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Senior Staff Promotion CONFIDENTIAL CERN / 2649 RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION Original: English 6 December 2005 ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH Action to be taken Voting procedure . I SCIENTIFICé°°““°‘ POLICY COMMITTEE For241Meeting reconmencsation 5, 12 December 2005 J FO; Approval l§g,&;§§gn Simple Majority 15 December 2005 SENIOR STAFF PROMOTION From the Director-General This paper contains a proposal for promotion to salary band Gc of Prof. Sergio Ferrara. In application of Article R II 2.07 of the Staff Rules and Regulations which stipulates that "Entry to salary band Gc shall be decided by the Council on the Director General ’s proposal ", the Director-General herewith submits his proposal to the Scientific Policy Committee for recommendation to the Council and to Council for approval. CERN LIBRARIES, GENEVA CM-P00079116 OCR Output CERN/2649 SENIOR STAFF PROMOTION From the Director—General 1. Following Article R II 2.07 of the Staff Rules and Regulations, "Entry to salary band Gc shall be decided by the Council on the Director-General ’s proposal ’ Promotion to salary band Gc represents the highest recognition foreseen by the CERN Staff Rules and Regulations and has been reserved for exceptional cases of staff who have made outstanding contributions to the Organization. 2. In accordance with the above-mentioned provision of Staff Rules and Regulations, the Director—General herewith submits his proposal for promotion of Prof. Sergio Ferrara to salary band Gc to the Scientific Policy Committee for recommendation to Council and to Council for approval. Prof. Sergio Ferrara Sergio Ferrara was bom in Rome, Italy, on May 2, 1945 ; he graduated from the University of Rome in 1968. Since then he worked as a CNEN and INFN researcher at the Frascati National Laboratories; as a CNRS Visiting Scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and at the Theoretical Studies Division at CERN, Geneva. In 1980 he was made a full professor of theoretical physics in Italy. He became a staff member of the Theory Division at CERN in 1981 and a visiting Professor of Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985. Since 1986 he has been a senior staff member of the Physics Department at CERN. OCR Output CERN/2649 HONORS AND AWARDS: Dr. Ferrara received the "Prix Scientifique UAP" in Paris in 1991 and, together with Dr. D. Freedman and Dr. P. van Nieuwenhuizen, was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize of ICTP, Trieste (IAEA, UNESCO) in 1993. In 2005, he received an "honorary degree" in physics from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and shared the 2005 "Enrico Fermi" Prize of the Italian Physical Society with Dr. G. Veneziano and Dr. B. Zumino. Recently he has been awarded the 2006 Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society, together with Drs. D. Freedman (MIT) and P. van Nieuwenhuizen (Stony Brook). The Dirac Medal of the ICTP and the Dannie Heineman prize from the APS are the two most prestigious awards in theoretical physics (just after the Nobel). SCIENTIFIC HIGHLIGHTS: Dr. Ferrara has written approximately three hundred research papers in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics and mathematical physics, particularly in the study of conformal invariance in quantum field theory, supersymmetric gauge theories, and the theory of supergravity and superstrings. Five "renowned" papers (titles in Annex I) are the subject of over 500 citations and 45 "f`amous" papers of over 100 citations in the HEP (SPIRES-SLAC) database. Among his most influential contributions are: 1. The study of implications of "conformal invariance" in quantum field theory, especially for its simplification of scattering processes at very high energy and of the product of local operators at short distances. This had a crucial impact also on the holografic connections of theories of gravity in AdS (anti-deSitter) space and conformal invariant field theories on its boundary. [With R. Gatto (Univ. Geneva), A.F. Grillo (INFN Gran Sasso Lab.), G. Parisi (Univ. of RomeI).] OCR Output CERN/2649 The discovery of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. This work opened the way to the construction of the supersymmetric generalization of the Standard Model of electroweak and strong interactions, which is nowadays one of the most interesting extensions of physics beyond the Fermi scale, soon to be tested at the LHC. [With B. Zumino (UC Berkeley).] The discovery of supergravity, the frst non-trivial extension of Einstein's theory of gravitation, based on the new gauge principle of "local supersymmetry". This theory predicts a new fermionic gauge particle, the spin-3/2 "gravitino", which may explain the "dark matter" of the Universe. [With D. Freedman (MIT) and P. van Nieuwenhuizen (Stony Brook).] The construction of general effective lagrangians coupling matter multiplets describing Yang—Mills theories such as the supersyrnmetric extension of the Standard Model to N = l supergravity. [With E. Cremrner (Ecole normale, Paris), A. van Proeyen (Univ. Leuven), and L. Girardello (Second University of Milan).] Supersymmetry-breaking terms required for realistic applications of supersymmetric theories to physics beyond the Fermi scale and their relation to the physics at the Planck scale. [With R.Barbieri (Scuola Normale di Pisa) and C. Savoy (Saclay).] No—scale supergravity, at the basis of understanding the possibility of having a naturally vanishing cosmological constant, even in the presence of broken supersymrnetry. [With E. Cremmer, C. Kounnas (Ecole Normale, Paris), D. Nanopoulos (Texas A&M, College Station,TX).] OCR Output CERN/2649 5. Extrcmal black holes and universal attractors. This work shows the behavior of extremal black holes as interpolating solitons between maximally symmetric geometries, with a universal behavior when approaching the horizon, with a topological formula for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, showing its independence from the initial conditions. [With R. Kallosh (Stanford Univ.) and A. Strominger (Harvard Univ.).] GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES: Dr. Ferrara has served on the INFN Council from 1983 to 1989 (as representative of the Ministry of Industry), on the NATO Scientific Committee from 1996 to 2000 (as representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and is presently a member of the Administrative Council of the Enrico Fermi Centre in Rome, Italy (as representative of the Ministry of Arts and Culture). EDITOR AND REFEREE: Dr. Ferrara has edited several books and many conference proceedings: ICTP Spring School in Supergravity (1980,1981, co—edited with J .G. Taylor and P. van Nieuwenhuizen); Europhysics Study Conferences in Erice (1981,1982, co—edited with J. Ellis and P. van Nieuwenhuizen); a two-volume collection of articles on Supersymmetry and Supergravity (1988, published by North Holland and World Scientific). He is a referee for the main intemational scientific journals, such as Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics, etc. He has been a referee for the Nobel Committee of Physics from 1988 to 2000. In conclusion, Prof Sergio Ferrara’s reputation as a theorist is acknowledged all over the world. The prestigious awards he has received are an undisputed recognition of his very important contributions to supersymmetric gauge theories, and the theory of supergravity OCR Output CERN/2649 and superstrings. It is an honour for CERN that he is a member of its Staff. CERN Council is encouraged to join in a laudatory appreciation by promoting Prof. Ferrara to the highest recognized Gc ranking among CERN Staff members. OCR Output CERN/2649 Annex I R€l10WIl€d p3p€l'SI E. Cremmer, S. Ferrara, L. Girardello, Antoine Van Proeyen, YANG-MILLS THEORIES WITH LOCAL SUPERSYMMETRY: LAGRANGIAN, TRANSFORMATION LAWS AND SUPERHIGGS EFFECT Nuc1.Phys.B212:413,l983. Cited 768 times in the HEP (SPIRES-SLAC) database. Riccardo Barbieri, S. Ferrara, C.A. Savoy, GAUGE MODELS WITH SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN LOCAL SUPERSYMMETRY Phys.Lett.B1 19:343, 1982. Cited 798 times in the HEP (SPIRES-SLAC) database. E. Cremmer etal. SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING AND HIGGS EFFECT IN SUPERGRAVITY WITHOUT COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT. Nucl.Phys.B147:lO5,1979. Cited 548 times in the HEP (SPIRES-SLAC) database. P. Fayet, S. Ferrara, SUPERSYMMETRY. Phys.Rept.32:249-334,1977. Cited 821 times in the HEP (SPIRES-SLAC) database. Daniel Z. Freedman, P. van Nieuwenhuizen, S. Ferrara PROGRESS TOWARD A THEORY OF SUPERGRAVITY Phys.Rev.D13:3214-3218,1976. Cited 705 times in the HEP (SPIRES-SLAC) database..
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