BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: Histoire de la radioactivité DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061130T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061130T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-9142@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\nRené Bimbot\, an expert in nuclear physics\, will be coming to present his book - The History of Radioactivity. The work provides a s ummary of our accumulated knowledge of radioactivity and its applications\ , from its discovery to the present day. Presented in layman's terms\, and backed by plenty of illustrations\, the work creates the link between the rudimentary knowledge available in the times of Becquerel and the Curies and contemporary physics. It takes us on a great physics adventure\, from the nucleus to the quark\, from artificial radioactivity to radiotherapy\, from the discovery of fission to nuclear reactors\, not forgetting dating methods. Finally\, the work provides a wealth of practical information on radiation and on matters relating to nuclear waste.\n\nA former Research Director at the CNRS\, a heavy-ion physicist at the Orsay Nuclear Physics Institute\, René Bimbot is no stranger to CERN. At the beginning of the 1 980s\, he worked on the CERN Synchrocyclotron\, before joining the GANIL e xperiment in 1985.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=91 42 LOCATION:Central Library reading room URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=9142 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: Engines of Discovery DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070711T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070711T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-18564@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Ted Wilson is a world-renowned expert on particle accelerators and a\nbrilliant speaker. He came to CERN in 1967\, where he worked on th e SPS\nand collaborated closely with John Adams\, taking part in the desig n and\ncommissioning of the accelerator. In 1980\, he joined the PS and wo rked\non the antiproton accumulator. In 1991\, he became a member of the L HC\nCommittee and was entrusted with the task of writing a report on the\n design of the future accelerator.\n\nThis book for the first time chronicl es the development of particle\naccelerators from the invention of electro static accelerators\, linear\naccelerators\, and the cyclotron to the coll iders of today. It also\naddresses accelerators employed as sources of x-r ays\, for medical\npurposes\, and in industrial applications. The book ide ntifies the\ncrucial discoveries in applied physics and engineering that h ave driven\nthe field and gives the reader insight into the people who mad e these\ndiscoveries as well as the methods they used.\n\nhttp://indico.ce rn.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=18564 LOCATION:CERN SALLE DU CONSEIL URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=18564 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jean-Yves Le Meur\, "Literature in Focus: Faux pas" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080423T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080423T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-32670@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Un faux pas lui a coûté ses jambes\, mais la rage de vivre e t la passion de la montagne l'ont propulsé au sommet du Mont Blanc\, debo ut sur un pied artificiel et arc-bouté sur ses béquilles. Ingénieur rec onnu et sportif accompli\, Jean-Yves Le Meur raconte avec recul\, sensibil ité\, intelligence et humour sa renaissance et son ascension impossible. Un témoignage\, dont la portée est universelle\, sur le dépassement de soi et la reconstruction. Bouleversant. S'il a échappé à la mort qui l' a tenu de tout prêt\, Jean-Yves Le Meur a perdu la jambe droite et le pi ed gauche dans un accident de train\, horrible et stupide\, à l'âge 19 a ns. Le retour au monde est une torture physique et morale\, mais le jeune homme à un horizon: les montagnes qui se dessinent dans le cadre de la fe nêtre. Pour lui\, « s'en sortir » ne signifie rien : son « projet de v ie » est d'atteindre\, debout\, le sommet du mont Blanc. Béquilles aux p oings\, en apesanteur sur deux jambes artificielles\, il y parviendra quel ques années plus tard\, en expliquant que cette « première » n'est ni un défi\, ni un combat\, mais la satisfaction de la pulsion irrépressibl e d'un caprice : faut pas ! \nLe rencontre avec l’auteur sera precédé par la projection du film “4810M\, CAHIN-CAHA” par Bruno Axelrad.\n\nh ttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=32670 LOCATION:CERN Globe\, 1er etage URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=32670 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Perspectives on LHC Physics"\, by Gordon Kan e and Aaron Pierce (eds.) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080812T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080812T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-38980@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the world's largest an d highest energy and highest intensity particle accelerator. Here is a tim ely book with several perspectives on the hoped-for discoveries from the L HC.\n\nThis book provides an overview on the techniques that will be cruci al for finding new physics at the LHC\, as well as perspectives on the imp ortance and implications of the discoveries. Among the accomplished contri butors to this book are leaders and visionaries in the field of particle p hysics beyond the Standard Model\, including two Nobel Laureates (Steven W einberg and Frank Wilczek). With its blend of popular and technical conten ts\, the book will have wide appeal\, not only to physical scientists but also to those in related fields.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDispla y.py?confId=38980 LOCATION:CERN Council Chamber URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=38980 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Escape from Leipzig"\, by Harald Fritzsch\, World Scientific\, 2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081008T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081008T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-42778@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s\, Leipzig was the center of resistance in East Ge rmany. Harald Fritzsch\, then a physics student\, contemplated escape. But before he left\, he wanted to demonstrate to the government that they had gone too far when they destroyed St. Paul's Church in May 1968. He accomp lished that by unrolling a protest transparency in spectacular fashion. De spite the great efforts of the secret police\, the STASI\, the government was unable to find out who was responsible for this act. Soon after\, toge ther with a friend\, Fritzsch began his journey to Bulgaria in order to es cape into Turkey by traversing the Black Sea in a folding canoe. This was a daredevil endeavor\, never done before. \n\nIn this book\, Harald Fritzs ch — now a world-renowned physicist — portrays in captivating detail a n authentic picture of the East German regime and the events of the late 1 960s. Today\, 40 years later\, he critically takes stock of the events sin ce German reunification.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?con fId=42778 LOCATION:CERN Salle C\, room Bldg. 61-1-007 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42778 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist" by Gordon Fraser\, Oxford University Press\, 2008. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081009T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081009T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-42782@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam\, the first Musl im to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979)\, who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievemen ts are often overlooked\, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage\, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretica l Physics in Trieste\, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim\, he was ashamed of the decline of scien ce in the heritage of Islam\, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication\, these valiant efforts we re doomed.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42782 LOCATION:CERN Library\, Bldg. 52 -1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42782 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Particle Detection with Drift Chambers"\, 2n d ed. by Walter Blum\, Werner Riegler\, Luigi Rolandi\, Springer\, 2008. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T093000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-42784@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:This volume presents a thorough introduction to the theory and operation of drift chambers\, one of the most important modern methods of elementary particle detection. The topics\, presented in a text-book styl e with many illustrations\, include the basics of gas ionization\, by part icles and by lasers\, drift of electrons and ions in gases and signal crea tion and discuss in depth the fundamental limits of accuracy and the issue of particle identification. \n\nThe book also surveys all types of drift chambers and the various drift-chamber gases in use. The calculation of th e device parameters and physical processes are presented in some detail\, as is all necessary background material. Thus the treatment\, well beyond addressing the specialist in the field\, is well suited to graduate physic s students and nuclear engineers seeking a both thorough and pedagogical i ntroduction to the field. \n\nThe second edition presents a completely rev ised\, updated and expanded version of this classic text. In particular\, significantly more material on electronic signal creation\, amplification and shaping has been added.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py? confId=42784 LOCATION:CERN Library\, Room 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42784 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus:
“LEP: The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000" and
"Elementary Particles"\, v. I/21A of “Landolt B örnstein"\, Springer DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-42786@cern.ch DESCRIPTION: “LEP: The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000: The Making\, Operation and Legacy of the World’s Largest Scientific Instrum ent”\n\nHoused by a 4 m diameter tunnel of 27 km circumference\, with hu ge underground\nlabs and numerous surface facilities\, and set up with a precision of 0.1 mm per\nkilometer\, the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) was not only the largest\nbut also one of the most sophisticated s cientific research instrument ever\ncreated by Man. Located at CERN\, near Geneva\, LEP was built during the\nyears 1983 - 1989\, was opera tional until 2000\, and corroborated the standard\nmodel of particle phys ics through continous high precision measurements.\n\nThe Author\, directo r-general of CERN during the crucial period of\nthe construction of LE P\, recounts vividly the convoluted decision-making and\ntechnical implem entation processes  - the tunnel alone being a highly\nchallenging geo- and civil engineering project  -  and the subsequent extremely\nfruit ful period of scientific research. Finally he describes the difficult\nd ecision to close down LEP\, at a time when the discovery of the\nHiggs b oson seemed within reach.\n\nLEP was eventually dismantled in 2000\, e nabling the tunnel to be reused for\nbuilding the next generation machine \, the much more powerful Large Hadron\nCollider (LHC)\, an upgrade then c alled LEP3 and foreseen from the beginning. It\nbecame operational just as this account was being completed.\n\nWritten by the main protagonist re sponsible for making LEP a reality\, this is\nthe definitive inside story of a remarkable machine and the many thousands of\nscientists and enginee rs from around the world\, whose efforts contributed to the\nnew knowledg e it produced.\n\n\n\n"Elementary Particles"\, v. I/21A of “Landolt Bör nstein"\n\nVolume I/21A is the first in a series of handbooks on elementar y particles. It\nprovides the present state of theoretical and experimenta l knowledge in particle\nphysics\, just in time with the start-up of LHC w hich promises to settle some of\nthe present-day issues in understanding e lementary particles and the fundamental\nforces between them. It starts wi th a general representation of gauge theories\nand the Standard Model whic h unifies the strong\, weak\, and electromagnetic\ninteractions. The stand ard model of electroweak interactions\, and QCD\, the\ntheory of the stron g interaction\, are dicussed in detail. In addition to\nanalytic approache s to nonperturbative QCD\, simulations of QCD on a discrete\nspace-time la ttice are treated. Results of experimental precision tests for the\nelectr oweak standard model as well as of relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions \n(including a discussion of the QCD matter phase diagram) follow next. Co ncepts\nwhich go beyond the Standard Model\, like supersymmetry\, strings\ , grand\nunification\, etc.\, are introduced\, and the interrelation betwe en particle\nphysics and cosmology is discussed. Further topics are symmet ry violations\n(parity P\, charge conjugation C\, and combined symmetry PC )\, the mixing of quark\nflavours\, and experimental results on neutrino m asses and oscillations. Finally\, an outlook on the future of particle phy sics is provided.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=427 86 LOCATION:CERN Library\, bldg. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42786 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technolog y (RAST)"\, World Scientific DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-42790@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:About RAST: Aims & Scope \n\nThis new journal aims to provide readers with a comprehensive review of the driving and fascinating field o f accelerator science and technology. It will document the tremendous prog ress made in the past decades and describe the bright future. RAST will co ver a variety of topics\, including linear and circular accelerators\, hig h beam power accelerators\, high brightness accelerators\, synchrotron lig ht sources\, free electron lasers\, medical accelerators\, accelerators fo r industrial applications\, advanced accelerator technologies as well as p romising new breakthroughs (such as laser\, plasma\, wakefield acceleratio n\, and beam physics). \n\nArticles are by invitation only. Each article w ill be written by one or more leading scientist with recognized authority in their fields and will be peer reviewed. Beginning in 2008\, one volume will be published each year. The first volume will be an overview of vario us types of accelerators across the entire field. Each of the following vo lumes will focus on one particular type of accelerator and present in-dept h discussions and analysis. \n\nIn order to produce a journal of the highe st quality\, an Editorial Board consisting of well-known accomplished scie ntists has been formed. This Board advises the Editors on the long- and sh ort-term planning of the journal\, and selection of topics and prospective authors of each volume.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?con fId=42790 LOCATION:CERN Room C\, Bldg. 61-1-007 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42790 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Engines of Discovery: a Century of Particle Accelerators" by Ted Wilson\, World Scientific\, 2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081010T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-42794@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:This book for the first time chronicles the development of par ticle accelerators from the invention of electrostatic accelerators\, line ar accelerators\, and the cyclotron to the colliders of today. It also add resses accelerators employed as sources of x-rays\, for medical purposes\, and in industrial applications. The book identifies the crucial discoveri es in applied physics and engineering that have driven the field and gives the reader insight into the people who made these discoveries as well as the methods they used. Particle accelerators exploit every aspect of today ’s cutting edge technology to the full and they themselves have contribu ted to these technologies. It is a saga every bit as fascinating as man’ s mastery of transport and communications a century before and from which we have much to learn for the future. Thus\, the book should appeal to the general public\, scientists\, and students. \n\nThe field of accelerator physics is\, at this time\, a very active field. The governments of develo ped and developing countries spend hundreds of millions of dollars annuall y on particle physics research — a pure science with important implicati ons for the understanding of not only particle physics\, but also astronom y and cosmology. At the same time there is much activity in developing lig ht sources and spallation neutron sources — both employed for extensive studies in surface science\, chemistry\, biology\, and medicine. There is also large commercial activity in producing accelerators for industrial an d medical use.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42794 LOCATION:CERN Room C\, Bldg. 61-1-007 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=42794 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Playing with Planets" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090317T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090317T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-54711@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:If you think the future is a mystery\, think again. With a sol id foothold in realism\, an extraordinary insight into scientific and tech nological developments\, and a dry sense of humor\, Nobel laureate Profess or Gerardus ’t Hoof confidently dissects fact from fiction and shows us what our future might really hold. Professor ’t Hooft takes the reader f irmly by the hand and\, within the boundaries of solid physics and proven laws of nature\, takes us on a ride into the world of the future\, which h olds remarkable surprises for us all. “Do you dream of intergalaxy space travel\, time warps\, and mini-mes? t'Hooft asks.\n“Then please\, get y ourself some more science fiction books\, for fiction that is. But for tho se who are interested in the real world\, let me tell you what we CAN expe ct for the future.”\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId =54711 LOCATION:Library\, Bldg. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=54711 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: “Axions: Theory\, Cosmology\, and Experimen tal Searches” DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090408T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090408T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-56089@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both sol ve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at the same time account f or the dark matter of the universe. Based on a series of lectures by world experts in this field held at CERN\, this volume provides a pedagogical i ntroduction to the theory\, cosmology and astrophysics of these fascinatin g particles and gives an up-to-date account of the status and prospect of ongoing and planned experimental searches. Learners and practitioners of a stroparticle physics will find in this book both a concise introduction an d a current reference work to a showcase topic that connects the “inner space” of the elementary particle world with the “outer space” of th e universe at large.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId= 56089 LOCATION:CERN Library\, Bldg. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=56089 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Engines of Discovery: a Century of Particle Accelerators" by Ted Wilson\, World Scientific\, 2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090706T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090706T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-63347@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:This book for the first time chronicles the development of par ticle accelerators from the invention of electrostatic accelerators\, line ar accelerators\, and the cyclotron to the colliders of today. It also add resses accelerators employed as sources of x-rays\, for medical purposes\, and in industrial applications. The book identifies the crucial discoveri es in applied physics and engineering that have driven the field and gives the reader insight into the people who made these discoveries as well as the methods they used. Particle accelerators exploit every aspect of today ’s cutting edge technology to the full and they themselves have contribu ted to these technologies. It is a saga every bit as fascinating as man’ s mastery of transport and communications a century before and from which we have much to learn for the future. Thus\, the book should appeal to the general public\, scientists\, and students. \n\nThe field of accelerator physics is\, at this time\, a very active field. The governments of develo ped and developing countries spend hundreds of millions of dollars annuall y on particle physics research — a pure science with important implicati ons for the understanding of not only particle physics\, but also astronom y and cosmology. At the same time there is much activity in developing lig ht sources and spallation neutron sources — both employed for extensive studies in surface science\, chemistry\, biology\, and medicine. There is also large commercial activity in producing accelerators for industrial an d medical use.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=63347 LOCATION:CERN Library (52 1-052) URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=63347 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "The Large Hadron Collider: A Marvel of Techn ology" ed. by Lyn Evans\, EPFL Press\, 2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090731T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090731T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-65045@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Inside an insulating vacuum chamber in a tunnel about 100 mete rs below the surface of the Franco-Swiss plain near Geneva\, packets of pr otons whirl around the 27-km circumference of the Large Hadron Collider (L HC) at a speed close to that of light\, colliding every 25 nanoseconds at four beam crossings. The products of these collisions\, of which hundreds of billions will be produced each second\, are observed and measured with the most advanced particle-detection technology\, capable of tracking indi vidual particles as they generate a signature track during its passage thr ough the detectors. All this information is captured\, filtered and piped to huge networks of microprocessors for analysis and study by an internati onal team of physicists. When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) comes on lin e in 2009\, it will be the largest scientific experiment ever constructed\ , and the data it produces will lead to a new understanding of our univers e. Many thousands of scientists and engineers were behind the planning and construction of this marvelous machine\; a few key members of this team h ave agreed to write about their role in this adventure\, with the common g oal of revealing the LHC to a broader readership: its fundamental technolo gy\; the basics of the theory behind the experiments\; the challenges in p lanning and civil engineering\; the four key experiments\; and the informa tics infrastructure that will channel the data to the workstations of scie ntists around the world. \n\nBook contributors: Lyndon Evans\, John Ellis\ , Jean-Luc Baldy\, Luz Anastasia Lopez-Hernandez\, John A. Osborne\, Ander s Unnervik\, Lucio Rossi\, Ezio Todesco\, Pierre Strubin\, Cristoforo Benv enuti\, Philippe Lebrun\, Laurent Tavian\, Volker Mertens\, Brennan Goddar d\, Trevor Linnecar\, Tejinder Virdee\, Peter Jenni\, Tatsuya Nakada\, Jü rgen Schukraft\, Chris Fabjan\, Les Robertson\, John Harvey\, and Pere Mat o.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=65045 LOCATION:CERN Main Auditorium URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=65045 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "The house journal that spread world-wide: 50 years of the CERN Courier" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090902T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090902T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-67081@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Everyone in the high-energy physics community knows the CERN C ourier\; what started 50 years ago as an internal publication to tell peop le at CERN was going on at the Laboratory has developed to become the maga zine of the community world-wide. The published articles are all studied i n close detail\, and discussed among colleagues\, and feedback is continuo usly provided to the editorial office. Who are the people behind the Couri er? How have they been able to use their pens in such a balanced way for m ore than half a century?\nOn Wednesday at 3 p.m.\, September 2nd\, you wil l have the opportunity to come and meet them all in the Library and get so me of the stories from the back office\, and you will have the opportunity to ask the questions you always wanted to ask.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/c onferenceDisplay.py?confId=67081 LOCATION:CERN Library\, Bldg. 52\, 1st floor URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=67081 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERN IT Book Fair 2009 - Special talk by Bjarne Stroustrup: "The D esign of C++0x" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090904T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090904T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-67017@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:A draft for a revised ISO C++ standard\, C++0x\, has been prod uced. The speaker will present the background of C++\, its aims\, the stan dards process (with opinions)\, some of the guiding design principles (wit h tiny code examples)\, and two case studies.\nThe case studies are initia lization (a general and uniform syntax and semantics for initializers in a ll contexts) and concurrent support facilities (memory model\, threads\, l ocks\, futures).\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=6701 7 LOCATION:CERN Main Auditorium URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=67017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: Rencontre avec l'auteur Denis Guedj DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091007T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091007T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-69895@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:A travers une quinzaine d'ouvrages\, principalement des romans \, Denis Guedj nous conforte dans l'idée que science et littérature\, lo in d'être opposées\, peuvent composer de belles histoires VRAIES. La fic tion ne s'oppose pas à la vérité\, elle lui offre la dimension de l'ém otion et la rigueur forme avec l'imagination un couple qui nourrit le proj et romanesque. Entre autres\, Denis Guedj va présenter ses ouvrages: “V illa des hommes” (R. Laffont) et “One zéro show” ( Seuil)\, pièce que l'auteur va jouer le 16 novembre au CERN dans le cadre de la Fête de la Science.\n\nAprès la présentation\, l’ auteur sera disponible pour une séance de\ndédicace.\n\nDenis Guedj est mathématicien et professeur d’histoire des sciences et d’épistémologie à l’Université Paris -VIII.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=69895 LOCATION:CERN Bibliotheque\, Bat. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=69895 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ASP2010 - CERN Discussion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091008T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091008T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-70444@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Meeting of the International Organizing Committee\n\nhttp://in dico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=70444 LOCATION:CERN 513-1-023 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=70444 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "L'Étang"\, Éd. Metropolis\, 2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-71539@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:"L’étang"\, qui donne son titre à ce recueil de onze nouve lles\, est l’histoire d’une femme dans la quarantaine\, timorée et sa uvage\, qui se retrouve seule pour vingt-quatre heures quelque part dans l e Yorkshire et qui\, au creux d’un chemin de forêt\, fera une découver te troublante.\nJeune libraire maladivement timide\, jumeaux en rupture\, voisin obséquieux\, tante amnésique\, rencontre dans un bus ou dans un h ôpital\, destins anodins\, vies minuscules\, les personnages qui hantent ces récits ne sont ni héros\, ni héroïnes\, mais des femmes et des hom mes ordinaires. Mathilde Fontanet\, avec un art consommé et une émotion contenue\, nous restitue ces brèves rencontres\, ces arrêts sur image\, ces moments de vie faits de petites phrases\, d’émotions amoureuses\, d e gestes insignifiants\, avoués ou non\, mais qui laissent des traces ine ffables et transcendent la banalité.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceD isplay.py?confId=71539 LOCATION:CERN Bibliothèque\, Bât. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=71539 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Beta Beams: Neutrino Beams"\, Imperial Press \, 2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091111T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091111T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-73795@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:The beta-beam concept for the generation of electron neutrino beams was first proposed by Piero Zucchelli in 2002. The idea created quit e a stir\, challenging the idea that intense neutrino beams only could be produced from the decay of pions or muons in classical neutrino beams faci lities or in future neutrino factories. The concept initially struggled to make an impact but the hard work by many machine physicists\, phenomenolo gists and theoreticians over the last five years has won the beta-beam a w ell-earned position as one of the frontrunners for a possible future world laboratory for high intensity neutrino oscillation physics. This is the f irst complete monograph on the beta-beam concept. The book describes both technical aspects and experimental aspects of the beta-beam\, providing: s tudents and scientists with an insight into the possibilities offered by b eta-beams\; facility designers with a starting point for future studies\; and\, policy makers with a comprehensive picture of the limits and possibi lities offered by a beta-beam.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay. py?confId=73795 LOCATION:CERN Bibliothèque\, Bât. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=73795 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "Graviton 1992-2009"\, CERN\, 2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091201T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091201T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-75535@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Le Graviton est né en 1992 grâce à l'initiative d'un groupe de membres du personnel qui souhaitaient offrir une tribune à tous les e mployés pour leur permettre de prendre la parole mais aussi d'avoir accè s à davantage d'information sur les différentes activités du CERN et de s autres centres de recherche. Au fil des années\, les interviews et les articles se sont succédés grâce à la collaboration de nombreux membres du personnel. Aujourd'hui\, une grande partie de ces articles sont regro upés dans un recueil préparé sous la direction de Franco Francia. Cet o uvrage nous offre l'occasion de relire\, en anglais et en français\, que lques belles pages de l'histoire du CERN. Franco Francia présentera le re cueil.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=75535 LOCATION:CERN Library (Bldg. 52 1-052) URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=75535 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ASP2010 - African School of Physics - CERN Discussion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091216T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091216T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-76899@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Meeting of the International Organizing Committee\n\nhttp://in dico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=76899 LOCATION:CERN 513-R-055 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=76899 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus: "A Zeptospace Odyssey : a Journey into the Ph ysics of the LHC"\, Oxford University Press\, 2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-82124@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:At this very moment the most ambitious scientific experiment o f all time is beginning\, and yet its precise aims are little understood b y the general public. This book aims to provide an everyman's guide for un derstanding and following the discoveries that will take place within the next few years at the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN. The reader is invited to share an insider's view of the theory of particle physics\, an d is equipped to appreciate the scale of the intellectual revolution that is about to take place. The technological innovations required to build th e LHC are among the most astonishing aspects of this scientific adventure\ , and they too are described here as part of the LHC story. The book culmi nates with an outline of the scientific aims and expectations at the LHC. Does the mysterious Higgs boson exist? Does space hide supersymmetry or ex tend into extra dimensions? How can colliding protons at the LHC unlock th e secrets of the origin of our universe? These questions are all framed an d then addressed by an expert in the field. While making no compromises in accuracy\, this highly technical material is presented in a friendly\, ac cessible style. The book's aim is not just to inform\, but to give the rea der the physicist's sense of awe and excitement\, as we stand on the brink of a new era in understanding the world in which we all live.\n\nhttp://i ndico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=82124 LOCATION:CERN Bibliothèque\, Bât. 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=82124 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gli anelli del sapere = The Rings of Knowledge DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100309T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-87595@cern.ch DESCRIPTION: A fascinating photographic survey describes the essential ph ases of constructing the colossal equipment to perform the four main exper iments. It is enriched by a sophisticated\, experimental graphic design an d the stories of the Italian scientists from the INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics)\, who made vital contributions to the project and cons tructing the LHC. The book is completed by descriptions illustrating the i mportant contribution that Italian companies made to this major project\, demonstrating Italy's competitive capacity for excellence in the most impo rtant technological undertakings in Europe. \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conf erenceDisplay.py?confId=87595 LOCATION:CERN Pas perdus URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=87595 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus - The CERN Large Hadron Collider: Accelerator and Experiments / ed. by Rudiger Voss and Amos Breskin DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100311T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100311T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-87863@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Seven major articles on the LHC and its detectors\, published electronically in a special issue of the Journal of Instrumentation\, form the complete scientific documentation on the design and construction of t he entire LHC project.This landmark publication is probably the first time that a major new accelerator project has been documented in such a compre hensive\, coherent and up-to-date manner prior to going into operation. Th e papers should for many years to come serve as key references for the str eam of scientific results that will begin to emerge from the LHC after the first collisions this year. It was therefore decided also to produce prin ted copies of this article collection – the result is a beautiful two vo lume edition comprising some 1600 pages. Last week the whole lot arrived a t CERN and is now ready for distribution. Each of the LHC collaborations h as bought a set of copies to be given to their participating institutions and CERN will ensure that the books are included in all relevant libraries around the world. Personal copies can be obtained from the CERN Bookshop\ , hosted in the Library\, for 20 CHF per set.Concerning the electronic ver sion\, although published in a refereed scientific journal\, the articles are completely free to download and read online under an Open Access schem e\, without requiring a journal subscription (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journa l/-page=extra.lhc/jinst).To celebrate the arrival of the hard copies\, the Library invites you to a "Literature in Focus" event\, where the editors of the different articles will highlight the significance of these technic al publications and the process the collaborations have gone through in se tting up the mechanisms for handling the authoring process of papers with such large author lists. \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?c onfId=87863 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=87863 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus - A History of International Research Networki ng : The People who Made it Happen / ed. by Howard Davies and Beatrice Bre ssan DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-90839@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:How do you get representatives of over 30 countries to manage the specification and implementation of a service which is then made avail able to all of them?  How do you get several hundred highly qualified and independent-minded engineers to work together to find solutions to the nu merous technical problems?  How do you persuade funding bodies that your proposals are more deserving of support than other demands on their resour ces?  How do you - over a period of 25 to 30 years - increase the capacit y of your service by six orders of magnitude\, i.e. by a factor of a milli on while keeping the cost constant or even reducing it?A History of Intern ational Research Networking (Wiley publications\, Howard Davies and Beatri ce Bressan editors)\, is a “History Book” about how Europe got its act together and managed to create the most advanced facilities for research networking in the world which gives the right responses to all the above q uestions. The idea of writing such a history came during the summer of 200 6\, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Trans European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA). This book records the mai n elements of the history of European research networking\, including some of the mistakes and dead ends as well as the successes that were encounte red along the way. It describes the principal steps which those involved i n European research networking have taken\, in collaboration with (and som etimes in competition with) their counterparts in North America and other world regions\, in the development of the underlying telecommunications in frastructure which today supports the operation of the global Internet.It is a story about people as well as technology\; it is not the story of a s ingle individual who made an astonishing step forward but it is the story of individuals making a collaborative effort that really has meant a big l eap forward and who have been deeply involved in some aspect of European r esearch networking during the last thirty years. It is also a story about how complicated it can be to reach agreement on technical and organisation al issues between so many different countries – how much work goes into establishing and maintaining the consensus between many different nations\ , each with their own experts and opinions\, that is essential to the succ ess of a shared system.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?conf Id=90839 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=90839 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERN Book Fair 2010 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100907T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100908T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-105651@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:EVENTS AND BOOK PRESENTATIONS\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/confere nceDisplay.py?confId=105651 LOCATION:CERN Mezzanine URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=105651 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Literature in Focus - A History of International Research Networki ng : The People who Made it Happen / ed. by Howard Davies and Beatrice Bre ssan DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-108506@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:How do you get representatives of over 30 countries to manage the specification and implementation of a service which is then made avail able to all of them?  How do you get several hundred highly qualified and independent-minded engineers to work together to find solutions to the nu merous technical problems?  How do you persuade funding bodies that your proposals are more deserving of support than other demands on their resour ces?  How do you - over a period of 25 to 30 years - increase the capacit y of your service by six orders of magnitude\, i.e. by a factor of a milli on while keeping the cost constant or even reducing it?A History of Intern ational Research Networking (Wiley publications\, Howard Davies and Beatri ce Bressan editors)\, is a “History Book” about how Europe got its act together and managed to create the most advanced facilities for research networking in the world which gives the right responses to all the above q uestions. The idea of writing such a history came during the summer of 200 6\, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Trans European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA). This book records the mai n elements of the history of European research networking\, including some of the mistakes and dead ends as well as the successes that were encounte red along the way. It describes the principal steps which those involved i n European research networking have taken\, in collaboration with (and som etimes in competition with) their counterparts in North America and other world regions\, in the development of the underlying telecommunications in frastructure which today supports the operation of the global Internet.It is a story about people as well as technology\; it is not the story of a s ingle individual who made an astonishing step forward but it is the story of individuals making a collaborative effort that really has meant a big l eap forward and who have been deeply involved in some aspect of European r esearch networking during the last thirty years. It is also a story about how complicated it can be to reach agreement on technical and organisation al issues between so many different countries – how much work goes into establishing and maintaining the consensus between many different nations\ , each with their own experts and opinions\, that is essential to the succ ess of a shared system.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?conf Id=108506 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=108506 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Presentation of Library and Information Services to the TE Departm ent DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T100000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-108507@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:The aim of the presentation is not only to highlight the servi ces and resources offered by the Scientific Information Service\, but also to gather suggestions for improvements and to open a communicaiton chann el with a key community inside CERN\, a mutually beneficial cooperation.\n \nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=108507 LOCATION:CERN Kjell Johnsen Auditorium URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=108507 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:At the leading Edge: the ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments / edited by Dan Green DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-110891@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Too often descriptions of detectors focus on the "what" and not the "why". This volume aims to elucidate how the requirements of the physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) define the detector environment . In turn\, the detector choices are made to adopt to that environment. Th e goal of LHC physics is to explore the mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking. Because of the minuscule cross-sections which need to be explor ed\, 0.1 fb\, the LHC needs to provide 100 fb-1/yr\, or an instantaneous l uminosity of 1034 / (cm2 sec). With a bunch crossing interval of 25 nsec\, well matched to detector speeds\, there will be 25 events occupying each bunch crossing. \n\n Thus the physics requires fast\, finely segmented\, l ow noise and radiation resistant detectors which provide redundant measure ments of the rarely produced electrons and muons. To achieve those goals\, new ground was broken in constructing the A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS ) and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detectors in the vertex detectors\, trac king systems\, calorimetry\, strong magnets\, muon systems\, front end ele ctronics\, trigger systems\, and in the data acquisition methods used. \n\ nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=110891 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=110891 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Origin / by Beatrice Bressan DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110308T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110308T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-129668@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Beatrice Bressan\, outreach coordinator of the TOTEM experi ment\, will present her poetry book "The Origin". The presentation will be followed by a reading of her poems.\n\n “Ancient stargazers interpreted comets and eclipses as omens of doom. They all sought insights into the m ystery of The Origin\, seeking answers to eternal questions such as: Why a re we here? What is the meaning of it all?” This is what Arthur I. Mille r\, emeritus professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London\, says in the preface to "The Origin".  This book has been created for the homonymous itinerant exhibition\, The Origin: A Journey b etween Science and Art\, which started its tour last year in Frascati (Rom e) and will soon be  in Geneva. The exhibition has been realized by the non-profit association Nairucu Arts with the support of different institu tions\, including CERN. It's aim is to create an Art School at Rapale (Nam pula) in Northern Mozambique. Beatrice is one of the several artists and s cientists who decided to support this goal through their voluntary contrib ution.\n\n Like the exhibition\, this book is composed of three sections: from the origin of the Universe\, to the origin of humankind and the origi n in art and myths. It represents an example of how creative thinking belo ngs to many domains and goes towards a multidisciplinary approach.\n\n “ By the 20th century the task of understanding the heavens had become quite a bit more complicated. (…) With help from Einstein's relativity theory and quantum physics\, scientists began to understand how stars were born\ , lived and died.” Miller continues: “But we must look beyond physics in order to understand the aesthetics of the heavens as well as that most human of attributes: consciousness. This is what Bressan means when she wr ites of the need to feel the vibrations of the Universe. (…) We have to enlarge our scientific world-picture to include physics\, biology\, psycho logy and cognitive science\, along with not-yet-imagined branches of knowl edge.”\n\n  \n\n About the author:\n Beatrice Bressan\, born in R ome in 1967\, is a member of EUSJA (European Union of Science Journalists ’ Associations). After a degree in Mathematical Physics (La Sapienza Uni versity\, Rome) and a Masters in Science Communication (ISAS\, Internation al School for Advanced Studies\, Trieste)\, she completed a Ph.D. in Knowl edge Management and Technology Transfer for the Department of Physical Sci ences at Helsinki University within the research programmes at CERN. She h as worked several years in these areas as a researcher\, writer and head o f communications.\n  \n \n "The Origin"\, by Beatrice Bressan\n will be presented on Tuesday\, 8 March 2011 at 4.00 p.m.\n in the CERN Library (Bldg. 52 1-052). Tea and coffee will be served.\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cer n.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=129668 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=129668 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:You Are Wrong\, Mr. Einstein!: Newton\, Einstein\, Heisenberg and Feynman Discussing Quantum Mechanics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110914T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110914T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-152457@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman find quantum physics fascinating and necessary for understanding the atoms. Albert Einstein dis likes it and Isaac Newton does not understand it\, which is not surprising . This is the scenario for animated discussions between five people. Haral d Fritzsch brings together Newton and the three great physicists of the 20 th century in an imaginary meeting. His alter ego Adrian Haller moderates the discussions. By means of questions and answers the whole cosmos of qua ntum physics is described in a simple way\, easily understandable non-phys icists. The beginnings of quantum theory and atomic physics as well as the importance of quantum physics for our daily life - these and many more to pics are the subjects of the interesting and fascinating discussions.\n \n \n The event will take place in the framework of the 2011 CERN Book Fai r.\n\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=152457 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=152457 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Knowledge Management in an International Research Centre: A study of technology transfers and benefits to society in a scientific organizati on\, CERN DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110914T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110914T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-153266@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n The study examines knowledge acquisition in a research orga nization and the knowledge transferred to other institutions in order to a nalyze benefits for society. It is based on two samples of scientists part icipating in CERN programmes during the LEP collider period. The analysis uses a new model developed by the author combining two knowledge creation approaches: individual (Kurki-Suonio) and organizational (Nonaka). Through the model developed\, the knowledge acquisition generated within five CER N LHC experiments is specifically addressed.Organizational knowledge creat ion is a process that externalizes the knowledge created by individuals th rough interactions involving tacit and explicit knowledge. The study provi des evidence that the social process encourages the advance of both\, scie ntific and technological processes. It is one of the key procedures of the learning process to create new knowledge and innovation. Much work remain s to be done in this area to increase rigor\, but the results obtained are useful in understanding the parameters involved in knowledge management w ithin organizations. The new model could be considered as universally appl icable.\n The event will take place in the framework of the 2011 CERN Book Fair.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=153266 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=153266 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Matter Antimatter Fluctuations: Search\, discovery and analysis of Bs flavor oscillations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110915T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110915T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-153504@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n This book is about the observation of a subatomic particle switching between matter and antimatter states at a mind boggling 3 trilli on times per second. The spontaneous identity fluctuation represents a sub tle quantum mechanical phenomenon and its analysis constitutes a high sens itivity probe of Nature's fundamental forces. The oscillation offers a gli mpse of the development of the early universe\, and might shed light on on e of the greatest unsolved problems in science: the mystery of matter anti matter imbalance in the universe. Measuring the oscillation and the astoni shing rate at which it occurs has been an all-too-elusive piece in the gra nd puzzle\, having evaded experimental efforts pursued for two decades. Th e landmark measurement was achieved by the CDF experiment in the Tevatron proton antiproton collider at Fermilab. It lies on a state of the art dete ctor capability and the development of sophisticated techniques\, culminat ing in what is arguably the most complex analysis attempted at a hadron co llider. This book provides a description of the phenomenon\, and details t he technique developed and employed in this measurement of historic signif icance.\n The event will take place in the framework of the 2011 CERN Book Fair.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=153504 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=153504 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High Energy Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120307T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120307T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-180581@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Born after World War II\, large-scale experimental high-ene rgy physics has found itself limited ever since by available accelerator\, detector and computing technologies. Accordingly\, HEP has made significa nt contributions to the development of these fields\, more often than not driving their innovations. The invention of the World Wide Web at CERN is merely the best-known example out of many. This book is the first comprehe nsive account to trace the history of this pioneering spirit in the field of computing technologies. It covers everything up to and including the pr esent-day handling of the huge demands imposed upon grid and distributed c omputing by full-scale LHC operations - operations which have for years in volved many thousands of collaborating members worldwide and accordingly p rovide the original and natural testbed for grid computing concepts. This book takes the reader on a guided tour encompassing all relevant topics\, including programming languages\, software engineering\, large databases\, the Web\, and grid and cloud computing. The important issue of intellectu al property regulations for distributed software engineering and computing is also addressed. Aptly\, the book closes with a visionary chapter of wh at may lie ahead.\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confI d=180581 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=180581 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Real Film: An encounter with film artist Yuri Ancarani DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120327T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120327T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-183262@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Film maker Yuri Ancarani is already making a name for himse lf in the world of art films. He has shown work at important festivals\, l ike Venice International Film Festival and Cinema du Reel in Paris as well as the Guggenheim\, Museum\, New York.\n On the occasion to his visit to CERN to research the final part of his trilogy about work\, Yuri Ancarani  will talk about the ideas behind his films. The first part of his trilog y was called 'The Chief' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgvWBT9ZLhk and w as shot in the marble quarries of Carrera\, whilst the second film\, 'Plat form Moon' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NROmxY_O8iY was shot entirely i nside a hyperbaric chamber on a gas platform in the mediterranean sea.\n H e will talk about the process of film making\, how and why he chooses subj ects for his films\, and his personal story as to why he loves film as an artistic medium.\n Tee/Coffee  will be served.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/c onferenceDisplay.py?confId=183262 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=183262 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Energy Survival Guide DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120329T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120329T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-183404@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Do those huge windmills really make sense? Can solar energy pr ovide the entire world's electricity? Should we stop building nuclear powe r plants after Fukushima? Why don't we use wave power? How much do I save by installing double glazing? What about using solar panels? Is taking the train more efficient than travelling by plane or car? What's wrong with e lectric cars? These are just examples of questions people ask.\n\n This bo ok provides the answers\, presenting clear insights into the current state of affairs and exploring future prospects. Every statement is backed by f acts and figures\, leading to conclusions that are hard to contest.\n\n\nh ttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=183404 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=183404 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strangels DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120608T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120608T120000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-194707@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n CERN Library and Collide@CERN present the first artistic in tervention by CERN's choreographer in residence\, Gilles Jobin and dancers \n  \n Three strangels on a migration to another dimension rest in CERN's library. Strangels need food for thoughts. Do not pay attention to them - they are only strangels.Site specific choreographic intervention inside t he CERN library. \n Strangels:\n Ruth Childs\n Susana Panadès Diaz\n Gil les Jobin\n  \n Please note - the audience can come and go as they wish.\ n  \n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=194707 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=194707 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"The Quantum Exodus: jewish fugitives\, the atomic bomb\, and the Holocaust" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120614T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120614T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-195724@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happ ened at the same time. When the Nazis came into power in 1933\, their init ial objective was not to get rid of Jews. Rather\, their aim was to refine German culture: Jewish professors and teachers at fine universities were sacked. Atomic science had attracted a lot of Jewish talent\, and as Alber t Einstein and other quantum exiles scattered\, they realized that they he ld the key to a weapon of unimaginable power. Convinced that their gentile counterparts in Germany had come to the same conclusion\, and having witn essed what the Nazis were prepared to do\, the exiles were afraid. They ha d to get to the Atomic Bomb first. The Nazis meanwhile had acquired a more pressing objective: their persecution of the Jews had evolved into exterm ination. Two dreadful projects - the Bomb and the Holocaust - became locke d a grisly race."The quantum exodus : jewish fugitives\, the atomic bomb\, and the holocaust" by Gordon Fraser\, Oxford University Press\, 2012.\nTe a/coffee will be served at 15:30.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDispl ay.py?confId=195724 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=195724 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Digital Art and Sensuality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-196424@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n CERN Library and Collide@CERN present media artist Nataša Teofilović\n  \n The Serbian  media artist Nataša Teofilović creates virtual characters which are living art works\, often employing animation techniques. She won an honorary mention for her work in the first Prix Ar s Electronica Collide@CERN competition for her outstanding digital works w hich cross the boundaries between virtual and real spaces.  As part of he r prize\, Arts@CERN offered Nataša the opportunity for a two day visit to CERN\, which is being funded by a Swedish foundation travel grant.\n  \n Nataša talks about why and how she creates her digital work and virtual beings\, shows examples and reveals insights into the role and status of a n artist in her native Serbia.\n  \n Nataša Teofilović has an PhD and M A in Digital Art (Belgrade University of Arts\, Interdisciplinary Studies) and holds a BA in Architecture from Belgrade University of Architecture. She lives in Pančevo\, Vojvodina\, Serbia.\n See examples of Nataša’s work here: https://vimeo.com/user5395533\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/con ferenceDisplay.py?confId=196424 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=196424 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Creeping in Circles DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120724T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120724T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-200256@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n CERN Library and Collide@CERN present Painter Nils Hedensk og and photographer Joakim Brolin \n  \n Nils Hedenskog and Joakim Brol in collaborate on crawling performances called Creeping in Circles\, resul ting in a series of hybrid images of movement and light. \n They happen to show poetical analogies with scientific results at CERN.   \n See  http://www.creepingincircles.com/\n Tea/coffee will be served at 15:45\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=200256 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=200256 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Drawing the Unrepresentable DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120802T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120802T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-201775@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n CERN Library and Collide@CERN present artist Gerhard Mayer  \n  \n\n Walls and floors are the surfaces on which the German artist G erhard Mayer\n draws large scale works. From art galleries to public build ings in Europe\n and the US\, including even churches\, Gerhard Mayer make s site-specific\n drawings\, with energetic flowing lines of ink. He is pa rticularly\n attracted to drawing clouds\, twisted swirls\, shapes and edd ies\,\n reflecting flow in the micro and macro world.\n He also works in s culpture and painting too\, creating complex puzzles and\n collages with a n intensity reminiscent of Brueghel.\n\n On the occasion of his visit to C ERN curated by Arts@CERN\, Gerhard Mayer\n will talk about his love of dra wing\, his attraction to making work in\n public spaces and present his wo rk for Nürnbergs Neues Museum called LHC.\n\n See examples of Gerhard May er’s work here http://www.gerhard-mayer.com/\n\n Tea/coffee will be serv ed at 15.45.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=201775 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=201775 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SpringerMaterials - the Landolt-Börnstein database: the comprehen sive online resource for physical and chemical information DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120911T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120911T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-206972@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n "SpringerMaterials - the Landolt-Börnstein database: the c omprehensive online resource for physical and chemical information."Stefan Scherer\, Database Editor SpringerMaterials\, Springer\, Germany\n  \n\n SpringerMaterials is the most comprehensive online resource for physical\ n and chemical information. It is based on the "Landolt-Börnstein New\n S eries"\, the unique collection of critically evaluated data from all areas \n of the physical sciences (chemistry\, materials sciences and physics).\ n SpringerMaterials comprises to date content from 430 Landolt-Börnstein\ n volumes (including 45 volumes edited by Prof. Dr. Herwig Schopper from\n CERN)\, the "Database on Inorganic Solid Phases"\, the most comprehensive \n database on inorganic solid phases\, the "Database on Thermophysical\n Properties"\, a subset of the DDBST (Dortmund Data Bank Software &\n Separ ation Technology)\, and comprehensive Chemical Safety Documents.\n\n A com munity of over 1000 internationally renowned scientists has\n assiduously evaluated the published scientific literature\, and decided\n which data t o include in SpringerMaterials.\n\n CERN scientists and engineers will ben efit from the expertise of\n SpringerMaterials' editors and authors and fr om the quality of the data.They save time and money as they find the infor mation and data they need\n on a modern online platform.\n\n Tea/coffee wi ll be served at 14.45.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confI d=206972 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=206972 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Knovel: a technical information portal for the engineering commun ity" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130215T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130215T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-236094@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n "Knovel: a technical information portal for the engineering community"Gary Kearns\, Knovel Managing Director - EMEA\n  \nKnovel prov ides a Web-based application integrating technical information with analyt ical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers ca n trust. Knovel users include thousands of engineers and applied scientist s from more than 700 organizations worldwide\, including 74 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than 400 leading universities.\nKnovel offers refe rence works and databases from more than 100 leading publishers and profes sional societies including AIAA\, AIChE\, ASME and NACE. It is the go-to r esource for thousands of engineers and scientists who need to quickly and confidently research and analyze critical data.\nKnovel’s tools includin g its Interactive Tables and Graphs not only help users to find the inform ation hidden in complex graphs\, equations and tables quickly\, but also a nalyze and manipulate data as easily as sorting a spread sheet. Using eith er simple keywords or full Boolean queries\, Knovel searches across differ ent data sets to find the information engineers need\, however deeply it m ay be buried.\nKnovel has been recognized as one of the E-Content 100 comp anies that matter most in the digital content industry. In January 2013\, Knovel was acquired by Elsevier.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDispla y.py?confId=236094 LOCATION:CERN Kjell Johnsen Auditorium URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=236094 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A caccia del bosone di Higgs. Magneti\, governi\, scienziati e par ticelle nell'impresa scientifica del secolo DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130227T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130227T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-238723@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:La presentazione sara` seguita da un dibattito e dalla firma d i copie del libro\, che sara` in vendita.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/confere nceDisplay.py?confId=238723 LOCATION:CERN Council Chamber URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=238723 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Arnoud Noordegraaf and Adrian Hornsby present their Collide@CERN m usic theater project DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130320T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130320T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-241561@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n CERN Library and Collide@CERN present Composer Arnoud Noord egraaf and Writer Adrian Hornsby  \n Discover how one of Europe’s most exciting young composers works with a writer to create contemporary operas . Dutch composer Arnoud Noordegraaf and writer and librettist Adrian Horns by will describe their work together creating multi-media operas.\n Work s uch as A.M  - a love story about sound is based on a story by the Japanes e writer Haruki Murakami  and  featured at the Holland Festival. You can see a short extract here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgs-9hzWzY\n Arn oud Noordegraaf and Adrian Hornsby received an Honorary Mention in the Pri x Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2011. They are at CERN for 3 days doing res earch for creating the opera they proposed in the Collide@CERN open compet ition  an opera for soprano\, actor\, digital film media\, and 3D sound s phere. It is about a physicist who is receiving treatment for his cancer b y the very particles he has been investigating as a physicist.\n In their own words: “The pure physics of particles is itself so richly suggestive and dramatic and beautiful that we wanted to use art to express it. In es sence\, we wanted to make available to an audience the poetry of particles as they sing themselves.”\n See  http://www.inexcelsisvideo.net/Arnoud _Noordegraaf/Arnoud___home.html and http://www.adrianhornsby.com/\n Tea/co ffee will be served at 15:45\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDispl ay.py?confId=241561 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=241561 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Artist Xavier Cortada and physicist Pete Marktowitz present their participatory CMS art project DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-245380@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Artist Xavier Cortada and physicist Pete Marktowitz present their participatory CMS art project \n Xavier Cortada is an American art ist and painter\, and artist in residence at FIU College of Architecture a nd  the Arts in Florida who also  specializes in participatory art proje cts. His work includes art installations at the Earth’s poles to generat e awareness about climate change\,  child welfare murals in Bolivia and p eace murals in Cyprus.\n Xavier will be in conversation with CMS physicist Pete Markowitz\, also from FIU\, to discuss the participatory art piece w hich  they have developed together and which will be showcased in the CMS   detector hall on Thursday April 11thduring the experiment’s conferenc e week.\n The piece promises to ‘engage 300 scientists from around the w orld in a performance art piece that transforms them into the very subatom ic particles they research.’\n It is the first piece by Art@CMS\, a new project inspired by the Arts@CERN programme.\n Discover more about how thi s new piece was developed  as well as about Xavier’s work by joining hi m and Pete Markowitz in conversation in  the CERN Library on Tuesday Apri l 9th  at 1600.\n For further information  about Xavier Cortada\, see he rehttp://www.xaviercortada.com\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDis play.py?confId=245380 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245380 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Catalysed fusion : a very different book about CERN DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130416T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130416T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-246211@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Francis Farley presents his book "Catalysed Fusion" \n Not many books get reviews resulting in headlines like "Steamy novel challeng es CERN's serious image"\, "Love and death at CERN" and so on. But Francis Farley's book "Catalysed Fusion" does not leave its readers untouched.\n Those of you who have been around some time will know Farley from when he worked at CERN. For "newcomers"\, Farley is a well-known physicist http:// public.web.cern.ch/public/en/people/Farley-en.html who put together the fi rst experiment on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and has since taken part in all the experiments relating to this phenomenon.\n From the back cover of the book one can read: "A sizzling romance and a romp with s ubatomic particles at CERN. Love\, discovery and adventure in the city whe re nations meet and beams collide. Life in a large laboratory. As always\, the challenges are the same. Who leads? Who follows? Who succeeds? Who ge ts the credit? Who gets the women or the men?\n Young Jeremy arrives in CE RN and joins the quest for green energy. Coping with baffling jargon and m anifold dangers\, he is distracted by radioactive rats\, lovely ladies and an unscrupulous rival. Full of doubts and hesitations\, he falls for a da zzling Danish girl\, who leads him astray. His brilliant idea leads to a d iscovery and a new route to cold fusion. But his personal life is scramble d. Does it bring fame or failure? Tragedy or triumph?"\n If you want to me et the author and learn about how this book came along\, come to the Libra ry and join the discussion.\n Literature in Focus\n Francis Farley present s his book "Catalysed Fusion"\n CERN Library (building 52-1-52)\n Tuesday 16th April at 15.30\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?con fId=246211 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=246211 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frank Close presents his book "Neutrino" and a forthcoming book on Bruno Pontecorvo DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130417T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130417T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-246246@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Frank Close's book Neutrino is short listed for the Italian Galileo Prize.\n Frank describes how he was inspired to write about Ray D avis' heroic quest\n to do what many thought was impossible - detect neutr inos from the sun - and\n how in turn he has become fascinated by the life and work of "Mr Neutrino" -\n Bruno Pontecorvo - and is writing a biograp hy of him.\n By having chosen to move to the USSR suddenly in 1950\, Ponte corvo missed out\n on getting full credit for several seminal ideas about neutrinos\, including\n possibly their discovery. Why he went to the USSR so suddenly has been\n unresolved for 60 years. Frank's book "A Life of Tw o Halves" may answer\n that\, in 2014. He will update on progress so far.\ n Wednesday 17/04/2013 at 16:00 in the Library\, 52-1-052\n Tea/coffee wil l be served from 15:30\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py? confId=246246 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=246246 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Julien Lesgourgues presents his book "Neutrino Cosmology" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130422T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130422T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-248106@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n The role that neutrinos have played in the evolution of the Universe is the focus of one of the most fascinating research areas that has stemmed from the interplay between cosmology\, astrophysics and partic le physics. In this self-contained book\, the authors bring together all a spects of the role of neutrinos in cosmology\, spanning from leptogenesis to primordial nucleosynthesis\, their role in CMB and structure formation\ , to the problem of their direct detection. The book starts by guiding the reader through aspects of fundamental neutrino physics\, such as the stan dard cosmological model and the statistical mechanics in the expanding Uni verse\, before discussing the history of neutrinos in chronological order from the very early stages until today."Neutrino Cosmology" by Julien Lesg ourgues\, Gianpiero Mangano\, Gennaro Miele\, Sergio Pastor\, Cambridge Un iversity Press\, 2013\, ISBN 9781107013957.\n Monday 22/04/2013 at 16:00 i n the Library\, 52-1-052\n Tea/coffee will be served from 15:30\n  \n\nht tp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=248106 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=248106 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mathilde Fontanet présente son livre "Décembre" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130424T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130424T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-248108@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Décembre\, un roman qui se situe au cœur d’un hiver où tout n’est que faux-semblants.\n L’auteure observe\, à la manière d ’une entomologiste\, ce qui se cache derrière des vies normales\, les r êves et les ambitions\, mais aussi les tromperies et les mensonges. Des p ersonnages gravitent autour d’un frère et d’une sœur\, amis intimes\ , voisins ou témoins fugitifs. À tour de rôle\, ils prennent la parole. Et petit à petit\, on découvre dans ce microcosme en apparence banal et lisse\, des amours violentes\, mais aussi les non-dits qui sont devenus u n mode de vie. Une suite de révélations\, filiation cachée\, enfant abu sé\, crime maquillé\, inceste\, suicide\, alterne et continuera bien au- delà de la dernière page. "Décembre"\, par Mathilde Fontanet\, Editions Métropolis\, 2013\, ISBN  978-2-88340-192-1\n Mercredi 24/04/2013 à 16 h00 à la Bibliothèque\, Bât. 52-1-052\n Tés/cafés seront servis à pa rtir de 15h30\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=24 8108 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=248108 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Christophe Grojean présente le livre "À la recherche du Boson de Higgs" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130514T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130514T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T034337Z UID:indico-event-250449@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:\n Depuis l'annonce de sa découverte\, le 4 juillet 2012\, le boson de Higgs n'a cessé de faire parler de lui dans les médias. \n Mai s de quoi s'agit-il et quels sont les véritables enjeux de cette découve rte expérimentale ? Comment est-on parvenu à produire et à observer ce boson au LHC\, le grand collisionneur de particules du CERN ? Quel est l' état actuel de nos connaissances en physique des particules ?Cet ouvrage est destiné à tous ceux qui désirent obtenir des réponses claires à c es questions."À la recherche du Boson de Higgs"\, par Christophe Grojean et Laurent Vacavant\, Editions Librio\, 2013\, ISBN  978-2-290-05400-0\n Mardi 14/05/2013 à 16h00 à la Bibliothèque\, Bât. 52-1-052\n Tés/caf és seront servis à partir de 15h30\n  \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/confere nceDisplay.py?confId=250449 LOCATION:CERN Library\, 52 1-052 URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=250449 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR