Symposium to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first Council session

Friday 19 Sept 2014, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

80-1-001 (CERN)

Catherine Cesarsky (FR), Walter Van Doninck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

The Convention for the Establishment of a European Organization for Nuclear Research entered into force on 29 September 1954, 60 years ago. This marks CERN's official birthday. The first session of the CERN Council, the Governance of CERN, was held at Geneva on 7 and 8 October 1954, just one week later.

The Symposium is held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first Council session. Speakers from all generations will present highlights out of 60 years of Council and with various views from their own perspectives.

Photos https://cds.cern.ch/record/1756874

Video https://cds.cern.ch/record/1756913

15:00 → 15:05 Welcome Address

Speaker: Agnieszka Zalewska (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

text 2014-09-19-CouncilAnniversary-final.docx 2014-09-19-CouncilAnniversary-final.pdf

15:05 → 15:25 History of Council - a brief selection of highlights

Jens Vigen is Head of the Scientific Information Service. He has been a staff member of CERN since 1994. Jens holds a master degree in civil engineering from the Norwegian Technical University. However, his whole professional life he has been working as an academic librarian.

Speaker: Jens Vigen (CERN)

Slides 201409_CERN_Council_final.pdf 201409_CERN_Council_final.pptx

15:25 → 15:35 Council seen by a Member State

Sijbrand de Jong is professor of physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen and presently conducts his research in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray physics at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. He was first at CERN as summer student in 1984. He worked on the OPAL experiment at CERN from 1990 until 1998, was a member of the LHC Committee from 2004 until 2008 and is Dutch scientific delegate to Council since 2010.

Speaker: Sijbrand De Jong (Radboud University Nijmegen (NL))

Slides Presentation-60ans_SdJ_v3.pdf Presentation-60ans_SdJ_v3.pptx

text council_talk_141017_v8.pdf

15:35 → 15:45 Council seen by an Outreacher

Steven Goldfarb is a physicist from the University of Michigan working on the ATLAS Experiment. Steve came to CERN in 1988 as a PhD student working on the L3 Experiment on LEP and has been a dedicated User ever since. He now serves as the Education & Outreach Coordinator for ATLAS, with the goal of sharing CERN with the world, one way or another.

Speaker: Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan (US))

Slides GoldfarbOutreach.pdf GoldfarbOutreach.pptx

15:45 → 15:55 Council seen by a Young Scientist

Laura Grob is a PhD student from the Technical University of Darmstadt and working on collinear laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE. Only 2 weeks after her start in June she joined the Open Council Session and will share her impressions.

Speaker: Laura Grob (Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE))

Slides CERN60_LauraGrob.pdf CERN60_LauraGrob.pptx

text CERN60Text.pdf

15:55 → 16:05 Council seen by a Staff

Augusto Ceccucci is a CERN Staff since 1998. Before joining CERN he worked for the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). He is the Spokesperson of the NA62 Experiment devoted to the study of very-rare charged kaon decays at the CERN SPS.

Speaker: Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)

Slides Council_Staff.pdf Council_Staff.pptx

16:05 → 16:15 Council seen by a Pensioner

Edith Deluermoz worked at CERN from 1962 until end of 1997 in Personnel Services (Human Resources today) where she was responsible for several sections within the Division - claims, contracts, recruitment, interpretation of Staff Regulations and Rules, elected member of the Governing Board of the Pension Fund for over 10 years. Member of the pensioners committee after retirement on 1.1.1998 - Working group on pension guarantees.

Speaker: Edith Deluermoz

text 60th_Anniversary_of_the_first_Council_Session.pdf

16:15 → 16:25 Council on the world stage

John Ellis first came to CERN as a Summer Student in 1968, and returned as a PhD student in 1970/1, and as a Fellow in 1973. He was a staff member in the Theory Division from 1974 until his retirement from CERN in 2011, and is now Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London. He was advisor to DGs Maiani, Aymar and Heuer on relations with Non-Member States from 1999 until 2011.

Speaker: John Ellis (King's College London (UK))

Slides Council_on_the_World_Stage.pdf Council_on_the_World_Stage.pptx

16:25 → 16:45 Council, accelerators, medical applications, technology transfer, and the World Wide Web

Horst Wenninger joined CERN for the Big European Bubble Chamber Project in 1968, Horst lived through exciting periods of CERN’s history: the times of neutrino physics and LEP and of LHC preparation approval and construction. He served as Division Leader from 1984 to 1992 and as Research Technical Director from 1994 to 1998.

Speaker: Horst Wenninger (GSI (DE))

Slides september_19_final.pdf september_19_final.pptx

16:45 → 16:50 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (CERN)