Read article 'Will the LHC surprise us?'
Will the LHC surprise us? I hope so. Having failed to find any completely unexpected new physics for more than 30 years, we clearly need nature’s help to progress, and the case is good. The...
Read article 'Will the LHC reveal the unexpected?'
This autumn, commissioning should be in full swing on the LHC at CERN, the world’s largest laboratory for the study of subnuclear physics. So it is entirely appropriate that the 46th Course of t...
Read article 'A vision for the future of CERN'
CERN is a de facto global laboratory, with the LHC set to be the centre of particle-physics research for a decade or more, and comprises the largest scientific user community in the world. More t...
Read article 'An Indian dream come true'
India’s accelerator pioneers began to build the Calcutta cyclotron in the early 1970s but soon found that the industrial infrastructure was not geared up to provide the necessary level of techno...
Read article 'Why particle physics needs stability'
A premature end to SLAC’s B-factory, a stop to UK investment in the International Linear Collider (ILC) project and more than 300 lay-offs at Fermilab and SLAC – 2007 ended on a bad n...
Read article 'Theory in the computer age'
Some years ago, it was customary to divide work in the exact sciences of physics, chemistry and biology into three categories: experimental, theoretical and computational. Those of us breathing the ra...
Read article 'A new challenge for particle physics'
Particle physics often describes itself, and correctly so, as having brought countries and people together that previously had been unable to co-operate with each other. In Europe, CERN was born out o...
Read article 'New council provides a fresh look for UK big science'
Regular readers of CERN Courier will be familiar with the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) which has supported the UK’s research in particle physics for the past decade. N...
Read article 'Amazing particles and light'
Five years ago, I wrote in this column when I had just made the transition to Jefferson Lab (see CERN Courier October 2002 p46). Promising developments in hadronic physics, microwave superconductivity...
Read article 'Viewpoint'
I started a company, Research In Motion, while I was still at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. By the late 1990s we had developed the BlackBerry handheld mobile device. As a result I fou...
