The conference will cover major projects and new developments in all aspects of the science, technology and use of magnets, as well as materials and supporting techniques. The programme will focus on topics including magnets for particle accelerators and detectors; fusion; and the generation of high fields, including superconducting, resistive, pulse and permanent magnets. There will be a strong emphasis on magnets for life science and industrial applications, such as magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance, energy storage, levitation and separation. Sessions will be dedicated to new developments in high- and low-temperature superconductors and other magnet materials for reinforcement, impregnation and insulation.
An industrial and scientific exhibition, displaying products related to magnet technology as well as the achievements and services offered by industries, academia and research laboratories, will be held in conjunction with the conference.
The venue will be the International Conference Centre of Geneva, which is located in the international quarter of the city.
The opportunity to visit CERN and see the superconducting magnets of the Large Hadron Collider and other large experiments now under construction and test will make this conference a privileged meeting forum for all those with an interest in magnets and related technologies.
MT-17 promises to be very successful - about 600 contribution abstracts have been received and all space available for the industrial exhibition has already been booked.
Further information and registration are available at http://www.cern.ch/MT-17/.
Dikansky celebrates his 60th birthday
On 30 July, Nikolai Dikansky, distinguished Russian physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and rector of the Novosibirsk State University, celebrates his 60th birthday. He has contributed significantly to the development of the physics of particle colliders and storage rings. His achievements in the general theory of coherent oscillations, nonlinear dynamics, beam-beam instability and beam cooling are well known. In particular, he discovered that the abilities of a system to damp coherent and incoherent oscillations in a bunch are deeply related.
For more than 30 years, Dikansky has been one of the leaders in the study of the electron cooling of heavy particles, which has opened up a new field for particle colliders and storage rings. Results have shown that the physical phenomena responsible for electron cooling are much richer than had initially been expected. Other developments include the theory of coherent fluctuations in the cooled (intense) beams and the physics of supercold beams in storage rings. His great erudition, numerous scientific achievements and openness have always attracted young scientists. He has spent a lot of time teaching physics in Novosibirsk State University, where he has progressed from student to rector.
On 9 May CERN director-general Luciano Maiani was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of science by the Slovak Academy. Receiving the award in Bratislava, the director-general said that Slovak scientists were an active and valuable component of the international high-energy particle physics community. The Slovak Republic is one of the 20 member states of CERN.
