CERN Courier January/February 2013 Branco Weiss fellow Dr. Karim Bschir’s research aims at understanding how science deals with different kinds of Inside Story uncertainty. Llewellyn Smith, world scientist
On 20 November CERN hosted a symposium to mark the 70th birthday of Chris Llewellyn Smith.
Chris Llewellyn Smith’s role in world science is considerable and diverse: from frontier fi elds such as particle physics and Left to right: (back) Rolf Heuer, Peter Jenni, Lyn Evans, Chris Llewellyn Smith, fusion energy, through the promotion of Steve Cowley, Zehra Sayers, David Gross, Chris Allsopp, Robert Jaffe, Bikash Sinha; international scientifi c co-operation, to the (front) Geoffrey West, Álvaro de Rújula, John Ellis. advancement of peace through scientifi c endeavour. He has served as director-general the LHC is a global scientifi c adventure, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of CERN, president and provost of University combining the accelerator, the experiments and Steve Cowley of the Culham Centre College London, director of UKAEA Culham and the worldwide computing Grid as well for Fusion Energy. Allsopp underlined the Division, which holds the responsibility of as a fourth, essential element – the constant challenges that lie ahead in reconciling needs the UK’s fusion programme and operation driving motivation of the theorists, of whom with expectations and getting the balance of the Joint European Torus, and chair of the Llewellyn Smith was one of the pioneers right in the mixture of energy sources. Jaffe International Thermonuclear Experimental promoting LHC physics. Among Llewellyn discussed current endeavours to identify new Reactor Council. He is currently director of Smith’s many notable contributions are sources of energy that might lead to effi cient, energy research at the University of Oxford his studies of heavy vector bosons at clean, renewable and at least CO2-neutral and president of the council for the new supercolliders and the physics case for a technologies. Cowley recalled Llewellyn international centre for Synchrotron light multi-tera-electron-volt hadron collider, both Smith’s considerable contributions to fusion for Experimental Science and Applications presented at the CERN-ECFA Workshop in energy. As director of UKAEA Culham, he in the Middle East (SESAME). His Lausanne in 1984. developed and vigorously promoted the “Fast Know what science leadership has contributed towards the Fellow theorist John Ellis, who has long Track” approach to the development of fusion many achievements of these institutions, been a familiar face at CERN, looked ahead power, which provides a tentative road map most notably the approval and launch of the to the implications of the results from the of the achievements required for large-scale LHC at CERN and the upgrade of the Large LHC. He focused on the recent results from electricity production and has been adopted will look like tomorrow? Electron–Positron collider. He was knighted the search for the Higgs boson and other by the European Commission. in 2001 for his services to particle physics. ongoing studies at the LHC that seek answers On a still grander scale, Geoffrey West of As Lyn Evans, who was the LHC project to some long-standing questions. Why are the Santa Fe Institute spoke about universal Apply today. leader for many years, underlined in his there so many types of matter particles? scaling laws – the quantitative, unifi ed opening presentation, Llewellyn Smith’s What is the dark matter in the universe? Is theories of biological and social structure and diplomatic skills were key in getting the there a unifi cation of fundamental forces? dynamics, applicable from the microcosm LHC approved in CERN Council and in And is there a quantum theory of gravity? of cells to the macrocosm of cities. The work The magnitude of the challenges we face today requires people with fresh thinking and building up the international collaboration Moving beyond CERN, Zehra Sayers of tries to answer some deep questions: Are we novel approaches. To help find new ways forward, Society in Science – The Branco Weiss of member and non-member states that was Sabanci University recalled Llewellyn Smith’s sustainable? Are there quantitative predictive Fellowship gives extraordinary postdocs and engineers a generous grant to pursue an essential for the LHC’s construction. As contributions to SESAME, as a committed laws of life? unconventional project for up to five years anywhere in the world. Have an idea that could director-general, he successfully negotiated leader and supporter of the international Last, David Gross, joint recipient of the change tomorrow? Get in touch with us today! major contributions from Canada, India, centre currently under construction in Jordan. 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, reviewed Japan, the Russian Federation and the US, a The project to build a third-generation Llewellyn Smith’s contributions to fact that Bikash Sinha of the Variable Energy light-source owes much to the dedication and theoretical particle physics and gave an Cyclotron Centre recalled fondly when he support of Llewellyn Smith, whose efforts outlook for fundamental physics. He recalled www.society-in-science.org spoke about Llewellyn Smith’s diplomacy in have been a guiding force in bringing nations with much delight the pioneering work the negotiations with India. together through science in this region of the that they did together in the late 1960s on Peter Jenni, founding spokesperson world and beyond. high-energy neutrino–nucleon scattering, of the ATLAS collaboration, took a trip In recent years, Llewellyn Smith has current algebra and partons. back in time to thank Llewellyn Smith for devoted himself to the issue of energy, the ● See the presentations and a video having launched the LHC on a journey to common topic for Chris Allsopp of the Oxford recording at http://indico.cern.ch/ new territories of physics. Jenni noted that Institute for Energy Studies, Robert Jaffe of conferenceDisplay.py?confId=199172.
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CERNCOURIER www. V o l u m e 5 3 N u m b e r 1 J a n u ary /F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 3 CERN Courier January/February 2013 Branco Weiss fellow Dr. Karim Bschir’s research aims at understanding how science deals with different kinds of Inside Story uncertainty. Llewellyn Smith, world scientist
On 20 November CERN hosted a symposium to mark the 70th birthday of Chris Llewellyn Smith.
Chris Llewellyn Smith’s role in world science is considerable and diverse: from frontier fi elds such as particle physics and Left to right: (back) Rolf Heuer, Peter Jenni, Lyn Evans, Chris Llewellyn Smith, fusion energy, through the promotion of Steve Cowley, Zehra Sayers, David Gross, Chris Allsopp, Robert Jaffe, Bikash Sinha; international scientifi c co-operation, to the (front) Geoffrey West, Álvaro de Rújula, John Ellis. advancement of peace through scientifi c endeavour. He has served as director-general the LHC is a global scientifi c adventure, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of CERN, president and provost of University combining the accelerator, the experiments and Steve Cowley of the Culham Centre College London, director of UKAEA Culham and the worldwide computing Grid as well for Fusion Energy. Allsopp underlined the Division, which holds the responsibility of as a fourth, essential element – the constant challenges that lie ahead in reconciling needs the UK’s fusion programme and operation driving motivation of the theorists, of whom with expectations and getting the balance of the Joint European Torus, and chair of the Llewellyn Smith was one of the pioneers right in the mixture of energy sources. Jaffe International Thermonuclear Experimental promoting LHC physics. Among Llewellyn discussed current endeavours to identify new Reactor Council. He is currently director of Smith’s many notable contributions are sources of energy that might lead to effi cient, energy research at the University of Oxford his studies of heavy vector bosons at clean, renewable and at least CO2-neutral and president of the council for the new supercolliders and the physics case for a technologies. Cowley recalled Llewellyn international centre for Synchrotron light multi-tera-electron-volt hadron collider, both Smith’s considerable contributions to fusion for Experimental Science and Applications presented at the CERN-ECFA Workshop in energy. As director of UKAEA Culham, he in the Middle East (SESAME). His Lausanne in 1984. developed and vigorously promoted the “Fast Know what science leadership has contributed towards the Fellow theorist John Ellis, who has long Track” approach to the development of fusion many achievements of these institutions, been a familiar face at CERN, looked ahead power, which provides a tentative road map most notably the approval and launch of the to the implications of the results from the of the achievements required for large-scale LHC at CERN and the upgrade of the Large LHC. He focused on the recent results from electricity production and has been adopted will look like tomorrow? Electron–Positron collider. He was knighted the search for the Higgs boson and other by the European Commission. in 2001 for his services to particle physics. ongoing studies at the LHC that seek answers On a still grander scale, Geoffrey West of As Lyn Evans, who was the LHC project to some long-standing questions. Why are the Santa Fe Institute spoke about universal Apply today. leader for many years, underlined in his there so many types of matter particles? scaling laws – the quantitative, unifi ed opening presentation, Llewellyn Smith’s What is the dark matter in the universe? Is theories of biological and social structure and diplomatic skills were key in getting the there a unifi cation of fundamental forces? dynamics, applicable from the microcosm LHC approved in CERN Council and in And is there a quantum theory of gravity? of cells to the macrocosm of cities. The work The magnitude of the challenges we face today requires people with fresh thinking and building up the international collaboration Moving beyond CERN, Zehra Sayers of tries to answer some deep questions: Are we novel approaches. To help find new ways forward, Society in Science – The Branco Weiss of member and non-member states that was Sabanci University recalled Llewellyn Smith’s sustainable? Are there quantitative predictive Fellowship gives extraordinary postdocs and engineers a generous grant to pursue an essential for the LHC’s construction. As contributions to SESAME, as a committed laws of life? unconventional project for up to five years anywhere in the world. Have an idea that could director-general, he successfully negotiated leader and supporter of the international Last, David Gross, joint recipient of the change tomorrow? Get in touch with us today! major contributions from Canada, India, centre currently under construction in Jordan. 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, reviewed Japan, the Russian Federation and the US, a The project to build a third-generation Llewellyn Smith’s contributions to fact that Bikash Sinha of the Variable Energy light-source owes much to the dedication and theoretical particle physics and gave an Cyclotron Centre recalled fondly when he support of Llewellyn Smith, whose efforts outlook for fundamental physics. He recalled www.society-in-science.org spoke about Llewellyn Smith’s diplomacy in have been a guiding force in bringing nations with much delight the pioneering work the negotiations with India. together through science in this region of the that they did together in the late 1960s on Peter Jenni, founding spokesperson world and beyond. high-energy neutrino–nucleon scattering, of the ATLAS collaboration, took a trip In recent years, Llewellyn Smith has current algebra and partons. back in time to thank Llewellyn Smith for devoted himself to the issue of energy, the ● See the presentations and a video having launched the LHC on a journey to common topic for Chris Allsopp of the Oxford recording at http://indico.cern.ch/ new territories of physics. Jenni noted that Institute for Energy Studies, Robert Jaffe of conferenceDisplay.py?confId=199172.
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CERN Courier dates back to August 1959, when the first issue appeared, consisting of eight black-and-white pages. Since then it has seen many changes in design and layout, leading to the current full-colour editions of more than 50 pages on average. It went on the web for the High luminosity: first time in October 1998, when IOP Publishing took over the production work. Now, we have taken another step forward with this digital edition, which provides yet another means to access the content beyond the web the heat is on and print editions, which continue as before.
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