CERN Accelerating science

CERN Scientific Book Fair 2008

The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2008 CERN Book Fair 2008, a three-day scientific book festival offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and electronic book suppliers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts.

Some ten companies will be participating and will bring with them a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering and popular science. There will also be a number of tie-in events intended to give you an insight into the writing and publishing process from authors within our own community.

Come along and meet the authors, discuss your book ideas with the publishers’ representatives or simply browse the books on offer.

The Fair will take place in Building 500 in the area near the Main Auditorium, and special presentations (as detailed below) will be held in rooms nearby or in the Library. Participating publishers and book traders include:

Cambridge University Press, Durnell Marketing, Elsevier, EPFL Press – PPUR, Imperial College Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Springer, World Scientific.

Fair opening times:

Wednesday 8 October 10:00 – 18:00

Thursday 9 October 9:00 – 18:00

Friday 10 October 9:00 – 18:00

Further information:

http://bookfair2008.web.cern.ch/Bookfair2008/

Schedule of book presentations by the authors:

Wednesday 8 October

16:30 - "Escape from Leipzig" by Harald Fritzsch, World Scientific, 2008.

Room C, Bldg. 61-1-007.

Thursday 9 October

16:30 - "Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam, the First Muslim Nobel Scientist" by Gordon Fraser, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Library (Bldg. 52 1st floor).

Friday 10 October

10:30 - "Particle Detection with Drift Chambers", 2nd ed., by Walter Blum, Werner Riegler and Luigi Rolandi, Springer, 2008.

Library (Bldg. 52 1st floor).

11:30 - An advance presentation of two forthcoming books edited or written by Herwig Schopper:
-"LEP: The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000: The Making,Operation and Legacy of the World's Largest Scientific Instrument", Springer.
-"Elementary Particles", the first in a series of handbooks on elementary particles to appear as vol. I/21A of "Landolt Börnstein", Springer.

Library (Bldg. 52 1st floor).

16:00 - Lucio Rossi introduces the first volume of the new series "Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology", ed. by Alex Chao and Weiren Chou, World Scientific, 2008.

Room C, Bldg. 61-1-007.

17:00 - "Engines of Discovery: a Century of Particle Accelerators", by Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson, World Scientific, 2007.

Room C, Bldg. 61-1-007.