Tag: INTERVIEWS
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Interview with Savas Dimopoulos
Interview with Savas Dimopoulos Professor Dimopoulos is searching for answers to some of the most profound mysteries of nature. In this interview we discuss the recent findings of the LHC and his expectations about future HEP experiments, the quest for "truth" that seems to inform our scientific endeavours, as well as the relation between science
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Interview with Sergio Bertolucci
Interview with Sergio Bertolucci BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/interview-sergio-bertolucci) P.C. What does your role as CERN’s Director of Research and Scientific Computing entail? S.B. My two main duties are to act as the interface between CERN as host laboratory and the experimental collaborations and to supervise the Physics and Computing Departments of
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An interview with Dr. Georg Bednorz
An interview with Dr. Georg Bednorz In this interview, Dr Georg Bednorz, Nobel Prize in physics and research scientist at the IBM Zürich research center recalls the early days of this discovery and discusses future applications and challenges in the field. Earlier in autumn he was invited by the University of Geneva to give a
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Statistics Matter: An interview with Constantino Tsallis
Statistics Matter: An interview with Constantino Tsallis Constantino Tsallis introduced what is presently known as Tsallis entropy and Tsallis statistics, also known as q-statistics, in his 1988 paper "Possible generalization of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics" published in the Journal of Statistical Physics. Tsallis-statistics is based on the idea of generalizing the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy by using probabilities q;
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Letter from Sergio Bertolucci
Letter from Sergio Bertolucci Working with Philippe over the last five years has been a privilege and a pleasure. We had a pretty steep start in 2009, with the incident in the LHC forcing us to redefine our ambitions of early discoveries, with a non-LHC physics program that had been compressed close to extinction, and
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Interview with George Zweig
Interview with George Zweig “Art is not merely an imitation of nature. Art is about creation. Art is creating the world. For the Arts, Nature is a nebula and the true challenge is to create its stars.” G.Seferis, 1926 Earlier this autumn, George Zweig, father of Aces, visited CERN to give a Colloquium titled “Concrete
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Interview with Philippe Bloch
Interview with Philippe Bloch Philippe Bloch has stepped aside after five years as Head of the PH Department in order to return to CMS and continue his research work. He achieved to combine successfully fundamental research work with an administrative position. In this interview, we discuss his first steps in particle physics, when forty years
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Interview with Steve Myers
Interview with Steve Myers Medical applications play an important role at CERN and recently the DG has decided to structure them under a common umbrella. Steve Myers, CERN’s Director of Accelerators and Technology has been appointed as the first Head of CERN’s Office for Medical Applications. We have decided to dedicate October’s issue of the
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Axial PET: Applying novel ideas in PET geometry
Axial PET: Applying novel ideas in PET geometry The idea to apply concepts, devices and software that were developed in the context of HEP experiments to medical imaging is rather natural and inspiring. The similarities become more evident when it comes to the detection of high energetic gamma photons. In a PET (Positron Emission Tomography)
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Interview with Juan Maldacena
Interview with Juan Maldacena Juan Maldacena is one of the most influential theoretical physicists in the world. His work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory and quantum field theory and it involves different problems such as quark confinement and black holes. Back in 1997, he proposed the famous anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, which is