MEETINGS
This year's IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, including the Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems, will take place in San Diego, California, on 4-10 November. New this year is the International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors. The abstract submission deadlines are 20 April (NSS, MIC, SNPS) and 15 June (Workshop). For more details see http://www.nss-mic.org/.
The 29th SLAC Summer Institute, entitled Exploring Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, will take place on 13-24 August at Stanford, California. For more information contact: Maura Chatwell, e-mail ssi@slac.stanford.edu, tel. +1 650-926-4931.
The 2001 CERN School of Computing, organized by CERN in collaboration with the Institute of Physics of the University of Cantabria, Spain, will be held on 16-29 September in Santander. It is aimed at postgraduate students and research workers with a few years experience in particle physics, computing or related fields. Special themes this year are computer architecture: software and hardware; fistributed real-time systems; high throughput distributed systems; and principles of distributed databases. For additional information see http://www.cern.ch/CSC/.
A Workshop on Gravity and Particle Physics will be held at DESY, Hamburg, on 9-12 October. It will cover strings and D-branes; large extra dimensions and phenomenology; cosmology and astrophysics; gravitational waves; and new phenomena. It will be organized by D Luest (Humboldt University Berlin). For more information see http://www.desy.de/desy-th/workshop.01/index.html.
Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: a EuroConference on Neutrinos in the Universe will take place in Lenggries, near Munich, on 29 September to 4 October. The conference chairman is Georg G Raffelt (MPI für Physik, Munich). The conference is part of the 2001 Euresco Programme. For more details see http://www.esf.org/euresco/01/pc01142a.htm.
The Second International Workshop on Atomic Collisions and Atomic Spectroscopy with Slow Antiprotons (PBAR01) will take place on 14-15 September at Aarhus University, Denmark. The aim is to present initial scientific progress at CERN's new antiproton decelerator. The first such meeting was held at Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan, in July 1999. The major topics of the workshop will be spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms; interaction of slow antiprotons with matter - stopping power, channeling, etc; excitation and ionization of atoms, molecules and clusters with slow antiprotons; antihydrogen; and formation processes for antiprotonic atoms. For information see http://www.ifa.au.dk/pbar01/.
The next Crimean conference on New Trends in High-Energy Physics, co-organized by the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kiev and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, will be held near Yalta in Crimea on 22-29 September. The subjects are elastic and diffractive scattering of hadrons and nuclei; deep inelastic scattering and multiparticle dynamics; duality, strings and confinement; collective properties of the strongly interacting matter; astroparticle physics; heavy flavours and hadron spectroscopy; the standard model and beyond; advances in quantum field theory; new physics at future colliders; beam physics; and new detector technique. The preliminary list of lecturers includes V N Bolotov, L D Faddeev, V S Fadin, M I Gorenstein, R Jackiw, L L Jenkovszky, A B Kaidalov, E A Kuraev, L N Lipatov, D V Shirkov, A A Slavnov and H Terazawa. Applications should be sent to crimea@gluk.org or Crimea-2001, BITP, Kiev 03143, Ukraine; fax +380 44 2665998; tel. 2669123; http://www.gluk.org/hadrons/crimea2001.
Alexander Baldin celebrates 75 years
On 26 February 2001, Academician Alexander Baldin, the distinguished Russian physicist whose name is widely known to the world scientific community, celebrated his 75th birthday.
Baldin has contributed greatly to the development of the physics of electromagnetic hadron interactions, the physics of the atomic nucleus and particle physics. He is a pioneer of relativistic nuclear physics, the author of several scientific discoveries, the initiator of the construction of novel superconducting accelerators of charged particles, and the visionary and leader of the wide scientific programme of the accelerator complex of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, near Moscow, including the unique superconducting Nuclotron.
For his numerous scientific achievements, he was awarded the Lenin and State prizes of the USSR. For 30 years he headed the JINR Laboratory of High Energies. He is now scientific supervisor at this laboratory.