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EVENTS CERN-inspired art exhibition opens in

CERN engineer Ian Sexton (left) and artist Paola Pivi's "sculpture machine" of moving Jerome Basserode's spinning tops are his \ Ken McMullen contemplate their work. needles detects people as they approach. reaction to the concept of time in motion.

"Signatures of the Invisible", the contempo­ artists together to create works based on Geneva's Centre d'Art Contemporain until May, rary art exhibition inspired by , research carried out at CERN.The resulting when it will move on to Lisbon. , came home to Geneva in February. An initia­ exhibition opened at London's Atlantis gallery Paris, and a Japanese city (yet to be deter­ tive of the London Institute, the world's largest in March 2001 {CERN Courier May 2001 p23) mined) are possible future venues. college of art and design, "Signatures of the to critical acclaim, and has since visited For full details of the project, see Invisible" brought 11 of Europe's leading and Rome.The exhibition remains at http://www.signatures.linst.ac.uk.

Brian Foster takes over from Lorenzo Foa as chairman of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) on 1 July. Currently spokesman of the ZEUS collaboration at Hamburg's DESY laboratory, Foster has served on numerous committees and worked on experiments at CERN, DESY and SLAC in . He was a UK delegate to CERN Council in 1997, and has served on CERN's LEP and LHC committees. From 1992 until 1996 he was Prize laureate for 2001 Nicholas Samios (right) is seen here with part of the UK delegation to ECFA's plenary Nicolai Russakovich, director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research's Dzhelepov sessions, and he was a member of the ECFA Laboratory, and Stepan Bunyatov, secretary of the prize jury, in the Bruno Pontecorvo plenary panel on the future of European memorial study at the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems. Samios received the prize at the particle physics in 2000 and 2001. His JINR Scientific Council meeting on 18 January 2002. (Yu Tumanov.) mandate as ECFA chair runs until 2005.

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Take Control with LabVIEW"6.1

National Instruments LabVIEW &1 delivers instant Web-based control. John lliopoulos, seen here with his son Alexander, has been awarded the Aristeio With LabVIEW 6.1, control your Bodossaki Prize for 2002. In 1970 lliopoulos, currently director of the Theoretical Physics LabVIEW application over the Web - Laboratory at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, recognized the importance of a fourth from anywhere in the world - kind of quark, along with Sheldon Glashow and , CERN's current director- with no programming. LabVIEW 6.1 general. This led to the famous GIM mechanism, which allows flavour-conserving Z-boson- also includes: mediated weak interactions within the Standard Model but no flavour-changing ones. The award is made by the Bodossaki Foundation, established in 1973 by Greek philanthropist • Wireless and XML connectivity Prodromos Athanassiadis, known as Bodossakis. The foundation promotes education, • New event structure for streamlined medical care and environmental concerns in Greece, lliopoulos is the first recipient of the user interface development foundation's Aristeio prize, which has been instituted to recognize Greeks who have made • 150% performance significant contributions towards furthering their chosen fields of science. The award is improvement for fast Fourier accompanied by a sum of €150 000 and will be presented at a ceremony in Athens in June. transform (FFT) analysis • Enhanced measurement analysis

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New title for IOPP

Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) has teamed up with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, to publish the journal Nuclear Fusion. All sub­ missions and the peer review process will continue to be managed by the IAEA, while 's deputy minister for productive publication, distribution, subscription fulfil­ activities, Adolfo Urso (centre), visited the ment and marketing of the journal in print and string-2 test-bed for CERN's Large Hadron electronic form will now be the responsibility Israel's ambassador to Switzerland, Collider in January. He is seen here with of IOPP Ygal Antebi (left), is seen here with CERN CERN's Roberto Saban (left) and director- Launched in 1960, Nuclear Fusion is a research director Roger Cashmore. general Luciano Maiani. leading journal in the field. IOPP also pub­ lishes the CERN Courier.

Persis Drell of Cornell University has been appointed associate director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's Research Division. She takes over from Steve Williams who has been acting associate director since September 2000. Persis Drell is no newcomer to SLAC. She grew up on the Stanford campus where her father, Sid Drell, is a long-time member of the Stanford faculty and was deputy director at SLAC for many years. Following a PhD in atomic physics at Berkeley in 1983, Persis switched to particle physics and worked as a postdoc on the Mark II experiment. She served on the SLAC Program Advisory Committee from 1993 until 1995 and is currently chair of the SLAC Scientific Policy Committee. The move back to California is a logical progression. At Cornell her research focused on studies of charm and bottom quarks at the pioneering Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CERN Courier January/February pl3), a line of enquiry whose focus shifted eastwards with the start-up in 2000 of B-factories at SLAC and at KEK in (CERN Courier October 2000 p6).

MEETINGS transport lines, and will offer a forum in which Model" will take place on 18-24 August in participants can exchange ideas and review Zuoz (Engadine), Switzerland.To register con­ The European Particle Accelerator instrumentation designs. It will also serve as tact the Secretary, Christine Kunz, CH-5232 Conference (EPAC '02) will take place at an introduction to topics for engineers and Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.Tel. +41 56 310 the Congress Centre of Paris's Cite des scientists with the aid of tutorial sessions. Thee 4223; fax +41 56 310 3294; email Christine. Sciences et de I'lndustrie at la Villette on 3-7 Faraday Cup Award for innovative achievemenntt [email protected] before 1 June. No special form is June. Plenary sessions on the mornings of 3 in instrument design (sponsored by Bergoz off required, but personal information should be June and 7 June will be complemented by France) will be presented by the organizing complete. For more information or to register parallel sessions on the intervening days. committee during the workshop. See online see the website at http://ltpth.web. There will also be an industrial exhibition for http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/BIW02/. psi.ch/zuoz2002/. the first three days of the conference, and a special session for industry is scheduled for The 9th European Symposium on The 2002 CERN School of Computing, the afternoon of 5 June.The European Semiconductor Detectors will take place o>nn organized by CERN in collaboration with the Physical Society Inter-Divisional Group on 23-27 June 2002 at Schloss Elmau in the Institute of Composite Materials and Accelerators prizes will be awarded at the Bavarian mountains.This meeting continues a Biomaterials, National Research Council, conference. Full details are available at successful series of conferences focusing on Naples, Italy, will be held on 15-28 http://epac2002.lal.in2p3.fr. the physics, concepts and technology of radi-­ September in Vico Equense, Italy. It is aimed ation detectors and related electronics. Many/ at postgraduate students and research work­ Brookhaven National Laboratory will host the ideas that are now well established were first ers with a few years' experience in particle 10th Beam Instrumentation Workshop on presented in this conference series. See physics, computing or related fields. Special 6-9 May 2002.The workshop will address http://www.hll.mpg.de/elmau. themes this year are: from detectors to design principles and engineering issues of physics papers; Grid computing; security and beam-diagnostic and control instrumentation The 2002 Zuoz Summer School - networks; tools and methods. More informa­ for charged particle accelerators and beam "Exploring the Limits of the Standard tion is available at http://www.cern.ch/CSC/.

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OBITUARIES Theodore Kouyoumzelis 1906 - 2001

Theodore Kouyoumzelis passed away on 4 From 1945 until 1972, Kouyoumzelis taught October 2001, aged 95. A tireless promoter of physics at the University of Athens. He became nuclear and particle physics in Greece, he a professor there in 1958, and held professor­ graduated with a PhD from Athens University ships at the army, navy and air force schools in 1932. Soon after, he moved to Munich from 1940 until 1964. He was dean of the where he worked as a postdoc under Arnold School of Chemical Engineers at the National Sommerfeld and Walther Gerlach. Technical University of Athens from 1961 until Professor Kouyoumzelis's long association 1970. At the University of Patras, he served on with CERN predates the organization itself. He election committees from 1966 until 1967. first represented Greece at the second meet­ Kouyoumzelis was instrumental in the cre­ ing of the Council of the Interim Organization ation of Greece's national scientific research in June 1952. On that occasion, he was centre - Demokritos - and generations of standing in for the original Greek delegate, Greek students in nuclear and particle physics Professor Hondros, from whom he formally have studied using his classic textbooks. From took over two years later. He served as vice- 1954 until 1960, he was general secretary of president of the Council from 1972 until the Greek Atomic Energy Agency, and from 1975, and attended his last CERN Council 1968 until 1971 he was president of the meeting in 1982 as its longest standing dele­ country's Atomic Energy Committee. gate. Thanks in large part to his efforts, Greece Without a doubt,Theodore Kouyoumzelis cast its vote in favour of all major machines at Theodore Kouyoumzelis 1906 - 2001. has been the most influential person in CERN during his mandate - the SC, the PS, nuclear and particle physics in Greece in the the ISR, the SPS and LER In wishing decisive uornriuuiion a smaii memoer state last 50 years. His legacy will continue to be Kouyoumzelis a fruitful retirement, director- can make to an international organization felt by future generations of Greek physicists. general Herwig Schopper drew attention to the such as CERN. Emmanuel Floratos. Dimiter Tsvetanov Stoyanov 1936 - 2002

Distinguished Bulgarian theoretical physicist work on the relativistic 3-body problem in DimiterTsvetanov Stoyanov died on 14 quantum field theory, and for work in the January 2002 at the age of 66. Stoyanov group-theoretic approach to dual-resonance began his career in 1959 at the Institute of models. His early work in the superconformal Physics of the Bulgarian Academy of representation theory, and later studies of Sciences. In 1963 he joined the Laboratory non-standard representations of the Lorentz forTheoretical Physics at the Joint Institute for and conformal group and their applications to Nuclear Research in , Russia, where he conformal quantum electrodynamics, have became the head of a department in 1971. also left their mark. Recently, he turned his He had been an associate professor at the attention to quaternionic analyticity, infinite- Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear dimensional Lie algebras, and p-brane theory. Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Dimiter Stoyanov left behind a generation of since 1973, and a full professor since 1982. Bulgarian physicists inspired by his all- In 1997 he was elected corresponding mem­ embracing devotion to science, his ber of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. enthusiasm, and his profound vision.To all of Stoyanov will be remembered for pioneering them he was both a teacher and a dear friend. Dimiter Tsvetanov Stoyanov 1936-2002.

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