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ATLAS 
big wheel triumph

ATLAS celebrates installing the last of the eight big wheels. These wheels form the end-cap muon spectrometer of the detector. >>

A word from the DG: LHC commissionning 
enters the home straight

In an age of blogs there are seemingly no secrets, so by the time Lyn Evans gave his talk on the status of LHC commissioning on 13 September, everyone seemed to know about plug-in modules, beam position monitors and transmitters embedded in ping-pong balls. >>

LHC gets the ball rolling

A technique involving a small ball with a transmitter embedded inside it has been successfully tested in Sector 7-8. The ball is sent through the LHC beam pipes to check the LHC interconnections. >>

Students catch cosmic rays

Students from the USA’s QuarkNet programme install their muon detector in the CMS visitors centre. >>

IEEE Prize for Lucio Rossi

Lucio Rossi receives his prize from John Spargo, Chairman of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity (left), and Martin Nisenoff, Chairman of the Council on Superconductivity’s Awards Committee (right). >>

Globe : Fête de la science 2007

FROM 8 TO 13 OCTOBER 2007 Globe of Science and Innovation - Route de Meyrin, 1211 Geneva >>> "Expo NANO. >>

‘Literature in focus’: 
from the Land of the Thousand Hills to Lake Geneva

Mathilde Fontanet and Odette Habiyakare. (@Photo Bianco)This book is the result of a meeting of two women. >>

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