New title for IOPP
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) has teamed up with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, to publish the journal Nuclear Fusion. All submissions and the peer review process will continue to be managed by the IAEA, while publication, distribution, subscription fulfilment and marketing of the journal in print and electronic form will now be the responsibility of IOPP.
Launched in 1960, Nuclear Fusion is a leading journal in the field. IOPP also publishes the CERN Courier.
Brookhaven National Laboratory will host the 10th Beam Instrumentation Workshop on 6-9 May 2002. The workshop will address design principles and engineering issues of beam-diagnostic and control instrumentation for charged particle accelerators and beam transport lines, and will offer a forum in which participants can exchange ideas and review instrumentation designs. It will also serve as an introduction to topics for engineers and scientists with the aid of tutorial sessions. The Faraday Cup Award for innovative achievement in instrument design (sponsored by Bergoz of France) will be presented by the organizing committee during the workshop. See http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/BIW02/.
The 9th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors will take place on 23-27 June 2002 at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian mountains. This meeting continues a successful series of conferences focusing on the physics, concepts and technology of radiation detectors and related electronics. Many ideas that are now well established were first presented in this conference series. See http://www.hll.mpg.de/elmau.
The 2002 Zuoz Summer School - "Exploring the Limits of the Standard Model" will take place on 18-24 August in Zuoz (Engadine), Switzerland. To register contact the Secretary, Christine Kunz, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland. Tel. +41 56 310 4223; fax +41 56 310 3294; email christine.kunz@psi.ch before 1 June. No special form is required, but personal information should be complete. For more information or to register online see the website at http://ltpth.web.psi.ch/zuoz2002/.
The 2002 CERN School of Computing, organized by CERN in collaboration with the Institute of Composite Materials and Biomaterials, National Research Council, Naples, Italy, will be held on 15-28 September in Vico Equense, Italy. 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: from detectors to physics papers; Grid computing; security and networks; tools and methods. More information is available at http://www.cern.ch/CSC/.
Theodore Kouyoumzelis 1906 – 2001
Theodore Kouyoumzelis passed away on 4 October 2001, aged 95. A tireless promoter of nuclear and particle physics in Greece, he graduated with a PhD from Athens University in 1932. Soon after, he moved to Munich where he worked as a postdoc under Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Gerlach.
Professor Kouyoumzelis's long association with CERN predates the organization itself. He first represented Greece at the second meeting of the Council of the Interim Organization in June 1952. On that occasion, he was standing in for the original Greek delegate, Professor Hondros, from whom he formally took over two years later. He served as vice-president of the Council from 1972 until 1975, and attended his last CERN Council meeting in 1982 as its longest standing delegate. Thanks in large part to his efforts, Greece cast its vote in favour of all major machines at CERN during his mandate - the SC, the PS, the ISR, the SPS and LEP. In wishing Kouyoumzelis a fruitful retirement, director-general Herwig Schopper drew attention to the decisive contribution a small member state can make to an international organization such as CERN.
From 1945 until 1972, Kouyoumzelis taught physics at the University of Athens. He became a professor there in 1958, and held professorships at the army, navy and air force schools from 1940 until 1964. He was dean of the School of Chemical Engineers at the National Technical University of Athens from 1961 until 1970. At the University of Patras, he served on election committees from1966 until 1967.
Kouyoumzelis was instrumental in the creation of Greece's national scientific research centre - Demokritos - and generations of Greek students in nuclear and particle physics have studied using his classic textbooks. From 1954 until 1960, he was general secretary of the Greek Atomic Energy Agency, and from 1968 until 1971 he was president of the country's Atomic Energy Committee.
Without a doubt, Theodore Kouyoumzelis has been the most influential person in nuclear and particle physics in Greece in the last 50 years. His legacy will continue to be felt by future generations of Greek physicists.
Emmanuel Floratos.
Dimiter Tsvetanov Stoyanov 1936 – 2002
Distinguished Bulgarian theoretical physicist Dimiter Tsvetanov Stoyanov died on 14 January 2002 at the age of 66. Stoyanov began his career in 1959 at the Institute of Physics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 1963 he joined the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where he became the head of a department in 1971. He had been an associate professor at the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1973, and a full professor since 1982. In 1997 he was elected corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Stoyanov will be remembered for pioneering work on the relativistic 3-body problem in quantum field theory, and for work in the group-theoretic approach to dual-resonance models. His early work in the superconformal representation theory, and later studies of non-standard representations of the Lorentz and conformal group and their applications to conformal quantum electrodynamics, have also left their mark. Recently, he turned his attention to quaternionic analyticity, infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, and p-brane theory.
Dimiter Stoyanov left behind a generation of Bulgarian physicists inspired by his all-embracing devotion to science, his enthusiasm, and his profound vision. To all of them he was both a teacher and a dear friend.