Welcome to Annecy and LAPP Edwige Tournefier (deputy director) GWPAW, May 30th, 2017

LAPP’s history 1976 : physicists from Paris wish to get closer to CERN : LAPP is born 80’s : LAPP participates to important experiments at CERN, such as UA1 which allowed the W and Z bosons discovery [Nobel Prize 1984] 90’s : LAPP expands and diversifies its activities Astro-particles field: gravitational waves, high energy cosmic rays, dark matter, cosmology. LEP (e+e-) experiments at CERN - the Standard Model is tested with great accuracy Experiments on far away sites: Italy, California, Namibia, Chile, Japon, ISS LAPP is associated to important discoveries: Z and W bosons (1983) Higgs boson(2012) Neutrino oscillations Gravitationnal waves (2016)

LAPP’s people : Experimentalists : (60) Students ( 20) researchers, lecturers, professors, Post-docs Students ( 20) Engineers and technicians ( 60) In computing, electronics and mechanics Administratives ( 10) And next door: LAPTh, Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique

Astro-particles, cosmology and gravitational waves LAPP’s activities Particle physics Astro-particles, cosmology and gravitational waves ATLAS On the LHC, at CERN Search for new physics Higgs boson discovery, 2012 LHCb Matter-antimatter asymmetry Neutrinos STEREO, SuperNEMO and WA105/DUNE Neutrino properties: oscillation, 4th family, matter-antimatter asymmetry AMS On the ISS Search for dark matter and antimatter in the Universe HESS & CTA Telescopes in Namibia, Chile, La Palma Search for dark-matter Study of high energy cosmic rays sources Virgo Interferometer installed in Pisa, Italy Gravitational waves detection General relativity, gravitational astronomy LSST Chile, under construction Dark matter and dark energy studies

Enjoy the conference and Annecy!