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# UK Summer School for High Energy Physicists 2004

The Summer School was held at The Cosener's House in Abingdon from the
5^th^ --17^th^ September 2004. A record fifty-seven students attended
the school, together with four lecturers, six tutors and the director.
This number of people is at the limit for the size of the main seminar
room at Cosener's House and also of general private study space; some
people had also to be accommodated outside Cosener's House. The
accommodation and food at Cosener's House were very good and the staff
were, as always, very friendly and helpful. The organisation before and
during the school, by Margaret Evans, was excellent and all went
smoothly.

The lecturers at the school were:

Owe Philipsen (Sussex) QFT

Nick Evans (Southampton) QED

Sacha Davidson (Durham/Lyon) SM

Stefano Moretti (Southampton) Phenomenology

It was the first year of lecturing for all of the lecturers except for
Nick Evans who has now completed two years at the school. All entered
enthusiastically into their lecturing and tutoring duties. In addition
there were two interesting guest seminars: Neil Geddes (RAL/PPARC) gave
a seminar on e-science and Rob Edgecock (RAL) gave a talk about future
neutrino factories and the MICE experiment.

There were six tutors: Tim Adye (RAL), Nikos Konstantinidis (UCL), Andy
Mehta (Liverpool), Bill Murray (RAL), Rick StDenis (Glasgow) and Ian
Tomalin (RAL). This number of tutors, together with two of the lecturers
and the director, gives staffing for nine tutorial groups. This year the
school had access to the two flats at Cosener's House allowing the two
lounges to be used as tutorial rooms, thus improving the available
tutorial locations. The tutorial groups rotated through tutors and rooms
every 2-3 days so as to benefit from different tutoring styles and
locations. The tutors were all very hard working and coped well with the
work. The efforts of all the lecturing and tutoring staff were generally
appreciated by the students. Both Rick StDenis and Bill Murray have now
completed their three-years at the school.

For the first time, the student seminars were organised into two
parallel sessions and this worked well. This change was necessary as the
timetable had become increasingly full and the working day very long.
The change allowed the 45 min. break before dinner to be reinstated,
which was welcomed by all. For only the second time we encouraged
students to give their talks in electronic form, and the vast majority
did so. Students were required to send electronic talks to the director
in advance of the school. The student talks, as usual, varied in quality
but the majority were good.

The public computing facilities at the School were similar to those of
last year with several PCs and a wireless station being set up in the
main seminar room. Cosener's House now has network ports in most of the
bedrooms and this further enhanced the computing facilities as,
increasingly, students bring laptops with them. We thank the staff from
RAL PPD who were responsible for providing and installing the computing.

We were joined at the school dinner by David Saxon who gave an
entertaining and motivational after-dinner speech.

I have now completed my three years as director of the school and I wish
to thank the lecturers and tutors of the last three years, the staff at
Cosener's and the staff at RAL who are involved with the school; it has
been a pleasure to work with them all and the school has been a mainly
enjoyable experience.

Julia Sedgbeer

Imperial College

Director of School 2004