Read article 'ECFA in Poland'
In its continual tour of CERN Member States, the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) visited Poland recently. The venue was Cracow's 600-year-old Jagiellonian University, the oldest in...
Read article 'Particle and nuclear astrophysics and cosmology committee'
A new committee, Particle And Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitational International Committee, was created last October by IUPAP.
Read article 'In retrospect: electron scattering in Amsterdam'
The recent closure of the Amsterdam Pulse Stretcher marks the end of 30 years of electron accelerators in the Netherlands.
Read article 'The AUSTRON: Austria’s invitation to Europe'
International partners are being sought for the AUSTRON, a proposal for a pulsed high-flux neutron spallation source which could provide an international research centre in central Europe. Austria ha...
Read article 'French green light for LHC civil engineering'
Progress on CERN's next major particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), took another step forward recently when French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin signed the decree allowing LHC civi...
Read article 'KODEL establishes Korea as major physics player'
Marking the emergence of Korea as a major player on the world physics scene, the Korea Detector Laboratory was established this year under director Sung Keun Park of Korea University, Seoul.
Read article 'Experiments wanted for CERN neutrino beam to Gran Sasso'
The Scientific Committees of the SPS at CERN and of the Gran Sasso laboratories will meet at CERN on 324 November for a thorough discussion of the opportunities offered by a neutrino beam pointing...
Read article 'US ‘reneges’ on SSC decision'
US President Bill Clinton has questioned the momentous decision to cancel the Superconducting Supercollider,
in a recent speech to MIT graduates.
