“The most important skill of any secretary is to know the experts. You don’t have to be able to do everything yourself, but you have to know who to ask!” Ramona Matthes is a secretary at DESY and together with two colleagues and a couple of scientists form the core of the local organising committee […]
Bridging Theory, Experiment, LHC and ILC
Philip Bechtle (30) graduated at DESY in 2004 and is currently working at the BaBar experiment at SLAC in California. A new team of young researchers based at DESY will start building more bridges between theory and experiment and between LHC and ILC in May (next year). Philip Bechtle, currently a post-doc at the BaBar […]
Electron Accelerator R&D for the Energy Frontier
Three European-funded projects, CARE/ELAN, EUROTeV and Euroleap, will meet at LAL, Orsay to review present activities and discuss future plans. In the context of actively preparing for future electron accelerators and colliders, there will be a two and a half day meeting at LAL, Orsay starting on 15 May. Three European-funded projects (CARE/ELAN, EUROTeV and […]
MAC – Thinking Different
“We will all give our very best to support the ILC design effort in achieving a design that both works and doesn’t waste resources,” says Ferdinand Willeke, freshly-appointed chairman of the brand-new machine advisory committee – MAC. The committee is a group of 17 ‘wise old men’ who all have a lot of experience and […]
Ten Thousand Eyes On New Physics
In a tent in a test hall at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, the hadron calorimeter is learning how to see. This calorimeter – an essential part in all proposed detector designs for the ILC – measures the energy of all those particles that make it through the dense electromagnetic calorimeter. It does this with the […]