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FOR the FIRST TIME in this SCHOOL SERIES Lectures and Lab sessions will be dedicated to Accelerators.
This keynote lecture will give an introduction to this multi-facets technological and Physics domain.
Accelerators are key instruments in fundamental research, i.e. in Particle Physics. They are unique probes for exploring the ultimate components of the Matter as well as for getting access to the very early stages of the Universe History. (see attached picture here below).
[ Document attached here below: "History and Fate of the Universe", courtesy of Contemporary Physics Education Project, CPEP, at CPEPPhysics.org}
Accelerators are key-instruments as well in many applied fields (see next lecture)
Dr Frederick Bordry was the Head of the Technology Department before being appointed as CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology (Jan. 2014-Dec.2020).
Dr. Bordry came to CERN in 1986, joining the group working on power converters for the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) before moving in 1988 to the Operations Group as an engineer in charge of the Super Proton Synchrotron and LEP.
In 1994, the year that the LHC was approved, he joined the Power Converter Group as the Head of Power Converters Design and Construction for the LHC. He was appointed leader of the Power Converter Group in 2002, a position he held until December 2008.
In 2009, Dr. Bordry was promoted to Head of the CERN Technology Department - responsible for technologies specific to existing particle accelerators, facilities and future projects – where he has remained until 2013.
From 2014 he acted as the Director for Accelerators and Technology, being responsible for the operation and exploitation of the whole CERN accelerator complex, with particular emphasis on the LHC and for the development of new projects and technologies. He was re-appointed CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology until December 2020.
