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Faces & Places CERN Courier April 2013 CERN Courier April 2013 Faces & Places Faces & Places I NDIA A WARDS Kolkata pays tribute to the memory of Bose A bust of Satyendra Nath Bose, the Indian Karlsruhe honours Cronin, Jenni and Della Negra scientist best known for his work on Bose-Einstein statistics, was unveiled on The awards of the Julius Wess Award and 6 October on the corner of a prominent an honorary doctorate were two of the thoroughfare in the northern region of highlights of the inaugural symposium of Kolkata. Bikash Sinha, the Homi Bhabha the Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle chair professor at the Indian Department of and Astroparticle Physics – Science and Atomic Energy, performed the unveiling in Technology (KSETA), which took place on a ceremony attended by many distinguished 1 February. The school has been founded people, including scientists, ministers and thanks to a successful application within eminent academics. the context of the 2012 German Excellence Bose’s ancestral home is located nearby, Initiative. next to the Scottish Church Collegiate Nobel laureate James Cronin was made School. Sinha had his early education in the an honorary doctor of the Karlsruher Institut same school and came to know Bose closely, für Technologie (KIT) for his outstanding visiting him after school hours. Bose himself achievements in cosmic-ray research, which Above: Winners of the Julius Wess Award, explained to the young Sinha about the beauty culminated in the successful construction Peter Jenni, centre left, and Michel Della and the elegance of his famous statistics and and operation of the Auger Observatory in Negra, together with Johannes Blümer, far how spin-0 and spin-1 elementary particles Argentina. A research group from KIT has left, Detlef Löhe and Thomas Müller, right. obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Bikash Sinha unveiled the new bust of Satyendra Nath Bose in northern Kolkata. (Image been working closely with Cronin since the Since the announcement of the discovery credit: Sutanati Book Fair Committee/Suman Bhowmick.) beginning of the project. Right: New honorary doctor Jim Cronin of a Higgs-like boson on 4 July 2012, a keen Peter Jenni and Michel Della Negra of speaks to an attentive audience. (Image interest has gripped this area of Kolkata. for creating mass. The general public is particle”. The hysteria, Sinha notes, seems CERN were presented with KIT’s 2013 credits: KIT.) Intense intellectual discussion is the order of extremely curious about the newly found to have gone so far that Bose – a Bengali – Julius Wess Award for their outstanding the day, with no end to the discussion of the boson and its connection to God because is now viewed by some as a favoured son contributions to hadron-collider physics, “founding fathers” of the ATLAS and CMS relevance of the Higgs boson and its capacity it has often been referred to as the “God of God. which led to the discovery of the W and Z experiments at the LHC, respectively, and bosons in 1983 and of what could well prove they created the present-day culture of P RIZES to be the Higgs boson in 2012. As long-term competition between friends. KIT has been spokespersons, they are often dubbed the deeply involved in CMS for almost 18 years. Brookhaven physicists win IEEE awards for innovation I NTERNATIONAL Two physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are to receive awards UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon visits CERN from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at a ceremony On 1 March, Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general on Long Island, NY, on 21 March. of the United Nations, visited CERN for the John Smedley is the 2013 recipient of first time since the organization was granted the Charles Hirsch Award in recognition observer status at the United Nations General of his “contributions to the advancement Assembly last December (CERN Courier of photocathode technology”. The award, Jan/Feb 2013 p5). made by the Long Island section of the Ban visited underground areas at IEEE, recognizes innovative and significant the LHC, as well as UNOSAT, the UN technical accomplishments. Smedley has technology-intensive programme hosted been researching and designing novel by CERN to deliver imagery analysis and accelerator photocathodes at Brookhaven satellite solutions to relief and development for almost 20 years. Most recently, he has organizations (CERN Courier October been involved in the development of a 2009 p17). diamond-amplified photocathode that could The visit offered the opportunity to discuss revolutionize fourth-generation light-source CERN’s contribution to science-related technology, with amplifiers capable of John Smedley, left, and Zheng Li, winners of IEEE innovation awards. (Image credits: BNL.) UN activities, such as ECOSOC, the United Above: The new spokesperson for ATLAS, increasing an electron beam’s current by a Nations platform on economic and social Dave Charlton, left, discusses the factor of more than 300. To increase detection efficiency and lower the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. More issues. CERN contributed on the theme of experiment with Ban Ki-moon during a tour Zheng Li is the 2012 recipient of the signal-to-noise ratio, in 2004 Li developed recently, he developed a “3D-trench electrode young women in science to ECOSOC’s youth of the underground cavern. IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation a novel “stripixel” detector – a single-sided detector” based on his stripixel research that forum on 27 March and will be taking part Award for his groundbreaking work in “the silicon strip detector that significantly has potential applications beyond high-energy in ECOSOC meetings in Geneva in July. Ban the role of the secretary-general’s recently Left: The UN secretary-general, left, meets development of novel silicon detectors in increased the accuracy and output of data of and nuclear physics. Already, one company and CERN’s director-general also discussed established science advisory board. representatives from UNOSAT. photon science and particle physics research”. the PHENIX experiment at the Brookhaven’s based in New York has expressed interest. 34 35 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 3 N UMBER 3 A PRIL 2 0 1 3 CERN Courier April 2013 CERN Courier April 2013 Faces & Places Faces & Places I NDIA A WARDS Kolkata pays tribute to the memory of Bose A bust of Satyendra Nath Bose, the Indian Karlsruhe honours Cronin, Jenni and Della Negra scientist best known for his work on Bose-Einstein statistics, was unveiled on The awards of the Julius Wess Award and 6 October on the corner of a prominent an honorary doctorate were two of the thoroughfare in the northern region of highlights of the inaugural symposium of Kolkata. Bikash Sinha, the Homi Bhabha the Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle chair professor at the Indian Department of and Astroparticle Physics – Science and Atomic Energy, performed the unveiling in Technology (KSETA), which took place on a ceremony attended by many distinguished 1 February. The school has been founded people, including scientists, ministers and thanks to a successful application within eminent academics. the context of the 2012 German Excellence Bose’s ancestral home is located nearby, Initiative. next to the Scottish Church Collegiate Nobel laureate James Cronin was made School. Sinha had his early education in the an honorary doctor of the Karlsruher Institut same school and came to know Bose closely, für Technologie (KIT) for his outstanding visiting him after school hours. Bose himself achievements in cosmic-ray research, which Above: Winners of the Julius Wess Award, explained to the young Sinha about the beauty culminated in the successful construction Peter Jenni, centre left, and Michel Della and the elegance of his famous statistics and and operation of the Auger Observatory in Negra, together with Johannes Blümer, far how spin-0 and spin-1 elementary particles Argentina. A research group from KIT has left, Detlef Löhe and Thomas Müller, right. obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Bikash Sinha unveiled the new bust of Satyendra Nath Bose in northern Kolkata. (Image been working closely with Cronin since the Since the announcement of the discovery credit: Sutanati Book Fair Committee/Suman Bhowmick.) beginning of the project. Right: New honorary doctor Jim Cronin of a Higgs-like boson on 4 July 2012, a keen Peter Jenni and Michel Della Negra of speaks to an attentive audience. (Image interest has gripped this area of Kolkata. for creating mass. The general public is particle”. The hysteria, Sinha notes, seems CERN were presented with KIT’s 2013 credits: KIT.) Intense intellectual discussion is the order of extremely curious about the newly found to have gone so far that Bose – a Bengali – Julius Wess Award for their outstanding the day, with no end to the discussion of the boson and its connection to God because is now viewed by some as a favoured son contributions to hadron-collider physics, “founding fathers” of the ATLAS and CMS relevance of the Higgs boson and its capacity it has often been referred to as the “God of God. which led to the discovery of the W and Z experiments at the LHC, respectively, and bosons in 1983 and of what could well prove they created the present-day culture of P RIZES to be the Higgs boson in 2012. As long-term competition between friends. KIT has been spokespersons, they are often dubbed the deeply involved in CMS for almost 18 years. Brookhaven physicists win IEEE awards for innovation I NTERNATIONAL Two physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are to receive awards UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon visits CERN from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at a ceremony On 1 March, Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general on Long Island, NY, on 21 March. of the United Nations, visited CERN for the John Smedley is the 2013 recipient of first time since the organization was granted the Charles Hirsch Award in recognition observer status at the United Nations General of his “contributions to the advancement Assembly last December (CERN Courier of photocathode technology”.
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