CERN Bulletin

Nos 44 & 45 – 3 & 11 November 2010 The new Building for Linac4

Reaffirming a long-standing is ready ahead partnership

ERN welcomes many VIP visi- of schedule Ctors, and each one is special. However, last Saturday’s visit from Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, has particular significance. UNESCO was the organization that steered CERN into existence in the 1950s, and it is at UNESCO’s head- quarters that our founding docu- ments are held. (Continued on page 2)

News The new Building for Linac4 is ready ahead of schedule 1 A word from the DG 1 The latest from the LHC: Last period of proton running for 2010 2 In this issue CLIC/ILC researchers explore new avenues for collaboration 3 A New Look for the Globe Gardens 4 Cosmic ray synergies 5 Entrance to new Linac 4 tunnel. Retina neural circuitry seen with particle detector technology 6 GLIF – Striving towards a high-performance- or the time When various teams work together efficiently to achieve a on-demand network 7 being, the new common goal, not only are projects successfully completed but Apprenticeship: a worthwhile option 8 t w o - s t o r e y CAS Introduction to Accelerator Physics F 2 they may ever be ready before the deadline. On 22 October, 3000 m building in Bulgaria 9 looks like a huge after two years of civil engineering work and about two months (de)tour to CERN 10 empty hangar. Very ahead of schedule, the building that will host the new Linac4 Dutch hi-tech companies exhibit at CERN 10 soon, though, the was unveiled in the presence of the Director-General and of Steve A big win for the CERN Golf Club at the ground floor will start Myers, Director for Accelerators and Technology. ASCERI tournament 11 to be filled with the Going Underground in Singapore 11 technical equipment and the klystrons. The faced was having to build the tunnel up to Winner of video contest inspired by the LHC 12 Linac4 itself will be installed in the tunnel the wall of the PS area without causing any An 80th birthday celebration for the Ericsons 12 excavated below the ground. “Being 12 interference to the running machines. All Ombuds’ Corner 13 metres underground, deep inside what the activities, in particular the excavation, News from the Library 13 remains of the old “Mount Citron”, the have been conducted with great care, in Official 14 tunnel provides excellent shielding for the order to minimize any shocks and vibration”, Take note 14 new accelerator”, says Maurizio Vretenar, explains Luz Anastasia Lopez Hernandez, Technical training 17 Linac4 Project Leader. the CERN official responsible for the civil Seminars 18 engineering of Linac4. Indeed, Linac2, the The tunnel will be connected to the PS PS Booster and the PS are the start of the Booster that sits on a level two and a half LHC injector chain and any disturbance to Published by: metres higher. “One of the challenges we them could interfere with the overall per- The European Organization for Nuclear Research - CERN formance of the accelerator chain. 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland - Tel. + 41 22 767 35 86 Printed by: CERN Printshop © 2010 CERN - ISSN: Printed version: 2077-950X (Continued on page 2) Electronic version: 2077-9518

www.cern.ch/bulletin The new building for Linac4 is ready (Continued from page 1) ahead of schedule

But that’s not all. In addition to the techni- cal constraints - which also included the (Continued from page 1) maximum length available for the tunnel, Did you a challenge for the accelerator experts – know? Reaffirming a long-standing CERN engineers faced another problem: partnership given the position of the tunnel, the new building would have had to sit across the Today, CERN and UNESCO have much French-Swiss border, just a few metres from Linac4 is one of the major renovation in common. Both have the promotion a 200 year-old milestone dating back to the projects for the CERN accelerator com- of science and of global cooperation Congress of Vienna. Current regulations plex and is the first project to be built in as part of their missions, and both set forbid this, so the final shape of the building the framework of the LHC upgrade pro- great store by the power of education was non-rectangular, cleverly avoiding the gramme approved by the CERN Council to change the world for the better. borderline! which allocated additional resources amounting to 240 MCHF for the period “The secret to the success of the work was 2008 to 2011. UNESCO has been an observer at the the good cooperation among the teams CERN Council ever since our founda- working under the excellent coordination of Linac4 is scheduled to be commissioned tion, and in recent years our converg- the GS Department”, says Maurizio Vretenar. in 2013-14 and connected to the PS ing interest in forging links with the “Every problem that came up during the Booster during the 2016 shut-down. developing world has seen important construction work was solved in record It will supply beams at an energy of joint initiatives. In 2009, CERN held time. This allowed us to be ahead of sched- 160 MeV, compared to the 50 MeV two schools in Kigali, Rwanda, cover- ule and within the budget”. beams of the current Linac2. This will ing the subjects of digital libraries make it possible for the PS Booster to and teacher training. Both promoted The first modules of the new Linac4 are deliver a beam intensity twice as high, Rwandan and African expertise, and expected to arrive and be lowered down in which will contribute to increasing the both were held within the framework 2012. The accelerator should be completed LHC’s luminosity. of UNESCO’s International Basic Sci- by 2014. ence Programme (IBSP). Their success Moreover, Linac4 has been designed to has led to a repeat being organized Francesco Poppi take into account future upgrades of the next month in the Moroccan city of accelerator complex. Rabat, bringing together people from Morocco, Algeria, Benin, Cameroun, Senegal and Tunisia. Some of the participants will then spend a month at CERN.

Ms Bokova’s visit gave us the chance to The latest from the LHC: Last period discuss other initiatives that our two organizations are working towards. One, for example, concerns the differ- of proton running for 2010 ences in school physics curricula from one country to another. A workshop planned for the second half of 2011 uring the recent technical stop, luminosity experiments. Routine opera- will address this question, looking at which was brought forward by tion with 25 MJ stored beam energy was how good physics teaching can make D two weeks to 19-22 October, an achieved. a real difference to development and aperture restriction in the beam 1 injec- sustainability. tion channel at Point 2 of the LHC was For the last week of proton running in successfully repaired. The machine was 2010, attention will shift to operation restarted on Friday 22 October, with the with 50ns bunch spacing, the scheme On Saturday, Ms Bokova and I also priority to re-establish clean injection planned for 2011. The aims for this last discussed a new agreement between conditions in the repaired injection chan- week are two-fold: to uncover any unex- CERN and UNESCO that would allow us nel. This was achieved over the weekend, pected problems with the 2011 scheme to put such initiatives on solid ground, resulting in a return to physics operation and, if all goes well, to rapidly increase rather than each being managed with 312 bunches per beam on Sunday the number of bunches and continue on an ad-hoc basis. Our discussions 24 October. to deliver integrated luminosity to the confirmed our convergence of views experiments. This will be followed by a and objectives, and reaffirmed our Since then, the number of bunches has short period of machine development mutual commitment to develop and been increased to 368, still using the with proton beams early next week. strengthen the cooperation between 150ns bunch spacing scheme employed our organizations. since late September. This has seen peak Around 3 November, the 2010 proton luminosities in excess of 2 x 1032 cm-1 run will end and operation with lead s-1 and delivered integrated luminosity ions will start, continuing until early Rolf Heuer climbing above 48 pb-1 in the highest December. CERN Bulletin

2 – 3 & 11.11.2010 A New Look for the Globe Gardens

f ter months Designs to develop the grounds of the Globe of Science and buildings. “The current plans develop the of conceptual Innovation have recently been unveiled. The plan is to extend area surrounding the Globe; however, a development, broader vision for the whole area between A the visitor activities on offer, transforming the area into a public plans to develop the Entrance A and B is being considered”, site around the Globe arena for scientific exploration. explains Gillies. are taking shape. The innovative designs were drawn up for CERN The design creates a new public space The design sketches are now being con- by a unique collaboration consisting of land- for CERN’s regional neighbours, and has verted into architectural drawings, which scape architects Charles and Lily Jencks, and already attracted the attention of local will be presented by the end of March. “Group H”, a group of architects headed by authorities. “Representatives of the Projet These plans will detail the scale and cost of Globe designer Hervé Dessimoz. They com- d’Agglomération franco-valdo-genevois have the project, and will allow CERN to begin the prise new venues, covered walkways, a café expressed their support for the project”, says fundraising from external sources that will and gift shop, a separate VIP entrance and Friedmann Eder, head of CERN’s Relations turn the plans into reality. a physics-inspired garden for visitors. The with the Host States Service. “The plans landscape itself becomes a feature – dra- provide a public area where local people Katarina Anthony matically altered to create a cosmic garden will want to come and spend time, and formed by shaped mounds, ponds, and a while they are there, they will learn about natural amphitheatre for public events. CERN.”

“The new exhibition in the Globe is spec- Charles Jencks is famous tacular, and the proposed garden would for reflecting science in the make it even more so, adding much to our landscape. He has lent his visitors’ experience of CERN,” explains James creative flair to the CERN Gillies, head of the Communication Group. landscape plans, creat- “The new design extends the experience ing a highly conceptual into the Globe’s surroundings and provides garden that complements a unique recreational area for the region.” the existing and proposed

A 3D computer model of the Globe Gardens. © Jencks Squared and Groupe H.

Design for the new Globe Gardens. © Jencks Squared and Groupe H.

3 & 11.11.2010 – 3 CLIC/ILC researchers explore new avenues for collaboration

he International Researchers from CLIC and ILC met for their first common While technical issues and technology were W o r k s h o p International Workshop on Linear Colliders, which was held in the focus of the conference, the politics o n L i n e a r and policy of both projects were also dis- T Geneva from 18 to 22 October. Although the talks were mostly Colliders (IWLC), cussed. “The conference explored how the which was organ- scientific and technical, the political message behind them was reaction to a possible LHC discovery in the ised by the European a breakthrough, as the workshop showed the progress made in short or medium-term could affect ILC and C o m m i t t e e f o r unifying the two communities. CLIC, especially in view of the update of the Future Accelerators, European Strategy for Particle Physics in hosted by CERN, and held at CERN and common issues. Given the possible techni- 2012”, said Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CLIC study the International Conference Centre in cal overlaps between the two projects, this leader. Irrespective of which of the two Geneva, attracted a large audience of about was an opportunity to avoid a duplication is chosen as a future accelerator, the two 500 experts. Although there have been of effort and take advantage of the great communities expect to continue to work other joint conferences between the CLIC synergies between the two studies. together towards an optimal solution. and ILC communities before, they have all been focused on specific technical and/or The CLIC and ILC communities discussed Progress has been made on both colliders: managerial issues. their many shared challenges, including CLIC has shown that it can generate a high- issues with beam delivery systems and intensity drive beam by beam manipulation, The IWLC was part of an ongoing effort machine-detector interfaces, physics and and has demonstrated two-beam accel- by CLIC and ILC to provide an environ- detectors, positron generation, beam eration with high-field structures; ILC has ment in which researchers can exchange dynamics, damping rings, civil engineering achieved its 2010 goal of making sure that ideas, inform their peers about their most and conventional facilities, and cost and half of the ILC cavities (the superconducting recent achievements and work together on schedule. accelerating structures) produced reach the desired acceleration gradient. Both projects are completing R&D reports and used the workshop as an opportunity to review technical issues. While the CLIC community is planning to present its Conceptual Design Report in 2011, the ILC will publish a more advanced Technical Design Report in 2012.

The IWLC was the first of several planned annual meetings of ILC/CLIC technical work- ing groups. According to ILC Director Barry Barish, “the workshop was a real success – a big step has been made towards one com- munity that jointly decides the future. Now we have to let science decide between the linear collider technologies.”

To view images from the workshop, visit the photo album at :

http://www.linearcollider.org/newsline/ photogalleries/20101021/

Katarina Anthony

4 – 3 & 11.11.2010 Cosmic ray synergies

n research, as in In laboratories, cosmic rays have been the subject of scientific education, you research for many years. A more recent development is their can sometimes Did you I appearance in schools, as educational tools. A recent workshop get things done more rapidly and easily by at CERN, organised by ASPERA in collaboration with EPPOG and know? joining forces. For EPPCN, had the goal of bringing together ideas and initiatives roughly the past with a view to setting up a future common project. decade, physicists A secondary school near CERN have been taking gets its detector their particle detectors to secondary be able to learn from each other’s success schools. “The challenge now is to bring and help new projects become operational As one of its representatives was visit- all of these existing projects together in a more rapidly.” ing CERN, the educational network network,” says Arnaud Marsollier, in charge QuarkNet from the USA took the oppor- of communication for the ASPERA network One of the advantages of jointly running tunity to install a cosmic ray detector in a and organiser of the workshop. a project using different detectors would French secondary school close to CERN. be the creation of a common data format, QuarkNet, an initiative of Fermilab and The workshop held on Friday, 15 October which would make it possible to manage universities in Florida, Washington and was attended by representatives of major the data centrally and make them acces- Notre Dame in the United States, has European educational projects and mem- sible for everyone. This would open the already installed some 400 cosmic ray bers of the European Particle Physics way to their exploitation for real science, detectors in US schools and around 150 Communication Network (EPPCN) and the although that is not the main focus. Another others in educational establishments in European Particle Physics Outreach Group possibility is the creation of a simplified, 18 other countries around the world. (EPPOG). In all, 21 countries were repre- low-cost kit that could be used to launch QuarkNet has obtained funding from sented, among them the United States with activities more rapidly in countries where the National Science Foundation (NSF) its QuarkNet project (see box). The purpose the necessary resources do not yet exist. in the United States for extending the of the meeting was to discuss the possibil- “Participants need not sign up to the full network to schools worldwide, by install- ity of enhancing the network of activities, network immediately. An easy-to-use device ing detectors in the vicinity of ILC confer- in particular by pooling the various efforts. would be a way of attracting the interest of ences. Tom Jordan, one of the network The large number of participants at the new teachers,” explains Arnaud. leaders, spent two days at Le Joran, a sec- workshop showed the very considerable ondary school in Prévessin, to install and interest in and enthusiasm for this project. The workshop spawned a large number of calibrate the detector together with the “By presenting ideas to everyone and shar- ideas. These now need to be structured with physics teacher and students. Le Joran ing our practical knowledge, we reflected a view to proposing a network project to the was not chosen at random: the school on how to put life into this project, at the European Commission. “It’s very encourag- has signed up for a science laboratory European and not just at the national level,” ing that we managed to get so many people partnership with CERN, and the physics notes Arnaud. “Currently, the various players together around a table. The support we teacher, Christophe Hugou, expressed a throughout Europe tend to work in isola- received from CERN and the other institu- particular interest in the work on cosmic tion, with considerable efforts required to tions represented at that meeting will rays. The arrival of QuarkNet is thus a build and operate their individual cosmic also be crucial for the project’s success,” he welcome development. The 20 students ray detection systems and to conduct concluded. participating in the science laboratory the project with teachers and pupils. I am will be able to harvest data and upload convinced that, if we work together, we will Laëtitia Pedroso them to the network’s webpage. Earlier, the same students took part in the European Researchers Night held on 24 September this year.

Presentation at the Workshop on 15 October.

3 & 11.11.2010 – 5 Retina neural circuitry seen with particle detector technology een from the Using particle physics techniques, high energy physics researchers The new technology opens the way to a point of view of have recently provided new insight into neural circuits inside the wide range of possible biomedical applica- a particle physi- tions, including the development of better S retina. After uncovering a new type of retinal cell and mapping cist, eyes are image methods for retinal prosthesis, and the detectors that can how the retina deals with colours, the team from Santa Cruz treatment of retinal disease in people suffer- gather many differ- (US), Krakow and Glasgow is now turning its attention to more ing from diabetes, thus potentially reducing ent types of data: complex issues such as how the retina gets wired up and how the the risk of blindness. Indeed, in some cases, light and dark, differ- brain deals with the signals it receives from the retina. All this diabetes can lead to the leakage of blood ent colours, motion, from tiny blood vessels into the eye. This etc. In particular, the using technology derived from high-density, multistrip silicon can be treated with laser surgery. The mul- retina, a thin tissue detectors… tielectrode array technique can be used to that lines the back of evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the eye, is a biological pixel detector that Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/ different laser treatments. detects light and converts it to electrical sig- journal/v467/n7316/full/nature09424.html), nals that travel through the optic nerve to the team had to further improve the array, So far, Litke and his colleagues have the brain. Neurobiologists know that many producing a high-density 519-electrode focussed on retinal processing, but they different cell types are involved in these array with 30 µm electrode spacing, which expect their results to be just the tip of the processes, but they don’t know exactly how allowed it to achieve finer spatial resolution iceberg and that there is still a lot more to many there are, what they all do, or how and an even higher efficiency. “In collabo- discover in this field. “These initial steps in they interact. ration with neurobiologists from the Salk understanding how visual information is Institute, we succeeded in describing the processed by the retina do not exhaust the Alan Litke, an experimental particle physi- neural circuits at the resolution of individual possible applications of our multielectrode cist within the ATLAS collaboration, has neurons and the neural code used by the array technology”, Litke asserts. “In the been leading a team of physicists and engi- retina to relay colour information to the future, we plan to apply this technology to neers from the high energy physics com- brain”, says Litke. “The very high granularity other exciting domains: how the complex munity which aims to contribute answers of the array and the possibility of simultane- but precise neural circuitry of the retina to these questions. In collaboration with ous recording of signals from hundreds of develops, and what the brain does with the neuroscientists, this interdisciplinary team the retina’s output cells were instrumental in data it receives from the retina”. has worked to adapt the technology of par- the correct identification of a complete local ticle detectors used in high energy physics population of the output cells involved in to study the functioning of the retina. The colour perception”. Technically, this required CERN Bulletin main challenge is to understand how the a miniaturisation process that people at retina processes and encodes the informa- CERN were familiar with. The multichannel tion about the outside visual world that it integrated circuits to read out the electrical sends to the brain. signals were designed by ATLAS member Wladyslaw Dabrowski and his group The experimental method used by the team from the AGH University of Science and involves placing a thin slice of retinal tissue Technology in Krakow, and the high-density in a chamber filled with a special solution electrode arrays were developed by Keith that can keep the tissue alive for several Mathieson and Deborah Gunning from the hours. Images generated by a computer are Particle Physics Experiment group at the focused on the retina’s photoreceptors that University of Glasgow. Ex-high energy physi- detect the visual stimulus, convert it into cist Alexander Sher, from the University of electrical signals, and then send it through California, Santa Cruz, was one of the pri- a network of interconnected neurons for mary authors of the Nature paper. further processing. The output electrical signals from this neural network are then Given the novel cross-disciplinary aspect detected by an array of microelectrodes of this research, Litke was confronted with implanted on a glass slide. “The inspiration the difficulty of obtaining funding to carry for our instrumentation techniques came out the work. “When we started our studies, directly from those that were used to build one of the core challenges was to get funds the microstrip silicon detectors in the ATLAS because practices in high-energy physics tracker”, explains Alan Litke. “For our first and biology are different. Coming from studies, we used arrays of 61 electrodes the world of high energy physics, we had spaced at 60 µm; however, the cells we were no pilot neurobiology data to justify and looking for at the time represented such a validate our methods”, explains Litke. “Our small fraction of our sample that they were proposal reviewers either did not believe not identifiable in a statistically significant we could develop the technology or did way. Therefore, we decided to design a new not believe that recording the signals from array with 512 electrodes, which allowed us hundreds of neurons simultaneously was to discover a new cell type in 2007”. that interesting.” He is hopeful that the situ- ation has now improved as the team has For the present study (whose results are started to produce successful evidence of published in the 7 October, 2010 issue of its approach.

6 – 3 & 11.11.2010 GLIF – Striving towards a high-performance on-demand network

he transfer of such If you were passing through the Mezzanine in the Main built on a jointly owned dark fibre between large amounts of Building a couple of weeks ago, you probably noticed the Geneva and Amsterdam. data at this speed T large tiled panel display showing an ultra-high resolution has been made possible “CERN was an excellent host for the 10th thanks to the GLIF com- visualization model of dark matter, developed by Cosmogrid. GLIF Global LambdaGrid Workshop, a munity’s vision of a new The display was one of the highlights of the 10th Annual two-day event which brought together computing paradigm, in Global Lambda Grid Workshop demo session, together with almost 100 leading users and providers of which the central archi- the first ever transfer of over 35 Gbit/second from one PC to research networking. The close presence of tectural element is an many advanced and demanding users from end-to-end path built on another between the SARA Computing Centre in Amsterdam the CERN community created the perfect optical network wave- and CERN. environment for the participants to push lengths (so called lamb- back the frontiers in lambda networking das). You may think of this as an on-demand “This network has the potential to become again, as evidenced by several success- private highway for data transfer: by using an important infrastructure for sending ful demonstrations and many inspiring it you avoid the normal internet exchange data between Tier 1s and Tier 2s, and talks and discussions”, said Kees Neggers points and “traffic jams”. the GLIF network is a resource that CERN of SURFnet, Chair of the Governance and could very well tap into to gain access to Growth Working Group. GLIF is a virtual international organiza- a high-service, predictable-performance, tion managed as a cooperative activity, on-demand network” explains David Foster, The GLIF network is open to anybody shar- with ‘participants’ rather than ‘members’, Deputy Head of the IT Department. “The ing the vision of optical interconnection a lightweight governance structure, and SARA-to-CERN data transfer is a demonstra- of different facilities and who voluntarily administrative support from TERENA (the tion of what’s to come. It’s pushing the state contributes network resources (e.g. equip- Trans-European Research and Education of the art in terms of data transfer”. For the ment, lambdas) or actively participates in Networking Association). CERN is part of demonstration, equipment from Ciena and relevant activities. For more information on this community, and the IT Department Extreme Networks was used, together with GLIF and the proceedings of the Workshop, is following all developments with great a 40Gbit/s lambda connection between please visit interest. Netherlight in Amsterdam and CERNLight, http://www.glif.is/

Kristina Gunne

GLIF display.

3 & 11.11.2010 – 7 Apprenticeship: a worthwhile option

f you think you’ve What better way is there to get good training than by alternating seen this story classwork with practical work? This is what CERN offers with its before, that’s Did you I long-standing apprenticeship training programme, which this because you have: for several years now, year again saw two young participants win awards from the know? CERN’s apprentices Union industrielle genevoise (UIG). have been awarded the UIG prize. The apprenticeship programme is open The apprenticeship training programme is their second year all trainees follow practi- to young people from all the Member intended for young people aged between cally identical courses, before choosing an States. Knowledge of French is a pre- 15 and 21. It runs over four years and is avail- area of specialisation. This allows them to requisite, as French is the language of able for two trades: electronics technicians explore the various aspects of their future instruction. and physics laboratory technicians (see profession, thereby gaining experience of Applications can be made on the box). This year, once again, the programme numerous activities linked to their field of UIG website, or directly through an proved its mettle. specialisation.” employer. All applications are centrally processed by the UIG. Candidates will Each year, prizes are awarded to the best It’s not always easy to find the right place- be required to undergo a test organised apprentices in the canton of Geneva at ment for each of the 24 apprentices under by the UIG in March, April or May. Their a special ceremony at which the 1 700 Jean-Marc’s care. “I always try to find the CVs are then sent to the various employ- apprentices get their CFC (Certificat fédéral apprentice a traineeship placement that ers, who conduct their own selection de capacité) diplomas. Despite its formal corresponds to his or her request. It’s procedure. nature—the ceremony is attended by made easier by the fact that so many dif- canton councillors and representatives of ferent domains are represented at CERN. The first year of training takes place the major professional training bodies—the Colleagues in the Laboratory’s various outside CERN, at a training centre called mood is a relaxed and festive one. This year services play a big role in placing the CEP (Centre d’enseignement professionnel, Adrian Gaggero, a physics lab technician, apprentices, and I would like to express my UIG-UNIA). Here, trainees learn the basic was awarded a UIG prize for his outstand- gratitude to all of them,” says Jean-Marc. skills of their trade and prepare them for ing performance during his training. At His responsibilities also include monitor- work in an industrial setting. a separate ceremony, Audrey Grüter, in ing the programme so as to maintain close Six new apprentices join the scheme the same trade, also received a UIG prize coordination with the instructors and every year. Study and work alternate, awarded to the best apprentice in the field supervisors. with two days of classroom instruction of mechatronics. typically followed by three days in a firm. For those seeking employment, today’s To obtain the CFC diploma, they must Jean-Marc Bouché, in charge of techni- job market can be a forbidding place, and not only pass the final examination, cal apprentice training in CERN’s Human having a successful apprenticeship under but also demonstrate the practical and Resources Department, explains: “The one’s belt can make all the difference. “Very theoretical skills needed to work in their apprenticeship programme is a very few of our graduates end up not finding chosen trade, in addition to presenting complete training programme that meets work. Of course, motivation and determina- the projects in which they participated specific objectives laid down by the Swiss tion remain the main factors that determine and the work they performed during federal apprenticeship regulations and a trainee’s success,” concludes Jean-Marc. their apprenticeship at CERN. vocational and professional education and training ordinances. Up until the end of Laëtitia Pedroso

UIG award presentation at CERN.

8 – 3 & 11.11.2010 CAS Introduction to Accelerator Physics in Bulgaria

he course was The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the Institute for Nuclear take place in Erice, Italy from 6 to 15 April, extremely well Research & Nuclear Energy (INRNE – Bulgarian Academy 2011. The next specialised course will be attended with on “High Power Hadron Machines” and will T of Sciences) jointly organised a course on Introduction to 109 participants rep- take place in Bilbao, Spain from 24 May to resenting 34 different Accelerators, at the Grand Hotel Varna, Bulgaria, from 19 2 June, 2011. Information can be found on nationalities, coming September to 1 October, 2010. the CAS website from countries as far away as Australia, Canada and Vietnam. The next CAS course will be the Joint School http://www.cern.ch/schools/CAS on Particle Accelerators (CERN-US-Japan and The intensive programme comprised 39 Russia) on the topic “Synchrotron Radiation CERN Bulletin lectures, 3 seminars, 4 tutorials where the and Free Electron Lasers”. The course will students were split into three groups, a poster session where students could present their own work, and 7 hours of guided and private study. Feedback from the partici- pants was extremely positive, praising the expertise and enthusiasm of the lecturers, as well as the high standard and excellent quality of their lectures. For the first time at CAS, the CERN Director-General, Rolf Heuer, visited the school and presented a seminar entitled “CERN & High Energy Physics – the Grand Picture”.

In addition to the academic programme, the students had the opportunity during the traditional one-day excursion to visit the Aladja Monastery built into the local rock and enjoy a visit to the beautiful Cape Kaliakra. An evening visit was also organised to the Varna Observatory in collaboration with Ms Svejina Dimitrova, Head of the Astronomic Observatory and Planetarium, The DG visits the Varna Observatory. Varna.

The CERN Accelerator School group photo. 3 & 11.11.2010 – 9 Supertramp (de)tour to CERN

ot content with During their recent European tour celebrating forty years since alive, when a lot of scientific questions merely unveil- their debut album, the members of the famous British rock-band will have answers” said , ing the myster- N Supertramp decided to take a break and pay a visit to CERN on Supertramp guitarist. “And now I’m going ies of the Universe, to read the CERN Bulletin for the rest of my CERN has also been 16 October, the day after their concert at Geneva Arena. It was a life!” Hurrah! able to improve the fast break for the authors of the popular “”, Francesco Poppi performance of one as their next concert was in Lyon the same evening. of the world’s most famous singers and saxophonists, John Not surprisingly for members of a band that Helliwell, the leader of the rock band has been playing together for 40 years, the Supertramp! In his words: “Tonight in Lyon I aspect of CERN that Supertramp loved the shall play the saxophone better than before most was the collaboration among thou- I came here”. And Gabe Dixon, keyboard sands of scientists to figure out solutions, player and songwriter, added: “I would love and the sharing of knowledge and discover- to write a song about the Universe now. If ies. For Martyn Ware, founding member of only I could put all this into poetic words… the bands The Human League and Heaven that would be a real accomplishment”. 17, this was not the first time he had visited an international scientific organisation. “I The members of Supertramp were brought recently visited the Paranal Astronomical to CERN by Patrick Geeraert, former Head Observatory in the middle of the Atacama of CERN’s Finance Department and current desert. To be in the place where we will dis- Head of Administration at ESO. The pro- cover the secrets of the Universe and where gramme of the band’s short visit included the World Wide Web was born is worth a tour of the SM18 hall. Guided by Rolf thousands of science lessons, it’s a dream Landua, Supertramp found the experience for me… it’s fantastic!” extremely inspiring. “What we’ve been told today gave us a fantastic opportunity to “I am not at all scared by black holes but learn. The efforts you make to understand something I’d like to do when I pass away and visualize these things knock you out”, is to be cryogenically frozen so that I can said , bass player. come back about 300 years from now, still

Supertramp’s with anti-matter trap.

Dutch hi-tech companies exhibit at CERN

he exhibition, Twenty-seven Dutch companies will present the state of the art advantage of Dutch industry’s ability to s u p p o r t e d of their technological developments at the industrial exhibition design and invent new processes and tech- by the Dutch nologies, Holland @ CERN is not simply set T Holland @ CERN from 8 to 11 November. The exhibition is Ministry of Economic up to sell equipment, but also to establish Affairs and organised designed to help strengthen the ties between fundamental an efficient cross-fertilisation between by the Netherlands science and Dutch industry. fundamental science and industry. A series National Institute for of technical and scientific seminars will Subatomic Physics (Nikhef), in coopera- opportunity to network directly with CERN be organised in parallel with the technol- tion with the Foundation for Fundamental experts in order to tailor their products to ogy exhibition. “There will also be an All Research on Matter (FOM), the FOM Institute their demands”. Dutch Night, during which the companies for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, and Dutch can informally meet Dutch people work- Scientific, an association of manufactur- The participating companies are those that ing at CERN and ESRF”, says Klöpping. The ers of scientific equipment, will be held in have been collaborating with CERN and official opening ceremony will be held on the Main Building from 8 to11 November ESRF in the past five years. “They include 9 November in the Council Chamber, and (see on page 14). “The last Holland @ firms whose activity is in fields of mutual will be attended by Sigurd Lettow, CERN CERN exhibition took place fifteen years importance for CERN and industry, such as Director for Administration and General ago”, says Robert Klöpping from Nikhef, precision mechanics, cryogenics, magnets, Infrastructure, Harald Reichert, Director of Dutch Industrial Liaison Officer for CERN computing, measuring technology, engi- Research at ESRF, Jos Engelen, Chairman and Purchasing Advisor for Grenoble ESRF. neering, optics, simulation, etc.”, explains of the Dutch NWO, and Boudewijn van “This kind of event is very important for Klöpping. Eenennaam, Dutch UN Ambassador. Dutch industry as it allows us to show what Dutch companies can do and gives firms the With the aim of allowing CERN to take full “We would like to organise Holland @ CERN every two or three years, which might be possible, provided that the Ministry contin- ues to support us. Of course, return on the companies’ investment will be a crucial issue in this respect”, Klöpping concludes.

10 – 3 & 11.11.2010 Roberto Cantoni A big win for the CERN Golf Club at the ASCERI tournament

o m p e t i t i o n s The CERN Golf Club returned victorious from the autumn took place on ASCERI (Association of the Sports Communities of the European the Dreihof Golf Did you C Research Institutes) tournament which was held from 17 to 20 Club at Essingen in southern Germany, September. know? starting with the sin- gles Stableford competition on the first day golfer from the IT Department, winning the and a 4 ball, better ball Stableford group individual competition. competition the next day. CERN’s four-man CERN Golf Club team – Peter Jones, Per Werner, Claes Frisk The autumn ASCERI tournament included and Alasdair Ross – came first in the group competitions in football, tennis and cart The CERN Golf Club was founded competition, with Peter Jones, CERN’s star racing as well as golf. Over 230 representa- in October 1982 and is a CERN Staff tives of research insti- Association club. The Club became an tutes across Europe affiliated Corporate Association of the took part. French Golf Federation (FFG), in the Rhone-Alpes League, in 1991. It wel- “The CERN Golf Club comes experienced golfers and also only began participat- offers classes for beginners. ing in inter-agency t o u r n a m e n t s i n 2006”, says Alasdair Ross, also from the The team would like to thank the CERN Staff IT Department. “It’s a Association for its support in participating shame really, as we in ASCERI. seem to do quite well!” Katarina Anthony

The CERN Golf Team (left to right: Peter Jones, Alasdair Ross, Claes Frisk and Per Werner) celebrates its victories at ASCERI.

Going Underground in Singapore

he various bodies Singapore has plans to build a massive Underground Science City 5000 workers on a daily basis, so typical and corpora- (USC) housing R&D laboratories and IT data centres. A delegation issues of size and number of access shafts tions working need to be carefully studied. T involved in the planning to build the subterranean complex on the USC project are currently study- visited CERN on 18 October 2010 to learn from civil engineers At first glance, you might not think the LHC ing the feasibility of and safety experts about how CERN plans and constructs its has much in common with the USC project; constructing up to 40 underground facilities. as Rolf Heuer pointed out: “CERN tries to caverns (60 m below keep the number of personnel underground ground) similar in size to an LHC experiment the maximum size of the cavern complex to an absolute minimum, whereas you’re hall, in a similar type of rock. Civil engineer- that can be safely built. The complex could going to open up the caverns to huge num- ing and geotechnical experts are calculating one day accommodate between 3000 and bers”. However, many issues are remarkably similar, such as environmental impact stud- ies, international procurement strategy for the various consultants and contractors, and safety aspects like emergency escape shafts, fire detection, access control and ventilation systems, etc.

“We are more than happy to share some of the lessons learnt during the LHC construc- tion and from the feasibility challenges we are facing for future underground projects like CLIC” explained CERN head of civil engi- neering, John Osborne.

After a fruitful exchange, the delegation visited the CMS site at Cessy, including the above-ground control room and the Underground Service Cavern, also called USC ! The delegation from Singapore. John Osborne 3 & 11.11.2010 – 11 Winner of video contest inspired by Library Bibliothèque the LHC uke, who works A video contest was launched this year to mark the 10th News from the Library in the film indus- anniversary of the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose try in Los Angeles L Centre for Earth and Space. Luke Cahill, a 27 year-old BFA and also takes physics classes, came across graduate, has just won the contest with a movie about CERN. Lost in citations? a video promoting the contest while he was browsing the “Ascent of Man”, and even early Disney Try EndNote Web American Natural History Museum website. science films. As he mentions in the video, “It seemed like a perfect opportunity to “Science is, and always will be, a journey of combine my passion for science with my discovery, enquiry and curiosity. It is the or a few months now, CERN users craft of filmmaking”, says Luke. quest for knowledge, the method by which have EndNote Web at their dis- we can discover the inner workings of our posal, which comes together with F Luke decided to make a video about the universe and, to me, there is no venture access to the Web of Science online LHC. To him, CERN embodies the ideals more important.” database. This bibliographic manage- of scientific progress and discovery, con- ment tool will ease your work when tinually expanding the boundaries of our Luke is currently producing a series of short collecting and organizing citations knowledge. “I have never actually been to science videos like “LHC” on a variety of related to a research paper you are writ- CERN but it’s high on the list of places I want topics. He looks forward to producing and ing. It allows you to collect publication to visit when I travel to Europe”, says Luke. directing science documentaries akin to references from a wide variety of online There is a lot of misleading information on “COSMOS” and “The Ascent of Man.” sources via an online search, import text the Internet about CERN – especially about files or directly capture a bibliographic the LHC. Luke wanted to clarify what the To see the video, go to: reference on a webpage with the Firefox LHC is doing and why. He does so with a lot EndNote plug-in. of humour and respect. http://www.amnh.org/news/2010/10/ winner-announced-for-rose-center- You can store up to 10,000 references, While making his video, Luke was inspired anniversary-video-contest/ which you can then access from any by contemporary science educators, as well computer and share with your col- as by science documentaries, including Laëtitia Pedroso leagues. Thanks to this tool, you can Carl Sagan’s “COSMOS”, Jacob Bronowski’s format in one click your bibliography, according to the style of the journal you intend to submit your paper to. Last but not least, if you need to export references already stored in EndNote Web, these can be saved in a standard- An 80th birthday celebration for the ized format, which makes them easy to manipulate and portable to other formats. Ericsons

The CERN Library will soon organize a Chinese proverb says that hap- oretical physics in general and to nuclear training session on the use of this tool, piness is when friends coming physics in particular. José Bernabeu, Guy as well as other bibliographic man- A from far and away meet and talk Chanfray, Wolfram Wiese, Achim Richter agement sofware, and on a variety of to each other. These wise words and Anthony Thomas all covered information resources (bibliographic could very well be used to the considerable research databases, online books and journals, sum up the celebrations that has been stimulated encyclopaedias) useful for your work. in honour of the 80th by the Ericson-Ericson birthdays of Magda correlation(s) over the Registration to use EndNote Web is nec- and Torleif Ericson, a past 50 years. essary and is free for all CERN users. couple in the normal sense of the word A concert by the vio- Access: and often also in linist Jean-Philippe the field of physics. Audoli and the pian- http://www.myendnoteweb.com/ Torleif joined CERN’s ist Blandine Eynaud Theory Division in and an informal dinner Please send your feedback to: 1960, initially to work at rounded off the celebra- the intersection of nuclear tions, which were attended [email protected] and particle physics at the by friends and colleagues Synchrocyclotron, and retired in from CERN as well as from other 1995. European and American institutions. CERN Library A video recording of the event can be During the celebratory event on 17 seen at September, speakers reviewed the depth http://cdsweb.cern.ch/ and breadth of the contributions which record/1293658 both Torleif and Magda have made to the- CERN Bulletin

12 – 3 & 11.11.2010 In this series, the Bulletin aims to explain the role of the Ombuds at Ombuds’ Corner CERN by presenting practical examples of misunderstandings that could have been resolved by the Ombuds if he had been contacted Le coin de l’Ombuds earlier. Please note that, in all the situations we present, the names are fictitious and used only to improve clarity.

Time and stress management ed* had been working in the by people needing his help, even for a Conclusion Organization for many years. Thanks few minutes. His professional conscience T to his expertise, he was promoted to told him that he had to be accountable for The earlier problems are voiced, the a position where, in addition to his usual everything, so he didn’t bring the problem easier a solution can be found. If Ted had daily tasks, he also had to manage strate- to his hierarchy but started to use lunch come to the Ombuds, for example, an gic projects involving close contacts with times and do overtime to get through his improvement in his work schedule could people in different Departments. At the work. This situation continued for about have been worked out and/or he could same time, the personnel in his unit had two months until Ted started to lose sleep have been offered training in managing been reduced, so Ted had to deal with and lose weight, constantly worried about time and stress. many urgent requests from people burst- his multiple jobs. ing into his office at all hours of the day. During a medical examination, he was Contact the Ombuds early! Ted found himself in a stressful situation, so down that he started to cry and said having to manage his strategic projects, he couldn’t stand it any longer. He then http://cern.ch/ombuds which required deep thought and reflec- acknowledged that he was suffering from tion, while constantly being interrupted burnout and had to take sick leave. Vincent Vuillemin

______* Names and story are purely fictitious.

Staff members with 25 years’ service at CERN in 2010

he 38 staff members who are celebrat- DORE Vincent IT MESENGE Pascal EN ing 25 years at CERN in 2010 were DUJARDIN Martial EN MISSIAEN Dominique BE T invited by the Director-General to a DURET Dorothée TE MORPURGO Giulio EN reception in their honour on 21 October. ESCAFFRE Sonia EN OBERLI Luc TE FERNIER Pascal BE OVALLE Ernesto BE ASBURY David IT GEERAERT Patrick FP PEDERSEN John EN BAUDRENGHIEN Philippe BE GILOUX Christian TE PETRILLI Achille PH BERGSMA Felix PH GRONIGER-VOSS Eva-Maria DG RAMSEIER Gilles TE BERNAL Jean-Manuel TE HEAGERTY Denise IT SPANGGAARD Jens BE BERRIG Olav Ejner BE HEGARTY Seamus HR TARDY Thierry EN BONT Hillebrand GS ISNARD Christian IT VAN HOVE Erwin FP BOURGEOIS Nicolas PH JONES Robert IT VINCENT Patrick EN BOURREL Thierry EN JOUBERJEAN Franck IT VOSS Rüdiger PH CARMINATI Federico PH LAGRANGE Thierry FP DE METZ-NOBLAT Nicolas BE MARIN Antonio BE

3 & 11.11.2010 – 13 Official news

Education fees: Indexation of the amounts for accommodation, meals and school transport for the 2010- 2011 academic year

At its meeting on 21 September 2010, amount used for the calculation of meal the Standing Concertation Committee payments will be 18 CHF per meal (paid approved the calculated indexation of at the rate of 75%). The ceiling for school the amounts for accommodation, meals transport fees has been set at 615 CHF for and school transport for the 2010-2011 the 2010-2011 academic year. academic year. Accommodation fees for the 2010-2011 academic year will be paid in the form of a lump sum of 537 CHF per Education Fees Service HR Department month (paid at the rate of 100%). The Tel. 72862 / 71421

Take note Holland at CERN – Industrial exhibition

Sponsored by EVD, an agency of the Dutch Ministry of the Economy

Twenty seven companies will present their latest technology at the industrial exhibition “Holland at CERN”. Dutch industry will exhibit products and technologies which are related From 8 to 11 November 2010 to the field of particle physics. Administration Building, Bldg. 61 From 9-00 to 17-30 Individual interviews will take place directly at the stands in the Main Building. The firms will contact relevant users/technicians but any user wishing to make contact with a particular firm is welcome to use the contact details which are available from each Departmental secretariat or at the following URL:

http://gs-dep.web.cern.ch/gs-dep/groups/sem/ls/Industrial_Exhibitions. htm#Industrial_exhibitions

You will find the list of exhibitors below.

LIST OF EXHIBITORS:

1. Schelde Exotech 10. Imtech Industry International B.V. 19. Sience &Technologies BV 2. Vernooy BV Triumph Group 11. VDL ETG Projects 20. 3D Worknet BV 3. INCAA Computers 12. Machinefabriek Boessenkool B.V. 21. Veenstra-Glazenborg 4. DeMaCo Holland bv 13. Dutch Space B.V. 22. Bayards Aluminium Constructies BV 5. TNO Science & Industry 14. Heinmande BV 23. Hitec Special Measuring Systems BV 6. Janssen Precision Engineering BV 15. Stirling Cryogenics BV 24. Sumipro BV 7. Hositrad VacuumTechnology 16. CryoZone BV 25. Heemskerk Innovative Technology 8. Velmon Lastechniek BV 17. IRMCO bv 26. Heeze Mechanics 9. Genius Klinkenberg Int BV 18. ECM Technologies 27. Wijdeven

Information: K. Robert / GS-SEM-LS / 74407

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Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 de 8h30 à 16h00

COLLECTE DE SANG

Organisée par l’EFS (Établissement Français du Sang) d’Annemasse

CERN RESTAURANT 2

On wednesday 3 November 2010 From 8.30 to 16.00

BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN

Organized by EFS (Établissement Français du Sang) of Annemasse

Veuillez, si possible, vous munir de votre carte de groupe sanguin. If possible, please, bring your blood group Card.

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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses

The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still avail- able. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9).

Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum 15-Nov-10 16-Nov-10 English 2 days C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming 22-Nov-10 25-Nov-10 English 4 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop 10-Nov-10 11-Nov-10 English 2 days Emacs - way beyond Text Editing 09-DEC-10 09-DEC-10 English 3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) 22-Nov-10 24-Nov-10 English 1 day ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION 13-DEC-10 13-DEC-10 English 1 hour JAVA - Level 1 25-Nov-10 29-Nov-10 English 3 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans 13-DEC-10 15-DEC-10 English 3 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework 17-Nov-10 19-Nov-10 English 3 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework 29-Nov-10 03-DEC-10 English 4.5 days Linux LPI 101 - Introduction à Linux et LPI 102 Administration systèmes sur Linux 1-Nov-10 4-Nov-10 English 4 days Object-oriented Design Patterns 06-DEC-10 08-DEC-10 English 3 days Optimising Oracle - Foundations 25-Nov-10 26-Nov-10 English 2 days Oracle - Programming with PL/SQL 06-DEC-10 08-DEC-10 English 3 days Oracle - SQL 01-DEC-10 03-DEC-10 English 3 days PERL 5 - Advanced Aspects 30-Nov-10 30-Nov-10 English 1 day Python: Advanced Hands-On 16-Nov-10 19-Nov-10 English 4 days XML - Introduction 01-DEC-10 02-DEC-10 English 2 days

Electronic design Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) 26-Nov-10 26-Nov-10 1 hour Cours de base Automation du bâtiment 13-DEC-10 15-DEC-10 French 3 jours LabVIEW Connectivity with RADE applications 11-Nov-10 12-Nov-10 Bilingual 2 days LabVIEW Core I with RADE introduction 29-Nov-10 01-DEC-10 Bilingual 3 days LabVIEW Core II 02-DEC-10 03-DEC-10 Bilingual 2 days LabVIEW Core III 8-Nov-10 10-Nov-10 Bilingual 3 days LabVIEW Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning Course 4-Nov-10 5-Nov-10 Bilingual 2 days Radiation effects on electronic parts and systems 18-Nov-10 19-Nov-10 English 1.5 days Signal Integrity: Advanced High-Speed Design and Characterization 22-Nov-10 26-Nov-10 English 5 days

Mechanical design CATIA-Smarteam Base 2 26-Nov-10 14-DEC-10 French 7 jours

Office software A hands-on overview of EVO 26-Nov-10 26-Nov-10 English 0.1 day Dreamweaver CS3 - Level 2 22-Nov-10 23-Nov-10 French 2 jours EXCEL 2007 - level 1 : ECDL 29-Nov-10 30-Nov-10 English 2 days EXCEL 2007 (Short Course I) - HowTo... Work with formulae, Link cells, worksheets and workbooks 15-Nov-10 15-Nov-10 Bilingual 0.5 day EXCEL 2007 (Short Course II) - HowTo... Format your worksheet for printing 15-Nov-10 15-Nov-10 Bilingual 0.5 day EXCEL 2007 (Short Course III) - HowTo... Pivot tables 16-Nov-10 16-Nov-10 Bilingual 0.5 day Individual Coaching 4-Nov-10 4-Nov-10 Bilingual 1 hour Individual Coaching 02-DEC-10 02-DEC-10 Bilingual 1 hour Powerpoint 2007 - Level 2 5-Nov-10 5-Nov-10 French 1 jour Project Planning with MS-Project 15-Nov-10 19-Nov-10 French 2 days Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace 25-Nov-10 26-Nov-10 French 2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace 13-DEC-10 14-DEC-10 English 2 days Windows 7 16-Nov-10 16-Nov-10 English 3 hours WORD 2007 - level 2 : ECDL 18-Nov-10 19-Nov-10 French 2 hours

3 & 11.11.2010 – 17 Marie-Laure LECOQ 74924 Technical ENSEIGNEMENT TECHNIQUE TECHNICAL TRAINING training [email protected]

If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please talk to your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply elec- tronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found at: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 under ‘Technical Training’ with the detailed course program. Registration for all courses is always open – sessions for the less-requested courses are organized on a demand-basis only. CERN Technical Training courses are open only to members of the CERN personnel (staff members and fellows, associates, students, users, project associates, apprentices and employees of CERN contractors, with some restrictions). In particular, quoted prices and programmes refer specifically to the CERN community.

Seminars

Monday 1 November Monday 8 November Thursday 11 November

HR Seminar CERN Heavy Ion Forum TH PhenClub 8:30 - Globe, Bldg. 80 08:00 - Bldg. 160-1-009 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 Induction Programme - 1st part From QCD color coherence to Scientific Computing in CERN TH inclusive hadronic distributions at N. Dumeaux, S. Lynne Hobson / CERN J. Andersen E. Macara, D. Serafini colliders TH BSM Forum TH Journal Club on String Theory TH Journal Club on String Theory 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 Low Scale Flavor Gauge Symmetries TBA TBA M. Redi J. Drummond M. Vasiliev / Lebedev Inst. Friday 12 November Tuesday 2 November Tuesday 9 November Particle and Astro-Particle Physics TH String Theory Seminar TH String Theory Seminar Seminars 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 Chronology protection in AdS/CFT Remodeling the A-Model TBA and the stringy exclusion principle A. Brini / Section de mathématiques, Université R. Britto / CEA Saclay J. Raeymaekers de Genève

Thursday 4 November Wednesday 10 November ISOLDE Seminar 08:00 - Bldg. 26-1-022 TH Cosmo Coffee 11:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 ISAC targets and ion sources Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter P. Bricault / TRIUMF A. De Simone / EPFL

INTC MEETING TH Theoretical Seminar 13:30 - Council Chamber, Bldg. 503 14:00 - TH Auditorium, Bldg. 4 INTC / 38th Meeting of the INTC Dissecting a hadron-collider data Prof. Peter Butler / University of Liverpool analysis G. Dissertori / ETH Zurich

ISOLDE Seminar 14:30 - Bldg. 26-1-022 ISOL@MYRRHA D. Pauwels / IKS - KULeuven

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