Meetings
The Hunt for Dark Matter: A Symposium on Collider, Direct and Indirect Searches will be on 10–12 May at Fermilab, hosted by the Fermilab Center for Particle-Astrophysics. Plenary and parallel sessions will cover topics from supersymmetric dark matter and alternatives to dark matter and new physics at the LHC and ILC. For further details see http://conferences.fnal.gov/dmwksp/ or e-mail Cynthia M Sazama at sazama@fnal.gov.
The Fifth International Workshop on Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt07) is on 30 May – 3 June at Fermilab. The workshop will look at the status of experimental and theoretical studies in low-energy neutrino–nucleus scattering, as well as the relationship to astroparticle physics. The deadline for registration is 30 April. For more information see http://conferences.fnal.gov/nuint07/ or contact Cynthia M Sazama at sazama@fnal.gov.
The Sixth Auger Symposium, an International Symposium on Physical, Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects of Auger Processes will be on 5–7 July at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. The symposium aims to provide a forum for exchanging techniques and ideas that are important for future progress. The conference will also introduce young scientists to Auger-electron-related research and encourage them to pursue careers in this field. The abstract deadline is 1 April. For further details see www.hms.harvard.edu/Auger6.
The Ninth International Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation will take place on 13–17 August in Manchester, UK. The conference will bring together leading authorities for plenary lectures and parallel sessions covering the latest advances in structural genomics, multiprotein complexes, structure-based drug design, membrane proteins, metallo proteins, biological spectroscopy (CD, IR, etc), non-crystalline diffraction, XAFS, imaging, instrumentation, computational biology and radiation damage. There will also be poster sessions, and a commercial exhibition. For further information see www.bsr2007.com.
The 2007 CERN School of Computing, organized by CERN with the University of Split (FESB), will be on 20–31 August in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It is aimed at postgraduate students and research workers with a few years' experience in scientific physics, computing or related fields. Special themes cover Grid technologies, software technologies and physics computing. Grants from the European Union Framework Programme 6 (FP6) are available to participants to cover part or all of the cost of the school. For more details see www.cern.ch/CSC/.
Letter
Proofreading croncrerns
I would like to thank you for your piecre in the January/February 2007 issue of CRERN Crourier. We believe that it is likely, but not crertain, that we should feel honoured by this articrle, given the almost cromplete, but not exacrt, croincridencre between the typescript in your articrle and the name of the distinguished Nobel Laureate after whom we have named our institute.
However, we remain croncrerned that there may be many crolleagues and friends who may now be cronfused about our institute and its identity in the light of your articrle. We would therefore be grateful if you would publish in the next issue at least a crorrecrtion (with crareful proofreading), and/or this letter, thereby ensuring that any miscroncreption whicrh may still remain is removed.
John Dainton, founding director, The Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology.
Correction
A typing error unfortunately crept into a headline in the January/February issue of CERN Courier. The correct name of the institute that Swapan Chattopadhyay now heads is the Cockcroft Institute, named after the well known Nobel laureate and accelerator pioneer Sir John Cockcroft.
CERN Courier apologizes to all concerned.