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People and Things People and things Laboratory correspondents Argonne National Laboratory, USA M. Derrick Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA A. Stevens CEBAF Laboratory, USA S. Corneliussen CERN, Geneva G. Fraser Cornell University, USA D. G. Cassel DESY Laboratory, Fed. Rep. of Germany P. Waloschek Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA M. Bodnarczuk GSI Darmstadt, Fed. Rep. of Germany G: Siegert INFN, Italy • At CERN in April, CERN Director General A. Pascolini Carlo Rubbia (left) and Roy Schwitters, Di­ IHEP, Beijing, China Maurice Jacob becomes President rector of the Superconducting Supercollider Qi Nading of European Physical Society (SSC) Laboratory in Ellis County, Texas, JINR Dubna signed a Memorandum of Understanding which provides a framework for future colla­ B. Starchenko Distinguished CERN theorist boration between the two Laboratories. KEK National Laboratory, Japan Maurice Jacob becomes President S. Iwata of the European Physical Society (Photo CERN 11.4.91) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA (EPS) for an initial one-year term, B. Feinberg succeeding nuclear physicist R.A. Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA O. B. van Dyck Ricci of INFN Legnaro. Jacob, who Australian news was President of the French Physi­ NIKHEF Laboratory, Netherlands F. Erne cal Society in 1985, has just At a recent meeting of the Austral­ Novosibirsk Institute, USSR served for two years as EPS Secre­ ian Academy of Sciences, Bruce V. Balakin tary. EPS President-Elect is Norbert McKellar of Melbourne was Orsay Laboratory, France Kroo of Budapest's Solid-State awarded the Lyle Medal for 1991 Anne-Marie. Lutz Physics Institute. for his work in High Energy Theory, PSI Laboratory, Switzerland and A.W. Thomas of Adelaide was J. F. Crawford one of 9 new fellows admitted to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK On people Jacky Hutchinson the Academy. Meanwhile an official CERN Saclay Laboratory, France Freeman J. Dyson of Princeton's Elisabeth Locci Institute for Advanced Study re­ Coordination Committee has been IHEP, Serpukhov, USSR ceives the 1991 Oersted Medal formed to coordinate Australian ac­ Yu. Ryabov from the American Association of tivity at CERN. The members are: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA Physics Teachers. L.Peak (Sydney), S.Tovey (Mel­ W. Kirk bourne), R.Crewther (Adelaide), Superconducting Super Collider, USA Klaus Winter of CERN has been ap­ B.H.J.McKellar (Melbourne), N. V. Baggett pointed Guest Professor at Berlin's A. W. Thomas (Adelaide) and J. TRIUMF Laboratory, Canada Humboldt University, where his Boldeman (ANSTO). Signing of a M. K. Craddock task will be to help build up the cooperation agreement between Physics Department. CERN and Australia is imminent. 22 CERN Courier, June 1991 Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory The following professionals are particularly sought at this time. Experimental High Energy Physicists The SSC Laboratory, a major research and development center, will support 2,000 staff members; the SSC Participate in research and development for the SSC detector components, Laboratory provides extraordinary career opportunities design of the related experimental facilities to support of the SSC in frontier science and technology. experimental program, and ongoing HEP research. Qualifications: Ph.D. in experimental particle physics. Experience with Career and term positions are available at all levels. large detector systems preferred. Electrical Computational Physicist/Engineer Accelerator Research Engineers Perform magnetic field computations in support of the SSC magnet design • RF Power • Detector • Power Systems and construction program. • Vacuum Systems Development • Magnet • Cryogenics • Experimental • RF Qualifications: An advanced degree in Physics, Electrical or Mechanical • Design Facilities • Analog/Digital engineering; experience with the commonly available computer codes for • Instrumentation • Physics hardware magnetic field calculations. Experience with FORTRAN (preferably in a and Controls Research experience scientific computing environment) and with UNIX and VMS. • BSEE, MSEE Magnet Visiting Mechanical Collider Injector Physicists and Engineers Development Scientist Engineers Take part in the accelerator design, and specification and implementation • Test SC Magnets • Positions • Cryogenics of the engineering systems. • Magnet Design Available in • Production Qualifications: Degree in Physics or Engineering; equivalent experience • Instrumentation all divisions • Process control with modern computational methods; significant experience in accelerator and Controls • BSME, MSME construction and operation desirable; ability to work within a team and to interact with and communicate with other technical groups. Send letter indicating position desired, resume and three references to: Magnet Test Physicist SSC Laboratory Participate in the SSC superconducting magnet test program at FNAL, MS-2050/CC BNL,and SSCL. 2550 Beckleymeade Ave., Suite 125 Dallas, TX 75237 Qualifications: Ph.D. in experimental physics (particle physics preferred). Experience with hardware and software; ability to plan and carry out An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer testing programs. ISTIXUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE The Max-Planck-lnstitut fur Physik (I.N.F.N.) has the position of a Post-doctoral fellowships for non-Italian citizens in the following research areas : Theoretical Physics (n.8) Research Associate Experimental Physics (n. 14) Applications are invited for one year fellowships, starting on to offer. Applicants are expected to par­ May-November 1992. ticipate in the experimental projects of Fellowships are intended for young post-graduates (candidates should not be more than 35 years of age at the time of applica­ the Institute carried out at the European tion). Organization for Nuclear Research, Each fellowship is granted for one year, and may be extended for a second year. CERN, Geneva. The annual gross salary is lit. 24,000,000, plus travel expenses A contract will be limited, at the beginning, from home Institution to I.N.F.N. Section or Laboratory and return. to two years. Candidates should submit an application form and a statement of their research interests, including three letters of reference. Applications should reach I.N.F.N. not later than 30 September Applications with currriculum vitae and 1991. three references should be send to the The successful applicants may carry on their research at any of the following laboratories and sections of I.N.F.N.: National Laboratories of Frascati (Rome), National Laboratories Max-Planck-lnstitut fur Physik of Legnaro (Padova), National Southern Laboratories (Catania) and National Gran Sasso Laboratory (L'Aquila). Werner-Heisenberg-lnstitut INFN Sections in the universities of: z.Hd. von Frau R.Ludwig Turin, Milan, Padua, Genoa, Bologna, Pisa, Rome "La Sapi- enza", Rome II, Naples, Catania, Trieste, Florence, Bari, Pavia, Fohringer Ring 6 Perugia, Ferrara, Cagliari, Lecce and National Institute for Health (Rome). Enquiries, requests for application forms, and applications D-8000 Munchen 40. should be addressed to : Fellowhips Service - Personnel Office, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) - Casella Postale 56 - 000 44 Frascati (Rome) Italy. CERN Courier, June 1991 23 Bjorn Wiik, project leader of the supercon­ ducting proton ring for the HERA electron- proton collider now being commissioned at the DESY Laboratory, Hamburg, and seen here during one of his regular shifts in the HERA control room, has been elected a For­ eign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Shadows of Creation Published by W.H. Freeman is 'Shadows of Creation' (ISBN 0- 71767-2157-0) by Michael Riordan planation' hints. However the title ing was overdone. This was con­ and David N. Schramm, subtitled alone will sell, with many eager firmed when Lev Okun of Moscow 'Dark Matter and the Structure of readers ploughing valiantly through subsequently questioned one view­ the Universe' (see also April, page to the end, hoping to discover The point, and in a memorable seminar 18). The book also benefits by a Solution. They may be disap­ at CERN displayed that relativity is foreword by Stephen Hawking. pointed to find no 'Cosmic Rosetta not to be taken lightly. The cosmological dark mass Stone', but will not go unrewarded. After reading the sequel, Nathal­ problem - that what we see in the The origin of everything may ie Eraser (13) writes: 'Young read­ Universe is perhaps only about one turn out to be an insurmountable ers will find it difficult to identify per cent of it - depends on theore­ problem to solve, but the sheer with Gedanken. A talking space­ tical prejudice. The astrophysical inaccessibility of the problem has ship called Dick is not my idea of a dark mass problem - that the ob­ long hindered scientific attack. Bar­ fun way to explain things. Stannard served motion of galaxies needs row explains how modern physics seems to drown in his own pond more mass than can be seen - and cosmology is at last providing trying to explain so many things does not. How these arguments a framework for the problem, and and so does the reader. After a are served is a matter of taste. possibly for the solution too. while you get confused between Dark matter apart this book is reality and the strange antics of an excellent introduction to the im­ beetles on a rubber sheet(i), that Return of Uncle Albert portant new links being forged be­ don't clarify anything.' tween particle physics, astrophy­ Despite this panning, the CERN sics and cosmology. Riordan (parti­
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