Category: News
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CERN Accelerator School to create new video encyclopaedia
CERN Accelerator School to create new video encyclopaedia It is a cool Tuesday afternoon in early October. In the shadow of the Jura mountains north of Geneva lies a hotel, where seventy students at the beginning of their accelerator physics careers are attending the CERN Accelerator School (CAS). They are joined by experts from various
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Edmund ‘Ted’ Wilson (1938 – 2016)
Edmund ‘Ted’ Wilson (1938 – 2016) Edmund 'Ted' Wilson, a particle physicist and visiting professor at Oxford University and former head of CERN Accelerator School died after a short illness on 3 November. Ted Wilson was born on 18 March 1938 in Liverpool, the son of school teacher John Wesley Wilson and nurse Anna Wilson.
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CAS Accelerator for medical applications in Vösendforf, Austria
CAS Accelerator for medical applications in Vösendforf, Austria The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and MedAustron jointly organised a course on Accelerators for Medical Applications in Vösendorf, Austria between 26 May and 5 June 2015. The course was held at the Eventhotel Pyramide on the outskirts of Vienna, and was attended by 76 participants from 29
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CAS INTRODUCTION TO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS IN SPAIN
CAS INTRODUCTION TO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS IN SPAIN The course attracted over 200 applicants, of whom 139 were selected to attend. The students were of 25 different nationalities, coming from countries as far away as Australia, China, Guatemala and India. The intensive programme comprised 38 lectures, 3 seminars, 4 tutorials where the students were split into
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Roger Bailey takes over as head of CAS
Roger Bailey takes over as head of CAS After 8 years of successful growth in popularity for the School, Daniel Brandt has handed on the baton to Roger Bailey. “The success of the CERN Accelerator School has been the result of a fantastic team effort,” says Brandt. “Along with my assistant – initially Suzanne von
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Digital signal processing debuts at CAS with resounding success
Digital signal processing debuts at CAS with resounding success The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and Uppsala University jointly organized a specialized school on a new theme this summer, with a course on digital signal processing, which took place in Sigtuna, Sweden, from 1–9 June. The course was different this year in that the topic had
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Ted Wilson passes de torch
Ted Wilson passes de torch As a boy, Ted Wilson could have embarked on a career in pop music rather than physics, rubbing shoulders at secondary school in Liverpool with two of the future Beatles. But prefering classical music and answering the call of science, he took the more serious of the two paths, studying
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Young physicists attend CERN accelerator school in Portugal
Young physicists attend CERN accelerator school in Portugal Young accelerator physicists converged on the Portuguese coastal town of Sesimbra in September for the 2002 CERN Accelerator School (CAS) introductory course on particle accelerators. Organized by CAS together with the Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas of Lisbon (LIP), the course covered the basics
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Ted Wilson becomes Head of the CERN Accelerator School
Ted Wilson becomes Head of the CERN Accelerator School The CERN Accelerator School (CAS), set up in 1983, aims to make good the lack of university courses in accelerator physics, and to train the staff needed to plan, construct and man new machines. Kjell Johnsen, the first leader of the school (1983-5) set high standards,
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Kjell Johnsen retires
Kjell Johnsen retires One of the dominant figures of the CERN accelerator physics community retired at the end of June. Kjell Johnsen, from the days of the construction of the Proton Synchrotron to the recent creation of the flourishing CERN Accelerator School, has made major contributions to the work of the Laboratory. His broad knowledge