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At CERN, Geoff Taylor of Melbourne explains the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC proton People and things collider to Australian senator Jacinta Collins. Both Melbourne and Sydney are members of the ATLAS collaboration. LEP2000 At its June meeting, CERN's governing body, Council, decided that CERN's flagship machine, the LEP electron-positron collider, should continue physics in the year 2000 before finally being shut down. Running at a collision energy of 189 GeV, LEP is exploring the region where, according to consistency checks on today's Standard Model of particle physics, the famous Higgs particle is most likely to be found. The Higgs, responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, is the missing link in the Standard Model picture. Other new physics could come into view as the LEP energy is cranked higher. With upgrades of the cryoplants servicing the superconducting accelerating cavities which provide energy to the circulating beams, and with careful preparation of the cavities them selves, the goal /£ for LEP to attain an ultimate collision energy of 200 Fixed Target and Future Pro Support and Technologies (EST) GeV (100 GeV per beam), more than grammes until December 2001; Division from 1 January 1999 to 31 double the energy of the machine Lyndon Evans will continue as LHC December 1999, and Philippe Lebrun when it was commissioned in 1989. Project Leader for three years; Horst (currently Leader of the Cryogenics Wenninger was appointed Director for Accelerators Group in CERN's for Technology Transfer and LHC Division) was appointed as CERN Council Scientific Computing until May 1999 Leader of LHC Division from 1 with Hans F. Hoffmann taking over January 1999 to 31 December 2001. Also at the June meeting of CERN from June 1999 to December 2001; Council, Walter Majerotto of Austria Kurt Hubner will continue as Director was nominated Vice-President of for Accelerators for two years; Jurgen On people Council for one year from 1 July. May was appointed Technical Council decided CERN's new Director until 31 December 2001; and Prominent cosmologist Martin Rees management structure to begin in Maurice Robin will continue as of Cambridge has been awarded the January 1999 when Luciano Maiani Director of Administration for three prestigious Bower Science Prize of starts his five year mandate as years. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute 'for Director-General. Roger Cashmore Manuel Delfino (currently at his significant contributions and (currently at Oxford) was appointed Barcelona's Universidad Autonoma) research on cosmic evolution, black Director for Collider Programmes was appointed Leader of CERN's holes and galaxies'. until December 2001; Claude Détraz Information Technology (IT) Division New members of the US National (currently Director of the French from 1 January 1999 to 31 December Academy of Sciences include Roman IN2P3 institute of nuclear and particle 2001. Dietrich Gusewell was re Jackiw of MIT and Michael Witherell physics) was appointed Director for appointed Leader of Engineering of Santa Barbara. CERN Courier, September 1998 35 People and things The head of the Friends and Sponsors of DESYAssociation, Erich Lohrmann (left), Hans von der Schmitt takes over DESY's Research Director at CERN from 1976 to Technical Infrastructure and Central 1978, former member of the DESY Directorate Computing department and leading DESY scientist for many years, presents the Association's annual PhD thesis prize to Alexandre Alimovich Glazov (32) from the Humboldt University in Berlin (centre) and Arnulf Quadt (29) from Oxford (right) for their measurements of the proton structure functions with respectively the H1 and ZEUS detectors. (Photo Ilka Flegel) DESY Directorate from 1971-75 served as Director Honour for DESY's "Founding General of CERN I. On July 1, Hans von der Schmitt (49) Father" took over the direction of the DESY's "Technical Infrastructure and Central On June 18 Willibald Jentschke (86) S LAC archive Computing" (called "Z" for short) was awarded a honorary doctorate department from Ulrich Gensch, in by the Institute for High Energy The Stanford Linear Accelerator charge of it since 1995, and who is Physics in Protvino near Moscow. Center (SLAC) has been honoured now head of the DESY branch The "founding father" of DESY was for its commitment to archival institute in Zeuthen (Brandenburg). honoured "for his great contribution programmes by the California Hans von der Schmitt studied to the World Science, Humanism and Society for Archivists, the first award physics at Mainz. His main activities Progress". given by the Society. SLAC, have included the realization of the When Jentschke received a call authorized by Congress in 1961, "microtron" electron accelerator in from Hamburg University in the mid- began its archival programme in Mainz and the development and fifties, he coupled his acceptance of 1986, when hundreds of linear feet of optimization of the data acquisition a new responsibility with a demand research records were inventoried as systems for the OPAL and UA1 for a modern particle accelerator - a part of a history project. SLAC detectors at CERN as well as for the German facility where internationally- Archives officially began in 1989. JADE detector at DESY. He recognized particle physics research Since then, the archival "dungeon" habilitated (worked for a professorial could be performed and which would has been transformed into a state-of degree) at Heidelberg in 1991 on also provide students with up-to-date the-art storage area with temperature microprocessor systems in data training. The result, DESY, was and humidity controls, light and air acquisition for high energy physics founded in 1959. The scientific use of filtering, and mobile shelving. In experiments. Two years later, he synchrotron radiation, now DESY's addition, SLAC has continued and joined a software company in Bern, second research area, also goes expanded its support of staff and where he headed several major back to Jentschke's times. Willibald equipment. Two ofSLAC's oldest projects for the Swiss Telecom PTT Jentschke was Head of the DESY collections of photographs are being (now Swisscom). Directorate from 1959 to 1970, and preserved on microfilm. 36 CERN Courier, September 1998 UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS IN Princeton University EXPERIMENTAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Electrical Engineering Staff Position in the Physics Department The University of Victoria invites applicants for Research Associate positions in Experimental High Energy Physics. The positions will be Princeton University invites applications from qualified based at CERN and at the University of Victoria, working on the OPAL electrical engineers for a position in the Professional experiment. The positions have terms of two years with a possible one year Technical Staff of the Physics Department. The position extension. Positions are available immediately. The University of Victoria group is currently pursuing research at LEP II will be based at CERN for work on the CMS Electro with the OPAL collaboration. We expect successful candidates to take an magnetic Calorimeter, and the successful candidate will active role in the analyses of OPAL data. The group already has a be expected to assume a major role in the ECAL readout. significant role in searches for new phenomena, triple gauge coupling Candidates are expected to have knowledge in the design measurements and several aspects of physics with tau leptons. The University of Victoria also is responsible for operating the OPAL and layout of full-custom mixed-mode circuits, and they online data reconstruction facility. The successful candidates would be should have experience in electronics for high energy expected to assume a major role in the operation and support of this system. physics experiments, especially calorimeter readout at Candidates should have a recent Ph.D. in particle physics and experience high-luminosity colliders. Interested candidates should with UNIX operating systems. Familiarity with the C programming language and experience with operating system installation and send curriculum vitae and the names of three references management would be an asset. Interested candidates should, prior to or letters of recommendation to: 30 October 1998, send a curriculum vitae and arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to: Dr. Peter Denes R. Sobie Department of Physics and Astronomy CERN/EP * University of Victoria CH-1211 Geneva 23 Box 3055 Stn CSC Switzerland Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6 (peter, denes @ cern. ch) E-mail: [email protected] FAX: (250)721-7752 Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer In accordance with Canadian immigration regulations, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. EXPERIMENTAL MEDICAL Experimental Research PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS Associates The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is one of the University of Utah world's leading laboratories supporting research in high-energy physics. The laboratory's program includes the physics of high- energy electron-positron collisions, high-luminosity storage rings, The Physics Department at the University of Utah is seeking highly high-energy linear colliders, and particle astrophysics. qualified candidates for a tenure track faculty position at the assistant, associate, or full professor levels in experimental medical physics or A limited number of postdoctoral Research Associate