Academic Training: Academic Training Programme 50th Anniversary Lectures

Monday 13 September
50 years of research at CERN: from past to future (Accelerator) (1/4)
K. Hubner / CERN-DSU
A summary of the evolution of the CERN accelerator complex since the beginning will be given. The emphasis will be on the salient features and highlights and what has been learned at each stage in terms of accelerator physics and technology. Possible future options for CERN based on accelerators will be discussed.

Tuesday 14 September
50 years of research at CERN: from past to future (Theory) (2/4)
G. Veneziano / CERN-PH-TH
Great developments in our understanding of fundamental physics, together with striking technological advances, have repeatedly changed the way CERN/TH has been operating during the past 50 years.
I will outline the main 'revolutions' I have myself witnessed at CERN/TH since the mid sixties, and then dare to express expectations, hopes, and fears for how things might evolve further in the not-too-distant future.

Wednesday 15 September
50 years of research at CERN: from past to future (Experiment) (3/4)
D. Treille / CERN-PH
The highlights and the most important results of 50 years of physics at CERN will be underlined and explained. We will describe briefly a few key experiments which contributed to pave the way for the quark model, then for the electroweak Standard Model and Chromodynamics. We will insist on the very accurate testing of these modern gauge theories and on the conclusions one can draw presently. A special emphasis will be put on twoflagship programmes: neutrinos and antiprotons at CERN. The successive mutations of the experimental techniques will be presented. Some possibilities for the future, besides and after LHC, will be outlined.

Thursday 16 September
50 years of research at CERN: from past to future (Computing) (4/4)
D.O. Williams / CERN-DSU
'Where are your Wares?'
Computing in the broadest sense has a long history, and Babbage (1791-1871), Hollerith (1860-1929) Zuse (1910-1995), many other early pioneers, and the wartime code breakers, all made important breakthroughs. CERN was founded as the first valve-based digital computers were coming onto the market.

I will consider 50 years of Computing at CERN from the following viewpoints:

Where did we come from? What happened? Who was involved? Which wares(hardware, software, netware, peopleware and now middleware) were important? Where did computers (not) end up in a physics lab? What has been the impact of computing on particle physics? What about the impact of particle physics computing on other sciences? And the impact of our computing outside the scientific realm?

I hope to conclude by looking at where we are going, and by reflecting on why computing is likely to remain challenging for a long time yet.

The topic is so vast that my remarks are likely to be either prejudiced or trivial, or both.

ENSEIGNEMENT ACADEMIQUE
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Françoise Benz 73127
academic.training@cern.ch

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by Françoise Benz