Welcome Address

• Agnieszka Zalewska (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

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History of Council - a brief selection of highlights

• Jens Vigen (CERN)

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council seen by a Member State

• Sijbrand De Jong (Radboud University Nijmegen (NL))

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council seen by an Outreacher

• Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan (US))

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council seen by a Young Scientist

• Laura Grob (Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE))

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council seen by a Staff

• Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council seen by a Pensioner

• Edith Deluermoz

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council on the world stage

• John Ellis (King's College London (UK))

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Council, accelerators, medical applications, technology transfer, and the World Wide Web

• Horst Wenninger (GSI (DE))

Room: 80-1-001 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.

Closing Remarks

• Rolf Heuer (CERN)

Room: 80-1-001