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

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. Enjoy the conference and Annecy!