CERN Council looking forward to promising future
The excellent performance of the LHC – and the promise of five new Member States in the near future – were celebrated during the 159th meeting of the CERN Council at the end of last month.
On the 17 June this year the LHC reported a total delivery of one inverse femtobarn of data to the experiments – already meeting the target for the entirety of the 2011 run.
“A year ago, I thought the delivery of an inverse femtobarn in 2011 was an ambitious target,” said CERN Council…
Symposium in honour of Luciano Maiani
A symposium in honor of Luciano Maiani, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, is being held in the physics department of Sapienza – Università di Roma, Italy, on 21-22 September, 2011.
The event, in which a number of distinguished scientists will present their research, will celebrate Maiani’s contributions to the field of particle physics. The symposium is being sponsored by Alitalia and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
For more information – and to view the event poster – please visit the symposium website.
CERN celebrates 75th birthday of former Director General
The 75th birthday of Robert Aymar – a former Director General (DG) of CERN – was celebrated at CERN last month with a commemorative colloquium. The event, organised on 24 May by current DG Rolf Heuer, featured a number of presentations and was held in the CERN Council Chamber.
Aymar, who was CERN’s DG between 2004 and 2008, has had a storied career: he has also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, with the CEA and headed up the TORE SUPRA Project. In 1994 he was appointed…
1st EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting
The 1st EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting took place at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland on 29-30 April.
The Young Minds Project was launched by the European Physical Society early in 2010, to promote the next generation of physicists in Europe by creating an environment where young physicists can assume an active role.
These young scientists – from undergraduates up to postdoctoral researchers – are encouraged to organize EPS Young Minds Sections that collaborate to develop scientific, networking and outreach activities…
