This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia), chair of the Programme Committee of the European Linear Collider Workshop ECFA LC2013
Juan Fuster | 30 May 2013
This year, the regional Linear Collider workshop is taking place in Europe at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) from 27 to 31 May 2013. The participants have been welcomed by a spectacular wide chromatic range of greens in Hamburg, accompanied by the inevitable rain and sun that both make this wonderful manifestation of nature possible. The magic […]
The update of the European strategy process for particle physics
Juan Fuster | 16 August 2012
This February, the CERN Council initiated the process to review the implementation of the 2006 European Strategy for particle physics. For that purpose a specific European Strategy Group was created with the aim of establishing a proposal for an update of the medium- and long-term European Strategy for Particle Physics. Tatsuya Nakada chaired this group. […]
Juan Fuster | 15 December 2011
In a recent seminar by the CERN Director of Research and Computing, Sergio Bertolucci, I heard for the first time the word “coopetition”. To my knowledge, it is an invented word that doesn’t yet exist in the English dictionary. He used it to illustrate the type of collaboration that is currently performed by the LHC […]
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Juan Fuster, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Europe.
Juan Fuster | 21 April 2011
“…acreditó su ventura, morir cuerdo y vivir loco” (… a crazy man his life he passed, but in his senses died at last) Epitaph of Samson Carrasco upon the tomb of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Part two 1615) The book written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605 (part I) and […]