As part of the Laboratory's outreach programme, the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) brings together students and experienced physicists from all over the world with the aim of promoting the understanding of accelerator physics. As head of the School for 11 years, Ted Wilson became a CERN ambassador to the outside community. He retired in March, handing over the reigns of the CAS to Daniel Brandt.

Young accelerator physicists gathered in Sesimbra, Portugal, for the 2002 CERN Accelerator School.

Phil Bryant now moves over to the LHC project at CERN and hands the CAS baton to Ted Wilson.

Extracted from the original article you can find on CERN Courier, Volume 26, September 1986.  

The next CAS course -aimed at beginners- will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, in September. For details see page 4.
For advanced students there will be a specialised course held jointly with the Americans in October.

Kjell Johnsen handed over the leadership to Phil Bryant on 1 October 1985.

Kjell Johnsen, leader of the newly created CERN Accelerator School, introduces one of the sessions in the recent course on 'Antiprotons for Colliding Beam Facilities·, held at CERN.