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Englert, Higgs and CERN receive the The American Physical Society (APS) has announced its awards for 2014, including major prizes in particle physics and related Prince of Asturias Award fi e l d s . one of the highlights early this year was the announcement that the Daya Bay cern, François englert and Peter Higgs reactor neutrino experiment had observed received the Prince of Asturias Award for the disappearance of electron-antineutrinos “the theoretical prediction and experimental and established a signifi cantly nonzero value detection of the Higgs boson”, in a ceremony for the “third” mixing angle in neutrino held on 25 october at the campoamor Theatre oscillations, θ13 (CERN Courier october in oviedo, in the presence of Her Majesty the 2013 p7). So it is appropriate that the 2014 Queen of Spain and the Prince and Princess W K H Panofsky Prize in experimental of Asturias. cern’s director-general, rolf Particle Physics, which recognizes and Heuer, was there to accept the prestigious encourages outstanding achievements in the prize on behalf of the laboratory. fi eld, goes to Kam-Biu Luk of the University The ceremony was preceded by a Felipe, Prince of Asturias (left), presents the of california, Berkeley, and Lawrence cultural programme of exhibitions and insignia, a part of the award, to Rolf Heuer, Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and events organized by the Prince of Asturias CERN’s director-general, who received the François Englert (left), Peter Higgs (centre), Yifang Wang of the institute of High energy Foundation. Within this programme, Luis award on behalf of the laboratory. (Image and Rolf Heuer celebrate in Oviedo. (Image Physics, Beijing, for “their leadership of the Álvarez-Gaumé, a theoretical physicist at credit: Iván Martínez/FPA.) credit: Iván Martínez/FPA.) Daya Bay experiment, which produced the cern, gave a talk on the day of the awards fi rst defi nitive measurement of theθ 13 angle of ceremony at the Faculty of Science of oviedo equally among the laureates and comprises launch a competition for school students in the neutrino mixing matrix”. Luk and Wang university, while the day before, cern’s a Joan Miró sculpture representing and Spain. Pupils aged 6–18 will be challenged are the co-spokespersons for the experiment. director for research and computing, Sergio symbolizing the award, a cash prize of to submit a drawing, photo, video or news The contribution of young physicists to Bertolucci, joined englert and Higgs in €50 000, a diploma and an insignia. article. entries will be evaluated through the Daya Bay experiment is also recognized meeting with hundreds of students at the cern’s management has decided that a public vote and by an expert committee in awarding the Henry Primakoff Award university. Their public lecture was broadcast the prize to the laboratory will be used involving scientists from cern and the for early-career Particle Physics to Daniel live on screens throughout the campus and to offer 10 grants for PhD students from Spanish Centre for Particle Physics (CPAN), A Dwyer of the Lawrence Berkeley national Top: Kam-Biu-Luk (left), and Yifang Wang (centre), winners of the Panofsky Prize; (right) online. The day closed with a concert by the around the world to attend next year’s which will contribute to the competition with Laboratory, for his “innovative contributions Kwang-Je Kim, winner of the Robert R Wilson Prize. (Image credits: LBNL, IHEP/CAS, Symphony orchestra of the Principality major particle-physics conference, the related outreach activities and awards. Six to neutrino physics, particularly the ANL.) Bottom: Zvi Bern (left), Lance Dixon (centre), and David Kosower, who receive the of Asturias and the choir of the Prince of international conference on High-energy winners will be rewarded with a two-day broad and substantial role he played in J J Sakurai Prize. (Image credits: M Shifman, Brad Plummer, CEA.) Asturias Foundation. Physics, icHeP2014, in Valencia. visit to cern. Full details will be available commissioning, calibration and analysis in each Prince of Asturias Award is divided The prize to cern will also be used to from 1 December at www.cernland.net. the Daya Bay measurement of the mixing particle theory – the J J Sakurai Prize for the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical angle θ13”. Theoretical Particle Physics – goes to nuclear Physics, which for 2014 goes to C OLLaBOratiON The robert r Wilson Prize for Zvi Bern of the university of california, John negele of Massachusetts institute of Achievement in the Physics of Particle Los Angeles, Lance Dixon of SLAc and Technology, for “lifetime contributions Accelerators is another important award David Kosower of ceA-SAcLAY. The to nuclear many-body theory including Ukraine to become an associate member of CERN to recognize and encourage outstanding three theoreticians receive the award identifying mechanisms for saturation work. Kwang-Je Kim of Argonne national for “path-breaking contributions to the and relating the Skyrme interaction to on 3 october, cern’s director-general operates a Tier-2 computing centre of the Laboratory (ANL) receives the 2014 prize calculation of perturbative scattering fundamental nuclear forces, and for initiating rolf Heuer and the vice prime minister of Worldwide LHc computing Grid. for “his pioneering theoretical work in amplitudes, which led to a deeper and leading efforts to understand the nucleon ukraine Kostyantyn ivanovych Gryschenko ukraine’s associate membership will open synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers understanding of quantum fi eld theory and using lattice QcD”. signed a document admitting ukraine to a new era of co-operation that will strengthen that laid the foundation for both third and to powerful new tools for computing QcD Also in nuclear physics, the Tom associate membership of cern, subject to the long-term partnership between cern fourth generation X-ray sources”. Also related processes”. W Bonner Prize recognizes and encourages ratifi cation by Ukraine’s parliament – the and the Ukrainian scientifi c community. to the developments in accelerators, the The Dannie Heineman Prize for outstanding experimental research in Verkhovna rada. it will allow ukraine to participate in the 2013 James clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Mathematical Physics recognizes nuclear physics, including the development ukraine and cern signed a co-operation governance of cern, through attending Physics was recently awarded to Phillip outstanding publications in the fi eld of of a method, technique or device that agreement in 1993 and a joint declaration in the meetings of the cern council. Sprangle of the naval research Laboratory mathematical physics. The 2014 award goes signifi cantly contributes in a general way 2011, setting priorities in scientifi c–technical Moreover, ukrainian scientists will be able and the university of Maryland for his to Gregory Moore of rutgers university, to nuclear-physics research. William Zajc co-operation. But the relationship dates back Vice prime minister of Ukraine, Kostyantyn to become cern staff and participate in “pioneering contributions to the physics for “eminent contributions to mathematical of columbia university received the 2014 much further, principally through cern’s Ivanovych Gryschenko (left), shakes hands cern’s training and career-development of high-intensity laser interactions with physics with a wide inﬂ uence in many prize for “his contributions to relativistic co-operation with Jinr, of which ukraine is with CERN’s director-general after signing programmes. Finally, associate membership plasmas, and to the development of plasma fi elds, ranging from string theory to heavy-ion physics, in particular for his a member. the documentation for associate membership. will allow ukrainian industry to bid for accelerators, free-electron lasers, gyrotrons supersymmetric gauge theory, conformal leading role in the PHeniX experiment, Beyond its participation through Jinr, cern contracts, therefore opening up and high-current electron accelerators”. fi eld theory, condensed-matter physics and as well as for his seminal work on identical ukraine has been a long-time contributor to the LHc and to research and development on opportunities for industrial collaboration in The 2014 award that recognizes and four-manifold theory”. two-particle density interferometry as an the ALice, cMS and LHcb experiments at new accelerator technologies. ukraine also areas of advanced technology. encourages outstanding achievement in Theoretical work is also recognized with experimental tool”.

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Guido Altarelli (left) with Marek Jeżabek, Polish institute the general director of IFJ PAN, and Adam IOP medals: from particles to the cosmos Maj, the institute’s scientiﬁ c director. (Image makes Guido credit: IFJ PAN.) Studies at the smallest and largest scales in since 2004. the universe are among the areas of research Altarelli honorary Altarelli received the honour “in recognized in the 2013 awards by the uK’s recognition of his outstanding contribution Institute of Physics (IOP). professor to theoretical particle physics, in particular Among the annually awarded gold in verifying the Standard Model of medals, the Glazebrook Medal – named fundamental interactions and ideas in after the fi rst president of IOP, Richard In a ceremony on 16 September, the Henryk physics beyond the Standard Model, Glazebrook – rewards leadership in a Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear and for his enduring support of the physics context. This year it goes to Lyn Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences collaboration between cern and iFJ PAn”. evans of cern and imperial college (IFJ PAN) conferred the title of Honorary The author and co-author of more than London, who receives the award for “his Professor of the institute of nuclear Physics in the years 2000–2004, and is still at 200 scientifi c papers, Altarelli’s research outstanding leadership of the Large Hadron on Guido Altarelli, of the university of cern as an honorary member. He has had achievements cover a range of problems in collider Project”, the success of which “ is roma Tre. a role on advisory boards for many leading the phenomenology of particle interactions in large measure the result of Lyn evans’s Altarelli joined cern’s Theory Division laboratories and has been a member of within and beyond the Standard Model, in expertise in accelerator physics and his in 1987, where he held the position of head the Scientifi c Advisory Board at IFJ PAN close connection with experiment. superb qualities as a project leader”. Left: Lyn Evans, winner of the IOP’s 2013 Glazebrook Medal. Centre: Jonathan in the subject awards, the chadwick Butterworth, recipient of the Chadwick Medal and Prize. Right: Peter Norreys, who was a PPOiNtMENts Medal and Prize is awarded for awarded the Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize. (Image credits: J Butterworth (centre), distinguished research in particle physics. STFC (right).) Fabiola Gianotti selected for UN’s Scientifi c Advisory Board Jonathan Butterworth of university college London is the 2013 recipient, fast particle generation and energy transport worked as part of the science team on for “his pioneering experimental and in relativistic laser–plasma interactions”. nASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy cern physicist Fabiola Gianotti is among of Sciences, and nuclear physicist Dong-Pil phenomenological work in high-energy The Maxwell Medal and Prize is an Probe (WMAP) and led analysis for the the 26 scientists who have been appointed Min of Seoul national university. The particle physics, especially in the early career award made to physicists Atacama cosmology Telescope in chile. to the Scientifi c Advisory Board of the UN appointments are for two years with the understanding of hadronic jets”. The within the fi rst 12 years of their career Finally, the Kelvin Medal and Prize, secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. possibility of renewal. The positions are Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize (allowing for career breaks), for outstanding for outstanding contribution to public The Scientifi c Advisory Board consists of unpaid and the members are expected to “act recognizes distinguished research in contributions to theoretical physics, engagement within physics, this year goes to experts in a variety of fi elds, from technology in their personal capacity and will provide plasma, solar or space physics and this year mathematical or computational physics. a theoretical particle physicist, Jeff Forshaw and engineering to medicine and agricultural advice on a strictly independent basis”. goes to Peter norreys of the university of Joanna Dunkley of the university of of the university of Manchester, for “his science. They will provide advice on science, Last December, the united nations oxford and STFc rutherford Appleton oxford receives the 2103 medal for “her wide-reaching work aimed at helping the technology and innovation for sustainable General Assembly granted cern observer Laboratory. He is rewarded for “his contributions to determining the structure general public to understand complex ideas development to the un’s executive heads and status (CERN Courier January/February pioneering contributions to the physics of and history of our universe”. She has in physics”. secretary-general. uneSco will host the 2013 p5), which allows CERN the right board’s secretariat. The fi rst meeting of the to participate in the work of the General board will take place at the start of 2014. Assembly and to attend its sessions as an Besides Gianotti, four other physicists observer. Mikhail Shifman and Andrei Slavnov receive the have been appointed to the board: Susan Avery, president and director of the Woods Fabiola Gianotti, ATLAS spokesperson Pomeranchuck Prize Hole oceanographic institution, Vladimir from March 2009 to February 2013, in front Fortov, president of the russian Academy of the ATLAS detector.

Mikhail Shifman of the Theoretical sum rules provide a powerful tool for the Physics institute, university of calculation of QcD and the novikov– Se-Jung Oh (right), the president of the Institute for Minnesota and Andrei Slavnov of the Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov β-function Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, and Yannis Steklov institute, Moscow, received the plays an extremely important role in Semertzidis, after signing the ﬁ rst contract between Pomeranchuk Prize 2013 in a ceremony supersymmetric gauge theory. The exact IBS and a foreign-born IBS institute director. On that was held at the institute for Theoretical calculation of the gluino condensate 15 October, Semertzidis became the director of the and Experimental Physics (ITEP) on was one of the fi rst applications of the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research, 19 September. The prize – established idea that there are topological sectors in which will be located at the Korea Advanced Institute by ITEP in 1998 in memory of Isaak non-topological theory. of Science and Technology in Daejeon. The plan is to Pomeranchuk – is annually awarded to one Slavnov received the award for his launch a competitive Axion Dark Matter Experiment foreign and one russian theoretician for contribution to the investigation of in Korea, participate in state-of-the-art axion outstanding achievements in the fi eld. non-Abelian gauge theories, including the experiments around the world, play a leading role in Shifman has been honoured for formulation and proof of renormalizability. the proposed proton electric-dipole-moment (EDM) outstanding results in nonperturbative Widely employed since the early 1970s, it experiment and take a signiﬁ cant role in storage-ring quantum fi eld theory, including sum rules in inspired further important developments, precision physics involving EDM and muon g-2 quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and exact such as the Slavnov–Taylor identities that experiments. (Image credit: Ahram Kim IBS.) results in supersymmetric gauge theories. Mikhail Shifman (left) and Andrei Slavnov. are now described in textbooks on quantum The Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov (SVZ) (Image credit: ITEP.) fi eld theory.

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i s M D 2 0 1 3 a N N i v E r s a r Y An umbrella China’s IHEP celebrates its fi rst 40 years

symposium for The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) (Left) Aerial of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) view of IHEP. the physics of in Beijing celebrated its 40th anniversary (Right) The this year. Founded in 1973, it has grown BESIII to become one of the foremost research experiment at multiparticle institutions in china, focusing on particle BEPCII. (Image and astroparticle physics, accelerator physics credits: IHEP.) dynamics Participants of ISMD 2013 at IIT in and technologies, radiation technologies Chicago. (Image credit: B Robinson.) (mainly X rays, neutrons and positrons) and particle physics and astroparticle physics. current when in dedicated synchrotron their applications. Extended in 1994, the Yangbajing Cosmic radiation mode. Three experimental record rainfall in chicago failed to dampen plenary discussions of new results from the In September 1972, China’s premier, Zhou ray observatory in the Tibetan Highlands halls house 14 beamlines for research in the enthusiasm for multiparticle physics LHc experiments at cern as well as from enlai, wrote to high-energy physicists Zhang is one of the four largest international topics ranging from condensed-matter of those attending the XLiii international Fermilab’s Tevatron, the HerA collider Wenyu and Zhu Guangya, saying “This extensive air-shower arrays for studying physics to environmental science. Similar Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, at DeSY, Jefferson Lab, the relativistic issue should not be delayed any further. The γ rays and cosmic rays at ultra-high energies. multidisciplinary research will also be when it took place on 15–20 September at Heavy-ion collider at Brookhaven and the study of high-energy physics and the r&D More recently, construction of the Daya served by the china Spallation neutron the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). BaBar experiment at SLAc. in addition, of a high-energy accelerator should be one Bay reactor neutrino experiment started Source (CSNS) project, which was approved While some jokingly credited the umbrellas several talks covered recent progress in of the main projects of cAS.” Less than in october 2007. iHeP’s current director, in September 2008. The ground-breaking that were provided to participants for the theoretical QcD calculations, attempts to six months later, iHeP was established in Yifang Wang (p31), is co-spokesperson of ceremony for the project took place in meeting’s success, everyone was excited model and control the underlying event, February 1973, with Zhang Wenyu, a noted the experiment, which attracted the world’s Dongguan in october 2001. to attend the fi rst in the series to be held searches for exotic processes using boosted physicist and Purdue professor (1949–1956), attention with its discovery of a nonzero over the years, iHeP has also developed in the uS for seven years. With more than jet techniques, multiparticle correlations, appointed as its fi rst director. value for the neutrino mixing angle θ13 broad and strong co-operative ties with the 100 participants from nearly 20 countries, diffractive physics and searches beyond A colourful contributor to a successful The proposal for a high-energy accelerator (CERN Courier October 2013 p7). international high-energy physics community. iSMD 2013 was organized jointly by the the Standard Model using multi-object symposium. (Image credit: Z Sullivan.) came to fruition a decade later. in April The Beijing Synchrotron radiation important collaborations with europe and High energy Physics Division of Argonne fi nal states. 1983, the State Council offi cially approved Facility (BSRF), constructed almost in the uS currently include the ATLAS and national Laboratory and iiT to review A primary theme this year was the planning meetings that took place in the uS the project to construct the Beijing electron parallel with BePc, has been open to cMS experiments at the LHc and the Alpha progress and discuss upcoming issues in the striking similarity between proton–proton throughout 2012–2013. James Bjorken of Positron Collider (BEPC). Deng Xiaoping users since 1991. Following the upgrade to Magnetic Spectrometer on the international fi elds of high-energy physics, nuclear physics collisions and heavy-ion collisions. This SLAc concluded with a historic perspective and other leaders laid the foundation stone BePcii, the machine runs with 2.5 GeV Space Station. in addition, iHeP is a and astrophysics. similarity, which exhibits itself in the high on QcD. He considered the connections in a ground-breaking ceremony in october full-energy injection and 250 mA beam Worldwide LHc computing Tier-2 Grid site. The iSMD series started more than detector occupancy of proton–proton between outstanding issues that span nuclear the following year. Four years later, on 40 years ago in Paris, with the goal of collision events, presents signifi cant physics, high-energy physics and cosmology, 16 October 1988, the fi rst electron–positron establishing a dedicated international challenges for future high-precision and encouraged a broad examination across collisions took place. only a few months conference to discuss multihadron physics. A critical question for the next the subdisciplines for answers. earlier, IHEP had established the fi rst production in quantum chromodynamics decade will be how to maintain energy iSMD 2013 was supported by the uS computer link with cern via satellite – a (QCD). Early on, the symposium alternated resolution and reconstruction with a large Department of energy, the national Science VAX785 at IHEP became the fi rst computer its location between countries in eastern contribution from multiple proton–proton Foundation, cern and DeSY, a research to be connected to the internet from china and Western europe, which were divided interactions (pile-up). Many participants centre of the Helmholtz Association. with the node BePc2.iHeP.cern.cH. at that time by the iron curtain. From expressed their concern that continued The XLiV international Symposium on The beam energy of BePc was in the range the beginning, the goal was to bring access to low-pT jet physics is essential for Multiparticle Dynamics will be held in 1–2.8 GeV and the Beijing Spectrometer experimentalists and theorists together to the future of the fi eld. Bologna in 2014. (BES) installed there focused on τ-charm discuss all aspects of multiparticle dynamics, The symposium concluded with two views ● For more information about the physics. During its lifetime it collected from new analysis techniques to the latest of the future of multiparticle dynamics. chip presentations and proceedings of large samples of J/ψ, ψ´, D mesons and discoveries. Brock of Michigan State university discussed iSMD 2013, see http://atlaswww.hep.anl. τ particles, with notable results (CERN The tradition continued in September, with the conclusions of the Snowmass series of gov/ismd13/. Courier December 2001 p6 and December 2002 p6). However, to meet the challenges in precision measurements in this energy The installation of the electron injector for the European XFEL region, a thorough upgrade was necessary. has begun at the project’s Bahrenfeld site. Scientists and engineers in December 2003, a double-ring design was are currently putting together the different systems of the injector, offi cially approved and on 30 April 2004, many of which are tailored to produce 27,000 X-ray fl ashes per BePc shut down and the installation of second, a far higher rate than other free-electron laser facilities. BePcii began (CERN Courier June 2004 The injector will fi re electron bunches – needed to produce the p6). The new BESIII detector observed X-ray beam – into the accelerating section of the free-electron its fi rst collisions in July 2008 and by laser. Here workers guide the injector klystron into place using a May 2012 it was accumulating as many as The “Israel at CERN” Industrial Exhibition was inaugurated on 2 October with (left to crane in the injector hall. DESY is building the injector as part of 40 million J/ψ particles a day. earlier this right) Emmanuel Tsesmelis, CERN deputy head of International Relations, Eviatar the German contribution to the European XFEL. (Image credit: year, the BeSiii collaboration announced the Manor, ambassador of Israel to the offi ce of the United Nations and the other European XFEL.) discovery of a new mystery particle (CERN International Organizations in Geneva, ATLAS physicist George Mikenberg, Shai Courier May 2013 p7). Moses, Economic Attaché of Israel in Geneva, and CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer. iHeP is also involved in non-accelerator

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s C h O O L O B i t u a r Y New series of summer schools starts in Oxford Alfredo Susini 1926–2013 The First international Summer School on of advances in related cutting-edge intelligent Front-end Signal Processing technologies. The fi rst day covered the Alfredo Susini, an expert in rF cavities, died in Korea. He also collaborated with the for Frontier research and industry took main components of a state-of-the-art full at home in Switzerland on 17 August after a Gustav-Werner institute of uppsala, the place in Oxford on 10–16 July – the fi rst processing chain and the technologies for long struggle with illness. inFn synchrocyclotron of catania, the of a new series of annual summer schools designing and producing the front-end ASic Alfredo was born in imperia, italy. Antoine Lacassagne Hospital in nice and covering the complete signal-processing circuits. The next two days looked at silicon An electrical engineer, he was working the TerA Foundation in Pavia, and was chain found in modern instrumentation. photomultipliers and then semiconductor for the italian Military Aviation as an “Libero docente” at the university of Pisa. The aim is to focus on the most advanced microstrip- and pixel-based instruments. expert in microwaves in the 1950s when Alfredo was used to building his rF technologies in the fi elds of semiconductors, Silicon photomultipliers, microstrips and he was selected by edoardo Amaldi to cavities on a small budget, sometimes deep sub-micron and 3D technologies, pixels are the technologies that are most used work at cern as an rF engineer in the even re-using equipment that had been nanotechnology, advanced packaging today in research and many applied fi elds. Synchrocyclotron (SC) Division for the discarded by other groups. He impressed and interconnects, telecommunications, The fi fth day of the school moved on to 600 MeV accelerator. He was a brilliant his colleagues when at the Low energy real-time signal processing and fi ltering, and the tools for real-time fi ltering, triggering engineer and even though he did all of his Antiproton ring at cern he constructed massive parallel computing. The participants and data selection at the front end and in computing on a pocket calculator he was the rF cavity using a wooden box that studied many of the crucial challenges testing conditions. The challenges of data never proved wrong. He was among the fi rst he covered internally with aluminium and issues of front-end detection and transmission at the front end and related to use ferrites and water to damp the higher paper. The cavity worked perfectly for six processing for building 21st-century frontier advanced high-tech solutions were then modes of resonance of the rF cavities. months. Because of this attitude he often instruments. discussed and fi nally the seventh day looked He soon became a world leader in rF for came into conﬂ ict with some of his younger Sixty young physicists and engineers at the tools for testing, characterizing cyclotrons and synchrotrons and, when the colleagues, who were not used to recycling. from around the world – master’s and PhD and ensuring the performance of the Sc was stopped, he moved to the Proton in private, Alfredo was gentle and full of students and young postdocs – participated A laboratory session at the school. (Image demonstrators produced. Synchrotron Division and took leave from Albert Susini with RF cavities for CERN's curiosity. He often enjoyed sailing with a in a programme of lectures and laboratory credit: Garret Cotter.) Participants also took part in social CERN during 1973–1977 to work for Large Electron-Positron collider. small boat on Lake Geneva or on the sea at work. Technical examples were drawn from activities in and around the city of oxford. Scanditronix AB in Sweden to construct the isola del Giglio, where he spent his vacations cross-disciplinary applications and ranged from academia and industry gave lectures These included a banquet in the ancient rF systems for a 120 MeV/nucleon research isotope production and neutron therapy. in a summer residence. He leaves behind from exploration of the distant universe on technical developments and science dining hall of exeter college, evenings in cyclotron at the Hahn-Meitner institute in Alfredo contributed to the construction his wife clara and two sons, Stephane and through medical imaging to the physics of overviews, alongside hands-on laboratory traditional english pubs and an entertaining what was then West Berlin. The spin-off from of the 40 MeV cyclotrons for euratom Alberto, who had made him a grandfather. elementary particles. This variety brought sessions with technology demonstrators, as race around Port Meadow on the river this project became a production chain of in ispra, italy, and for the clatterbridge He is greatly missed and will be together a new generation of engineers well as masterclasses on related science and Thames. medium-sized cyclotrons in the energy range Hospital in the UK, as well as 60 MeV remembered by us all. and scientists from across the research as a forum for discussions Building on the success of this inaugural 40–60 MeV, which were built for research, machines for Seattle in the uS and Seoul ● His friends and colleagues. communities, allowing them to get to The school began with an introductory school, the next will be held in Paris on know each other through training sessions examination of why is it essential to 14–25 July 2014. M E E t i N G s that combined advanced technologies introduce “intelligence” at the early ● For more information on the 2013 school, with frontier research. Worldwide experts processing stage, followed by an explanation visit www.physics.ox.ac.uk/inFieri2013/. inSTr14, the International Conference Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors (to be invited and contributed presentations. There on Instrumentation for Colliding held in 2015). The deadline for registration will also be poster sessions – including a v i s i t s Beam Physics, will be held in the Budker and abstract submission is 15 January. For special poster session for students – held institute of nuclear Physics, novosibirsk, more details, visit the conference website during conference registration on 15 June. The UK’s minister of state for trade and on 24 February–1 March. The conference http://instr14.inp.nsk.su/. An industrial exhibition will take place investment, Lord Green, of Hurstpierpoint covers novel methods of particle detection on 16–18 June and there will be a special (right) was welcomed to CERN on used in various experiments at particle The 5th International Particle Accelerator session for industry on 18 June. For a 1 October by Rüdiger Voss, head of colliders and other accelerators as well Conference, iPAc’14, will take place at the detailed conference programme, as well international relations, who gave a general as in astrophysics. it is organized in close international congress center Dresden, on as information on registration (before introduction to CERN's activities. The relationship with the Vienna conference on 15–20 June 2014. The programme includes 14 April for lower fees) and reservation of minister then had the opportunity to visit Instrumentation (last held in 2013) and the plenary sessions and parallel sessions with accommodation, see www.ipac2014.org. the ATLAS underground experimental area. N EW P r O D u C t s

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