Public Lecture | Philipe Lebrun | "Particle accelerators" | 2 September

"Les accélérateurs de particules : vecteurs de découvertes, moteurs de développement", by Dr. Philippe Lebrun.

2 September 2014 - 7:30 p.m.
Globe of Science and Innovation

Particle accelerators have been used in fundamental research for over a century, allowing physicists to discover elementary particles and study them at increasingly smaller scales. Making use of emerging technologies whose progress they helped to stimulate, they developed exponentially throughout the 20th century to become major tools for research today, not only in particle physics but also – as powerful radiation sources for probing matter – in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics and materials science. They have also found applications in society, where they are increasingly used in a wide range of fields including applied sciences, medicine (research and clinical applications) and industry. The lecture will cover examples of these applications and further development opportunities.

Philippe Lebrun works at CERN on the Laboratory’s large particle accelerators. He led the Accelerator Technology department during the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A graduate of the École des Mines (Paris) and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena), he is also an alumnus of the Institut des hautes études pour la science et la technologie (Paris) and holds an honorary doctorate from the Wrocław University of Technology (Poland).

Lecture in french, translated into english. 

Entrance free. Limited number of seats.

Reservation essential: +41 22 767 76 76 or cern.reception@cern.ch.
The conference will be webcast on www.cern.ch/webcast.
This conference is organised in the framework of CERN’s 60th anniversary : www.cern.ch/cern60.