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Nouvelles brèves Oscar Barbalat - transférer la technologie de la physique des particules. Personnalités Livres reçus Richard Garwin a reçu le prestigieux prix Enrico Fermi des États-Unis Quantum Mechanics and the Pomeron, couronnant l'ensemble de sa carrière. parJ.R. Forshaw et D.A. Ross, Ses expériences menées avec Léon Cambridge University Press, Lederman et M. Weinrich lui ont permis ISBN 0 521 568880 3, £19.95 ($34.95) de confirmer, en 1957, la non- broché conservation de la parité au cours de la désintégration nucléaire bêta et son point de vue averti a été maintes fois Dans la série Cambridge, Lecture sollicité par les plus hautes instances Notes on Physics. du gouvernement et de l'industrie, en raison de ses compétences dans des domaines scientifiques très variés. Wavelets - Calderôn-Zygmund and Le prix Max Born de la Société Trente-six ans après ses débuts au multilinear operators, par Yves Meyer allemande de physique a été décerné CERN, Oscar Barbalat vient de partir à et Ronald Coifman, Cambridge à Robin Marshall, de Manchester, pour la retraite. Bien connu pour ses vigou­ University Press, ISBN 0 521 42001 6, "sa contribution exceptionnelle à la reux efforts visant à promouvoir le £40 ($59.95) relié. physique des particules, et notamment transfert et la valorisation des pour ses travaux sur l'interaction précieuses technologies de la électrofaible". Les années impaires, la physique des particules, (de l'avis de Société de physique allemande certain commentateur, ce transfert est Dans la série Cambridge, studies in attribue ce prix à un physicien devenu si efficace que l'offre de advanced mathematics. britannique, et les années paires, technologie risquerait de devenir l'Institut britannique de physique insuffisante!), Oscar Barbalat a récompense en retour un physicien contribué à faire connaître le CERN et allemand. ses travaux à un plus large public, et la The Casimir Effect and its Applications, par V.M. Mostepanenko et N.N. Trunov, Oxford Science Publications, ISBN 0 19 853998 3, £55 relié U "effet Casimir "provient des altérations des variations dans le vide des champs quantiques dans des topologies spéciales. Le prix Nobel de physique 1992, Georges Charpak (à droite) lors de l'ouverture de la récente exposition "la France au CERN" en compagnie de Bernard Bigot, Directeur général pour la recherche et la technologie auprès du Ministère de l'éducation et de la recherche. Courrier CERN, Septembre 1997 31 Nouvelles brèves Une conférence internationale s'est tenue à Turin en juin pour célébrer le 65ème anniversaire de /'eminent physicien, mathématicien et astrophysicien Tullio Regge. Les thèmes de la rencontre, organisée par la fondation ISI (Institut d'Échanges Scientifiques), ont reflété la diversité des sujets intéressant Tullio Regge en dehors de ceux pour lesquels il est particulièrement connu. Tullio Regge est ici accompagné de Gabriele Veneziano du CERN (à gauche) et de Schu Martin. (Photo André Martin) promotion des retombées technologiques a très certainement incité de nouveaux pays à devenir membres de l'Organisation. Le Centre de Beyrouth Conçu sur le modèle de l'Institut de physique théorique de Santa Barbara et de l'Institut universitaire Newton de Cambridge, le Centre d'études mathématiques avancées de Beyrouth aspire à devenir un centre national et régional, à servir de pôle d'attraction pour des visiteurs du monde entier et de lieu de conférence. Ce centre a été créé par Nicola Khuri de Rockefeller, l'un des administrateurs du conseil de l'Université américaine de Beyrouth. Le président du Comité consultatif international du centre n'est autre que l'éminent mathématicien Michael Atiyah. Le 8 mai, le Directeur général du CERN, Chris Llewellyn Smith, (deuxième à partir de la droite) a reçu le titré de docteur honoris causa de l'Université de Grenade. De gauche à droite: le théoricien espagnol José Bernabeu, le recteur de l'Université de Grenade Lorenzo Morillas, Chris Llewellyn Smith et le théoricien espagnol Francisco del Aguila. Docteurs honoris causa de Bristol - de gauche à droite: Yakir Aharonov de Tel-Aviv, célèbre pour ses contributions à la mécanique quantique fondamentale (l'effet Bohm- Aharonov); Chris Llewellyn Smith, Directeur général du CERN; Peter Higgs d'Edimbourg, dont le nom est à jamais associé à celui de la "brisure spontanée des symétries"; et Emil Wolf, bien connu pour ses travaux dans le domaine de l'optique. 32 Courrier CERN, Septembre 1997 [MAIS DÈS LES PROCHAINES ANNÉES Au début ils sont au centre d'intérêt - nos éléments flexibles, qui mettent en mouvement des systèmes rigides. Lorsqu'il s'agit de compenser des contractions, des oscillations et des dilatations de chaleur dans des systèmes de conduites. Et lorsque nous avons trouvé la solution correcte dans notre vaste éventail de produits, vous ne les verrez et ne les entendrez plus pendant des années. C'est pourquoi, vous chantez de plus leurs louanges. Les compensateurs, les flexibles métalliques et les soufflets métalliques ne sont que quelques exemples de la manière par laquelle nous mettons en mouvement des systèmes rigides. A propos Witzênmann - la flexibilité en acier - a reçu l'homologation ISO 9001 ff. hydra WITZENMANN Witzênmann GmbH Metallschlauch-Fabrik Pforzheim Telefax ++49-72 31/581-825 e-mail: [email protected] http://www. witzênmann. com Nouvelles brèves Alvaro de Rûjula (à gauche) succède à Alberto Scaramelli devient le chef de la Gabriele Veneziano à la tête de la Division Division Support technique du CERN (ST), Études Théoriques du CERN. succédant ainsi à Fritz Ferger. Le suédois Bjorn Brandt (à droite), Président du Comité des finances entre 1992 et 1994 et le norvégien Arnfinn Graue, Président du Comité des finances entre 1989 et 1991 et aussi membre d'un Comité spécial sur les conditions d'emploi (à gauche) ont quitté cette année leurs fonctions dans leurs délégations nationales au CERN. Maurice Jacob (au centre), responsable des relations entre le CERN et les États membres, leur offre ses voeux pour la suite de leur carrière. Le fabricant spécialisé Oxford Instruments a vendu un deuxième synchrotron supraconducteur compact - Hélios 2 - à l'Université de Singapour. Il sera utilisé dans une nouvelle installation de rayonnement synchrotron. La lithographie par rayons X devrait être son domaine d'application principal, comme dans le cas d'Hélios 1, vendu par Oxford Instruments au laboratoire d'IBM à East Fishkill, État de New York. 34 Courrier CERN, Septembre 1997 Nouvelles brèves Dan Kaplan, membre de l'Institut de t> technologie de l'Illinois et co-découvreur de l'upsilon, remet à Makoto Kobayashi un vase artisanal commémoratif en verre soufflé en forme d'upsilon pour rendre honneur à ses travaux menés avec Toshihide Maskawa qui mirent en évidence la nécessité d'un cinquième quark. Leon Lederman offre une tranche de b du gâteau d'anniversaire à l'Institut de technologie de l'Illinois pour célébrer les 20 ans de la découverte delà particule upsilon - un état lié d'un quark b et de son antiquark - au laboratoire Fermi en 1977. v A droite : Ueminent théoricien Sergio Fubini (au centre) reçoit des mains d'Ernesto Olivero, membre de l'organisation caritative turinoise SER.MI.G, la médaille "d'artisan de la paix", en remerciement de ses efforts pour rapprocher les physiciens du Moyen-Orient (janvier 1996, page 21). À sa droite, Mme Mercedes Bresso, présidente de la province de Turin. La cérémonie s'est déroulée dans l'Abbaye de Novalese, au pied du Mont Cenis. Cette abbaye qui abrita jadis l'une des plus grandes bibliothèques de la chrétienté et inspira à Umberto Eco l'intrigue de son roman, "Le nom de la rose", a été restaurée par le gouvernement local. Elle représente pour beaucoup un site idéal pour la tenue de conférences internationales pour la paix. Personnalités serbes en visite au CERN - de gauche à droite: Miroslav Kopecni, Directeur général de l'Institut des sciences nucléaires VINCA à Belgrade; Dragan Popovic, Directeur général de l'Institut de physique Zemun à Belgrade; Jim Allaby, responsable des relations entre le CERN et les États non membres; Vladimir Davidovic, Ministre adjoint des sciences et de la technologie en Serbie; Nebojsa Neskovic, Directeur du centre scientifique TESLA; Peter Adzic, chef du programme de physique des particules à l'Institut VINCA. Courrier CERN, Septembre 1997 35 /•^"y^X DESY announces a Universitàt Heidelberg DESY Post-Doc Position The Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) at Heidelberg University has The candidate is expected to play a key role in the design and immediate openings for commissioning of the rf control system for the 64 superconducting cavities of the TESLA Test Facility. The basic concept is based on a Two Postdoctoral Positions state of the art fast digital IQ controller which controls the vector-sum in Experimental Particle Physics of 32 cavity voltages in presence of severe Lorentz force detuning, microphonics, and bunch charge fluctuations. The applicant will The first position (Réf. ATLAS-PD) is in the ATLAS group at the IHEP. The develop and implement control algorithms based on modern successful applicant will be working on the Level-1 calorimeter trigger of the control theory, procedures for the calibration of phase and ATLAS experiment at the LHC and in particular on the realization of a full amplitude of the vector-sum, and cavity frequency control. Actual size prototype for the trigger pre-processor system. The system employs mo­ performance with beam will be measured until end of 97 resulting in dern electronics components like custom made ASIC's, Multi-Chip Modules suggestions for hardware and software improvements if necessary. and FPGA's. The position is located in the ASIC laboratory at Heidelberg University. The candidate should have a Ph.D. in physics or equivalent Experience in digital hardware, computer aided electronic design tools and science.
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