News from the Library: CERN Scientific Book Fair 2011

 

The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2011 CERN Book Fair, a two-day scientific event offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts.

 

Key publishers will present a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering, computing and popular science.

 You are welcome to come along and meet the publishers’ representatives or simply have a look to the books on sale.

The Fair will take place in the Main Building (bldg. 500) on the ground  floor near the Restaurant 1 on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th September. Participating or represented publishers include: Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, EPFL Press – PPUR, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, World Scientific-Imperial College Press.

Fair opening times:

  • Wednesday 14 September 9:00 – 18:00
  • Thursday 15 September 9:00 – 18:00

Three book presentations are scheduled during the two days. They will all take place in the Library:

Wed. 14 September at 3.30pm:

"Knowledge Management in an International Research Centre: A study of  technology transfers and benefits to society in a scientific organization, CERN" by Beatrice Bressan

 http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=153266

Wed. 14 September at 4.30pm:

"You Are Wrong, Mr. Einstein!: Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg and Feynman Discussing Quantum Mechanics" by Harald Fritzsch

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=152457

Thu. 15 September at 3.30pm:

"Matter Antimatter Fluctuations: Search, discovery and analysis of Bs flavor oscillations" by Nuno Leonardo

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=153504

by CERN Library