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A Grand Finale for DESY's 50Th Anniversary FACES AND PLACES A n n i v e r s A r y A grand finale for DESY’s 50th anniversary On 19 May the DESY laboratory brought the DESY, including Argonne National Laboratory, celebrations for its 50th-anniversary year to the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, a close with a major event in Hamburg, which Jefferson Laboratory and the Laboratoire de saw an impressive 2500 guests in attendance l’Accélérateur Linéaire to name but a few. from all around the world. The celebrations featured various The guest list read like the crème de la speeches, a round-table discussion and crème of particle physics and photon science, different tours of DESY, as well as a banquet, including current and former directors of stage shows and a much acclaimed fellow laboratories, such as CERN, KEK and band. The evening’s – indeed, the year’s SPring8 and SLAC. There were also numerous – festivities came to an end way after representatives from other laboratories, midnight, with frenetic applause from DESY Helmut Dosch, director of DESY, speaking at the institutions and committees connected with staff and guests alike. lab’s anniversary celebration. (Courtesy DESY.) e x h i b i t i o n CERN shows particle physics in a new light "Universe of particles" – CERN’s new permanent exhibition in the Globe of Science and Technology – provides a hi-tech experience to intrigue the general public about some of the world’s most sophisticated physics tools and experiments. Among the first attractions to catch the eye are large projections that fill the walls and a 6 m diameter circular screen in the middle of the ground that swirls with stars, planets and particle collisions from the LHC experiments. Visitors are invited to explore spherical, interactive consoles spread around the exhibit focusing on four main Inauguration of the exhibition, left to right: Shirin Brückner, from Atelier Brückner, Dante Martinelli, themes: Why does CERN collide particles?; Swiss Ambassador at the office of the UN and other international organizations, Bruno Meier, How do we accelerate particles?; How do we director-general of Rolex, Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, and Charles Beer, Conseiller d'Etat de la detect particles?; and The diversity of CERN. Republique et Canton de Genève. Touch-screen balls allow visitors to explore ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb through virtual opening hours are between 10.00 a.m. and tours that give a sense of scale for each and 5.00 p.m., from Monday to Saturday. explain how they work. Object balls contain The exhibition was made possible thanks exhibits related to each theme, such as a to the generous support of Rolex SA. Atelier hydrogen bottle – the proton source for all of Brueckner provided the inspiration for the the particle accelerators at CERN. futuristic, hi-tech design, with programming Following the formal inauguration on for the interactive features supplied by 28 June, CERN staff and users had the IART. Bernard Pellequer, manager of the chance to experience the new exhibition on Globe, and Rolf Landua, head of CERN’s 29–30 June before it was officially opened to Education, Visits and Exhibitions Group, The exhibition focuses on four central themes: the general public on 1 July. Entry is free and have co-ordinated the project. collisions, acceleration, detectors and diversity. 28 CERN Courier July/August 2010 CCJulAug10Faces.indd 28 05/07/2010 16:06 FACES AND PLACES I n d u s t r y French firms display their technical know-how at CERN Thirty-six French companies presented their organized the event, and PSA Peugeot/ latest technological advances to the CERN Citroen sponsored the event. community during the industrial exhibition “La The inauguration took place in the presence France au CERN”, held on 7–9 June. of Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, The exhibition displayed products together with Catherine Cesarsky, the French and technologies specifically related to high-commissioner for atomic energy, Michel CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer (centre-right), activities at CERN and also featured several Spiro, president of CERN Council, and Jean toured the exhibition with, left to right, Catherine seminars. UBIFRANCE, the French Agency Baptiste Mattei from the French permanent Cesarsky, the French high-commissioner for for International Business Development, mission at the UN in Geneva. atomic energy, François Bouillon of UBIFRANCE in which is responsible for promoting French The next such exhibition, “Netherlands at Switzerland, and Michel Spiro, president of CERN technologies and know-how abroad, CERN”, will be held in November. Council. O u t r e a c h from Dessine-moi un physicien (Draw me a They used the information garnered during School children physicist), an exhibition that brought together the visit to make a second drawing and write 160 drawings and definitions by children a second definition. Each class or school are inspired by in the region close to CERN. The exhibition then selected eight pairs of drawings for the was the result of a 6-month-long project by exhibition in CERN’s Globe of Science and project to ‘Draw CERN and 20 primary school classes from the Innovation. The exhibition was inaugurated Pays de Gex in France and the communes of by CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, on me a physicist’ Meyrin, Satigny and Vernier in Switzerland 14 June and lasted until 23 June. Members of Some 400 schoolchildren aged 9 to 11 CERN Council also had a chance to visit the were asked to make drawings and come up exhibition on 17 June. In a child’s imagination, scientists are with definitions of a physicist. Subsequently ● To view all of the drawings, visit the website colourful, slightly eccentric figures with they came to CERN to see things for http://dessine-moi-un-physicien.web.cern. unusual powers. This is what emerged themselves and talk to some real physicists. ch/dessine-moi-un-physicien/. Some children had quite “cool” ideas about physicists, even before coming to CERN. Children at one of the schools enthusiastically show their “before” and “after” drawings. CERN Courier July/August 2010 29 CCJulAug10Faces.indd 29 05/07/2010 16:07 FACES AND PLACES a w a r d s Indian string theorist wins 2010 ICTP Prize The Abdus Salam International Centre for Minwalla has won many fellowships Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded its and awards. His papers have generated 2010 ICTP Prize to Shiraz Minwalla, a string numerous citations and the ICTP Prize theorist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental recognizes his influential work in string Research (TIFR) in Mumbai. The ICTP Prize, theory. created in 1982, recognizes young scientists Each year, the ICTP Prize is awarded (under 40) from developing countries who in honour of a scientist who has made work and live in those countries and who have outstanding contributions to the field in which made outstanding and original contributions the prize is given. This year it honours Nicola in physics or mathematics. Cabibbo, the eminent theoretical high-energy As a researcher and faculty member at physicist, who has also been a key player in Harvard University, the Indian Institute ICTP since its early days and is currently chair Shiraz Minwalla: influential work in string theory. of Technology and, most recently, TIFR, of the ICTP Scientific Council. (Courtesy Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.) the first proposal of cosmogenic neutrinos 2010 Markov Prize and calculations of their fluxes, written with George Zatsepin in 1968, and the goes to Veniamin proposal of the pair-production dip-model for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, with Berezinsky S I Grigorieva in 1988, and with A Z Gazizov and S I Grigorieva in 2006. The M A Markov Prize was established The Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) by INR in memory of Moisey Alexandrovich of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Markov (1908–1994), who was one of Moscow has awarded the 2010 M A Markov the founders of the institute. Markov was Prize to Veniamin Berezinsky of INFN, a leading Russian scientist, theoretical Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and physicist and promoter of science who INR. He is recognized for his “outstanding made pioneering contributions to research From left to right : Victor Matveev, director of the contribution to the physics of cosmic rays in neutrino physics, as well as in studies of Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian and development of the theory of cosmogenic fundamental problems in elementary particle Academy of Sciences; Olga Ryazhskaya, an INR neutrinos at ultra-high energies”. He received physics, quantum gravity and at the boundary laboratory head; Veniamin Berezinsky, Laboratory the award at the 8th Markov Readings in between particle physics and cosmology. Nazionali del Gran Sasso and INR; and Mikhail Moscow on 13 May. The Markov Readings are held each year on Panasyuk, director of the Skobeltsyn Institute of Berezinsky’s best known papers include 13 May to commemorate his birthday. Moscow State University. (Courtesy INR.) H o n o u r s essential for the success of the antiproton Lyn Evans elected collider that discovered the W and Z bosons … Under his leadership, the critical to the Royal Society components of the LHC, including the most challenging superconducting magnet system Lyn Evans has become a fellow of the Royal ever built, were produced, installed and Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy commissioned.” in continuous existence, which was founded Elected by peer review for life, the fellows in 1660. The announcement of newly elected provide the backbone of the Royal Society. fellows, on 20 May, cites Evans’ role as LHC There are currently more than 60 Nobel project leader and as an outstanding expert Laureates among the approximately in accelerator physics.
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