1 and ZEUS collaborations
  2. Hard diffraction at HERA
    Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields DPF of the APS (Williamsburg, USA), 2002
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  3. Precision pQCD at HERA
    Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields DPF of the APS (Williamsburg, USA), 2002
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  4. Hard Diffraction at HERA - Recent results and QCD interpretation
    Workshop on Diffraction and glueball searches at RHIC (Brookhaven Lab, USA), 2002
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  5. NLO DGLAP QCD fit to H1 inclusive diffractive DIS data
    10th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, DIS 2002 (Krakow, Poland), 2002
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration

2001

  1. Diffractive Jet Production in DIS
    9th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, DIS 2001 (Bologna, Italy), 2001
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  2. Hard Diffraction: Results from H1 at HERA
    High Energy QCD - Beyond the Pomeron (Brookhaven Lab, USA), 2001
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  3. Hard Diffraction in ep Scattering at HERA
    39th International School of Subnuclear Physics (Erice, Italy), 2001
  4. Diffractive Jet Production in DIS - Probing the Structure of Colour Singlet Exchange
    Fermilab (USA), 2001
  5. Diffractive Jet Production in DIS - Probing the Structure of Colour Singlet Exchange
    Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), 2001
  6. Highlights from DIS 2001 in Bologna - Experimental Results
    DESY Seminar (Hamburg, Germany), 2001
    Invited talk

2000

  1. Diffractive Dijet and 3-Jet Electroproduction at HERA
    8th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD, DIS 2000 (Liverpool, UK), 2000
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  2. Diffractive Dijet Electroproduction at HERA
    Spring meeting of the German Physical Society DPG (Dresden, Germany), 2000
  3. What is the Pomeron? - Recent Results on Diffraction from the HERA ep Collider
    University of Heidelberg, Kolloquium on High Energy Physics, 2000

1999

  1. Diffraction at HERA: Inclusive Measurements and the Final State
    Workshop on small-x Physics (Tel Aviv, Israel), 1999
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  2. Diffractive Dijet production at HERA
    7th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD, DIS 1999 (DESY Zeuthen, Germany), 1999
    On behalf of the H1 collaboration
  3. Direkte Messung der Gluondichte im Pomeron mit diffraktiven 2-Jet-Ereignissen bei H1
    Spring meeting of the German Physical Society DPG (Heidelberg, Germany), 1999
  4. Diffraction at HERA - Inclusive Measurements and the Final State
    University of Heidelberg, Seminar at the Institute of High Energy Physics, 1999

1998

  1. Untersuchung von 2-Jet-Ereignissen in der diffraktiven tiefinelastischen Streuung mit dem H1-Detektor
    Spring meeting of the German Physical Society DPG (Freiburg, Germany), 1998